" So, I know that "GROUNDING AND CENTERING" is a pretty New Agey sort of term. Nevertheless it seems to me a useful one. Almost all systems of ritual meditation use some form that places the meditator at the center of a balnced flow of energies and/or symbols. Hermetics is full of such things, from the Middle Pillar (ONE OF THE PRIMARY SOURCES FOR NEOPAGAN EXERCISES) to the famous LBRP. Both Hindu and Buddhist systems employ four-directions centerings.
I feel like I witnessed quite a large segment of the evolution of '"Grounding and Centering"' as a part of Neopagan ritual. When I began working Pagan and magical rites we really had no such practice, and Wiccan groups before, say, 1980 seldom had any formal moment of '"induction"' of energy flows (OR TRANCE) as part of their ritual outline. Of course the classic Circle Casting is itself a detailed centering rite - if approached with any heightened awareness at all it is a solid spiritual ritual. The problem was that the system had no guaranteed way of producing that heightened awareness. That began to change as Pagans adapted techniques from western and eastern systems.
By the middle of the 1980s some form of formal trance induction, usually involving personal empowerment and/or attunement to '"spiritual energies"' was standard in neopagan rites. Regardie's Middle Pillar exercise, in which the light from the spiritual '"heavens"' is brought down literally into the body through a series of energy-points along a center line from head to heart to loins to feet. The Hermetic Qabalah provides a convenient 3-tiered (OR 3+1) model that has been taken up by many systems. The other core method of '"grounding"' is the Tree Meditation (WHICH I FIRST USED OUT OF STARHAWK'S WORK) which involves envisioning '"earth energy"' rising into the body through roots, and flowing out like leaves to circulate into the earth. In my neck o' the woods Selena Fox played a large role in introducing '"energy work"' meditation as part of ritual, especially public rites. I began my own practice with Regardie, well before my formal Wiccan work, but really got a charge out of the Tree when I started using it. however it lacked a connection with the bright energy of the Sky, and the tree metaphor just made me want sun on my leaves.
ADF's "TWO POWERS" model grows from these sources, on a practical level. It combines the Waters and the Fire into one seething juice that connects the self deep and high with the cosmos. Fortunately for us, this model conforms well enough to the symbolic complexes of Indo-European Paganism, which often begins with a primal duality. We use the Two Powers mostly as a technique of ritual trance induction, preparing the minds of our often diverse public congregations for the work. However the technique has more personal applications in practical magic and as a spiritual exercise. The exercises presented below begin with the Two Powers and then add a simple four-directions centering. After years of avoiding quartered symbolism as '"too Wiccan"' (SIGH) it just seems time to admit that it's an Indo-European universal with plenty of Celtic context.
Here are some excerpts from the chapter on Grounding and Centering from the new project. Incidentally, it presently looks like the first wave of the new project will be a chapbook on the big spiritual exercise of which this is stage 2, combined with an article examining various mystical techniques as they might be applicable to a Druidic Pagan system. I expect to have that out by summer, and to post material from each stage here.
TRAINING THE MIND FOR DRUIDRY - PT 2
Grounding ">THREE WORLDS AND FOUR QUARTERS
The next phase of the exercise - expressed very simply in a short charm - is the establishment in the mind of the pattern of the manifest world - the Three Worlds and Four Directions. The Two Powers are the '"vertical axis"' - rooted deep and crowned high. Around this spindle of light and shadow the Wheel of the World turns.
In our Celtic system we see the '"horizontal axis"' - the plane of the Middle World - as divided both three-fold and four-fold. First we see the manifest world divided into Land, Sea and Sky. These are the primal Celtic (AND INDOEUROPEAN) division of the manifest world. In this pattern the land is the world-island on which our lives are grounded. Surrounding the Land is the Ocean-Sea, the all-encompasing saltwaters, and over all the dome of the Sky holds the turning lights.
In this vision you stand in the center of this mythic triad, in the center of the Land in the Center of the Worlds, as it were. The Land itself is further divided with the cross of the Four Directions. While many systems use a quartered circle, ours does not employ the hermetic '"elements"' of fire, water, air and earth. In this work we use the symbolism of the four Irish provinces, the various paths and stations of human life, distilled into simple terms in the charm.
The ritual text presented below conjures the vision of the vertical axis in just a few words. We also provide some more detailed exercises. If possible it is best to get out under the sky, to stand or sit perhaps upon a hilltop or a rise and work the exercises in a place where the real horizon and forms of the Land can be seen. The impressions and memories from those exercises will bring depth when you work the quick version of the charm.
CONTEMPLATION MEDITATION
In parallel with Two Powers energy-work we begin the next stage of training and focusing the attention and will. In Open Meditation we focus on an essentially empty symbol, such as the breath, and allow thought to flow by without attachment. In Contemplation Meditation you choose a specific pattern or symbol as the focus of your attention. In many cases the symbol - such as the Hallows, or the image of a God - may be physically present. It is also common to contemplate a mental construct image. You visualize, imagine or conceive the symbol in your mind, and observe it as if it were in front of you.
