Calendar of the Moon for May 5th

Calendar of the Moon

Hawthorn Tree Month

Color: Purple
Element: Air
Altar: Upon a cloth of purple place a vase of the budded hawthorn twigs, a knife, incense of gardenia and marjoram, and a figure of the Goddess.
Offerings: Contemplate something that is both beautiful and painful.
Daily Meal: Serve fruit juice with the food.

Huath Invocation
Call: Now is the time of the flower’s blossoming.
Response: Now is the time when the hand reaches forth to pluck.
Call: Now is the time when we struggle with our instincts…
Response: To take beauty for ourselves, or to leave it in its place.
Call: Now is the time when we must remember that all plants are not ours.
Response: We did not plant the forest, and it does not belong to us.
Call: We were not the first beings on this earth.
Response: We have come young and late, and the trees look down upon us.
Call: They groan from the centuries of our meddling.
Response: They grow thorns to protect themselves.
Call: Now is the time when the hawthorn goddess steps forward.
Response: Now is the time when the heartless lady lifts her hand.
Call: Now is the time of great beauty in the world.
Response: Now is the time when Nature protects her beauty.
Call: The hawthorn goddess stabs us to the heart with beauty.
Response: She reminds us of our place in the world.
Call: She reminds us that we do not own this green planet.
Response: She reminds us that our grasping fingers can still bleed.
Call: She makes the hedges that our animals cannot cross.
Response: She sets the boundaries that no man may cross.
Call: She makes our hearts beat faster or slower.
Response: Her berries are sweet, but she protects them.
Call: We must respect her as we respect the Earth….
Response: The Green Man falls before her, heedless and headless.
Call: She is the blade of all trees, and we shed our blood for her.
Response: She is the teeth of Nature, and we give way before her might.

Chant: 
]Cauldron of Changes
Blossom of Bone
Arc of Eternity
Hole in the Stone

[Pagan Book of Hours

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Calendar of the Sun for May 5th

Calendar of the Sun
5 Thrimilchimonath

Oshun’s Day

Colors: Yellow and gold
Element: Water
Altar: Upon a cloth of yellow and gold set six yellow candles, a pot of honey, many ornaments of gold and brass, peacock and vulture feathers, golden coins, a glass of river water, a bottle of honey brandy, peaches, and pumpkin seeds.
Offerings: Pumpkin seeds, yellow or orange fruit, honey, and brandy.
Daily Meal: Yellow food, fruit, sweet things, honey.

Opening Chant for Oshun:
Love is a river,
Flowing from my heart,
Flowing from my heart.

Oshun Invocation

Daughter of the River,
Goddess of Love,
Golden one whose taste is honey
Whose touch is the flow of water
Whose dance is enchanting
Who is the glint of gold and the sound of laughter
And who is much more than these things,
Bless us with your ability to love
And see the divine within every one of us.
Lady of the peacock,
Let us appreciate beauty when we find it,
In any form that it arrives.
Lady of the vulture,
Let us remember that even those things
Which are ugly and rotting
Need merely to be transformed
And that they, too, are part of the cycle of life.
Let us be a vehicle for that transformation.
You love is like the river
That flows along forever,
Mixing sweet waters with the salt of the sea,
And as we live our bittersweet lives,
We will remember and revere your shining dance.

(All take drums in a circle, and let there be drumming and dancing in honor of Oshun.)
Source:

Pagan Hour of Hours

Current Moon Phase for May 5th – Waxing Crescent

Crescent Moon

(waxing/38% of Full)

During this Moon phase, there is a slight slowing down of enthusiasm due to an emerging desire to produce tangible results from the energy being expended. The issue of values enters into the equation and an urge to tie together the data available so that you can utilize current opportunities. There is still plenty of forward motion, and this is a great time to continue initiating and progressing forward. This Moon phase favors gaining more information and the input of others to further your plans.

The Witches Magick for Monday, May 5th – Casting A Fire Cricle

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The Witches Magick for Monday, May 5th – Casting A Fire Cricle

　

This spell utilizes the powerful protection of fire.

