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<aside> 🔭 This lesson is all about exploring different ritual modalities to support your writing practice. There are suggestions and resources for everyone from beginners to the more experienced ritual worker below. You might find one of these works best for you, or you might find a completely different form of ritual or divination is supportive for your work. It doesn’t matter what you choose, so long as it works for you.

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<aside> 🔭 Tarot

• If you are new to Tarot, you might find it most supportive to work with a single card. You can use a physical deck, or use an online generator. Pull a single card, spend some time looking at the imagery, and make some notes about the card. You can also look up the traditional meanings for the cards, and make a note of how those meanings feel to you and how they connect with the writing. Here are some places to look at:
• Tarot meanings online
• If you have some experience with Tarot, you can use more complex spreads to support your writing. Here are some examples of Tarot spreads for plotting:
• Tarot for Plotting
• Finally, you can use the two Tarot spreads I created in the writing grimoire to ask questions about the work you are doing:
• Grimoire Spreads

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<aside> 🔭 Dream Work

• You can record your dreams as often as you feel called to, not just when you are writing.
• You can use a notebook to write down some bullet points as you wake up, or you can use a more complex tool.
• If you would like to, you can use this dream diary I created.
• Think about how your dreams interact with your writing by using the questions in the dream diary, or by recording or observing your dreams in whatever way works for you.
• Possible questions

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<aside> 🔭 Seasons and Sabbats

• When you write, you can check how close you are to any sabbat or part of the wheel of the year if that feels helpful, or aligns with your practice.
• You can also think about annual seasons, as they exist in your locality (this may be very different to the traditional cycle of the wheel of the year based on the Northern European climate).
• Are you in the middle of a season, or transitioning between two?
• What has the weather been like where you live?
• How does all of this feel in your body? You can record the feelings, and the way your writing interacts with this.

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<aside> 🔭 Moon Phases

• You can track the moon phases that occur while you have been writing and editing.
• You can use the above website or an app on your phone to track the phases:
• Moon apps
• You can plan your work around phases if you are comfortable working with the moon.
• Or you can identify which phase the moon was in when you were writing to see how it affected you and observe, notice, and record the feelings that come up.
• If you want to take this a little further, you can see which astrological sign the moon is in at the time of writing, to check how this affects your work. The apps and sites I mentioned above will give you this information too.

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<aside> 🔭 Astrological Transits

• If you are an experienced astrologer, you can play with elective astrology to find the best times to write, research, edit, dream, and pitch.
• Even if you aren’t experienced, you can find out which astrological transits are happening around the time you are writing.
• You can also discover your daily horoscope and see how it interacts with your experience of writing.
• I follow these astrologers for their insightful readings, and you might find them helpful too:
• Astrologers

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<aside> ⚡ FINAL THOUGHTS: Experiment with these modalities in context by using them with the writing grimoire. You can work with the table, or the full pages. Or you can copy these ideas into your paper journal if you prefer.

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