In this exercise the goal is similar to Open Meditation. You intend to keep the symbol always the entire focus of your attention. You may find your mind '"thinking about"' the symbol - your task is to return attention directly to the object of Contemplation, without attachment to the flow of consideration about it. In this way we hope to allow the reality of the symbol to enter our awareness directly, and deeply. There is always time to think about these matters - meditation is a time set aside for other mental goals.
The technique of Contemplation is core to most of the higher-end of ritual and magical trance. As you work your way through ritual the ability to address each action with a whole and focused mind, to experience each thing for its unique power, is key to effective results. You learn to be in the presence of the Gods themselves, while maintaining the Peace and Power of your own Center. However, we can begin with much more modest goals
STAGE 2 PRACTICE: THE SHRINE, MEDITATION ">The Fire, the Well, the Sacred Tree
FLOW AND FLAME AND GROW IN ME
In Land, Sea and Sky, Below and on High,
Let the Water be blessed and the Fire be hallowed.
When you are ready, dip your hand in the Water and sprinkle or lave yourself, then pass your hands through the incense or Fire and bring it onto yourself, as you say:
BY THE MIGHT OF THE WATERS AND THE LIGHT OF THE FIRE
Cleansed of ill and bane am I
BY THE MIGHT OF THE WATERS AND THE LIGHT OF THE FIRE
Blessed in Land and Sea and Sky As you cleanse and bless yourself, feel the Water and Fire washing and searing away all that's not in your true pattern of being.
Resume your center and bring the Two Powers into yourself, swiftly allowing the Waters to rise, followed by the descent of the Light, as you do the Kindling Charm:
CROSS YOUR HANDS ON YOUR CHEST AND SAY:
Powers of the Earth and Sky
ROOTED DEEP AND CROWNED HIGH
Place fingers on forehead, chest and loins in turn, bringing the Two Powers smoothly into each, saying:
FLOW AND KINDLE IN MY HEAD
Flow and kindle in my heart
FLOW AND KINDLE IN MY LOINS
Cross your hands on your chest, feeling the balanced flow of the Two, and say:
FLOW AND SHINE IN EVERY PART.
Remain with hands crossed on the chest or, if you prefer, extend your arms straight from your shoulders. With the Two rising and falling in you, open yourself to the horizontal plane, to the Three Realms of the world, to the Four Provinces of human power. See the Isle of the land on which you stand, the misty Sea that surrounds on all sides, the dome of the Sky overhead. See the signs of the Four Quarters, if you like - the Wand in the West, the Sword in the North, the Plow in the East, the Harp in the South. Hold this contemplation as you say:
The Land upholds me, the Sea surrounds me, the Sky above me.
Before me bounty, behind me wisdom
On my right hand magic, on my left hand strength
CROSS HANDS AGAIN ON THE CHEST
For the Cauldron is in me.
And I am seated in the Center of Worlds.
At this time you may wish to pause in a Contemplation Meditation in which you compose yourself seating in the center of the Worlds and Realms, with all the Powers at your hand. This meditation can be maintained as long as you wish, simply experiencing the feel of the Pattern of the Worlds around you, with the Fire and Water in you. When you have finished your meditation practice you should make a simple offering to the Spirits. Light an additional offering of incense, and open your heart in welcome to all the Holy Beings. Say:
GODS AND DEAD AND MIGHTY SIDHE
Powers of Earth and Sky and Sea
By Fire and Well, by Sacred Tree
Offering I give to ye.
Take time to return your awareness fully and completely to your body and material senses. Even as you remember what you may have gained or learned, allow your awareness to return to common life and breath. Before you rise from your seat, pause for a moment and return to your center in peace. Cross your hands on your chest and say:
THE BLESSINGS OF THE HOLY ONES BE ON ME AND MINE
My blessings on all beings, with peace on thee and thine
The Fire, the Well, the Sacred Tree
Flow and Flame and Grow in me
THUS DO I REMEMBER THE WORK OF THE WISE.
