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Hi, folks!
Crones’ Tea at 3pm. Last Wicca 103 class at 5pm. The computer says that it’s overcast, but tell that to the view outside my study window! Lost of bright pink in the retaining wall in with that beautiful new green of the rose leaves, lot of spots of gold and orange and purple in the herb garden….granted the sunlight comes and goes, but I wouldn’t call that overcast. A towhee is in the tray that we put bread cubes on. The tray is empty, but he’s pecking up crumbs, anyway. Sparrows have been all over the seed feeder this morning. They’ve really lowered the amount of see. One tube is nearly empty. A raven just chased off the towhee, but he’s not finding much. There’s a finch on the feeder, now. The radio spot went pretty well and they want me back! It was fun surprising Larry and Beth, too. They had no idea that I was going to be there, since I got subbed in on short notice. The link to listen to the show is up on the website and you can follow this one. http://www.kcup.net/pod/wednesday/WaldportTodayWit hLarryProfittAndKathyAmick6.20.12.mp3 Tempus got some shopping done and I have to get to chopping vegetables when I get home tonight. He helped me get the shop open and then took off for work. I was pretty busy at the shop. People were in and out all day, mostly browsing. I need to get the small CD player set up so that people can listen to the sample CD’s. Right now, I have to put them on the very temperamental stereo! I spent most of my time prepping herbs. A lot of the comfrey and the rest of the horehound were dry, so the grinder and mortar and pestle were going at a good clip. The drying rack is full again. When Tempus got back, I took a nap and then got back to work in the herbs. I was so exhausted that I walked in after we closed the shop and crashed, so I missed esbat. Tempus says that they did more discussing than run-through, but everyone has tasks to do. Today, I have more of the same, then there’s a meeting about setting up the Web portal for the South County area, then the Crones’ Tea, then the last 103 class. The shop opens at 10 today, and we’ll be there through class time tonight. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** NASA Science News for June 20, 2012 - According to data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in Shackleton crater at the Moon's south pole. FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/20jun_shackleton/ *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment (lawn mower, string trimmer, chain saw, etc.) repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is New at 8:02am. New Moon - Named as such in calendars. When doing “New Moon Magick” use the day of, the day before and the day after. New Moon - The beginning of a new cycle. - Keywords for the New phase are: beginning, birth, emergence, projection, clarity. It is the time in a cycle that you are stimulated to take a new action. During this phase the new cycle is being seeded by your vision, inner and outer. Engage in physical activity. Spend time alone. VISUALIZE your goals for the 29.6-day cycle ahead. The new moon is for starting new ventures, new beginnings. Also love and romance, health or job hunting. Phase ends at 8:02pm on Wednesday. Waxing Moon Magick - The waxing moon is for constructive magick, such as love, wealth, success, courage, friendship, luck or healthy, protection, divination. Any working that needs extra power, such as help finding a new job or healings for serious conditions, can be done now. Also, love, knowledge, legal undertakings, money and dreams. Diana’s Bow – On the 3rd day after the new moon you can (weather permitting) see the tiny crescent in the sky, the New Moon holding the Old Moon in her arms. Begin on your goals for the next month. A good time for job interviews or starting a project. Take a concrete step! This is the time of year when the Little Dipper floats straight upward from Polaris after dark — like a helium balloon (I sometimes think) escaped from a summer evening graduation party. New Moon (exact at 11:02 a.m. EDT). Jupiter (magnitude –2.0) is coming into view deep in the glow of dawn. Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini enters Cancer 4:09pm Moon in Cancer Chiron, Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Brown Planting 6/20-21 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Last Class!!!! Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am 6/24 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft (not this week) 6/25 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 6 Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am 6/27 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/28 - 5pm - Wicca 101-4 – Special Class on the History of Wicca!!!!!! (Donations will be accepted for Deb’s gas to get here from Eugene) Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Full Circle (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Goddess Remembered (discussion follows) 7/2 – Monday, Carl Neal Workshops 11am - Herb Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows) The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3 Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon 7/3 – Tuesday, 6pm - Circle Barbeque 7/3 – Waldport Independence Day Celebration (fireworks begin at dusk) Planting 7/4 7/4 – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning Harvest 7/5-6 7/5, Thursday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 5pm – Wicca 102 begins 7/6, Friday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing Howl’s Moving Castle (discussion follows) Planting 7/7-8 7/7 – Saturday, Readings by Angelica Rose 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 4pm – Lupa, Therianthropy 101 (1 hour) Lupa Bi 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (discussion follows) 7/8 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 (no class this week) 10am – Lupa, Writer's Q&A (1 - 1.5 hours) Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) 3pm – Discussion follows movie July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org Harvest 7/9-11 7/11 – 7pm – House Capuchin meeting at Ancient Light Planting 7/12-13 7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am Harvest 7/14-15 Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am Planting 7/17-18 7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm 7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 7/20 – Ramadan Begins Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20 Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am 7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through Planting 7/26-27 Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm ---------------------- 8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon Harvest 8-2 Planting 8/3-8/5 Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons Harvest 8/6-7 Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com un. 21, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:31 AM PDT, 9:04 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:55 AM PDT, 9:41 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:06 AM PDT, 10:29 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:03 AM PDT, 11:32 PM PDT Moon, 7:40 AM PDT, 10:24 PM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 46m Length of Day, 15h 32m Tomorrow will be 0m 6s shorter. Waxing Crescent, 4% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible Th 21 High 1:37 AM 7.6 5:32 AM Rise 7:41 AM 1 21 Low 8:41 AM -1.2 9:04 PM Set 10:25 PM 21 High 3:16 PM 6.3 21 Low 8:36 PM 2.6 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Listen to the morning sounds: bird's songs; wind in the tree; the roar of traffic; children's voices. What do these sounds convey to you? * **** * Journal Prompt – What is? - What us the definition of beauty? Write a definition for “beauty,” and provide examples to illustrate your meaning. * **** * Quotes Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. - Angelique Arnauld Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy. - Wayne Dyer She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Good Omens) Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity. - Jim Rohn STORM BATTLE Blue gray storm clouds covered the sun I see them floating about and getting thicker; they look threatening and fierce, ready to destroy us with their storms. We look small below them and unimportant they can smush us with cold rain and hail, frighten us with their thunder and the spears of the lightnings they send. I can see behind the clouds! There are warriors, blue gray warriors hiding, ready to spring throwing their spears, pelting us with hail, flattening the earth so they can rule again. It must be the Norse warriors... the fiercer ones, not the bright Valkyries on their flying horses. Perhaps they are enemies, let us call; call to the Valkyries to protect us! Here they come, whirling around on their steeds, bright hair swirling, battle cries with high notes, fighting the dark, fierce warriors who would destroy us with the thunder and hail. What beautiful armor, white winged horses, bows and arrows, runes on their armbands... swoop down so I may ride behind you let me be a battle-maiden too, serving Freya! Teach me your battle-cries, paint my face with runes, proud warriors! May I be your sister? Like glittering Brisingamen, the sun shines again, glowing upon your armor... The shadow warriors dissipate, the clouds roll away, the Valkyries have won the battle. My warrior sisters must fly back to Valhalla, but they will come for me in the dream-time. - © August 2005, Beth Johnson (Mystic Amazon) * **** * Magick – Litha GOOSEBERRY FOOL - 4 cups Gooseberries 1/4 cup Water 2 cups Sugar Whipped cream 1) Cook gooseberries in water until done (or you may use the equivalent of canned gooseberries). 2) Mash gooseberries in blender or food processor. 3) Beat sugar into hot gooseberries. 4) Cool mixture in fridge or freezer When cold, mix with stiffly whipped cream and pour into sherbet glasses for serving. Faery Cookies Make a batch of Shortbread or Sugar Cookies, and give them lots of glittery sprinkles! When you go into the garden, or woods, share them with the fairies and the little ones. Here’s a recipe for shortbread followed by the method for decorating. Irish Shortbread Cookies - Mrs Pearl Kells of "The Arches", Drumyouth, Arva, Co. Cavan, Ireland. Yield: 30 cookies 1cup butter, softened 1cup granulated sugar 2 cups white flour 1 teaspoon salt. 1. Mix butter and sugar until well blended. 2. Work in the flour and salt. 3. If the dough is too dry, add 1 to 2 tablespoons more butter. 4. Roll 1-inch thick on a slightly floured board. 5. Cut into rectangles approximately 1-inch by 2-inches. 6. Prick each rectangle with the tines of a fork. 7. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 18 - 20 minutes. Faery Cookie Decorations - Summer coating or chocolate (Wilton’s Candy Melts™ are a good option here) Edible glitter, colored sugar or raw sugar grains Optional – flower-shaped sprinkles or candies 1. After cookies are cooled enough to handle, fill a two cup microwave-safe measure ½-way with the chocolate or summer coating. 2. Fill a saucer with the glitter, etc. 3. Fill another saucer with the sprinkles or candies. 4. Melt chocolate, etc. in the microwave, one minute at a time, stirring each time with a heat-proof spoon. It may take 3-5 minutes for the chocolate to be completely melted. 5. Dip each cookie end on quickly into the melted chocolate, then immediately press one side into the glitter and the other into the sprinkles. If you have candies instead, pick one up and hold it to the cookie. If it doesn’t stick, dip it into the chocolate and quickly press into the cookie. 6. Let cool thoroughly and store in fridge (or cooler) until serving. Herbal Lemon Cookies – author unknown • 1 cup Butter or margarine • 2 cups Sugar, divided • 2 large Eggs • 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract • 2 1/2 cups Flour • 2 teaspoons Baking powder • 1/4 teaspoon Salt • 1/3 cup Lemon Grass / Lemon Balm / Lemon Basil chopped 1) Cream the butter and 1-3/4 cups sugar. 2) Add the eggs and vanilla. 3) Beat well. 4) Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and herbs. 5) Add to the creamed mixture and mix. 6) Drop dough by teaspoonfuls, 3 inches apart, on a greased cookie sheet. 7) Flatten slightly with a fork or cup bottom. 8) Sprinkle lightly with the remaining sugar. 9) Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes or until barely browned. 10) Cool slightly, then remove to a rack. deborah To: Hearth_Witch@yahoogroups.com From: "deborah" Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:21:06 -0000 Subject: [Hearth_Witch] Herbal Lemon Cookies Cherries Jubilee 1 scoop coconut ice cream 50 grams castor sugar 100 grams of cherries 2 tbsp Grand Marnier 1 sprig mint leaves 2tbsp orange juice 1. Stem and pit the cherries. 2. Dissolve sugar in the orange juice and bring to a boil. 3. Cook cherries in boiling orange juice for 3-4 minutes. 4. Heat the Grand Marnier. 5. Add to the cherries. 6. Light and serve the flaming cherries with coconut ice cream. 7. Garnish with mint leaves. * **** * Energy list 6/12/12 – Wanting to have a baby and it’s taking a while. 6/11/12 – Had brain surgery today for a right brain cancerous tumor. 6/6/12 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4/12 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! Update 6/7 – She’s quit smoking, is up and running around, but still coughing pretty hard. 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. * **** * Silliness - GCF: How the Government Works Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people: one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies. Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people: one to do the studies and one to write the reports. Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So they created the following positions: a time keeper, and a payroll officer, then hired two people. Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?" So they created an administrative section and hired three people: an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary. Then Congress said, "We have had this operating for one year and we are $38,000 over budget. We must cutback overall cost." So they laid off the night watchman. View (0) Comments For This Post
May the blessing of the Bright One,
the Brightener of Mornings, be upon you and all you love. Laughter of the running hours be yours, and with the brow of brightness may you come home in joy. -- Adapted from The Celtic Devotional by Caitlin Matthews Hi, folks! Esbat tonight, 7pm Litha! Summer Solstice at 4:09pm. Yesterday was two seconds longer than the day before. Today is going to be about 1 second longer than tomorrow. “The Sun Stands Still” is the name of this time in a lot of the Slavic languages. The sun is shining brightly through the study window, but it’s way chillier than it’s been for several mornings. That’s because it cleared up last night and the stars were amazing! Tempus did house chores in the morning, yesterday, while I was working on newsletter stuff and then headed out to the garden. The closest I got to that was getting some seeds into some of the planters. Mostly I worked on the schedule for the July Psychic Fair and then put it up as an event on Facebook after I got the website updates finished. We’ve got bags of rose petals to dry, that I’ll be setting out this morning after I get to the shop and Tempus managed to cut a lot of grass and weeds that were starting to get out of control. I think he also was doing some repairs on someone’s equipment, but I haven’t asked him about that yet. The last Wicca 104/204 class went really well. It’s mostly a discussion on Wiccan ethics and we took a couple of problems and argued them through pretty well. After that we worked on WiccaTrivia questions. We’re definitely going to be playing this game later in the summer again after we finish getting the new questions ready, edited and formatted for the game. I’m going to be live on the radio this morning during the 9am show on KCUP 1230 AM & 100.7-2 HD FM! After about noon you should be able to find it on their website under “Waldport Today”. Tempus is going to get some groceries while I’m on the air and then we’ll head to the shop. He’s working elsewhere during most of the afternoon, so I’ll be doing herbs, mostly. I have a lot more packing and prep to do. The shop opens at 10 today, although we might be a bit late getting back from Newport. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment (lawn mower, string trimmer, chain saw, etc.) repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is New at 8:02am. New Moon - Named as such in calendars. When doing “New Moon Magick” use the day of, the day before and the day after. New Moon - The beginning of a new cycle. - Keywords for the New phase are: beginning, birth, emergence, projection, clarity. It is the time in a cycle that you are stimulated to take a new action. During this phase the new cycle is being seeded by your vision, inner and outer. Engage in physical activity. Spend time alone. VISUALIZE your goals for the 29.6-day cycle ahead. The new moon is for starting new ventures, new beginnings. Also love and romance, health or job hunting. Phase ends at 8:02pm on Wednesday. Waxing Moon Magick - The waxing moon is for constructive magick, such as love, wealth, success, courage, friendship, luck or healthy, protection, divination. Any working that needs extra power, such as help finding a new job or healings for serious conditions, can be done now. Also, love, knowledge, legal undertakings, money and dreams. Diana’s Bow – On the 3rd day after the new moon you can (weather permitting) see the tiny crescent in the sky, the New Moon holding the Old Moon in her arms. Begin on your goals for the next month. A good time for job interviews or starting a project. Take a concrete step! This is the time of year when the Little Dipper floats straight upward from Polaris after dark — like a helium balloon (I sometimes think) escaped from a summer evening graduation party. New Moon (exact at 11:02 a.m. EDT). Jupiter (magnitude –2.0) is coming into view deep in the glow of dawn. Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini enters Cancer 4:09pm Moon in Cancer Chiron, Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Brown Planting 6/20-21 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/20 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Last Class!!!! Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am 6/24 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft (not this week) 6/25 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 6 Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am 6/28 - 5pm - Wicca 101-4 – Special Class on the History of Wicca!!!!!! (Donations will be accepted for Deb’s gas to get here from Eugene) Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Full Circle (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Goddess Remembered (discussion follows) 7/2 – Monday, Carl Neal Workshops 11am - Herb Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows) The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3 Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon 7/3 – Tuesday, 6pm - Circle Barbeque 7/3 – Waldport Independence Day Celebration (fireworks begin at dusk) Planting 7/4 7/4 – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning Harvest 7/5-6 7/5, Thursday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 5pm – Wicca 102 begins 7/6, Friday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing Howl’s Moving Castle (discussion follows) Planting 7/7-8 7/7 – Saturday, Readings by Angelica Rose 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 4pm – Lupa, Therianthropy 101 (1 hour) Lupa Bi 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (discussion follows) 7/8 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 (no class this week) 10am – Lupa, Writer's Q&A (1 - 1.5 hours) Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) 3pm – Discussion follows movie July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org Harvest 7/9-11 7/11 – 7pm – House Capuchin meeting at Ancient Light Planting 7/12-13 7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am Harvest 7/14-15 Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am Planting 7/17-18 7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm 7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 7/20 – Ramadan Begins Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20 Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am 7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through Planting 7/26-27 Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm ---------------------- 8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon Harvest 8-2 Planting 8/3-8/5 Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons Harvest 8/6-7 Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 20, 2012 Rise Set Actual Time 5:31 AM PDT 9:04 PM PDT Civil Twilight 4:54 AM PDT 9:41 PM PDT Nautical Twilight 4:06 AM PDT 10:29 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight 3:03 AM PDT 11:32 PM PDT Moon 6:39 AM PDT 9:49 PM PDT Length Of Visible Light 16h 46m Length of Day 15h 32m Tomorrow will be 0m 1s shorter. New Moon, 0% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible W 20 High 1:00 AM 7.7 5:32 AM Rise 6:40 AM 0 20 Low 8:06 AM -1.1 9:04 PM Set 9:50 PM 20 High 2:41 PM 6.2 20 Low 7:56 PM 2.7 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – I accept that I am divine, perfect and enough. * **** * Journal Prompt – Favorites - Do you have a favorite time of day? Why? * **** * Quotes Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. - Elizabeth Stanton (1815-1902) US reformer Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. - George Eliot Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. - Jonas Salk (1914-1995) US microbiologist Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go. – McWilliams What is copper that, when the philosopher's stone arrives, Its "copperness" should not be annihilated by gold's attribute? What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive? - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) * **** * Magick – Litha June Magick - June's energies are focused on socialization and activity. It is a capricious month, filled with young love, romance, and the companionship of good friends. Any magic aimed at enhancing one's relationships, communication skills, and the personal energy level necessary for maintaining both will be augmented by working during this month June Moon Names: Mead Moon, Moon of Horses, Lovers' Moon, Strong Sun Moon, Honey Moon, Aerra Litha (Before Litha), Brachmanoth (Break Month), StrawberryMoon, Rose Moon, Moon of Making Fat. The original Roman name for this month was Junonious, after the Great Mother Goddess Juno; her counterpart among the Greeks was Hera. The Summer Solstice has been and still is important to many religions and cultures around the world. Not only was it sacred to goddesses of fertility, marriage, and love, but it was considered to be a time when faeries, elves, and many other supernatural beings were abroad in great numbers. Celtic: Festival of the Oak Nymph - celebrated to honor all hamadryads (female natures spirits who inhabit oak trees). Ancient Egyptian: Ma'at and Ra go forth in secret. Rome: This day is sacred to Juno Moneta, Juno the Warner, the aspect of Juno who warns of impending disasters. Also: the festival of Carna, honoring the Roman Goddess of Doors and Locks. Carna was patron of security and physical safety of the home and family. Doors and windows were repaired on this day, and rituals performed to repel thieves. June Hallmark Holidays: June is National Burglary Prevention Month June is Dairy Month June is Adopt a Shelter Cat Month June is Children's Awareness Month June is National Rose Month June is National Frozen Yogurt Month June is National Candy Month June is Turkey Lovers' Month International Volunteer Week - June 1-7 * **** * Energy list 6/12/12 – Wanting to have a baby and it’s taking a while. 6/11/12 – Had brain surgery today for a right brain cancerous tumor. 6/6/12 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4/12 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! Update 6/7 – She’s quit smoking, is up and running around, but still coughing pretty hard. 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. * **** * Silliness - GCF: Preparation for Parenthood MESS TEST: Smear peanut butter on the sofa and curtains. Now rub your hands in the wet flower bed and rub on the walls. Cover the stains with crayons. Place a fish stick behind the couch and leave it there all summer. TOY TEST: Obtain a 55-gallon box of Legos. (If Legos are not available, you may substitute roofing tacks or broken bottles.) Have a friend spread them all over the house. Put on a blindfold. Try to walk to the bathroom or kitchen. Do not scream (this could wake a child at night). GROCERY STORE TEST: Borrow one or two small animals (goats are best) and take them with you as you shop at the grocery store. Always keep them in sight and pay for anything they eat or damage. DRESSING TEST: Obtain one large, unhappy, live octopus. Stuff it into a small net bag making sure that all arms stay inside. FEEDING TEST: Obtain a large plastic milk jug. Fill it halfway with water. Suspend from the ceiling with a stout cord. Get the jug swinging. Try to insert spoonfuls of soggy cereal (such as Fruit Loops or Cheerios) into the mouth of the jug while pretending to be an airplane. Now dump the contents of the jug on the floor. NIGHT TEST: Prepare by obtaining a small cloth bag and fill it with 8 to 12 pounds of sand. Soak it thoroughly in water. At 8 PM begin to waltz and hum with the bag until 9 PM. Lay down your bag and set your alarm for 10:00 PM. Get up, pick up your bag, and sing every song you have ever heard. Make up about a dozen more and sing them until 4:00 AM. Set alarm for 5:00 AM. Get up and make breakfast. Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful. PHYSICAL TEST (WOMEN): Obtain a large bean-bag chair and attach it to the front of your clothes. Leave it there for 9 months. Now remove 10% of the beans. PHYSICAL TEST (MEN): Go to the nearest drug store. Set your wallet on the counter. Ask the clerk to help himself. Now proceed to the nearest food store. Go to the head office and arrange for your paycheck to be directly deposited to the store. Purchase a newspaper. Go home and read it quietly for the last time. FINAL ASSIGNMENT: Find a couple who already has a small child. Lecture them on how they can improve their child's discipline, patience, tolerance, toilet training, and table manners. Suggest many things they can improve as well. Emphasize to them that they should never allow their children to run riot. 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Wicca 104 tonight at 7pm at Anja’s. It’s alternating between dark with a steady rain, and bright with an aggressive mist…. 55F and not likely to get all that much warmer. It didn’t yesterday. For some reason the predicted highs aren’t nearly happening. A better predictor for the last week would have been to start with whatever temp at 10am and add 5 degrees for the high….. Tempus put out some stale bread and a bunch of ravens were in and out for a while, flapping at each other and then taking off with beaks full. He also did the hummingbird feeder and it’s attracted a steady population. The roses are brilliantly red or pink against the new green of the foliage. They’ve gotta be picked, despite the rain, since the ground beneath is also developing pink spots from dropping petals. I might tie the flax stems together. There are three bloom stems this year, not one like last year, so there will be a lot of seed. One of the stems I keep bopping my head on and the last time I walked down the path when it was drippy I got a cold shower!!! Now there’s a sparrow going after the last crumbs in the bread tray. I wonder why it’s not attracting chipmunks or squirrels? I worked pretty steadily all day yesterday, getting pictures up, sending e-mails and getting promo packets done for various events. I’m going to try to put the “event” listing on Facebook today for the July Psychic Fair…but it’s going to take me a while. The info that we have is already up on the website here: http://www.ancientlight.info/events/#fair The pictures from the weekend went up here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.21839946 95108.60049.1704231146&type=3&l=caeabb694e …and once you go past the Beachcombers’ pix (most of them the parade color-guard) there are several of Tempus being a looney in his wizard robe. Note to self - Don’t let him and Marius do pictures with no supervision…. I headed down to the shop a bit after 4pm to get ready for class and mostly sorted and prepped various of the harvested stuffs from the weekend until the lone student got there. We got all the way through Lesson 5 and then both of us ran out of brain…. Tempus made blue suede burgers again for supper. Those are *so* tasty! …and then we crashed. Both of us were awfully tired. I way overslept this morning and Tempus made a yummy breakfast and then a yummy “elevenses” and we’ve been talking, so I’m apologizing for the newsletter being out later than usual…. …and Tempus is going to be working on roses, and getting his homework for class ready and I’m going to be doing paperwork, getting the newsletter set up for the week, working on the calendars, and trying to get the psychic fair “Event” page up on Facebook…and then we have the last Wicca 104/204 class tonight. I’m going to be on the radio tomorrow morning during the 9am show on KCUP 1230 AM & 100.7-2 HD FM! After about noon you should be able to find it on the website under “Waldport Today”. The shop opened at 10 today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment (lawn mower, string trimmer, chain saw, etc.) repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is New at 8:02am. New Moon - Named as such in calendars. When doing “New Moon Magick” use the day of, the day before and the day after. New Moon - The beginning of a new cycle. - Keywords for the New phase are: beginning, birth, emergence, projection, clarity. It is the time in a cycle that you are stimulated to take a new action. During this phase the new cycle is being seeded by your vision, inner and outer. Engage in physical activity. Spend time alone. VISUALIZE your goals for the 29.6-day cycle ahead. The new moon is for starting new ventures, new beginnings. Also love and romance, health or job hunting. Phase ends at 8:02pm on Wednesday. Waxing Moon Magick - The waxing moon is for constructive magick, such as love, wealth, success, courage, friendship, luck or healthy, protection, divination. Any working that needs extra power, such as help finding a new job or healings for serious conditions, can be done now. Also, love, knowledge, legal undertakings, money and dreams. This is the time of year when the Little Dipper floats straight upward from Polaris after dark — like a helium balloon (I sometimes think) escaped from a summer evening graduation party. New Moon (exact at 11:02 a.m. EDT). Jupiter (magnitude –2.0) is coming into view deep in the glow of dawn. Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini New Moon (10:02am) in Gemini enters Cancer at10:34am Chiron, Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Maroon Harvest 6/17-18 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/19, 7pm – Tuesday, Wicca 104 last class – At Anja’s 6/20 - Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Last Class!!!! Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am 6/24 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft (not this week) 6/25 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 6 Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am 6/28 - 5pm - Wicca 101-4 – Special Class on the History of Wicca!!!!!! (Donations will be accepted for Deb’s gas to get here from Eugene) Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Full Circle (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Goddess Remembered (discussion follows) 7/2 – Monday, Carl Neal Workshops 11am - Herb Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows) The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3 Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon 7/3 – Tuesday, 6pm - Circle Barbeque 7/3 – Waldport Independence Day Celebration (fireworks begin at dusk) Planting 7/4 7/4 – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning Harvest 7/5-6 7/5, Thursday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 5pm – Wicca 102 begins 7/6, Friday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing Howl’s Moving Castle (discussion follows) Planting 7/7-8 7/7 – Saturday, Readings by Angelica Rose 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 4pm – Lupa, Therianthropy 101 (1 hour) Lupa Bi 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (discussion follows) 7/8 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 (no class this week) 10am – Lupa, Writer's Q&A (1 - 1.5 hours) Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) 3pm – Discussion follows movie July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org Harvest 7/9-11 7/11 – 7pm – House Capuchin meeting at Ancient Light Planting 7/12-13 7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am Harvest 7/14-15 Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am Planting 7/17-18 7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm 7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 7/20 – Ramadan Begins Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20 Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am 7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through Planting 7/26-27 Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm ---------------------- 8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon Harvest 8-2 Planting 8/3-8/5 Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons Harvest 8-6-7 Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 19, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:31 AM PDT, 9:03 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:54 AM PDT, 9:40 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:06 AM PDT, 10:29 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:02 AM PDT, 11:32 PM PDT Moon, 5:42 AM PDT, 9:10 PM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 46m Length of Day, 15h 32m Tomorrow will be 0m 2s longer. Waxing Crescent, 0% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible Tu 19 High 12:23 AM 7.7 5:31 AM Rise 5:43 AM 0 19 Low 7:31 AM -1.0 9:04 PM Set 9:10 PM 19 High 2:05 PM 6.0 19 Low 7:17 PM 2.8 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – I act with balance in my heart. I speak with balance on my lips. I walk with balance in my feet. * **** * Journal Prompt – Describe - Describe your father's personality in a short journal entry. * **** * Quotes Let us rather run the risk of wearing out rather than rusting out. - Theodore Roosevelt Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband. - Al Capp (1909-1979) US cartoonist Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. -T.S. Elliot Never mistake activity for achievement. - John Wooden Winter Solstice Song by Stephanie Pflumm ©Copyright 2001 This night will be long and dark. But even as Grandmother withers in the lingering darkness a new light will be born this night. When morning comes tomorrow, the light will be stronger, the day will be longer. Hope may replace our sorrow when morning comes tomorrow. Know your walk in the darkness will be turning toward the Sunshine. This is your Grandfather's sign, that in the night that is the darkest His loving light always returns by perfect design. ... Solstice Song by Stephanie Pflumm ©Copyright 2005 * **** * Magick – Litha (these articles are accompanied by pictures which usually do not come through on Facebook or in the Yahoo group. If you would like the pictures, please e-mail me at mbartlett@harborside.com ) God's Eyes (adapted from Crone’s Crafts, link at end) A God's Eye is a great craft to make at probably any of the Sabbats. I've seen them made at Imbolc, and then they're usually renamed as "Goddess Eyes." Works for me. To make a God/dess Eye, you'll need: 2 sticks; I've found that bamboo skewers work really well yarn of different colors; save leftovers from knitting / crochet projects scissors to cut the yarn Directions 1) Charge your materials in your normal way. 2) Make a slip knot on the end of the yarn you'll use for the middle of the cross, and slide the loop over the two sticks. 3) Once you've centered the yarn, pull the knot, and spread the stick arms out into the form of a cross. 4) Wrap the yarn diagonally over the center twice for each side (NW-SE, and then NE-SW). 5) Begin wrapping the yarn around the sticks, always remembering to move deosil around the eye. Start at one point, move the yarn over the stick, come around the back crossing over the front and moving on to the next arm. Remember - always go over the stick and then go around it. And keep the yarn tight. 