Hm….
I have been inactive for a while now. I am thinking I might become active again, if there is any interest. I basically quit writing because there wasn’t much traffic, and my life blew up, in ugly ways. I still live in a wasteland, mostly, but it’s become my wasteland, and I am working on making it navigable. This might help. It might not.
We shall see.
Please bear with me as I shake the cobwebs off and try to remember how this goes… input is most welcome – though fair warning, advice is NOT guaranteed to be taken! Not to say it’s not welcome, just don’t get butt hurt if I don’t take it. I tend to follow my own route after looking at all the options. Generally, it ends up being a combination of those available. That works best for me.
Ok, hopefully I will be back soon. We’ll get caught up and new introductions will be made 😁. But for now, I’m going to go consider on going on…
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Dawtch
Friday Form A Circle – Sun Circle: A Ritual for A Group of Children
Sun Circle: A Ritual for A Group of Children
From Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children
by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac;
Activity: Form a circle and use oranges to symbolize the sun. Recall the many gifts that we receive from the sun.
Goals: Understand the important things that the sun provides for us, such as food, energy, heat and light. Understand that we can show our appreciation for these gifts.
Age: Younger Children and Older Children
Procedure: Have the children stand in a circle with their eyes closed. Have each child hold one hand open, palm up, in front of him or her. Take chilled orange sections, or pieces of other bright, sunshine-like fruit, and place one in each waiting hand. Ask the children to guess what you have passed out. Once someone has guessed correctly instruct the children to open their eyes but not to eat the oranges yet. Hold up a whole orange and tell the children that it represents the sun. Have each child name one thing that we receive from the sun; then he or she can eat the orange slice. Remind the children that it is the food energy created from sunlight by plants that enables people to do this, or any other activity.
Materials: Sunny area, enough chilled and peeled oranges to provide one section for each child, a whole orange.
A suggestion from BabooKyra: I’m going to do this with my campers. The only thing I’m going to change is that we will pick the oranges ourselves and use whole oranges. After the ritual, I’ll give them spices to make pomanders. The scent will remind them of camp for years.
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Thursday This Is Your Spell – Midsummer Marigold Endurance Spell
Midsummer Marigold Endurance Spell
Unknown author
Write your birth-sign on a small stone in permanent pen. In a large flower pot, place the stone at the bottom. Plant a marigold on top, placing seven stones around the plant. As you work, chant:
"Sing me the song of seasons
Show me the sun’s delight
Open my heart for you radiance
Lead me towards the light."
The marigold is the flower of endurance that always turns its face toward the sun, following its path through the sky. This ritual will give you endurance.
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Wednesday What Herb Is This (kinda…) – Natural Sun Care
After Sun Lavender Remedy
source unknown
Ingredients:
- 5 drops tea tree
- 11 drops lavender
- 3 ounces distilled water
Combine tea tree with lavender oil for a soothing after sun skin treatment. Place the mixture in a bottle with a spray atomizer attachment and mist skin whenever cooling relief is needed. Be sure to follow the application with a moisturizer.
Cool as a Cucumber Soak
by Renee Rouleau, From Self Magazine 1/90
Ingredients:
- 6 large cucumbers, skin removed, pureed in a blender
- 2 cups powdered milk
- 2 tsp dried lavender flowers, if available (do not use Lavender Oil)
Cucumbers & milk are anti-inflammatory, and this works on sunburn. Mix the ingredients and pour into a clean bottle. Apply directly to skin or add 1 cup oft he mixture to a lukewarm bath and soak for 20 minutes.
Sunburn and Itchy Skin Bath Vinegars
Copyright by Nerys Purchon (AKA Ravenna Morgan)
Ingredients:
- 2 cups (500 ml) vinegar
- Lavender flowers
- 1 tablespoon (20 ml) glycerin
Put the mixed herbs (see recipes below) into a large jar, cover with warm cider vinegar then with a vinegar proof lid. Stand in hot sun or other warm place (such as a crock pot) for 24 hours. Strain the vinegar, add more fresh herbs and repeat the above process. Repeat once more if very strong vinegar is desired.
To use: Pour 1/2 cup (125 ml) in the bath after the bath has been drawn, mix well with the water. Stay in the bath for 15-20 minutes to obtain the full effect, or add 2 teaspoons (10 ml) to 1 cup (250 ml) water as a facial skin toner, aftershave or after shower splash, or use neat as a deodorant, or use 1 tablespoon to 1 cup warm water as a hair rinse.
Natural Sunscreen
From Herbs for Health and Healing by Kathi Keville.
Ingredients:
- 2 oz sesame oil
- 2 oz aloe vera gel
- 1 tsp vitamin E oil
- 24 drops lavender essential oil
Combine ingredients. Shake well before using. Remember, this will not provide total sun protection.