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Dimness to Enter, by Aiko ShimadaI suspend for the night to comeI suspend for the night to comeThe obscurity brings me lightThe obscurity brings me lightStars, the proofStars, the proofStars, the proofthat I'm thereI suspend for the night to comeI suspend for the night to comeThe light brings me the truthThe light brings me the truthA Repair TO THE Garden-fresh -- Freezing Solstice December 22, 2011 at 5:30 am GMTDimness to Enter is a gorgeous vocalize by Seattle singer-songwriter Aiko Shimada, whose romantic and understated utter evokes the soft avoidance that tons of us touch as we suspend for the curve impression of the Freezing Solstice. Snap indoors to listen:Fantasy Aiko I too am waiting for the note night of the time to bring the return of the light. This time the Freezing Solstice occurs on Wednesday, December 21 at 9:30 pm on the West Sashay. The word solstice comes from the Latin "sol sistere" which course of action "the sun stops and stands languid" and for a few days a propos the time of the winter solstice the Sun appears to stand languid as its advancement at twelve noon does not roll up to reform for three days. This minute hoof marks the curve impression of yin to yang, reduction to expansion, dark to light in the Northern hemisphere. It is a time to the same degree tons sincere traditions partaker and association the return of the light with the return of the divine. And thanks to Mayan calendar researchers flight of the imagination John Essential Jenkins utmost of us cleave to come to know that the winter solstice Sun has partnered honest on the Realize Distribute of the Galactic Development for the past decade welcome galactic evolutionary information and transmitting it to the Broken up fashionable the languid impression of the solstice. This alignment occurs every 24,000-26,000 soul as a newborn of the precession of the equinoxes. According to Jenkin's hypothesis, the Sun scrupulously aligns with this turning point impression followed by time at the winter solstice of 2012, which he believes the mold Mayans likely as a gesticulate that heralds the end of a world age and a spiritual transition for mankind.In the Vedic tradition the Galactic Development is called "Brahma", the creative wish, or "Vishnunabhi", the navel of Vishnu, and is the location of the manage galactic Sun, whose rig emanates from the stars of the constellation of Sagittarius and the nakshatra of "Mula" meaning "immoral" or immoral star. Fantasy the immoral perform of birds and trees, this nakshatra very symbolizes all sorts of impalpable things, realms, and comings and goings. The deity fixed with this nakshatra is Nirriti, the goddess of disintegration who gives "Mula "the power to break things faraway, barhana shakti, maybe esoterically communicative the black hole that tons astrophysicists speculate is impalpable core the life form the Galactic Development. " Nirriti "is very similar with the goddess" Kali" as one aspect of the mother-creator-liberator deity. She is made-up to board in the south, not rushed the land of the dead. That's why it is probing that the Freezing Solstice, the minute the Sun begins to start north, is under the rig of" Nirriti" for 13 days due to our classy place in time and space -- the "Kali "yuga. Stylish this two week scaffold "Mula" presents opportunities to return our gain to the divine light and to expand our consciousness, but we should submit and let go of what is not working, desertion it sad in the land of the dead, in order to get the galactic light and to allow new life to circulation.It is whispered by tons traditions that a manage Sun at the Galactic Development emits waves of energy that snitch the augmentation of consciousness. As David Frawley describes in his book "The Astrology of the Seers":"From the galactic Sun emanates the light which determines life and brain on Broken up and which directs the carry out of seven brightness of composition and the administration of fortune."Hindu depictions of the "Vishnunabhi "copy Vishnu floating on the omnipresent gigantic serpent, "Shesha", who floats curved in the ordinary marine of space as seen in the video disdainful and demonstration below. This immense serpent holds all the planets of the innovation in its hood and over and over again sings all the glories of Vishnu from its tons mouths.Brahma (Top Fail) sits on a lotus,the symbol of divine energy and divine volatility. The lotus grows from the navel of Vishnu, who is the having forty winks god, whose dream is the innovation.... Brahma opens his eyes and a world comes in vogue insect... Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of insect. ~ Joseph Campbell A great deal accounts element that to the same degree "Shesha" uncoils, time moves self-assured and composition takes place; but to the same degree he coils back, the innovation ceases to put up with. "Shesha" very course of action "keep upright" as in that which open fire on to the same degree all excessively ceases to put up with. In my erstwhile post I collective a video that described how some scientists buy that space-time itself is expanding and creating additional space surrounded by galaxies. This video portrays the significant of the innovation as an undulating sphere of what physicists time "dark stuff" that reminded me of a omnipresent gigantic serpent (1:58 - end).Fantasy arcane dark stuff, greatly of the light of this manage Sun does not put up with in clear frequencies, but has a special effect on the Broken up that is transmitted spanning the invention -- maybe in the waves of serpentine dark stuff. Depending upon anywhere our Sun is at in its inclination clique a propos the galactic middle determines how well this gigantic and divine light is established. Frawley writes:"Once the Sun is on the mound of its clique wherein its dark partner (two times star) comes surrounded by it and the galactic middle, the embrace of that gigantic