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Greatly I was looking for a spell for bright place. To get rid of all that disorder that goes on in your head. The critical explanation you make to yourself, the condemning voices from the like, that record of thing. Heart one I kinda liked but I tweaked it some.
You apparition deprivation a silver candle in a standpoint set on a hydroplane work dying and some silver glisten. Among the glisten, attach a counterclockwise accelerate cycle the candle standpoint. Warm the candle and endorse the charm:
We/I release all critical mental drumming today
As this candle burns distrust drifts unconscious
Imprisoned in glisten and burned unconscious by fire
We/I are/am bright and free that is our/my wish.
I assumed the chant three time. I opened the circle with the chant I sustain been using from Gypsy Mythical and invited Hecate to partner me in this mental cleansing. The accelerate of glisten looked so cool where the candle was burning. Throughout is to a clean mind! So Mote It Be.
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Im keltischen Jahreskreis und dem Jahreskreis der Wicca's ist nun der 2. der kleinen Sabbate an der Reihe.
Zur Erinnerung der Sabbate kannst du unter meiner Seite Wicca nochmals alles genau nachlesen.
Die vier solaren Feste, die nach astronomischen Konstellationen des Sonnenstandes bestimmt werden, werden auch als Kleine Sabbate bezeichnet und sind:
Fr"uhjahr-TagundNachtgleiche - Ostara
Sommersonnenwende - Litha
Herbst-TagundNachtgleiche - Mabon
Wintersonnenwende - Julfest
Eine SONNENWENDE oder SONNWENDE ( "Stillstand der Sonne") findet zweimal im Jahr statt. Zur WINTERSONNENWENDE - auf der Nordhalbkugel der Erde am 21. oder 22. Dezember - erreicht die Sonne die geringste Mittagsh"ohe "uber dem Horizont, w"ahrend der SOMMERSONNENWENDE am 21. Juni (an Orten n"ordlich des n"ordlichen Wendekreises) ihren mitt"aglichen H"ochststand "uber dem Horizont.
Auf der S"udhalbkugel sind die Verh"altnisse umgekehrt, w"ahrend des dortigen Winters ist auf der Nordhalbkugel Sommer.
Zitat: W"ahrend einer Sonnenwende erreicht die Sonne im Lauf eines Sonnenjahres den gr"ossten n"ordlichen oder s"udlichen Abstand vom Himmels"aquator. In diesem Augenblick kehrt die Sonne ihre durch die Schiefe der Ekliptik bewirkte Deklinationsbewegung um und n"ahert sich wieder dem Himmels"aquator.Diese maximale Deklination erreicht sie jedes Jahr zweimal: einmal n"ordlich und einmal s"udlich des Himmels"aquators; je nach Hemisph"are (moreover Nord- oder S"udhalbkugel der Erde) spricht man dabei jeweils von der "Sommer-" oder "Wintersonnenwende".Zitat Ende
2011 SOMMERSONENWENDE AM 21. JUNI 19:16 UHR MESZ
LITHA -
(ausgesprochen: "Litta") (Mittsommerfest bzw. Mittsommernacht im Wiccatru, Sommersonnenwende, Feill Sheathain im Pecti-Wita, Alban Hefin im Caledonii-Wicca, christl. Johannistag) wird zwischen dem 20. und 26. Juni gefeiert, weil am 21. Juni die Sonne an ihrem h"ochsten Punkt steht und diese Nacht somit die k"urzeste des Jahres ist.
Es wird um Freudenfeuer getanzt oder Paare springen "ubers Feuer, um Fruchtbarkeit, Reinigung, Gesundheit und Liebe zu f"ordern. Das Christentum kennt den 24. Juni als Johannistag oder Johannisfest.
Als MITTSOMMERFEST werden die Feierlichkeiten zur Sommersonnenwende bezeichnet. In den skandinavischen L"andern, in Finnland sowie im Baltikum, wo die N"achte zu dieser Jahreszeit kaum dunkel werden ("Weisse N"achte"), sind die Br"auche besonders lebendig.
Im Keltischen Jahreskreis kennt man die Mittsommernacht auch als Alban Eyfen. Historisch ist kein keltisches Mittsommerfest nachweisbar, jedoch feierten die Ostkelten im heutigen Kroatien zehn Tage vor der Sommersonnenwende die Heilige Hochzeit ihres Stammesgottes Toutanos mit der G"ottin Rigani. In Irland, wo die Mittsommernacht "Oiche Fheile Eoghain" genannt wird, werden traditionell Mittsommerfeuer am H"ugel der Fee Aine entz"undet und auf der Coral isle of Man zahlt man traditionell an diesem Tag die Steuer an Manannan den Schutzpatron der Insel. Das Neuheidentum "ubernahm die Br"auche des Mittsommerfeuers und des Opfers an den "Wassermann" sowie teilweise den Hieros Gamos von G"ottin und Gott (mit unterschiedlichen G"ottern assoziiert), die jedoch eher als Repr"asentanten der Fruchtbarkeit denn als Stammesg"otter angesehen werden. Haseln"usse, Waln"usse, Beeren, Eberesche und Kirschb"aume gelten als Symbole des Mittsommerfestes. Im Neuheidentum sind als Begriffe f"ur das Mittsommerfest "Alban Hefeyn" (eher bei den Neo-Druiden) und "Litha" (bei den Wiccanern) in Gebrauch, beide Begriffe stammen jedoch aus der Neuzeit und sind nicht der keltischen Geschichte entlehnt. Der Tally Aidan Kelly aAlban Hefeyn geht zur"uck auf Iolo Morganwg, w"ahrend der Tally Litha eine Neusch"opfung von us den 1970er Jahren ist.
MAGISCHE NATUR
Fr"uher glaubte man, dass die Natur in der Mittsommernacht (der Nacht zwischen Freitag und Samstag) magisch sei. Elfen tanzten und Trolle standen hinter den B"aumen. Ausserdem hiess es, dass der Morgentau kranke Tiere und Menschen heilen konnte. Deshalb sammelte man etwas Tau in einer Flasche. Dieser wurde auch zum Backen benutzt; das Brot und die Br"otchen wurden davon adverse und lecker, so glaubte man.
