Let’s say you’ve always had an interest in metaphysical things. You’ve been looking up your horoscope every morning before work or school. You make a point to go outside and look up when there’s a full moon. You feel drawn to certain stones in jewelry, not just diamonds. You drink chamomile tea to help you sleep and drink peppermint tea if your stomach feels upset. Maybe you had a dream once that ended up happening in real life a few days later.
There are countless branches and leaves to the tree of metaphysical and spiritual studies. It might be helpful to visualize a tree. With a lot of big branches. And off those big branches are smaller branches. And on those, there are leaves. Some of the bigger branches can be divination, astrology, ghosts, magick. Let’s just stop there. It will be a small tree.
Off the branch of divination, there can be smaller branches of tarot cards, oracle cards, pendulums, scrying, palm reading, tea leaf reading, runes. And the leaves of those branches can be the hundreds of different tarot and oracle decks, the endless number of stones used for pendulums, scrying with crystals or with water or with fire, on and on.
If the other big branch is magick, some of the smaller branches can be candle magick, herbal magick, crystal/stone magick, using saints and/or angels in magick, on and on.
You get the idea. There are countless areas of study and practice. Some will appeal to you, some won’t. If you don’t know already which areas you are interested in, reading and learning will help you find it. Certain things are going to resonate with you. Some things are not. I also encourage you to listen to Podcasts (many are free on iTunes) and Youtube videos. You can learn so much just by listening to other people talk about their experiences or share their knowledge and wisdom. Read books, blogs, articles…anything you can get your hands on. And don’t ever be afraid to ask questions. That’s one of the best ways you learn. Don’t worry about looking dumb or sounding stupid. I know from my perspective, I am always willing to answer questions when somebody has a genuine interest.
So this first post isn’t about any particular thing exactly. Just to illustrate how many things will be discussed.
Be open to what calls you…
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