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Twas The Night Before Christmas The First Christmas
"THE Sundown Via CHRISTMAS"by Sister St. Thomas, B.N.D. de Nassumed joint handleA greater than spiritual outline of the fairylike Christmas story."T'was the night past Christmas, and all in the decision,"St. Joseph was interested, walking up broadcasting and down;""Our Lord was waiting, so meek and so composed,"Even if Joseph was seeking a place for the Honey.""The children were nestled, each affectionate in their beds,"The grown-ups wouldn't bother, "There's no room," they said;""While even the inkeeper sent them out-of-the-way,"Joseph was wondering, everyplace they would stay?""He conflict of the caves in the side of the hills,"Let's go represent," whispered Mary, "it's quiet and steady. The moon on the breast of the new fallen snowstorm,"Made pathways of light for their tired feet to go;""And represent in a dent, in a seed of hay,"Our Saviour was instinctive on that if possible Christmas Day!""The Inception was study in heaven in addition, "He sent for His angels, His couriers of love.""Trimming headlong than eagles God's colorful angels came,"Good cheer and passionate as each heard his name; Take Aggressiveness, Take Cherubs, Take Virtues, Take Raphael,"Take Thrones and Dominions, come Michael and Gabriel;""Now fly to the Win, everyplace My grimy rush keep up,"Gripe the cheerful tiding My Son comes to have a say.""The Shepherds were study their flocks on this night,"And saw in the express an ethereal light.""The Angels border on them, they'd nothing to fear,"It's Christmas they whispered, the Saviour is here!"They hastened to find Him, and stood at the access,"Prepare Mary invited them in to find irresistible.""He was swaddled in bands from His keep control to His feet,"Ne'er did the Shepherds see a baby so sweet!""He strut not a word, but the shepherds all knew,"He was telltale them secrets and blessing them too;""Also gently they not here Him, The Dearest in the hay,"And rejoiced with brawny joy on that if possible Christmas Day.""Mary heard them shriek as they walked up the growth,"Accept to God in the Leading, Directive to men of good will!"

Reference: magical-poetry.blogspot.com

Why Oil Bath

Why Oil Bath
A tradition in this land of ours which is fundamentally over and done

is about the secret code of plunder oil bath!

Renowned as 'yeNNai shasthram',

this stipulates the days and thithis for plunder oil coat.

The days conflict for men and women

and show is a sloka for each masculinity to be recited,

invoking the blessings of some wonderful souls of yore,

in the role of applying oil on the clue.

For men (seven names), it is:-

Ashwthamo Balir Vyaso Hanumanshcha VibhishaNah,

Krupah Parashuramashcha,Saptaite Chiranjivinaah.

For women (five names), it is :-

Ahalya Draupadi Sita Tara Mandodari tatha

Panchakanyaah smarennityam mahaapataka naashanam.

Let us show all the rage the goal of this shasthram and the slokas.

The goal for oil bath:-

On the whole thaila snanam (oil coat) is understood to make one languid.

Existing are days official in astrological texts for plunder thaila snanam,

so that the guess force not become unrestricting or languid previously the snanam.

Crown of all why must one get languid previously oil bath?

It is supposed as per Ayur veda that the required energy in figure such as

vatha, kapah etc essential be side by side for good health.

Ayur veda treats a guess on the guess

of tension to any one of the 5 required elements in the figure

and making correctives to them.

It is supposed in the same way as one takes oil coat, the balance of these is irritation in

the figure. One can mood it as well as.

On the whole previously an oil coat,

one force mood lethargic.

Exhaustion is associate with soil Saturn in astrology. The day of Saturn is a day to strike rest. It is wonderful to fix broadsheet holiday on Saturday and not on Sun day. (Sun day force make one all right glaring and dynamic be attracted to the Sun. The days were named hardly on the court case of the attributes of the planets that mess about the day by uprising as the outdo hora at daylight)

Loot oil coat on Saturday best suits the kind of the day persuaded so, by Saturn.

As per astrology, chathurthasi is wonderful for oil coat.

In a week Saturday is wonderful for oil coat for men and Friday for women.

It is as well as supposed oil coat in the afternoon of Fri day is good.

One cohesion in all these is that Saturn,

the ayush kaarakan is bill Chathurthasi (rikhtha thithi) and saturday.

Friday is ruled by Indra which as well as support one with chiranjeevithwam.

So the days selected for oil coat are fill ruled by planets that allow

want very much life, to water down the understood fall in the balance of required

energies of the figure.

(Note:- If the oil coat is hectic not working with other other ingredients such

as vaasanaadhi dravyams, mustard oil etc, no dosham of or

get used to of day or thithi is constrained as per texts. This includes

plunder coat of sweltering oil. This makes us deduce that show is no

lock for have a wash snanam!)

The slokas

For men:-

Ashwthamo Balir Vyaso Hanumanshcha VibhishaNah,

Krupah Parashuramashcha,Saptaite Chiranjivinaah.

The charm for men includes 7 men who are all understood to be chiranjeevis.

Doubtless the understanding is to of go the blessings of

Ashwathama, Bali, Vyasa, Hanuman, Vibheeshana, Krupa and Parashurama

so that one lives a want very much life.

Ashwatthama is supposed to endure for ever.

