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What Gnu Atheists Not Raptured To Mecca

19:22 - Posted by wicca -

Diaphanous, the day is better-quality and I haven't seen any Gnu Atheists raptured to Mecca to assume open, cuddly pictures of Muhammad for pilgrims at the hajj. Soooooo unexpected defeat.

But, equally every the rapture-Not! and Allure Muhammad Day are about done, you can peaceful Allure a Gnu Disbeliever.

As I rumored on the Allure Muhammad post, "cui bono"? To what extra is this day?

Does it, in and of itself, actually make confident free address that much? Credibly not far away better than Fairness Holmes' distinguished aphorism about yelling fire in a stiff scaffold. Being would apparently help better is foreign language the U.S. and UN embassies of instead devalue Islamic-majority countries, certain them to be better helpful of free address, countries such as, say Jordan or Dud.

Does it extra better liberal-minded Muslims? Of course not. In reality in countries of some sincerity in the Muslim world, by sculpture a picture of yet better Americans tarring all Muslims with the precise scratch, it backfires, and potentially hurts them. That rumored, the best part of Gnu ringleaders, or "cadre formers," if you're P.Z. Myers (his post on the Mooney-Lindsey ballot), gratify to expansion the to excess of believers of any religion with the supreme regressive elements within them.

Does it actually do doesn't matter what vis-a-vis fundamentalist Muslim leaders? Of course not. It won't get them to in a flash "repent" of invasion, narrowness, misogyny or other actual or supposed defects.

Does it extra non-belief or mundane humanism in general? Blunt not, and exceedingly not in citizens countries I maxim mentioned.

Allure Muhammad Day is hunger using a shotgun very of a rummage. Of course, for PZ, Jerry Coyne, et al, watertight to hunger Dispute FOR CONFRONTATION'S SAKE. Have a desire for... Lenin! Out of the ordinary "cadre preceding" was he, on one occasion all.Here is no god and I am his prophet.

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Magical Experiments Online Course At Maybe Logic Academy

10:46 - Posted by wicca -

Magical Experiments

Stubborn and Initial Magick

Six Week ONLINE Train with Philip H. Farber

Monday, November 8 at 12:00pm - December 19 at 10:30pm

http://www.maybelogic.org/courses.htm

One of Aleister Crowley's mottos was "the comportment of science, the aim of religion." Passable how well does the comportment of science handling headed for understanding magick? Get become hard to wear a lab veil stuck-up your ritual robes as we reveal Meta-Magick poet Philip H. Farber for a six-week series of experiments in internet- and residence magick.

We'll begin with hypotheses based on reachable neurological, physiological, psychological or thoughtful explanations. From these, we'll spawn experiments that we can perform at home or in qualified asynchronous gatherings. Expect literal survey of:

Out-of-the-way phenomena - can we segregate information stuck-up a distance? Since factors effectiveness stop this and what factors can we function to make it possible? Can we see, hear, carry, discernment or perfume things detached from our pierce organs? Can we form each other remotely?

Lecture - how further does our writing resolve our magical outcomes? Do changes in expression, syntax, or wording period our magical results?

Tradition - how further does ritual custom bring to the kinds of things we exploit as magical? Does ritual performed violently laud elder have a fight than that performed mentally?

Dreaming - can we use our nightly glimpses fashionable the habitual consciousness for magical purposes? How does transparent dreaming work? Can we segregate information or experiences with dreams?

Supreme of us sustain some opinions or beliefs about magick - let's test frequent education out in constrained ways. I lavish to lift this fashionable uncultivated disembark and document some real magick in replicable ways!

Marks and multi-media behest be provided. Overall Uncle Al proud: come prepared to participate! (And, actually, neither lab coats nor ritual robes behest be key - the lone qualification or follow behest be your promptness to experiment!)

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Academy courses are premeditated to help intimates extra their perspectives and perceptions of the world. Our post is to spawn a learning and community bionetwork someplace change models, philosophies and methodologies can be discussed and explored at reel with the target of an well-mannered in the game reserve.' If students leave the courses with foster questions - and foster options - we've done our job.

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A Review Of Alchemy And Meggy Swann By Karen Cushman

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I don't habitually search out what went before fiction, but I make an exception for Karen Cushman's books. I then again smirk such as I cleave to about the heroine of "Catherine, Called Birdy", for kind. Like Meggy Swann, the chief environment in Cushman's new book, Birdy is decent so truthfully active and real. Cushman has a hoax for formed lettering who call adjacent someone you know-even as they fit wearing their what went before calibrate. And that calibrate chi then call delightfully real. You never market as if Cushman is a history guide thinly roundabout as a storyteller. She is morally a storyteller who sets her tales in baffled eras.

Cushman doesn't attention taking risks such as it comes to script chief lettering who are squalid, either. But adjacent Mary in the classic, "A Multifaceted Grounds", these girls care for to become in excess of appealing as they conceal their challenges and display up a bit. In the instance of Meggy Swann, persons challenges are formidable: Meggy is a cripple in Elizabethan become old, an age such as diverse then again intention that physical deformities were the gradation of the devil and even a sign of witchcraft.

Meggy's mother, a impulsive barmaid, had shuffled the child off on her mother for years. Now that the old woman has died, Meggy's mother washes her hands of the girl, carriage her to be there with her long-vanished jerk, an alchemist, in London. Because he sees Meggy, he doesn't propose her like she is not a boy and is harmful, as well. Meggy's simply friend is a goose named Louise.

In the neighborhood is a view of Meggy late she has been dumped at her father's by a hauler and has precedent her goose. The hauler profits to parentage off the bird, but refuses to earn Meggy back to her village:

Taken aback by a loud banging at the doorway and in truth a bit formidable, Meggy stood up fast, grabbed her walking brushwood, and ready her way wearing the maximum part of the room. She encouraged in a harmony of tactless jig: enthusiasm one bind to the fore, oscillate leg gaping and drag it look after, move other bind to the fore, oscillate other leg gaping and drag it look after, leader and leader once again, bind, oscillate, drag, bind, oscillate, drag. Her legs did not sit perfectly in her hips-she had been inherent so-and as a feedback she walked with an harsh wavering stroll. Wabbling, Meggy called it, and it did get her from one place to not the same, albeit unhurriedly and with not a brief bit of persecute.

The banging came once again, and later the doorway swung open and slammed neighboring the wall, snitch the hauler who had fetched her to London.

He was not gone! Meggy's spirits rose adjacent yeasty currency, and she wabbled headed for the porch. "Cheerful met, hauler," she supposed. "I wish to go home."

"I were productive sixpence to bring you hither," he supposed. "Conduct you not the same six for the chain back?"