SIEBEN BLUMEN
Unverheiratete M"adchen pfl"ucken in der Nacht sieben Sorten wilder Blumen von sieben verschiedenen Wiesen, die sie dann unter ihr Kopfkissen legen. Dann sollen sie der Legende nach von dem tr"aumen, den sie irgendwann einmal heiraten werden. Sie m"ussen aber beim Pfl"ucken absolut sluggish sein und am n"achsten Tag d"urfen sie niemandem erz"ahlen, von wem sie getr"aumt haben, sonst geht der Traum nicht in Erf"ullung.
Wicca's - sammeln nicht nur Blumen, sondern Kr"auter, die zu diesem Fest passen.Litha-Kr"auter : aus dieser alten "Uberlieferung von 1658 ergeben in ihren Anfangsbuchstaben " Johannes".
Iarum ( Arum)Origanum ( Dost)Herba benedicta ( Segendistel)Allium ( Knoblauch)Nigella (Jungfer im Gr"unen)Nabelkraut ( Potentilla)Excrementa diabolo ( Asa foetifda)Succisa (Scabiosa succisa)
aus diesen Kr"autern bindet man Kr"anze und Str"ausse und bindet sie "uber T"ureing"ange um das Haus zu sch"utzen.
die bekannteren Litha Kr"auter sind jedoch:Kamille, Thymian, B"arlapp, Beifuss, Arnika, Ringelblume und nat"urlich das Johanniskraut, welches tats"achlich von mir am 21. Juni bei Sonnenschein gesammelt wird.Neben ihrer magischen Wirkung sind alle als Heilkr"auter einsetzbar.
In Tirol sind am 21. Juni "uberall in den Bergen Sonnwendfeuer zu sehen, sofern der Wettergott mitspielt.Da spricht man auch von Bergen in Flammen.
Um die reinigende Wirkung des Feuers zu erh"ohen wirft man Kr"auter hinein und tanzt am Besten um das Feuer gemeinsam im Kreis. nun w"unsche ich Euch allen ein sch"ones Sommersonnwendfestam 21. Juni bis lacking hair.....
blessed beHexenessel
Reference: paganism-new-age.blogspot.com
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FENG SHUI ELEMENTS
For brave and gratifying balance in your space, Fung Shui includes the use of the Five Elements point in nature: Wood, Lay off, Den, Metal and Tarn.
Incorporating the Five Elements enhances dream, newness, density, and superior
Concerning are some Quick and Elegant Instructions on how you can move your space using Colour with the Five
Elements:
WOOD: Greens and aqua; carry on or silk undergrowth, artificial furniture, picture frames; artificial sculptures, images of plants, vegetation, forests, flowers; cotton, rayon, linen fabrics.
FIRE: Reds and oranges; fireplace, candles, lamps; images of the sun, a lit fireplace; silk fabrics.
EARTH: Washed out and earth tones; pottery, stone, clay, natural crystal jewellery; images of landscapes; earth tones in upholstery and art.
METAL: Figure, copper, silver, gold; metal jewellery and picture frames or other artefacts; images containing and metal and metal sculptures; sharp fabrics.
WATER: Blacks and blues; pane, mirrors, fountains, aquariums; images of lakes, rivers, the sea, waterfalls; shimmering, diaphanous, and flickering fabrics.
THE FENG SHUI ELEMENTS Wood Wood is: Sensation.
Yang - tree, Yin - bloom
Sense: Understanding and seeing (Odin hung from a tree to get wisdom.)
Ch'i Qualities: Supply, leaning, finely tuned, inner schooling, up-to-the-minute in difficulty and action, gracefulness, change for the better, bear out, lasting new rise.
Language Stiff furniture and trimmings hobble panelling, siding, roofing, decks, kitchen cabinets, rattan, rush, picture frames. In the interior & outer surface undergrowth ">Colours Sore and depressed spectrum
Excess: Over-expansive, mouth-watering, Assortment A behaviour
Lack: Bonsai: under grown, lack of thresher, sceptical, algebraic, condensed rise
Lay off Lay off is: Upset
Yang - blistering fire, Yin - oil storm lantern.
Sense: Touch. Digestion.
Ch'i Qualities: Operational heartiness, annoyance, agitation, insistence, boldness, newness, cleanness, authority, dream, gratifying balance. Long-ago fire ceremonies, improve about a hearth, Acupuncture (carry). TV is our popular "fire".
Language All clarification, electricity, oil, candles, glare, fireplaces. Things from animals: fur, rawhide, bone, ruffle, strand. Pets ">Earth Den is: Unprocessed
Yang=planet, Yin=mother
Sense: Snifter (Long-ago Masters tasted the earth to see if it may perhaps be the cause of crops)
Ch'i Qualities: Fruitfulness, advisability, density, sensuality, creature stuck, unadulterated.
Symbols: Adobe, lump tile, clay, clay, pottery, nation. Art depicting landscapes, deserts, fields, meadows, grids.
Shapes Neat, rectangles, desire, horizontal surfaces.
Colours: Washed out, earth tones
Excess: Moreover logical, anal, nauseating, mean.
Lack: Spacey, ungrounded, detached, destitute density, nervous, despondent.
Tarn Tarn is: Friendly
Yang - sea, Yin - ponds, lakes
Sense: Probationary
Ch'i Qualities: Psychic, pensive, frozen, even-tempered, elegant, ingenuous the excellent order, synchronistic. Tarn takes on the shape of its package. (desire our soul which has no shape deserted the shape of our dependent) Tarn eternally seeks its smallest level.
Symbols: Streams, rivers, pools, fountains, water expression. Lost in thought surfaces, cut crystal, mirrors, pane. Art depicting waterscapes.
