Blue Moon

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Authors: Isobel Bird
dully. But she could do that any time.
    This occasion called for something really interesting. Even if Kate and Cooper couldn’t be there, she
    wanted to do a ritual she could remember, and maybe even tell them about to make them wish that
    they’d been there to experience it with her.
    Only nothing was coming to her. She paced the floor for a while, walking in circles and thinking about
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    what might be appropriate. They were between sabbats, so there was no particular theme to focus on.
    She didn’t really feel like doing a spell. What else was there to do?
    Frustrated, she went to her bookshelf and took out one of the books she’d been reading recently about
    different kinds of rituals and exercises people could do to strengthen their Wiccan practice. She flipped
    through the book, looking at pages at random and hoping something might catch her attention. But it all
    looked pretty boring at the moment.
    Then, toward the back of the book, she saw an exercise called “Living with a Goddess.” The title was
    intriguing, so she stopped and read some more.
    One of the most useful and fascinating exercises anyone interested in learning more about the different
    goddesses (or gods) can do is to live with one for a while. No, you don’t have to move to Mount
    Olympus or ascend to Valhalla. You can invite them to come to you. You do this by performing a ritual in
    which you ask your chosen deity to “stay” with you for a period of time—a week, a month, one cycle of
    the moon, etc. During this time you ask the goddess (or god) you’ve invited for a visit to lend her (or his)
    particular gifts to you.
    For example, say you’re feeling like your life is stuck in a rut and you want some help shaking things up a
    bit. You might consider calling on the Yoruban goddess Oya, who has been known to clean out more
    than one house by turning it upside down and forcing the inhabitants to spring into action. Ask Oya to
    come to your house and work her magic, lending you her powers of change and sweeping your life clean
    with her broom. Do a ritual in which you invoke her and ask her to give you some of her strength and
    determination. But be careful—make sure you really want her help or she might sweep you out along
    with the dust!
    This ritual can be done whenever you need a little help from a particular deity, or simply when you want
    to learn more about a particular one in more detail. Many people say that by inviting different
    “houseguests” to share their homes and lives for a time they learn a lot about the various goddesses and
    gods and what gifts they have to offer. Just be sure that when it’s time for the visit to end you send her
    (or him) away with your thanks.
    Annie read a little more of the exercise. Although she’d been at rituals where different deities were
    invoked, she’d never thought about doing anything quite this elaborate before. It appealed to her. It
    would be interesting to learn more about one particular goddess or god, and it was something she could
    do on her own, without Kate and Cooper.
    But which deity did she want to try out? There were a lot of them that interested her. The Russian witch
    figure Baba Yaga had always intrigued her, as had the Irish goddess Brigid, who was said to inspire
    artists of all kinds. Then there was Astarte, Rhiannon, and Ixchel. She’d read about all of them and had
    wondered how she could find out more about the goddesses behind the interesting names.
    None of them seemed right, though. She wanted to choose a goddess who meant something to her, who
    had gifts that Annie wished she herself had. Who would that be? She thought for a few minutes, running
    through a list of names in her head. And then one leapt out at her. Freya. Yes, she thought happily. That’s
    it.
    Freya, the Norse goddess of love, had intrigued Annie ever since she was a little girl and someone had
    given her a

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