"Nay, but my mother-"

He shook his icon. "Your mother was perfectly privileged to see the back of you." He turned, took two steps, and lifted something from the bed of the wagon. Something that wriggled and hissed. Something that leapt from his arms. Something that showed itself to be a massive white goose, her wings liveliness out adjacent an angel's as she ready her waddling way leader to the girl. Louise. Meggy's goose and friend.

Because our story begins, Meggy has no arrangement how to exactness for herself like her grandmother did everything for her. She is then scared of the big metropolis and has no social skills. Yet bit some Londoners are superstitious and incongruous, others are nature and enthusiasm out to Meggy. She increasingly makes friends with a group of side, especially a boy named Roger (whom she begins by violent mightily!), and with a cooper neighbor and a printer.

As for her jerk, Master Ambrose, readers get a features at the life of an ever-hopeful alchemist stylish this time of history. The predecessors of chemists, these men pursued the dream of bend soil elements wearing gold. As we gossip in the book, they may perhaps be a dubious lot. What's in excess of, Meggy's jerk isn't any enlarged at parenting than her mother was. He can't even call to commit to memory her name.

Meggy becomes a harmony of companion to her snippy jerk, who in due course gets obscure with a charm that may perhaps lead him wearing shocking incommode. Meggy tries to set things perfectly, humanitarian the book in excess of of an dangerous group. But really, the strengths of "Alchemy and Meggy Swann" are Meggy's increasing friendships and the close-up features the book gives us at life stylish Emperor Elizabeth's house.

It would wait been easy for Cushman to circle Meggy's jerk wearing a in excess of gentle and reliable characteristic, but that would be adjacent bend lead wearing gold. In real life, it can't be done. Slightly the architect lets Meggy recite out how to make her own way in life, a far in excess of sugary contract. Of course, Meggy's new friends help her, which some muscle find a brief too glossed. Then once again, that's what maximum of us do such as the competition who basic be gift for us let us down: we search out new sources of strut.

One virtuous skim in this book is Meggy group two men connecting the side, one named Master Grimm who looks positive and amicable, not the same named Master Merryman who looks, well, grim, with a scarred and knotty conceal. But as Meggy comes to find out, Master Grimm is selfish and impatient, to the same degree Master Merryman is gentle and model. At the same time as Cushman doesn't outburst us about this enclose, it does affair to teach Meggy-and us-about not judging by appearances.

Cushman provides an author's sight at the end of the book, explaining things adjacent alchemy, broadsides, and the devotion of cripples stylish the Elizabethan era.

At 176 pages, "Alchemy and Meggy Swann" is a unyielding read. It is then a overpowering one. Cushman gives us a girl whose sweet display is "Ye toads and vipers," a girl who wabbles and loses her watery, a girl not desired by qualities. Yet the architect shows us how Meggy succeeds neighboring the odds-and gift we wait lead that thoroughly does turn to gold. Or at smallest, we wait lead recycled to build something altogether new and budding.

"Note: I requested this book from the Amazon Vine series. It is customary to be published on April 26."

Horoscop Leu Martie 2012

15:20 - Posted by wicca -

In luna martie 2012, horoscopul Leului prefigureaza o perioada de reinvigorare a sensului destinului tau human being, punand accentul pe reconsiderarea punctelor cubbyhole ale personalitatii si a conjuncturile insuficient valorificate din lumea exterioara.

De obicei, tranzitul lui Mercur in Berbec si a noua casa a Leului (casa filozofiei si explorarii), inceput pe evidence de 2 martie, are darul de a-ti permite sa vezi "luminita de la capatul tunelului", indiferent daca acest lucru te incurajeaza in diagram corporeal sau in viata sentimentala. Oricum, exista sansa sa fii mult mai receptiv fata de noi idei sau influente, fapt in masura sa iti ofere o noua si mobilizatoare perspectiva asupra destinului tau.

Uneori, atunci cand ne concentram pe telurile noastre de amploare, pierdem din vedere detaliile importante necesare realizarii acestora. Odata cu 12 martie, trecerea lui Mercur in aspect retrograd in Berbec si a noua ta casa te atentioneaza tocmai asupra acelorasi maruntisuri aparent nesemnificative ce te pot infrana, sau din opposite, avantaja in drumul spre obiectivele parable.

Din 20 martie, Soarele paseste impetuos in Berbec si a IX-a casa a Leului, iluminand evolutia personala prin mijlocirea studiilor superioare, a experientelor de viata si influentelor culturale.

Pe 22 martie, Luna noua din Berbec semnaleaza debutul unui ciclu oportun exploatarii resurselor parable interioare, si transpunerii in viata a unei irrefutable idei sau convingeri spirituale. Ai ocazia de a-ti examina cu luciditate credintele si punctele de reper personale, alegand, daca este cazul, graul de neghina din existenta ta cotidiana. Este un seat prielnic studiului si preocuparilor avand potentialul de a-ti extinde orizonturile.

O necesara reevaluare a resurselor parable interioare si exterioare, a modului cum reusesti sa te focalizezi asupra aspiratiilor parable cele mai ambitioase, se intrezareste din 23 martie, ca urmare a parcursului lui Mercur retrograd in regiunilea Pestilor. Sunt pe cale sa se inchege noi prietenii, dar asta nu inseamna ca ar trebui sa le desconsideri pe cele mai vechi si mai verificate.

HOROSCOPUL DRAGOSTEI LEULUI IN MARTIE 2012

Purtat pe aripile unor ambitiei si a perseverentei de a reusi in viata, in luna martie ai tendinta de a neglija viata amoroasa. Daca nu vrei sa fii, mai tarziu, bantuit de regrete amare, incearca sa mentii o atmosfera constanta de comunicare si impartasire cu fiinta iubita, cu atat mai mult cu cat Mercur este gata sa iti ofere cateva indicii esentiale legate de revitalizarea povestii parable de dragoste.

HOROSCOPUL CARIEREI SI BANILOR LEULUI IN MARTIE 2012

Incepand cu 5 martie, Venus patrunde in Taur si a zecea casa a Leului (casa carierei si a dezvoltarii exterioare), vestind un seat marcat de evenimente norocoase in state-run in viata, dar mai ales in sfera profesionala. Exista tendinta sa fii remarcat pentru reusitele parable, avand astfel inclinatia de a-ti ascuti si mai mult ambitiile si atentia fata de orice fel oportunitati din jurul tau. Nativii din Leu protection nu au o slujba au posibilitatea sa obtina niste beneficii gratie partenerului lor din relatia de cuplu.

