If nothing else for the next moon cycle my goal is to stay consistant with blogs and a few of the groups I really enjoy.
Life has just been extremely busy latey. The accounts my wife have has had us working extremely hard mix that with my last few weeks of my PT job and TKD times has not been plentlyful.
The only new thingI have in my life is a website I started awhile back that still needs some work as well. The site is called "The Martial Artist" and is dedicated to my training as a martial artist but specifically my persuit to earn my black belt, then each belt until I become a master. That should happen within 11 years so with that many updates i wonder how long the site will end up being.
I will also be turning 30 years old in a few days and that is on my mind as well. When I was younger I thought people who were 30 looked really old, now that I am 30 I wonder how younger people look at me. I got a couple of new tattos for a early birthday present and my wife and I adopted two cut green anole lisards from a local pet store. The lizards were only $16 total but everything we needed for there habitat was I think $120ish.
Ok this post was to let you all know I was alive, so I wanted to make it fast. I will however be posting more stuff later.
Phoenixx and I decided that since the weather finally broke in our favor we would head down to Riverside Park for practice. On one side of the park they have nice spiritual area for practice. They build up a mini Stonehenge place that is a powerful area for poomse practice. Outside of the circle area the weather was warm, but extremely windy, however once in the main circle area the wind was gone and the area was warm. Phoenixx and I both worked on our Poomse/forms for about hour, but the time seemed to fly by. I ended up doing all my forms 3 times each, but since Phoenixx is 2 levels behind me she ended doing a little extra practice. After practice was over we set and did our own meditations, I kept my main awareness of what was going on in the circle area and as people walked through I felt them as they entered the area. I am thinking about setting a goal to start with the circle area then expend awareness out to as far as I can. It would be nice to find more people who are both witches and martial artist to practice there to see how much energy a group could raise and use down there.
Attunements
I have never understood why some people do not focus on full/new moons as much as they honor sabots. Personally I think the moon cycles and cross quarter days are more important then “Buckland’s” major Sabbats. If a witches goal is to attune themselves with the cycles of the earth then attuning one self with moon cycles as they effect the earth and cross quarters should take more of a role in practicing of the craft. The more attuned a person is with the energies of the earth as well as the energies that effect the earth then the more powerful the connection with those energies will be. By keeping ourselves attuned with the source of life then inturn we are attuned with all of life that is around us. Perhaps this is a major reason why my empathic awareness is so strong when I stay in cycles verses when I feel out of balance.
For tonights full moon my only goal is to work on attunement with the energies and using the energy of the moon for healing and strengthening my path.
The day after a belt test my legs are bothering more then I expected. I guess we did more kicks then I remembered.
Well it is friday and my wife and I thought to do something relaxing and romantic so we decided that it would be nice to go hang out with some friends and watch the UFC pay per view. There is nothing better then MMA on a saturday night. Our friends thing we are weird and well I have no clue where they would get that idea.
After we get home from the UFC I am hoping to do a Tarot Spell that I found in my new Tarot spell book for starting new. This week will be a very new week for my wife and i. I will be working at the Y for another few days since they did not replace me but the hours will not be nearly as bad. I will be working 4 hours a day for the next 3 days for them, however I will be working the hours I want to work so again that will be a nice change. I will also be attending TKD classes on Mon/Wed at a dojan I trained at a few times however with time constrants I have not been able to train there consistantly. The Teacher of the dojan is great, however a few of the "Black Belts" there were not as polite to my wife and I would have expected and well she is more forgiving of this then I am. I am interested in seeing how things workout when I get to class, however I will be mindful and use "The Secret" and know that everything will be fine. I am also looking forward to attending 2 classes on tuesday with my main instructer and on Thursday I will attend class with my first instructer for a hour, then catch the last half of sparring at my main school. I am also considering signing up for classes at the main school to see what there instructers are like.
Above all else however the biggest change happening is the fact that I get to spend more time with my wife. It has been quite sometime since my wife and i have been able to really spend time togather so this week should be a new experance in some ways. I am not sure on how will drive the other one nuts first.
Saturday, April 19, 2008, 01:32 AM EST [Martial Arts]
Belt testing tonight went really well.
I was not the highest rank testing, however I ended up being the highest rank with the group I was testing with. Before they called my name for the test I was just about to run for water which ment I had a extremely dry thout for the entire test. By the end of basics(combination kicking drills and so forth) I was feeling winded but that was to be expected. For the sparring part of the test I was lucky enough to be matched up with my wife. The other people testing got to spar with black belts, however the grand master thought it would be nice to see husband and wife spar with eachother. I think that he wanted to see how we practice as a couple and I believe we gave everyone who watched a good show. The poomse or form part of the test was also fast and easy and finally we got to breaking. I ended up having to break 3 boards with 3 kicks which was expected. I broke with my front, round and back kick. The first two kicks were fast and clean, however the last kick was a slight issue. My holder decided to move the board as my foot was a few inches from it which meant I had to pulll the kick, or kick my holder. Agaist my better judgement I pulled the kick. On the second approach all went well.
As with all testing after my group was down testing I looked at my instructer and bowed and noticed he was smiling so I knew at that point I did well. As soon as he was able to come across the room he congraduated my wife and I on a great test and by his smile and tone I knew he was not forcing out the words. Phoenixx and I did get the attention of the jugdes and were the objects of a few jokes but this was as a married couple in TKD not due to poor proformance. After it was all said and done I was happy for a good test as well as for my bottle of power aid I drank shortly afterwards.
Wow the last day of working at the Y is finally here. Personally when I first gave my notice until today I did not think this day would finally come. I am thankful that today will be my last day and after closing time tonight I will get to walk out and start something new. The job has come with good and bad times like everything in life, personally I would rather keep to the good, however memories of staff people talking trash on my wife and I tend to really stick out more. Over the past years however I think atleast a few of the people finally started to understand who I am and what being a Witch is like, atleast in my opinion.
Aside from that well things are going fine. Phoenixx and I are belt testing on friday and I am really looking forward to that. I am certain that the test will be extremely draining, however I feel up to the challange.
