Practice Prompts

Do magic every day, whenever you can, in and around other things as your energy allows
Difficulty

Walking

Sit on the porch.

Walking

Research places you might like to walk to in future (local historic sites or places worth journeying to)

Walking

Learn about the ecology of your bioregion

Walking

Take your reading, meditation, handicraft or skill outside.

Walking

Walk around your neighbourhood

Walking

Do something useful out-of-doors: pick litter, pull invasives, garden

Walking

Go for a nice walk in a local place to walk

Walking

Visit a place of previous ritual significance

Walking

Go out to gather something in particular - river water, gorse twigs etc

Walking

Undertake advanced walking

Walking

Undertake a hike

Host

Greet your ancestors, guardians and patrons

Spirits

Pick an archetype from the list and study or contemplate it today

Host

Petition the Keeper to lead you to the Landweird

Host

Respectfully greet landwights, house-fairies and other local good folk

Host

Work with patrons and teachers of magic

Spirits

Hold a random spirit from the Host of Forgotten Gods in mind

Spirits

Contemplate a spirit or aspect associated with this time of year

Spirits

Contemplate: hold the spirit in mind, do a little reading, daydream, bring their qualities into your day.

Spirits

Prayer: speak directly to them in simple ritual, make a cup of tea or a candle, speak formal words or from the heart.

Spirits

Symbolic ritual

Spirits

Full ritual

Reading

Go to a really good junk or antique shop

Reading

Listen to music, read a book, watch a film, listen to a lecture

Reading

Study a page from the website

Reading

Use what you've read - create ritual, magic, artwork

Reading

Look through your Commonplace or look at pictures

Reading

Write up your Commonplace or Reading List

Reading

Research a reading list for a particular theme

Reading

Write your own myths, prayers or ritual forms

Mediation

Bring to mind your last walk or thing you read and contemplate it.

Mediation

Listen to an album and journey with it

Mediation

Practice a formal meditation

Mediation

Practice a meditation energetically or with the goal to enter into an altered state or otherworld

Handicraft

Practice a simple, repetitive handicraft: follow a baking recipe, complete a cross-stitch from a pattern, slap paint on a tool, copy symbols and paint onto card

Handicraft

Practice a handicraft which has an element of design - for example, making your own incense, drawing out an embroidery pattern to follow, or drawing pictures

Handicraft

Create something that is additionally magical in nature

Cloister

Undertake the 'retreat' section of the Cloistering process

Cloister

Begin a Cloister Day

Learning

Practice a non-magical skill you will need for ritual: stretch your body; warm up your singing voice; study pronunciation of a language

Learning

Study Landcraft

Learning

Begin a Lesson from the Lessons section

Organisation

Make a plan for what you will do across the next week, month, or later today

Organisation

Do a lowkey tidy up of common or ritual areas in your home

Weather

Contemplate the weather out of the window.

Weather

Look at the forecast for today.

Weather

Look at the space weather forecast - moon, stars, meteors, aurora and the like. Make a plan to go and see something.

Weather

Set a commitment to see every sunset and sunrise, and possibly mid-day too, for a period of time.

Weather

Set a commitment to see the moon every day across its cycle

Season

Check which spirits and energies are abroad at this time. Look at the calendar of upcoming events.

Season

Undertake a simple seasonal alignment practice.

Season

Write up ritual for forthcoming events

Season

Do a seasonal rite

Magic

Practice a skill you will use in magic - for example, grounding, energy, breathing, trance, visualisation

Journeys

Read about a journey on the website and contemplate it

Journeys

Use the imagery of a journey as a visualisation

Journeys

Enter into the themes of a journey for the day

Journeys

Take on a journey as a theme across the next month (or longer)

Credits