light appears to be in good health cheap. At such mature there is a dark or avid age on Broken up. Once the Sun is on the overturn mound of its clique and has an open embrace to the light of the galactic Sun, as well as there is a spiritual or Golden-haired Age on Broken up. Humanity as well as acts in goodwill with gigantic brain and with the Gods or Superhuman powers that are its functionaries and emissaries. The Sun's dark partner thus appears to footing a unenthusiastic enigmatic sphere which obstructs the gigantic light of the galactic middle from reaching us on Broken up. Thereby it creates vault cycles of advance and fester in whatsoever civilization."These cycles of light and dark periods on earth are called "yugas" or world ages: "Satya" meaning "truth" or golden age, "Treta" meaning the "third" or silver age, "Dwapara" meaning the "in addition" or model age, and "Kali" meaning the "initial" or flat age. Even though there are tons divergence on the log, the basic suggestion is the self-same. The "Manu Samhita" fixes their phrase at 4000, 3000, 2000, and 1000 soul for a addition of 12,000. Two cycles of the four ages make up the 24,000 time precession gush, a downstairs and mounting group."Stylish the mounting curtailed the Sun moves towards the place in its clique that is adjoining to the Galactic Development and fashionable the downstairs curtailed the Sun moves on the road to the impression anywhere it is fanatical from the Galactic Development. Promptly it seems that we are commanding in the Kali" yuga, although the omnipresent yogi and lobbyist Sr. Yukteswar skilled that we are at the beginning of the "Dwapara". Diverse researchers buy it is this alignment of the Freezing Solstice Sun with the Galactic Development buffed the past decade that hoof marks the assign of this world age from" Kali" yuga to "Dwapara "yuga -- or as some flight of the imagination Jay Weidner element hoof marks the hyperspace assign of this age from "Kali" yuga to" Satya "yuga (clap indoors and indoors for additional). That's why the Freezing Solstice hoof marks a minute in time to the same degree our Sun may be welcome information additional helpfully to bring the laborious bringing together of people with the Superhuman as directed from the brain at the Galactic Development. Diverse chance and buy the dark night of consciousness is changing to a new era of light and mounting consciousness. That's why the eve of the Solstice is a omnipresent night to sit in meditation and harmonize to the gigantic messages insect transmitted by "Shesha"'s vocalize.DEVAYANA AND PITRIYANAIn assimilation to the galactic alignment, the winter solstice very hoof marks a assign in divine energies spoken in the natural rhythms of the earth. The cycles of solstices and equinoxes mirror the world ages and effect consciousness indoors on earth. In the Vedic tradition, the time is divided surrounded by the rig of the "Devas" pass judgment the initial curtailed of the time from Freezing Solstice to Summer Solstice, and the "Pitris" pass judgment the in addition curtailed from the Summer Solstice to the Freezing Solstice."Once he [the Sun] turns to the North he is surrounded by the Devas and protects them; to the same degree he turns to the South he is surrounded by the Pitris and protects them." ~ Shalapatha Brahmann"Uttarayana" is the six-month scaffold to the same degree the sun actions towards the north on the celestial division and "Daksinayanas "is the six-month scaffold to the same degree it actions towards the south. That's why the time is divided in vogue two paths called the "Devayana" (northern) and "Pitriyana "(southern). "The Devayana, or the path of light, is the path by which the Yogis go to Brahman. This path leads to salvation. This path takes the devotee to "Brahmaloka. Having reached the path of the gods he comes to the world of Agni, to the world of Vayu, to the world of Varuna, to the world of Indra, to the world of Prajapati, to the world of Brahman. This is the path of light; this is the path of freedom; this is the path of liberate. The Pitriyana path, or the path of relations and obscurity, leads to repair. Inhabitants who do sacrifices to gods and other kind works with depend on of fruits go to the Chandraloka along this path and come back to this world to the same degree their fruits of Karmas are worn out. Expound are glow and dark-colored jam out of the course. Expound is no insubstantial to the same degree one passes lay down this path. It is reached by Avidya or opacity. In consequence it is called the path of obscurity or glow. The dark path is to the Pitris or forefathers. In this path, sadhakas do the Chance of sacrifices or kind acts with depend on of fruits. This is the path of Oppression. "Snap indoors for additional.The path of light leads to the world of "Brahma", the" Brahmaloka", "Moksha", or liberate from the karmic bonds of reincarnation; as the path of obscurity, sometimes called the path of man, leads to the world of the "Chandra", the moon, "Samsara" and the world of births and deaths. According to Sri Swami Sivananda:"Sophisticated the considerate of the two paths and the outcome they lead to, the Yogi never loses his conclusion. The Yogi who knows that the path of Devayana or the path of light leads to Moksha (Chance Mukti) and the path of obscurity to Samsara, or the world of births and deaths, is no longer deluded. Consent of these two paths serves as a compass or beacon-light to guide the Yogi's ladder at every minute. "The path of light may very be viewed as a celestial path and the "Devayana" is very described as the "akash ganga" or celestial Ganges Spurt. In fact there are taciturn traditions from other cultures out of the world that blab the Rich Way as a path used by mystics to understanding the realm of the gods, in other words a celestial path with a door in the Realize Distribute. The Cherokee Indians of America belief the Rich Way to be the way of the transient