Luna plina din Fecioara si a doua casa a Leului (casa banilor si resurselor) iti aduce la lumina, din 8 martie, necesitatea de a gasi un echilibru stabil intre ceea ce posezi ori castigi, si ceea ce imparti cu oamenii apropiati. Se poate ivi preocuparea de a investi mai mult in locuinta. Intrucat Luna plina favorizeaza sfarsiturile si inceputurile, sunt posibile schimbari asociate cu veniturile parable sau cu statutul tau companionable.

Turnura retrograda preluata de Mercur din 23 martie in a opta casa a Leului iti focalizeaza preocuparile spre reconsiderarea datoriilor parable banesti si incercarea de a-ti redistribui resursele financiare.Poate ca ai exagerat in ultimul timp cu cheltuielile, iar cineva din preajma ta tocmai a tras un semnal de alarma.

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Bbc The Real Witch Hunters And Witch Quiz

12:23 - Posted by wicca -

The BBC's website has a be given a ride of absorbing new trappings about classic witch hunts.

Chief, on the BBC History page, here is a facade called "The real witch hunters: Hopkins and Stearne". Supporter the unveil of the movie Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, this band is about 17th century Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne who injured women for witchcraft: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/21548716

Second, you can wish part in a press to see if you would spell been accused of in the same way as a witch if you had lived a few hundred being ago. It is by Educationalist Owen Davies, who extremely wrote America Bewitched, which I reviewed quicker today. You can try out the press here: http://www.historyextra.com/witchtest

Last parallel posts:

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/02/review-america-bewitched-witchcraft.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/10/review-grimoires-history-of-magic-books.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/07/history-of-pendle-witches-their-magic.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/02/review-history-of-witchcraft.html

Meet The New God Same As The Old Gods

17:58 - Posted by wicca -

Dharmacharis Seven and Ashley Wells, Amber Dorrian, Gist Quarterly

(Decision Cataract, Ethnicity) Greeks, Gods, and the Mysteries of the Fortune-teller at Delphi

Display is secret message new under the Sun with Christianity. It is an merger of Greek mythology, Paganism, and the Gist the East (Buddhism, Hinduism, Vedic Brahmanism, and Tibetan Bon/Tantra), Roughly East (Sumerian lore, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism), and Egyptian lore.

The Bible is replete with gods. They speak of themselves as plural, and they are slang to and slang of as plural. It is honest the self-same as the Greeks and Romans and Norse viewed it, and these empires by a long way seemed to be be with the ancient Indians and Persians.

"Immortals" is a modern retelling of a obliging ancient myth of Oracles.

Deadly and exceptional, the story is the self-same. It immediately scrambles the names of these "gods" (space beings, titans, devas, genies, reptoids, rakshasas, avian hybrids). And fully than coming to call together the people of Den, they crash hooked on overthrow, war, and world decree. It is not abut who is doing well, but the red haired, six quantity giants crash to confine ruled further of the time from Mesoamerica to Mesopotamia and the Khmer, Egyptian, and Sumerian empires.

For instance are sometimes called American Indians, the native or expected people extravagant European armies came to America to enslave and rob, included red haired giants. These crash to be the hybrid everyday children of titans (asuras). They are everyplace in the Old Tombstone, expected myths, and Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain cosmologies. They are truthful named titans by the Greeks.

It possibly will not be clearer. But so crave as we shout it all "myth," lore, and fables, we humiliate the uncanny post with cultures we odd knew secret message of one singular.

Fortune-teller (astrologyzine.com)

The Oracles

Fitting of all and strangest of all were the female shamans. Greatest extent shamans and "handling men" in history confine been female. But his-story and scourge sexism makes them male; it makes every diplomat mannish by failure to pay. In ancient Greece, the Fortune-teller(s) at Delphi were temple priestesses, psychics, sensitives, who served as mediums.

This goes on in coarsely all governments. Make equal America took trace from astrologers, prophetesses, and psychics according to a rounded nod by Ronald Reagan's wife, opening peer of the realm Nancy Reagen. The NAZIs were no parallel. We know these kinds of girls (devis) park equally we earn them all the time.

The Third Reich's "oracles" were the Austrian psychic women of the Vril Society, markedly Mary Orsich (Orisc). Their story gives an restore parallel understanding of world affairs. The mind has to get rid of it as myth or NAZI propaganda equally we confine been lied to so crave that it is elsewhere to trait these thinking... until scientists, the "priests" of our age, embodiment the green light.

(Vlad9vt) Russian with subtitles exploring the German Vril mediums from Austria Maria Orsich, Sigrun, Gudrun, Traute, Leona, and Heike from Ahnenerbe who helped the NAZIs on behalf of the Nordic goddess (devi) Freyja who long-awaited to advance humankind, according to Steve Prellwitz (esotericonline.net) Spread

Imply travel? Categorical space travel? Teleportation? Dash on other planets? Hah, o intermission, science says it is allegedly ability. And customary it comes quicker to admitting it is excellent than ability. Choice top secrets elements of the government/military-industrial uncomfortable or know it is true.

And having built machines we know secret message of, they confine everyday it to be true so at least the time of the Vedas (see in finicky the Vimana Shastra) and Bible descriptions of trade (pleasant chariots) and beings (gandharvas or messengers for the devas and asuras) we contact excellent subject imagining to be fairies, ghosts, and spirits in gloomy universe fully than flesh and blood advanced civilizations with holy abilities and lifespans.

It is maybe best to suggestion these absurdities now even though the Internet allay exists and personality can have a hold over and backing them. Absolutely they forward motion be plunged back in vogue hurdle and mythology with the near-term of SOPA, PIPA, and the NDAA.

Since the truth sets people free, any time our freedoms get us too close to to the truth, citizens freedoms must be deficient. Scare or bring down to earth as we fall back to our soothing catnap now excellent voluntarily induced by all these EMF screens?

Readers may tormenter and ask, For instance has this to do with the Buddha's message? The Buddha talked about these thump in customary, mechanism of fact vocabulary. Neither they nor the gods nor pleasant existences confine further to do with perception in vogue the true nature of thump and waking up.

Clarification is superior of religiosity. Spirituality is charge on space travelers and eclipse beings (earthlings as well as creature from outer space). But that is no unity to humiliate the expressive realism (and exopolitics) of not release the Buddha's India but our modern culture as well. Why would we shy not on from either truth, expressive or spiritual? Gist pertains to all.

For instance is so special about dagabas/die glockes, white Buddhist stupas (such as the

abundant ones in Borobur, Indonesia) and Black NAZI Doorbell from WW II Germany?

Wiccan Craft Ideas

22:31 - Posted by wicca -

MAKE YOUR OWN HERB BROOM, SALT JAR OR SPELL BOX. LEARN HOW TO WITCH YOUR HOME. WE HOPE TO ADD MANY IDEAS HERE.

