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Magickal Activity for June 7th, The Festival of Vesta – Invocation for Vesta

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Invocation for Vesta

You will need:
A small table covered with white cloth
A statue or picture of Vesta
One large white pillar candle
Fresh violets
A dish of salt
A dish of flour

Place the statue or picture of Vesta near the center-back of the altar. The candle should go directly in front of the statue, and the violets are sprinkled around the candle. The two small dishes of salt and flour are placed center-front.

To begin, take several relaxing breaths and focus on the image of Vesta. Imagine how it might have been to one of her priestesses. When you feel the time is right, light the candle and speak her invocation:

Goddess of the hearth and home
Let your brilliance now be known
The flair of potential does abound
Well within your temple round.
Vestal Virgins dressed in white
Keep your fire burning bright.
As elements of salt and flour
Are offered in this ritual hour.
Let your powers bright and bold
Grace me now from times of old.
Your flame of love I did light
To bring me honor from this night.
I now give all honor to thee
For your blessings.
So Mote It Be

When you have completed the invocation, take some time to reflect on the Goddess. If you have prayers or petitions of your own, make them at this time. Leave the candle to burn for one hour. Daily lighting of the candle will bring Vesta’s blessings to your home and family.

Celebrating Legends, Folklore & Spirituality 365 Days A Year for June 7 – 9

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7-9 June

Vestalia, Festival of Vesta

 

Vestalia is the spirit of ancient Rome, abided in a flame that was kept flickering in the temple of Vesta-the hearth (heart) of the city and the royal palace. The fire was tended by six priestesses, considered to be the “king’s daughters,” who were chosen as children for their nobility and physical perfection. The priestesses or bestial Virgins were held in high regard and lived a life of affluence. However, their high position demanded discipline and compromise; they were required to remain celibate for their 30 years of service.

 

The festival of Vesta began on June 7. When the temple was opened to women, men were forbidden to enter the temple. Because very little is known of the public or private Vestal rites, we can only speculate as to what took place. However, historians ans do know that at some point, the fire in the temple was ritually ally rekindled and that prayers and offerings were made. In addition to performing all of the sacred rites for the festival, tival, the Vestals undertook other ritual duties. For example, it was their responsibility to make the sacred salt cake (molasses) used in the Vestalia. This required them to fetch water from a sacred spring and bring it back without setting it down along the way. They were also in charge of ritually sweeping the temple clean before it was closed to outsiders on June 15.

 

A Little Voodoo Magick for Your Day

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A Little Voodoo Magick for Your Day

Graveyard Dirt for Luck

Ingredients:
Graveyard Dirt
Sea Salt
Charcoal

Grind the ingredients together into a powdered form. Sprinkle it around your house and property to attract luck and success.

Source

Gray’s Pocket Book of Hoodoo Spells for Luck and Success: (Gray’s Pocket Book Series Book 4)
Deran Gray

Getting to Know the Essence of Voodoo

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Getting to Know the Essence of Voodoo

Voodoo is the modern-day version of a Haitian religion called Vodou, which was developed under the mantle of French slavery by African-Caribbean slaves working on island plantations. However, it must not be overlooked that whether during its time in “Hispaniola” or after it entered America, it also picked up some Native-American practices and systems of belief within its folds. At its verby heart, that’s a fact of tremendous relevance—relevance— that Voodoo originated from a space where adopting Christianity as their religion was the only way to survive for tribes from Central and Western Africa who may have had diverse practices and rituals, but which originated from the same neighborhood of bodies of religious thought. When such people met other mystic spirituals, such as the Native Americans, growing communication within common spaces of living also led to the syncretic assimilation of their beliefs since many Native-American spiritual systems resonated with African spirituality.

Therefore, as Vodou developed into its current form, it encompassed the root essence of African spirituality and some measures of Native American belief systems as well as that of Roman Catholicism, since they needed to publicly espouse Christianity while inserting their own practices into Christian ways, which would allow their traditional beliefs to survive. However, although the root of Catholicism’s spiritual seed lay in indoctrination and the force of religious text over the lives of its followers, the same in African spirituality lay in the perception and devotion to the order of the universe, the healing of energies by overbalancing positive forces, and the nature of the spirit or soul which led to spirit possession.

