A beautiful morning here after much needed rain last night. Today will take us a little way from home to serve paperwork but that’s ok. It means I have time to catch up with emails, work on the rest of the July issue of Life in The Craft magazine, and maybe do a few household chores. Wishing you all a great Monday!
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The chant below brings swift justice to those who treat you unfairly. Take caution in using it, though, especially if you have also behaved inappropriately. Hecate’s justice knows no bounds. She sees to it that all involved get precisely what they deserve.
“Hecate, Dark One, hear my plea,
Bring justice now, I ask of Thee!
Right the wrongs that have been done,
Avenge me now, oh Mighty One.
Turn misfortune back to those
Who cause my problems and my woes.
And heap upon them karmic debt
Lest they all too soon forget
Their wrongful actions, words, and deeds
Don’t let them get away scot-free.
Bring them forth from where they hide,
Bring swift justice ~ wield your knife.
Hasten, Dark One; hear my plea ~
Do what it is I ask of Thee.”
Excerpt from
Everyday Magic: Spells & Rituals for Modern Living by Dorothy Morrison
Hecate, Goddess of darkest night,
Send my troubles all to flight,
Burn them in thy sacred fires,
And replace them with my heart’s desire!
May the circle never be broken,
May the earth always be whole,
May the rattle ever be shaken,
May Hecate live in my soul.
Hecate’s power,
Dark Moon Hour,
Fire to Banish and
Magick to flow.
Come Goddesses of fire and water,
Goddesses of earth and air.
Give your blessings to this altar,
Give a listen to our prayers.
Goddess, let all good blessings come to thee,
Love and money fair to see.
Let all happiness and love,
Be heaped upon thee from above.
Bring in, bring in, as the Moon doth swell,
Whatever Thou neediest to keep thee well.
Hecate, Crone Goddess, Keep me whole,
Let thy wisdom fill my soul.
Hello everyone! Starting today I will do the tomorrow posts in the morning after the today’s Some Humor for Your Day post because I started back sliding again on the regular daily posts as I would to the today’s post than take a long break and something always happens around our home, or it is time to go help Big Dawg with his job. So, be sure to watch the dates and days when you read the Daily and Birthday Horoscopes, Moon’s Current Phase and Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions and Some of the Witchcraft/Magickal Correspondence and a Spell for.
What do you call a barber that refuses to close on Sundays? A Hair-etic.
What music should you listen to whilst fishing on Sunday? Something catchy.
Why didn’t Sunday go to the gym? He wasn’t a weak day.
What does a taxidermist do on Sundays? Nothing special, just the usual stuff.
Why do I always feel great on Saturday and Sunday, and sick on all the other days? Maybe I just have a weekend immune system.
What is the nastiest word you can use on Sunday? Monday.
What do cows do on Sunday afternoons? They go to the moooovies.
How do you keep the dreams alive on Sundays? By hitting the snooze button.
How does NASA organize a Sunday party? They planet.
Which day of the week makes you happy in the morning and sad at bedtime? Sunday.
I am getting a late start but feeling much better after I got 10 hours of sleep last night and us taking yesterday to relax and let our minds shift from our horrible experience Thursday evening back to a more positive state.
All of today’s regular daily posts will be live as soon as I get my body and mind in gear from relaxing to work mode. It’s gloomy and rainy, which is the type of day I enjoy kicking back with a cup of coffee or tea and reading a good book.
The rest of Life in The Craft magazine’s July issue will be available on Patreon by the evening of Monday, August 7th. As compensation for me not getting it out on time, I have made a few of the spells available to the nagazine’s subscribers available for free until Saturday, August 12th.
I am so glad there is only 1 more day in this week as it has been a weird one for me. I am sorry the monthly and August happy birthday posts did not go up on the 1st of the month. I am behind on everything in our home and yard too so, feeling a bit overwhelmed yesterday with all I had to do, and some things got put aside until today.
This past week of Saturday through Tuesday we drove around 1,000 miles to serve paperwork to people. While most of them went well I want to share a funny story with you about trying to serve a 58-year-old man:
Big Dawg had to walk past his open, large front window to get to his door. He saw the man on his laptop with the TV turned on and his 2 dogs started barking to let the man know someone was there. Well, the guy didn’t come to his door after Big Dawg repeatedly knocked so he decided to knock on the window where the man was sitting in front of it. Big Dawg saw the man quickly slide the laptop under the couch by the window and dive under a blanket hurriedly trying to cover his head with it. Big Dawg called to him through the window to answer the door and he wasn’t going away until he did. After about 20 minutes of alternately knocking on the door and window while calling to the man to open the door he came back to the car. Keep in mind his 2 poor dogs were barking almost continually because of the knocking and talking through the window to the man getting stressed out because of their human’s unkindness towards them. We felt bad for the 2 dogs because you could tell they were upset at all the knocking and the man ignoring it. So, Big Dawg called the man, he answered his phone and just hung up on Big Dawg. So, we left as it was very close to the time when we have to quit trying to serve paperwork. On the way home the man called Big Dawg back about 6 or 7 times and all he did was turn the volume of the TV up each time and never said a word. How long he sat under his blankety that night we have no idea. We have to go back there today to try once again to get the paperwork served, wish us luck with blanket boy. I really hope he gave the dogs a special treat for putting them through the stress of him not answering his door and trying to hide in plain sight.
Things went really badly with the guy I referred to in the Good Day post. I’ve been up all night to make sure Big Daeg was really alright after what physically happened to him. I’m an emotional mess especially with no sleep.
