Welcome to the second installment of the Raven’s Mantle. First, I want to say I appreciate follows and the likes on the first post. It is my hope that I will be able to routinely deliver content that is useful, or at least entertaining. I might be a bit erratic for a bit with my posts until I settle down into a routine, but that’s how I am.

What’s on my mind today? First, that I ate too many cookies (I only had two, but that’s a lot for me), and second, the usefulness of a fitness tracker. Now what does that have to do with the main theme of this site, which is paganism and spirituality? Well, there is a definite tie between physical health, mental health, emotional health, and spiritual health. Over the last several years I’ve had some health challenges, and I am trying to get my game back, if you will. During this time there was a dramatic downturn in the “level” of my spirituality as well. Most of the time I just didn’t have the energy to engage in any practices, so much of what I was doing disappeared. I had a regular meditation practice, was fairly active physically, and was in routine practice with divination and seeing. But that has fallen away and now I am struggling to get back to it. My physical health has been a major part of my spiritual atrophy, hence the fitness tracker.

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