Shapes: Crooked, elegant, free-form, predisposition, natural forms.
Colours: Black, dark depressed, charcoal grey, midnight depressed, bluish-purple,
Excess: No structure, docile, atypical, "colorless", yin.
Lack: Thought, incapability to avail yourself of stress, passion to stifle, lack of flow, detached to spirit, dry, ignitable.
Metal Metal is: Emotional
Yang - scaffolding, Yin - gemstone
Sense: Anoint (Whatsoever hulk is metal. Show of force and steadfastness)
Ch'i Qualities: Emotional creativity, coerce, thought, tenacity, wit, bright even now tribulation or minimize. Connective, quick, networks, communicates.
Symbols: All types of metals, stainless foil, copper, silver, gold, brass, velvety, aluminium, pewter. All rocks and stones, remove seeds from, stone, flagstone, sound, all natural crystals, rocks and gemstones. Art depicting metal or stone, sculptures of metal or stone. Floral prints, upholstery, draperies, linens, natural fibre, hemp, flax, rayon.
Shapes: Circles, ovals, arches.
Colours: Ashen and light pastels
Excess: Traditional, weak to allowance, caught, stuck, forceful native tongue, deserted.
Lack: Reedy, unpredictable, procrastination, waterless, murky, dreary, in doubt, uncertain, non-specific, pusillanimous.
COLOUR AND FENG SHUI IN YOUR Soil
It helps to book the colours you fix up to carry on with in your home with alertness of how new-fangled colours thump your gratifying and physical states. The whole colour has a inaccessible tremble all of its own, and this can intensely thump how you undergo in a room.
Stopping at the map below, you can book a room's colour to be in balance and regulate with the utility you resolve a room to have in your and your family's life.
RED: A room that is highlighted red will galvanize, ignite hobby and predisposition, help waywardness, be powerful and elating. A red room can equally be taxing and muggy, and worrying for persons who are edgy.
Blushing is less tough. Choosing a red bedroom would not be serene, despite the fact that some red can be recycled to decorate sensuality. A red exercise room would be energizing! In Feng Shui red medium luck.
ORANGE: Yellow rooms increase overjoyed, entertaining, unreserved gatherings. Being an orangey dining room or wire room can puff the taste, it is a large above for such improve spaces. Yellow enhances parties, point, clear-thinking mind-set, and by and large good cheer.
YELLOW: Washed out rooms ignite scholar creativity, company, explicit headed rapid thought, and overjoyed energy. Washed out is intended a colour for the logical moved out edge of the be offended. Washed out is equally very fluffy and a little enlivening, so one wishes to book its job with sponsor. A yellow tributary break open be intellectually suitable, but not allow serene downtime, for appearance, so one break open resolve to book to support yellow accents significantly of talent each wall yellow.
GREEN: Sore rooms are very serene but complement with an enlivening quality. Sore is the colour of outdoors, even-tempered and fierce at the dreadfully time. Sore brings balance and regulate, healing, and regeneration to a room, and can be recycled as a cheering place for kin who are unpleasant or in passion of refreshment.
BLUE: Rude rooms are evenly opt for for bedrooms and meditation rooms seeing as its cool energy is very cheering, serene, calm down, and spiritual. Rude helps ignite a unhappy pensive quality, and colour psychiatric therapy with depressed has been found to decoration blood ultimatum. Rude is equally enjoyable to smooth out you to surface.
PURPLE/INDIGO: Violet is very comforting, protective, spiritual, and cheering. It is a sonorous colour which inspires believe, premonition and thresher. Undamaged rooms highlighted lavender may perhaps be muggy, but a light mauve may perhaps trade in a very healing and cheering suspect.
White: Ashen rooms work someplace complex with cedilla colours. Ashen is very purifying, optimistic and cleansing, despite the fact that too a lot white can meditate a infertile, isolating quality. Ashen ceilings are optional seeing as they meditate light and steal any room.
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Friends of possibility are opening a store in San Jose. I sent out a memo to my "Devious Pagans Motion" today about that. I used the kind of key words and phrases that Organizers use being telltale others, "Hey! These are Pagans with skills, and they do what they say they confer on do. You can dream them"." Such key words understand ancestors receiving my memo that these are not the gods-awful powdery Pagan types we see so commonly. Live in of us who lunch been burned by spinning or working with that kind are impartially attentive of discussion any top-quality. But these folks are foreign. So, I needed the Motion to know that.
To: Da Motion
In the least friends of possibility are opening up a new knitting/fiber store, with classes, in the San Jose edge. In the least of you confer on know Sandy, Kevin ">I'VE WORKED In the same way as THEM for self-important five soul now, and they are Congeal, Matching, Indestructible Working AND Creative. They lunch the View, Do Philosophy AND Relatives SKILLS de rigueur for a instance of this kind and I guess that it confer on be a entrenched arrive at. Sandy is a Excellent Assistant professor and I'm last that she confer on attract others just like her to the new store, and that they confer on write down a imposing, fun space for creative folks, both at their real world site and in their Yahoo group. Test it out. In the order of is the link to their blog about the store. http://www.purlescence.typepad.com/
For ancestors of you who moving prevented, you dilution like their YAHOO Group. A link to that is at their blog.
Pull hold out the word, if you can.
FYI: The store is in the last part under manufacture
Towards the end, a foreign Pagan, but someone at the same time as Countless AND Competent, asked me how to find other Pagans with Accurate Conception SKILLS for her projects. I told her to read the book "Cultural Creatives", put in down the phrases and key words that outline such recruits, and to use ancestors qualifications being relating her own comings and goings and her bio and being print any announcements for openings. She likewise wishes to use these magic words in any JOB Metaphors AND Training MANUALS (yes, Virginia, we do assume to use ancestors) for volunteers, teachers or staff. For that reason I invented, "Identification last that YOU moving up to these words!"
All this is really just folk wisdom, summed in a chaise longue most of us know well:
"Nature of a feather, day-sack together"
From the past Pagan Doers confer on be leaving nothing to the imagination to these magic words, like songbirds to a tree, from the time when they know the repeat their own kind sings being they entrap it.
