Things to do this week.

– Participate in local park, neighbourhood, or riverside clean-ups.
– Join an organic food co-op. Learn to cook. Host a dinner party.
– Join a book club and read a mythological text such as the Illiad, or the Prose Edda
– Join a local community theatre group and perform a re-enactment of an event in Greek mythology (or Celtic, or Baltic, etc.).
– Reserve a few hours each week for solitary quiet meditation.
– Help your local spiritual teacher or elder with ordinary household tasks: cutting the grass, making dinner, babysitting, etc.
– Stop smoking!
– Leave offerings of fruit, nuts, flowers, ribbons, or paper notes at the foot of your favourite nearby tree, or at your favourite spot on the riverside. (Haven’t got one? Go walking around your neighbourhood and find one!)
– Investigate herbalism, holistic therapy techniques, and alternative medicine.
– Place images, icons, or small statues of your favourite mythological deities or heroes around your home.
– Learn a domestic handcraft like knitting or crochet. Sew your own clothes. Create quilts and tapestries to decorate your home.
– Plant a herb and flower garden.
– Question your beliefs. Question your leaders too. While you’re at it, question everything.
– Learn a martial art such as karate, kung fu, or tai-kwan-do. Learn yoga or tai chi. Learn a mediaeval European weapon, such as the sword, or the longbow.
– Foster a rescued cat or dog.
– Go camping in a conservation park or wilderness reserve. Leave the computers at home!
– Investigate divination systems such as Tarot cards, Runes, I-Ching, and Ogham. Compare the results of divination castings with what you actually know of the world.
– Salute the sun and the moon, once each day.
– Vote.
– Help out at food banks, women’s shelters, animal shelters, and environmental awareness groups.
– When you speak of the things that matter most in life, speak intelligently and rationally, and speak from the heart.
– Attend a Pagan festival, and offer to help with site maintenance. (Most people volunteer for the more glamourous jobs like security, or ritual presentations. But someone needs to ensure that the toilets are clean!)
– Recycle and compost as much of your household waste as you can. If such services are not available, urge your local municipal council to provide them.
– Visit an occult or metaphysical supply store.
– Give special respect to elderly people.
– Study the animals and birds that live around you. Study the weather.
– Keep a dream journal.
– Write out the text of “The Charge of the Goddess” in calligraphy.
– Learn to play a few folk songs on your piano or guitar. Write your own songs and poems.
– Greet your friends with joy, be glad to see them.
– Thank with sincerity the people who benefit you.
– Be courageous, generous, and a good friend.
– Dance, feast, sing, make music and love.
– Honour the dead.
– Honour the earth.
– Honour yourself.

…what’s on your list for this week?