I’ll be back tomorrow after I hopefully get some sleep tonight.
The bellflower, or Campanula, is a flowering plant in the Campanulaceae family. Many knows it for its striking shape and colors, and it can be found in most corners of the world.
The bellflower is more than just a charming bloom. It has a vibrant history that’s filled with cultural meaning, fascinating symbolism, and in the present day, it has several practical uses, too.
Humans have pumped so much groundwater out of the Earth that we have shifted the Earth’s rotational pole, according to a study.
In a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, researchers found that the rotational pole around which our planet spins has drifted around 31 inches east between 1993 and 2010 due to groundwater depletion and resulting sea level rise.
The position of the Earth’s rotational pole relative to the crust can be affected by how the mass of water is distributed across the planet.
“Earth’s rotational pole actually changes a lot,” Ki-Weon Seo, a geophysicist at Seoul National University who led the study, said in a statement. “Our study shows that among climate-related causes, the redistribution of groundwater actually has the largest impact on the drift of the rotational pole.”
The model only matched the drift in the pole observed between 1993 and 2010 if scientists took into account 2,150 gigatons of groundwater redistribution. Without accounting for the groundwater that humans had pumped from below the Earth’s surface, the model was off by 31 inches or 1.7 inches of drift per year.
“I’m very glad to find the unexplained cause of the rotation pole drift,” Seo said. “On the other hand, as a resident of Earth and a father, I’m concerned and surprised to see that pumping groundwater is another source of sea-level rise.”
The 2,150 gigaton figure—equivalent to 0.23 inches of global sea level rise—comes from previous estimates by scientists regarding groundwater pumping within the 17-year period from 1993 to 2010. But direct observational evidence supporting this estimate has been lacking.
The modeling in the latest study—taking into account the redistribution of water from underground sources into the oceans—has provided independent confirmation of this estimate.
“This is a nice contribution and an important documentation for sure,” Surendra Adhikari, a research scientist at the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was not involved in the study but took part in the research published in 2016, said in a statement. “They’ve quantified the role of groundwater pumping on polar motion, and it’s pretty significant.”
Groundwater depletion involves pumping out water from sources such as underground aquifers faster than the liquid can be replenished. This groundwater is used for agricultural purposes as well as being supplied to urban areas.
Once this groundwater has been extracted, it can find its way into the ocean through run-off or via the process of evaporation and precipitation.
New way to make a cup of coffee?
Well, I finally had the time to get all the regular daily posts for tomorrow done! I will try my hardest to keep WOTC fresh every day, but life may still get in the way of my best intentions. I am very grateful to all of you for staying with me over the last few weeks.
Wishing you all a happy, magickal, and whimsical Wednesday!
Gardenerian covens generally number 13. Some covens are affiliated formally or informally to specific traditions, but they increasingly unite for organisational as well as legal and political strength, particularly in Australia and parts of the USA. On-line covens are also springing up and they are an excellent way for solitary practitioners to gain support and information. Reliable, bona fide covens will offer the same safeguards as any ordinary coven, but of course the normal restraints you should show on contacting any Internet site will apply.
The beginning of the path to learning about Wicca within a formal coven is usually marked by a dedication. Initiation, after a year and a day, or a similar recognised magical period, will confer formal entry. Further different levels of knowledge and responsibility may also be involved, for example elevation to a second or third degree, so that eventually initiates can begin their own covens if they wish.
Lamas is also called Lughnasadh; it is a celebration of plenty and optimism, and of nature’s infinite bounty. It is the time of the first harvests, and it marks midsummer’s joyous and fanciful energy. This spirit is celebrated, too, in Shakespeare’s A Mid-Summer’s Night Dream. To tap into this energy, gather a small bundle of long grass or reeds to braid, and light a white candle.
Braid the grass as you speak this verse:
Fairies prancing in the meadow,
Spirits in the corn;
Green Man is flourishing everywhere
On this Midsummer morn.
Grains begin to ripen,
All things bear fruit.
Summer glistens with
possibility,
Blossoms take root.
Fairies whisper secrets,
Powerful blessings to see.
Cycles move and all around,
they share their gifts with me.
Air to fire,
Fire to water,
Water to earth,
Earth to air.
Elements feed spirit,
And the circle glows.
At Lammas, day and night,
We witness Nature’s awesome might.
Growing full
And blessing all,
‘Tis Earth’s celebration Before the chill of fall.
Now braiding this grass,
I mark this day
Protect my hearth,
With the abundance of grain.
The blessings of the Goddess come again;
Place the braid above my door.
Hunger be banished now and then.
Blessings be drawn to this place,
Summer’s energy fill this space.
Air, fire, water, earth unite,
And bless us all this day.
By: Abby Willowroot
I really needed to read this again today as all week thanks mostly to the weather and high, for where I live, temperatures, I have been playing catch up every morning. Sunday’s regular posts will go up on Sunday and the same for Monday and Tuesday’s regular posts. Between brown outs, headaches from it being too hot and humid, getting up later than usual because of not being able to fall asleep, plus Big Dawg’s process server job I just haven’t been doing what I told you I would do as far as regular posts. We are going to be on the road serving papers for at least 6 to 8 hours today and the same for tomorrow. We live where going from one town to the next can take up to an hour or more and in between all we see are miles and miles and miles of corn and soybean fields…the fun of living and working in a rural area. Hopefully Tuesday morning I will have time to do the tomorrow posts for Wednesday 🤞.
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