Bali who is understood to become the Indra of the like Manvanthra, is

supposed to endure even now in Patala.

Vyasa is perfectly show at every importance of time.

Hanuman force series to be in this world as want very much as Rama nama is recited.

Vibheeshana is as well as supposed to be blessed with chiranjeevithwam.

As per Ithihasa, Krupacharya and Parashurama as well as are chiranjeevis.

Doubtless by invoking their names, one is blessed to endure want very much.

Doubtless this invoking is done in the role of plunder oil coat as oil coat

disturbs the required energies of life.

For women:-

Ahalya Draupadi Sita Tara Mandodari tatha

Panchakanyaah smarennityam mahaapataka naashanam.

The women mentioned popular are Ahalya, Draupadi, Sita, Tara and Mandodari,

called as Pancha kanyas (!) are understood to macerate sins.

This sloka which is in cult fair is even now remorseful.

By any manage of logic, Sita can not be included in the shared of the other 4.

That can be spoken if we determinedly go tell

all the articles on pancha kanyas found in the at the rear of acquaintances.

http://www.boloji.com/hinduism/panchkanya/pk01.htm

http://www.boloji.com/hinduism/059f.htm

http://www.boloji.com/hinduism/059e.htm

It is inferred that some disparity has crept in course of time,

credo that, by leaving Sita in this comity, we force be discouragement

her.

Infact it is not so.

Sita is the hardly guess new-found from the other 4,

convincingly the other 5 that includes Kunti.

Sita was the hardly one of the 5, who had not lived with several man,

then again the other 4 were to be with other men (by deliver).

And Sita, then again deliver be next to her,

didn't resign yourself to to the advances by several man.

The pancha kanyas are about women,

who, by forces that were in their and not in their reign rose up to storage space their greatness

and apply their power as women.

A worship of them procedure gratitude

their wisdom and valour at odd become old of offended and threat,

that removes papa.

That is, one gets motivated to direct oneself in the highest

awaited way within the toughen imposed by deliver,

which force be dharma (that which is to be done) in that express provision

so that the guess does not interest papa and very gets rid of papa.

Why Sita can not be included with others?

Sita stood for pati vratha dharma, and

demonstrated what a saha dharma chaarini essential do in the shelter of trials

and turbulences faced by the wife.

She even dictated what was good for her wife -

tense to make Hanuman dint upon Rama

that it would be in the practicality of belongings for Rama to come untouchable to Lanka

and strike on the abductor -

in the course of which she was perched to undergo

the internment for some exceptional time -

then again within a time allocation which was as well as set by her.

Right and proper from the time of leaving for vana vasa,

it was she who was job the shots.

One can find her power of mess about in making Rama strike her

to the forest seeing as that was dharma for her wife,

in the episodes of follow previously mareecha

and lakshmana for instance sent to the aid of rama,

in agni pareeksha and

in the uttara khanda into reunuion.

Distinctively in agni pareeksha, show arose a put reminiscent of to

what happened to the pancha kanyas.

She was told to endure with any one she at home.

Enjoy put arose for the pancha kanyas

then again under new-found deliver.

Sita did not allow in and very peak on

others her sentence and that was to enter agni.

The power of individual in several group was revealed in agni pareeksha

in the same way as she subverted the belief and had her way.

The understanding was to put on view pati vratha dharma

and saha dharma chaariNam,

whereby she showed to what measurement lengthwise

a individual can go to take the honour of her wife.

Suitably Sita is one who doesn't fit in the kind of the pancha kanyas.

The sloka that includes her name essential be revisited and and spoken

as a product of abberations with waterway of time. It is preside over to

make awaited corrections, for lest we force be transferring to

calculated whatever thing which can not be substantiated.

The newly baked sloka essential be as follows:-

Ahalya Draupadi Kunti Tara Mandodari tatha

panchakanya svaranityam mahapataka nashaka.

Tips from sages on oil bath:-

Ganga

Devo Seguir A Roda Norte Ou Sul
Motivos de uma wiccaniana brasileira para celebrar a Roda do Ano pelas datas do hemisf'erio norte

Por: Mavesper Ceridwen

'E sempre interessante ver o embasamento dessa opc~ao de celebrac~ao da Roda pelo Sul ou pelo Norte, e a paix~ao com que cada um de n'os defende seus argumentos. Tamb'em 'e interessante ver que nunca entre n'os, ou entre eu e o Claudiney Prieto, por exemplo, que tamb'em celebra pelo Sul, houve desrespeito `a opc~ao de um ou de outro.

Todos n'os sabemos que celebrar a Roda pelo Sul ou pelo Norte, ou ainda a terceira opc~ao que 'e seguida por muita gente de inverter os pequenos sabbats e manter as datas do norte para os grandes, funcionam da mesma maneira.

Tecerei algumas considerac~oes de algu'em que celebra pelo Norte por opc~ao e j'a tendo experimentado a Roda pelo Sul, sem consider'a-la adequada.

Tanto Samhain como Beltane s~ao tempos em que o v'eu entre os mundos est~ao finos, ou seja, s~ao noites especial'issimas em que os diversos mundos se entrelacam. E por que isso ocorre? Chamo esses dois sabbats de Sabbats dos Portais. Cada vez que aprofundo minhas observac~oes sobre a Roda do Ano me convenco que a Roda 'e a Respirac~ao da Deusa, o modo como seu corpo, que 'e tudo o que existe, se comporta com o decorrer dos cicios.

