Blessings Darlings!
Yes, this does feel like it's going on for ever. The meme had you doing things every day for a 31 day month. If you think that my commenting on it is overwhelming - holy fuck, what must it be like trying to DO this? I'll tell you - it would be overwhelming and impossible, it is set up for failure. Even with days thrown in to 'soak'. Now - back to analysis!
#21 Connect with nature. Oh, I'm sure that she means hang out with plants outside. Maybe with a stream or river. Barefoot, if possible. And, yes, being out in open green spaces is related to actual wellness. It could be argued that such acts are witchy.
Statements like this have some level of implication that you aren't already surrounded by nature. Humans are totally a part of nature, after all, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't mean throw a pot luck party (in times of pandemic safety) and connect with other humans.
This isn't 'realize your role in nature', either, tho. It seems unlikely that she's asking you to check your impact on the environment. To stop eating as much meat (I live in a cattle grazing area, on a beef cattle farm. Ground too full of boulders to plow. If the focus is to farm (and this is permanently protected farm land) beef is it's best use. To use less electricity, AC, heat, buy less things, etc. I could go on about this for days. Probably for a full book, mostly filled with how I fall short on this.
Back to 'connect with nature' ... if you're not doing it by joining Sierra Club and working to actually protect the land, and 'just' going for a walk somewhere green that you didn't have to drive TOO far to get to ... I'm going to suggest that you Give an Offering first, before you expect Nature to connect with you. Humans are an animal that leave garbage everywhere, so bring a couple of garbage bags and pick up trash, THEN work on connecting. Carry the trash out when you leave.
Next up is Crystal healing. Crystals are lovely, and can be witchy useful. Alas, the vast majority of them are unethically and taken from the earth, rather in violation with the previous point. Also - not only are you not going to learn about crystals in one day, or understand how to use them for healing in one day, you're unlikely to be able to buy them all in one day. We're got yet another task that will take a whole bunch of time, added to a list of other tasks doing the same thing.
Seriously check if any crystals you buy are ethically sourced - no slave labor, no strip mines, etc.
I'm certainly not saying that I have zero crystals. Heck I have a gallon bucket filled with quartzites, from chips to ones bigger than my fist. All 'gifts' for working my garden with hand tools - I dig, they are in the ground. It's a quirk of this neighborhood. But I'm not out buying crystals of unknown origin.
Next us Love your body. Okay. Again, an ongoing challenge that might take oodles of time. It's another thing that shouldn't be on a 'monthly challenge' to a internet full of folks in varying states of health and different stages of their lives. Some of us are going to have to start with 'stop talking negatively about your body' or 'tolerate your body'. Then go on to 'accept your body'. And this shit is going to take lots of time for most folks.
That's it for today. There are only 3 or 4 items left (I'm not sure if I'm going to do Meditation again, since I touched on it in another post earlier). I might get to finish this tomorrow! Yay!
Frondly, Fern
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