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Flower or Plant Meaning, Care Of, Symbolizes, Medicinal Uses and Spiritual Meaning

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Bellflower Meaning, Spiritual Symbolism, Color Meaning & More

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.

Contents

1 What Does The Bellflower Mean?
2 Etymological Meaning Of The Bellflower
3 Symbolism Of The Bellflower

3.1 Everlasting Love
3.2 Tranquility And Healing
3.3 Success
3.4 Platonic Love
3.5 Happiness
3.6 Gratitude
4 Bellflower Color Meanings

4.1 Pink
4.2 White
4.3 Blue
4.4 Purple
5 Meaningful Botanical Characteristics Of The Bellflower
6 Special Occasions For The Bellflower

6.1 Romantic Display Or Wedding
6.2 Thank You Gift
6.3 Birthday
7 Bellflower Cultural Significance

7.1 Victorian Era
7.2 Ancient Rome
7.3 Christianity
8 Bellflower Facts
9 Bellflower Uses

9.1 Medicinal Uses
9.2 Ornamental Purposes
9.3 Culinary Purposes
10 What Is The Symbolism Of A Bellflower Tattoo?

10.1 Spirituality
10.2 Endurance
10.3 Humility
11 Final Thoughts

Earth’s Spin Has Shifted—And Humans Are To Blame

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.

Source: Newsweek.com

Some Humor for Your Day

New way to make a cup of coffee?

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!

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!

Witchcraft Within Covens c.2015

Witchcraft Within Covens

A coven is a group of members of a unit of witchcraft and, in fact, can number anything from two to 13, or even more. The number 13 is traditionally designated by the 13 moon cycles that make up one year, and 13 is the number of the Goddess (hence it became unlucky under Christian influence).

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.

 

A Practical Guide to Witchcraft and Magic Spells
By Cassandra Eason

Lammas Bounty Spell

Lammas/Lugnasadh Comments

Lammas Bounty Spell

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

 

 

Some Humor for Your Day

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends! The Pagan Serenity Prayer – Printable

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 🤞.

Wishing you all a great, magickally fun weekend!

Can’t Do Tomorrow’s Posts Today

Until it gets below 85⁰F in my small office area I can’t work. When I left my office space around 12:30 PM CDT it was overly warm. After quickly taking our fur kids out and feeding them I had to do some work in the kitchen that couldn’t wait until tomorrow when it should be about 30⁰F cooler. I sat down to begin doing WOTC work and started getting very sweaty and a headache. At this point I’ve already drank ½ gallon of water after my ½ bottle of raspberry ice tea (it’s my caffeine for the entire day) so I thought I was well hydrated. I looked at the small thermometer on my desk which read 95⁰F in my little office area. Guess what? That’s way to hot to be sitting with a computer tower trying to run. I’m sorry but I am done for today. The heat index is not supposed to go below 100⁰F until 10 PM or so tonight!

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Some Tips to Help Animals Through The Heat

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I have been working with dogs for 41 years and other animals for about 14 years after I earned my veterinary assistant certificate. The heat effects animals of all kinds even those in the water like fish. While we cannot do much for our wild animal friends or fish in lakes or other water ways or reptiles we can for domestic pets and companions.

If you do not have air conditioning or even a little window one the heat will affect all those in your home, then homes that do have them. It is just as important if not more so for them to have fresh cold water to drink as neither cats nor dogs have sweat glands anywhere but on their tongues. I make ice cubes with thinning down leftover meat of any kind juices. Whatever amount I have left over after a meal I add just as much plain water to it than pour that into ice cube trays. After they have frozen, I take them out of the trays and place them in a plastic bag that closes tightly or an airtight container and put it in the freezer. No matter what time of the year it is if one of our fur kids is not drinking enough I either give them a couple of ice cubes too much on or melt a few cubes into a small bowl of water. As for their plain water I change it about every hour and add regular ice cubes to it so they can cool down. If you sprinkle 1/8 of a teaspoon of salt per 10 pounds of weight on your companions’ snacks or food in the morning and evening this will help to get them to drink some more also. My Cleo and Star, both small dogs, will lick the salt off my hand and then immediately go for a long drink of water. Have a fan on the floor pointing towards your companion’s favorite place to lay to help keep them cool.

For the domestic animals that are always outside like cows or horses or goats or sheep or chickens or whatever make sure they have enough shade to be in and that however you provide them with water that it is full and in proper working order. Please check on them as often as you can every day in the extremely hot or cold weather.

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends! iT IS A mURPHY’S laW daY FOR me

UGH… I can’t even type right this morning.

Anywho…I will be getting the regular posts up, but they may not follow the normal sequence of posting because as temperatures soar into triple digits today, I got an email stating that, we will have more rolling brown outs. For those not familiar with what a rolling brown out is let me try to explain. When a lot of extra electricity is being used for say fans and air conditioners the electric company cuts power down in one area and puts it back up only to less it somewhere else. The reason they do this is so the entire City of Ottawa, IL or whatever city or town or village does not overload the power grid and everyone electrical power goes out and stays out until the company can fix transformers and other important stuff.

Yesterday when I came back to finish doing posts it was a yucky time. My computer was going soooo slooow the post was time out meaning I got a message asking if I wanted to wait or reload the page and try again, well words to the effect LOL. After trying to get up just one post for 20 minutes I gave up because I was so dan frustrated that all the post if they went up would be filled with my negative energy and I rather keep you from feeling it. These are times I wish our landlord would have solar power for our home then we’d be off the grid and my computer wouldn’t be finicky.

