Daily Horoscopes for 2/3

 

General Daily Horoscope

 

Something is different now that smart Mercury shifts out of traditional Capricorn, into conceptual Aquarius to join five other planets already in this futuristic sign. While our thoughts are freed from being tied to the past, we still may have some negativity to process as the Sun and the angry red planet, Mars, move toward an exact conjunction tomorrow. Thankfully, the emotionally detached Aquarius Moon helps us manage our irrational feelings.

 

Aries Horoscope
Aries Horoscope (Mar 21 – Apr 19)

You may be adamant about making your impossible dream come true, and today nothing is totally out of the question. Your irrational fantasies might seem ridiculous to others, but you are fully capable of something extraordinary now if you can stay focused on your ambitions. Still, it’s healthier to concentrate on a future that has a strong practical side to it as well. Keeping your feet on the ground gives you the traction necessary to reach your destination.

 

Taurus Horoscope
Taurus Horoscope (Apr 20 – May 20)

You can feel the stress between your thoughts that pull you into new territory and your common sense that holds you exactly right where you are. Although you may be motivated by financial and emotional security, you can still be lured by an unfamiliar tune floating through your mind. Even if you are curious enough to explore a new melody, don’t stop listening to the songs that keep you grounded. You don’t have to go over the edge in order to keep progressing toward the future.

 

Gemini Horoscope
Gemini Horoscope (May 21 – Jun 20)

You could feel clever throughout the day, as if a magical potion somehow made you more intelligent. But don’t get so enamored with your ability to maneuver around any problem, for rational thinking can be a trap of its own. Instead of relying on cool logic, let your passions take you on a wild ride so you can see a different path into your future.

 

Cancer Horoscope
Cancer Horoscope (June 21 – Jul 22)

You may be tempted to withdraw into a world of fantasy, for your thoughts float into imaginative realms today, where you are not bound by reality. At the same time, you cannot get away from your close friends and family who keep bringing you back to the present moment, making it difficult for you to fully escape. Resign yourself to keeping one foot in this world and one in the other by balancing your dreams with the current circumstances.

 

Leo Horoscope
Leo Horoscope (Jul 23 – Aug 22)

You are able to consider the pros and cons of a partnership with an uncharacteristic coolness that makes it easier for you to see things differently. Personal and business connections are likely to be a source of anxiety, but don’t let this take you down a path of doubt. You can easily step outside of your normal subjectivity, which can give you a new perspective. Don’t make any sudden changes; just integrate what you are learning into what you already know.

 

Virgo Horoscope
Virgo Horoscope (Aug 23 – Sep 22)

You may be in the process of reviewing how to change your daily regimen for the year ahead, and creating a list might be right up your alley. Write down every tiny change that you can think of that could have an uplifting impact on your life. But actions speak louder than words, so set priorities and get started with your new program for a healthier and happier you.

 

Libra Horoscope
Libra Horoscope (Sep 23 – Oct 22)

You are brimming with ideas about which chores you should start today, but you still may try to avoid doing too much. Even if you initially planned to go to work, you might prefer to give yourself a real day off, instead. Then again, it’s even better if you can find a natural rhythm and get into a creative flow. Being productive is important on other days, but now it’s crucial to find an innovative way to express yourself playfully.

 

Scorpio Horoscope
Scorpio Horoscope (Oct 23 – Nov 21)

Your emotional intensity begins to settle down today, but you still are not that interested in hiding your gut reaction to a stressful family situation. You aren’t trying to seek melodrama, but neither are you willing to ignore the facts as you see them. Don’t worry so much about being nice to everyone; focus on sharing nothing but the truth, instead.

 

Sagittarius Horoscope
Sagittarius Horoscope (Nov 22 – Dec 21)

You prefer taking action when you are feeling more confident than you are today. Although you may intuitively know what’s right, it isn’t always the same as your logical choice. Making up your mind could be stressful now, unless you accept some uncertainty along with your decision. Determine what makes the most sense to the best of your ability and move on. You can always modify your position later on if absolutely necessary.