Items You Will Need:

8 candles

Fire proof container

Piece of Paper and Pencil

The Spell:

Set up the 8 candles in a circle. One to the North, one to the North East and so on. Make the circle about a foot in diameter. Light the candles. Rip the paper into 9 pieces. Write your name on the first piece of paper. Place it in the center of the circle of candles. On the next 8 write “harm”. Place each of the 8 by the candle on the outside of the circle. Now start at the top candle and take up the piece of paper that says “harm” on it. Catch it on fire and quickly put it in the fire proof container while saying this:

“Fire burns and fire turns all evil and harm away from me.”

Repeat this for each of the remaining 8 pieces of papers that say “harm” on them. When all papers have been burned, look at your name and say this three times with confidence:

“Fires power and fires might
Protects me every day and night.”

Allow the candles to burn down to nothing and extinguish themselves. By the way, you can use birthday candles or smaller candles so the process will be quicker if you wish. (NOTE: Use only fireproof candle holders.) You now have a Fire Circle of protection around you!

Source:
Spells-Of-Magick.com

 

WOTC Exwtra – CIRCLE ETIQUETTE AND PROPER CONDUCT

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WOTC Extra – CIRCLE ETIQUETTE AND PROPER CONDUCT

Circle etiquette is pretty elementary, and usually just plain common sense and consideration. Unfortunately, some people leave that at the door when they come to circle, or so it would seem. So here are a few do’s and don’ts:

DO bring something to every circle you are invited to, such as a dish for feast, or some wine, or soda. Or ask the hostess what she would like you to bring.

DO stay and help clean up afterwards! Your host or hostess are not your servants, and they were kind enough to invite you into their home, be kind enough not to leave it messy. Pick up, and wash if necessary, dishes, or glassware you have used. If you borrowed a robe or a tool (such as a chalice or athame) make sure it gets properly put away where it belongs.

Show proper respect for other people’s belongings, especially their altars and tools. Touch nothing without permission. Some people are very sensitive about someone handling their tools.

DON’T be late! (I know we all seem to run on what we call “Pagan Time” but, if you are running late and it’s unavoidable, at least call to let them know you are late and just how late you think you will be. Many times we have waited rituals for people who had decided at the last minute they weren’t going to attend. If you do find that you can’t come and you had committed to coming, the courtesy of a phone call is always appreciated.

DON’T bring guests without permission! This is especially important if you are having a “closed circle” not open to the uninitiated public. If you know that it is an “open circle”, it is still wise to let your host/hostess know that you are planning on bringing someone with you.

DON’T put anything on the altar unless you ask first! Most of us will hold our ritual tools during the ritual or place them on a special table or a place beside, under or other than the altar. This varies, however, with each group and may vary depending on the location of the ritual (such as out-of-doors where you may use a rock or a tree stump for an altar). The altar usually should have those tools and supplies that will be used by the high priestess/high priest during the ritual. You also do not want the altar to be cluttered and accident prone (such as knocking candles over trying to reach for a tool). Often times we will put the cakes and ale, extra tools, extra supplies under the altar (such as, if it is a free standing table) to be out of sight and out of the way until they are needed.

DO make sure you say “Thank You” to your hosts!

 

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Let’s Talk Witch – Individual Working

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Let’s Talk Witch – Individual Working

Individual Working

 

There are certain procedures which most practitions are prepared to acquire nowadays on an individual level which can also be used in group working. Whethe you work in a Kabbalistic manner, are Wiccan/Pagan or are simply interested in enhancing your own magickal working, certain techniques will be fundamental to your practice.

This is because the practitioners of old recognized that they — in their own way — were intermediaries betwen the Higher Being or Gods and the physical material world. Right from the beginning they needed some way of:

1. Feeling different while working magickally.

2. Defining those differences.

3. Marking a space in which they could work safely without interference from either malign powers or interfering humans.

It was often safer to work alone in those days, for there was little understanding by the ordinary person of either what the energies were or even how they worked. If a malign energy did manifest then it could be contained within the designated space; the practitioner was at his most powerful within that space and yet at the same time he had done all the was necessary to ensure that he was a fit vehicle for whatever he needed to do.

The rituals which were developed then have stood the test of time and be used today in much the same way. Indeed, as mentioned before, because the ritual have been performed so often for specific magickal purpose, they have developed an energy of their own and become powerful in their own right.

