Your Daily Horoscopes for Monday, February 6th

Aries

Mars has recently entered your sign and revived your personal interests, dear Aries, and now Jupiter turns retrograde in your partnership sector. This points to some need to de-emphasize the couple and place more focus on your personal plans, independence, and healthy self-interest. Partnerships will continue to bring benefits to your life, but Jupiter’s retrograde (until June 9th) suggests the need to slow things down just a little. You might detach yourself somewhat so that a partnership or friendship has time to “breathe” and unfold naturally. This honors the natural ebb and flow of things and is ultimately helpful for healthy relationships. Today’s energies are suitable for connecting and commuting, but not as favorable for seeing eye to eye in close relationships.

Taurus

Mars has recently entered your privacy sector, dear Taurus, encouraging more energy directed to your inner world, rest, and emotional wellness. This comes at a good time with Jupiter turning retrograde in your work sector today. During this four-month retrograde cycle, enthusiasm for work projects and health endeavors is still in place, but you may begin to see areas of excess that require toning down and adjusting. While it can be discouraging at first, it’s actually a very good time for looking at these activities and plans from a different, more realistic or moderate perspective. This can be a time for doing editing work, review, and research. Try not to take on more and instead focus on what you’ve already begun.

Gemini

There are two big reasons for putting more energy into collaborations and building friendships and networks, dear Gemini. For one, Venus and Mars are in your social sector encouraging you to collaborate. For another, Jupiter’s retrograde that begins today points to the need to tone down any excessive attention to romance, emotional drama, or solo creative projects. Some detachment can be healthy for all concerned. Jupiter’s retrograde cycle lasts just over four months and is a time for realigning your thinking and plans related to partnership, romance, and recreation. This is a time to catch your breath if you’ve been going too hard. Some de-emphasis of your pursuit of pleasures and entertainment can be practical now with so many other influences in place fueling your friendships. The Moon continues to transit your sign all day, and attention to personal needs is paramount.

Cancer

Jupiter’s transit of your home and family sector continues all the way until October, dear Cancer, bringing rewards and benefits to your personal life. However, Jupiter begins a four-month retrograde cycle today, pointing to some initial waning of enthusiasm or some home-related projects going on hold. You’ll realize soon enough that this period is excellent for balancing out recent excess or extravagance. Treat delays as opportunities to make necessary tweaks. Get things right so that you can move things forward with added confidence at a later time. Some de-emphasis of your home or personal life can be especially useful now with both Venus and Mars dazzling your career sector. This is a time for putting yourself out there!

Leo

Venus and Mars are transiting your solar ninth house, encouraging you to expand your mind and experiences through new studies, travels, or adventures, dear Leo. Jupiter begins its four-month retrograde in the opposite sector of your solar chart today, giving you more reason to pay a little less attention to your daily affairs and local or routine activities. It’s time to enjoy and develop what you already have in place rather than take on more daily duties and projects. This is a time for curbing excesses, slowing down, and reassessing current projects, particularly those that tie you down and keep you from doing the bigger thinking and learning. A creative endeavor or romance may also require balance. Moving forward too fast is not good for anyone. Returning to an old writing project or course of study may be particularly beneficial.

Virgo

Jupiter will continue to transit your solar second house until October, dear Virgo, benefiting business and money matters. Today, Jupiter begins its yearly four-month retrograde cycle. There can be some initial waning of enthusiasm or delays with work, finances, or home-related issues. However, going forward as you adjust to the retrograde Jupiter cycle, this is a powerful time for reassessing your practical affairs, for easing up on spending, and for more realistically considering how much time and energy you have for work. Aim to restore balance to areas of your life where you’ve been excessive. For some Virgos, more focus on others can be in order now. For many of you, going back to old money-making projects or ideas, investments, or business ventures can be most profitable until June 9th.

Libra

Jupiter has been in your sign since September 2016 and will continue to bring benefits to your personality and plans until October, dear Libra. Jupiter boosts your self-confidence and optimism. Today, its four-month retrograde cycle begins, and some of this is set to turn inward. It’s not about lack of faith — you still have confidence in yourself, but you are less likely to go overboard with it. If you’ve been overdoing pleasures or the seeking of freedom, this is the time to rethink and make adjustments that bring you down to earth, just a little! For some of you, there can be changes in projects and studies. Returning or relaunching past endeavors can be particularly beneficial now, and certainly cutting back on the taking on of new extracurricular projects is important.