 

Capricorn Horoscope
Capricorn Horoscope (Dec 22 – Jan 19)

Trickster Mercury enters your 2nd House of Personal Belongings today, indicating that you might grow very concerned about what you own. You may even feel threatened, as if someone is attempting to take something important away from you. Don’t let your natural urge to protect what’s yours turn into paranoia. If you are anxious, discuss your worries with your friends, but remember to actually listen to the feedback you receive.

 

Aquarius Horoscope
Aquarius Horoscope (Jan 20 – Feb 18)

Logical Mercury enters your intellectual sign today, electrifying your conversations with clever wit and increasing your overall gift of gab. Talking your way out of a difficult situation is a mixed blessing now because it also increases the chances of getting yourself into trouble. Don’t get hooked by your own intelligence and act like a know-it-all. Even if you’re brilliant, you still have something to learn, just like everyone else.

 

Pisces Horoscope
Pisces Horoscope (Feb 19 – Mar 20)

You believe that your perceptions are very clear today, and, in fact, your senses may be acutely sensitive. But your imagination is also on overdrive and it’s difficult to know where objectivity fades into fantasy. The mists of illusion hide a slippery slope, yet you can avoid sliding off the edge of reality by consistently sticking to the absolute truth. Don’t tempt fate; there isn’t much wiggle room now, for your margin of error is quite small.

2011 Chinese New Year Predictions

2011 Chinese New Year Predictions

Connect and reflect in this year of peace

2011 Year of the Rabbit Predictions

by Stephanie Dempsey

Feb. 3, 2011, marks the Year of the Metal Rabbit. The Rabbit’s peaceful nature combines with the noble, protective Metal element to usher in a gentle phase of diplomacy, personal reflection and strengthened connections with others. Find out what your own Chinese zodiac sign can expect from the year ahead.

Color Therapy and Your Aura

Color Therapy

Letting Color Heal You

From Cricket Demarais

Color. We delight in a rainbow, sigh at a sunset, luxuriate in the rich colors of our homes, clothes, special spaces. Our eyes gravitate towards saturated color like moths to the light. No coincidence, considering the entire spectrum of colors is derived from light. And no surprise, really, that seeing, wearing or being exposed to color- whether in the form of light, pigment, or cloth- can affect us at levels we are only just beginning to understand.

Color Therapy Has a Long History

This is no new news. Egyptians built healing temples of light four thousand years ago, bathing patients in specific colors of light to produce different effects. Now, before you begin to pooh-pooh the pyramids, consider these factual goodies. Research shows that a blindfolded person will experience physiological reactions under different colored rays. In other words, the skin sees in Technicolor. Noted neuropsychologist Kurt Goldstein confirmed this information in his modern classic The Organism, where he notes that stimulation of the skin by different colors creates different effects.

Color is Visible Light

Scientifically, it makes sense. Color is simply a form of visible light, of electromagnetic energy. Let’s break it down. What exactly is light? It is the visible reflection off the particles in the atmosphere. Color makes up a band of these light wave frequencies from red at 1/33,000th’s of an inch wavelength to violet at 1/67,000 of an inch wavelength. Below red lie infrared and radio waves. Above it: the invisible ultraviolet, x-rays, and gamma rays. We all understand the impact of ultraviolet and x-rays, do we not? Why then wouldn’t the light we can see “as color” not have as big an impact?

Lack of Color Causes Depression

How we “feel” about color is more than psychological. The last decade has proven that lack of color, or more specifically, light, causes millions to suffer each winter from a mild depression known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Because of the complex way in which exposure to various colors acts via the brain upon the autonomic nervous system, exposure to a specific color can even alter physiological measurements such as blood pressure, electrical skin resistance and glandular functions in your body. And they most certainly can affect how you feel on a day-to-day basis. Learning about color’s qualities and putting it to use can enhance your spirit, improve your health, and quite ultimately, expand your consciousness.

