Welcome to Summer! The time of the year when we feel at our peak of physical, emotional, and spiritual grandeur. Summer is when we are all rushing to do what we must to ready for the leaner times of the year, whether that be traditional farming or the vacation that recharges us for the longer hours of work in the fall and winter. The splendidly long days can’t help but motivate us to activities that we spend the rest of the seasons dreaming about.
When it comes to the environment, committing to being part of Mother Earth Children starts at your doorstep. From recycling to using alternative cleaning materials, minor changes at home can add up to real benefits for the planet, not to mention your own health and happiness.
Hey, don’t throw your old wax away. Salvaging candles is a great way to save money and also if they where used in a ritual bringing some of the good energy forward to your future rituals.
She is called the Lady, the Great Goddess, the Beautiful One, but she is much more than all of these. She is Freya, the beautiful Goddess of the Norse who is the leader of the Valkyries and the Sage who inspires everyone in their creative endeavors. Freya is the sister of Frey, The God of Fertility and is sometimes confused with Odin’s (The Chief God of the Asgard) wife Frigga. Her own husband Od who disappeared is thought to be identical to Odin.
The aura is the electromagnetic field that permeates through and emits or exits our bodies and every organism and object in the Universe. At its most fundamental level the Universe or Multi-verse when it comes down to it is a collection of electromagnetic and other types of energies of varying densities and forms.
Meditation can be a funny thing. Some say it has to be done under specific conditions, others say it has to be done with a specific unvarying ritual; my experience is that it can be done any place and by any means that works for you. Do not start by placing limits on the thing that is meant to take those limits away. Read the meditation below, then find your place and your method and relive your own version change it as your mind leads you and discover what is out there to discover. Please have a Blessed Lammas.
It is time for a reality check or more properly a behavior check, what rituals are present in our lives? Think of birthdays, weddings, funerals; do these rituals not have a special power in and of themselves? Why is it that every group of people throughout history has its own highly specific customs for such special occasions? Many people may not be aware that they themselves practice small, personal rituals as they go about their daily activities. As pointed out above it is the way of human beings to have rituals. To frame it from an Eastern point of view ritual is part of the Tao of humanity.
One of the first and most often things that I get asked is “How do I protect myself from X.” You all can fill in the X with what ever is your area of concern. So below are seven techniques from which anyone can benefit..
Civilization cannot exist without fire, it hides its self now in many different forms; steam, electricity, fuels, and coherent light, all things in which humans have done to transform the outward form of fire.
Other names: Allium sativum L; Poor Man’s Treacle; Rocambole, Stinky Rose; Ail; Allium; Ajo; Eschalot; Suan; The name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, being derived from gar (a spear) and lac (a plant), in reference to the shape of its leaves.
The leaves are long, narrow and flat like grass. The bulb (the most commonly eaten part) is of a compound nature, consisting of numerous bulblets, known technically as ‘cloves,’ grouped together between the membraneous scales and enclosed within a whitish skin, which holds them as in a sac.
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6 September 2010, 5:08 pm: I favorited a YouTube video -- Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles) http://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I?a