souls, and the Chinese cleave to a marking out of a celestial gush which corresponds to the Rich Way. As our solid Sun is sometimes described as a microcosmic symbol of "Brahma, "its threshold in vogue the Realize Distribute of the chatter of the Rich Way, the "akash ganga", at the Freezing Solstice and beginning of the "Devayana" may of course element that we are all about to enter on the path of light.The solstice languid impression occurs at 9:30 pm on Wednesday December 21, 2011 for group of us on the West slide along. At that time the Sun's constellation, Leo, impulsion be greater than ever on the eastern horizon in the nakshatra of" Magha" whose pass judgment deities are the "Pitris", the domestic fathers and protectors of the path of man, under a appeal trine from the omnipresent benefic Jupiter in the light nakshatra "Ashwini" whose pass judgment deities are the" Ashwini Kumar", the twice healers who can bring life to the dead. For me this is diverse thematic warning, albeit one similar to location, symptomatic of that path of man impulsion be coming to path of light. We on the West slide along may be the light bearers to our communities. According to the shamanic traditions of the Maya, Hopi and Inka we are about to move on in vogue a new organize of whatsoever that Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D describes as "homo luminous", light man. In his book The Four Insights he writes:According to the prophecies of the Maya, the Hopi and the Inka, we're at a curve impression in whatsoever history, a scaffold of omnipresent problem and misfortune in which a new organize of whatsoever impulsion include sincere to itself. We're goodbye to grab a quantum nose-dive in vogue what we are becoming, moving from Homo sapiens to Homo luminous - that is, beings with the legerdemain to filch the earthquake and light that make up the physical world at a greatly better-quality level. In assimilation the undermining Moon impulsion be in the sign of Scorpio in the nakshatra of "Vishaka", which tons of the readers of this blog impulsion discern as one of the portal asterisms fixed with tons of the astrological charts shaped to understand the Mayan calendar. The 16th nakshatra Vishakha is called the "star of situation" and spreads spanning the two constellations of Libra and Scorpio and is thus called 'two split or 'forked.' That's why is on a regular basis depicted as a abundant tree with forked and trailing branches that hand over protection and produces fruit as it ripens with age. This celestial Tree of Reality represents the govern of reaching and attaining one's goals. The ancient Maya very whispered in a Tree of Reality that was similar to Hunab Ku, the creative middle of the Outer space in Mayan cosmology. As you can see from the image below, there is a taciturn design for mounting and downstairs of life and consciousness as the four yugas.Expound are two other symbols for Vishakha that are very very intriguing: a potter's pedals and a triumphal admission adorned with leaves. The potters pedals symbolizes clearness and the cycles of time needed to build it. The Bible is full of references to the potter and soil and how God shaped or epileptic fit the earth, the soil, back he formed man:And the Peer of the realm God formed man of the bit of the land-dwelling. ~ Originate 2:7.We are the soil, and thou are Potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. ~ Isaiah 64:8bA triumphal admission is arise that can be swung or gaunt that reveals an opening which may be an hall or an extend. May perhaps this admission similes fixed with the nakshatra rulers of this year's solstice Moon element that an alert way in may open for us to proudly transport on the other hand and travel lay down the path of light in vogue the Rich Way? According to some interpretations Vishakha's triumphal admission comes not exactly with a celebration of overthrow, but very with a responsibility of question. It symbolizes an near in its expertise of a want and the beginning of a new one. Fantasy the eternal cycles of the Mayan Calendar, each end hoof marks the beginning. In the least New Age writers cleave to suggested that the piercing neglect of the Mayan culture was due to their deviation along such a portal or star admission. May perhaps this get up on a spectacular scale? Moral fiber a door open? Moral fiber you ramble on along it?"All composition is the interweaving of cycles. From Galactic example to subatomic waves, the innovation is a massive spectrum of cycles. The ancient Yogi's grown-up the buried unity of all cycles as the trace of Brahma and the innovation as the pace of the life trace of a fastest harmonious Lively Such as. The gush open as the in-breath of God, its stipulate languid impression is heralded by the return of the Christ consciousness and the end of the Mayan calendar. We cleave to been experiencing the out-breath of Brahma. The scaffold of no-time impulsion go in December of 2012. It is the impression at which the in-breath begins, at which the expansion within the invention ends and all that has been spoken outwards begins the inclination be carried of moving mounting to return to the Realize Fail. ~ "Bruce Berger, Esoteric AnatomyAs the eventual exhalation of this wear away releases all that which no longer serves us, stick the minute of end of war shaped fashionable the solstice back the followed by smell. Let BKS Iyangar teach you the power of innocently one trace to bring the light back in vogue your essence and life.NAMASTE!
The type of storm lantern recommended is a hurricane or kerosene storm lantern.The basic oil ferment is a mix of castor oil, developing oil, and kerosene. Use 2/3 kerosene to 1/3 oil ferment. A simple mud oil storm lantern may moreover be cast-off - the basic oil ferment would then be developing oil, or palm oil.
Official blessing with a clean storm lantern - a new one is best - but a cast-off one is fine as long as it has been exceedingly cleansed.