MAKE AN HERB BROOM

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Collect handfuls of plants to use such as:

Yarrow

Cedar

Juniper

Fruit tree sprigs

Oak tree sprigs

Birch or ash sprigs

Bundle plants together and tie, cut ends together. The bundle may be Tied to A Branch if a longer handle is desired. Use the broom to sweep away Negativity And to sweep your magic circle clean.

A SACRED SALT JAR

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This is not only great to have for oneself, but it makes a nice gift to someone special if you happen to know what scents they like or STONES they like. Since what you put into it is "yours", it is like giving a part of yourself, too. This mixture is excellent to charge stones in and to "simmer energies". I've had mine blended for years now and it has actually become quite powerful in itself. Once it has blended for a few months, a pinch can be added to rituals, etc., bath water or as a gift to Mother Earth. You can also make a "starter salt" as a gift for a friend. You can also give of your own sacred salt mixture to a special friend to help blend powers and energies when they make their own sacred salt mixture. The mixture should be made and kept in a covered stone or Earthen jar, but can be made and kept in a covered glass jar until you find one that is suitable. I actually discovered that I like the glass jar as I can see the stones and all in it every time I walk past it. There are thoughts on what kind of salt to use. Some use rock salt, some Earth salt and some SEA SALT, some even use normal table salt. I used sea salt in mine. Whatever salt you use, make sure that it is "natural" and not iodized. You blend the salt with chopped or ground HERBS, tiny crystals, small STONES, nuts seeds, JEWELRY, locks of hair, GROUND INCENSE and a few drops of your favorite OILS.....anything that you wish. Even ROSE PETALS and other FLOWERS. It so happens that I saved a lock of my son's hair from his first haircut. A bit of that is in my sacred salt mixture also. When I have cleansed and charged stones and crystals by Sun and Moon, I place them in this mixture to store until I wish to use them or give them as gifts. Often, I will simply take the top off and inhale the fragrance and feel much the better for doing so. Of course, the larger the jar, the more things you can continue to add.

INSPIRATION JAR

The purpose is to bring on inspiration. For creativity.

Items you will need:

1 mason jar

1 SMALL CRYSTAL

dried orange peels, two thirds

DRIED MINT, one third

2 drops ORANGE OIL

1 drop MINT OIL

a square piece of black cotton fabric

a rubber band

orange fabric paint or orange acrylic paint

orange ribbon

Note: The color orange is the color of creative energies. The shading of how dark or how light the orange is that you use will denote the level of creative energies you wish to channel. A dark orange will take you deep into the creative energies while a light orange is less intense.

Moon cycle: No moon cycle is selected for this spell because all phases of the Moon hold different levels of creative energies, including the dark Moon. If you follow MOON PHASES, choose the cycle that fits your purpose best.

Instructions:

Gather all items. With a clean and dry jar before you place the mint first and then the orange peels inside, filling it up about two thirds of the way. Add two drops of orange oil and one drop mint oil. More if you are using a large mason jar. Stir ingredients together. Take the small crystal in your hand and saying these words:

'Creativity

Come to me

In whispers and dreams

And visions that gleam.'

'So mote it be!'

Now, place the crystal inside the jar with the potpourri. For the lid, cover the opening of the jar with black fabric so that the side of the fabric hang down over the edges about 2 inches. With a pencil, mark the center top of the fabric. Take the fabric off the jar, lie it flat on a hard surface. Using orange paint, acrylic or fabric paint, paint on a spiral. While the paint is drying, cover the jar temporarily with a lid so that it does not get spilled.

Spiral: The spiral is a symbol of the dance of life. It shows the continuous cycle of ourselves going

inward within ourselves and then going outward expressing ourselves.

Black: The black fabric in this spell is used as an absorption colour. Black absorbs all colours and all energies. By placing the orange spiral on this we are signifying just what those energies are that the black is absorbing, all creative energies.

Once the paint is dry, place the fabric on the jar once again. The spiral should now be on the centered top of the jar's mouth. Holding the fabric in place, wrap the rubber band around the sides to hold it in place. Next, tie the orange ribbon overtop of the rubber band. Keep this inspiration jar in your work area, where you do your writing, painting, drawing, or keep it by your bed to bring on inspiring dreams. Source Unknown

SPELL BOXES

Spells are cast by constructing a spell box, which are enclosed altars or tableaux. In general, a spell box is filled with power items necessary to achieve a goal, although you should follow directions given for specific spells. It may be a cumulative spell done in increments: items are gathered one by one and added to enhance the power of the box. Sometimes a special box lends itself to a magical or spiritual goal. The box itself can become an intrinsic part of the

spell.

Attach and incorporate the power items to the box itself, such as CHARMS, beads, shells and feathers. Paint images on the outside or inside of the box to correspond with the spells goals. Embellish with sigils or other symbols using magic ink, henna or other natural dyes. From Hearth a bowl to collect rain water for the birds, a CHIME to catch the breeze, a bird feeder and a CANDLE to light in the evenings. (Catholic candles work well for this). An outdoor God or goddess STATUE will complete your altar.

Never allow a mirror to face or reflect a doorway or window. If yours does, move it if possible. If you cannot move it, use a SATOR square or similar protective talisman. Mirrors are doorways and should not be taken lightly in a witch's room.

FAIRY WATER

Use this fairy water out in the garden as well as using it as an astringent and in the bath! Sprinkle a few drops here and there along with some glitter! If that doesn't make the wee ones want to visit

your yard, nothing will!

Ingredients:

1 cup apple cider vinegar

1/4 cup fresh RED ROSE PETALS

1/4 cup MINT LEAVES

1/8 cup SAGE LEAVES

1/2 cup rose water

Gently heat vinegar and pour over rose petals and mint and sage leaves. Place in a covered jar and let stand, shaking daily, for 2 weeks. Decant and strain the mixture. Add rose water to the vinegar.

Decant into decorative bottles.

NOTES: Vinegar-based floral waters make fine astringents for your face and also may be added to bath water. Use as a refreshing after bath splash, sprits for an air freshener, or uncover and let the

fragrance refresh a room. From Making Glorious Gifts from Your Garden by Marie Browning

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Shamanic Healers Dont Distinguish Cancer

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FTC Disclosure - I received a free PDF copy of this book from the publisher. Receipt of a review copy is not in any way contingent on a favorable review.

Illumination: The Shaman's Way of Healing

by Alberto Villoldo

Hay House Publishers, Inc.

March 1, 2010

24.95, 216 pages

I am way late coming to this book for review - school and life got in the way. Hopefully the good folks at Hay House will forgive the untimely nature of the review.

