Where Waters Gather

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  1. Prayers for Courage and Bravery

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    This week I was challenged to write some prayers, the sort that one goes to for comfort and strength when times are hard. This is certainly something I need, something many can benefit from, and I’d be happy to have more around when I need them.

  2. Small Offerings

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    This week’s prompt:

    I want you to write about small offerings. Offerings made on a daily or weekly basis, or offerings made spontaneously, rather than offerings that need more thought put into them, or are part of bigger things like rituals.

    Write about those small moments of remembering the gods and spirits, and the small things you give back to them.

  3. On Healing

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    This week, Trace asked:

    I want you to write a prayer for healing and wellness, for someone in need of help getting through and recovering from ailments. I want to have a good focus toward The Wanderers, toward the things in need of aid, and any other spirits you think may be helpful to reach out to.

    Oddly enough this is a topic I’ve mulled over a lot in the last few months, with a few too many bouts of sickness than I’d prefer to have, and in the middle of that a workshop where I chose to focus on the Healer divinity of another tradition I follow. And honestly I find that before I write a healing prayer, I need to talk a little bit about how I understand the role of spirituality in healing.

  4. Spirits, Gods, and Helpers

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    This week’s prompt from Trace gets into some of my favorite theology questions:

    What is the distinction between gods and spirits? Can one become the other? How do gods and spirits cooperate, and when do they come into conflict? Are there spirits that regularly work with a god for commonly shared goals and interests? How does this relationship compare to subservient beings like angels?

  5. Spirits in Spring

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    This week’s prompt from Trace:

    I want you to write about spirits, and how they handle the changing of seasons and temperature in spring. This can include lots of spirits, especially local ones of the earth and plants and waters, weather and sky, but it certainly doesn’t need to just be about natural ones. If you have feelings for city spirits and how they handle the season, that would be good to include as well. It’s a time of change, and I’m sure many have very strong opinions about and reactions to that.

  6. Songs in Ritual

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    This week’s prompt from Trace:

    I want you to write about songs, in a spiritual context. What can songs do for folks coming together in spiritual ways? What songs do you have feelings about, good and/or bad, from previous spiritual experiences? What do you hope to do with music and songs to help yourself and others connect?

  7. Crafting

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    Trace’s prompt for this week:

    I want you to write about spiritwork being done while crafting something tangible. Weaving or sculpting or carving or any number of other craft projects. I want to hear about things you’ve done like this, and I want to hear about the principle behind it, what you’re doing to make it beside the things you do with your paws.

  8. Tine-maps

    prompt crafting

    This week Trace asked me to write about Tine-Maps, which are a subject that I’ve talked about a bit before but never given much details.

  9. On Divination

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    This week’s prompt from Trace:

    When you’re tossing things or pulling them out of a deck, what’s going on? Are you having a conversation, or otherwise interacting with someone? Multiple someones? What’s going on when when you’re doing your thing? When you work with tines, is it different from when you use decks?

  10. Spirits in Winter

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    I've started doing regular writing prompts, from folks close to me. This week’s prompt came from Trace:

    I want you to take some time to write about spirits in winter. There definitely seem to be spirits that you get closer to during the wintery season, but it would also be good to talk about spirits of the land and how they respond to it. It might also be worth reflecting on how spirits react to winter in different places and compare them, with the places you have experience with.

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