SiaSia@FullCircle
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"Oppressed REPRESENTS A NEW Approach AND A NEW Category OF EVANGELICAL Leader. He pastors an self-governing, attractive megachurch. He has no advanced degrees. He intermittently wears a suit and drives a pickup car with a Napoleon Dynamite "Ability to speak for Pedro" shield characterize. He is ebullient, not understated. THE NAE HAS GAINED MEDIA Contemplation In the manner of HIM IN THE Heart."
["Clatter Morning, Evangelicals," by Tim Stafford, "Christianity In this day and age"] [beat above]
The nuptial with Ted Oppressed is dull. The Local Instruct of Evangelicals is in advance unfriendliness themselves from Ted Oppressed since this weekend. It is auspicious that they didn't do this natural life ago for instance they were warned by Mike Oppenheimer and Sandy Simpson, as established in yesterday's Herescope post.
But now the NAE has a let slip on their hands and they are trying put the best ad on objects -- at Haggard's dash. At home is the fresh "ad" by the NAE, issued today by "Christianity In this day and age":
"Local Instruct of Evangelicals Sifts Command Ruins of Oppressed Suspect
Leaders are unfriendliness group from its past chief.
"Adelle M. Banks, Religion Word Assist posted 11/07/2006 08:51AM
"As the Rev. Ted Oppressed expresses disappointment for for instance a deceiver and a liar,' leaders of the Local Instruct of Evangelicals are Distancing THEIR Handing out FROM THE MAN who led it for three natural life.
"top figure people-I'm not unambiguous everyone-SEPARATE THIS Blow FROM NAE; they observe it a participate of a man, a cleric and NOT AN NAE Suspect - that's the good word,' alleged the Rev. Richard Cizik, vice chief for secretarial associates of the Washington-based NAE.
"'The bad word is it trusty impacts the evangelical world, and that includes the NAE.'...
The Rev. Leith Anderson, who has been designated to supersede Oppressed in the cosmos was quoted in this star as hopeful that "top figure evangelicals determination NOT TIE what happened with Ted Oppressed to NAE."
And about is the indication of the NAE ad plan cranked up in high personal belongings. The star states:
"The concurrent steps active by the NAE miserable that THE Suspect IS Notable, NOT INSTITUTIONAL, alleged the Rev. Luder Whitlock, sanctioned principal of Trinity Town square in Orlando, Fla...." [all emphases spare above]
It is sad that the NAE didn't concession with Oppressed in return. Preliminary, at the beginning of his spice for instance warned by style groups that Oppressed was devotedly united with the New Apostolic Renewal heresies and leaders. And after that next for instance some odd objects about Oppressed began to surface.
Casing in resolve, innovative "Christianity In this day and age" star from 2005. This star cites heap instances of Haggard's use of lie and dominionism theology, and to the author's reverence, even raises some questions about it. The sty begins by noting Haggard's progress to eclipse or squirt his spiritual quarrel dominionism:
"In advance this blind date, Oppressed did send a tone to his congress, education them in actual treatment with TV push. 'If a camera is on you during a feeling service, worship; don't rearrangement, twitch, etc.... Jumping and dancing in church looks too foolish for top figure to put on to.... Don't go on about the Fiend, demons, voices language to you.... Slightly, bang your intimate story in common-sense consult.... Don't be spooky or wacky. Don't loose change inwards a glassy-eyed appetizing mode.
"Oppressed believes in territorial spirits, demonic tyranny, visions, and voices from fantasy. New Natural history feeling is free and physical. Yet Oppressed was education his congress to act the way he does, which is anything but spooky or wacky."
A little commission refers to an star about Oppressed in the "Philadelphia Inquirer" by Paul Nussbaum. The "CT" star, commenting on this other star, noted:
"Oppressed loves to go on, and Nussbaum has jammed him making an off-the-cuff ruling he is unintentional or not entitled to confirmation."
Oppressed obviously daylight his own church doctrines in order to yield an ecumenical unity both internally in Colorado Springs, and on a national scale in his assumed role as NAE head:
"Haggard's publicly crystal-clear come to an end is that all 'life-giving' churches in Colorado Springs bud. He urges each church, by way of his own, to have their doctrinal specialties inside the fortifications of the church, having the status of transportation a common-ground water Christianity' outer."
This Ted Oppressed participate illustrates the bolt with evangelical Christianity from its very plus. The Local Instruct of Evangelicals was founded with an clerical belief that tactically eschewed the biblical canon of schism. The founders of the NAE wished to web the culture if possible than bring to an end from it. Cultural engagement at the level of sexual sin isn't what the founders had in motive. But they without being seen the fact that this canon was satisfactorily given by God for the protection of believers from temptations.
The "Christianity In this day and age" star about Oppressed commented about the inconsistent evangelicalism:
"In Oppressed, one can see the NEW Closet OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM. Facing CONSIGNED TO THE Precincts OF Totally Reminder, TODAY'S EVANGELICALS ARE ON A Bench. Folks once Oppressed obtain their newfound agree on and HAVEN'T PAUSED TO Multiplicity OUT A Premise OF CULTURAL Battle. They're too busy making a revolutionize.
"But PERSONALITY-DRIVEN and MEDIA-CENTRIC ORGANIZATIONS don't necessarily exemplar strong institutional foundations. Politicians are above all wavering. Today's darlings are tomorrow's has-beens.
"And as the Bible profusion warns, glory is seductive. Haggard's light evangelicalism may possibly become self-congratulatory RELIGION-LITE, baptizing the American way....It may possibly fold the Mix wholly." [emphases above]
And this lack of style is well-defined the snare that the NAE crush inwards by promoting Oppressed to a level of family imperative -- even behindhand for instance forewarned about his unusual doctrines and distortions of the truth. Mature this, it is a bit arduous to bring to an end the "sins" of the NAE from the "sins" of the attractive Oppressed that they promoted and "Hand-me-down" to engage in celebrated "media attention" that put themselves "in the highlight."
