{"id":85,"date":"2021-07-15T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aleximoon.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2021-07-15T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T18:58:50","slug":"1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aleximoon.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"1."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. This is absolutely terrifying. I felt the need to do something and settled on the idea of a prayer shawl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found a pattern and purchased some yarn. I began my project. And then I stopped because it&#8217;s a prayer shawl, it needs a prayer, right? But I&#8217;m an agnostic that doesn&#8217;t believe in a God(s) so who do I pray to? I began looking for vague, non-religious prayers to say. While I&#8217;m an agnostic that doesn&#8217;t believe in a higher power I do believe in energy, nature, and things unseen. There is more going on in the world than what we can see and understand. I believe that if I think something hard enough, spend enough energy envisioning what I want, I can somehow make it happen. Even help with my mother&#8217;s cancer. It&#8217;s something, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-default\"><blockquote><p>May you be well.<br>May you be cleansed and purified<br>Of all that isn&#8217;t health.<br>May every cell in your body<br>Wake up and fight<br>May the powerful light of healing<br>Move into every part of you.<br>May you return to being purely you.<br>May you be well.<\/p><cite>-Joanna fuchs<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I&#8217;m knitting, and I&#8217;m praying to myself, &#8220;May you be well, may you be well, may you be well,&#8221; and I wonder if I could make this shawl better. And I find myself wishing that I had some sort of crystal to touch as I go. Just something smooth and soothing that I could occasionally stroke to help focus my thoughts. I know that certain crystals signify different things so after a bit of research I order myself a small set of crystals: clear quartz, rose quartz, and amethyst, to keep in my bag along with the shawl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder then, after the crystals have been acquired, would it help if I burnt a candle while I worked? Would some sort of oil in a diffuser help? Would music help? Or herbs? Or time of day? Or the phase of the moon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then I realize what I&#8217;m doing, quite by accident, completely on my own just because a whisper of voice deep inside me tells me that this might help. That what I need is inside me, I just need to access it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is witchcraft. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. This is absolutely terrifying. I felt the need to do something and settled on the idea of a prayer shawl. I found a pattern and purchased some yarn. I began my project. And then I stopped because it&#8217;s a prayer shawl, it needs a prayer, right? 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