![]() ![]() Another edict is to appreciate the seasons, including picking up an acorn or pine cone in autumn and keeping it through winter. A frail yellow autumn leaf clinging by a thread a rubbery weed poking through a desert of gravel you get the picture. ![]() Tricky but not impossible if you’re schlepping to work on the tube easy where I live and instantly soothing. Ten quid! I am propelled out of the shop by unseen forces.įinally, some advice I can wholeheartedly embrace: five tips for making simple connections with nature, from touching leaves to noticing sights and sounds. I found myself uncannily drawn to something, after all. Will it be the pastel-pink rose quartz, with qualities of “love, peace and tenderness” apparently laced into its silicon and oxygen atoms or the “playful” inky-black bornite? I close my eyes, then open them. I position myself in front of a stand of crystal bracelets. The book informs me that I should allow myself to be drawn to the crystal that has meaning for me. Last summer, Publishers Weekly noted that witchcraft was one of the strongest trends in the “mind-body-spirit” category, and the interest shows no sign of abating.Ĭrystal-shopping time: no self-respecting witch in this new age of Aquarius would be without these ubiquitous lumps of pretty rock. And its cousin in dogged resistance to logic, specifically witchcraft, is also having something of a moment, refitted for the age of self-care as a way for women to reconnect with themselves and the natural world. As the New Yorker magazine observed, “ astrology is currently enjoying a broad cultural acceptance that hasn’t been seen since the 1970s”. ![]() Namely, to turn myself into a witch.Īt this opening of a scary new decade, we’re in the midst of a resurgent interest in all things mystic, superstitious or more than a little bit woo. But these seemed too harsh for the drab days of January and besides, I had more ambitious plans for personal transformation. I could have given up booze and bacon, or embarked on a punishing new fitness regime. ![]()
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