Scorpio

Jupiter’s retrograde in your privacy sector, starting today and ending June 9th, encourages you to reassess certain goals and projects that have taken up too much of your time and energy, dear Scorpio. If you’ve been withdrawing too much or paying excessive attention to taking care of others to the point that you’re ignoring your own needs, then this is a time for seeing this as a problem and taking steps to balance the scales. As you adjust to this energy, you may find that coming out of your protective shell or paying more attention to your daily affairs and duties can be beneficial. You might need to slow down taking on new business or money making ideas as well. There can be distinct benefits to returning to old projects, ventures, and investments.

Sagittarius

With Jupiter, your ruler, in your solar eleventh house, you may have come up with exciting new plans and ideas for future endeavors in recent months, dear Sagittarius. Jupiter turns retrograde today and will be retrograde until June 9th, making it more appropriate to develop and edit current projects or return to old ideas and rejuvenate them than to take on new ones. If you have too much on your plate, this is a time for paring things down or taking a breather. Focus on a few of the more viable plans and goals and tone down socializing if it’s now causing you to falter in other areas of life. This comes at a time when there is a lot of planetary activity in your sectors that rule your personal life and family, making it all the more useful to balance your energies and attention. During the retrograde cycle, reconnecting with old friends and dreams can be highly beneficial.

Capricorn

With Jupiter beginning its four-month retrograde cycle today, it would benefit you to tone things down a notch when it comes to pursuing your ambitions and loftier goals, dear Capricorn. It’s an excellent period for editing and refining current projects and for finding rewards in old ventures. This de-emphasis comes at a good time with Venus and Mars in your family and home sector – it gives you a chance to pay more attention to your personal life. Enjoy the moment, and capture it as well so that you can carry it forward. This is not a time for actively expanding, but rather for reaping the rewards of recent successes and focusing your energy on those projects already in progress. The Moon is in your work and health zone all day, and you have an emotional need to set your daily routines straight.

Aquarius

With Jupiter’s yearly retrograde beginning today, dear Aquarius, you might experience some natural waning of enthusiasm if you’ve been overdoing certain pursuits until you adjust to this inward-turning Jupiter energy. Once you do, you’ll recognize this four-month cycle as a good period for getting in touch with what truly motivates and enthuses you. Some of the faith you’ve been nurturing may seem to drop away, but only just enough for you to see your plans in a different, more realistic light. You might choose to return to old studies and projects to your benefit. A stronger emphasis on practical affairs is likely so that some de-emphasis of adventurous, pleasure-seeking activities can be beneficial so that you can focus your energies on taking care of your daily affairs.

Pisces

The Moon at the bottom of your solar chart today points to a desire or need to recoup some emotional energy through safe, familiar activities, dear Pisces. Jupiter turns retrograde in your intimacy sector and will remain retrograde until June 9th, pointing to some need to redirect some of your energy away from a partnership or a focus on others. There can be some waning of enthusiasm initially, after which things come more naturally to you. There may be the need to slow down or moderate shared finances or debts. If you’ve been overspending or over-borrowing, or otherwise too dependent on others for your happiness, then this is a time for bringing things back into balance. Recognize that there is a time for pushing things forward and a time for riding the wash, observing, and reflecting.

Courtesy of Cafe Astrology

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Weekly Astrology: February 6-12, 2017

Breaking new ground

By Maria DeSimone

Weekly, Astrology

This week, cosmic energies are reminding you that everything you need is already inside of you. Luckily, this could lead to positive rewards in different areas of your life. Read on to find out what you can expect…

2017 Astrology & Numerology Forecast – Let the magic begin!

Inspiration for the Week – Taking Time for Blessings

a message from Shanta Gabriel

To read more of Shanta’s insight, please visit her website, Gabriel Messages

The Gabriel Message Card for this Week:

Take time to bless that which you have and ask for what you want.

