#date: 01.02.25

[khajiit-journal]

Turdas, Morning Star 02, 2025

(Thursday, January 02, 2025) Holidays: Scour Day

First up, I'm gonna discuss my dream, as will be the standard going from now on. My dreams quickly faded from me so there's not much to say.

I had someone send me an ask about Clavicus Vile, but I didn't quite get around to answering it before I woke up. I suppose this could be a call to talk to Them some more. It's also possibly a "Hey, you're gonna get an ask" thing, because it could have been my prophetic bullshit.

In another dream, I had to rush into an art class in this repeating high school setting, and I made some new friends. I could be being asked by my dreams to make some new friends at this time.

I had another adventure dream, but it's already completely vanished from memory.

And in yet another dream, I broke my protection amulet. I don't know how, but I remember hearing it snap and looking down at the broken amulet. This is most likely a manifestation of my anxiety about doing just that than a bad omen, considering everything. (It's later in the day, and I did break my amulet. I had an extra stick picked out just for this but it's still... yeah. I assume it broke when I was carrying down my laundry. I talk more about it below.)

I took a nap today, and I had another dream. I was on a journey in a familiar dream-town, my dreams use recurring location, and it was snowing again.

In the same town, in another dream, it was Summer. I had to travel along the road on hands and knees, before making it to the zoo. The polar bears weren't okay, nor were these Shaymin looking creatures. I fixed the polar bear enclosure with great difficulty. I should check to see if Shaymin wants anything from me because I wasn't thinking of Shaymin or anything lately and dreamt of Them needing some assistance. Not that Shaymin will need assistance, I'm just a mortal, but more that this is Their way of getting my attention.

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Happy Scour Day! Today is a day of cleaning so I tidied up my desk and my altars. I also did my laundry today which I was really putting off lol. I hate doing laundry.

Tomorrow, my ordered items should arrive, which makes me happy. That should be the Rumi Oracle (thanks to my QPP who sent me money for that for Yule), Sibilla Oracle (a standard card set like Lenormand/Kipper, because I need to collect all of these I can for the special interest), Seasons of the Witch: Imbolc Oracle, and a Mahjong set (which is also for divination).

The Skyrim tarot did arrive today! I got bonked immediately with a "You know you're being haunted, right?" Which yes I am well aware. I appreciate the notice, though, and the reassurance that yes, this is a haunting.

My decks all talked to each other about the haunting to catch Keizaalhahnufiik up to speed at my request, because I didn't want to explain the haunting again. I'm looking forward to properly using this deck as well, and getting to know Keizaal and how They speak and communicate. I know they enjoy xeir new name, which is Dovahzul for Skyrim Dream Mirror directly, because I felt like it was a fitting name.

I really wish I could handle this haunting peacefully. When it comes to spirits I like to remember that sometimes, they're acting for a reason, and are not completely and utterly malefic. But every attempt to talk to this spirit has failed, so I must assume the worst and do my worst for my own safety at this point, especially considering part of the haunting is enduring accidents which could easily scale up and become worse than the minor inconveniences they are now.

Anyways, I think I'm done bitching about the haunting all the time. I'm working on it. I'll have it resolved soon enough.

I got my devotional challenge for yesterday and today done, because I forgot to do it yesterday, so I made up for it today. I worry my poems are a bit... not great, but I don't think the gods care. All they care about is that I did it at all.

I did this weeks witchquest, which was logging everything you have tool and ingredient wise. It didn't take me too long, i just went through my herb/spice cabinet, and I already had a list of my tools so I didn't need to do that part again. I thought it was a daily quest but upon further inspection and reading more clearly, it's a weekly quest thing. Should make it easier to do.

I've never done witchquest before, because I wasn't on Tumblr before (well technically my main is super old but I didn't even log in for years). So I'm excited to participate.

I'm mostly thinking about how I did break my amulet today. It's a bit sad, but not so sad that I think it's my gut trying to tell me something about it. It was most likely just an accident - I held my laundry basket up to it and it snapped, most likely is what happened. So I'm not devastated and/or in danger, I don't think.

I generally work on that these things break for a reason. In this case, because they can no longer do the job they're meant to do. Though, like I said, this was most likely an accident, so no job was really fully done.

I made this amulet to protect me from the haunting spirit. I made a new one as soon as I realized it broke. It should serve me well again. I'll be more careful this time.

I do notice to myself that when I cut my sticks, I thought to myself "I need a third". And then not even a week later, I need the third I cut. So I think this was gonna happen regardless. And I was prepared. So tomorrow, I'll go cut more stems, just to be ready in case it happens again. But I plan on being more careful this time.

I will return the broken stick to the rose bush tomorrow morning, as to thank and return to the earth. Maybe a bird can make use of it or something like that.

I got a lot of other stuff done. I worked a bit on Clavicus Vile's quick start which I hope to finish tomorrow. It just didn't want to come to me today. Tomorrow I also plan on doing a proper cleansing ritual. I also, today, got more "my deck overview posts" written down. They're in the queue for now on my readings blog. My spelltome blog actually has like 30+ posts in the queue, which will slowly but surely post over time. I keep adding new posts to it because I follow a lot of good witchcraft blogs, so that blog will be set for a while.

I'm turning devout-of-the-elder-scrolls into having more images and more of a slight "digital altar" feel, reblogging things that remind me of a specific guide. I got some borzoi art in there for Clavicus and Barbas.

This has been a long post, but I had a lot of thoughts today. To anybody who read the whole thing, thank you, and have a good day tomorrow.