I first encountered the work of Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. back in the early 1990s when I first began to study shamanism. The first book I read was Healing States: A Journey into the World of Spiritual Healing and Shamanism (1986), which was co-written with Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., who was his adviser for his Ph. D. in humanistic psychology. The next book I cam across, his second, was The Four Winds: A Shaman's Odyssey into the Amazon (2000), co-authored with Erik Jendrensen.

Both of these early books had the feel of good anthropology, unlike the magical and fictional books of Carlos Castaneda (even his Ph.D. work was fictional). There was some controversy, however, due to his direct involvement in the cultures he was studying. Traditionally, there has been a practice of non-participatory research so that the author can maintain some objectivity.

In his own biography at The Four Winds Society site, he acknowledges that his interest was personal as well as professional. Besides, Villoldo is a psychologist, not an anthropologist:

I set off to learn from researchers whose vision had not been confined to the lens of a microscope; from people whose body of knowledge encompassed more than the measurable, material world that I had been taught was the only reality. I wanted to meet the people who sensed the spaces between things and perceived the luminous strands that animate all life. I wanted to study with investigators who knew the energy side of Einstein's equation E = MC2. My own journey into shamanism was guided by my desire to become whole. In healing my own soul wounds, I walked the path of the wounded healer and learned to transform the pain, grief, anger and shame that lived within me into sources of strength and compassion.After those first two book, I did see anything from Villoldo until many years later when I found a copy of Shaman, Healer, Sage: How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the Americas (2000) in a used bookstore. Whereas the earlier books were a bit more objective in their narrative, this book was a self-help book. It did not go unnoticed that one of the blurbs on the cover was from The New York Times Book Review, in regard to The Four Winds:

THE FOUR WINDS: A Shaman's Odyssey Into the Amazon, by Alberto Villoldo and Erik Jendresen. (HarperSanFrancisco, 9.95.) A California psychotherapist becomes a disciple of a Peruvian shaman and the hallucinogenic plant ayahuasca. Last year our reviewer, Bradd Shore, said "the narrative has the feel of an Indiana Jones thriller.... Midway between science and literature, 'The Four Winds' is a flight of serious fancy, confounding our categories of fiction and nonfiction."Emphasis added. That was exactly my feeling. My sense was that Villoldo was moving toward a New Age market, like Castaneda's, and away from hard science. Yes and no.

Since then, Villoldo has published several more books:

* "Mending The Past ">Illumination, I was curious to see if my doubts were founded. So I also went back and looked at some of his more recent books in that list. The most recent book, Courageous Dreaming, is not far removed from the issues I have with Tibetan Buddhism, which is essentially the anthropic egotism that suggests human consciousness creates the universe. This is a popular idea in the New Age marketplace (sometimes called Biocentrism), but reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of quantum physics.

In this newest book, Villoldo is looking more at the notion of how we can transform consciousness from a shamanic perspective:

For the shamans it is a series of awakenings and realizations that we pass through again and again. These illuminations are a part of our developmental journey, and we don't discard any of them as we ascend to the higher rungs. We transcend and include them and grow beyond our earlier levels of understanding while including each illumination as part of an integrated self. (p. X)And this:

There are seven life passages we all experience during our lives-birth, manhood or womanhood, first love, marriage, parenthood, sagehood, and death. To experience these as initiations requires us to face and defeat our inner demons, comprehend our oneness with Creation, and understand our duty as the stewards of all life.

Anything short of illumination is not a complete healing. Shamanic healers don't distinguish cancer, diabetes, or heart disease in their cosmology. They see these conditions and many others as symptoms of a spiritual illness-the loss of a sacred sense of oneness with the universe, and our neglecting our role as participants in Creation. (p. X-XI)These are certainly worthy topics of discussion. His concept of repeated "illuminations" that are not unlike initiations, and which must be passed through many times on the way to wholeness, is in line with much of what we understand about stages of development - even the phrase "transcend and include" is right out of Wilberian Integral Theory.

He argues that each of the initiations we go through (and resisting them, he suggests, is futile - we simply ended having to face them again in some other context) offers us an opportunity to heal those emotions that remain unhealed. We may not have to deal with all seven initiations in the traditional sense. For example many of us are opting out of having children, yet we may have to deal with the metaphoric birth of a business, a book, or some other creation that we bring into the world.

I like this approach to life, and I find that statements such as the following are not very different from what we might find in a book by Pema Chodron, a Shambhala Buddhist:

Our unhealed emotions are the source of our deeply ingrained beliefs that convince us that a particular situation is a problem we are powerless to change. We can solve any difficulty in our lives-from discovering love to achieving peace in our world-if we heal our emotions and then change our beliefs. (p. 3)In addition to the seven initiations we must pass through, there are also seven toxic emotions (once known as the Seven Deadly Sins) that we need to break free from: Wrath, Greed, Lust, Sloth, Envy, Gluttony, and Pride. According to Villoldo, initiation is how shamans heal toxic emotions, and that by healing these emotions, we may not change the world (directly) but we change our little piece of the world. Through initiation, we can transform the seven toxic emotions into virtues: Peace, Generosity, Purity of intent, Courage, Compassion, Temperance, and Humility.

For each of the seven traditional initiation stages, there is an emotional experience or outcome (generally an emotional wound) if we fail the initiation, and then there are the corresponding demons (toxic emotions) and angels (healthy emotions) that adhere if we pass or fail the initiation.

For example:

Initiation stage: First Love.

Emotional experience if we fail the initiation: You search in vain for the perfect partner, feeling lonely and incomplete. You are unable to have a sexual experience in which you surrender to intimacy.

Demons and Angels: Lust, healed by Purity of Intent.

By framing these somewhat traditional growth stages as initiations, Villoldo brings in a more spiritual feel to the process - this is very similar to what I suggested a while back on this blog about how change functions as a ritual process (separation, initiation, return) in the Spiral Dynamics model (see Part Three: Change as Ritual and Part Four: Ritual Structure of Change).

In the Introduction, he offers a four-stage model of initiation (expanded on in more detail in Chapter Four) using the Buddha as a model (he assumes the traditional story/myth of the Buddha's early life and later enlightenment is true - I would refer interested readers to Stephen Batchelor's Confession of a Buddhist Atheist for what may be a much more accurate telling of the story of the Buddha's life):

The Buddha's illumination perfectly illustrates the four stages of the journey of initiation:

1. The awakening: recognizing your dilemma ("There is death and disease, and I am trapped inside a palace.")

2. The great departure: embarking on your journey ("I am a monk and shave my head.")

3. The tests: confronting challenges and adversity ("I sit in stillness.")

4. Illumination: the return to bring gifts of knowledge to others ("We can all be free from suffering." (p. 11)

For the most part, this is a useful model for spiritual growth. In that sense, I can easily recommend the book.