6) When you need to add another color, figure out where you need to place the knot of the two strands so that it's hidden behind a stick arm. As you wrap the stick, wrap the loose strands to hide them. 7) When you're done, doubly loop the yarn over the final arm. 8) To hang, cut 12" of yarn. From the front of the eye, push an end on either side of an arm about 2/3rds the way up the arm. Knot the ends in the back. Bring the strands together, determine the length for dangling, and tie a knot. Hang your eye, and enjoy. P.S. - I've seen God's Eyes made using embroidery thread and jewelers’ wire. These were then were attached to earring hooks and worn. They looked cool, especially when metallic thread was used. © 2001 Mother http://gypsygrl65.tripod.com/thecottagemaymidsumm er2001issue/id9.html Gods-Eye An amulet made for protection that uses eye symbolism to represent the Sun is the South American God's Eye, which has its origins with the native people of that continent. These amulets are made from two sticks placed across each other to form an equilateral cross. Colored yard is then wound around them to form the body of the Eye. By alternating the colors of yarn the finished product looks like a stylized eye, and its four points symbolize the four directions. The Native South Americans used them both for decoration and as protective talismans. To make your own God's eye, you will need a quarter-inch dowel available at craft and hardware stores, a pair of scissors, and a collection of colored yarns (popsicle sticks work well too). Cut the dowel into lengths approximately ten inches long. Holding the dowels together at their centers so that they form and equal length cross, begin wrapping your first yarn color around the center in an "X" pattern to stabilize the dowels. Now begin slowly working your design outward. Wrap the yarn completely around one point of the dowel and then move on to the next point. Periodically stop and push the yarn down against the center so that you have a tight weave. When you have wrapped the yarn within half an inch of the dowels, stop and wrap the yarn several times tightly around one point. You can then tie it off, leaving a loop from which it can be hung. God's Eyes can be made of any size, depending on how you want to use them. Larger ones can be used for protection like a Native North American medicine shield, and smaller ones in Yule colors make excellent Yule tree decorations and can symbolize the return of the Sun. If they are decorative items to honor the Sun, then your work is done. If they are to function as protective talismans, then you should be visualizing their purpose as you weave them and consecrate them to their purpose later on. Taken from The Sabbats- A New Approach to Living the Old Ways by Edain McCoy God's Eye - (For Litha) http://members.aol.com/ivycleartoes/godseye.htmlM aterials: 2 wooden dowels Yarn Directions: Your dowels can be of any length depending on what size you want the end product to be, but a good size would be about 8 to 12 inches. The yarn can be of any color, but if this is to be used for midsummer decoration, match the color with the intention, using yellow, red, white, or even green, something to symbolize the highest power of summer. A good idea is to get one of those mulitcolored yarns that fade from one color to the next; one that fades between shades of yellow to white and back is perfect. Now place one of the dowels on top of the other so that they make an equilateral cross, and start wrapping the yarn around their middles in a little X. Keep wrapping, alternating over each "shoulder" of the horizontal dowel, until they are reasonably steady and holding together without your support. Then, clockwise, wrap the yarn around each dowel in turn, making a single loop and continuing to the next. As you continue the process, the pattern will spread outward from the center, resembling an eye in a way. Keep pushing the yarn down on the dowels so that it does not look loose or have any spaces in between each layer. When the God's Eye is as large as you want it, you can end it by wrapping the string tightly around the top dowel and tying it off in a loop. This can be hung if you like, or placed in a picture frame holder or support apparatus to display on a table. As a variation, you can actually tie it off well before you are finished and insert a different color if you prefer. Ritual use: A God's Eye is a very old craft that has been made since antiquity, and eyes were always a focus of superstition and holiness in the old days. The God's Eye craft can be regarded in a ritual as representing the God's vision upon you, or to represent, in more simple terms, the sun itself. Drinking a toast to the sun's highest power on midsummer, regarding the Eye, is a possible use. If you'd like to see an illustration of this craft as well as someone else's interpretation of how to create it, do a search for "God's Eye craft" or look at the illustrated page at http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/godseye.html . Gods Eyes Midsummer crafts revolve around the sun god, and the sun itself. God's Eyes are probably the most well known craft tied to Midsummer. South American in origin, they were made by the natives for both protection and decoration. These amulets are made of two sticks placed to form an equilateral cross. Coloured yarn or ribbon is wound around the cross, in alternating colours, to form an eye, and its four points symbolize the two solstices (summer and winter) and equinoxes (spring and fall). To make the God's Eyes, you will need: 1/4 inch dowels (available at craft or hardware stores, any kind of stick can be used, popsicle sticks are common ^_^) Yarn or ribbon in assorted colours Scissors Glue Directions Cut the dowels into any length you wish, just make sure you have two sticks of equal length. Place them to form an equilateral cross. Starting it can be a bit tricky. I tie a tight knot with the ribbon in the centre, then take the dowels and form the cross, and go and tie it the other way. You could also just tie a knot in the centre, pull the dowels out to form the cross, and start weaving. Just keep in mind you'll have to hold it in place the while you weave it around the first few times. Once you have it started, take the ribbon and wrap it completely around one point of the dowel, than trail it over the next point of the cross. Pull the ribbon taut, you want a tight weave. Work your design outward, stopping periodically to change ribbon colours, if you wish. If your God's Eye is going to be used for magickal purposes, you should visualize its purpose as you weave, and consecrate it for its purpose later on. When you have wrapped the ribbon within about half an inch of the end of the dowels, stop the weaving, and tie it off. This may require a bit of glue to hold it in place. When it is tied off, use a bit of the ribbon to make a loop and glue it to the top of the God's Eye so that you can hang it. God's Eyes are a great activity for children, and a fun way to teach them about the Sun God and the purpose of Midsummer. http://www.wyldwytch.com/weavings/candb/06_05lith a/index.htm * **** * Energy list 6/12/12 – Wanting to have a baby and it’s taking a while. 6/11/12 – Had brain surgery today for a right brain cancerous tumor. 6/6/12 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4/12 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! Update 6/7 – She’s quit smoking, is up and running around, but still coughing pretty hard. 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. 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Wicca 101 this evening, starts at around 4:30. It’s already 55, but it’s green and drippy. A little sunlight came through earlier, but not now. I just dropped Tempus off at the shop. They’re tearing the siding off of our building, and the parking lot on our side is a mess. If you go to stop by today, park on Willow or even back around the corner. You won’t have an easy time getting through around from the parking on 34. ..Hmm… might even be easiest to park over at C&K! We’ve seen grosbeaks this morning, but mostly it’s been sparrows and one very persistent Stellar Jay. A lot of roses are blooming. Tempus is going to have bags full tomorrow. The flax is blooming, too. Yesterday went pretty well. We had a good bunch of youngsters again. I went and crashed after my class while Brea did hers and then answered questions and got a bunch of pictures done for them. Nobody was all that interested in the sandcastles and it was kinda chilly, so we all just stayed in a worked on projects. Willow came in and did a class on poppets, too. I’ll be back down at the shop at 4:30 or so. Tempus will be in and with the weather this would be a good day to consult with him if you’ve got a lawnmower that’s acting up. I’m going to be working on the psychic fair that’s coming up. The shop opened at 10 today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment (lawn mower, string trimmer, chain saw, etc.) repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is a waning crescent. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Dark of the moon - End of the cycle - In the time leading up to the “New Moon” you may do banishings and other baneful magicks and healings that require blasting a disease away. The “tide change” from Dark to New occurs at 8:02am on Tuesday. Vega is the brightest star on the eastern side of the evening sky. Deneb is the brightest to its lower left. Altair is farther to Vega's lower right. These form the big Summer Triangle. This season there's another, temporary "Summer Triangle" toward the southwest: bright Arcturus high on top, the Saturn-Spica pair below it, and Mars off to the pair's right or lower right. Mars (magnitude +0.7, crossing from Leo into Virgo) shines orange in the southwest at dusk and lower in the west as evening grows late. This week Mars creeps to the halfway point from Regulus (off to its lower right) to the Saturn-and-Spica pair (left). Mars will shoot the gap between Saturn and Spica in mid-August. In a telescope Mars is gibbous and tiny (7 arcseconds wide), continuing to fade and shrink. Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Gemini Chiron, Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Silver Harvest 6/17-18 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/18 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 Treasure Chest Drawings start at Noon at Washington Federal Bank New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am 6/19, 7pm – Tuesday, Wicca 104 last class – At Anja’s 7/20 - Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Last Class!!!! Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am 6/25 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft (not this week) Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am 6/28 - 5pm - Wicca 101-4 – Special Class on the History of Wicca!!!!!! (Donations will be accepted for Deb’s gas to get here from Eugene) Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Full Circle (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Goddess Remembered (discussion follows) 7/2 – Monday, Carl Neal Workshops 11am - Herb Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows) The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3 Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon 7/3 – Tuesday, 6pm - Circle Barbeque 7/3 – Waldport Independence Day Celebration (fireworks begin at dusk) Planting 7/4 7/4 – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning Harvest 7/5-6 7/5, Thursday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 5pm – Wicca 102 begins 7/6, Friday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing Howl’s Moving Castle (discussion follows) Planting 7/7-8 7/7 – Saturday, Readings by Angelica Rose 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 4pm – Lupa, Therianthropy 101 (1 hour) Lupa Bi 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (discussion follows) 7/8 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 (no class this week) 10am – Lupa, Writer's Q&A (1 - 1.5 hours) Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) 3pm – Discussion follows movie July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org Harvest 7/9-11 7/11 – 7pm – House Capuchin meeting at Ancient Light Planting 7/12-13 7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am Harvest 7/14-15 Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am Planting 7/17-18 7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm 7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 7/20 – Ramadan Begins Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20 Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am 7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through Planting 7/26-27 Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm ---------------------- 8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon Harvest 8-2 Planting 8/3-8/5 Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons Harvest 8-6-7 Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 18, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:31 AM PDT, 9:03 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:54 AM PDT, 9:40 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:05 AM PDT, 10:29 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:02 AM PDT, 11:32 PM PDT Moon, 4:51 AM PDT, 8:25 PM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 46m Length of Day, 15h 32m Tomorrow will be 0m 7s longer. Waning Crescent, 1% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible M 18 Low 6:56 AM -0.8 5:31 AM Rise 4:52 AM 2 18 High 1:28 PM 5.9 9:04 PM Set 8:25 PM 18 Low 6:37 PM 2.9 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – We're all pilgrims on the same journey, but some pilgrims have better road maps. * **** * Journal Prompt – Which? - Which photo of yourself do you hate the most, and why? * **** * Quotes Intuitive analysis requires observation & data, just as does ordinary science. - Matthew Wood It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - W. Churchill Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing; do not stop, do not turn back, do not turn from the straight road. – St. Augustine Learn the Rules so you know how to break them properly. - HH the Dalai Lama The world isn't dirt, but a cup full of blood Running over with the blood of lovers and their wounds. Cock, how many more times will you crow at dawn? The dimming lamps announce: Morning has come! - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) * **** * Magick – Litha www.weavings.co.uk Merry Meet...... and welcome to the Litha issue of Cauldrons and Broomsticks: a magical newsletter. Litha (taken from Saxon tradition, the opposite of Yule) is celebrated on the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. It is also known as Midsummer Nights Eve, Alban Heruin (Druidic). On this Sabbat light and life are at their most abundant. Many Ancient monuments are aligned with the Sun at this point in the Wheel of the Year, the most famous being Stonehenge in England, though there are many more all over the world. At Litha the Sun God has reached the moment of his greatest strength. Seated on his greenwood throne he is lord of the forests and his face can be seen in church architecture peering from countless foliate masks. In many Wiccan celebrations this is the time when the Holly King, God of the Waning Year, encounters the Oak King, God of the waxing Year, on Midsummer night. The Holly king fights the Oak King for his throne, and takes over the ruling of the year, a position he holds until the Oak King wins it back at Yule. This encounter is often re-enacted energetically at Midsummer rituals. The Oak King is not forgotten, though; in Celtic mythology, he withdraws now to the Corona Borealis, the Caer Arianrhod or 'silver wheel'. As the outer strength of the Sun wanes, its inner strength grows. The Holly King and the Oak King are actually one; the Holly King is the growing youth while the Oak King is the mature man. In other traditions it's not until Samhain that the Holly King triumphs, (as the year moves into the dark half), he may also be seen as the Stag King, in his prime with full antlers, not yet ready for his symbolic sacrifice at Harvest Time. This Sabbat also celebrates the Goddess in some traditions. She can be seen now as heavy with child, as nature is heavy with the bounty of the coming harvest, though in some Traditions although she is already pregnant (with the God) her 'time' is not yet ready, as she will not give birth to the God until Yule. Litha is a Fire Festival, and the fire of Midsummer is traditionally kindled from the friction of two sacred woods, fir and oak. Nine different types of herbs are thrown upon the Midsummer fire. These consist of Mistletoe, Vervain, St. John's Wort, Heartsease, Lavender, and a choice of four others chosen from local herbs typical of this season. In agricultural societies, herds of cattle were driven through the embers of Midsummer fired to purge them of disease and illness. Many Litha customs involve the turning or rolling downhill of flaming wheels, to symbolize the power of the Sun. Litha is a time to give thanks for whatever is bringing fulfilment into our lives, and also a time to try and understand our passions, the wildest and most fervent aspects of our inner selves, within us which are often at their most evident in the height of the summer. The fire which we celebrate at Litha is a symbol of change and creativity, and this is a perfect time to put our passions to good use in bringing about changes in our lives. This is considered to be a time when energies abound, and is a good time for magic and purification rites. Midsummer Night's Eve is also special for adherents of the Faerie faith. The alternative fixed calendar date of June 25 (Old Litha) is sometimes employed by Covens. The Christian religion converted this day of Jack-in-the-Green to the Feast of St. John the Baptist, often portraying him in rustic attire sometimes with horns and cloven feet (like the Greek God Pan and similar in aspect to the Celtic Cerunnos). Technically, a solstice is an astronomical point and, due to the procession to the equinox, the date may vary by a few days depending on the year. The summer solstice occurs when the sun reaches the Tropic of Cancer, and we experience the longest day and the shortest night of the year. Astrologers know this as the date on which the sun enters the sign of Cancer. However, since most European peasants were not accomplished at reading an ephemeris or did not live close enough to Salisbury Plain to trot over to Stonehenge and sight down its main avenue, they celebrated the event on a fixed calendar date, June 24th. The slight forward displacement of the traditional date is the result of multitudinous calendrical changes down through the ages. It is analogous to the winter solstice celebration, which is astronomically on or about December 21st, but is celebrated on the traditional date of December 25th, Yule, later adopted by the Christians. Again, it must be remembered that the Celts reckoned their days from sundown to sundown, so the June 24th festivities actually begin on the previous sundown (our June 23rd). This was Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Eve. Which brings up another point: our modern calendars are quite misguided in suggesting that 'summer begins' on the solstice. According to the old folk calendar, summer BEGINS on May Day and ends on Lughnasadh (August 1st), with the summer solstice, midway between the two, marking MID-summer. This makes more logical sense than suggesting that summer begins on the day when the sun's power begins to wane and the days grow shorter. Just as the Pagan mid-winter celebration of Yule was adopted by Christians as Christmas (December 25th), so too the Pagan mid-summer celebration was adopted by them as the feast of John the Baptist (June 24th). Occurring 180 degrees apart on the wheel of the year, the mid-winter celebration commemorates the birth of Jesus, while the mid-summer celebration commemorates the birth of John, the prophet who was born six months before Jesus in order to announce his arrival . by Magi Weavings' Cauldrons & Broomsticks: a magical newsletter is an online email newsletter for the Pagan population at large. 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Wicca 101 at 10am and Brea’s Elements at Noon. There’s a very bedraggled Stellar Jay bouncing around on the porch. He’s been in the planter, the fuchsia basket, landed on the top of the hummingbird feeder, on the railing and on the seed feeder…and then flew away, being replaced by a lot of sparrows. …who have now also flown away. …and then some hummingbirds… I’m drinking my coffee and trying to wake up. It’s raining, steadily. It’s already 55F and not a breath of wind. We’re in the cloud layer, as far as I can tell. It was interesting watching this fog roll in late in the evening when we were still at the shop. I got down to the shop a little past 8:30, yesterday morning, and started in trying to get ready for what I knew was going to be a long day. There was a lot of last minute find-this-put-that-away stuff that needed to happen. Sash & Josh got there a bit later and got their game pavilion set up and then I set up the prizes inside and got the basket tags printed. They also decided to set up on July 3rd, hoping to get a bit more business. At about that time some of the students from the Sunday class who were going to be in the parade were wandering around town, so they stopped in to say hi and tell me about what all was going on. The phone kept ringing and then around 10am people started coming in to shop. By then Willow was there and Tempus showed up, eventually, with bread and rose petals in hand…or rather, in backpack…. …and from that point on, one thing ran into another. We had people in and out shopping….ran through a whole stack of business cards. The parade was fun and very, very loud. …although I have to say, Sash is louder than a PA system. When he was doing his spiel about the games I had to go inside because he made my ears hurt more than the fire sirens!!! I managed to get the last of the sun hats “strung” with tie cords, too, so that’s done for the summer. I still have a few that I have to try to scrub or wash, since they’re acquired some dirt during their time in storage. They’ll have to get done later, but I have plenty. We did pictures of the some of the young folks in their parade outfits, and I worked on the computer doing the souvenir photos and eventually put up an album. There’s a whole stack of Tempus in his wizard outfit, since he and Marius played a bit on Friday. Late in the day, while we still had customers, we were taking it in turns to wait on people and spending a lot of time sitting down… The fog started rolling in, late in the day and it gave everything a look of mystery. Tempus went over to the grocery store, looking for pot stickers for dinner, but ended up with pierogies, instead, which we baked when we got home. As we were leaving the shop, the dance was going on over at the Moose and the Fire Dancers had just finished. Classes today, but there are a lot of people in town, still, so we may just wander over to enjoy the sandcastle building, although with the rain, some of the young folks may not be interested. We’re also going to close down the classes a bit early today, since we’re all pretty tired. The shop opens at 10 today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment (lawn mower, string trimmer, chain saw, etc.) repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is a waning crescent. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Hecate’s Brooch – 3-5 days before New Moon – Best time for Releasing Rituals. It’s the last few days before the new moon, the time of Hecate’s Brooch. This is the time that if you’re going to throw something out, or sweep the floors, or take stuff to Good Will, Do it! Rid yourself of negativity and begin the letting go process. Phase ends at 8:02pm on Sunday. End of the cycle - In the time leading up to the “New Moon” you may do banishings and other baneful magicks and healings that require blasting a disease away. The “tide change” from Dark to New occurs at 8:02am on Tuesday. Can you see the big Coma Berenices star cluster? Does your light pollution really hide it, or do you just not know exactly where to look? The cluster is 2/5 of the way from Denebola (Leo's tail) to the end of the Big Dipper's handle (Ursa Major's tail). The cluster is about 5° wide — a big, dim glow in at least a moderately dark sky. Its brightest members form an inverted Y that nearly fills a binocular view. Mercury (about magnitude –0.3 and fading) is very low in the west-northwest about 30 or 40 minutes after sundown. Don't confuse it with Capella far to its right, in the northwest. Pollux and Castor are above Mercury early in the week, and to the right of it by June 23rd. Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Taurus entered Gemini at 10:24pm last night…. Chiron, Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Yellow Harvest 6/17-18 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/15-17 – Waldport Beachcomber Days 6/17 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 2pm - Practical Craft (not this week) 8am-Noon Father’s Day Breakfast at the Moose Lodge 10am-Noon – Sand Castle & Sculpture contest (from Port to Bridge) 1pm – Sand Castle judging Noon – Raffle Winner announced 6/18 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 Treasure Chest Drawings start at Noon at Washington Federal Bank New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am 6/19, 7pm – Tuesday, Wicca 104 last class – At Anja’s 7/20 - Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Last Class!!!! Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am 6/28 - 5pm - Wicca 101-4 – Special Class on the History of Wicca!!!!!! (Donations will be accepted for Deb’s gas to get here from Eugene) Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Full Circle (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Goddess Remembered (discussion follows) 7/2 – Monday, Carl Neal Workshops 11am - Herb Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows) The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3 Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon 7/3 – Tuesday, 6pm - Circle Barbeque 7/3 – Waldport Independence Day Celebration (fireworks begin at dusk) Planting 7/4 7/4 – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning Harvest 7/5-6 7/5, Thursday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 5pm – Wicca 102 begins 7/6, Friday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing Howl’s Moving Castle (discussion follows) Planting 7/7-8 7/7 – Saturday, Readings by Angelica Rose 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 4pm – Lupa, Therianthropy 101 (1 hour) Lupa Bi 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (discussion follows) 7/8 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 (no class this week) 10am – Lupa, Writer's Q&A (1 - 1.5 hours) Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) 3pm – Discussion follows movie July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org Harvest 7/9-11 7/11 – 7pm – House Capuchin meeting at Ancient Light Planting 7/12-13 7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am Harvest 7/14-15 Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am Planting 7/17-18 7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm 7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 7/20 – Ramadan Begins Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20 Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am 7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through Planting 7/26-27 Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm ---------------------- 8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon Harvest 8-2 Planting 8/3-8/5 Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons Harvest 8-6-7 Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 17, 2012 Rise Set Actual Time 5:31 AM PDT 9:03 PM PDT Civil Twilight 4:54 AM PDT 9:40 PM PDT Nautical Twilight 4:05 AM PDT 10:28 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight 3:02 AM PDT 11:31 PM PDT Moon 4:06 AM PDT 7:35 PM PDT Length Of Visible Light 16h 45m Length of Day 15h 32m Tomorrow will be 0m 11s longer. Waning Crescent, 4% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible Su 17 Low 6:19 AM -0.5 5:31 AM Rise 4:07 AM 6 17 High 12:50 PM 5.7 9:03 PM Set 7:35 PM 17 Low 5:56 PM 2.9 17 High 11:46 PM 7.6 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – At least once a day sit and do nothing! * **** * Journal Prompt – What do you think? - What do you think of someone who has bad manners? * **** * Quotes If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me. - Chinese Proverbs If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. - Dave Barry If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa If you want to be a holy man, you've got to be committed. When you make a decision you cannot waver in any way. You'd never see Gandhi during a hunger strike sneaking into the kitchen in the middle of the night. 'Gandhi...what are you doing down there?' 'Umm, I thought I heard a prowler...and I was going to hit him over the head with this big bowl of potato salad.' - Jim Carrey THE CRIMSON LEAF I watched as one small crimson leaf clung to the barren branch, Sad to see all that brilliant color fall to the ground to die. It was fast approaching winter, and I would miss the bright colors. Sometimes I feel like that small crimson leaf, hanging on, Reluctant to let go, afraid that my individuality will be destroyed; But still I hold on to you, afraid and not really trusting your love. I know I am but the latest of many, but my personality is bright, I am caring and I have brought you much happiness and love. Still, there exists in you a timing clock that rings when things are over; And affairs are always over before two years have passed by. All the brightness, passion and intelligence of my nature Have been directed at pleasing you and bringing joy into your life... But I have always known in my heart that it was one-way only. I have not the value to you that I have had to others, that did not Have your deep place in my heart. Ironic that we cannot chose The ones that we will love. I feel like that bright leaf, beautiful for a time, but that will disappear Forever. Already my passionate love has begun to pall on you, And even my bright red hair is dimming and becoming paler.... Before long my heart will break; and you will tramp my scarlet self Under your feet, as you go out my door. Then you will hunt for the Next bright hopeful, that will give too much and receive too little, Only to be trampled at the last. Remember that my temper is fierce, like my scarlet hair. The more You turn cold, the more my temper also becomes a cold anger, And that is the most dangerous kind of all. Remember the old saying, "Revenge is a dish Best eaten cold," and beware - © Copyright 10/5/05, Beth Johnson (Mystic Amazon) * **** * Magick – Litha Mom McCoy’s Lemon Chess Pie – Gordon Ireland - (Makes one nine inch pie) 1 unbaked pie shell 2 cups granulated sugar 1 tablespoon flour 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch 1 tablespoon corn meal 4 eggs 1/4 cup milk 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened 1/2 cup real lemon juice 1/4 cup grated lemon peel 1. Preheat oven to 375 F. 2. Place unbaked pie shell in a deep-dish pie pan. 3. Mix the sugar, flour, cornstarch and cornmeal, throughly 4. Then add eggs, milk, butter, lemon juice, and lemon peel. 5. Beat until smooth. Pour mixture into the pie shell and bake for about 40 minutes or until top is golden brown. Baklava From Cookie Recipe.com - Makes 2 dozen. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7039/Ash linCB.html This Near Eastern pastry is made of many layers of paper-thin dough with a filling usually of honey and ground nuts. If you like honey, you'll probably like Baklava. 2 cups unsalted butter 1/2 pound of phyllo dough 2 cups chopped pecans 1 1/2 tablespoons cloves, whole 3 cups water 1/3 cup white sugar 1 cinnamon stick 1 cup honey 1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. 2. Melt the butter over low heat. 3. Pour 2 tablespoons of the butter into the bottom of a 13 x 9 inch baking pan. 4. Layer 3 sheets of the phyllo dough in the pan. Trim dough to fit. 5. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of pecans over the phyllo dough. 6. Layer 3 more sheets of dough and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of pecans. 7. Continue dough - pecan layers until pan is 3/4 full. 8. With a sharp knife, score phyllo dough to form diamonds. 9. Press a clove at each end of the diamonds. 10. Pour remaining butter over the dough. 11. Bake 45 to 50 minutes, until dough is golden brown. 12. While dough is baking, combine the sugar, water and cinnamon stick in medium saucepan. 13. Bring to boil, stirring constantly. 14. Simmer for 10 minutes. 15. Add the honey and simmer for 2 minutes longer. 16. Remove from heat and discard cinnamon stick. 17. Pour honey mixture over hot baklava. 18. Let cool on wire racks. 19. Cut into diamonds. LAVENDER ICE CREAM – 14 oz. whole milk 1 1/2 oz. fresh lavender flowers and leaves 2 oz. crystallized ginger, minced 1 cup sugar 3 egg yolks 2 cups heavy whipping cream 1. In a saucepan, slowly heat the milk to approximately 200 degrees F. 2. Remove from heat, add the lavender flowers, and steep for 15 minutes. 3. While it is still warm, strain the milk through a cheesecloth. 4. Add the ginger and sugar to the milk. 5. Place the egg yolks in a small bowl and pour in half of the milk mixture. 6. Stir the mixture with a spoon, and then pour it back into the saucepan. 7. Place the pan over low heat and cook until the mixture is approximately 200 degrees F. 8. Remove the saucepan from the heat and stir in the whipping cream. 9. Refrigerate the mixture until it is well chilled, then process in any ice cream machine. Quick method: - Soften high-quality vanilla ice cream, add the lavender and re-freeze. Leave in the freezer for at least one day. Peach Cobbler with Vanilla Ice Cream Ingredients: In the 9" x 13" UNGREASED pan, layer the ingredients in this specific order: 20 ounce can of crushed pineapple, undrained 1 pound fruit of your choice 1 pound of peaches box of cake mix chopped pecans melted butter sugar Directions: 1. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 45 minutes, until golden brown. 2. Let stand until lukewarm. 3. Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. 4. You can reheat individual cobbler servings for 1 minute in microwave. 5. To reheat the whole pan, bake for 350 degrees for 10 minutes. * **** * Energy list 6/12/12 – Wanting to have a baby and it’s taking a while. 6/11/12 – Had brain surgery today for a right brain cancerous tumor. 6/6/12 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4/12 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! Update 6/7 – She’s quit smoking, is up and running around, but still coughing pretty hard. 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. * **** * Silliness - Rabbi in the Catholic Hospital Rabbi Levy had to spend time in a Catholic hospital. He became friends with the Sister who was a nurse there. One day, she came into his room and noticed that the crucifix on the wall was missing. She asked him good-naturedly, "Rabbi, what have you done with the crucifix?" "Oh, sister," chuckled Rabbi Levy, "I just figured one suffering Jew in this room was enough." View (0) Comments For This Post
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Today’s the big day! Beachcomber Parade Day! …and with all the other fun stuff! We’re actually aiming to be at the shop by 8:30. You’re welcome to set up out front. Bring your chairs. Here’s the schedule: 10am-6pm - Souvenir Green Screen Portraits (at Ancient Light) 11am - Herb Workshop (not this week) Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler (not this week) 3pm - Sewing Workshop (not this week) 7-10am – Sunrise Breakfast Lions Club at Community/Senior Center 8am – Windermere Wet & Wild 5K Walk/Run, starts at Bayshore Beach Club 9am-4pm Dunk Tank – Waldport Boosters High School Class, West side of Firehouse 9am – Parade Registration at Waldport High School 10am – Vendor Fair Opens 10-4pm Waldport Boosters Chicken BBQ 10-5 Catholic Church Strawberry Short Cake Sale 11am-3pm Fire Department Sausage BBQ NOON – PARADE Noon - ? Moose Kitchen Open with limited menu 1-4pm Flounder Inn Beer Garden and Music 1-3pm Kids Zone & Moose Rootbeer Float Garden (behind Mims) 2-3pm – Oregon Coast Wind Ensemble (Community Center) 3-5pm – Adult Games (behind Mims) 4pm – Adult Tricycle Jousting – Bring your own tricycle 5-11pm – Moose Lodge Street Dance 8pm-Midnight – Flounder Inn – Live Music by 80 Prrof Country 8:30-9pm – Sol Fire Dancers (in front of Moose Lodge) Wow! If you haven’t been around on Parade Day before, both 101 and 34 shut down for the parade and traffic is really slow both before and after. The parade comes West down 34 from the high school, turns South on 101 at the stoplight and ends at Grand Central Pizza. It’s hard to park in town. That’s why I’m coming down early. I’ll get the car parked and Tempus can ride down on his bike, later. It’s 54F already and supposed to go up to 72. The computer says it’s clear, but there’s some kind of cloud obscuring the sunlight at the moment, even though the view through the skylights is very blue. A chickadee just dropped directly out of the clematis onto the bird feeder. That was a little startling, and there’s a grosbeak in the planter. No time for the garden this morning and I’m hoping that since Tempus is going to come down on his bike he’s going to pick the rose petals. Tempus spent most of our ½ hour outside before we headed for the shop yesterday yanking up escaped rugosas… If you want some and yell quick, the ones he pulled up will still be viable today, and I can get them into water for you. I did a little weeding in the pinks and was going to start in the dug up spot, but it’s still too wet. Maybe late this evening…or maybe Sunday night…. Tempus got going on sorting out and setting up the back of the shop early on, but then had to run some errands. Marius worked with him and Willow on his techniques for doing the pictures and we ran several sets during the day, trying to get the lighting right. Except for the “foot puddles” from shadows below skirts we’ve got that sorted out. …and those vanish with the foregrounds that I put together for the picture…although the bright yellow sandcastle was startling. I’m going to fix that….. Fawkes drove down and visited for a while. He had some things to drop off for various people and it was awfully good to see him. It was also his last day with the car he’s been using, so he figured he’d come down to say hi, since he missed us all, too. I finally got to print some flyers and gave batches to Willow and Marius and Tempus is going to put some around Waldport. I have a picture that I’ll be putting up on Facebook once I get down to the shop We didn’t get as far as getting into the garden. It was almost dark when we got in and 10:30 before we finished supper and then we went right to bed. So…heading out, now! See you at the parade! The shop opens at 10 today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** NASA Science News for June 15, 2012 - A question has been troubling astronomers: Why won't the supernova explode? While real stars blow up, computer models of massive dying stars do not result in much of a bang. NASA has launched a new observatory named "NuSTAR" to seek out the missing physics of stellar explosions. FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/15jun_nustar/ *** Space Weather News for June 14, 2012 - http://spaceweather.com DOUBLE CME: Active sunspot AR1504 is facing Earth and hurling coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in our direction. A fast-moving CME that left the sun on June 14th is expected to scoop up another CME already en route and deliver a double-blow to Earth's magnetic field on June 16th. Weak-to-moderate geomagnetic storms are possible when the clouds arrive. Check http://spaceweather.com for images and updates. *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is a waning crescent. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Hecate’s Brooch – 3-5 days before New Moon – Best time for Releasing Rituals. It’s the last few days before the new moon, the time of Hecate’s Brooch. This is the time that if you’re going to throw something out, or sweep the floors, or take stuff to Good Will, Do it! Rid yourself of negativity and begin the letting go process. Phase ends at 8:02pm on Sunday. If you're awake in early dawn Sunday morning, look low in the east-northeast for the thin waning crescent Moon close to Jupiter. As dawn brightens look for Venus 9° to Jupiter's lower left. Bring binoculars. Every morning, Jupiter and Venus are getting higher and easier in the dawn. Venus (magnitude –4.3), after transiting the Sun on June 5th, is now deep in the glow of dawn. Look for it low in the east-northeast before sunrise. Don't confuse Venus with Jupiter to its upper right. The two planets are 9° apart on the morning of June 16th and 6° apart on June 23th. Below or lower right of Venus twinkles much fainter Aldebaran; use binoculars as daybreak brightens. Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets, are on their way up for a grand showing in the morning sky this summer. Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Taurus Chiron, Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Brown Planting 6/15-16 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/15-17 – Waldport Beachcomber Days 6/16 – Saturday, 10am-6pm - Souvenir Green Screen Portraits (at Ancient Light) 11am - Herb Workshop (not this week) Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler (not this week) 3pm - Sewing Workshop (not this week) 7-10am – Sunrise Breakfast Lions Club at Community/Senior Center 8am – Windermere Wet & Wild 5K Walk/Run, starts at Bayshore Beach Club 9am-4pm Dunk Tank – Waldport Boosters High School Class, West side of Firehouse 9am – Parade Registration at Waldport High School 10am – Vendor Fair Opens 10-4pm Waldport Boosters Chicken BBQ 10-5 Catholic Church Strawberry Short Cake Sale 11am-3pm Fire Department Sausage BBQ NOON – PARADE Noon - ? Moose Kitchen Open with limited menu 1-4pm Flounder Inn Beer Garden and Music 1-3pm Kids Zone & Moose Rootbeer Float Garden (behind Mims) 2-3pm – Oregon Coast Wind Ensemble (Community Center) 3-5pm – Adult Games (behind Mims) 4pm – Adult Tricycle Jousting – Bring your own tricycle 5-11pm – Moose Lodge Street Dance 8pm-Midnight – Flounder Inn – Live Music by 80 Prrof Country 8:30-9pm – Sol Fire Dancers (in front of Moose Lodge) Harvest 6/17-18 6/17 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 2pm - Practical Craft (not this week) 8am-Noon Father’s Day Breakfast at the Moose Lodge 10am-Noon – Sand Castle & Sculpture contest (from Port to Bridge) 1pm – Sand Castle judging Noon – Raffle Winner announced 6/18 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 Treasure Chest Drawings start at Noon at Washington Federal Bank New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am 6/19, 7pm – Tuesday, Wicca 104 last class – At Anja’s 7/20 - Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Last Class!!!! Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am 6/28 - 5pm - Wicca 101-4 – Special Class on the History of Wicca!!!!!! (Donations will be accepted for Deb’s gas to get here from Eugene) Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Full Circle (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Goddess Remembered (discussion follows) 7/2 – Monday, Carl Neal Workshops 11am - Herb Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows) The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3 Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon 7/3 – Tuesday, 6pm - Circle Barbeque 7/3 – Waldport Independence Day Celebration (fireworks begin at dusk) Planting 7/4 7/4 – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning Harvest 7/5-6 7/5, Thursday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 5pm – Wicca 102 begins 7/6, Friday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing Howl’s Moving Castle (discussion follows) Planting 7/7-8 7/7 – Saturday, Readings by Angelica Rose 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 4pm – Lupa, Therianthropy 101 (1 hour) Lupa Bi 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (discussion follows) 7/8 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 (no class this week) 10am – Lupa, Writer's Q&A (1 - 1.5 hours) Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) 3pm – Discussion follows movie July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org Harvest 7/9-11 Planting 7/12-13 7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am Harvest 7/14-15 Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am Planting 7/17-18 7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm 7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 7/20 – Ramadan Begins Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20 Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am 7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through Planting 7/26-27 Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm ---------------------- 8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon Harvest 8-2 Planting 8/3-8/5 Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons Harvest 8-6-7 Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 16, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:31 AM PDT, 9:03 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:54 AM PDT, 9:39 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:05 AM PDT, 10:28 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:03 AM PDT, 11:31 PM PDT Moon, 3:27 AM PDT, 6:41 PM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 45m Length of Day, 15h 31m Tomorrow will be 0m 16s longer. Waning Crescent, 8% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible Sa 16 Low 5:40 AM -0.2 5:31 AM Rise 3:28 AM 12 16 High 12:08 PM 5.4 9:03 PM Set 6:41 PM 16 Low 5:13 PM 2.9 16 High 11:07 PM 7.5 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. * **** * Journal Prompt – Expository - Write about the best teacher you have ever had. What made that teacher so special? * **** * Quotes How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! - George Elliston How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success. - Lewis Morris I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town. - William Howard Taft (1857-1930) US President (27) I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. After my father died, the book that sort of saved my life was Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Because of that experience, I firmly believe there are... books whose greatness actually enables you to live, to do something. And sometimes, human beings need story and narrative more than they need nourishment and food. - Actress Emma Thompson I don't need the primrose, or the blood of the vine; I am drunk on negation, not on affirmation. I am a hawk, I love to catch living prey; I don’t circle like a vulture around corpses. Vulture, come here quickly! Dare to become a hawk! Pitch "vulturehood" into the cauldron, become pure. Then give up even the attributes of the hawk, Soar higher and transform your essence. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) * **** * Magick – Litha Hotogov Mailgan - 6/22 Today's Goddess: White Nights (Russia) Themes: Sky; Tradition; Arts Symbol: Pale Light About Hotogov Mailgan: In Siberia, Hotogov Mailgan illuminates the night sky with her heavenly sparkle. She is the Queen of the Sky, a creative force for personal empowerment, and the manifester of the life energies in and around us. To Do Today: Between June 21 and June 29 the skies in Russia always appear light gray at night because of the northern location. The effect throughout St. Petersburg is very magical, casting unique shadows on the lavender, pink, and yellow pastel-colored buildings. To celebrate this beauty, the citizens enjoy traditional Russian ballets, theatrical performances, and music. So, get out the theme music from Dr. Zhivago, rent a ballet featuring Barishnikov, or cook yourself up some Russian dumplings (varnekey) and invite this goddess to join you. If you perform any magic today, try putting up some pastel-colored curtains around the space to filter the outside light so it suits Hotogove Mailgan. Or darken the room and use glow-in-the-dark stars to mark the magical circle so you're literally surrounded by her power. Try taking a bubble bath and dotting the surface of the water with glitter to look like Hotogov Mailgan's night sky. Then sit, relax, and meditate, absorbing the hopeful, dreamy energy that her stars inspire in people everywhere. )0( By Patricia Telesco~ From "365 Goddess" and GrannyMoon's Morning Feast * **** * Energy list 6/12/12 – Wanting to have a baby and it’s taking a while. 6/11/12 – Had brain surgery today for a right brain cancerous tumor. 6/6/12 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4/12 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! Update 6/7 – She’s quit smoking, is up and running around, but still coughing pretty hard. 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. * **** * Silliness - GCF: Hashing It Out I was working as a short-order cook at two restaurants in the same neighborhood. On a Saturday night, I was finishing up the dinner shift at one restaurant and hurrying to report to work at the second place, but I was delayed because one table kept sending back an order of hash browns, insisting they were cold. I replaced them several times, but still the customers were dissatisfied. When I was able to leave, I raced out the door and arrived at my second job. A server immediately handed me my first order. "Make sure these hash browns are hot," she said, "because these people just left a restaurant down the street that kept serving them cold ones." View (0) Comments For This Post
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A thread of spider-silk is strung from one of the herbs in the railing planter to the fuchsia basket, sunlight gleaming on it. The sun is shining and the sky is a brilliant blue with puffy white bits and high streaky bits of cloud. It’s only 50, but it’s supposed to get into the high 60’s today. There’s a towhee in the railing planter pecking at something and sparrows on the feeder. We’re going to get outside for a little this morning. I have some things that Tempus needs to help me with. There are roses that I can’t reach under the alder and some rugosas to pull around the artichoke. Yesterday he set up the compost ring, but I need a few more places spaded up. I’m hoping we’re going to spend a good productive ½ hour or so before we head to the shop. Yesterday’s picture of the deer in our yard went up here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.11069359 69313.13175.1704231146&type=3&l=66354e659c I don’t know if the link will work for everyone. I dropped Tempus at the shop yesterday morning and then came back up to the house. He spent most of the day sorting papers. I spent most of it sorting Café Press after I got the Green Screen background done for Beachcomber’s. I did take a hap in the early afternoon, knowing that I had to be rested for the weekend…and then I slept for almost 9 hours last night. Hmm…. In the late afternoon I started spending time in the garden. I harvested buttercups, calendula, cinquefoil, a fair amount of yarrow (by mistake) and an odd plant that I’m going to look up when I get to the shop. It looks a lot like clover, but it vines, somehow…. Today we’re starting to do the green screens. Marius is going to be training Tempus and Willow on his techniques. I have to print some flyers and then those can go to Newport and Yachats as well as Waldport. I’ll get a picture up once we have one. The festivities begin tonight. Here’s the schedule: Noon-6pm – Souvenir Green Screen Portraits, Ancient Light 7-11pm, Live Music & Open Air Dance at the Salty Dawg 7-10pm, Karaoke Contest at the Moose Lodge 9-10pm, Bonfire behind the Interpretive Center The shop opens at 10 today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Space Weather News for June 14, 2012 - http://spaceweather.com DOUBLE CME: Active sunspot AR1504 is facing Earth and hurling coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in our direction. A fast-moving CME that left the sun on June 14th is expected to scoop up another CME already en route and deliver a double-blow to Earth's magnetic field on June 16th. Weak-to-moderate geomagnetic storms are possible when the clouds arrive. Check http://spaceweather.com for images and updates. *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is a waning crescent. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Hecate’s Brooch – 3-5 days before New Moon – Best time for Releasing Rituals. It’s the last few days before the new moon, the time of Hecate’s Brooch. This is the time that if you’re going to throw something out, or sweep the floors, or take stuff to Good Will, Do it! Rid yourself of negativity and begin the letting go process. Phase ends at 8:02pm on Sunday. With summer beginning in just five days, Scorpius is already rearing up in the southeast at nightfall. Its brightest star is orange-red Antares. The "outrigger" stars of Antares are just below and upper right of it. Farther upper right is the row of stars marking Scorpius's head. This is a grand area to explore with a sky atlas and binoculars. Mercury (about magnitude –0.8) is very low in the west-northwest about 30 or 40 minutes after sundown. Don't confuse it with Capella well to its upper right, in the northwest. Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Taurus Chiron, Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Purple Planting 6/15-16 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/15-17 – Waldport Beachcomber Days 6/15 – Friday - Souvenir Green Screen Portraits Noon-6pm 7-11pm, Live Music & Open Air Dance at the Salty Dawg 7-10pm, Karaoke Contest at the Moose Lodge 9-10pm, Bonfire behind the Interpretive Center 6/16 – Saturday, 10am-6pm - Souvenir Green Screen Portraits (at Ancient Light) 11am - Herb Workshop (not this week) Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler (not this week) 3pm - Sewing Workshop (not this week) 7-10am – Sunrise Breakfast Lions Club at Community/Senior Center 8am – Windermere Wet & Wild 5K Walk/Run, starts at Bayshore Beach Club 9am-4pm Dunk Tank – Waldport Boosters High School Class, West side of Firehouse 9am – Parade Registration at Waldport High School 10am – Vendor Fair Opens 10-4pm Waldport Boosters Chicken BBQ 10-5 Catholic Church Strawberry Short Cake Sale 11am-3pm Fire Department Sausage BBQ NOON – PARADE Noon - ? Moose Kitchen Open with limited menu 1-4pm Flounder Inn Beer Garden and Music 1-3pm Kids Zone & Moose Rootbeer Float Garden (behind Mims) 2-3pm – Oregon Coast Wind Ensemble (Community Center) 3-5pm – Adult Games (behind Mims) 4pm – Adult Tricycle Jousting – Bring your own tricycle 5-11pm – Moose Lodge Street Dance 8pm-Midnight – Flounder Inn – Live Music by 80 Prrof Country 8:30-9pm – Sol Fire Dancers (in front of Moose Lodge) Harvest 6/17-18 6/17 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 2pm - Practical Craft (not this week) 8am-Noon Father’s Day Breakfast at the Moose Lodge 10am-Noon – Sand Castle & Sculpture contest (from Port to Bridge) 1pm – Sand Castle judging Noon – Raffle Winner announced 6/18 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 Treasure Chest Drawings start at Noon at Washington Federal Bank New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Last Class!!!! Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am 6/28 - 5pm - Wicca 101-4 – Special Class on the History of Wicca!!!!!! (Donations will be accepted for Deb’s gas to get here from Eugene) Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Full Circle (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Goddess Remembered (discussion follows) 7/2 – Monday, Carl Neal Workshops 11am - Herb Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows) The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3 Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon 7/3 – Tuesday, 6pm - Circle Barbeque 7/3 – Waldport Independence Day Celebration (fireworks begin at dusk) Planting 7/4 7/4 – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning Harvest 7/5-6 7/5, Thursday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 5pm – Wicca 102 begins 7/6, Friday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing Howl’s Moving Castle (discussion follows) Planting 7/7-8 7/7 – Saturday, Readings by Angelica Rose 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 4pm – Lupa, Therianthropy 101 (1 hour) Lupa Bi 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (discussion follows) 7/8 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 (no class this week) 10am – Lupa, Writer's Q&A (1 - 1.5 hours) Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) 3pm – Discussion follows movie July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org Harvest 7/9-11 Planting 7/12-13 7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am Harvest 7/14-15 Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am Planting 7/17-18 7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm 7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 7/20 – Ramadan Begins Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20 Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am 7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through Planting 7/26-27 Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm ---------------------- 8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon Harvest 8-2 Planting 8/3-8/5 Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons Harvest 8-6-7 Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com un. 15, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:31 AM PDT, 9:02 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:54 AM PDT, 9:39 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:05 AM PDT, 10:27 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:03 AM PDT, 11:30 PM PDT Moon, 2:53 AM PDT, 5:43 PM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 45m Length of Day, 15h 31m Tomorrow will be 0m 21s longer. Waning Crescent, 14% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible F 15 Low 4:58 AM 0.2 5:31 AM Rise 2:54 AM 19 15 High 11:18 AM 5.2 9:03 PM Set 5:44 PM 15 Low 4:25 PM 2.7 15 High 10:28 PM 7.4 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Nothing is so bad that some good may not come of it. * **** * Journal Prompt – Current Affairs - List ways your life would be different if you could never again use a telephone. * **** * Quotes Each day is a brand new day where I have the power to create and design what's possible! - Hanns-Oskar Porr Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. - Claude Monet (1840-1926) French landscape painter Forgiveness means letting go of the past. - Gerald Jampolsky Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. - Truman Capote (1924-1984) US writer Song Of Gratitude Thank you Sun for shining, Thank you light of day, Thank you night for falling, And stars that come our way, Thank you mighty splendor That seasons bring to share Thank you beauty shining For us everywhere. Thank you little children That keep us young at heart, Thank you cycles circling That bring us each new start, Thank you lovely flowers And thank you fertile seeds, Thank you gifts that come to us In answer to our needs. Time and tide flow onward, Life brings joy and pain-- Bright bouquets of memory, Things we can't explain As our hearts are opened We find how many care, The world becomes a garden, With much for all to share. Thank you blessed garden, Thank you useful space Thank you work that must be done, And thank you precious shade, Thank you tuneful Robin Singing in the tree, Thank you Beauty shining Everywhere to see. )0( Written and Submitted by Tasha Halpert www.heartwingslovenotes.com * **** * Magick – Litha Stangs Stangs are less commonly used forms of staves. Basically, it is a two-pronged staff (see illustration below). The easiest way to find one is to get one that has fallen off of a tree. You can also fashion the prong from papier-mâché, or commission a woodworker or metal smith to make one for you, if you have the means. The Stang is ancient Roman in origin, and was used to represent the two-faced god Janus, for whom the month of January is named. His two faces looked simultaneously into the past and future. Some traditions use stangs to mark the ritual entry and exit point of a magick circle, and see it as a portal between the physical world and the world of spirit. Decorate the stang in the same way you would a staff. You may also use it for the same purposes as a staff. http://www.wyldwytch.com/weavings/candb/06_05lith a/index.htm deborah To: Hearth_Witch@yahoogroups.com From: "deborah" Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:47:50 -0000 Subject: [Hearth_Witch] Midsummer Door Ornaments Midsummer Door Ornaments Items Needed: • Small broom, about 1' by 8" • Plastic seasonal flowers ~ {Roses, Wildflowers} • 3 different colours of ribbon, about 12"-16" long • Some thin wire ~ {strip garbage bag twist-ties of their paper coats} • Ornament oriented to the sabbat • Wire Cutters • Scissors Directions: (Note, if doing this project with children, please watch the scissors and wire cutters) Take the wire cutters and cut the flower stems to a height that is workable. With the wire, begin tying into them the seasonal flowers and the berries at the base of the broom nearest where the bristles begin. Make sure the leaves of the flowers lie flat against the bristles. This will be a great background for the colour of the flowers to contrast against. Take the berries and the fruit and lay them between the flowers and then tie them of with the wire. As soon as all of that is in, pick out your favourite Midsummer ornament. Take the ribbon and tie in a bow or a knot, either will do, around the wire. Let some of the extra drape around and under the broom. When you want to hang this, simply take a bit of wire and string it through the top of the broom handle and nail it to the door, hang it in a window or wherever you prefer. To hang it with the bristles pointing upwards, weave the wire up through the bristles and then twist it a few times for some extra strength. http://www.chroniclesofavalon.com/litha2003.html Wedding Gift Basket - (For Litha) - http://members.aol.com/ivycleartoes/wedding.html Small basket Seashells Craft miniatures of birds and butterflies False flowers and fruits Bells Any other natural wedding gift type items you can think of 1. Simply place all items aesthetically inside the basket, perhaps using it as a decoration for inside your feather wreath if you made one. 2. It is very tasteful to wind white flower garlands around the handle of the basket, and to perhaps even paint it yourself or, if you are talented in that area, to weave your own basket. To use this in a ritual, every item to be placed in the basket must have some kind of symbolic meaning. You can solemnly put each item in and simultaneously make a wish for the union of the deities, and pray for Their happiness; also it can be used as a parallel for any relationships in your life that you wish to succeed. * **** * Energy list 6/12/12 – Wanting to have a baby and it’s taking a while. 6/11/12 – Had brain surgery today for a right brain cancerous tumor. 6/6/12 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4/12 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! Update 6/7 – She’s quit smoking, is up and running around, but still coughing pretty hard. 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. * **** * Silliness - GCF: Accepting Authority A woman in our office was promoted to supervisor and some of the older male workers were having difficulty accepting her authority. While she instructed one such subordinate, he interrupted with, "Young lady, I'm old enough to be your father." "And," she replied, "I'm old enough to be your supervisor." View (0) Comments For This Post
