noam, 22 days ago

@Cat_LeFey Usually prepare roughly in advance, but some adlibbing.

But in some group rituals where specific words have been designated, I'll have it on paper. Never an e-device. Feels wrong to me.

Cat_LeFey, 21 days ago

@noam Yeah, I've heard this from a lot of pagans, that they don't want to being electronics into circle. I get it, rote memorization or writing things down by hand gives more of a connection to the intention.

I try to memorize everything I can, but most of my rituals are late at night, with dim lights, and my eyes are tired, so I kinda need my screenreader if I want to take notes or something.

SavahRellcast, 23 days ago

@Cat_LeFey I always adlib. I've read a lot of witchcraft books when I was a youth, and so I know a number of ways to go about doing rituals. I always go with my gut.

Cat_LeFey, 23 days ago

@SavahRellcast I've always admired people who can just free wheel like that, I'm a planner. Like, I have lists for my lists, lol.
I think of it like artists though, how some of them just start drawing on a blank page and others make a grid or an outline to follow. It's all art, just different processes.

Writch, 23 days ago

@Cat_LeFey
I'm rarely thoroughly prepared, so I just write it down and read it. Clumsy and awkward, sometimes, but it does the job, lol!

Cat_LeFey, 23 days ago

@Writch Oh yeah, all of it works! And there's a certain witchy aesthetic about reading out of a book of shadows.