Color Therapy and Your Aura

Color therapy, also known as chromo therapy, is used by alternative health practitioners who use color to balance energy wherever our bodies are lacking, be it physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental. Angie Arkin, Intuitive Healer in Key West, uses color during her sessions with clients, and often works with color during her own personal meditations.

“Your aura is just an energy field that surrounds you,” says Arkin. “In your aura, there are different layers, and in each layer, there are different colors that may be used for clearing and rebalancing your energy field. An aura reading is looking at the colors found in your aura. Knowing what colors are in your aura brings you closer to your spirit. If you can consciously bring that out, you have more advantage in clearing and healing your life. It’s really just another layer of knowing.”

Jasmine Sky, also a Florida Keys resident, brings healing and color therapy to clothing. “Painting on silk and installing healing prayers into the silk seemed to marry all parts of me – the part of me that was a healer, the part of me that was an artist, my love of fabrics and many years of sewing, my love of tropical islands with sarongs being their indigenous clothing,” she says.

Jasmine, having studied color therapy, takes this into consideration when working with clients for their custom design. “Specifically I work with customers on the emotional space they want to be in, and recommend colors accordingly. This informs the prayers and Reiki symbols I paint in to the silk. And the silk itself has unique energy and healing properties. I also draw on my own intuitive resources to make recommendations.” All this is part of the reason Sky talks to each customer before creating a garment, even if it is one of the standard designs.

Sky also refers customers to, and works with Arkin, in applying color readings to garment design. They are currently working together to integrate Arkin’s readings into The Dreaming Goddess Web site.

Resources:
Angie Arkin, Intuitive Healer www.beyourownhealer.com
Jasmine Sky, The Dreaming Goddess www.thedreaminggoddess.com

About this Contributor: Writer, Cricket Demarais, covers Key West, Florida healers for local and national publications.

©2011 About.com, Inc., a part of The New York Times Company. All rights reserved.

How To Clean Your Aura

How To Clean Your Aura

By Phylameana lila Desy, About.com Guide

Our auras are like magnets picking up vibrational energies that are floating around everywhere we go. It is important to cleanse our auras freeing them of foreign vibrations and negative energies. Here are a few simple ways to do it.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 10 – 15 minutes
Here’s How:
  1. Using your fingers as a comb, comb through the space surrounding your body from head to toe. Clean your hands with running water before and after doing this.
  2. Stand under a waterfall or shower.
  3. Walking in the rainfall.
  4. Run freely and playfully in the wind.
  5. Using a single feather or feather whisk make sweeping motions through the space surrounding your body.
  6. Smudge the area surrounding your body with the smoke from sage, lavendar, and/or sweetgrass.
  7. Emerse and soak your body in an epsom salt bath.
Tips:
  1. Turkey or owl feathers are especially good feathers to use for sweeping the aura.
  2. Take care to do some deep breathing exercises while cleansing your aura to aid in flushing your inner body.
  3. Caution: Do not walk in the rain during an electrical storm.

Bearing Water for Brigid by libramoon

Bearing Water for Brigid

Sketches for a water vessel –
bottle and message elide on waves.
Voice of Brigid calls.
All who hear: Imagine.
Exposed to wind, to grit, to rain
and hail,
rock faces erode.

Vessel
Designated fixed space
Sacrosanct container
Conveyor through fluid
separates
Fluidity
Creates place, surface to paint.
Amusement;
diffusement of emotion,
beatitude, foment of dueling farce.

Harsh edges polished,
pure colors
blend in the dark.
Brief infusion
of giddy illusion
glows
just enough to guilefully entice.
Sparkling Neural net
smiles,
a secret
clue revealing
purpose, meaning,
engages
wild eternal child,
ages’ flamboyant fool,
Glorious
Muse

(Voice rains from within)

A wound is a sacred vessel.
Pain carves into flesh
sense memory;
carries the seed
of its own demise.
Sentience
engulfed in life
learns anew to be whole.

Wounded with the potential for wisdom
when eyes are are pried
from seeping, sucking, suffering
aching to censure what future we admire.
Redefine the schizm.
This wound is our project.
To heal, discover the vision;
realign the seam to fit
self-framed landscape.