To bless means to confer energy on whatever person or situation you are focused upon. It is a wonderful way to bring Divinity into our daily lives, and this practice honors the Oneness within us at all times. And even if the reality of where we are is not what we like, it is important to bring conscious awareness to the place of “what is” so that we can expand our perceptions to what is possible.

It is important to recognize and honor what is truly manifesting in our lives. It is a recognition and gratitude for the abundance that is there for us to notice when we focus our attention. Without that level of honoring what we have already in our lives and being grateful, we are not in a place of magnetism for what we want to experience.

For many years I seemed to be waiting for something else to change before I could be happy. I kept thinking that soon I would have the situation in my work I had been wanting, or the people I lived with would finally change and then all would be harmonious. This led me to living in the future, out of balance and out of touch with my present life. It was not a resourceful state for me to be in, and when the life I was leading went through a very radical change, I was not prepared to lose everything I thought was important to me. It could be called involuntary simplification, but the Universe will use anything it can to get our attention.

Sitting in that place of emptiness, I had to examine my core values, becoming more clear about what was truly important to me. I found a new level of compassion and love for who I was at the core of my being. I recognized that my spiritual base did not change and that in all the ways that truly mattered, I was not lost, no matter how it felt. I learned the lesson that my Soul was valiantly trying to teach me — that loving myself and honoring the present time was essential. I soon found that the more authentically me I became, the happier I was.

The spiritual principles that taught me about what I truly needed to feel whole were still within me, active and well. I discovered that even though it appeared that I had lost everything, I was actually living in a resourceful state that allowed me to follow my heart and pay attention to my inner guidance system. All of this I could bless with my full attention and be very grateful.

When we ask for something, we are honoring the Divine Presence and letting the Universe know what we need. It creates an opening to the Divine River of All Creation; the sacred flow of Divinity that is always available for us. When we can match the vibration of our desires, we become a magnet for their manifestation by the Law of Attraction.

Giving thanks in advance allows us to strengthen and raise our vibrational frequency. This helps us to radiate the beautiful energy of gratitude into our world. The benevolence of God responds to this beauty and will flow to us what we are asking for if we can continue to sustain and strengthen our focus.

The focus of our attention is the attracting force for the flow of the Divine. If we continue to complain about what we don’t have, it creates a powerful focus on what is not working. The result is we will receive more of what we don’t want from the same Benevolent Force that provides what we are focused on at all times. That is why the energy of blessing is so powerful. Even if we really don’t know what lesson we are receiving from a less than happy situation, we can still offer our blessings so it can provide a catalyst for the change we do want.

Through this focus on the spiritual base of our reality, we become very resilient and open to new levels of support from the Universal Presence who cares for us eternally. All that we need is provided then with more Grace and Ease, and we know in the core of our being that we are truly loved.

Divine Presence,

Thank you for the life I have been given and for the lessons I am learning on all levels. Please bless all my relationships and all the situations in my life with Love and Divine Order.

May my consciousness be blessed with Divine Light and brought to a frequency that is in harmony with that which I truly desire to receive in my life. I am open to receive the Grace that is here for me now. Thank you, God. And so it is.

 The Gabriel Messages Book #55

Take time to bless that which you have and ask for what you want.

Dear One,

You may be finding yourself in a time of questioning and dissatisfaction with your life. However, this is also a time of great opportunity. Every moment of your conscious awareness creates the qualities of your future moments. You can ask for those qualities you feel are missing from your life now, and they will come to you from your sincere prayer.

It is not about asking for material things. Instead, ask for those qualities of consciousness you believe you would have if you had the things you want. For example, if you want a new job, what qualities would this job give you? Abundant income? Harmonious atmosphere with co-workers? Fulfillment and joy doing that which you love? Perhaps ease in transportation?

When you know the qualities you want, this allows the Universe to provide these qualities in a work situation that may be even better than the type of work you were looking for. When you ask for a narrowly defined work environment, you may get exactly what you ask for but the qualities that would make you happy may not be present.