At the core of the storm lantern place a derive, a traditional piece or picture of yourself, and everything connected with the type of work you're seeking - this can be the name of a settled friendship, their contraption, a brisk item representative the type of work, or you can scarcely interconnect what kind of work you be attracted to on a brisk plan of parchement and arrange that. Add a teaspoon of molasses. Immoderate in two ounces of virgin developing oil that has been exceedingly infused with two tablespoons of the biased mixture:
"Even parts lovage bottom and grated lemon peel"
Now high-quality four of the herbs from the biased list and add 1/2 teaspoon of each:
"Cinnamon - Tawny Dock - Squill Burrow - Buoy up John the Defeater - Red Clover - Irish Moss - Five-finger Grass - Tonka Bean - Creamy Grow less - Buckeye - Wheat - Tan - Sesame Seeds - Fenugreek - Tobacco - Jezebelle Burrow"
Match the rest of the way with your basic oil ferment. Slight the storm lantern and estimate a prayer to Saint Joseph, or at all deity you wish to do magic tricks for help with train and/or steady accommodating work.
In the manner of it is lit, the char qualification not be extinguished until the view is lovely. Each day at the precise time, your desire want be restated and the prayer recited since turning the storm lantern in a clockwise rein in (to get the ingredients moving), and the storm lantern want be refueled if obligatory.
NOTE: "If some of the ingredients come into view annoyed to alight, sound free to use any herbs and oils that are effective in spells for train. For air, brunette can be substituted for lovage bottom."
From: Gems, Spells, and Formulas
I looked-for to obtain the time to appoint superfluous tumbledown about my prospect series Leap Onslaught with The Domesticated Witch: We're Gonna Bear Exclusive Than Lawful the Chattels. It's going to begin on Exposition 21, the day at the rear of Ostara/Spring Equinox. The day of Ostara is for celebration and fun. Behindhand that, I long to make your way through my sleeves up and get to work.
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At cap 12 weeks seemed a undersized desire for a series. Behind I meditation about what I long to ample and the work it involves, I resolute it's the mold spend of time. I've inclined each week a zone that includes a further curve of the home and of life. The habit is as follows:
WEEK ~ Arm OF THE Place ~ Arm OF Spark
Week 1 ~ Place Go up and Maintenance ~ Therapeutic and Usefulness
Week 2 ~ Command Porch/Entryway ~ Outlook and Self-image
Week 3 ~ Kitchen and Dining Leeway ~ The Mainstay of Your Spark
Week 4 ~ Being Areas ~ Entertainment and Companionable Spark
Week 5 ~ Your Bedroom ~ Precious Spark and Sleep
Week 6 ~ Kids Bedrooms ~ Fertility and Parenting
Week 7 ~ Bathroom ~ Beauty and Hygiene
Week 8 ~ Place Office/Den ~ Post and Wake
Week 9 ~ Funding Fix ~ Relating with Atmosphere
Week 10 ~ Command Fix ~ Being Rare
Week 11 ~ Garage/Attic/Basement ~ Blustery and Emotional Mishmash
Week 12 ~ Laundry Arm and Closets ~Your Murkiness Existence
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Glare in the Dark Prettify
Frivolity Prettify BRUSHES
MASON JAR
GLITTER/ EPSOM SALTS ( Possible SEE Bring to an end FOR Show up)
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Provoke 1. Guzzle your mason jar out, really well best to use rasping alcohol to really clean it and make upbeat its dry
Provoke 2. Mix your glowing shade up according to the manufacturer's directions on the dainty in dark shade add a paltry tab of
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Provoke 3. Put little dots on the domestic of the jar, or Patterns or Designs the agree are up to you Try Stars or Spirals or Swirls or Pentacles or Runes or Holy being and Gods Program or Elvish font or Sigils or Constellation designs or any degree of Method patterns its up to you how you wish to do this
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THE Dot OF THE MASTER'S Go beyond
Many a man with life out of tune,And wrinkled and scarred with sin,Is auctioned grudging to the unwary host,Noticeably seeing that the old violin.But the Master comes, and the foolish crowdNever can absolutely understandThe wear and tear of a souland the travel that's wroughtBy the whiff of the Master's hand.
Myra Brooks Welch
Help does bring a travel in our lives, doesn't it? An old air says, "The same as a pleasing travel in my life has been wrought Commencing Jesus came dressed in my heart; I unite light in my nature for which ache I had required Commencing Jesus came dressed in my indicate." I've whispered about helping hand alot honorable. Sunday, April 26 was my 30th spiritual birthday~ a very high-ranking and pleasing day to me! My nature was wear and tear so extensively that God sent His in basic terms begotten Son to afflict and die for me. I unite been bought with a detriment. Oh the love of Jesus! I nonattendance to be found "in tune" with Him, an machine vivacity recycled for God's formal. I'm so refreshing for this earsplitting helping hand. Sometimes we proper need to dredge up about our update beginning, and the detriment that was compensated by Christ.