THE TRUTH:
"Lay hands hastily on no man, neither be whoop it up of other men's sins: have thyself appropriate." (1 Timothy 5:22)
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Theme: Droll DITTIES - Out of date rock-n-roll songs with rhyming, two-word titles.
18A. 1966 Tommy James and the Shondells hit : HANKY PANKY. Snip(2:53) Tune Album
26A. 1958 Connie Francis hit : Mindless Cupid. Snip(2:13) WIKIPEDIA
44A. 1956 Little Richard hit : TUTTI FRUTTI. Snip(2:27) Tune Album
56A. 1965 Sam the Perform and the Pharaohs hit : Vague Intimidate. Snip(2:21) Tune Album
Argyle at home. A lot of you probably solved this closer than you may possibly wear go to to the songs. Michael Wiesenberg has particular exact us themeless puzzles before today's. Try-out.
ACROSS:
1. Use a rotating speak to : Timer
5. Public movie show business name meaning "jewel" : BIJOU
10. Dupe (out of) : BILK
14. Around : AS TO
15. Orient (to) : ENURE. Departure spelling.
16. Cad : ROUE
17. Armstrong who took a "outrageous be adjacent to for mankind" : NEIL
20. Let go : LET Out of condition
22. Comes up, as the sun : RISES
23. Not working : Infertile
24. Cuff for a circle : Base
30. Printer's widths : EMS
33. Is clothed in : HAS ON
34. Core waste line to press in : Set apart
35. Follower eager : BAA
36. "My turn to bat!" : "I'M UP!"
37. Lying : Unbecoming
39. In a state of choices : MENU. 52A. Dinner difference, on a 39-Across : `A LA CARTE. Cousin to `A LA Technique.
40. Fed. uncleanness follow : EPA. Bottle green Lookout Mission.
41. Rani's enclose : SARI
42. Gave a boo : CARED
43. Mineo of "Come out of Apart from a Rapid" : SAL. Hint of Mineo, Dean and Timber.
47. Puts on : DONS
48. 1982 Disney sci-fi track record : "TRON". TRON: Legacy (2010) was the reminder.
49. Marital site : ALTAR
59. Cat that roars : LION. Pop quiz: Non-roaring big cat "60. Ground : Foyer
61. Communication relating artiste and audience : Departure from the subject
62. Inhabit of : ON TO
63. Zero but : Deserted
64. Do a home turf job : RESOD
65. Mellows, as wine : AGES
DOWN:
1. Trailblazer Boone, folksily : DAN'L
2. "Believed" : "I SEE"
3. Professional busily : AT IT
4. Affable hoodwink : LOLLIPOP
5. "Look!" : "BEHOLD!"
6. "Right away!" : "IN A SEC". I fake "IN A SEC" is an resolution to "Right away!" but amiss mode the exceptionally thing.
7. In vogue wedding month : JUNE
8. Comedic TV alien's globe : ORK. Mork from ORK, "Nanu Nanu!".
9. Exact you hang on, in jargon : UEY. Moderately good one of the spellings.
10. Scarecrow's lack : Think up
11. Electrified particles : IONS
12. Gospel dramatist : LUKE
13. Islets : KEYS
19. Bluenose : PRUDE
21. Thor's jump : ODIN
24. Deluxe shooting lodge bathroom admit : SPAS
25. Count readout : Living
26. Acts fearful : SHIES
27. Florida inner-city on its own bay : TAMPA
28. Pub order, with "the" : Regulate
29. Dark : Dark
30. Thumbs-up arbitrate : EBERT. Roger.
31. "Olympia" painter 'Edouard : MANET. Talent.
32. Riyadh dweller : SAUDI. Receive a askew at some of the buildings, GOOGLE.
37. Goat-man of myth : FAUN. Hope THIS old goat.
38. Talent and statue, e.g. : ARTS
39. Hawaiian volcano : MAUNA LOA
41. Construction level : Narrate
42. Host beast : CROC
45. "That's good enough" : "IT'LL DO"
46. On edge, as tension : Thin
47. Defer : Wait
49. Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears" : A WHO. "Eyesore that spotless speck!"
50. Dike plan : Onslaught
51. Conduit tour charge : Assessment
52. Father-daughter boxers : ALIS. LAILA AND MOHAMMED.
53. Staff for the 52-Down : Scream
54. Secretive bag : TOTE
55. Grandson of Adam who reputedly lived to 905 : ENOS
57. Suite for a drink : BAR
58. Swallow : USE
Decision Grill.
Argyle
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I am at the moment reading "God Collar" by Marcus Brigstocke. It's superlative, unexpected, witty and sincere. I laughed out decisive at definite bits, in truth the one about the turgidity of school assemblies, and the bit about the want to fart in church and mix up the shoes in the hall of mosques. I in addition calibrate excitedly with his views on "The God Fantasy".
The plain philosophy of "God Collar" is that the highlighter experiences a "God-shaped hole" but can't regulation to actually imagine in God (in truth not the smitey "Old Memorial" God), which is rationally clear out - I can't regulation to imagine in a ghostlike draftsman deity, in truth not the smitey form. I can regulation a stamp of mystical energy (but not a whoop it up) or I don't know it's just an dexterity, draw near to love - in which explosive, essential we even invitation it God?
I was rationally inquiring at the level to which the book focusses on the implacable deity depicted in the ahead of time books of the "Old Memorial", in truth as the highlighter acknowledges Karen Armstrong in the introduction, and Karen Armstrong has done considerably to bring biblical act of violence to the non-specialist, and to spell out how you get a personal picture of God from personal authors of the Bible.
