The best laid plans don't always come to fruition.

I did not do a ritual on Friday night during the new moon after all. Why? I'm sick. I came down with an awful cold on Thursday and had no energy for a ritual by Friday afternoon. I know from experience that it is a bad idea to do ritual when you've got a head cold, so I decided to forgo it until the time is right again. I figure it was the universe telling me that it wasn't time to try to talk to the boy yet.

As a result of my being sick, I also didn't do ritual on the Autumn Equinox, which I'm not happy about. But again, sickness and ritual are a funky combination, and my experience is that when I do ritual when I'm sick I end up feeling physically worse than when I started out, and anything I try to set into motion usually backfires on me, so it is best to wait. I did, however, tidy up all of the summer flowers in my yard. The morning glory, lilies and sunflowers are finished for the year, so it was time to take them out and get my planters ready for fall flowers. I bought a couple of flats of yellow and burgundy mums today, and will plant them in my flowerboxes. I also have some cuttings for some geraniums, so I hope they will do well now that the weather has cooled a bit.

Blessed be!