I received an email this week of my friend pointing out that some bloggers write about the fact that there are just not enough hours in a day to live a witchy life and a none witchy one without stressing out. At first I agreed, but quickly changed my mind.
It implies that there is a separation of spirituality and daily life. Should not the fusion of both be the goal? Now, don’t get me wrong, I am still working on this one myself, but to me it should be living your life spiritualy 24/7. This of course depends on your direction, your path and how you want it to look. If you want allocated, planned, set apart, very structured … rituals and other activities that need scheduled time and at the same time you are working full-time, you are a mother … you will start spinning sooner rather than later.
Honestly? I can’t see how the witches of the past would have had time for all this separation to accomplish survival and then take (find) time to DO something spiritual, something witchy. It just does not sound right to me. The same as yoga. You don’t DO it, you live it.
If you just go by what the books tell you a witch MUST do every day, you are pretty much dipped or have too much time on your hand 
. So, I don’t agree that there is not enough time to live your spirituality if it comes from your heart. Maybe we are thinking in the wrong direction. Magic starts with little acts. Intend and purpose that you put into even the tiniest activities can give it more meaning rather than thinking elaborate rituals all the time detached from our actual needs, only done because the books tell us to. Brewing a cup of tea can be combined with sending out a healing spell to XY. Hoovering the house can be combined with cleansing it of negative energies. Baking bread infusing it with love and harmony …………………………….. These are just some examples on a day to day and simple level, but all I need. Then again, this is what I am all about, but not everybody feels satisfied with
Let me know what you think. Different view points on this one would be interesting to read.
Same witch as above but I like to show you the size comparison to the cat 
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I think perhaps part of the problem is that many of us lead lives where it seems more difficult to integrate spirituality. I know that there are many things that I can easily see connecting to my path–baking bread, as you mentioned, or knitting or sewing, or gardening or lots of other things.
But my job? Not so much. I work in a position where I deal with people online and I frequently find myself faced with people saying very ugly things, and being in a position where it feels like I am just pushing the same stone up the mountain over and over. And at the end of the day, what is there to show for it? It’s all virtual. With so many people experiencing similar frustrations with this information economy that we’re in (how many of us have a physical product at the end of a work day?) I think it may be more difficult to integrate spirituality into all daily life. But that’s just my thoughts.
You are making a good point here and as I have mentioned above I am still working on it myself to integrate it more into my daily life rather than being set apart. The fitness side of life is not very spiritual as well unless you work as a yoga teacher, but I am still far away from that. I remember taking part in my first course to get trained as a fitness trainer a couple of months ago and it was only a couple of days at school, but it left me feeling cold, empty and hollow. I felt lost after that for a couple of weeks and wondered how people cope that do not have spirituality in their life.
I think all we can do is make sure we don’t end up like soulless robots assimilated by society. Still showing compassion to others around us when so many are cold hearted and basically just function to keep the wheels turning.
You do sound very frustrated about your job and I hope it will not wear you down.
All the best!
M
PS: I just added you to my list of places to visit.
Exactly.
xoxo
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