Seeking Clarity...

Feb 11, 2009 13:04

Quite the blustery day here; the weather has warmed quite a lot, but the trees around us are still a bit foreboding and unwelcoming.  So I am inside again, working at gathering my wits, and hoping to ease out of this funk I seem to have strayed into.

I've been spending a lot of time lately looking out into the forest that surrounds our home.  With ( Read more... )

lore, seasons, nature, ritual, loneliness

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Some ramblings... heilun_coo February 11 2009, 21:17:40 UTC
I felt a similar problem last year with an unwelcoming (and decidedly icky) little wooded patch I had to walk through on my way to the sea as I walked the dogs at night. It took a lot of cautious approaches and offerings to build up some sort of relationship with the place and to feel accepted, and now I don't notice so much, though I wonder if it's a seasonal thing, that maybe the spirits are more active there at certain times of the year than others and so require a bit more attention at some seasons than others. I think a large part of the problem for me was feeling unsettled and alien to the place. I had to work for it. Everything was new, not a part of me, and I had to work to make it so, to be accepted...Then again, there are some places that are just Blair Witch, and no amount of work will build a rapport ( ... )

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Re: Some ramblings... pilarkristine February 12 2009, 03:29:08 UTC
Hey, thank ya ( ... )

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