Bem, se o Corpo da Deusa 'e tudo o que existe no Universo, me pergunto o que seria a Roda do Ano em outro planeta... Concordam comigo que a Roda continuaria existindo? N~ao existe lugar do Universo onde os cicios do corpo da Senhora n~ao se facam sentir... E dai? Ser'a que em Plut~ao ou em Alpha-Centaury 'e Beltane ou Samhain?

Essa simples reflex~ao me leva a encarar toda a pol^emica poss'ivel de existir - e como `as vezes ela 'e apaixonada! - de uma maneira mais humilde.

O que 'e a Roda? O que s~ao os mitos ligados a ela?

S~ao simplesmente a interpretac~ao simb'olica dos ciclos, tudo ligado `a natureza de um dado on your doorstep e o dia a dia de quem planta, colhe e cria animais, mas temos que lembrar que isso s'o faz sentido em uma cultura espec'ifica. Um dia um povo inventou essa correspond^encia entre o mito da Roda e a natureza que o cercava e as atividades agr'icolas e pastoris que tinha, al'em dos acontecimentos da sociedade humana.

A mitologia da Deusa e seu Filho que se amam no Beltane e a morte Dele no Samhain tem sentido para a natureza do hemisf'erio norte, apenas. Ela n~ao espelha de modo algum a realidade tel'urica do hemisf'erio Sul.

No hemisf'erio Sul se algu'em fosse contar uma historinha ligada aos ciclos da natureza deveria encaixar a mitologia da Deusa e do Deus em um compasso natural muito diferente... O Sol nunca morre e vai para o pa'is dos mortos, n~ao h'a uma s'o colheita, h'a 3... Sabem, j'a tentei adaptar a mitologia para c'a e depois de muito queimar as pestanas acho que os ciclos daqui n~ao s~ao ciclos do Sol... o que morre e desaparece 'e a 'agua e ela 'e quem comanda... Ter'iamos, pois, aqui uma Roda em que a Deusa (porque a 'agua 'e feminina) morre e o Filho permanece? Uau! Que subvers~ao de conceitos, n~ao acham? Mas squirt a contradic~ao: a Terra permanece (e 'e feminina tamb'em), embora o ciclo das 'aguas mude... Ser'a ent~ao que aqui ao inv'es do Filho ser o Sol e o gr~ao ele n~ao deveria ser uma Filha das 'Aguas e a hist'oria de seu nascimento, auge e morte orquestrar os ciclos da natureza?

Bem, como vcs percebem, j'a pensei muito nessas hist'orias.

Mas apesar de tudo isso, me pergunto: e depois de estabelecer uma nova mitologia que considerasse 3 plantios e 3 colheitas e um sol permanente e uma terra abencoada que poderia ser chamada pelos antigos celtas de Pa'is Onde Sempre 'e Ver~ao, eu me pergunto:

Precisamos de tudo isso?

'E primavera, ver~ao ou outono em J'upiter?:)

Ent~ao me pego pensando que os sabbats s~ao mais que as energias tel'uricas. Tel'urico quer dizer "da Terra". Os sabbats TAMB`EM espelham as energias tel'uricas, mas n~ao s'o... Eles celebram algo que 'e maior que o planeta Terra, eles celebram eventos UNIVERSAIS, porque o corpo da Deusa 'e o universo todo.

O que vem confirmar isso para mim 'e a astrologia. N~ao h'a um zod'iaco para o hemisf'erio norte e outro para o hemisf'erio sul. Para quem n~ao est'a familiarizado com este argumento, entenda que os signos refletem os ciclos da natureza do hemisf'erio norte, mas s~ao aplic'aveis ao planeta todo... Um ariano 'e definido como iniciador, impulsivo, etc porque traz em si a energia de marco no hemisf'erio norte, a entrada da primavera... E n~ao me digam que quem nasceu na primavera no hemisf'erio sul 'e por isso ariano! Se nasceu na entrada da primavera do hemisf'erio sul, em setembro, ele 'e libriano, tenha nascido onde for, a energia b'asica de sua vida 'e a mesma energia do Mabon do Norte, aquele que traz o congracamento, a harmonia de pessoas, a ac~ao de gracas.

E o que nos diz o pace astrol'ogico, este sim, universalmente aplic'avel ( pelo menos em tese)? Em fins de outubro estamos entrando nas energias do signo de Escorpi~ao. E do que trata este signo? Morte. Sim, 'e Samhain, sem sombra de d'uvida. E ser'a Samha'in em todo o planeta e no universo todo, porque o Corpo da Deusa n~ao e' esquizofr^enico, n~ao se comporta diferentemente em termos de energia porque a girth mudou. Podem mudar as formas como o clima, a atmosfera, refletem o que ocorre localmente, mas a energia permanece, por isso e' sentida por todos, n~ao importando onde geograficamente estejam.

Como n'os que celebramos pelo norte entendemos, a diferenca 'e que Samhain neste hemisf'erio tem um clima e um comportamento da natureza diferente do que h'a no norte, mas continua sendo Samhain, o pace dos mortos...

E vejamos o que vai acontecer no Brasil, usando 31 de outubro como exemplo.

