October 21: Over the River …

… and through the wood … It took two days to get to Nashville, where I stayed with other nomads from the gathering. Then I started east to Del Rio, which is in the Appalachian Mountains. To get there, I have gone over two rivers, a lake, and a very high hill, and still need to go cross into the Eastern time zone and through the Smoky Mountains. If they spooked me, my plan was to head south to just north of Birmingham, Alabama then northeast to Chattanooga and Knoxville … but I was able to get an appointment for a dental cleaning and no longer have enough days to go that route. Maybe if I act like The Little Engine That Could, my drive will end like the book, with the Little Yellow Bus saying, “I thought I could. I thought I could.” I’ll let you know how it goes.

I had only a short drive today to get to an organic farmers co-op that is my Harvest Host tonight, so I spent several hours by the scenic Center Hill Lake on central Tennessee's Highland Rim. It was so good to be by water again. It was so peaceful sitting on the grass. On the way there were maple trees turning red, reminding me of autumn back home in New England.

I’m in two virtual covens – one on each coast – and both had new moon rituals tonight. At the same time. I attended one and will do the spell from the other later tonight or tomorrow. Tomorrow I cross into the Eastern Time Zone, which will allow me to join them back-to-back on the coming full and new moons. I stopped at two, but there were more virtual covens I wanted to join because they combined political activism and magic as a spiritual practice. Instead I bought the revised and expanded edition of “Magic for the Resistance” by Michael M. Hughes. He was the creator of the “Spell to Bind Donald Trump and All Those Who Abet Him,” first cast on February 24, 2017, and was repeated by lots of people around the world on dark moon after that. I was one of those people. A year later, I got to interview him when the first edition of his book was published. I only worked a handful of spells and retired the book at the end of his first term. Now I am reading up on truth spells, protection rituals, and cultivating joy as a form of resistance.