Let loose that genie of desire.
Ride rushing blood streams.
Build a roaring pyre of grief,
insane belief in wrathfilled deities.
Revile that old refrain: “life is pain” or a game
to be lost.
No Faustian bargain.
Just a
rambling adventure
daring
to explore
essence of ecstasy.
Don’t wait for the rest to see
and demur.
Stretch your sail.
Take sight of your guiding star.
The only failure is self-denial
in favor of the vile lie
that pain is destiny
instead of faithful friend
lending energy
for change.

Slice vivid memories.
Exult in the tastes, the textures.
Enliven your way.

In the end
the vessel breaks.
There the Goddess stirs

2011 Aquarius

Author/Contributor: libramoon

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seerseeker/

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com

Daily Feast, Elder Meditation, Think On These Things

  February 2 – Daily Feast

The drawback of having something go wrong is that we start believing we can’t do anything right. It is the beginning of a habit that makes us stumble where we have always stumbled. A subtle and secret conditioning sets in to make us believe we will fail – even before we start. It makes us wilt at the first sign of opposition, devastating us with criticism. It is then that we lose our grip and our good intentions – not just for the present time but for all time to come. The Cherokee learned long ago to say, “We no longer fall down when something challenges us. We no longer see ourselves as victims. But we are strong and able to overcome the most severe critic and break every habit that has kept us bound.”

~ Each day in the old times in summer and in winters, we came down to the river to bathe. This strengthened and toughened our firm skin. ~

CHIPAROPAI

‘A Cherokee Feast of Days’, by Joyce Sequichie Hifler

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Elder’s Meditation of the Day – February 2

“Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood and so it is everything where power moves.”

–Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa), OGLALA SIOUX

In these modern times it is difficult to understand why we should think circles and seasons. People and society are always moving, through distance, over yonder, going here and going there-hurry up, grow up, be successful, climb the ladder of success, etc. The Elders tell us to slow down, to be patient, pray and think circles. Circle thinking applies to relationships, business and every area of our lives. We need to teach our awareness to look for seasons and cycles.

My Creator, teach me the seasons of growth.

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‘THINK on THESE THINGS’
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler

We are all aware of the emotional effect color creates. And for this reason we choose colors that please the eye by first pleasing the inner emotions. Certain colors have the same effect on many, while other colors affect each of us individually and in particular ways.

Red has an exciting effect; green is cool serenity. Orange is the color of vivacity, and brown tones are restful earthy colors. People dress to enhance their appearances with certain colors. Homes are decorated and offices planned to create pleasant surroundings.

And we as individuals possess moods of many colors. Yet, we are far more careless about the color of that mood, letting the attitudes and colors of others dictate to us how we are to behave. If we could remember when we meet people whose moods are black, to remind ourselves that their moods are their own, there would be less involvement in the emotions of others.

We are so vividly aware of color, we must not be reckless in recognizing the color scheme within our own personality. Whether it is a vibrant color, sophisticated, or bright and witty, color always works its subtle magic.

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Available online! ‘Cherokee Feast of Days’
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler.

The Goddess Companion

  
 
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By Patricia Monaghan

Every day, every night
that I praise the goddess,
I know I shall be safe:
I shall not be chased,
I shall not be caught,
I shall not be harmed.
Fire, sun, and moon
cannot burn me. Not
lake nor stream nor sea
can drown me. Fairy
arrow cannot pierce me.
I am safe, safe, safe,
singing her praise.
~The Shield of Brigid, Irish Prayer
 
This famous prayer was reputed to protect those who spoke it fervently from all evil. Originally an invocation to the goddess Brigid, it was later addresses to the saint who took her place and whose feast day, February 2, was the old Celtic feast of the goddess. Called Imbolc in earlier times, it became known as Candlemas, a feast of light celebrating the time when winter’s sway over this world was loosened, and spring at last beckoned.
 