For example, the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram can be performed on your own to purify a room for further magickal work or meditation and also can be used for protection. It has a mught higher vibration than simply casting a circle, however, and in addressing the Archangels appeals to the highest authority for protection and assistance. Rather than appealing to the Elements, we now go to those beings or energies who are in charge of the Elements and make a direct appeal to them. When we use the old names we link into a stream off consciousness that quite literally has a resonance that causes a reaction within the universe. From the reaction there is a shift or response in everything in existence. Not only do we dignify the Archangels we dignify ourselves.

Source:
Natural Magic
Spells, Enchantments and Self-Development
Author: Pamela Ball

Celebrating Other Spirituality 365 Days A Year – Cinco de Mayo

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May 5 – 6

Cinco de Mayo

 

For several days, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans commemorate the defeat the French by General Ignacio Zaragoza at the Battle of Pueblo in 1862. His defense of the city dealth a major blow to Napoleon III’s attempt to establish a permanent French colony in Central America, which eventually led to the expulsion of the French from Mexico.

In California, Cinco de Mayo is still celebrated and serves to perpetuate Mexican nationalism in a foreign land. All of the pageant’s activities, speeches, songs and events are played out in Spanish, usually beneath the American flag that is flown alongside the Mexican flag.

 

Monday Is Ruled By The Moon

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Monday Is Ruled By The Moon

 

Archangel: Gabriel

Candle colour: Silver

Incenses: Jasmine or myrrh

Crystals: Moonstone or opal

Use Mondays for spells for fertility, protection especially while traveling, for home and family and to increase psychic and healing powers.

Where possible, work close to any water and, as a bonus, by moonlight

The Witches Correspondence for Monday, May 5th

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The Witches Correspondence for Monday, May 5th

 

Magickal Intentions: Courage, Physical Strength, Revenge, Military Honors, Surgery and the Breaking of Negative Spells, Matrimony, War, Enemies, Prison, Vitality and Assertiveness
Incense: Dragon’s Blood, Patchouli
Planet: Mars
Sign: Aries and Scorpio
Angel: Samuel
Colors: Red and Orange
Herbs/Plants: Red Rose, Cock’s Comb, Pine, Daisy, Thyme and Pepper
Stones: Carnelian, Bloodstone, Ruby, Garnet and Pink Tourmaline
Oil: (Mars) Basil, Coriander, Ginger

Mars rules Tuesday. The energies of this day best harmonize with efforts of masculine vibration, such as conflict, physical endurance and strength, lust, hunting, sports, and all types of competition. Use them, too, for rituals involving surgical procedures or political ventures.

 

The Witches Almanac for Monday, May 5

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The Witches Almanac for Monday, May 5

Monday (Moon): Peace, sleep, healing, compassion, friends, psychic awareness, purification and fertility

Cinco de Mayo (Mexican)

Waxing Moon

The Waxing Moon is the ideal time for magick to draw things toward you.

Moon Phase: First Quarter

Moon Sign: Cancer

Cancer: Stimulates emotional rapport between people. Pinpoints need, supports growth and nurturance. Tends to domestic concerns.

Moon enters Leo 1:55 pm

Leo: Draws emphasis to the self, central ideas, or institutions, away from connections with others and other emotional needs. People tend to be melodramatic.

Incense: Rosemary

Color: Lavender

Good Monday Morning, my dear family & friends!

Live and learn, learn to live,
I strive to get what life can give
Send to me the lessons true
And help me know just what to do.
 
 
Amid the mess and chaos fierce
Shine a light to darkness pierce
Show the way to knowledge deep
Which to let go and which to keep.
 
 
Clear the way so I might heed
The lessons that I truly need
Show me what I need to learn
As life’s pages I do turn.
 
 

So Mote It Be.

 
 
 
 
 

Good News, Bad News

First off, I want to thank everyone who has contributed to our ISP Drive. You don’t know how much it means to me to know that someone does care (Be on the lookout for your “Thank You!”). You truly deserve it my friends. Due to the response to my pleas we are only $400.00 away from our goal.