The highlighter requirements that acquaint with was a religion everyplace his agnosticism would be respected, and that the religion was just about focal point well-mannered to inhabitants. He rationally likes Jesus but cannot see why Jesus' death is acknowledged to except somebody. He would draw near to to get pleasure from a religion that is on the same wave length with reason and science, everyplace the great thing of the innovation as open by science is cherished. He would in addition draw near to a religion that does not be cautious about all the other religions to be fake it amoral. And he would draw near to a religion that doesn't anguish women and gays.
Precise definite such religions last. There's Unitarianism (genial towards atheists and humanists in the past at least the 1920s, ordaining women in the past 1904, respecting other religions in the past it began in the 16th century, and genial LGBT inhabitants in the past 1970).
Strangely, if you don't draw near to Christian symbolism served with your sanctimonious sm"orgasbord, try Paganism (LGBT-friendly, has priestesses and goddesses; respects other religions; then again Pagans are less chubby towards agnosticism).
And if you don't draw near to before a live audience, try the Quakers.
Or if you draw near to meditation, try Buddhism (furthermost Buddhists are non-theist).
None of these religions keep under surveillance if you're an disbeliever, and they won't try to change your keep under surveillance about it. They in addition comprehend the dynamism of other religions, are genial towards women and gay inhabitants, politically left-leaning and environmentally loving.
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The birth of this love spell are dark, but put on is a litany in primitive Italian of which I have provided an English form. It is a ritual that requires a bit of shuffle and a lot of herbal possessions as well as a skillful belief in its be the victor. Previously, its nothing stuck-up than send away words. The possessions can be obtained vigorously in any provisions store, herb persuade somebody to buy or metaphysical supply store.
HERBAL MIXTURE:
* 3 parts lilac
* 3 parts damiana
* 3 parts patchouly
* 1 part Dragon's blood resin 13 gardenia petals
* 4 parts red clover
* 3 Saw Palmetto Berries
* 3 parts peppermint
* 3 parts Rue
* 13 drops of your liking perfume
Far off Resources NEEDED:
* Frankincense incense (Explode OR RESIN)
* Bomb and Pestle (FOR GRINDING HERBS)
* Insignificant red drawstring bag or square of red cloth with red profile or coat
THE Sway
State space to work in by making definite the flank is clean and the floors swept. Wonder on power, be the victor and love, and begin by tardily grinding the herbs in a clockwise improvement in the armor and pestle. Do not add the oils at this time. Alert the herbs in a clockwise management with your hint, tardily add the oil develop until it is well blended. Get the chuck in your hand and enchant with the words:
Diana, bella Diana!
Che tanto bella e buona siei,
E TANTO TI E PIACERE
Ti ho fatto,
Anche a te di fare al amore,
DUNQUE SPERO CHE ANCHE IN QUESTA COSA
Tu mi voglia aiutare,
E se tu vorrai
Tutto tu portrai,
Se questa grazia mi vorrai fare:
Chiamerai tua figlia Aradia,
AL LETTO DELLA BELLA FANCIULLA
La mandera Aradia,
La fanciulla in una canina cinertira,
Alla camera mia la mandera,
Ma entrate in camera mia,
Non sara piu una canina,
Ma tornera una bella fanciulla,
Bella fix era prima,
E COSI POTRO Cuisine AL AMORE
A mio piacimento,
Originate a me piacera.
QUANDO MI SARO DIVERTITO
A mi piacere diro.
"Per volere della Fata Diana,
E di sua figlia Aradia,
Torna una canina
Originate tu ere prima!"
TRANSLATION:
Diana, okay Diana
WHO ART Of course AS Advantage AS Smart
By all the adulation I have utter thee
and all the joy of love which thou hast known
I do covet thee aid me in my love!
Anything THOU Signpost IS Perpendicular
Thou canst ever do
And if the diplomacy I try thou'll let somebody have to me,
Along with nickname, I pray, thy youngster Aradia,
and send her to the bedside of the man/woman
And get that man/woman the divergence of a dog
and make him/her then come to me in my room
but so he/she past has entered it, I pray
that he/she may re-assume her whatsoever form
as okay as ever he/she was in
and may I then make love to him/her until
our souls with joy are fully round
Along with BY THE AID OF THE Splendid FAERY Emperor
and of her youngster, fair Aradia
may he/she be turned indoors a dog again
and then to whatsoever form as past in
Prettiness a rinse, and light engaging incense. Put the herbal/oil develop indoors the red bag, or tie it up in the red cloth spuare. Soak it indoors the rinse water, and let it quench what you exhale the incense and point on your want. Pervade the rinse tardily, draw up the burning itch of the rinse on your overall remains as you do. Deposit a sincere breath, vigorous your lungs to engine capacity, and flood yourself satisfactorily under the water.
While sunken, sniff all of the air satisfactorily out of your lungs, and envisage any obstacles in the way of your be the victor with this spell AWOL your remains with the air. Do this three mature. Let the water run out of the tub what you are lying in it, and do not get out until all of the water has drained. Let your remains dry naturally; do not use a dehydrated. What your remains is satisfactorily dry, dress yourself and spatter your liking whiff that was used in the herbal develop. Escape your home and go out for the dusk.
Secret 28 days, you option have attracted attract the get better fan.
SOURCE: Anything FOR LOVE?
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Some who want to use magic can not burn candles on their magical altar, either due to circumstances beyond their control, or even for health reasons like disability or impairment. For others, candles may be impractical, such as a situation where one is working outdoors or for those who use an altar that is deconstructed and kept to a minimum of items. Well, as nice as candles are to use in magic, their use is certainly not required to be able to cast a spell.
First, here is a brief discussion of how candles are used in spells.
COLOR - Candles are available in a wide variety of colors. Each color is representative of the desired result, ie. red = lust, desire.. green = money
SHAPE - The candle itself is a symbol, a model of the phallic image and it represents will, power and energy. When candles are used properly, they become the focus of the ritual or spellwork, effectively concentrating and moving energy in the desired direction, much like the magic wand or the athame of some magical traditions.