The invocation was a shield against natural calamities as well as unnatural ones. For thousands of years the Irish prayed to the goddess, and then to the goddess-turned-saint, always asking for the same thing: to live out their lives in peace and plenty. Today we hope for more than just a good crop and no epidemics, good weather for harvest, and nothing to cripple our children. But is this not all we could hope for: enough to nourish us, both spiritually and physically, and people around us who love us?

Pagan Studies – Candlemas / Purification /Presentation / Our Lady of Candelaria

Pagan Studies  – Candlemas / Purification /Presentation / Our Lady of Candelaria

First celebrated on February 14th, in 350 at Jerusalem, when it would have coincided with the Roman festival of Lupercalia, it was later moved up to February 2nd. Pope Sergius declared it should be celebrated with processions and candles, to commemorate Simeon’s description of the child Jesus as a light to lighten the Gentiles. Candles blessed on this day were used as a protection from evil.

This is the ostensible reason given for the Catholic custom of bringing candles to church to be blessed by the priest on February 2nd, thus the name Candle-Mass. The candles are then taken home where they serve as talismans and protections from all sorts of disasters, much like Brigid’s crosses. In Hungary, according to Dorothy Spicer, February 2nd is called Blessing of the Candle of the Happy Woman. In Poland, it is called Mother of God who Saves Us From Thunder.

Actually this festival has long been associated with fire. Spicer writes that in ancient Armenia, this was the date of Cvarntarach, a pagan spring festival in honor of Mihr, the God of fire. Originally, fires were built in his honor in open places and a lantern was lit which burned in the temple throughout the year. When Armenia became Christian, the fires were built in church courtyards instead. People danced about the flames, jumped over them and carried home embers to kindle their own fires from the sacred flames.

The motif of fire also shows up in candle processions honoring St Agatha (Feb 5) and the legends of St Brigid (Feb 1). The fire represents the spark of new life, like the seeds blessed in northern Europe on St Blaise’s Day (Feb 3) and carried home to “kindle” the existing seed.

The English have many rhymes which prognosticate about future weather based on the weather on Candlemas Day:

If Candlemas Day bring snow and rain
Winter is gone and won’t come again
If Candlemas Day be clear and bright
Winter will have another flight.

These are all similar to the American custom of predicting the weather on Groundhog’s Day, in that you don’t want the groundhog to see his shadow. In Germany, they say that the shepherd would rather see the wolf enter his stable than the sun on Candlemas Day.

The ancient Armenians used the wind to predict the weather for the coming year by watching the smoke drifting up from the bonfires lit in honor of Mihr. The Scots also observed the wind on Candlemas as recorded in this rhyme:

If this night’s wind blow south
It betokeneth warmth and growth;
If west, much milk and fish in the sea;
If north, much cold and snow there will be;
If east, the trees will bear much fruit;
If north-east, flee it, man, woman and brute.

This was also a holiday for Millers when windmills stand idle. In Crete it is said that they won’t turn even if the miller tries to start them.

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If Candlemas……

If Candlemas be fair and bright,
Winter has another flight.
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,
Winter will not come again. 
 
 
 

If Candlemas Day is bright and clear,
There’ll be two winters in the year.

For as the sun shines on Candlemas Day,
So far will the snow swirl until May.
For as the snow blows on Candlemas Day,
So far will the sun shine before May.

If the sun shines on Groundhog Day;
Half the fuel and half the hay.

 
 
 
 

GrannyMoon’s Morning Feast Archive 

Enjoy a Happy GroundHogs Day, USA

Enjoy a Happy GroundHogs Day, USA

  
Woodchuck/Marmot/Ground Hog’s Wisdom Includes:  

  
Sense of family and community
Connection to seasonal changes
Understands the power of cycles
Ability to hibernate (sleep) during hard times
Protection from floods
Ability to go underground when trouble arises 

  
 