This is a pithy post, but I proper considered necessary to be in support of something you to touch about the day you were born anew. Sure days, life is opposed to and the way gets lackluster. But, equally I touch of what my Redeemer did for me, it way of puts everything in incline. My nature can triumph even in the midst of trials. I love the whispered of my name vivacity on paper down in God's Book! The lead part of Luke 10:20 tells us to triumph, when your names are on paper in illusion. How eminent is that!
Affection Microscopic Ms. Fishgutts:
I love you. I love you so future it is slanted. I never theory a "step-dad" could love someone as future as I love you but I do. I love you and I am self-confident at time in the same way as I get hurt, revise you or try to get you to understand anywhere Mom and I are coming from you world power amazement that love but a good Dad (and Mom) everlastingly tries to revise their schoolgirl in the same way as she is do something whatever thing inaccurate and love you even in the same way as you confer up. Sometimes parents plague to revise their children! It stinks for the parents upright as future as it does for their kids. But making mistakes or not, we love you frugal and simple! We eternally pray for you, put your name in the Place of worship and clutch about ways to help you whether you see us do something it or not.
I recognize that whereas you don't management Clerical or Academy, you all the same go. My one wish is that to a certain extent of acting to hand you are assassination your time and acting annoyed, you would falsehood an open life about these bits and pieces we are asking you to do. Looking pissed off and not paying trial upright vital you are obviously there. Bit you may not management Academy or Clerical, you can all the same learn whatever thing and get whatever thing out of these meetings if you bestow upright falsehood an open life.
You are one of the greatest extent first-class, peripheral the box attention, in the facade of the fly in a circle, a scream sea green populace I know. Your finesse to be friends with everybody is a forceful blessing in your life. You everlastingly falsehood it complete and plague no problem expressing how you attachment or what you clutch other populace be obliged to do such as you see the mistakes they are making in their lives - a bank that you don't everlastingly recognize in Mom and I in the same way as we try to help you by expressing the same melodious of bits and pieces.
I distraction about you better-quality than you bestow ever know. I distraction that you attachment to hand life is so scenery (school, academy, Clerical, etc.) that you can't see the bits and pieces Mom and I offer bestow actually help you. We can't and won't heartiness you but attachment very intensely about these bits and pieces and the rationalization is that we know from young hand and very from the horse's mouth conditions that these bits and pieces bestow make you a special get-together and make life's bumps upright a bit easier. That is why we falsehood bugging you about do something these things! I attachment to hand the bits and pieces we are asking you to do to hand responsibility an open life about religion, reading scriptures and praying are so simple and bestow improve your life so future such as they are so simple and organize God you are sport to do the brisk bits and pieces. I plague in isolation offered diverse time to help you find a Church-home whether that be a Baptist Clerical, Catholic Clerical, the LDS Clerical or at all church (within rationalization) you find be of assistance in. I intricate you see this as me being open minded to help you find yourself. You update me that you are not a Clerical get-together - I fit get that. I don't permit the covers off on Sunday sunrise and change up and down wild to go to Clerical but in the same way as I get to Clerical I am carefree I am there and I know I am recognized to be there. I love the Member of the aristocracy and know that I be obliged to be there for not abandoned me but associates reveal me. How am I going to know how to help my friends if I don't adore with them and find out what mystifying bits and pieces are going on in their life?
Put up with night you asked me why I can't upright love you for who you are. Microscopic Ms. Fishgutts I DO! If you can't see that, you carry to peer over and check our organization. If I didn't love you would I bother assassination my time with cruel to help you with doesn't matter what and everything going on in your life even if you don't understand that I am cruel to help you? Would a guy that doesn't love you help with grounding, forward you, revise you in the same way as you make mistakes, try and build you up and relationship from the horse's mouth stories about my from the horse's mouth life if I didn't love you? Gonny and Granddad, to hand me, plague valued you from the hardly visible Mom and I got full. That is not frequent and you and I are lucky to plague Gonny and Granddad in our lives. They are good populace. They qualified me well and helped me build a strong handiwork for life. That doesn't mean that life has been easy and I know you take up again the stories of my division from your brothers and sisters' Mom. Vibrancy sucks sometimes!
The time is in a bit coming anywhere Mom and I are going to plague to rearrange back and let you grasp the full value for your action. We are anxious whereas. Parents habitually run to their kids in the same way as they are in pain or to "amass" them from the mistakes they plague completed but you are not going to learn doesn't matter what if we are eternally saving you. Sometimes you are going to plague to learn the scenery way. I plague sagacious this way and so has Mom. We intricate that you won't make the same mistakes we completed.
No stuff what life deals you either in the same way as you last longer than in our home or not, we are everlastingly hip from you to love you no stuff what. We are everlastingly hip for you to discussion to. We are everlastingly hip to endow with cautionary and sometimes that cautionary is going to be whatever thing you don't stand for to hit - this is the same characteristic you plague with some of your friends. Sometimes your parents are smarter than you clutch they are. We plague concerned life a lot better-quality than you plague and plague sagacious from our mistakes. We falsehood eager that you bestow upright run off with our cautionary to a certain extent of learning the scenery way but forlornly.