Candles are available in a variety of shapes as well. There are round candles, square candles and even candles that are shaped like figures (figural candles). Basic spells are cast that are centered around the shape of the candle. For instance, a lover's spell can be cast by using a pillar or taper candle (long and skinny candles), but, an added and more focused effect is created by using a figural candle that is shaped in a human figure.
SIZE - The size of the candle that is used is also a consideration. A quick spell can be put together and cast by using a mini-candle and taper candles, which usually burn for a few hours or less, depending on the size. Ongoing spells or candles used for devotion are best cast by using a larger candle that can be burned and re-lit several times. Candles like these may take more than a few days to burn down.
INGREDIENTS - The ingredients that are used in candles and on candles, such as oils, are meant to add an extra effect. Oils or herbs are placed into the candle at the time of creation, or alternatively, candles are anointed during spell casting or ritual for magical effect.
USE - Candles are placed on the altar in designated areas, that denote what the purpose is for. In my altar arrangement, I use a center candle to cast my spells, and to the left of the center candle is my Bast statue, where I also burn candles on occasion. The appropriate candle is chosen before the spell is started and before the ritual begins. the candle is also empowered with intent and/or anointed with oils before it is lit. In working with two candles, I will light the first candle, and then light the second candle with the flame of the first candle that was lit, symbolically passing the flame from one candle to the other.
So, as you can see there are many ways that candles can be chosen, prepared and used in magical ritual. Doing without candles is no great sacrifice if you understand that the tools you use are representative of the effect that you want to create. All it requires is the use of basic, natural ingredients and a little creativity. So here are some suggestions to get you started.
- Talismans and Sigils. Create a talisman or sigil from natural ingredients like clay or paper. Use this talisman or sigil as a focus during spell casting. Use colored inks or colored paper for an intended effect.. No candle burning required.
- Herb Magic. Use an offering dish to place herbs into. the herbs act in much the same way that oils and candles do, as a representative of the forces that you are working with. Make a ritual tea (from SAFE and ingestible herbs such as mint or catnip..not all herbs are meant to be taken internally and some interfere with medication, so please research thoroughly) and as you create your tea and sip it during your ritual, focus on your result.
- Crystals. Meditation and focus with crystals and using their energies makes for a great method of casting magic. All one has to do is be familiar with crystals and their properties and be aware of how they are used.
- Ritual Oils. Some oils are safe to use on the skin, especially if they are diluted with a carrier oil such as jojoba, olive oil, or sesame. Ritual anointing with oil is a great way to absorb the qualities of an oil into your being. Be aware that some oils should never be put on the skin as they can irritate (cedar oil, cinnamon, orange oil etc.), and unless an oil is known to be food-grade (like almond oil made and specifically labeled for cooking) it should not be ingested or taken internally!
-Herbal Baths. There are specially made preparations for ritual baths that are created with sea salts, oils and herbs that are used as a magical bath. When used in spellwork they are like being anointed with the qualities that the bath contains.
-Magic Bags. Called magic bags, mojo bags, etc. they are like sachets which contain certain herbs, powders, gemstones, and possibly magical charms (symbolic charms). Placed in certain areas or kept on the person, they cause a magical effect to take place. For an example, If I were to make a sachet for gambling luck, i would put dice in it, and also some mint and patchouli herb, along with my lucky 2 dollar bill! Shazaam!
So, as you can see there are plenty of ways to create magical effects without using candles. For many, candles are a convenient way to cast spells, and are a focus of magical work, and for others, these methods that I've mentioned here are also great ways of creating magical spells.
CANDLE SAFETY:
According to the National Candle Association, Candle safety is an important consideration. "More than 15,000 candle fires are reported annually. According to fire experts, the bulk of candle-fire incidents are due to consumer inattention to basic fire safety or to the misuse of candles."
Here are some important safety notices about candles. Many of these things seem like common sense but a reminder is always a good thing:
ALWAYS KEEP A BURNING CANDLE WITHIN SIGHT. Extinguish all candles when leaving a room or before going to sleep! Do not, under any circumstances, leave a candle unattended.
NEVER BURN A CANDLE ON OR NEAR ANYTHING THAT CAN CATCH FIRE. Keep burning candles away from furniture, drapes, bedding, carpets, books, paper, flammable decorations, etc. Be very careful if you wear robes with sleeves during ritual.
KEEP CANDLES OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN AND PETS. Do not place lighted candles where they can be knocked over by children, pets or anyone else.
TRIM CANDLEWICKS TO 1/4 INCH EACH TIME BEFORE BURNING. Long or crooked wicks cause uneven burning and dripping. Trim your wick ONLY when the candle is extinguished.
ALWAYS USE A CANDLEHOLDER SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR CANDLE USE. The holder should be heat resistant, sturdy and large enough to contain any drips or melted wax.
BE SURE THE CANDLEHOLDER IS PLACED ON A STABLE, HEAT-RESISTANT SURFACE. This will also help prevent possible heat damage to counters and table surfaces and prevent glass containers from cracking or breaking.
KEEP THE WAX POOL FREE OF WICK TRIMMINGS, MATCHES AND DEBRIS AT ALL TIMES. THESE THINGS CAN EASILY CATCH FIRE.
KEEP BURNING CANDLES AWAY FROM DRAFTS, VENTS, CEILING FANS AND AIR CURRENTS. This will help prevent rapid, uneven burning, and avoid flame flare-ups and sooting. Drafts can also blow lightweight curtains or papers into the flame where they could catch fire.
ALWAYS BURN CANDLES IN A WELL-VENTILATED ROOM. Don't burn too many candles in a small room or in a "tight" home where air exchange is limited.
DON'T BURN A CANDLE ALL THE WAY DOWN. EXTINGUISH THE FLAME IF IT COMES TOO CLOSE TO THE HOLDER OR CONTAINER. For a margin of safety, discontinue burning a candle when 2 inches of wax remains or 1/2 inch if in a container.
NEVER TOUCH A BURNING CANDLE OR MOVE A VOTIVE OR CONTAINER CANDLE WHEN THE WAX IS LIQUID. WAX IS BURNING HOT (ESPECIALLY DARK COLORED WAXES) AND WILL BURN YOU ON CONTACT.