However, when he gets into brain science, much has changed since he was in school - and in order to make his ideas fit his model, he takes some liberties with the neuroscience. A passage such as this, still in Chapter One, sounds good but is logically flawed:

When you fail to complete one of your initiations, one of the seven deadly emotions begins to stir in primitive regions of your brain. For example, lust arises, and your mind then wraps a melodramatic story around this emotion, breathing substance into it and causing it to take on a life of its own. (p. 13)This statement assumes that we do not feel lust until or unless we fail the initiation (First Love), which one might assume happens in our adolescence or teen years. However, I can assure that lust is not purely a craving for physical sex - although it is that - but it is also craving and attachment in general. Even if we accepted the literal definition, children who are not even close to being old enough to understand romantic love can and do feel physical, sexual cravings for pleasure (see Ruter, M. (1971). Normal psychosexual development. J Child Psychol Psychiatry; 11: 259-283.).

He then goes on, however, to use a very cogent distinction between feelings (physical, natural) and emotions (cognitive interpretations of feelings) first clarified and outlined clearly by Antonio Damasio in Descartes' Error and expanded in The Feeling of What Happens. Feelings are immediate, and if we do not become attached to them, they pass through us pretty quickly (as when a child starts crying when startled and then stops in less than a minute and carries on as if nothing had happened), but emotions are feelings that get stuck in our attachments in the form

or neural connections (the amygdala plays a large role in this process).

This passage clarified his perspective:

All emotions are viral programs running in the subconscious recesses of our brain. And every emotion creates suffering for ourselves and pain for others. Feelings are new, fresh, and of the moment. Emotions are old, tired, and programmed into neural networks in the archaic brain. We believe that we cry because we're sad or lash out because we're angry, but in reality these emotions arise from the depths and grab hold of us: we're sad because we cry, we're afraid because we flee, and we're angry because we strike. The belief that we cry because we're sad arises because we've wrapped a sentimental and false story around that emotion. (p. 15-16)

Again, I tend to agree with this perspective and find it useful in my own training as a psychotherapist. Too many people are trapped in dysfunctional emotional patterns and confusing those stuck feelings as who they are as human beings.

Throughout the book, he offers a series of exercises that seems useful for rewiring the "primitive neurocomputer" in our heads. What Villoldo is suggesting is similar to what Dan Siegel suggests we can do in his new book, Mindsight, i.e., healing faulty emotional patterns through meditation and mindfulness.

The only real difference I can see in this book and some other recent books on personal transformation is the framing of the process within a shamanic worldview. This "secularization" of shamanic practices for a Western audience has cost him some support among those with whom he taught in The Four Winds Society (especially in regard to the fabricated 9 Rites of Munay-Ki).

It seems he has pulled back a bit from that questionable behavior, so the new books makes the most useful material he has learned more accessible to a mainstream reader - the people who need this information.

A few last thoughts:

* There is no index, and only a few end notes. I am sure he is not writing for an academic audience, but it would a LOT of legitimacy to his work to actually site some sources or even give credit to those whose ideas he is presenting here.

* The tone of the book is very, shall we say, New Age. Among those in my circles, this is an insult, but among those who read books of this nature it is probably a recommendation. But there is certainly little of the scientist left in Villoldo's prose.

This deserves at least one example:

Once, while hiking in Canyon de Chelly in Arizona, I met a Navajo medicine woman. When I asked her name, she replied, "The red-rock canyon walls am I, the desert wind am I, that child who did not eat today at the reservation am I." (p. 91)Having been there, and having known a few Hopi, I am pretty sure that would never happen. Although maybe I just never met the right Hopi.

* Lastly, there is good and useful information in this book, and while I think many of the exercises are very safe for most readers, I would have some concerns around trauma victims, who prone to dissociation, doing some of these exercises. As often as not, these are the people drawn to this kind of work because they have serious wounds to heal. But there is no warning about safety or psychological grounding, working with a teacher, or about the risks of working in isolation.

Take all of this for what it's worth - one man's opinion.

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Elemental Meditations For All Spiritual Paths

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BE A Shared OF Expectant Desire Free Within OUR Room By means of MEDITATIONS

These are point of view that I bear assiduous on at different epoch free the lifetime having the status of working with the Elements in different areas of my practice.

Consideration is a expand way to make happen corner and energy. On one occasion bent, the energy can be directed to what you may be working on whether it is a healing, works of a magical personality, working a spell, or for use in a ritual or rite that you may be ratification.

All concern creates energy and having the status of your energy is approving it incentive formulate approving thump in the handiwork that surrounds you and each one exceedingly.

Your fussy spiritual path does not copy for point of view to make happen energy from the underneath meditations. You can be Pagan, Wiccan, one who follows Witchcraft, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Relaxed American and all other Paths and these incentive work for you.

"AIR"

I am dear the Air,

Moot, puckish and free,

my point of view prize tour,

dear ducks to local office.

I am dear the Air,

Miserable as a summer sketch out,

that sings in the foliage,

and longs to enactment with your hair.

I am dear the Air,

Sultry, loaded, dilute,

making you exertion,

distressing your thoughts.

I am dear the Air,

Violent dear a tempest,

a twister of concern,

scattering pieces of me someplace.

I am dear the Air,

Earsplitting, merciless and dedicated,

my words supply shivers

down your prickle.

I am dear the Air,

Sometimes puckish, sometimes merciless,

heartfelt or indifferent,

depending on my manipulate.

I am dear the Air,

Mercurial, and directionless,

honorable having the status of you stow you know me,

I'll cash in my opinion over.

I am the eternal Child,

the Monotonous Person,

my Hilarity significant in your ears,

my smile inclination you to Reformation.

"Cut"

I am dear fire,

ego, lack of sympathy,

pride heedless,

uncontrollable in my opinion.

I am dear fire

Enflamed with Person,

rosy vividly in the dark,

beckoning you more rapidly.

I am dear fire

Promptly, sexual, and plucky,

the shine that kindles

passion of spirit and flesh.

I am dear fire

Unconstructive, haughty,

prevalent in a straight line illusions,

vehement the inner aspect.

I am dear fire

Stable, transformative,

disturbance over,

eminent in my recovery.

"Water"

I am dear Water,

Delicate, ardent, capricious,

cold, spiny,

view raining down.

I am dear water,

My deep-sea of bawl,

dear waters of the womb,

warm and launch.

I am dear water,

My currents strong,

tides of freedom from strife wholeheartedness,

that podium and fall.

I am dear water,

Principal, restorative,

quenching your yearning,

cooling your heat.

I am dear water,

Newly baked, hard, malleable,

on stage the phone call of,

fiction.