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Hi, folks! Sunshine! Lots of sunshine! I got awakened (Tempus was long since up) by the phone ringing a little before 8am. There were deer in our backyard! Star put up a picture and I’ve shared it. I’ll try to add it to the newsletter. There’ve been a number of the gold birds, both the grosbeaks and the finches, on the feeders this morning. Take a look at the calendar below. I’ve added the various activities around town, just for the next couple of days. It’s going to be a fun weekend! Yesterday I harvested a lot of flowers on the way to the shop and then had to process those, plus the ones I’ve been neglecting all week before I could get the hood pattern put together. Once that was done I headed home and then I worked on updating Café Press all yesterday…and felt like I got nowhere….although I did! Today there’s no Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting, so I’m just heading for the City Council meeting at 2pm. There’s no class tonight, either, so I’m going to be trying to get myself ahead on newsletter stuff for the next few days. There may not be much of a note over the weekend, so I’m going to try to get some basics put together today. Lupa has gotten me the info for the two workshops that she’s doing during the July Fair. The info has gone up on the shop website, but here it is. Therianthropy – 4pm. Saturday, July 7 - Ever wondered what it's like to be a werewolf? Therianthropy is the modern interpretation of inherent internalized animal energy--in other words, being human and animal simultaneously. Learn about what therianthropy is (and isn't), what it's like to be a therian, and the magical implications thereof. The Pagan Publishing Industry – 10am, Sunday, July 8 - You've got some great ideas and you have friends who tell you that you should write a book. But is that all there is to the pagan writing industry? In this workshop, Lupa offers you her perspectives as an experienced writer and editor for Immanion Press/Megalithica Books, a pagan and occult publishing company. She'll tell you of the importance of promotion, marketing, and--of course--writing. If you want to get a book published, come to this workshop. Special emphasis on nonfiction. Ok, where’s the sunshine go? The computer still says it’s clear. What? The shop opens at 10 today. There’s no class tonight, so we’ll probably close on time. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is a waning crescent. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Waning Crescent Moon –Best time for beginning introspective magicks that are more long term. Phase ends at 8:02pm on Thursday. Globular star clusters are not all alike. But some do look more similar than others. With the Moon out of the sky, now is a fine time to compare and contrast many of them in your scope. See the Springtime Globular Cluster Tour in the June Sky & Telescope, page 62. Uranus (magnitude 5.9, at the Pisces-Cetus border) is in the east before the first light of dawn. Neptune (magnitude 7.9, in Aquarius) is in the southeast before dawn. Finder charts for Uranus and Neptune. Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Aries enters Taurus 9:22am Chiron, Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Turquoise Harvest 6/12-14 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm 6/14 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 (no class this week) Planting 6/15-16 6/15-17 – Waldport Beachcomber Days 6/15 – Friday - Souvenir Green Screen Portraits Noon-6pm 7-11pm, Live Music & Open Air Dance at the Salty Dawg 7-10pm, Karaoke Contest at the Moose Lodge 9-10pm, Bonfire behind the Interpretive Center 6/16 – Saturday, 10am-6pm - Souvenir Green Screen Portraits (at Ancient Light) 11am - Herb Workshop (not this week) Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler (not this week) 3pm - Sewing Workshop (not this week) 7-10am – Sunrise Breakfast Lions Club at Community/Senior Center 8am – Windermere Wet & Wild 5K Walk/Run, starts at Bayshore Beach Club 9am-4pm Dunk Tank – Waldport Boosters High School Class, West side of Firehouse 9am – Parade Registration at Waldport High School 10am – Vendor Fair Opens 10-4pm Waldport Boosters Chicken BBQ 10-5 Catholic Church Strawberry Short Cake Sale 11am-3pm Fire Department Sausage BBQ NOON – PARADE Noon - ? Moose Kitchen Open with limited menu 1-4pm Flounder Inn Beer Garden and Music 1-3pm Kids Zone & Moose Rootbeer Float Garden (behind Mims) 2-3pm – Oregon Coast Wind Ensemble (Community Center) 3-5pm – Adult Games (behind Mims) 4pm – Adult Tricycle Jousting – Bring your own tricycle 5-11pm – Moose Lodge Street Dance 8pm-Midnight – Flounder Inn – Live Music by 80 Prrof Country 8:30-9pm – Sol Fire Dancers (in front of Moose Lodge) Harvest 6/17-18 6/17 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 2pm - Practical Craft (not this week) 8am-Noon Father’s Day Breakfast at the Moose Lodge 10am-Noon – Sand Castle & Sculpture contest (from Port to Bridge) 1pm – Sand Castle judging Noon – Raffle Winner announced 6/18 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 Treasure Chest Drawings start at Noon at Washington Federal Bank New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am 6/28 - 5pm - Wicca 101-4 – Special Class on the History of Wicca!!!!!! (Donations will be accepted for Deb’s gas to get here from Eugene) Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Full Circle (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Goddess Remembered (discussion follows) 7/2 – Monday, Carl Neal Workshops 11am - Herb Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows) The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3 Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon 7/3 – Tuesday, 6pm - Circle Barbeque 7/3 – Waldport Independence Day Celebration (fireworks begin at dusk) Planting 7/4 7/4 – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning Harvest 7/5-6 7/5, Thursday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 5pm – Wicca 102 begins 7/6, Friday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing Howl’s Moving Castle (discussion follows) Planting 7/7-8 7/7 – Saturday, Readings by Angelica Rose 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 4pm – Lupa, Therianthropy 101 (1 hour) Lupa Bi 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (discussion follows) 7/8 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 (no class this week) 10am – Lupa, Writer's Q&A (1 - 1.5 hours) Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) 3pm – Discussion follows movie July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org Harvest 7/9-11 Planting 7/12-13 7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am Harvest 7/14-15 Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am Planting 7/17-18 7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm 7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 7/20 – Ramadan Begins Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20 Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am 7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through Planting 7/26-27 Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm ---------------------- 8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon Harvest 8-2 Planting 8/3-8/5 Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons Harvest 8-6-7 Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 14, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:31 AM PDT, 9:02 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:54 AM PDT, 9:39 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:06 AM PDT, 10:27 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:03 AM PDT, 11:30 PM PDT Moon, 2:24 AM PDT, 4:45 PM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 44m Length of Day, 15h 31m Tomorrow will be 0m 24s longer. Waning Crescent, 21% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible Th 14 Low 4:10 AM 0.7 5:31 AM Rise 2:24 AM 27 14 High 10:18 AM 4.9 9:02 PM Set 4:45 PM 14 Low 3:34 PM 2.5 14 High 9:46 PM 7.2 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Strive for progress, not perfection. * **** * Journal Prompt – Wiki - What are you saving up for? * **** * Quotes Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer. - Rita May Brown Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body. - Seneca Do your own useful work without regard to the honor or admiration your efforts might win from others. There is no such thing as vicarious merit. – Epictetus O Master of the wineshop, pour me a cup now! Don't say "tomorrow"; waiting brings despair. If you have no wine, pour Pharaoh's blood; The Moses of my soul has come to the meeting And his wine is the blood of the Enemy. Lions love hunting: how bloody their jaws and claws are! It is my blood that gushes all over them. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi * **** * Magick – Litha A Midsummer's Celebration - A history of St. John's Eve, the celebration of the sun. By Mike Nichols - Reprinted from The Witches' Sabbats website. Used with permission. The young maid stole through the cottage door, and blushed as she sought the Plant of pow'r; "Thou silver glow-worm, O lend me thy light, I must gather the mystic St. John's wort tonight, The wonderful herb, whose leaf will decide, if the coming year shall make me a bride." In addition to the four great festivals of the Pagan Celtic year, there are four lesser holidays as well: the two solstices, and the two equinoxes. In folklore, these are referred to as the four "quarter-days" of the year, and modern Witches call them the four "Lesser Sabbats," or the four "Low Holidays." The summer solstice is one of them. Technically, a solstice is an astronomical point and, due to the procession of the equinox, the date may vary by a few days depending on the year. The summer solstice occurs when the sun reaches the Tropic of Cancer, and we experience the longest day and the shortest night of the year. Astrologers know this as the date on which the sun enters the sign of Cancer. However, since most European peasants were not accomplished at reading an ephemeris or did not live close enough to Salisbury Plain to trot over to Stonehenge and sight down its main avenue, they celebrated the event on a fixed calendar date, June 24th. The slight forward displacement of the traditional date is the result of multitudinous calendrical changes down through the ages. It is analogous to the winter solstice celebration, which is astronomically on or about December 21st, but is celebrated on the traditional date of December 25th, Yule, later adopted by the Christians. Again, it must be remembered that the Celts reckoned their days from sundown to sundown, so the June 24th festivities actually begin on the previous sundown (our June 23rd). This was Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Eve. Which brings up another point: our modern calendars are quite misguided in suggesting that "summer begins" on the solstice. According to the old folk calendar, summer begins on May Day and ends on Lammas (August 1st), with the summer solstice, midway between the two, marking midsummer. This makes more logical sense than suggesting that summer begins on the day when the sun's power begins to wane and the days grow shorter. Although our Pagan ancestors probably preferred June 24th (and indeed most European folk festivals today use this date), the sensibility of modern Witches seems to prefer the actual solstice point, beginning the celebration on its eve, or the sunset immediately preceding the solstice point. Again, it gives modern Pagans a range of dates to choose from with, hopefully, a weekend embedded in it. Just as the Pagan midwinter celebration of Yule was adopted by Christians as Christmas (December 25th), so too the Pagan midsummer celebration was adopted by them as the feast of John the Baptist (June 24th). Occurring 180 degrees apart on the wheel of the year, the midwinter celebration commemorates the birth of Jesus, while the midsummer celebration commemorates the birth of John, the prophet who was born six months before Jesus in order to announce his arrival. Although modern Witches often refer to the holiday by the rather generic name of Midsummer's Eve, it is more probable that our Pagan ancestors of a few hundred years ago actually used the Christian name for the holiday, St. John's Eve. This is evident from the wealth of folklore that surrounds the summer solstice (i.e. that it is a night especially sacred to the faerie folk) but which is inevitably ascribed to "St. John's Eve," with no mention of the sun's position. It could also be argued that a Coven's claim to antiquity might be judged by what name it gives the holidays. (Incidentally, the name "Litha" for the holiday is a modern usage, possibly based on a Saxon word that means the opposite of Yule. Still, there is little historical justification for its use in this context.) But weren't our Pagan ancestors offended by the use of the name of a Christian saint for a pre-Christian holiday? Well, to begin with, their theological sensibilities may not have been as finely honed as our own. But secondly, and more importantly, St. John himself was often seen as a rather Pagan figure. He was, after all, called "the Oak King." His connection to the wilderness (from whence "the voice cried out") was often emphasized by the rustic nature of his shrines. Many statues show him as a horned figure (as is also the case with Moses). Christian iconographers mumble embarrassed explanations about "horns of light," while modern Pagans giggle and happily refer to such statues as "Pan the Baptist." And to clench matters, many depictions of John actually show him with the lower torso of a satyr, cloven hooves and all! Obviously, this kind of John the Baptist is more properly a Jack in the Green! Also obvious is that behind the medieval conception of St. John lies a distant, shadowy Pagan deity, perhaps the archetypal Wild Man of the Wood, whose face stares down at us through the foliate masks that adorn so much church architecture. Thus medieval Pagans may have had fewer problems adapting than we might suppose. In England, it was the ancient custom on St. John's Eve to light large bonfires after sundown, which served the double purpose of providing light to the revelers and warding off evil spirits. This was known as "setting the watch." People often jumped through the fires for good luck. In addition to these fires, the streets were lined with lanterns, and people carried cressets (pivoted lanterns atop poles) as they wandered from one bonfire to another. These wandering, garland-bedecked bands were called a "marching watch." Often they were attended by morris dancers, and traditional players dressed as a unicorn, a dragon, and six hobby-horse riders. Just as May Day was a time to renew the boundary on one's own property, so Midsummer's Eve was a time to ward the boundary of the city. Customs surrounding St. John's Eve are many and varied. At the very least, most young folk plan to stay up throughout the whole of this shortest night. Certain courageous souls might spend the night keeping watch in the center of a circle of standing stones. To do so would certainly result in either death, madness, or (hopefully) the power of inspiration to become a great poet or bard. (This is, by the way, identical to certain incidents in the first branch of the "Mabinogion.") This was also the night when the serpents of the island would roll themselves into a hissing, writhing ball in order to engender the "glain," also called the "serpent's egg," "snake stone," or "Druid's egg." Anyone in possession of this hard glass bubble would wield incredible magical powers. Even Merlyn himself (accompanied by his black dog) went in search of it, according to one ancient Welsh story. Snakes were not the only creatures active on Midsummer's Eve. According to British faery lore, this night was second only to Halloween for its importance to the wee folk, who especially enjoyed a ridling on such a fine summer's night. In order to see them, you had only to gather fern seed at the stroke of midnight and rub it onto your eyelids. But be sure to carry a little bit of rue in your pocket, or you might well be "pixie-led." Or, failing the rue, you might simply turn your jacket inside-out, which should keep you from harm's way. But if even this fails, you must seek out one of the "ley lines," the old straight tracks, and stay upon it to your destination. This will keep you safe from any malevolent power, as will crossing a stream of "living" (running) water. Other customs included decking the house (especially over the front door) with birch, fennel, St. John's wort, orpin, and white lilies. Five plants were thought to have special magical properties on this night: rue, roses, St. John's wort, vervain and trefoil. Indeed, Midsummer's Eve in Spain is called the "Night of the Verbena (Vervain)." St. John's wort was especially honored by young maidens who picked it in the hopes of divining a future lover. And the glow-worm came With its silvery flame, And sparkled and shone Through the night of St. John, And soon has the young maid her love-knot tied. There are also many mythical associations with the summer solstice, not the least of which concerns the seasonal life of the God of the sun. Inasmuch as I believe that I have recently discovered certain associations and correspondences not hitherto realized, I have elected to treat this subject in some depth in another essay. Suffice it to say here, I disagree with the generally accepted idea that the Sun-God meets his death at the summer solstice. I believe there is good reason to see the Sun-God at his zenith--his peak of power--on this day, and that his death at the hands of his rival would not occur for another quarter of a year. Material drawn from the Welsh mythos seems to support this thesis. In Irish mythology, Midsummer is the occasion of the first battle between the Fir Bolgs and the Tuatha De Danaan. Altogether, Midsummer is a favorite holiday for many Witches in that it is so hospitable to outdoor celebrations. The warm summer night seems to invite it. And if the celebrants are not in fact sky clad, then you may be fairly certain that the long ritual robes of winter have yielded place to short, tunic-style apparel. As with the longer gowns, tradition dictates that one should wear nothing underneath--the next best thing to skyclad, to be sure. (Incidentally, now you know the real answer to the old Scottish joke, "What is worn beneath the kilt?") The two chief icons of the holiday are the spear (symbol of the Sun-God in his glory) and the summer cauldron (symbol of the Goddess in her bounty). The precise meaning of these two symbols, which I believe I have recently discovered, will be explored in the essay on the death of Llew. But it is interesting to note here that modern Witches often use these same symbols in the Midsummer rituals. And one occasionally hears the alternative consecration formula, "As the spear is to the male, so the cauldron is to the female..." With these mythic associations, it is no wonder that Midsummer is such a joyous and magical occasion! * **** * Energy list 6/12/12 – Wanting to have a baby and it’s taking a while. 6/11/12 – Had brain surgery today for a right brain cancerous tumor. 6/6/12 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4/12 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! Update 6/7 – She’s quit smoking, is up and running around, but still coughing pretty hard. 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. * **** * Silliness - GCF: Fore! My 5-year-old nephew wanted to caddy for my brother's golf game. "You have to count my strokes," my brother told him. "How much is six plus nine plus eight?" "Five." answered the nephew. "Okay," my brother said, "let's go." View (0) Comments For This Post