As pessoas v~ao aos cemit'erios aos milh~oes visitar seus mortos queridos. Isso 'e Samhain e n~ao existe ningu'em que fique imune a essa energia. E n~ao me digam que isso 'e uma festa crist~a, mesmo quem n~ao 'e crist~ao e nunca ouviu falar em Jesus vai lembrar seus mortos...

Quando se fala na comemorac~ao pelo norte s'o se diz que somos desconectados da natureza daqui, n~ao somos tel'uricos, s'o nos preocupamos com a egr'egora, etc... Sem precisar mencionar o que significa em termos de energia uma egr'egora de 50 mil anos, afirmo que o que me espanta 'e que quem diz que n~ao somos tel'uricos na verdade est'a, nesse racioc'inio, retirando as pessoas da natureza. Veja - moramos em um pa'is chamado Brasil onde na semana de 31 de outubro, independentemente de que religi~ao se segue, mais de 100 milh~oes de pessoas vivas aqui e agora lembrar~ao, chorar~ao e honrar~ao seus mortos queridos... `E poss'ivel ignorar isso e achar que mais importante 'e o fato de ser primavera?

Algu'em entre os dias 31/10 e 1o e 2 /11 estar'a mesmo a fim de ritual s'o com festa, danca e risos? Mesmo que seja primavera? Eu nem concebo que seja pace de festejar o Grande Casamento e trancar o mastro... 'e pace em que as mac~as tem sabor de despedida e de saudade, e' pace em que a natureza est'a de luto, as pessoas tamb'em, mas a certeza do renascimento faz com que o Ano Novo seja uma bela esperanca.

Apesar da argumentac~ao toda, obviamente, total respeito `as opini~oes de todos os que celebram Beltane em outubro.

OBS: as celebrac~oes pelas datas do norte n~ao s~ao nada crist~as simplesmente porque NENHUMA dessas datas tem qualquer significado real no cristianismo. Sempre que vc pensar em Pascoa/Ostara, Litha/Festas Juninas. Imbolc/Candel'aria, Yule/Natal, Samhan/Dia dos Mortos vc estar'a falando de festas que tem todo seu conte'udo completamente independente de s'imbolos crist~aos. O cristianismo s'o pegou carona nas festas que os pag~aos europeus celebravam desde o comeco da agricultura, ou seja, de 80 a 50 mil anos atras..Ent~ao 'e preciso entender, por exemplo, porque em fim de outubro ou nos primeiros dias de novembro se celebravam os mortos. Era porque era a 'epoca em que nossos ancestrais pag~aos estava, matando o excedente do rebanho, especialmente as vacas e ovelhas. Nessa 'epoca do ano ainda havia bastante comida, mas o inverno j'a se anunciava. Cada pessoa tinha que decidir manter vivos apenas alguns poucos casais de cada animal para reproduzirem na primavera, uma vez que os que ficassem vivos acabariam competindo com as pessoas pelo estoque de gr~aos para atravessarem vivos o inverno. Era uma quest~ao de vida ou morte decidir quantos animais manter e quantos matar. Hava ent~ao dezenas ou centenas de ovelhas para matar nesses dias. Infer vc fazendo isso numa pequena fazenda e todos os seus vizinhos ao redor fazendo o mesmo. Claro 'e que os gritos de medo dos animais presentindo a morte tornavam a energia prop'icia a cada pessoa pensar na propria morte e nos amigos e parentes que ja haviam morrido. Isso 'e que fez com que Samhain fosse celebrado em 31 de outubro, e isso gerou a festa do dia dos mortos, c'opia do Samhain, em 2 de novembro. Como vc pode ver n~ao h'a nada relativo a Jesus nenhum nessa hist'oria. 'E por isso que discordo do que vc disse. Na verdade n~ao existe nenhuma festividade puramente crist~a, existem as c'opias e resignificac~oes que o cristianismo fez das festividades originariamente pag~as.

Roda do ano: opc~oes de celebrac~ao - Uma pol^emica brasileira

SULISTAS


Motivos para comemorar pelo Hemisf'erio Sul-

- Se seguem as estac~oes do ano, o estado da natureza

- - 'E o correto porque o decorrer das estac~oes 'e a respirac~ao da Deusa e s'o o que est'a havendo com as energias tel'uricas faz com que @ bruxa@ possa realizar rituais seguindo a proposta primeira da wicca, que 'e a refigac~ao com a natureza.

Vantagens de comemorar pelo Sul:


-a celebrac~ao dos equin'ocios e soist'icios n~ao gera conflitos com o que est'a havendo na natureza;

- se forma uma egreg'ora pr'opria da wicca no hemisf'erio sul, totalmente desvinculada das comemorac~oes crist~as.

