{"id":18066,"date":"2019-02-01T01:10:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T06:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=20473"},"modified":"2019-02-02T19:28:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T00:28:29","slug":"wreathing-the-wheel-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2019\/02\/01\/wreathing-the-wheel-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wreathing the Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Imbolc,\nthe Seed, and Growing Abundance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nImbolc has long been a sign of\nthe beginning of the end of winter. In many parts of the world, this\nis the time when seeds that have long laid in the deep belly of the\nearth at least start to spring forth with green shoots. Accordingly,\nseeds wind up in Imbolc cakes, the white and new green of the young\nshoots is associated with the Sabbat, and even the name of Imbolc\nmeans \u201cin the belly,\u201d referring to the pregnancy of ewes, and the\nseeds in the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThis year, I\u2019m trying to\nembrace prosperity and grow abundance as my way of celebrating\nImbolc. Like many of us, I carry a bit of debt that I\u2019d love to get\nout of, and I\u2019m trying to manifest some new things this year. In\nthe spirit of the season, I\u2019m not leaving this up to chance. I\u2019m\nplanning out my payments to loans, and I\u2019m ready to make progress\n— not by winning the lottery, or through some other simply\nimpossible miracle, but through careful budgeting and penny-pinching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nWhile the hard numbers and\nactual tracking occur with my bank, I love having a financial tracker\nin my bullet journal, because it makes something of a game out of the\ntruly unpleasant task of being financially responsible. And to remind\nmyself that this is not a question of \u201cwhether\u201d but of \u201cwhen.\u201d\nI\u2019ve designed my financial tracker with the growth factor in mind.\nThis isn\u2019t so much about hard goals as it is about steady progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weekly\nTarot Reading<\/strong> \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following\nlast month\u2019s year-long Tarot spread, I wanted to discuss how I add\nweekly Tarot readings to my journal. (I\u2019ve covered up the personal\ndetails in my weekly spread, because I do actually use this journal\nto plan my life!) I usually do a month spread, and then have\nsingle-page weekly spreads to plan my tasks each week; since I am\nalso making a practice of a seven-card weekly Tarot reading, I add it\nhere. I like to play around with the themes that I use for my weekly\nspreads (because creativity is fun), so this one is based off of the\nwitch\u2019s ladder, a sort of charm made from a rope with feathers,\nbeads, and other charms woven into it. Additionally, the planets\nselected for each day accord with the ruling planet of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

***<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah McMenomy <\/strong>is an artist and witch. Her craft\nincorporates herbalism, spellwork, trance, divination, auras, and\nmore. Her work can be found at https:\/\/sarahmcmenomy.tumblr.com<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imbolc, the Seed, and Growing Abundance Imbolc has long been a sign of the beginning of the end of winter. In many parts of the world, this is the time when seeds that have long laid in the deep belly of the earth at least start to spring forth with green shoots. Accordingly, seeds wind up in Imbolc cakes, the white and new green of the young shoots is associated with the Sabbat, and even the name of Imbolc means \u201cin the belly,\u201d referring to the pregnancy of ewes, and the seeds in the earth. This year, I\u2019m trying to embrace prosperity and grow abundance as my way of celebrating Imbolc. Like many of us, I carry a bit of debt that I\u2019d love to get out of, and I\u2019m trying to manifest some new things this year. In the spirit of the season, I\u2019m not leaving this up to chance. I\u2019m planning out my payments to loans, and I\u2019m ready to make progress — not by winning the lottery, or through some other simply impossible miracle, but through careful budgeting and penny-pinching. While the hard numbers and actual tracking occur with my bank, I love having a financial tracker in my bullet journal, because it makes something of a game out of the truly unpleasant task of being financially responsible. And to remind myself that this is not a question of \u201cwhether\u201d but of \u201cwhen.\u201d I\u2019ve designed my financial tracker with the growth factor in mind. This isn\u2019t so much about hard goals as it is about steady progress. Weekly Tarot Reading Following last month\u2019s year-long Tarot spread, I wanted to discuss how I add weekly Tarot readings to my journal. (I\u2019ve covered up the personal details in my weekly spread, because I do actually use this journal to plan my life!) I usually do a month spread, and then have single-page weekly spreads to plan my tasks each week; since I am also making a practice of a seven-card weekly Tarot reading, I add it here. I like to play around with the themes that I use for my weekly spreads (because creativity is fun), so this one is based off of the witch\u2019s ladder, a sort of charm made from a rope with feathers, beads, and other charms woven into it. Additionally, the planets selected for each day accord with the ruling planet of the day. *** About the Author: Sarah McMenomy is an artist and witch. Her craft incorporates herbalism, spellwork, trance, divination, auras, and more. Her work can be found at https:\/\/sarahmcmenomy.tumblr.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}