Soothing Summer Body Spray Recipe
From Pioneer Thinking
Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon witch hazel
- 1 teaspoon lemon essential / fragrance oil
- 1 teaspoon cucumber essential / fragrance oil
- 1 cup water
For a refreshing cool feeling, make an after shower spray by combining all the ingredients. Place in a pump spray bottle.Note: Don’t use if you have sensitive skin, the lemon may irritate it.
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Tuesday Try A New Taste – Minted Summer Salad
Minted Summer Salad
From The Recipe Club
Ingredients for salad:
- 1 small can pineapple slices, drained
- 4 firm ripe tomatoes, thickly sliced
- 1 large cucumber
- Chopped Mint
Ingredients for dressing:
- 2 Tbs finely chopped mint
- 1/3 cup white vinegar
- 1/4 cup oil
- salt and pepper
For salad: Cut pineapple slices into large pieces. Score cucumber with a fork and slice thinly. Put tomatoes, pineapple and cucumber in a bowl. Pour over prepared dressing; toss well. Refrigerate. Before serving sprinkle over with chopped mint.
For dressing: Put mint and vinegar in a small saucepan; bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer 1 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. When cold, strain into a screw-top jar, add oil, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Shake well.
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Monday Make A – Litha Blessing Besom
Litha Blessing Besom
From About.com
Litha is the time of the summer solstice, and it’s a season of great solar energy. A great project to put together is a blessing besom. Sweeping is, after all, one of the best ways of making a space sacred and clean. Make a blessing besom, and you can use it to physically cleanse your home, and then hang it up to keep positive energy flowing around you.
To make a blessing besom, you’ll need the following:
- A broom – either make your own, or purchase one at a craft store
- Ivy or vines
- Flowers and herbs from your garden
- Ribbons
- Small bells
Wrap the ribbons and ivy around the handle of the broom. Don’t wrap them too tight, though, because you’ll want to be able to tuck sprigs of herbs and flowers into the ribbons. Once you’ve added all of these things, tie a few small bells onto the broom, so that it will jingle as you sweep. In many cultures, bells are used as noisemakers to frighten away evil spirits and negative energies.
If you like, you can consecrate your blessing besom as you would any other magical tool. Use it to sweep around your home, starting near a window or a door, and working in a deosil (clockwise) direction. As you do so, you may wish to chant something like this:
Sweeping, sweeping, ’round the room,
Blessings from this cleansing broom.
From floor to ceiling, and all between,
May this space be fresh and clean.
Sweeping good energy here to me,
As I will, so it shall be.
You can find additional broom/besom info and blessings here
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Apology
Sorry for the lack of posts…I’m sure all three of my readers are devastated…
It has been really, shall we say busy? around here…
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dawtch
Wednesday Whatever – Litha Correspondences / Associations
Litha Correspondences / Associations
by Edain McCoy from
The Sabbats: a New Approach to Living the Old Ways
by Edain McCoy
Sabbat
- Midsummer
Other Names
- Summer Solstice
- Litha
- Alban Hefin
- Sun Blessing
- Gathering Day
- Feill-Sheathain
- Whit Sunday
- Whitsuntide
- Vestalia
- Thing-tide
- St. John’s Day.
Symbols
- Fire
- The Sun
- Blades
- Mistletoe
- Oak Trees
- Balefire
- Sun Wheels
- Faeries
Colors
- Red
- Gold
- Green
- Blue
- Tan
Deities
- Father Gods
- Mother Goddesses
- Pregnant Deities
- Sun Gods
Activities
- Jumping Balefire
- Gathering Herbs
- Clan Gatherings
- Well Dressing
Taboos:
- Giving Away Fire
- Sleeping Away from Home
- Neglecting Animals
Animals
- Robin/Wren
- Summer Birds
- Horses
- Cattle
Stones
- Emerald
- Jade
- Tiger’s Eye
- Lapis Lazuli
- Diamond
Foods
- Summer Squash
- Lemons
- Oranges
Plants
- Oak
- Mistletoe
- Frankincense
- Lemon
- Sandalwood
- Heliotrope
- Copal
- Saffron
- Galangal
- Laurel
- Ylang-Ylang
Meaning
- Honoring of Sun/God at His power
- Saying Farewell to the Waxing Year
- Preparation for Harvest
- Honoring the Pregnant Goddess
- Beginning of The Waning Year
Attunement Teas (Individually or Blended)
- Anise
- Carrot Drinks
- Lemon
- Nettle
- Orange
Ritual Oils
- Heliotrope
- Cinnamon
- Sandalwood
- Lavender
- Orange
- All Mint Oils
- Lemon
- Saffron
Mythical Creatures
- Satyrs
- Faeries
- Firebird
- Dragon
- Thunderbird
- Minticore
Key Action
- Nurture and Love.
