Kingdom of Knuffel

yes, it's easy to hold, not least because it's transparent/translucent! so i don't have to worry about getting visually distracted and my visualisation getting affected by that.

i didn't do divination for many months and then i started again in october. i'm doing daily draw journaling and loving it.

Exactly

I used to do weekly tarot & oracle readings with occasional pendulum divination. And some moon work. Now I don't even follow the moon phases I really want to get back on track with everything, or at least with SOMETHING until the end of 2023.

the way to get back into practice, if i may make suggestions, is to strip it down to what feels comforting and like a refuge or home to you. it might be a deck that's like a hug to you, or your favourite crystal, but i recommend starting with just one aspect of practice (like divination for example) with just one sacred tool (in this example, your home deck.)

Thank you. I did consider re-introducing the practice gradually. I guess I just don't know where to start. I will have to place my altars elsewhere since my kitten is getting bigger, testing his jumping skills, and he will surely take interest in all the crystals he can access So finding better, more secure places for my altars might be a good start, that could go hand in hand with seasonal redecorating... And then I could actually pick up tarot again.
That's it, I will do it this weekend, I don't care. I got excited xD

Also, I will have my 2-yrs-old nephew for Christmas Day and there are too many things out for grabs for his tiny grabby hands atm, so also for his safety, I should move stuff around

Okay, I'm getting too excited. Which is good, but also will probably make me burnout really fast, haha. I'll have to hold my horses and do stuff step by step.

Oh, I also abandoned my grimoire... I'll pick stuff up. It's a task for the whole of December now

I tried so hard to have everything visually appealing, like a pretty altar and fancy bottles of herbs and such but it became too much work for me - my ADHD made it very difficult to maintain such a high level of dedication.

My practice these days is very low key, my altar is to Bast for my cats health and protection so I offer her some gifts and snacks (that my cats then eat lol) and I celebrate a few holidays and do very small daily things (like repeating 'today will be a good day' while making a coffee)

I love divination but can't remember what all the cards mean XD

all this stuff about spells and protections and divination sounds fascinating, even if i can't really participate lol.

I'm also a sucker for visually appealing things... I'm a magpie when it comes to that, haha. I laugh that I have a small fortune just in crystals alone. Add the value of my decks to that.
It is hard to keep it up, though, especially with executive dysfunction.

I suspect I might have mixed type ADHD but I don't care anymore to get diagnosed. I'm already bipolar, so maybe it's just that, who knows? I try to forgive myself for forgetting stuff or losing focus, laugh about it. Although it hurts my feelings when my bf says stuff like "you must remember about so and so", like... I would love to remember this, but I can't help it if I forget, it's not like I don't care, I just can't remember... I write down the important stuff because otherwise, I know I will forget. But it's not like I can write down "keep the tissues away from the animals" on every wall of the apartment... If I decide to finally take that piss I've been holding (a.k.a. forgetting about because the brain be distracted or hyper focused) for a few hours, I forget all about the tissues I hid under my pillow and just go to the WC, then come back to the pillow flipped away and my dog happily chewing on my tissues And then I hear "you should remember". Yeah, I should. Excuse my retarded brain, please, it's not my fault

I have a main altar for spirit guides, ancestors, angels, and such, and a separate altar for Artemis. She is my matron deity and the only one who requested an altar of her own. Others were like "nah, I don't need that" XD

I try to remember the holidays, mark the dates in the calendar, but then... I forget anyways I'm much better with habits that occur more frequently, like checking the moon phase. Hopefully, with time I'll remember better.

My practice used to be lowkey like that as well until I stopped anything It went from the bare minimum to nothing.

Oracle decks might be easier for you, they have come with guidebooks to interpret them Although, after getting used to the deck you can sometimes read different interpretations, even if the guidebook doesn't mention something. I would argue reading cards doesn't require remembering all the symbolism. Sure, it's good to know the basics of tarot to read it, but your intuition does the majority of the job anyway. But I guess another card reader could very well disagree with me on that. There are different approaches to reading cards.
On the other hand, I can't imagine remembering all the symbols and meanings of tealeaf divination XD

@Hot: You may not have experiences to share but you can always ask us questions

As a person raised by a Christian Wiccan, I've known a thing or two about spells and wards. Haven't done much of it for a while now, I was projecting too much negative energy because of my depression to have them not go wonky. :}

i'm not religious in any sense. apart from a few yearly visits to the buddhist temple. for my mom's sake. xD

so many wall-o-texts. @u@

Honestly trying to keep up with grimoires, spells, holidays etc etc it was all too much for my poor brain.
I wouldn't give myself a label like wiccan or religious because I'm too eclectic and ... well... not very good at keeping up with it haha