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The world is all washed clean. The light is a little odd at the moment. There’s thick cloud where the sun ought to be and it’s shifted where the light is coming from to the south of where it actually is. It’s 54F and just a light breeze, just enough to stir the leaves of the clematis, but not the alder. Tempus re-filled all the feeders yesterday and I had plenty to watch to distract me from what I needed to get done. We haven’t seen any Stellar Jays for a while, but there was one little while when we had a dozen or so flying in and out and squabbling. There’s one over there again. He was sitting on the fuchsia basket and then dropped down and pecked at the bread. I’m surprised we haven’t had squirrels or chipmunks in the flat feeder. ..and there came and went a hummingbird. Speaking of hummingbirds….several radishes have gone to seed in the window box and a hummingbird spent a while yesterday drinking out of the blooms. I also had a long while with my Peterson Field Guide to Western Birds. I was trying to decide if I was ID-ing those golden birds right. They’re grosbeaks all right, but I wasn’t quite sure whether they might not be orioles. They aren’t. Luckily Peterson’s has little arrows to point out what will tell you which is which on the pictures! The problem is that they’re way orange for grosbeaks. It must be some local variation, but what was telling was the white wing spots on the males and an orange stripe on the side back of the head, and then the females/juveniles that were with them, that are *totally* different from orioles. A goldfinch just flew into the alder and then swooped past the porch. I got a good look! I thought it over and I’m cancelling the workshops/classes this Saturday. All of them conflict with the parade or other activities for Beachcomber’s. We’re doing Green Screens Friday and Saturday. We have a special class scheduled for Thursday 6/28 at 5pm on the History of Wicca by a local Gardnerian HPS. The New Wiccan Church is scheduling a lot of these talks in honor of Geraldmas (Gardner’s birthday month) and I thought it would be very interesting to have a Gardnerian perspective on this since most of us are from the eclectic end of the spectrum. Everyone is invited. There’s no charge for this event and it’s being set up for the class day between Wicca 103 and Wicca 102. We’ll be taking up a collection to pay for Deb’s gas, since she’s coming in from Eugene. I did get most of the schedule for the July Psychic Fair put together. I’ve got it below in the calendar and I sent it to Karin, but I think I’d better go over it again and it’s *still* incomplete. I didn’t get out to the garden yesterday. There was too much to do, and then Paul called and we had one of our hours-long calls and that put paid to the time I would have spent outdoors. It was far too soggy, anyway, not a hard rain, but mist-with-an-attitude, the kind that soaks you to the skin. I’m heading down to the shop this morning. We have to re-set the back of the shop so the Green Screen studio is accessible and I have fabrics to pull out and a hood pattern to set up. I keep thinking that there’s something more, but not sure what…. Anyway, Tempus will be there and I’ll be back down at 6:30 or so to close up since there’s a House Capuchin meeting at 7:30. The shop opens at 10 today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. 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Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is a waning crescent. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Waning Crescent Moon –Best time for beginning introspective magicks that are more long term. Phase ends at 8:02pm on Thursday. Mercury is becoming more easily visible after sunset. Look for it low in the west-northwest in the fading twilight. It forms a long, vertical triangle with Pollux and Castor above it. Early risers can watch the waning Moon march toward Jupiter and Venus, which are emerging this week from the sunrise glow. Look a third of the way from Arcturus to Vega for the dim semicircle of Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown. It has one modestly bright star, Alphecca. Two thirds of the way from Arcturus to Vega is the dim Keystone of Hercules. Mars (magnitude +0.6) shines orange near the hind foot of Leo, in the southwest at dusk and lower in the west as evening grows late. Mars is still less than halfway from Regulus (off to its lower right) to the Saturn-and-Spica pair (left). Mars will shoot the gap between Saturn and Spica in mid-August. In a telescope Mars is gibbous and tiny (about 7.3 arcseconds wide), continuing to fade and shrink. Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Aries Chiron, Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Red Harvest 6/12-14 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/13 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm 6/14 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 (no class this week) Planting 6/15-16 6/16 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop (not this week) Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler (not this week) 3pm - Sewing Workshop (not this week) 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days Harvest 6/17-18 6/17 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft (not this week) 6/18 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) 6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am 6/28 - 5pm - Wicca 101-4 – Special Class on the History of Wicca!!!!!! (Donations will be accepted for Deb’s gas to get here from Eugene) Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Full Circle (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Goddess Remembered (discussion follows) 7/2 – Monday, Carl Neal Workshops 11am - Herb Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows) The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3 Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon 7/3 – Tuesday, 6pm - Circle Barbeque 7/3 – Waldport Independence Day Celebration (fireworks begin at dusk) Planting 7/4 7/4 – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning Harvest 7/5-6 7/5, Thursday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 5pm – Wicca 102 begins 7/6, Friday – 11am - Herb Workshop 3pm – Sewing Workshop 7pm – Movie Night, showing Howl’s Moving Castle (discussion follows) Planting 7/7-8 7/7 – Saturday, Readings by Angelica Rose 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 4pm - Therianthropy 101 (1 hour) Lupa Bi 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 (no class this week) Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie 7/8 – 10am - Writer's Q&A (1 - 1.5 hours) July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org Harvest 7/9-11 Planting 7/12-13 7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am Harvest 7/14-15 Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am Planting 7/17-18 7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm 7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 7/20 – Ramadan Begins Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20 Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am 7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through Planting 7/26-27 Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm ---------------------- 8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon Harvest 8-2 Planting 8/3-8/5 Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons Harvest 8-6-7 Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 13, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:31 AM PDT, 9:01 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:54 AM PDT, 9:38 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:06 AM PDT, 10:26 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:03 AM PDT, 11:29 PM PDT Moon, 1:57 AM PDT, 3:45 PM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 44m Length of Day, 15h 30m Tomorrow will be 0m 28s longer. Waning Crescent, 29% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible W 13 Low 3:14 AM 1.2 5:31 AM Rise 1:57 AM 36 13 High 9:06 AM 4.8 9:02 PM Set 3:45 PM 13 Low 2:39 PM 2.1 13 High 9:03 PM 7.1 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Many a child who watches television for hours and hours will go down in history, not to mention math, English, and geography. * **** * Journal Prompt – Multicultural Connections - What country did one of your ancestors come from? Explain how you think your life would have been different if you were living in that country today. * **** * Quotes As soon as you start doing what you always wanted to be doing, you'll want to be doing something else. - First Law of Living Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Being preoccupied with problems smothers the gratitude for the good we have in our lives. - Phil Reinhardt Business today consists in persuading crowds. - Thomas Stearnes Eliot (1888-1965) US writer SONG OF THE VALKYRIE The wind is at my back. It is raging, it is blowing And I feel myself Blown forward with it. I scream a battle cry… And this is my battle song: To Freya! To Odin! We own the Earth With our spears; We own the sky With our flying steeds. Sing battle songs To wake our warrior Spirits; Swirl the wind higher, Stronger! We pound our spears Upon the ground as we Sing, We clash our swords Upon our rounded shields. Our armor shines golden Our runes glow bright blue, Our steeds stomp their feet And sweep their wings In readiness. Hear ye our battle song! To Freya! To Odin! We own the Earth With our spears, We own the sky With our flying steeds. Mount up, Sisters! Put on your bright helmets And your falcon cloaks We ride the winds! We come, heroes… Valhalla awaits you! Onward to the battleground! Heroes’ brave spirits Flickering their last, Will call to us Blood to heated blood; And will come with us On our night ride. Onward to Valhalla We will go; The winds urging us onward, The birds in the sky Answering our cries With their own. To Odin! To Freya! We ride. - © Copyright 12/21/05, Beth Johnson (Mystic Amazon) * **** * Magick – Litha Strawberry-Carrot Tea Bread (3 views) From: herbalmuse Strawberry-Carrot Tea Bread Delicious Living Magazine -- Serves 16 / Instead of trans-fatty margarine or shortening, this treat uses canola oil, rich in monounsaturated fat, for tenderness and texture. Strawberries add natural sweetness; if you use frozen berries, drain all liquid before adding to batter. Tea Bread 1/2 cup canola oil 1 cup packed brown sugar or sucanat 2 eggs 1/2 cup nonfat vanilla yogurt 1/3 cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1-1/4 cups finely shredded carrots 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice 1/2 cup finely chopped strawberries, fresh or frozen and thawed 1/2 cup chopped walnuts Strawberry Glaze 1/3 cup puréed strawberries, fresh or frozen and thawed 1/2 cup nonfat vanilla yogurt 3 tablespoons powdered sugar 1. Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, mix oil and brown sugar or sucanat with an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, blending well. Add yogurt, water, and vanilla while continuing to beat. Add carrots and blend. 2. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Add dry ingredients to carrot mixture, blending for 2 minutes until batter is smooth. Gently fold in strawberries and walnuts. 3. Pour batter into a lightly greased and floured 12-cup tube or bundt pan. Bake 50–55 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool and invert onto a serving plate. 4. For glaze, mix puréed strawberries, yogurt, and powdered sugar in a small bowl. Drizzle entirely over cooled cake, or reserve to drizzle over each serving. My version Tea Bread 1/2 cup corn oil 1 cup packed brown sugar 2 eggs 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt 1/3 cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1-1/4 cups finely shredded carrots 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice 1/2 cup finely chopped strawberries, fresh or frozen and thawed 1/2 cup chopped hazelnuts Strawberry Glaze 1/3 cup puréed strawberries, fresh or frozen and thawed 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt 3 tablespoons powdered sugar 1. Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, mix oil and brown sugar with an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, blending well. Add yogurt, water, and vanilla while continuing to beat. Add carrots and blend. 2. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Add dry ingredients to carrot mixture, blending for 2 minutes until batter is smooth. Gently fold in strawberries and walnuts. 3. Pour batter into a lightly greased and floured 12-cup tube or bundt pan. Bake 50–55 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool and invert onto a serving plate. 4. For glaze, mix puréed strawberries, yogurt, and powdered sugar in a small bowl. Drizzle entirely over cooled cake, or reserve to drizzle over each serving. Solstice Herb Bread - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7039/Ash linCB.html 3 C. flour 1 tbsp. sugar 1 tsp. salt 1 pkg. dry active yeast 2 tbsp. chopped fresh chives 2 tsp. chopped fresh rosemary 1 tsp. fresh thyme 1 1/4 C. hot water 2 tbsp. Crisco 1. Mix 2 cups of the flour, sugar, salt and yeast in a large bowl. 2. Add herbs, water, and Crisco. 3. Beat slowly, stirring in remaining cup of flour until smooth. 4. Scrape batter from sides of bowl and let rise in a warm place for 35 minutes or until it doubles in bulk. 5. Punch down and beat with a spoon for about 15 seconds. 6. Place dough in a greased loaf pan, patting down and forming a loaf shape with your hands. 7. Cover and let rise again for about 30 minutes or until it again doubles in bulk. 8. Bake at 375 for 40-45 minutes. 9. Brush top with butter or margarine and remove from pan to cool. MORNING SUNSHINE MUFFINS - Makes 12 muffins. 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp. double-acting baking powder. ½ tsp. salt 1/4 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs 2 tbsp. melted butter 3/4 cup milk 3/4 cup chopped dates 2 tbsp. marigold petals, chopped 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. 2. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. 3. In a separate bowl beat eggs. 4. Mix in butter, milk, dates and marigold petals. 5. Add wet ingredients to dry, mixing just enough to evenly moisten. 6. Spoon mixture into greased muffin tins, filling halfway. 7. Bake for 15 to 20 min., or until tops are lightly browned. 8. Delicious served with marigold butter. BUTTERMILK SCONES - 3 cups Flour 1/3 cup Sugar 2 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda 3/4 teaspoon Salt 2 Tablespoons Butter 1 cup Buttermilk 3/4 cup Currants 1 teaspoon Grated Orange Rind 1 Tablespoon Heavy Cream 1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon 2 Tablespoons Sugar 1) Preheat oven to 425 degrees. 2) Use an ungreased baking sheet. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl. 3) Stir well with a fork to mix and fold air into batter. 4) Add the butter and cut into the flour mixture, using a pastry blender or two knives, or work in, using your fingertips, until the mixture looks like fresh bread crumbs. 5) Add the buttermilk, currants and orange rind. 6) Mix only until the dry ingredients are moistened. 7) Gather the dough into a ball and press so it holds together. 8) Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. 9) Knead lightly 12 times. 10) Pat the dough into a circle 1/2-inch thick. Glaze 11) In a small bowl combine the cream, cinnamon and sugar; stir to blend. 12) Brush the dough with the glaze. 13) Cut the dough into 18 pie-shaped pieces. 14) Place the scones 1 inch apart on the baking sheet. 15) Bake for about 12 minutes or until the tops are browned. 16) Serve hot with Orange Honey Butter. * **** * Energy list 6/12/12 – Wanting to have a baby and it’s taking a while. 6/11/12 – Had brain surgery today for a right brain cancerous tumor. 6/6/12 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4/12 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! Update 6/7 – She’s quit smoking, is up and running around, but still coughing pretty hard. 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. * **** * Silliness - GCF: The Horn One day, a man was driving with his four-year-old daughter and beeped his car horn by mistake. She turned and looked at him for an explanation. He said, "I did that by accident." She replied, "I know that, daddy." He replied, "How'd you know?" The girl said, "Because you didn't say 'JERK' afterwards!" View (0) Comments For This Post
