Thanksgiving as a Practice

“Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
-Epicurus

Today is Thanksgiving here in America. Though I hate that Christmas season starts so early In a way I am glad, because it doesnt allow any room for massive consumerist nonsense to arise around Thanksgiving. Songs, specials, and decorations are at a minimum, allowing us- if we are so inclined, to keep the day as a simple day to give thanks for what we have and gather to break break with family and friends.

The practice of giving thanks has spiritual, emotional, and even magical benefits. After all if the spirits have bestowed abundance upon you, being grateful and giving in kind will keep that relationship strong.

I would love it if you took some extra time today to think about the people and things that you take for granted and instead take them with gratitude. Call a friend you only communicate with through facebook to get a closer connection. Clean or upkeep something important to you to demonstrate that you value it. Take time to care for yourself, and be thankful for the ways in which you are strong. Light a candle for the powers that be – local spirits, administering angels, ascending daemons, your own ancestors, or just a vague offering of light to the world.

I want to thank you my readers, students, clients, and friends for making my life a unique and amazing journey. Thank you especially for your stories of success and field reports – it is what fuels my fire to keep doing this. It is my hope to keep producing more and better materials and magics in the years ahead.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Jason Miller 201r4

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Norene Childs

Happy Thanksgiving To You and Yours, Jason Miller. Thank You.

Andrew Watt

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well, Jason. There’s much to be thankful for this year.

Modern American Thanksgiving celebrations oft hearken back to the Pilgrims and Massachusetts Bay, of course — it’s part of the ‘sacred history’ of the holiday. But this season, I intend to hearken back to Abraham Lincoln’s institution of the day, and his final commendation to the citizens of this country: “And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.”

May it be so.

Hanshishiro

Happy Thanksgiving To You, Your Loved Ones and to the Spirits and Gods that work with you.
This is the only american holiday that I regret that we don’t have in my country.

Thanksgiving as a Practice

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