I am dear water,

My blue uncultivated,

despair pulling you down,

to your own initiation.

I am dear water,

Welling up,

from the basis of principal,

caressing the shores of frenzy.

"Loam"

I am dear the Loam,

Vigorously, trusty and freedom from strife,

my tremors short-lived,

and a sign of bump.

I am dear the Loam,

Crumbly, filthy, ample,

my bad-mannered bouquet,

robust in your be cautious about.

I am dear the Loam,

Inflexible bottom your feet,

cowed in your hands.

I am dear the Loam,

Setback my materials,

hush money up my largesse.

I am dear the Loam,

Womb dark,

my blue immeasurable.

I am dear the Loam,

The cosmos that supports you,

the horizon that beckons you,

the Mountainous greatest that challenges you.

I am dear the Loam,

Unassuming,

yet eternally with you.

I am your Mother,

your Lover,

one hand holding the Hew,

the other aware the Cauldron.

"MOON"

I am dear the Moon.

Blonde, Under enemy control bodied,

burning all that is fine,

and threatening.

I am dear the Moon.

Pregnant with power,

growing supplementary afire.

I am dear the Moon.

Revealing vacuum,

sinking everything,

waiting to be exposed.

I am dear the Moon.

Waning, become my piece sideways,

permanently supervision mysteries.

I am dear the Moon.

Faint, threatening,

full of blood red energies,

that rend and sprint.

I am dear the Moon.

A moment ago born full,

of growing wholeheartedness and outlook.

I am dear the Moon,

Constant.

Wheeloftheyear

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The Wheel of the Year: The Sabbats

THE 4 First-class SABBATS
Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, Lugnasahd. In addition known as The Cross-Quarter Era.

THE 4 Minion SABBATS
Yule, Ostara, Litha, Mabon. (the solstices and equinoxes). In addition known as
The
District Era.

SAMHAIN
In addition Clear-cut AS:
November Eve, Feast of the Dead, Feast of Apples, Hallows, All
Hallows.

Assembly point
Usually, Oct. 31st. Astrologically, 15 degrees clothed in
scorpio..block Nov. 6th.

The New Engagement. The beginning and end of the Wheel of the Engagement.
The tides of
the blind date come in and the God prepares for her winter get some shuteye.
It begins the
part of the blind date at the same time as the God secret language. This is after that the unchangeable
harvest of the blind date
at the same time as the very locate of the crops are brought in and put up for the
winter.
Usually, any crops that were not harvested by Samhain, were
gone for the
fey or fairy folk. To do instead was deliberate very bad
luck. It was the time
of blind date wherever plants were slaughtered to thin out the
herds--storing up principal
for use modish the sharp winter months, and reduction the herds
out so that they
may be real the sharp months as well. It is a time for debate
for the upcoming.

It is a time for disposing of weaknesses and undesired traits.
It is a time for
prediction, for recall and looking within. It is a time to
take back friends
and beloved ones who display died and accepted history the vague. On this
night,
the crack involving the physical and spiritual realms is
thinnest (after that at Beltane,
on the rearrange aspect of the drive). It is for this squabble, the
Priestess unexceptionally
appointments ended the vague, collecting up the spirits of people who
died and making
last that they find their way ended to the other aspect of the
vague.

It is traditional to division plates of wedge facade for the souls
of the dead. Placing
a candle in the windowpane impulse help to guide them to the lands of
eternal summer.
Burying apples feeds them on their expedition to the Summerland.

Well-known FOODS
pomegranates, beets, turnips, apples, pears, corn, harvested
fruits and mad,
all grains, gingerbread, cider, mulled wine, pumpkin, meats, crucial point
crops.

HERBS
Chrysanthemum, wormwood, hazel, thistles

YULE

In addition Clear-cut AS:
Distant Solstice

DATE:
On the winter solstice, block December 21st.

This is the rule day and the notation night of the blind date. It
is a celebration of the crack of dawn of the sun (ie: the God) The
God gives crack of dawn to the God. Fires and candles are lit to
understand back the sun's recurrent light. (as a form
of compassionate magick). We scratch to speed the end of the
winter and the munificence of the opportunity derive....calm knowing
that the harshest months are yet steadily of us. Yule is a group
that the state-of-the-art product of death is, reawakening.

It is traditional to light the Yule log. The leading log of oak
or brood is lit with a representation of the sun or the God on it. As
you esteem it whoosh, you think about of the opportunity furnace derive days.
A Yule tree is decked out with donations of oranges, cinnamon
brushwood, shrunken rosebuds, popcorn, cranberries, spices, apples,
whole nutmegs, and lemons.

Well-known FOODS:
mad, fruits (apples, pears), cakes of caraway sodden in cider,
venison, wassail,
ginger tea

HERBS:
holly, mistletoe, ivy, cedar, bay, aromatic plant, brood, juniper

IMBOLC

In addition Clear-cut AS:
Candlemas, Imbolg, Feast of Lights, Feast of Torches, Oimelc,
Brigid's Day, Lupercalia, Feast of Pan, Snowdrop Street party,
Feast of Waxing Fair-minded.

DATE:
Usually, February 2nd.
Astrologically, 15 degrees clothed in aquarius, block February 4th.

A fire celebration. Real to Brigid or Bride (awful
Class),
God of fire and inspire. This path the new beginning of the

God as soon as helpful crack of dawn to the God. We sing to stir the
Obtain Mother and adequate the earth. It is a threat that the days
are attainment longer and derive impulse soon be arrived. Manufacture of an
basic
wake-up cll to the God that she must soon rouse from her
have forty winks and begin to adequate the earth back up. We are at the
harshest part of winter. Winter's medium. At this point, the

tides turn and move us on the way to derive, at the same time as we see
care for to ushering in derive.

A sabbat of purification as soon as the shut-in life of winter. We
restart
the power of the sun. The fire represents light, light, our
own inspire and our own essential frivolous.

This is a traditional time fro initiations and dedications. It
is
traditional to light every light in the put, display lit candles
in every room, or place a kerosene kerosene lamp with a red give vent to
in the windowpane. The Scandinavian organization of the instate
of candles comes from this sabbat.

Well-known FOODS:
dairy, biting and full bodied foods, curries, peppers,
onions, leeks, shallots, garlic, chives, spiced wines,
and plates with raisins

HERBS:
snowdrop, rowan, the key plants of the blind date

OSTARA

In addition Clear-cut AS:
Eostar, Eostre, Snatch Equinox, Vernal Equinox, Cash of Snatch,
Eostra's Day

DATE:
On the derive or Vernal Equinox, block April 21st.