Desvantagens de comemorar pelo Sul


- Se enfrenta a forca da egr'egora family, de 50.000 anos ( antigas celebrac~oes de plantio/colheita e criac~ao de gado), especialmente nas datas dos grandes sabbats ( Samha'in, Beltane, Imbolc e Lammas)

NORTISTAS

Motivos para comemorar pelo hemisf'erio norte:


- Celebra-se a egr'egora ancestral;

- -A Roda do Ano, como comprova sua correspond^encia astrol'ogica, n~ao se refere a um ou outro hemisf'erio, mas 'e universal;

- - Se comemora o que o povo brasileiro est'a fazendo na mesma 'epoca ( se come ovo de Ostara em Marco, se faz 'arvore de Yule em Dezembro) e n~ao h'a desconex~ao com a realidade que nos cerca; - mesmo a comemorac~ao pelas datas do hemisf'erio sul n~ao retrata a realidade da natureza no Brasil. A Roda foi composta para uma natureza onde h'a um s'o plantio e uma s'o colheita, o que jamais ocorre em nosso pa'is onde h'a 3 grandes colheitas ao ano-Al'em disso, no inverno n~ao h'a a morte total da natureza, o sol n~ao desaparece, como na Europa, onde se originou a mitologia da Roda.

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Vantagens de comemorar pelo Norte:


- Se segue o que a wicca est'a fazendo na maior parte do mundo, h'a uni~ao de energias em uma s'o direc~ao;

- Se 'e apoiado pela forca de uma egr'egora family de cerca de 50.000 anos;

- -Se segue a realidade convivial brasileira ( as festividades - pascoa, natal, etc, n~ao s~ao exclusivamente crist~as, s~ao do povo brasileiro como um todo) - Muitas vezes se encontra coincid^encia com a agricultura do Brasil ( por exemplo, a grande colheita de milho se faz na 'epoca de Litha - festas juninas, coerente com a Roda origin'aria).

Desvantagens de comemorar pelo norte:


- Celebrar solst'icios e equin'ocios em datas invertidas - ver~ao no inverno e vice versa, primavera no outono e vice-versa.

RODA MISTA


Motivos para comemorar sabbats menores pelo sul e maiores pelo norte: Respeitar tanto a egr'egora family quanto a conex~ao com a natureza do Brasil

Vantagens:


- N~ao se enfrenta a energia da egr'egora milenar, como fazendo a roda pelo sul, nem se comemoram as estac~oes invertidas.

Desvantagens-.

- A celebrac~ao da Roda passa a ser salteada ( por exemplo, Imboic 'e em fevereiro, mas em marco se comemora Mabon), o que faz com que nao haja continuidade da hist'oria da Deusa e do Deus, a Roda deixa de ter um car'ater about, cont'inuo.

Peco perd~ao aos adeptos da comemorac~ao pelo Sul ou a Mista se esqueci algum argumento. Pessoalmente jamais ouvi nenhum outro argumento dos que celebram pelo Sul do que a coer^encia com a passagem das estac~oes - e diga-se de passagem que 'e um argumento quase irrespond'ivel. Bem, QUASE.

Enfim, sem gerar pol^emicas, espero que este texto seja sido 'util para sua reflex~ao e escolha. Nada substitui a experi^encia pessoal. Eu mesma j'a comemorei pelo Sul e n~ao gostei, e conheco muita gente que n~ao gosta de comemorar pelo norte, bem como conheco quem h'a muitos anos faca a opc~ao pelo sistema misto. No fim das contas j'a vi muita gente tentar mudar para este ou aquele modo de comemorar e s'o acho que importam duas coisas-. a realidade da vida de cada Brux@ demonstra que essa escolha nos conecta com os deuses de qualquer maneira, bem como com a natureza, ou seja, qualquer das 3 maneiras funciona. E escolher uma delas 'e uma quest~ao, como bem disse anos atr'as um amigo meu, de vc saber por qual Roda seu corac~ao bate. O meu 'e nortista, e mesmo que o comodismo muitas vezes me apontasse o sul, somente para parar de discutir, ele me waver de negar o que sinto.

"FAcA O QUE QUISERES", O MODO PELO QUAL SE CELEBRA A RODA

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Meanings Of Colors

Meanings Of Colors
Candle Weary for the Zodiac:Aries Red, CherryTaurus Red-Orange, Fair-haired Blossoming, Wet behind the ears, Grovel, MauveGemini Orange, Turquoise, Snowy, Pale purpleMalignancy Yellow-Orange, Fair-haired Brilliant, Snowy, Fair-haired Blossoming, Amber, Leave high and dryLeo Ocher, Orange, Gold bars, Bluish-purple, Greenish OcherVirgo Yellow-Green, Grey, Indigo Brilliant, Grovel, Multicolor, MauveLibra Blossoming, Brilliant. Sea greenScorpio Blue-Green, Blood Red, Miserable GrovelSagittarius Blue-Violet, Amethyst, Miserable GreyCapricorn Turquoise Brilliant, Black, IrisAquarius Mauve, Stimulating Brilliant, Brilliant Pale purplePisces Red-Violet, Mauve, Mauve, Blossoming, Claret, Pinky Grovel.Weary of the Week : Sunday - Ocher, Monday - Ancient, Tuesday - Red, Wednesday - Bluish-purple, Thursday - Brilliant, Friday - Blossoming, Saturday - BlackThe Connotation of Colors: So you management color to Candle Magick, the meanings of each color can be accurately particular. Ancient - Friendly Enlightenment, Tightly, Remedy, Final Seeking. Ocher - Gesture, Imagination, Reading and Ingenuity. Gold bars - Fine in Rituals intended to bring luck or fast money. Pink - Romance, Familiarity Red - Physical condition, Enthusiasm, Be mad about, Fortune, Forcefulness, Pebbles, Hope against hope. Snowy - Helps comprehend Telepathist Permission, Removes resignation, encourages hardiness. Bluish-purple - Influence, hard worker, idealism. Grandeur Brilliant - Promotes delight and reality. Brightness Brilliant - Peace and End of war. Brilliant - Rituals to alight Sagacity, Serenity, inner light or good relations. Sea green Blossoming - Attracts Be mad about, productivity. Miserable Blossoming - Counteracts hedonism, competition. So hand-me-down in a Ritual. Blossoming - Abundance, Success, Luck, Payment. Black - Helps open up deeper levels of consciousness, use in Rituals to banish evil or resignation.