Now for the bad news, Mystie went to the P. O. Box yesterday. She returned with our final notice on our server bill. The date for pulling the plug is May 14th. If we have not reached our goal by May 13th, all our sites will be deleted.

The days are now counting down and you can make the difference. Do we stay or do we leave the internet forever? It’s up to you.

Don’t Forget Our ISP Drive this Weekend

At this time, we will shortly be leaving the internet. As soon as our Service Provider sends us our final notice, we will be gone from the internet permanently. When I do receive this notice I will delete all trace of the WOTC from the internet. This site will no longer exist and all the other sites that are associated with the WOTC will neither. I have seen enough ghost sites on the internet and I won’t leave a site of ours like that.

I am going to extend the Drive a little longer. Perhaps by the grace of our Goddess, we will be spared. But something in my heart is telling me no matter what dreams we might have they are not to meant to come true. So when we have to say our final goodbye, hopefully someone else will pick up our mission and carry on. Maybe that is what is meant to happen. But I will guarantee you one thing, I will fight for the WOTC till they pull the plug on us.

I am going to say something I probably shouldn’t but I am rather upset right now. We were so close to reaching our goals. Then it is all jerked out from under us, I hope you understand. As many members as we have, if each one just donated a dollar, $1.00. We could survive for another six months. By that time, I would be able to make our server payment and never have to bother you for a dime again. But anyway, that is not to be and apparently this is the end of The WOTC.

At least one thing I am proud of, the WOTC, all the volunteers and myself will go out with a spotless reputation. After 10 years, I think that is something to be proud of. We have served the Pagan community to the best of our ability and now our time has come. But all good things must eventually come to an end as they say.

When we do get the disconnect notice, I don’t know how quick the server will pull us. So the minute I get it, is the minute I started deleting all our sites. That way you will know when you try to find us and we aren’t here what has happened. Like I mentioned earlier, I have seen too many ghost sites on the net and the WOTC will not be one of those. But until we get the final notice, we will carry on as usual. Then right before the disconnect date, all the sites will be deleted. So until that time, we will be here. Hoping and praying for a miracle.

Until that time comes, I am putting the matter in the Goddess’ hands. This is still time, the fat lady hasn’t sung yet.

 

 
I know I will hear, “you are always hollering for money.” No, I only holler about the Server Bill. The reason being it was discussed among a few of our members and myself that we needed to upgrade our systems to meet our needs. I was guaranteed by a certain few if I upgraded I wouldn’t have to worry about a thing. They would always take care of the server bill. Well it now appears these people have not heard my message or else they are hanging me out to dry. A good lesson that I might have learned to late, never trust anyone. Because in the end, you will be left all alone and crushed.

‘THINK on THESE THINGS’ for May 5th

‘THINK on THESE THINGS’
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Realizing that there is a multitude of wonderful things to appreciate, we must shake them all together in our minds and wait for the chosen ones to rise up the top like bubbles. Life is such a challenge, such a joy to live when it is appreciated. If we could only realize who gave is life, we would understand even more why the Creator intended us to appreciate and love all that is about us.

The things we can appreciate are never in any particular order, but mingled together as they are in our lives. We can so beautifully and joyfully appreciate the sound of our children’s laughter when sudden happiness overtakes them; the tremendous and moving power of silent prayer; a strong voice singing a song of inspiration, or of sentiment; early morning sunrises, misty pink and fresh; a mockingbird singing out its heart in the depth of night; the touch of souls in understanding; violin music; and our children in prayer, in spells of delight, or in any other movement.

To name them all would be an impossibility, to live them all is a blessing. We must not pass these things by without appreciating them. We must not lose them by failing to give thanks. These are the things we always have near us, and we can appreciate them merely by attuning our senses to them.

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Elder’s Meditation of the Day May 5

Elder’s Meditation of the Day May 5

“There are many things to be shared with the four colors of man in our common destiny as one family upon our Mother the Earth.”

—- Traditional Circle of Elders, NORTHERN CHEYENNE

The Elders tell us the time will come when the four colors of Man will unite into one family. According to prophecies, we were told this would happen when the Sun was blocked in the Seventh Moon. There was an eclipse of the Sun in July, 1991. We are now in a new Springtime called the Coming Together Time. Each of the four colors of man has knowledge that the other colors need to heal their families. Let us all be willing to sit in a circle and respect our differences.

