APRIL - BOOK OF SHADOWS AND ACTIVATION
Welcome to your unit for April 2024! On this page, you'll find your Book Of Shadows for this month as well as the link to (and eventually the replay of) the Live Activation for the month! Below this unit, you will find the content as it comes out for the month appearing as well, including your monthly painting, New Moon and Full Moon content, and any bonus content!
First Up, Here's your April Book Of Shadows
As always, print only the pages you want to keep as hard copies! Read with a pen and highlighter so you can mark it up to your heart's content!
Live Activation Gathering - Part One - You Are The Storm
Live Activation Gathering - Part Two - Personal Storms Sharing
Live Activation Gathering - Part Three - Finishing The Reading & Coven Work
COVEN WORK
Instead of drawing a card this month, we're going to engage with the exercise "From You All Things Emerge" as featured in the BOS this month. I'm reprinting it here for your convenience:
Exercise: From You All Things Emerge And Unto You All Things Return
This is a ritual to befriend your emotions. Please apply liberally.
Begin in the usual way by setting the scene, settling yourself, grounding into earth and sky so that your energy is supplemented with the assistance and energy of the powers that be.
With pen and journal in hand, list all of the emotional states that you experience that you are totally okay with, that you totally own, and that you find easy to express and share.
Now, list all of the emotional states that you experience that you are uncomfortable with. Be aware that you might have equal discomfort with anger and joy or happiness and apathy. Happiness can be uncomfortable because omg, what if you lose it. Joy may trigger a similar fearful state. Anger may make you feel unsafe. Explore deeply. Leave no stone left unturned.
Once you have a list of all of your emotional states, light a candle and get quiet for a moment. Breathe slowly and gently. Let your eyes rest on the page of what you have written. Take in the first emotional state on the list. Let yourself feel that way. Be with that feeling.
When you feel it, say:
“From you all things emerge and unto you all things return”
Breathe the emotional state out of your body and into the universe that surrounds you, trusting that it will go where it is most needed. If it helps, imagine it leaving you as coloured light, or visualize it as a symbol you breathe into being as you release it, and then let it float away.
Rinse, repeat all the way down the list.
If you get stuck on a particular emotional state, try adding the words ‘even this’ to the end of your prayer. Sometimes, I add ‘especially this’ when I’m dealing with something particularly difficult or powerful.
Close as you would close any ceremony.
Art Journal Prompt: Paint yourself as an energy witch, able to transmute emotion into power at will.
Blessed Be!