Goddesses
- Aestas (Roman)
- Athena (Greek)
- Bona Dea (Roman)
- Chup-Kamui (Japanese)
- Damona (Breton)
- Dia Griene (Scottish)
- Elat (Semitic)
- Erce (English)
- Freya (Norse)
- Gokarmo (Tibetan)
- Hathor-Tiamet (Egyptian)
- Isis (Egyptian)
- Juno (Roman)
- Keca Aba (Russian)
- Kupulo (Russian)
- Marici (Tibetan)
- Nut (Egyptian)
- Robigus (Roman)
- Shekinah (Hebraic)
- Wurusema (Hittite)
- Zoe (Greek)
- Aine (Irish)
- Artemis (Greek)
- Banba (Irish)
- Cerd (Iberian)
- Dag (German)
- Dana (Irish)
- Djanggawaul Sisters (Aboriginal)
- Eos (Greek)
- Eriu (Irish)
- Gerd (Teutonic)
- Grian (Irish)
- Indra (Aryan)
- Jord (Teutonic)
- Kali (Indian)
- Kou-Njami (Siberian)
- Mabd/Maeve (Irish)
- Mitra (Aryan)
- Olwen (Welsh)
- Sekhmet (Egyptian)
- Vesta (Rome)
- Zatel-Ekwa (Hungarian)
Gods
- Baal (Phoenician)
- Bochica (South American)
- Dagda (Irish)
- Dharme (Aryan)
- Hadad (Syrian)
- Hyperion (Greek)
- Gwydion (Welsh)
- Llew (Welsh)
- Maui (Polynesia)
- Orunjan (Yourban)
- Ra (Egyptian)
- Thor (Norse)
- Ziuhtecutli (Aztec)
- Apollo (Greco-Roman)
- Balder (Norse)
- Chacol (Mayan)
- Donnus (Irish)
- El (Semitic)
- Helios (Greek)
- Ganges (Indian)
- Legba (Voodun)
- Lugh (Irish)
- Oak/Holly King (Anglo-Celtic)
- Prometheus (Greek)
- Sol/Helios (Greco-Roman)
- Upulero (Indonesian)
- Zues (Greco-Roman)
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Friday Form A Circle – Litha Ritual
Litha Ritual
From Dragonshadow Lair
Special notes: Rededication to the Great Goddess and Great God. Time when the Sun casts three rays to light the world.
Altar supplies: Incense, burner, chalice of water, salt, pentacle, dagger, 4 element candles, chalice of wine, wand. A red candle (set to the right of cauldron)cup of fresh water set in the cauldron with a green or blue candle on the left.
Cast the Circle
Light the green candle to the left of cauldron
Green forest Mother, bless this water, I do ask.
Great One of the stars, spinner of fates, I give honor to you,
and call upon you in your ancient names, known and unknown.
Light the red candle to the right of cauldron
Mighty Sun God, god of fertility and plenty, be here with me now, I do ask. I give honor to you, and call upon you in your ancient names, known and unknown.
Raise your arms over the cauldron and say
This is the sacred cauldron of the Triple Goddess.
The touch of its consecrated water blesses and renews, even as the rays of the Sun nourish and bless all life.
Pass your hands/arms between the two candles, making wishes as you do; or set them on the floor and walk between them. Dip forefinger of your power hand into the cauldron water and trace a pentagram on your forehead. Kneel before the altar to rededicate your life to the Old Gods.
I will serve the Great Goddess and give reverence to the Great God. I am a pagan, a stone of the ancient circle, standing firmly balanced upon the Earth, yet open to the winds of the heavens, and enduring through time. May the Old Gods witness my words!
Place wine chalice on pentacle and lift it high
Honor to the Old Gods! Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again!
Drink the wine, saving some to be put out for the little people or to be given to the earth
Continue with a Simple Feast and Closing the Circle
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Thursday his Is Your Spell – Midsummer’s Day Herb Gathering Spell
Midsummer’s Day Herb Gathering Spell
From Pagan’s Palace – Now Gone 😦
Midsummer’s Day is a traditional time for Witches in all parts of the world to gather herbs from their gardens or from the wild to use in potions, dream pillows, poppets, and other forms of spellcraft. To be recited on Midsummer’s Day, thrice before and thrice after gathering your herbs for magickal workings:
"Herbs of magick, herbs of power,
Root and bark, leaf and flower,
Work for me when charms are spoken,
Potions brewed and curses broken!"
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