Recording a daily ritual
For this assignment, we have to record a personal ritual every day until the end of the term. I was concerned with finding something a) interesting and b) realistic. I know myself, and if I choose something too onerous, I won't do it.
I considered taking a photo out the window every day, or of my first meal of the day. However, that doesn't really grab me that much.
Finally, I dug through some old notebooks, and came up with an idea: daily divination practice. Using divination techniques can help develop useful mental habits - most people already know how to solve their problems, they just need a "hook" by which to retrieve this information from the unconscious.
My plan is to perform and log two different divination attempts every day: the I-Ching, and the random selection of a song from my music library. I will log these on Google Calendar and make them public. By using Google Calendar to log the results, I'll have a context for them.