Practice:

It’s important not to limit the response of the Universe to the confines of your present awareness. But if you do choose to be precise, also say, “this or something better, God” and then let go. You can also give thanks in advance for answered prayers by saying, “Thank you, Divine Presence, for meeting my needs in ways better than I can imagine. Thank you for Divine Order in this situation.”

Blessing situations also brings more good to you. Even if your world appears to be falling apart around you, you can bless the changes occurring and know there is Divine Order beneath the illusion of disharmony.

Though it may not appear that you have much you can bless, you can bless the gift of another day of life. You can bless the learning experiences you are now receiving, knowing they are bringing you to a greater good. You can bless the people in your life. Know that they are your perfect teachers for what you need to learn at this time.

Remember to give more attention to what you want than to what you don’t have. It seems a small distinction, but power is given to whatever you focus your energy upon. If what you are experiencing is not what you want, bless it anyway. But do not dwell there. Shift your focus to ask for whatever good you want — greater happiness, joy-filled relationships, abundant income, satisfying work. Then say, “Thank you, God” and release your prayers to the Universe to be fulfilled. Whenever you think of it, bless your life, say thank you for what you have and want, then let Divine Will take over.

You deserve to be happy and have miracles in your life. A prayerful attitude of blessing and gratitude can bring to you all the good life has to offer. You are worthy to receive the grace of God. All who ask sincerely are answered in kind.

Remember your message from Archangel Gabriel today is:

Take time to bless that which you have and ask for what you want.

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Your Magickal Activity for Feb. 6, the Day of the Chinese Festival of Spring/Li Ch’un

Wishing Incense

Items needed:
2 Tbs. frankincense
I tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground clove
6 drops orange oil
Mix the ingredients together, and place in an airtight container.
To use the incense, light a church charcoal. When it glows red, sprinkle the incense over the coal. Focus on your desire, and speak your wish into the rising smoke. This can be particularly larly potent when used by a group of people or an entire family all wishing for the same thing.

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Li Ch’un, Chinese Festival of Spring

Li Ch’un means “to welcome back the Spring.” This annual nual Spring fertility festival is still celebrated in China. Bamboo boo and paper effigies of a water buffalo are carried through the streets to the local temple. Upon reaching the temple, the effigies are set on fire and prayers of the people are carried to heaven on the smoke.

Home & Hearth Magick for Monday, February 6th

On Monday, casts for matters concerning the home, emotions and nurturing.

Planetary Influence: The Moon

Household Symbols: Silver platters and bowls, moon shapes

Color: White and Silver

Kitchen Spices: Lemon rind and wintergreen.

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Cottage Witchery
Natural Magick for Hearth and Home
Ellen Dugan

Monday Is Ruled By the Moon

This day of the week is dedicated to the moon and all of her magic and mystery. Mondays are for women’s mysteries, illusion, prophetic dreaming, emotions, travel, and fertility.
Some suggestions for Monday enchantments would include:

*Getting outside and looking for the moon in the heavens. Sit under her light and absorb a little glamour. Call on the moon goddess Selene for practical help in magical issues.
*Invoking the god Thoth for wisdom and insight

*Empowering your silver jewelry under the light of the moon. Wear moonstone or pearl jewelry today to add a lunar and magical shimmer to your outfit.

*Be mysterious and subtle and wear moon-associated colors such as white, silver, and blue.

*Working spells for safe travel with a simple moonstone

*Gathering bluebells, jasmine, gardenias, or white roses to create a little garden witchery with the flowers that are associated with the moon

*Setting up a lunar Tarot spell today to increase your psychic powers

*Eating a lunar fruit such as a melon to be healthy, serene, and at peace

*Brewing up a cup of chamomile or mint tea and enchanting it for sweet dreams and restful sleep

The Witches Correspondences for Monday, February 6th

Day: Monday ( Moon-day)

Planet: Moon

Colors: Silver and White and Grey

Crystals: Moonstone, Pearl, Aquamarine, Silver, Selenite

Aroma: Jasmine, Lemon, Sandalwood, Moon Oil, African violet, Honeysuckle, Myrtle, Willow, and Wormwood

Herb: Moonwart

The sacred day of the Moon, personified by such goddesses as Selene, Luna, Diana, and Artemis. The Moon is ruler of flow affecting the changeable aspects of people. If a full moon falls on a Monday, its powers are at their most potent.