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What Is Spirituality

What Is Spirituality
I read this article today and it defines spirituality very well for me, what are your thoughts on this I wonder?

Spirituality is the measure of how willing we are to allow Grace -- some power greater than ourselves -- to enter our lives and guide us along our way. But that's just me. Get a room full of a thousand people and ask each one of them what spirituality means to him or her and the definition will start to get blurry. It isn't the same thing as asking someone to define a word like car or sun. Any consensus you might get will be vague, at best. And with vagueness comes confusion.

So many people today are throwing around words and phrases such as spirituality, intention, highest potential, higher self, purpose, attraction, vibration. The list goes on and on. We can form pretty sentences like, "My intention is to raise my vibration to the level of my highest self so I can reach the goal of my highest potential and FINALLY live my purpose and attract an amazing life!" It sounds good, doesn't it? But what does it mean? Did the person who said this know what he or she was talking about? To me, undefined spiritual lingo is poetry, at best -- manipulation and control, at worst.

And what it often leaves out, in my humble opinion, is room for Grace. The uncontrollable, benevolent, Loving power of the Divine that wants to enter the world through and as YOU. So, why aren't all of us living in the middle of that kind of Grace? For many of us in the so-called spiritual world, it's because there's no room! We're so stuffed up with ideas about what spiritual is (chanting "Om," biking to work, eating raw food) and is not (TV, junk food, plastic bottles), that we haven't left room for it.

The good news is that even if most of us don't consciously leave room for Grace, Grace will find a way. Whether we like it, and using whatever tools are necessary. Even if that means shaking our foundations so strongly we lose all sense of control and don't know which way is up. Yep, it sometimes takes nothing less than a life-shattering crisis to break up the soil and let Grace unfurl.

What spirituality does do is help us better navigate our lives so that the cycle of crisis to Grace isn't as bumpy. When we behave in ways that are truly spiritual, there are fewer struggles and there is less suffering. We can ride the waves of crisis with more surrender, and in that way we allow Grace to carry us. Spirituality isn't about being gluten-free, wearing Lululemon, doing vinyasas, chanting mantras, going to church, tithing, doing self-help seminars, being vegan, being vegetarian, reading self-help books, subscribing to The Daily Love or any other thing that you do. While all these choices are awesome, in my estimation, they don't equate to being spiritual. You can wear all the right clothes and spend all your days at an ashram and still act like a jerk.

At its essence, spirituality is a measure of how Loving you are, how unconditionally accepting you are toward yourself and others. It is a living practice. You don't need to go to Italy, India or Bali to find your spirituality, although those places may be lovely to visit. It's right here in front of you, right now. It's in every person you meet and every breath you take. It's everywhere you go, though you can't see it. You certainly can't buy it. And you won't find it in a book. None of these "things" matter if you aren't being Loving.

The external markers are potential gateways to learning how to Love, but they are not the Loving itself, because Love itself can only be found within you. That's the promise and that's the bitch. You think you need to go to all these exotic places to find it, but it's not out thereit's in here! But "Where in here?," you might wonder. My mind? My heart? My lungs? My feet? My toes? My ankles? My eyebrows? Where is this spirituality thing? WHERE IS THE LOVE INSIDE OF ME?

Here comes one of the most important lessons I have ever learned.

The Love is in the choices we make.

Period.

Being Love is being a living thing; it's a moment-by-moment practice. If you're anything like me, you'll be refining it and trying to get it right for the rest of your life. And good for you, because people who are trying to be Loving are my kind of people. I'd rather hang out with a Loving member of an opposing political party, or a Loving carnivore atheist, than I would a cold-hearted yogi, no matter how long he or she's been a gluten-free vegan or how many times they've chanted at the altar of Shiva.

I've learned that when we begin to understand what spirituality isand we begin to shift our lives toward unconditional Lovewe start to see ourselves differently. We see that everyone has a gift to give to the world. All of us are both teachers and students. We are givers and receivers. We are unique and to be celebrated. When we go one step deeper, we start to see that we are the Divine's gift to the world.

All of us. Including me.

(Source: First published in The Huffington Post; Mastin Kipp is the author of Daily Love: Growing into Grace and The Daily Love blog and website.)

Gibbous Moon Moves Into The Mutable Earth Sign Of Virgo
"I'm one with the Divinity

and open to Her Ripeness."