Creator, let me be willing to have an open mind.

May 5 – Daily Feast

May 5 – Daily Feast

Remembering can be painful and sometimes without any real benefit. But much of the time it helps us move ahead like a spur that tells us not to tarry but to go on and do what we have to do. It is far too easy to carry around, a u s ga nv tsv, a false guilt, a wrong idea, to override our good memories. We lose sight of the positive things we have done and the happiness we have shared by recalling a thousand impossible wishes we wanted to come true. But it does no good to dwarf the present time because the past was not what we hoped it would be. We cannot help but recall things and times and people dear to us – but to remember them with pleasure does them more honor than to focus on what we did or couldn’t do in the past.

~ Our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch of our ancestors as we walk over this earth. ~

SEATTLE

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

The Daily Motivator for May 4th – Rise to the challenges

Rise to the challenges

Just because the job is challenging doesn’t give you an excuse to be less than your best. In fact, what it gives you is the opportunity to rise to the challenge.

Great success is not achieved by just doing the easy stuff. Great success is the result of being willing to, and even enthusiastic about working through the challenges.

Each challenge you encounter can either be a reason to quit or a pathway to achievement. Through your attitude and your actions, you decide which it will be.

Difficult, complicated, challenging work is not a curse, but rather is a valuable blessing. It is your chance to learn, to grow, to become stronger and more capable, and to achieve.

In every challenge is a way for you to make a meaningful positive difference in the world. Welcome the challenges, and you welcome the potential for new richness into your life.

You are much more powerful and effective than you’ve ever experienced. The way to know that without a doubt, is to rise to the challenges.

— Ralph Marston

 

Source:
The Daily Motivator

Daily OM for May 4th – Clearing Our System

Clearing Our System
Food Allergies

In this day and age we know so much more about our relationship to food than our predecessors, and the way we eat and think about food has become almost unrecognizable to our grandparents’ generation. One example of this is our awareness of food allergies, a condition that has recently entered the collective consciousness. Most of us know someone who is allergic to such commonplace foods as wheat and dairy, and we may even be prone to such an allergy. Understanding how our bodies react to food, and making the necessary adjustments in our diet, can have a profound effect on our whole energy system, and can be the key to shifting our mind into a state of greater clarity.

When we are continuously exposed to a food that gives us an allergic reaction, we feel lethargic, foggy-headed, or as if we always have a low-grade sinus infection. Other symptoms can include nausea, digestive difficulties, skin problems, and difficulty breathing. Many of us have been fighting these symptoms our whole lives without realizing that getting relief could be as simple as cutting a particular food out of our diet. When we do, we feel as if we are waking up out of a fog, and our whole system, cleared of substances that work against it, benefits. Many people see skin improvements, they sleep better, have more energy, and feel able to think more clearly. When we feel less than well, testing ourselves, or getting tested by someone else, for food allergies may be a good place to start.

If you know how to do kinesiology, or if you work with a pendulum or have access to clear signals from an inner guide, you can test yourself. If these modes of gaining information are unfamiliar or uncomfortable, you can get tested through a doctor of your choice. However we go about it, exploring our relationship to the foods we eat can be the first step to a more optimal state of health, well-being, and clarity of mind.

Source:
Daily OM

Send It Back Spell

SEND IT BACK

This spell uses heavy visualization and energy manipulation skills, so be aware of this if your skills do not include these. You might want to develop these skills first before trying this spell.

Reach a meditative/trance state, and feel your own area, and your own space. Visualize the negative energy around you, and “see” it with your mind’s eye. Suck this energy into a ball at your center, seeing it as a ball between your hands…a black swirling ball/whatever most helps you todo the energy manipulation.

When you have gathered sufficient energy, whisper to it to go to the original sender, or out harmlessly into the environment. Open your hands, and with powerful intent and focus, release the ball into the air, “watching” it go with your minds eye towards your attacker, or towards the hexer. If you know the hexer, you may tell it to go to that person, or if you want to send the negativity at someone else, then tell it to go there.

Cleansings and general protective spells are recommended after casting this spell.