whats up with having a ritual?

I was recently speaking with a gal about the name of my shop. She was curious why I chose Ritual, and do I point people to the devil (insert deep belly giggles) …

I am not joking.

I gave her the respect of listening to her and her uneducated and quite frankly immature point of view and its presentation. When this lady was done berating me with her opinions and what I should do with my shop, I paused before responding.

Not because I was angry or upset, but because I was trying to understand what she was projecting onto me. And I realized that there was regurgitated information she had heard yet never researched for herself.

Not uncommon for many people of various religious or political groups.

Okay, to the nitty gritty…a ritual is not owned by any religious group. It is a word known as an adjective and it relates to a rite or social custom or religious law.

As I have said many times before, the World is loud now. I mean LOUD AF. Social media with all of its various platforms, music with synthesized beats, notifications for this and that….OMG, its never ending!

With this new loud world, we are pulled into so many different directions that call for our attention. These different directions distract us from, well…us. Our own needs and care suffer because we have allowed the world to dictate to us that upon beckoning, we must attend and answer all interruptions.

And thus, our personal and even familial rituals are lost to the background, destined to be a memory of “remember when we”… when the family no longer does tradition (ritual) together, the unit is lost.

I chose the word Ritual97135 as the name of my shop to remind ladies that our rituals are not only important, but sacred. Truly sacred and the time when we connect with ourselves and with the Divinity that lives within us.

Hustle culture has once again misdirected women into the masculine role by stealing our ritual of feminine energy.

So I invite you to start your day with small rituals. Make your coffee time a moment of ritual where you speak with Spirit. Give thanks and gratitude for the night before and the leading into the day to come. Buy a small plant and make it a ritual that after the day is done, put on your headphones for 10 minutes, listening to mellow music and tend to your plant. Speak loving words to it for its growth, and watch how you too will grow.