The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/time)
“This column is a ritual,” writes Luke Babb in their final column for The Wild Hunt. “All of my columns have been. What is a spell, after all, but an attempt to change the world? What is a story, an argument, a play or a poem, if not an attempt to do the same?”
I use models for what is “old enough” to consider seriously in my practice based on instinct and a vague understanding of the world “historiography,” picking up and discarding things from 1000, 1300, or 1800 as either “older than anything else I’ve found” or “too new” – all while the modern Witchcraft movement can be meaningfully traced to the 1940s.
This is why I tend my altars so often: things change. I have a tendency to forget things that I do not put my hands on occasionally.
New scholarship on Stonehenge suggests that it may also have served as a time-keeping device.
“Does the toll of work on the physical body bring about a sense of depletion or restoration? Aging is a fact of life. When what we do for a living hastens the spread of life’s markings on our bodies, a change can be made. I find that asking this question on a regular basis matters to keep my energetic levels in balance. I ask if what I do nourishes and restores me. I ask if I choose this work today. Each day. I leave in flexibility to change my mind each day because I am human.”