Magical aspects: peace, sleep, healing, compassion, friendships, psychic awareness, purification, and fertility
Monday is ruled by the moon – an ancient symbol of mystery and peace. Monday is a special day for mothers as the cycle of the moon has long been associated with the female menstrual cycle. Those wishing to conceive a baby would be wise to try on a Monday as the magic of motherhood is strong and pregnancy is in the air.

This is the proper day of the week to perform spells and rituals involving agriculture, animals, female fertility, messages, reconciliation’s, theft, voyages, dreams, emotions, clairvoyance, home, family, medicine, cooking, personality, merchandising, psychic work, Faerie magic, and Goddes

The Witches Almanac for Monday, February 6th

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

Bob Marley’s birthday (Jamaican)

Moon Sign: Gemini

Waxing Moon

Moon phase: Second Quarter

Incense: Rosemary

Color: Silver

Witchery, Magick and Enchantment for Monday, February 6th

Think for a moment on all of the witchery, magick and enchantments that you have discovered. Don’t be afraid to adjust spells to suit your own specific needs. Any gentle, illusory, and dreamy charms and spells can be enhanced when you work on the day of the week that is dedicated to the moon. Mondays are a fantastic day to boost your psychic abilities and to tune in to your intuition and empathy. It also gives you the opportunity to work with a different lunar phase each and every Monday, which means in one month you could work four different types of moon magicks on Mondays. How’s that for adding to your repertoire? You are going to have mad skills in no time at all.

So light up those lunar scented candles and add a little mystique to your outfit by wearing an enchanting lunar color. Wear your sparkling silver jewelry and maybe add a pair of dangling silver earrings or a pendant shaped like a crescent moon. Create lunar potions and philters; make a dream catcher and give it as a gift to someone you love. Burn some sandalwood or jasmine-scented incense today to inspire the glamour and magick of the moon. Slice up a favorite variety of fruit that is in season for a snack or share it with your love and enjoy his or her lunar and romantic qualities. Brew up a cup of chamomile tea, enchant it with a little moon magick, and relax and get a good night’s sleep.

Most importantly, get outside tonight and watch the moon for a while. What phase is she in? What color was the moon as she rose? Why not start a journal and write down at what location the moon rises and sets for a few seasons? This is a great way to teach you to tune in and to become more aware of the moon and the influence that she pulls into our lives. Try calling on Selene for her magickal assistance, and call Thoth for wisdom and strength. Get to know the Norse Mani and the Latvian Meness. These gods of the moon have plenty to teach, and if you allow their influence to cycle through your life, you’ll receive many blessings. Be imaginative, and create your own personal lunar magick and witchery. Go on….the moonlight becomes you.

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Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

The Witches Guide to Monday

In the word Monday, we can see part of the word Moon. In the romance languages such as Italian or Spanish, this day of the week is called Lunes and clearly relates to the word lunar.On Mondays, a variety of magick may be worked. Because Monday centers on the energies of the Moon, things like psychism, dreams, feminine energy, health, success in spiritual pursuits, domestic matters, and things of family origin are especially important this day.

Mondays are best for love magick and anything concerning home or family, thus old saying, Mondays child is fair of face, which seems clearly to relate to the themes of love and health.

Angels of Monday are Gabriel, Arcan, Missabu, and Abuzaha. Arcan is known as the king of the angels of air and the “ruler” of Monday. Abuzaha (Abuzohar) serves Monday, and is very responsive to invocations and ritual magick. Missabu is a ministering angel of Arcan.

Check whether the moon is waning or waxing to determine what your spell will be. During waning moons, do spells to rid yourself of obstacles or for wisdom and protection. During waxing moons do magic for increase of any kind or to draw something into your life.

On Mondays, the best hour to work is moonrise. Get this information from your local newspaper, astrological calendar, or almanac.