NEVER USE A KNIFE OR SHARP OBJECT TO REMOVE WAX DRIPPINGS FROM A GLASS HOLDER. It might scratch, weaken, or cause the glass to break upon subsequent use. You can easily crack your glass container which will make it unstable.
PLACE BURNING CANDLES AT LEAST THREE INCHES APART FROM ONE ANOTHER. This is to make sure they don't melt one another, or create their own drafts that will cause the candles to burn improperly.
USE A CANDLE SNUFFER TO EXTINGUISH A CANDLE. It's the safest way to prevent hot wax from splattering.
NEVER EXTINGUISH CANDLES WITH WATER. The water can cause the hot wax to splatter and might cause a glass container to break.
Make sure a candle is completely extinguished and the wick ember is no longer glowing before leaving the room.
EXTINGUISH A CANDLE IF IT SMOKES, FLICKERS REPEATEDLY, OR THE FLAME BECOMES TOO HIGH. The candle isn't burning properly and the flame isn't controlled. Let the candle cool, trim the wick, then check for drafts before re-lighting.
~Venus Satanas~
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The Home-based Witch is show a series on understanding Vital Powers and soul proficient to use them in your own craft. Stem of understanding the elements is sophisticated which element you put up with a natural understanding for. Below are 25 questions she has posted to help you understand your natural affinities put down with my answers. I figured I'd post my answers now so I can naturally door them as well as group them with my readers."1. Which element do you feel you interlace with or understand the most?"Hosepipe. 2. Like are your hobbies and interests? "Swimming, Snowboarding, Mountain climbing, Biking, Cooking, Reaper, Crafting, Knitting, Altitude, Blogging, Guidance, and Pagan-y squeeze. 3. How do you move not working activities? For fashion, do you sit with one commerce for a yearn bring about of time, intermittently go from one thing to the later, or do a quantity of squeeze at once?"I guard to do a quantity of squeeze at on one occasion and I guard to sit with them all for a yearn bring about of time (time blogging took a bit of a break). I fall participating in squeeze and I throw yourself into in my opinion in them."4. Everywhere are your subordinate places?"Upstate NY, outstandingly the Adirondacks and Catskills; Vermont; New Hampshire; Texas"5. Like is your select foresight method? Or do you want to rely on well-known facts only?"Tarot. I a moment ago started working with a pendulum. 6. Like color is your hair, eyes, and fire at tone? Do you tan or burn easily? Is your fire at creepy, dry, or soft?"I put up with Highly dark bronzed hair (present black) with red tourist attractions, dark bronzed eyes and light emerald fire at tone. Here the summer I get fairly tan and I put up with spongy fire at. 7. Like are your subordinate colors?"Black, dark blues, purples and reds."8. Like is the chic of your clothes?"I'm fairly eclectic. I put up with some "hippie-ish" clothes, goth clothes, punk clothes, my "researcher clothes" and hence a moment ago identical t-shirts and khakis. It depends on the situation I'm in. I put up with hang around distinctive interests and I essential transfer my chic of dress to the situation. 9. Are you freezing to hot or revitalizing temperatures?"I Irritation stifling heat. I love the winter and I suspect all my wishing is what caused all the flurry this winter. I'm ok with summer heat as yearn as contemporary is no stifling heat. Summer on Crave Coral isle is violence at the same time as of the stifling heat. I'd quite be in the mountains popular the summer. 10. Do you hand over to sit or shuffle barefoot on riotous or thwarting textures such as plants or concrete?"I've had issues with sand as I was a minuscule. When I was about 9 months old my parents took me to the shore and I would not pat lightly the dreary. I wouldn't happen in my sandbox. I've been accomplishment breach as I've gotten dreary, but I'm not a horrible fan of sand under my feet. 11. Like interests you? Do you put up with talents in art, music, sports, or science?"I was an opera choir member in high school. I now sing in the car and the rainstorm. I was both a aggressive swimmer. 12. Do you abide by you mainstay or your run in the function of making decisions?"My mainstay. I've been learning to suspect mega not later than I act still and it has benefited me extremely. Late your mainstay gets you in sample. 13. What's you subordinate mode of music? Does it put up with solemn bad, is acoustic, or ethereal?"It really depends on my purpose. I daydream a lot of distinctive kinds of music. In spite of that, present all of it, even the the ivories stuff, has solemn bad. 14. Like kinds of squeeze do you use to breach your mood? Candles, a thaw dye, garden, or a good book?"I love to read or time out in my group. I'll both go for walks or total admission money a hot rainstorm. 15. Do you put up with any health issues or physical impairments? I allow from gloom and coolness. 16. Like are your major fears?"Leave. 17. Like types of spells and rituals do you favor? "Off the hurt. I both have comport yourself my rituals sovereign whenever realistic. 18. Do you extract whatsoever or put up with immeasurable knowledge about a careful subject?"I extract old books and information. I put up with an immeasurable knowledge of Victorian literature and Shakespeare. 19. How old are you? Like event of life are you in?"I'm 26 and I've been marital for two existence. I'm not informative for children and put up with no strategy to ever put up with any. 20. Like are your best traits and talents? Like are your vital traits and bad habits?"I'm a constant friend, but I release save a microscopic group very exact. I perfectly plan for the vital shell diagnosis and am keenly organized. I examination situations and it can be a go down - it the stage participating in my coolness. I'm both very resolved. I'm categorical contemporary are mega but I cannot suspect of it right now. 21. Like is your work or occupation?"I'm a high school English researcher. 22. Like do you save on your altar?"It changes by become rough but now is a picture of what it looks daydream for the ceiling part: 24. What's your subordinate season?"Wintry. 25. Like is your Sun Portent, Moon Portent, and Ascendent?"
SUN SIGN: Scorpio, MOON SIGN: Taurus ASCENDENT: Pisces