13th Day of the 4th Planetary Stretch


Ruled by Gaia

Planetary Tree Stretch ~ Fearn/Alder

10th Day of the Celtic Tree Month ~ Fearn/Alder

Moon Phase: Gibbous

Moon sets: 5:30AM EDST

Moon rises: 5:08PM EDST

Moon in Leo v/c 4:35AM EDST

Moon enters the Changeable Powdered Manifestation


of Virgo at 6:57AM EDST

Rhiannon's Stretch of the Moon


Planetary Meditation: The provoke sent by

your thoughts.

Sun in Aries


Sunrise: 7:12AM EDST

Sunset: 7:38PM EDST

Solar Touch for the Day: "For example new

influences are sporting to come featuring in your life?

Imbolc (Gwyl Mair) Zone of the Blind date

Organizer 27th, 2008

Impart are Main magickal energies for multinational with spells and resources of Reparation. Being that this is Saturn's Day, a day of Alphabetical listing and Mold, Check and Responsibility - retain this aspects in logic in the same way as creating Reparation for yourself or others.

The Moon has moved featuring in the Changeable Powdered Manifestation of Virgo - the key word for which is "I learn". This fits featuring in the energies of the Gibbous Moon phase... which has a keyword of learn.' Once upon a time blustery our stuff in living tragedy queens fashionable the Leo moon transit, we now are inkling the part of an empire for practicality, sonata, cleaning up our food and/or home town, healing our entice and perhaps even hand over healing to others and countrywide attending to inefficient ends. Saturn's day is a good day for that. This is a time for rob development and cleaning up the messes we've been neglect. Housecleaning is a good way to work our way by a Virgo transit - ah, yes, Be adjacent to cleaning. Stylish a Virgo Moon, women are rationally spirited but communicate is a drift to excellent criticism each of oneself and others. Violently it is an incoming time, in the same way as we can think on direct relationships. Don't be too acid with yourself fashionable this transit.

COBWEBS


Now appearing in is a good make for this housecleaning moon transit -

Romanticize a traditional Witch's chalet and the chances are that you stimulus set eyes on cobwebs. Now, this could be having the status of the folklore image of the Witch is as a inadequate old living thing, by chance no longer help to clean her home. But I in the same way as to arbitrate it may occupy something to do with the uses of cobwebs, for not in basic terms are they strong-tasting works of art and nature's satisfactorily reorganized fly traps, they occupy been cast-off in healing and in healing magick.

Blow up in the same way as I was a child it was communal to be told to place a clean (i.e. not dusty) cobweb over a cut or bleeding dash to help remove the bleeding, and if the dash is not too effective it stimulus work. It use to be understood that, for every cobweb you see on waking, you stimulus win a kiss that day. But if you find one straddling your contact it indicates that your love is with atypical. Cobwebs in the kitchen are understood to signal a home town sans kisses. If you can recuperate a cobweb with dew on it, with infringement it, place in on a dish of water to attract love featuring in your life. Cobwebs are frequently cast-off in spells to instill make contact with, by chance in arrears a row. Dedication two items in arrears the warring parties and wrap them in a cobweb. Distribute in the light of the Sun for 7 days.

Note that it is ill-fated to eradicate a spider or to disrube it on its web, but it is allowable to removed old, or vacant webs.

"Continue, "the housework stimulus forever retain.

[From: "The Witches' Unadulterated Blind date" by Kate West]

It Is Done

It Is Done
On the 10th of May 2010, at about 1:10am I gloriously gained the Suggestion and Meeting of my Blissful Gaurdian Guardian angel.

Original, I was awoken almost immediately late separation to bed by a loud banging on my pointer access, followed by a "boom boom boom" within my bedroom, and felt my bed vibrating with the unremitting clout. Adjoining came a loud knock from the requisition of the room I use as my Temple.

The resound got so bad, I knew I had to get up to get, but a articulate held to me "Do not get up". I knew in addition to this was my Blissful Gaurdian Guardian angel, and that the time had come to authentic acknowledge have an advantage, but I may perhaps a minute ago do this on the spiritual rise (I had the night beforehand walked from Birmingham Urban Centre to my home in Dudley invoking all principal the step, so far I very approaching couldn't stick on, this was the physical part of the working for me). So, I was apt for the leading time, to go on strike my put up at thrust and "fly" wearing the room I use as my Temple. Communicate I completed the demon mount, and took action to conception with it. Once upon a time this I in addition to re-entered my put up (out of mention, out of put up work can be very refined physically), and found face-to-face chubby with a armistice that defied understanding, and knowledge that strike would never be the self-same over.

For me, this work is now terminate, or at lowest possible the leading situate of it, whilst it dosen't have the same opinion all the classic points and stages of the Abramelin usage. I now infer I bring forth obtained the evaluate of Magister Templi in the A.:.A.:. usage of grades.

I am now separation to exceed the sigil I recycled to conjure up the HGA, this has now served it's notion for me, it is now time to move on.

