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Hey everyone!

So, I’ve been thinking that I might not be running this blog in the best way. I think there are more things to be done that could get the community involved but I’m not the best person for that.

With the very limited participation recently and the other things going on in my personal life (that I’ve kept off ALL my tumblrs for reasons) I’m thinking of stepping down from this blog.

THE GOOD NEWS: The good news is that I’ll probably be around for another two weeks or so. If anyone is interested in running this blog please drop me a message and tell me why you think you’d be a good choice. I’m only going to pick one person but if they want to include other mods I’m not going to stop them!

THE BAD NEWS: If I don’t find anyone to run this blog I’m probably going to end up either just leaving it and not logging back in or deleting it all together

So please let me know if you’re interested! I’ll be around and still reblogging entries for a while!

Sorry for being a day late again this month guys! The days got messed up in my head. ANYWAY the topic for this month is

Everyone has dry spells in their religious practices. How do you handle the fallow times in your religious practice?

(eep first time actually responding to one of y’all’s topics)

I have a very small space to work with...my room haha, so I needed to think carefully of where in my room was the right space to set up my altars and make it sacred. I decided I wanted it by my window, since it has a lot of natural light. I consider access to natural light and nature forms of natural cleansing and sacredness. From my window, I can get some of the first lights of the rising sun and the last lights of the setting sun. So in the corner, facing the window, I set up a bookcase and each shelf is a designated shrine (except the bottom two shelves, I feel like they are too close to the ground and find that kind of offensive).

Also, I’d like to mention that I didn’t just decide on the window because of all the natural light but also because nature is a huge factor in my practice so I needed my sacred space to reflect that. Especially since I can’t do this outside, which would be nice but not practical atm. I enjoy having plants on my shrines as well, again it’s a big part of my practice, so being by a window would be a ideal. I don’t want to displease the gods by having light-deprived/dying plants on their shrines. Also, the corner that this space is in is actually slightly secluded from the rest of my room so no one ever goes over there, and it really makes it feel sacred since the only person that goes there is me.

As for other things that go into it, I make sure it’s clean, smells nice, and cleansed. I like to have just the right amount of objects/trinkets on each shrine so that it pleases both me and the god, while not looking too cluttered. It’s usually an offering bowl/plate at the front, some physical representation of the god at the back, on the sides/surrounding area I put two or three trinkets that make me think of the god and that I can tell they like (usually a plant that I consider accurately represents them), and then a few candles.

This topic is a fairly simple one. How do you go about making your own sacred/temple space to worship? Do you even do this at all? If not do you just set up an altar wherever you can and call it good enough?

The hellenicroundtable topic for this month is Miasma.

How do you define miasma, how does it relate to your Hellenic practice, and how do you deal with Miasma?

For me, miasma is anything that weighs me down and keeps me from connecting as fully with my gods. I tend to think of it as being a kind of cosmic dust that clings to me as I  exist as a person. Miasma isn't  ‘sin’ or even a bad thing, just something that happens. I am a devotee of Dionysus and Hestia; Dionysus doesn’t really care about my miasma. In my experience Dionysus seems to really enjoy the human-ness of his followers and is therefore, not bothered my the miasma that reminds him of their mortality. Hestia, on the other hand, prefers me to be a little ‘cleaner’ so to speak.

The topic for this month is Miasma. 

How do you define miasma, how does it relate to your Hellenic practice, and how do you deal with Miasma?

Just a reminder our topic for the Month of August will be posted this Tuesday August the 4th! 

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