Healing through Magic & Community
The first time I hurt my knee I was in the Army. “Runner’s Knee” they called it. Then there was tendonitis, and later a ligament strain. There would be many situations throughout my time in the military that continued to degrade my knee. Running on long distances on asphalt or concrete while wearing boots and carrying a ruck that weighed between 40 and 60 pounds didn’t help. High training tempo with limited recovery time made things worse. Tack on standing for long periods of time with little rest during duty watches and patrols reinforced said injuries. The push-through-the-pain warrior ethos within the United States military turns minor tendon irritation or cartilage problems into chronic, crippling pain and changes a person’s mobility.
This was decades ago now and seems an entirely different lifetime ago. I certainly am not the same person I was when it happened, and my knee isn’t the same either. Now these many years later, the reckoning with repeated knee injuries has arrived. However, the journey to getting things fixed will take some time, energy, and resources.
First of these is a lateral loading brace that as of the writing of this post, has not been fully integrated into daily life here #OnTheCovenstead. The prosthetics experts contend it’s a ‘build up to best” approach.The goal is that this brace gives me a bit more time before attending a total knee replacement surgery, since these types of operations don’t happen on a normal trauma-induced surgery case. The short version: It may be a bit of time before I will be able to have knee-replacement surgery. This has been made more complicated by the fact –one many of us have noticed since the COVID-19 Pandemic erupted – the current decline of employer-provided health insurance in the United States. Insurance doesn’t mean covered expenses, as we know. Time to enact a plan.
That’s when I noticed my shop has been open for five years this month. It was time for some presents for my clients. Enter my Brace For Impact sale in the Creative Crone Shop. Everything in the shop has been discounted 26 percent, since I’m hoping we can help make this surgery happen before the 2026 year is out. I’m once again leaning on some witchcraft to manifest some necessary things in my life. In the process, you get a little prezzie, too! This sale starts today and goes until the Full Moon – May 31, 2026. Whether it’s a Dream Academy class, an interpretation reading, Rune casting, it’s all on sale.
This sale is just a quick moon cycle, so now’s the perfect time to grab a reading, a consult, or a copy of Magic In Your Cup. Whether you’ve been waiting to try out a Rune Casting or stock up on dream interpretations, I’m excited to help you during our anniversary and the lead up to some fix-the-knee down time. Thank you for being part of the Creative Crone community. Happy shopping!