 Resources : GrannyMoon’s Morning Feast Archives 
 
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February 2

February 2
Bonza Bottler Day
Brew Hog Day
Candlemas
Dia de la Candelaria (Mexico)
Feast of Pan
Feast of Torches
Groundhog Day
Lupercalia
National Heavenly Hash Day
Presentation of Our Lord (fka the Purification of the Virgin Mary)
Purification Day
Shaving of the Candlemas Bear Masque (Pyrenees)
St. Joan de Lestonnac’s Day
Wand Dedication Day (Fairy)
Wives’ Feast Day
Yuma Crossing Day
 

© 1999 Mara Freeman 

GrannyMoon’s Morning Feast

CANDLEMAS

 

CANDLEMAS
 
A wondrous force and might
Doth in these candels lie…         
~ Barnaby Gouge: The Popish Kingdome
 
In keeping with the policy of the Catholic Church to subsume pagan festivals into Christian feast-days, the Day of Bride became equated with Candlemas on February 2nd, the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. At this time, forty days after childbirth, Mary was supposed to have gone to the Temple at Jerusalem to make the traditional offering to purify herself. As she entered the temple, an old man named Simeon recognized the baby as the Messiah of Israel, and a “light to lighten the Gentiles.”
 
So, once again we encounter the archetype of the young Sun or Light come to redeem the darkness, but now in Christian clothing. Certainly, the service most used for this day in the medieval church made much of this symbolism, playing upon images of the appearance of divine light in the darkness of human sin, of renewal and rebirth of light in the dark time of the year, and of the new light of heaven come to transform an old world.
 
In Britain, Candlemas was celebrated with a festival of lights. In the dark and gloomy days of February, the shadowy recesses of medieval churches twinkled brightly as each member of the congregation carried a lighted candle in procession around the church, to be blessed by the priest. Afterwards, the candles were brought home to be used to keep away storms, demons and other evils. This custom lasted in England until it was banned in the Reformation for promoting the veneration of magical objects. Even so, the symbol of the lighted candles had too strong a hold on the popular imagination to be entirely cast aside. Traces of the festival lingered until quite recently in other areas of the British Isles like little lights that refused to be blown out. In Wales, Candlemas was known as Gwyl Fair y Canhwyllau, Mary’s Festival of the Candles, and was celebrated as late as the 19th century by setting a lighted candle in the windows or at the table on this night. Special Candlemas carols were sung by singers who processed from house to house. One of these contains the lines:
 
Hail reign a fair maid with gold upon your chin,
Open up the East Gate and let the New year in;
 
The carolers had to undergo a contest of riddles before being allowed to enter (an example of ritual at a liminal place.) When they were allowed in, they might see a young girl with a baby boy on her lap, surrounded by candles, to whom they sang once more and pledged in drink. She of course personified Virgin and Child, but in a country where Catholicism never had a strong hold, it is not difficult to discern a pre-Christian custom similar to the Scottish welcoming of Bride behind the Christian trappings.
 
In the county of Shropshire, the snowdrop, first flower of spring, took the place of candles, being named, “Candlemas bells,” “Purification flowers” or – with a faint remembrance of Brigid, perhaps – “Fair Maid of February.” And an interesting survival was noted in Cornwall, where until recently in the town of St. Ives, a silver ball was passed around from 10.30 till noon on this day throughout the streets and on the beach. It was started off by the mayor at the parish church, and whoever holds the ball at noon receives a small prize. The significance and history of this unusual and isolated custom is not known. Does the silver ball represent the pale orb of the returning sun?
 
Finally, traces of the festival of the growing light can even be traced to modern America in the Groundhog Day custom on
February 2.  If the groundhog sees his shadow on this morning, it means there will be six more weeks of winter. The custom
comes directly from Europe, and Scotland in particular, where an old couplet goes:
 
If Candlemas Day is bright and clear,
there’ll be two winters in the year.

A Scottish rhyme about the Feast Day of Bride begins:

This is the day of Bride,
The queen will come from the mound…
 
In other versions it is a “serpent” that will emerge from a hole, an allusion which Professor Séamus Ó Cáthain has linked to Scandinavian customs regarding the reappearance of the hibernating bear.  For this is the time when the animal world begins to stir from its winter sleep in the depths of earth, and life and light is ushered in by Brigid, the Queen.
 
