How do you incorporate your spirituality into your daily life?

I have a statue of Ganesh, the Hindu god who is a remover of obstacles, on my desk. He's been with me for a long time and I've turned to him many times over the past few years. My desk is creative operation central, so his position here is the most significant of any in my whole apartment.

After completing Witchcraft One, I'm much more aware of the power of thoughts and words and I've incorporated those lessons into daily life. I'm trying to live the path.

The challenge for me has been in making time for ritual and space for a permanent altar.

Does your daily life hinder or support your beliefs or practices?

It's very difficult, living in a very small apartment in the city, to practice the way I sometimes think I should. One example: After initiation we were instructed to leave our offerings of food outside for animals to eat or to wash them away in a river or ocean. I don't live particularly near the water and wasn't sure where I could accomplish a water sendoff, so I put the offering on my fire escape. Nothing touched it (which I suppose is a good thing, really). So what to do with the offering? It's currently in my refrigerator until such time as I can bury it (with what, I wonder, a tea spoon? and where? sneaking into Union Park in the middle of the night?). So urban living definitely makes magick challenging sometimes. I like Christopher Penczak's book City Magick. I'd love to find a practical guide to working magick in an urban environment.

What do you wish you could do more for your beliefs on a more regular basis?

I wish I could incorporate ritual into every day. Even if it's lighting a candle on an altar and taking a few moments to meditate on the day, it's a habit I'd like to adopt. Again, urban living presents challenges because I don't have a lot of space for an altar or to store ritual supplies. I'm going to look for resources on creative solutions to living in a small apartment - you see them in magazines all the time. I'm sure there is a way to create some sacred space using techniques they give for solving other of life's spatial issues. Then, for me, it's a matter of discipline - making the time and making ritual a priority.

Since I'm still studying, part of making time for ritual includes time for study. I do a lot of reading but I wish I were more consistent about doing the meditations and lessons from Witchraft One that I'll need to master before Witchcraft Two begins.

Thank you to Witches Weekly for the Q&A. These came from the archive; November 2004. Please add your answers to these questions in the Comments.

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 9:43 AM