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Gypsy Magic

The Goddess Book of Days for Monday, February 6th

Festival of Aphrodite in Greece, who is also Venus, Erzulie, Freya, Oshun, Anahit, Astoreth, Astarte, Aida Wedo, and Xochiquetzal The sixth day of the Moon/month belongs to Artemis in Greece, Saoka in ancient Persia. Diana, Oya, Nut/ Neith, Callista, Hina, and Erzulie are other of her names.

The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

Monday, February 6th

Monday is the sacred day of the moon, personified as the goddesses Selene, Luna, and Mani. The moon is ruler of flow, affecting the changeable and impressionable aspects of people. If a full moon falls on a Monday, then the powers of the moon are at their most potent.

Deity: Mani

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Planet: Moon

Tree: Willow

Herb: Chickweed

Stone: Agate

Animal: Crab

Element: Water

Color: Green

Rune: Lagu (L)

Celtic Tree Month of Luis (Rowan) – (January 21 – February 17)

The Runic Half Month of Elhaz (January 28 – February 11)

Goddess of the Month of Bridhe – (January 22 – February 19th)

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The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

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Today is Monday, February 6th, We Celebrate…..

Mardi Gras (New Orleans)
AYIZAN

Themes: Pleasure; Playfulness; Divination

Symbol: Palm Leaf

About Ayizan: Ayizan is the first priestess of voodoo tradition, governing the public places where people gather to celebrate the goddess. As such, she oversees the Mardi Gras exuberant revelry, offering psychic insight and protective energy to keep us out of trouble.

According to tradition, Ayizan is the moral governess of humankind, helping us to balance our desire for pleasure with culpability.

To Do Today: Combine Ayizan’s psychic side with a traditional Mardi Gras activity: fortune-telling! And, since it’s unlikely that you have a palm leaf handy, use your own palm for divination instead. Get a palmistry guidebook (these are often handy at the supermarket checkout) and see what future your hand predicts.

Mardi Gras is traditionally a time of unbridled fun before the serious lenten season begins—so much so that the festivities are overseen by a lady and lord of misrule, who make sure folks really let loose. One activity in particular inspires Ayizan’s energies—that of dancing and tossing grain so that pleasure rains down on all participants. This also banishes evil. Try this yourself, tossing rice or any grain-based cereal around the outside of your home. Then the birds can carry your wishes directly to Ayizan in their beaks!

365 Goddess: A Daily Guide To the Magic and Inspiration of the goddess
Patricia Telesco

The Magick of Monday

Spellwork intentions:
Psychic work
Intuition
Dreams
Spirit Work
Female Fertility
Reconciliation
Receptivity
Love
Purity
Healing

Planet: The Moon

Color: Silver

Crystal: Pearl, Opal, Moonstone

Calendar of the Moon

Rowan Tree Moon

Color: Orange-red
Element: Fire
Altar: Upon a cloth of orange-red set a row of red candles, Brigid’s cross, and a bell.
Offerings: Votive candles. Quicken a newborn idea into birth.
Daily Meal: Hot drinks with every meal. Keep food warm.

Luis/Gamelion Invocation

Call: Now is the quickening of the year.
Response: Now is the time of the first movement.
Call: Now the child stirs in the womb.
Response: Now the seed stirs in the earth.
Call: Now the plains flood and our fire is threatened.
Response: Now the cold water drowns our spark.
Call: Now is the time of the hard struggle.
Response: Now is the month of desperation.
Call: Now is the time of desperation to live.
Response: Now is the time of desperation to be born.
Call: We turn in our sleep as the earth turns.
Response: We dream with the sleeping earth.
Call: Each of our dreams is a lit candle in the dark.
Response: Each of our dreams is a single point of hope.
Call: They shine faint and alone in the night of struggle.
Response: They are alone as we are alone.
Call: Yet we are not alone in our dreams.
Response: We are not alone!
Call: We will keep our fires burning.
Response: We will burn against the night!
Call: We will warm our dreams with the force of life.
Response: We will not die alone in the cold!
Call: We will ward off all evil.
Response: Only good shall pass our gates.
Call: We will care for each other.
Response: We will never cease to care!
Call: We will survive the winter.
Response: We will survive!
(Repeat last two lines twice more.)

Chant:
Protect the flame that warms your dreams
And dreams shall never die.

[Pagan Book of Hours]