The actual "age progression" part of birthdays ceased to matter for me at about 30. Birthdays don't fill me with dread (hurtling on forward toward the Crone phase is gonna happen and haters are gonna hate) because birthdays always mean cash and gift cards which mean online shopping.... Oooooooohhh! (Regular Show inspired whoop for joy). I got my typical Amazon card to start (I'd like to think the ol' husband knows me at least a little bit) and ordered the rest of the Fifty Shades series. Now I'm not batshit nuts about this series. It's no literary work of the ages, I can't stand Twilight (which it was inspired from), the writing is really kind of bad (I mean... how many times can you use the phrases "his breath hitches/and I flushed" before it becomes a literary insult?). But I do like the characters and am interested in seeing where it will all go. And being the most *vanilla* person alive I am kind of fascinated with the freaky stuff on every other page but have no interest in partaking for myself. Most men I've known needed to brush up on their Vanilla skills before bothering to dive into the BDSM World. While ordering I found Fifty Shades of Black and Blue, a parody book on the whole Fifty Shades Thang, and just the cover alone made me laugh for five minutes. I just might have to get that after I finish all the other!
I'm also going to treat myself to an oracle reading by one of my all time favorite blogger-esses, Blessing Manifesting, and then just order a couple of other odds and ends online.
Not that I ever got around to doing it but I wanted to do a little birthday spell/ritual/mantra/whathaveyou. Maybe next year or belatedly this year. I did a various search and found one practice of saving a piece of your cake and one of the candles for a ritual later. Then I found a little rhyme/mantra type thing at another site that I thought might be nice combined with private ritual with cake and candle later. (But probably not... 'cause I gladly skipped the cake this year). I've copied it, but modified it to be a bit more "me". (Source).
A Witchchild, Mother, Goddess am I, With life wisdom and magick to share.Beautiful thoughts. I love that I still love birthdays!
A woman of Spirit am I, With a chakra crown of white within my hair.
A friend of the all am I, Aspiring to unconditionally show love and care.
A daughter of the Earth am I, Walking Her ways awake and aware.
A sister of the waters am I, Flowing wild and free without a care.
At one with the blowing winds am I, Singing softly through the midnight air.
A keeper of the fire am I, Let me kindle your passions if you dare.
Connected in Spirit with You am I, Fused together as one in prayer.
*Winter Phoebe Dawson