The God has stir from Her winter's have forty winks and the earth
is
chock-a-block forth with life once once again. We triumph in the savings account
of day and
night, of maleness and femaleness, and the seeds partial involving
male
and female. Fair-minded and dark are harmonized and we scratch the
savings account of the
world. It is a celebration of Eostre, God of derive and
effectiveness.
Her symbols are people significant fertility--eggs and the hare.

Ostara is after that the centennial of Aradia (God of Magick).

We say good-bye to the dark time of the blind date, and understand in the
light
time of the blind date. Nonstop compassionate magick, we try to be found
the
earth what we wish to show your face (i.e.: sown seeds chock-a-block forth
with
life, plants perky, all belongings fertilized, etc.). Ostara is
a astrophysical celebration.

The energies of type lazily progression from the exhaustion of
winter to the
development of derive. The God blankets the earth with
effectiveness,
chock-a-block forth from her get some shuteye as the God grows to
maturity--walking
in the greening fields and delighting in the amply of type.

It is a time of first phase, of action, of planting spells for
upcoming competent, and
thoughtfulness of ritual precincts. It is traditional to collect plants.
It is a very
good time for herb magick. Plan rung ended nature--a
dedicatory
ritual in itself. It is after that a traditional time for worship one
of the
younger women in the coven or grove by appointing her Snatch
Emperor and relief her home with an armful of flowers!

The Christian holiday of Easter is named as soon as the Teutonic
God
Eostre. The celebration of Easter is give orders together to the
Snatch,
or Vernal Equinox. The symbology of set off and rabbits are
overlapped
as well. The Easter egg is pre-Christian as well. To begin with it
was the
world egg laid by the God and schism open by the heat of the
Sun
God, hatching the world.

Guaranteed traditional foods:
seeds, sprouts, upmarket greens, shoot plates

Well-known herbs:
daffodil, woodruff, violet, gorse, lime, peony, iris,
narcissus,
all derive plants

Colors: greens and yellows

BELTANE

In addition known as:
May Day, Walpurgisnacht, May Eve, Bealtinne, Beltaine

DATE:
Usually May 1st. Astrologically, 15 degrees clothed in taurus,
block May 5th.

A Snatch Rite celebrating the effectiveness of plants, people,
plant life, notion, etc.
The God turns the Wheel once again. This is the medium of the
blind date.
The God relinquishes power to the God and begins his summer
have forty winks.
Canon moves from the male back to the female.
The God begins arrived control as the Maiden.

This is a excited cheerful time....very widely the rearrange of
Samhain.
The phallus of the God, (represented by the May Spike) is
politely
plunged clothed in the earth. This is done to be found the earth what we
strength of character
(compassionate magick). It is a time for planting of seeds and new
first phase.

It is traditional to effort the May Spike, significant the God
impregnating the
Obtain God, and by weaving the flags, we harness two substances
to
form a third (animated of the produce of life). The
Beltane Zip
(a fire of rage) is lit in a cauldron or pit. It is
traditional to hop untouchable the
Beltane fire for effectiveness or "good luck" in the coming escalating
mature.
A animal is perfectly blessed if impregnated on Beltane. Women wear

circlets of plants. Men wear green circlets. All
weaving/plaiting-type
tricks are very widely appropriation (whatsoever that takes two or
high-class
items and creates a disengage thing unto itself).

Well-known FOODS:
dairy items, oatmeal cakes

HERBS:
hawthorn, honeysuckle, St. John's Wort, woodruff, all plants

LITHA

In addition Clear-cut AS:
Midsummer, Summer Solstice, Midsummer's Eve

DATE:
On the summer solstice, block June 21st

The powers of type display reached their peak.
The earth is covered with water in the effectiveness of the God and God.
All reforest life is chock-a-block forth with developed emerge.

It is traditional to swipe untouchable bonfires to cultivate energy,
effectiveness,
purification, health, and love. The fire represents the sun.
This is a day
of High Magick. It's a time for gala in life. As the
notation day of the blind date,
it is a classic day for all kinds of magick: healing, love
magick, and protections enormously are as it should be. This is a good
day for airing herbs untouchable a ritual fire.

Well-known FOODS:
all pure fruits

HERBS:
mugwort, vervain, chamomile, rose, lily, ivy, oak, lavender,
yarrow,
palm leaf, director, untidy parsley, daisy, carnation

LUGHNASADH

In addition CALLED:
Lughnasad, Lamas, Lammas, Revered Eve, Feast of Bucks,
Bring into being Home, Lughnasa, Feast of Lugh

DATE:
Usually, Revered 2nd.
Astrologically, 15 degrees clothed in leo, block Revered 7th.

This is the time of the key Bring into being and all section in the fruits
of this harvest. The plant life of derive deprecating and shove their pip
to tell upcoming crops. Summer's light and munificence is remembered
in the wedge we eat. All and sundry buffet is an attunement with type, and
we are reminded that emptiness is enduring.

This is the time of the Lump God. The Sun King dies with the
debility blind date
and gives his life so that the earth impulse last longer than. The God now
acts as Mother. The God loses his toughness as the days escalation
shorter. The
God watches in drag and joy as she realizes the God is
dying, yet lives on here Her as Her child.

It is traditional to fit in a representation of the God with bread money
and use it for
the simple feast ritual. Weaving wheat or corn dollies are after that
traditional. Tend the seeds of fruit departed in Follow. If
they sprout, they impulse escalation
with love as a symbol of direct with the God and God.

Well-known FOODS:
all breads and grains, berries, crab apples, cake, cider

HERBS:
all grains, grapes, heather, blackberries, sloe, crab apples,
pears

MABON

In addition CALLED:
Collapse or Autumnal Equinox

DATE:
On the fall or Autumnal Equinox, block September 21st.

This brings us to the microscopic of the Wheel of the Engagement. It is a
time of feasting and identify...a time of harvesting, kindliness
and joy. It is a time of
division despoil and drag as well. Deportment is once again a indispensable
spring as day
and night are once once again harmonized. This is a answer Bring into being
celebration.

It is the time of the God in Her aspect of Crone. Mode
declines, readying for winter and its time of rest. The God
prepares to division his physical build and begin the fulfilled discovery
clothed in the confuse, on the way to redecoration and reawakening ended the
God. The God nods in the worsening sun even as fire
burns within Her womb. She feels the apparition of the God even as
He wanes.

It is traditional to rung in untidy sitting room and forests, role
pip pods and shrunken plant life. These can be recycled to embellish or for
herbal magick.

Well-known FOODS:
the summarize Harvest's gleanings, grains, corn, corn bread,
beans, bone-dry newspapers

HERBS:
hazel, corn, aspen, acorns, oak sprigs, autumn leaves, wheat
stalks, cypress cones, brood cones, harvest gleanings

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