© 1999 Mara Freeman 

GrannyMoon’s Morning Feast

Today Is: Woden’s Day

Today Is:     Woden’s Day

 
Energy: Male Ruler: Mercury – Rules healings, the mind – Use for magick involving mental issues, learning, higher education, addictions, communications, travel, young people, messages, perception, self-expression, artists, poets, and writers 
Today’s Magickal Influences: Conjurations, Predictions, Knowledge, Writing, Eloquence
Today’s Goddesses: Aset [Isis], Demeter, Ceres, Spider Woman, Bona Dea, Oya, Devi-Kali, Hella, Rhiannon, Coatlique, Maman Brigette, Sekhmet, Het Heret [Hathor]
Incense:   Cinnamon, Cinquefoil
Perfumes: Sweetpea, Lavender, Mastic, Frankincense, Cloves
Color of The Day:  Yellow, Gray, Violet
Colors for Tomorrow: Purple, Indigo, Blue
Lucky Sign: Wednesday Is The Lucky Day For Gemini  And Virgo 
Candle: Purple Violet
 
In many different traditions lighting a candle is a sacred action. It expresses more than words can express. It has to do with gratefulness. From time immemorial, people have lit candles in sacred places. You may want to begin or end your day by the sacred ritual of lighting a candle on this gratefulness. Or you may want to light a birthday candle for a friend. One single guideline is all you need: Slow down and do it with full attention

Runecast for February 2

Thurisaz of Freyja’s Aett popped out this morning Thurisaz pronounced “thoor-ee-saws” (TH: Thorn or a Giant) Reactive force, directed force of destruction and defense, conflict. Instinctual will, vital eroticism, regenerative catalyst. A tendency toward change. Catharsis, purging, cleansing fire. Male sexuality, fertilization. (Thorr, the Thunder god, was of Giant stock.)

A tired wanderer sees the magic bridge which leads to the heights above. Protection and help for those who have shown persistence. A beneficial offer or proposal was or will quite soon be put to you by important people, or by an organization. As a result, you will be able to do less but achieve more. You may feel at the height of your success but remember that these blessings are not given to everyone and you must earn them by a continual desire towards improvement and self-development. If you only take the fruits and do nothing else, the magic bridge may disappear and you will experience a painful fall. Get to know why you have been favoured with support and justify the faith placed in you. More than anything, this rune shows a path which calls for devotion.

Thurisaz Reversed or Merkstave: Danger, defenselessness, compulsion, betrayal, dullness. Evil, malice, hatred, torment, spite, lies. A bad man or woman. (Note: the reversed or merkstave definitions are included only for reference as they apply to a multi-rune cast and not to a single rune that’s drawn blind from the pouch)

As with all, take only what feels right to you and disregard the rest.

**a portion of today’s rune meaning/description was kindly provided by Ingrid Halvorsen at sunnyway.com and used here with her gracious permission**

In the Light…

Tom

SoulDiscoveryThruReiki
“Music is a release from the tyranny of conscious thought”
— Kevin Burke
Insanity is inherited, you get it from your kids…

Herb of the Day: Cardamom for 2/2

Herb of the Day: Cardamom

Source: Lady Becky via Ravensgrove Coven

Herb of the Day: Cardamom (Elettaria Caramomum)
Gender: Feminine
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Deity: Erzulie
Powers: Lust, Love
Magickal Uses: The ground seeds are added to warmed wine for a quick lust potion. They are also baked into apple pies for a wonderful amatory pastry, and are added to love sachets and incenses.
Posted by: Lady Becky
‘May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings tenderly beating.’
 
The Universal Heart Center
 

Dailly Goddess Devotion

Daily Goddess Devotion

Give no light unto that which condemns thee.
Give no heed to any who attack thee in malice.
Give no time to those that deceive in truths name.
Give no strength to any that shall destroy thy light.
For you are a child of the Goddess, I am thy Mother.
I, with a mothers wrath; shall protect thee.
Blessed be.

Lady Abigail
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