Returning to the Basics

This year, as I have settled into my new home; a true dream I must say. I had decided that, once I found a permanent home that I would start anew, return to the basics and re-build my spiritual practice. Over the years I have found a few things that work but I have never taken those small threads and woven them into the rich tapestry of a well rounded daily spiritual practice. I have always looked for something sustainable, and as many witches I have started and restarted over the years.

Today, I find myself contemplating a return to the basics and to begin exploring how my understanding has changed and evolved over the years. However, I find myself not knowing where to start. My brain keeps saying that perhaps I know too much to return to the basics, but my heart and my soul yearns for this exploration, despite not knowing where to begin.

This may be something that my readers have experienced, or perhaps you are new to the path completely, regardless, I want to try to take you on this journey with me. So I am spending time contemplating where to begin anew. I find myself contemplating where I began originally, my first steps on this path were paved with Tarot cards. I had a friend in high school who had picked up a deck that spoke to her; she did a reading for me and this led me to be curious about this form of divination. I picked up a deck not knowing what to do and yet I read the cards and they made sense to me. This was how I began to explore.

These thoughts have led me to contemplating the purpose of Spirituality in a person’s life…why is it that we seek a spiritual practice,a connection to divinity, and even connection to the world around us? What drives us to seek these things and to create ritual in our life?