Rebuilding my Ritual Life

[kiya]

Many moons ago, I had a little application that would put the current moonphase in my menubar. This little application died in an OS upgrade, and that plus the dissolving strain of pregnancy completely disrupted my ritual practices.

I have a new little application which puts the current moonphase in my menubar, obligations as part of my training, and a moderate obsession with calendar work. Thus: attempting to start rebooting my regular ritual practice.

I'm already incorporating some "mundane" maintenance stuff (taking regular serotonin-supporting vitamins in the hope of keeping my sanity from imploding further) into the same space as my minor morning rituals, getting increasingly attentive to daily litany work, and similar matters. So perhaps I can stop crawling day to day and start to breathe larger rhythms.

Two days from now is the monthly jubilee festival of Nut. I wonder what I will do.

Comments

[luellon.livejournal.com]

Nekhtet for vitamins! May I ask what you are taking? I have a similar issue and would like another way to deal with it besides psychiatric medication.

The Jubilee festival of Nut is monthly? Do you know of any other festivals that are monthly (not meaning moons or Half-Month festival)?

For the moon phases, are you honoring
1) Your own gods
2) Gods like Wesir, Heru-sa-Aset, Heru Wer, Khonsu or Iah
3) Gods associated with the New Moon and Full Moon days on the Late Period/Ptolemaic Temples?

[kiya]

A B-complex and a multi, right now; sometimes also some fish oil. There's some circumstantial evidence that I don't absorb B vitamins well, and those are essential parts of making the serotonin system work. I've had dramatic positive results on anxiety and depression issues from them in the past.

The info I have on the lunar cycle (from the OI book Calendars of AE) includes names for each of the days of the lunar month. So the second day of the month is "crescent day", the fifteenth day of the month is the "half-month day" or the full moon, and so on.

The sixth day of the month (day before the first quarter) is mentioned in the Book of Going Forth By Day, and I intend to adopt it as an ancestor festival. The 18th day of the month (three days after full) is named "Iah", and would probably be a good day to celebrate Him and other lunar gods. The 28th day is named "heb-sed Nut", as I mentioned. The 30th day (which isn't present in all lunar months, I don't know how they handled 29-day lunation cycles at all) is the Day of Going-Forth of Min. (prt Mn) There are a number of other names, but I don't immediately recognise them; I'll have to look things up over time.

My prior practice with lunar ritual marking has been nonspecific.