Well here goes today’s attempts to get posts done. Wish me luck and patience.

Stay safe and cool. Drink extra good for hydration fluids! Check on elder friends, family, and neighbors. If your area has one use a cool station if it is too hot in your home.

Blessings of good health from WOTC to you and yours during this heat wave and always.

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends! along with a PSA

Thanks to rolling brown outs and allergies I didn’t make it back to my computer yesterday to get today’s posts up. As Big Dawg and I have to go deliver court papers this morning before it gets too hot, I am unsure when today’s posts will be finished. All I know is I plan to do them when I get home.

For those with heat index warning please heed them, drink extra water or sports drinks or even vitamin water to stay hydrated if you have to be outside. Stay away from any kind of tea as it will make you urinate more which can dehydrate you quicker. Also, the sugars, real or artificial, in soda hardly do anything to help your hydration level same with coffee and other caffeinated beverages. This biggest dehydrator in these types of temperatures in alcohol in any form including beer.

I apologize for not getting this PSA up when the southern USA was going through their heat wave earlier this month. From the news up here in the Midwest it sounds like y’all are still in recorded breaking high temperatures. I know places all over our beautiful Mother Earth are suffering this year with above average temps thanks to an El Nino.

Stay cool as possible, drink extra water and/or sports drinks, and check on your neighbors who maybe elderly or have young children to make sure everything is ok and they have enough to drink.

Some Humor for Your Day

Remember Monday’s give out what we give in.

Witchcraft/Magickal Correspondence Digest for Monday

 

From Ancient Pathway

Magickal Intentions:
Psychic Sensitivity, Women’s Mysteries, Tides, Waters, Emotional Issues, Agriculture, Animals, Female Fertility, Messages, Theft, Reconcilliations, Voyages, Dreams and Merchandise		 Incense:
African Violet
Honeysuckle
Myrtle
Willow
Wormwood
Planet:
Moon		 Sign:
Cancer		 Angel:
Gabriel
Colors:
Silver
White
Gray		 Herbs/Plants:
Night Flowers
Willow Root
Orris Root
Birch
Motherwort
Vervain
White Rose
White Iris		 Stones:
Carnelian
Moonstone
Aquamarine
Pearl
Quartz Crystal
Flourite
Geodes

 

Motivational Magick

You can ask the Greek Goddess Aphrodite for help in this spell as She rules over self-acceptance and physical beauty. I think She’s the perfect Deity to help you with your spell to lose weight.

  • 4 cinnamon sticks
  • A length of blue ribbon
  • Piece of dried apple
  • Vanilla oil (or pure extract)

Lay out your supplies and hold your hands over everything. Ask Aphrodite for Her help with these words:

I ask you Aphrodite to bless this ritual

To bring me beauty, strength and love of myself

Help me shed my extra pounds

To be slim as well as healthy and true.

Bundle everything together and wrap ribbon around the charm, leaving enough to let it hang from. Dab a little vanilla oil on it and you’re done.

Now put it somewhere that you’re likely to see it in the kitchen but not out in the open. In a cabinet or in the fridge, hanging by the ribbon (don’t just set it on the shelf). Remember your dedication to lose weight every time you see the charm. Every night before you go to bed, say a little prayer to Aphrodite for resolve the next day.

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!

The start of another work week for some and the end for others. Enjoy Monday it doesn’t have to live up to the stereotype of a bad day. It can be whatever type of day you want it to be good or bad or indifferent.

Mine is going to be a fantastic day – the Sun is shining; Big Dawg and I only have four people to try to serve legal papers to and then the rest of the day will be ours to spend with our fur kids. Only drawback today is grass and corn pollen are very high where we live so unless I want to be down from my allergies again, I can’t take a very long walk in the woods and definitely cannot work in the yard 😣.

I was down all Saturday afternoon and evening, slept 11 hours, which was a good thing for my fibromyalgia to go out of the super flare I was in from lack of sleep, and felt miserable all day. Found out I was allergic to corn pollen as places we had to drive through miles and miles of corn fields left me with an asthma attack. But now that I know about this, I wear a mask or turn on the Jeep’s air conditioning for a bit as we drive through them. Within about 5 minutes in any direction, we go from home we have corn and soybean fields. Don’t get me wrong I love living in a rural area for all the wildlife and wooded areas I just don’t like the allergies that go with it. For every bad in life I always try to find the good in it also. Our physical life needs to be balanced just as our metaphysical and spiritual life needs to be.

Wishing all of you dear Sisters, Brothers, and Friends a wonderful Monday!!

Which Witch Said What?

Fast food with a person holding a fork
Image by Pixabay

What’s your go-to comfort food?

Find the Answer Key at the bottom.

1. Anything chocolate. Chocolate on it, in it; chocolate ribbons throughout it… If it’s chocolate, then that’s my “go-to.”

2. McDonald’s French fries and a Double Cheeseburger

3. Piping hot organic oatmeal with brown sugar and chamomile tea with local honey.

4. Lemon sandwich cookies

And the survey says…?!

**drumroll please**

  • 1. Graphia
  • 2. Lady Beltane
  • 3.Graphia (hey, it’s good for your heart!)
  • 4. Lady Beltane