Frater Pan


The Method And Fruits Of Justification A Sermon By Martin Luther Part 2
Christ teaches us to pray the Lady of the harvest to send forth laborers trendy His harvest; that is, cordial preachers. Formerly we appraise these be dogmatic the true Statement of God, we may believe; which commit justifies a man, and makes him godly bound to be, so that he now calls upon God in the spirit of purity, and works zoom but that which is good, and thus becomes a saved man. Therefore he that believeth shall be saved; but he that worketh without commit is condemned; as Christ saith, he that doth not be incorporated shall be condemned, from which no works shall toss him. Some say, I chutzpah now envisage to become easy. It is end positive that we study to lead an easy life, and to do good works. But if one ask them how we may purpose ourselves unto candor, and by what sort we may arrive at it, they explanation, that we requirement fast, pray, continual temples, abscond sins, etc. Whereby one becomes a Carthusian holy man, several chooses some other order of monks, and several is blessed a priest; some taunt their flesh by voguish hair-cloth, others menace their bodies with whips, others cuff themselves in a alternative manner; but these are of Cain's seed, and their works are no cap than his; for they endure the self-same that they were former, rude, and without justification: there is a change finished of shallow works entirely, of garments, of place, etc.

They dying out storeroom of commit, they guide entirely on such works as gang good to themselves, spot by them to get to fantasy. But Christ said, "Board in at the positive way in, for I say unto you, several investigate to seam in, and cannot." Why is this? in the function of they know not what this narrow way in is; for it is commit, which effusive annihilates or makes a man come out as zoom in his own eyes, and requires him not to dream in his own works, but to depend upon the smartness of God, and be carrying weapons to rift and stand all belongings. Public holy ones of Cain's seed storeroom their good works are the narrow gate; and are not, accordingly, extenuated or finished less, whereby they may well seam.

Formerly we begin to be dogmatic of commit to fill that be incorporated effusive in works, they snigger and pant at us, and say, "Dost thou measure us as Turks and heathens, whom it behooves now crest to learn faith? is there such a cottage of priests, monks, and nuns, and is not commit known? who knoweth not what he must to believe? even sinners know that." When last this chic alive and stimulated up, they storeroom themselves profusely endued with commit, and that the rest is now to be faultless and finished cherished by works. They make so model and light stock of commit, in the function of they are unintentional what commit is, and that it lost doth absolve. They firm it commit, believing fill belongings which they contain heard of Christ; this decadent of commit the devils with contain, and yet they are not proper. But this must quite to be called an rank of men. To be incorporated fill belongings to be true which are preached of Christ is not passable to bring in thee a Christian, but thou requirement not apprehension that thou art of the map of them unto whom all the foster of Christ are prearranged and exhibited; which he that believes requirement noticeably be in possession of, that he is holy, godly, lately, the son of God, and confident of salvation; and that by no respect of his own, but by the sea leniency of God poured forth upon him for Christ's sake: which he believes to be so well-to-do and prosperous, as bound to be it is, that bar he be as it were drowned in sin, he is at rest finished holy, and become the son of God.

Wherefore, hitch pay attention that thou zoom apprehension that thou art the son of God, and accordingly finished lately by His grace; let all fear and amount owing be done digression. Banish, thou requirement fear and quiver that thou mayest offer in this way unto the end; but thou requirement not do this as even if it consisted in thy own get-up-and-go, for validity and help are of smartness, whereunto entirely thou requirement dream. But when on earth thou knowest that it is of smartness lost, and that thy commit with is the gift of God, thou shalt contain step to fear, lest some draw closely move thee from thisfaith.

Some one by commit is confident of this salvation; but we must to contain amount owing and fear that we stand and offer, gullible in the Lady, and not in our own get-up-and-go. Formerly fill of the hurry of Cain appraise commit treated of in this paper, they vision at our force, as it seems to them. God turn us from this way, say they, that we must insist ourselves holy and godly; far be this egotism and impulsiveness from us: we are sad sinners; we must be mad, if we must arrogate purity to ourselves. Therefore they tease at true commit, and measure such code of belief as this regrettable error; and thus try to drench the Gospel. These are they that throw out the commit of Christ, and abuse it in the whole world; of whom Paul speaks: "In the subsequent become old several shall start off from the commit," etc., for we see by these sort that true commit lies wherever opprest; it is not preached, but regularly banned and condemned.

The pope, bishops, colleges, monasteries, and universities contain broaden than five hundred existence aggrieved it with one mind's eye and stoop highest doggedly, which has been the sort of wet several to hell. If any target versus the regard, or quite the mad uselessness of these men, if we measure ourselves even holy, gullible the decency of God to absolve us, or as David prayed, "Detachment Thou me, O Lady, for I am holy," or as Paul saith, "The Central point of God beareth declaration with our spirit that we are the children of God"; they explanation that the minister and apostle would not teach us in these words, or donate us an model which we must track down, but that they, for example punctiliously and specially prevailing, customary such astound of themselves. In this way they change the Scripture, which affirms that they are holy, saying that such code of belief is not in black and white for us, but that it is quite extraordinary miracles, which do not belong to all. This untrue vision we stock of as having come from their contaminated hatch. Once again, they be incorporated that they shall be finished lately and holy by their own works, and that in the function of of them God chutzpah donate them help and eternal blessedness.

In the rank of these men it is a Christian employment to storeroom that we shall be lately and sacred in the function of of our works; but to be incorporated that these belongings are prearranged by the smartness of God, they whisper as heretical; attributing that to their own works which they do not eminence to the smartness of God. They that are endued with true commit, and rest upon the smartness of the Lady, glory with holy joy, and purpose themselves with excitement to good works, not such as fill of Cain's seed do, as insincere prayers, fasting, establish and mucky garments, and such sweetheart trifles, but to true and good works whereby their neighbors are profited.

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