5/10/2007 - The Urban Witch

Unfortunately today things are not quite what they use to be, the world has changed, and with that the enviroment has changed or more acutataly has been changed around us, and yet equally unfornatuately it does not seem as if a lot of writings, reguardins, spells, rituals and the like both old and new have accounted for that change, which can seem to make things difficult for the majority of us.

That is to say there are countless spells and rituals which seem to require the use of a grove, or some otherwise isolatated space in the midist of nature which is such a thing not many of us today have accesses too. So what is one to do?

Well when one is prohbitied from from physcialy going to the required envrioment for a particular ritual or spell, then one must find a way to symbolialy represent that in the space they do have to work with, and what is avilable to them readily and easily.

I think the best way to do that, is by use of a garden, if one has thier own yard, you can make it as elaboarte of simple, as you like depending upon what you want, and how much space you have to work with. Make the garden specicaly ritulaistic use, and you may even wish to give it some blessing while you are working on it, and just visuslize what you wish it to respresent as you tend to it.

Another thing that can be done, if you have a faveortie tree in your yard, you can use this tree to be symbolic of the ancitent groves of the past, and you can condut your rituals just beneath the tree and if you like you can concetcate the tree, by pouring some libation around the base of it, or giving it a blessing.

Of course living in an apartment one might now have the luxury of having thier own yard, or a space to create a garden of thier own, and more then likely you do not have any empty rooms just sitting around your apartment, so you can make a temporary space for yourself to work in. If you are conducting a ritual that does require you to be in a certain envrioment that you are unable to conviently do so, you can deocate a room to represresent that envrioment maybe play some nature sounds, and place some plants around the room, burn some incense or candels that have free cool natural scents, you can even hang picutres up that have nature scenes to use.