Summer moon

Too clear and beautiful to describe.

Have a moonspell instead; this is for making love in dreams, or with one who is asleep.

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This spell needs a full moon. Two more nights to try it out!

Clinging to the past

I just read a very interesting LJ where the above subject was mentioned and it got me thinking. Last weekend was full of little conversational gems about good mental and emotional health/habits.

How does one let go? If it was so easy, we'd all do it. If we feel pain then being told it's an illusion doesn't help. If the illusion convinces you that you are being hurt, it's on a par with reality, whatever that is.

So how does one get better? One can't let go until the pain stops, and the pain can't stop until one lets go. So how does one let go?

Real life with all its concerns is a great answer. Creation and fun and friendship and travel and work and money and pets and houses and all the banal crap of cleaning the kitchen really helps. This is what seems to have happened to me, but only after my share of obsession and unhappiness, monumental, cataclysmic...and in the end, remarkably dull.

I was told two exercises once, and they kind of helped so I'll put them here.

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These methods are only aids to moving on. They are extremely trivial, but then, they are meant to 'trivialise' (i.e put into perspective) the moment's fixation by dwellling upon it in deliberate, absurd, painstaking detail.

They can't help much if you are revelling in the pain, or need it to feel powerful, it'll take huge amounts of time and effort if you were in love, and it's nowhere near as good as clearing the air and being honest. But it certainly helps if your preferred course of action is to drop henbane in your foe's pint and watch them gargle to death on the pub floor!