Although Voodoo is a deeply personalized religion, given its esoteric and mystical origins spanning millennia, if one is to try and figure out the most important of its teachings to its practitioners, it’s this— there is a definite order through which the world functions, and knowing one’s place and respecting it within that order will bring immense positivity and wholesomeness, not only to the practitioner but to the system itself. Now, this shouldn’t be misunderstood as becoming a mindless zombie to the ssytem–system— another myth attributed to Vodouisant Bokors, or the closest thing the religion can have to chaotic or negative sorcerers at the very fringes of Voodoo society. Instead, perceiving and respecting the system is similar to having respect for the forces above you in the order of things, even if you may not see eye to eye and communicate as such.

Within daily life and practice as an example, Voodoo is in itself a complete way of life instead of just a practical religion, allowing elders to speak before your render your opinion on a topic on which they may have greater experience in life is a reflection of the essence of the religion. Again, don’t equate this to the simple “respect your elders” adage, but rather a deep binding sense of order within the way social interactions are constructed and viewed through Voodoo— the “elders” of “tribes”, even in modern day life, must speak before the younger ones on any matters under discussion because they’ve spent more time on this planet, and so have facets of knowledge or perspectives that youngsters lack. The same goes for the priestly order, with initiated higher ups having the first say than their lower counterparts. If the juniors disagree with their seniors they will get their chance to respectfully assert said opinion once the seniors have finished speaking. Therefore, understanding and respecting this order is part of Voodoo, whether it is your personal or professional life.
 

Source

VOODOO: A Beginner’s Guide to Voodoo ~ An Introduction to Voodoo Religion, Rituals, and Spells
Issendai Bechau

The Witches Magick for June 7th – Reversal Candle Spell

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Reversal Candle

Obtain a new seven-day candle. Turn it upside down. Carve the bottom of the candle so that the wick is not exposed and may be lit.

Slice the top of the candle so that it can stand. Dress the candle. If you know the name of your jinxer, carve that into the candle.

Light the wick and chant:

Candle let the evil done against me reverse itself as I have reversed you.

Say this nine times whilst visualizing the weight of the curse being spirited away into nothing.

Tuesday Is Ruled By Mars

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Tuesday Is Ruled By Mars

 

Tuesday is a Mars day, and just like the god of war, this is the time to tap into magicks to call for strength and courage. This day of the week is for rebels and warriors. If you are facing a challenge of any kind, need a boost to your courage, or want to enhance your passions, Tuesday is the day of the week for you.

Some suggestions for Tuesday enchantments would include:

*Wearing the fiery colors associated with this day: scarlet, red, black, and orange. Don some of the more daring and bewitching colors of your wardrobe on Tuesdays and turn a few heads

*Carrying a bloodstone in your pocket or wearing garnet-studded jewelry to reinforce your convictions

*Working with protective and fire-associated plants such as the snapdragon, thistle, and holly to boost your shields and bravery

*Burning spicy-scented energy-enhancing candles to add a little magical aromatherapy to your home

*Cooking up a hearty meal featuring carrots, peppers, and garlic (all Mars foods and spices) to empower yourself for victory and success

 

The Witches Correspondences for Tuesday, June 7

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The Witches Correspondences for Tuesday, June 7

 

Tuesday (Tiw’s-day)

Planet: Mars

Colors: Red and Autumn Shades

Crystals: Bloodstone, Ruby, Garnet, Flint, Rhodonite, Iron and Steel

Aroma: Basil, Ginger, Black Pepper, Mars Oil, Dragon’s blood and patchouli

Herb: Basil

The day of Mars. This day could only ever symbolize the sheer power of the god of war! The ideal spells to be cast on this day are that of force, power war and protection.

Dedicated to the powers of the planet Mars, personified as Ares, Tiwaz, Tiw, and Tyr.

Magical aspects: controlled power, energy, and endurance, passion, sex, courage, aggression, and protection.

This is the proper day of the week to perform spells and rituals involving courage, physical strength, revenge, military honors, surgery, the breaking of negative spells, dynamic energy, matrimony, war, enemies, prison, hunting, politics, contests, protection, victory, and athletics.