Ritual showers?!

You do not have to be wiccan to enjoy a long, hot, herbal, flowery, candlelight bath. But if you are indeed wiccan or pagan you understand the value and the importance of a ritual bath. But in any earth based religion you can not be anything but enviromentally friendly, so you have to consider the amount of spent water. That unfortunately means that we can not take those baths as often as we want.
So the real question is how to turn your ritual bath into a ritual shower without losing the spiritual effect. Well it is easy to cover the basics. Light candles check! Burn incense check! But what about the herbs?
The last couple of days i have had the idea of using a beautiful watering can that i have half filled with the herbal extracts that i want and then while i am in the shower i add hot water to moderate the temperature (mostly because i usually prepare the extracts long before the bath and they are cold). I have already done it with camomile extracts because i needed the relaxation and eucalyptus and lavender because they are my favourite herbs for baths. Eucalyptus has healing effects and can really help with the breathing exercises and lavender is a very powerful protection herb that i definitely recommend to use if you also need that cleansing effect from any kind of negative energy.
Blessed be my friends**

The Maiden Moon

The maiden moon! This is one of my favourite esbats! It is said to be the time for new beginnings and also the time to find love and companionship. I personally take it as an opportunity to celebrate and charise the love in my life and renew it the best way i can. I am going to burn an incense of rosemary, laurel leaves and mandrake.
I am really glad because today it has been a very magickal day, i read tarot cards, had a yoga class, meditated and it is still going on. Before i became wiccan i used to practice witchcraft. It was very natural to me because in my family it 's kind of a given. I have learned early in my life different kinds of divination, as well as hypnotism techniques and all things supernatural. My mother is witch, my grandmother was a witch and as far in the past as we can see it runs in the family. You would think that in this family coming out as a wiccan would be easy but you would be wrong. When i talked about the wiccan rede to my mother although i did n't critisise her about the way she practices her craft , still she thought i did. She felt like i was turning my back to our family tradition. You see in greece it is very common to practice witchcraft. But one thing you must never do is talk about it because of course it is something forbidden by the greek orthodox church and also a taboo. Since people already think it is something evil, ethics are not an issue. It is up to everybody 's conscience to set the limits (many times there are n't any). In our family tradition you can n't use your energy to harm someone but it is not considered wrong to "influence" somebody ( for example to fall for you). So the changes in my belief system were n't many but they were important.
Because i can't stand intolerance i often speak of my wiccan path to people that i know( something of course that my mother also disapproves). No matter what the consequences might be i see it as a way to make a difference. Even if it makes me a social outcast in the end(that could never happen, i am leo so popularity runs in my dna). Today i tend to ramble a lot. Forgive me for that. I 'll go now for my ritual bath with some beautiful purple flowers and lavender and so the night begins!
Blessed be everybody and have a wonderful esbat with your loved ones.