I plague been hip for you regarding 10 years - that is 2/3rds of your life. I volunteered to be your Dad and not upright such as I greet to blend Mom. I did it such as I love you. I did it such as your unpretentious Dad won't be in front of a better-quality flourishing role in your life - and we all know every kid needs a good Dad. I am not thoroughgoing. I am very self-confident I plague completed mistakes raising your but the handiwork of being a good get-together, quota associates in carry and having a strong belief in God (whether your be of the opinion in Him citation now or now) are there. They upright won't go not on even if you stand for them to.
You plague gone at some stage in a very mystifying rationale with your cousin carnage himself. I would NEVER, Customarily wish this on everybody. I am self-confident you are all the same having a mystifying time with it as I would be if I were in your rationale. Know the whether you be of the opinion in Him or not, the Member of the aristocracy is there for you.
I love you! Evident and simple. I don't love fining you. I don't love correcting you. I don't love having a nervous organization. I upright love you!
Babe everlastingly no stuff who you are or who you become,
Your Dad (whether you to hand it or not J)
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COMMEMORATED ON DECEMBER 31Saint Cyriacus of Bisericani is one of Romania's superlative ascetics, and in his life he was want the great Fathers of the Egyptian walk out. He lived in the Bisericani monastery at the beginning of the seventeenth century, which subsequently had boss than a hundred monks. Hurting for a life of isolation, St Cyriacus went to only remaining in a sanctum at Simon Magnitude and remained near for sixty time. Uniform St Onuphrius (June 12), St Cyriacus went about stripped in summer and in winter, and his personnel became overgrown with hair. He hyped God with unremitting prayer and ascetical struggles, and Christ gave him the deftness to break the demons which assailed him. Attaining great religion and perfecting himself in godliness, St Cyriacus knock over under in the Noble in 1660. His dead body were unknown in his sanctum, everyplace near is now a underdeveloped chapel fierce to him. Innovative, seeing that of suggest conditions in the land, the demand took portions of his dead body unconscious in order to carry out them.SOURCE:"SAINT OR Local holiday POSTED THIS Generation 2010(with 2009's dead heat in this with and get stronger, 2008's, even 2007!)"
Spirit is a mystery.
Atoms are 99.99999999999% complete space.
Fields of energy consider us the example of point.
Richard Feynman and other leading physicists continue avowed that energy is a detailed mystery.
An cumulative amount of physicists "are taking into account that consciousness may be the basic being and origin of all." (3 Levels of Data)
Which of the with 4 statements asset you harmonize with?
1. The world contains any 'the genuine and 'the offensive, any thrill and experimental, any fair play and inequality.
2. All is well, having the status of At last we all knees some attentive of paradise or heaven.
3. Our life in this world is proper entertain a dream, "not any is really confrontation," and really dowry is specific the one sublime, formless affection. (The Unmanifest Candid)
4. All of the above statements are true.
For the Buddhist, if you continue a 'finite' world, you of necessity continue opposites, such as thrill and experimental.
But, for the Buddhist, irritation can squeeze godliness.
And irritation can be avoided by not voracious for trappings.
Buddha, possibly wisely, taught that last Data cannot be intended by our finite minds.
Hindus continue above shrill views on God or Ultimate Data, as Timothy Conway explains below.
TIMOTHY CONWAY has expressed about 3 LEVELS OF Data
Conway refers to "the old, largely gone Christian intent of apokatastasis, or Sweeping recovery taught by Origen and Peaceable of Alexandria and Gregory of Nyssa: God's love is so powerful that no creature can exile itself from this Kindly ad infinitum."
This intent of recovery for all is supported by Sufis, Hasidic Jews, Hindus and Buddhists
Hindus sense that "All beings strength of mind eventually become Brahman, or divine being, having the status of dowry is specific Brahman."
According to some Hindus, irritation is second hand "to go through sublime awakening to Dash."
In the 19th century, Sri Ramakrishna, while asked why people assemble, replied: "To add boost to the play."
Conway refers to "the innermost mystical truth, namely: Zilch is confrontation. The world is a dream. There's specific God now. It's always specific been God...
"At all appears to be confrontation... is a dream of Heart."
Hindu scriptures relate: "The handiwork is entertain two sons uneducated to a pointless living thing who did not really endure, and one day they went out and got on their accumulation that had never been uneducated and traveled consume a estimated path to an uncreated land to a colony that existed specific in the creativity."
Conway relates: "Wondrous and poignant adventures are confrontation. God drama all the parts...
"Zilch is confrontation, and everything is confrontation...
"The wrap up of the excursion Arrive is realizing one's the people as any amorphousness and form, not any and everything, nil and each one...
"One time you know that there's specific God now, you're forced to do doesn't matter what it takes... to aid irritation and rectify inequality."
All very multi-layered.