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It’s supposed to be cooler than yesterday, but it’s already 58 and yesterday never got above 64 down near the water. It’s pretty breezy, although it’s not gusting past 10mph. I’m watching a sparrow pecking seed as monotonously as a mechanical bird. For aobuta minute there you could have used him for a metronome, then another sparrow flew in and they got to squabbling. I’ve seen five or six varieties of sparrows this morning. Not a lot happened yesterday. We had customers. I worked on putting together an order for Shoyeido incense and a couple of other places. I pecked a little at working on herbs and sewing and jewelry and such, but I never really did settle to anything. As soon as I did, something would happen, the phone would ring or a customer come in or I needed more tea and then I was all over again. The only thing I really accomplished was getting part of a schedule together for the psychic fair week. We’re setting up a children’s crafts class all during that week along with the 4 special guests. There will also be herb classes, so if you have requests, now’s the time to get ‘em in. When we got home I spent a while working on trying to dig some of the pinks that have naturalized into the path. I want to re-plant them in the front yard and let them naturalize there instead of grass, but there’s so much gravel in that pathway that I’m having trouble with the digging. I got a few loose, but Tempus and I are going to go out there together, he to dig and me to get the grass out and get ‘em ready for replanting. We also need to pick the species rose petals from under the alder. There are a *lot* this year! The clematis has draped a few long tendrils into the porch, but the most of the new growth is around the outside. I’ve got some that needs to be clipped off, since it’s dead, but it’s a very few branches. It’s really cool to look up into green leaves for a roof! Tempus did deal with the one section that was trying to lock us in. We have a few more of those to work on today. I also need to get more seeds into the railing boxes and to find a dish to go under the one pot that keeps drying out. I don’t know how much I’ll actually be able to do in the garden today with the weather, but I hope I can get some weeding in. It’s misting. It rained hard just as we were drifting off to sleep, but only for that little while. Occasionally the sun tried to break through, which it’s doing again, and it seems as though the world turns to a golden green. Tempus has already done laundry and I have my apples to make either a pie or apple crisp, plus I was to make some piroshki. …and the crows have found the bread and there was an evening grosbeak on the feeder, than a towhee, then a black-capped grosbeak. …Tempus says I should get them a napkins… gross beaks… The shop is closed on Tuesdays. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** NASA Science News for June 8, 2012 - Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/08jun_arcticbloom/ *** NASA Science News for June 11, 2012 - NASA has narrowed the landing zone for Mars rover Curiosity, which is due to reach the Red Planet in August. The rover will touch down closer to its science target, but also closer to the foot of a mountain slope that poses a landing hazard. FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/11jun_landingsite/ *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. 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Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is a waning crescent. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Waning Crescent Moon –Best time for beginning introspective magicks that are more long term. Phase ends at 8:02pm on Thursday. Look a third of the way from Arcturus to Vega for the dim semicircle of Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown. It has one modestly bright star, Alphecca. Two thirds of the way from Arcturus to Vega is the dim Keystone of Hercules. Mars (magnitude +0.6) shines orange near the hind foot of Leo, in the southwest at dusk and lower in the west as evening grows late. Mars is still less than halfway from Regulus (off to its lower right) to the Saturn-and-Spica pair (left). Mars will shoot the gap between Saturn and Spica in mid-August. In a telescope Mars is gibbous and tiny (about 7.3 arcseconds wide), continuing to fade and shrink. Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Aries Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Red Harvest 6/12-14 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/13 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm 6/14 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 Planting 6/15-16 6/16 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days Harvest 6/17-18 6/17 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft 6/18 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon July 3 – Waldport Independence Day, Circle Barbeque The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3 Planting 7/4 7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning Harvest 7/5-6 Planting 7/7-8 July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org Harvest 7/9-11 Planting 7/12-13 7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am Harvest 7/14-15 Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am Planting 7/17-18 7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm 7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 7/20 – Ramadan Begins Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20 Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am 7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through Planting 7/26-27 Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm ---------------------- 8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon Harvest 8-2 Planting 8/3-8/5 Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons Harvest 8-6-7 Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 12, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:31 AM PDT, 9:01 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:54 AM PDT, 9:38 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:06 AM PDT, 10:26 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:04 AM PDT, 11:28 PM PDT Moon, 1:32 AM PDT, 2:44 PM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 43m Length of Day, 15h 30m Tomorrow will be 0m 33s longer. Last Quarter, 38% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible Tu 12 Low 2:11 AM 1.5 5:31 AM Rise 1:32 AM 45 12 High 7:49 AM 4.9 9:01 PM Set 2:45 PM 12 Low 1:45 PM 1.5 12 High 8:18 PM 7.0 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Don't be so open-minded that your brains fall out. * **** * Journal Prompt – What is? - What is one goal or hope you have for the future? Explain why it is so important to you. * **** * Quotes All your dreams can come true...If you have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney Always do everything you ask of those you command. - George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945) US general Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) US first lady (33) Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. - Al Capp (1909-1979) US cartoonist Dance while you can shatter your own self And pluck out the cotton from the wound of self-obsession. Ordinary people dance and frolic I the square; Men of God dance in their own blood. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated * **** * Magick – Litha Antheia - Arretophoria (Greece) Today's Goddess: Themes: Promises; Friendship; Trust; Honor; Community; Love; Relationships Symbols: Gold-colored Items; Honey; Myrrh About Antheia: Since 800 B.C.E. Antheia has been known as the Greek Goddess of marriage, companionship, and good council. These attributes manifested themselves in a triple Goddess figure who flowered, sought a mate, and reached perfection. Today we ask her to bless our rites by flowering within our souls so we too can obtain spiritual perfection. To Do Today: In ancient Greece this festival of trust and friendship was held sometime between June and July. Each year, two maidens were given a special honey-laden diet and clothed in golden robes to take on a special trust. They delivered a package untouched to a secret place in a local temple, then spent the year in community service, never peeking inside the box. This sounds like a fun activity for couples or friends. Each person picks out a trust gift for the other and gives it to them to put in a special place, leaving it untouched for a year. The entire time the gift remains there unopened, Antheia will energize it and bless the people in that relationship, so don't get tempted to peek. Believe me when I say it's worth the wait. At the end of the year, don something gold, burn myrrh to create a sacred space in which Antheia dwells, and open the gifts, explaining the significance of the items. I guarantee it's a present you'll never forget. )0( By Patricia Telesco~ >From "365 Goddess" and GrannyMoon's Morning Feast * **** * Energy list 8/11/12 – Had brain surgery today for a right brain cancerous tumor. 6/6/12 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4/12 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! Update 6/7 – She’s quit smoking, is up and running around, but still coughing pretty hard. 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! Update 6/9 She’s ready to be off the list! Thank you! * **** * Silliness - GCF: Fancy Restaurant We were eating at one of the trendier restaurants in town when my friend pointed to the menu and told the waitress, "I'll have the 24." "Uh, Jim," I whispered, "that's the price, not the meal number." "Oh," he said. 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Wicca 101 at 7pm It’s already 60F and heading for 70! Are we actually going to get *summer*? This has been the morning for yellow birds, first goldfinches and now another of those grosbeaks. Crows apparently prefer dried potato shells to bread. Who knew? We’re doing an experiment on the improvised big bird feeder…. Not by intent, but that’s what it’s turned into…a survey… “Mr. Crow, do you prefer potato shells or bread?” “Caw!” “….and you, Mrs. Crow?” “ I made two more necklaces yesterday, both ocean theme. The chive oil tutorial http://www.ancientlight.info/resources/making-chiv e-oil.html Have you looked into any of our other tutorials? They’re very low tech, (not videos), so they load easily. Class yesterday was good, although everyone was twitchy and having trouble staying on track. I think we had 15 or so. I *did* manage to clear the table before we got there, despite being far later than I’m happy with. The lunch for the kids took longer than we expected to put together. Brea was in for counseling and Willow took one batch for a hike and then all of ‘em down to the bay beach late in the day. We also made Amulet Pouches for Practical Craft and then they all worked on Sun Medallions and folded a bunch of cranes, wish baskets and butterflies for the Wish Web. Most of those got put up, but Tempus is going to have a spend a little time this morning doing the rest. As we were leaving the shop there was a marvelous sun dog between the pharmacy building and the traffic light post. After that, as I was talking about circumzenithal arcs, I looked up and, guess what? There actually *was* one! I got out the camera, of course. Tempus and I stopped at Patterson to watch sunset, actually walked down on the beach for it, checking for bladderwrack, since the shop is completely out, again. …and there was a batch of stupid college kids with a huge bonfire up in the sandhills. Not wanting a conflagration that takes out the beach vegetation all the way to Yachats, since the wind was that strong, I called the fire department. I hope they dealt with it. Two middle-aged people, tired after a long day, were *not* going to take on drunk young folks! Today is my day at the shop. I have plant materials to deal with, depending on what I harvest on the way out, pictures to process, website updates to deal with and I’m trying to get the rest of the info together on the next psychic fair as well as the stuff for Beachcombers’, which is *this* *coming* *weekend!!!! Ack!!!!!! Witch Camp is in Oregon again, this year, but they’re not saying where except “Southern Oregon” at the moment. July 8-14 “Free Cascadia Witch Camp - Starhawk will teach at Reclaiming's Free Cascadia Witchcamp. Cascadia is a pay-what-you-can witchcamp in the Northwest woods. This year's theme is "Becoming the Salmon People." For more information and to register: www.freewitchcamp.org “ There’s a hummingbird on the seed feeder, pecking at things. He had been on the syrup feeder…now he’s landed on the fuschia. No blooms, yet, there. The shop opens at 10am today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is at the Last Quarter at 3:41am. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. The two brightest stars of late spring and summer are Arcturus, now almost overhead toward the south or southwest after dark, and Vega, shining partway up the eastern sky. Arcturus is an orange giant 37 light-years away. Vega is a hot, white main-sequence star 25 light-years distant. Saturn (magnitude +0.6, in Virgo) shines high in the south as twilight fades. Below it by 5° is Spica. Later after dark they move to the southwest. Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Pisces enters Aries at 9:21pm Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Ivory Planting 6/10-11 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/11 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 Harvest 6/12-14 6/13 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm 6/14 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 Planting 6/15-16 6/16 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days Harvest 6/17-18 6/17 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon July 3 – Waldport Independence Day, Circle Barbeque The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3 Planting 7/4 7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning Harvest 7/5-6 Planting 7/7-8 July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org Harvest 7/9-11 Planting 7/12-13 7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am Harvest 7/14-15 Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am Planting 7/17-18 7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm 7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea 7/20 – Ramadan Begins Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20 Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am 7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through Planting 7/26-27 Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm ---------------------- 8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon Harvest 8-2 Planting 8/3-8/5 Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons Harvest 8-6-7 Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 10, 2012, Rise, Set Jun. 11, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:31 AM PDT, 9:00 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:54 AM PDT, 9:37 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:06 AM PDT, 10:25 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:04 AM PDT, 11:27 PM PDT Moon, 1:07 AM PDT, 1:43 PM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 42m Length of Day, 15h 29m Tomorrow will be 0m 37s longer. Waning Gibbous, 48% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible M 11 Low 1:02 AM 1.9 5:31 AM Rise 1:08 AM 55 11 High 6:35 AM 5.5 9:01 PM Set 1:43 PM 11 Low 12:52 PM 0.9 11 High 7:30 PM 7.0 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Some marriages are made in heaven, but they ALL have to be maintained on earth... * **** * Journal Prompt – What does this quote say to you? - In the poem "If I Were King" by A.A.Milne, Christopher Robin says, "I often wish I were a King, And then I could do anything." What are some things you would do if you became the king of your own country? Do you think there might be some things you could not do, precisely because you were king? Explain your answers. * **** * Quotes A bore is simply a nonentity who resents his humble lot in life, and seeks satisfaction for his wounded ego by forcing himself on his betters. - H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) US writer A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. - Will Rogers (1879-1935) US actor, humorist A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. - Earl Nightingale The Census Taker It was the first day of census, and all through the land; The pollster was ready ........ a black book in hand. He mounted his horse for a long dusty ride; His book and some quills were tucked close by his side. A long winding ride down a road barely there; Toward the smell of fresh bread wafting up through the air. The woman was tired, with lines on her face; And wisps of brown hair she tucked back into place. She gave him some water ..... as they sat at the table; And she answered his questions ..... the best she was able. He asked of her children ..... Yes, she had quite a few; The oldest was twenty, the youngest not quite two. She held up a toddler with cheeks round and red; his sister, she whispered, was napping in bed. She noted each person who lived there with pride; And she felt the faint stirrings of the wee one inside. He noted the sex, the colour, the age .. The marks from the quill soon filled up the page. At the number of children, she nodded her head; And saw her lips quiver for the three that were dead. The places of birth she "never forgot"; Was it Kansas? or Utah? Or Oregon ..... or not? They came from Scotland, of that she was clear; But she wasn't quite sure just how long they'd been here. They spoke of employment, of schooling and such; They could read some and write some ..... though really not much. When the questions were answered, his job there was done; So he mounted his horse and he rode toward the sun. We can imagine his voice loud and clear; "May God Bless you all for another ten years." Now picture a time warp ..... it's now you and me; As we search for the people on our family tree. We squint at the census and scroll down so slow; As we search for that entry from long, long ago. Could they only imagine on that long ago day; That the entries they made would effect us this way? If they knew, would they wonder at the yearning we feel; And the searching that makes them so increasingly real. We can hear if we listen the words they impart; Through their blood in our veins and their voices in our heart. ~Author Unknown, For The Genealogists...Know Your Ancestors! * **** * Magick – Litha Dream Pillow - (For Litha) http://members.aol.com/ivycleartoes/pillow.html Materials: Material for your pillow Stuffing for your pillow Needle and thread Lavender and sage Directions: Hand-sew a dream-pillow. First cut an expanse of cloth large enough to make your pillow and fold it in half so the INSIDE is OUTSIDE, then sew up the edges except for a hole just large enough to push the stuffing in. Turn your pillow right-side-out and stuff it. Then create a small sachet (of the same material if you like), like a small pillow of the same except you don't have to worry about turning it inside out. Stuff the sachet with lavender and sage, or make one sachet for lavender and one for sage. Then slip the herbs into the pillow. Sew up the final hole. Incidentally, it is best to pick material that is blue or has a water image on it, to represent the wise water element, or a black or black-patterned material, to indicate connection with the Dark Crone Goddess, whose speciality is divination. Ritual use: You can actually sew this pillow in the circle, or make it mostly out of the circle and ceremoniously add the herbs while in circle. It is to be blessed with the appropriate tools and dedicated to the water element, and possibly anointed with water or divination-oriented oils. It can then be used to sleep on at night to encourage prophetic dreams. It also functions as a nice Midsummer gift to a handfasting couple or just for any gift. Solstice Dream Pillows Materials needed: 1-4 oz (30-120 gms) each of the following five herbs: dried chamomile, mugwort, catnip, hops, lavender, whole oranges & lemons, cinnamon sticks, allspice berries, (optional) myrrh or frankincense resin lumps. Scraps of lightweight cloth (4-7 inches/100-175 mm, two for each bag) optional bits of ribbon, embroidery floss, scraps of lace or a few small beads. For those who are sitting up all night on the Solstice, this is a special dream pillow you can make for prophetic dreams when you go to sleep the next night or throughout the year. Take the first five dried herbs and mix them in whatever proportions you desire/have on hand. More Mugwort will lead some folks to more psychic dreaming, more hops will lead to a sounder sleep for some others, more catnip may encourage feline pillow sharing. As the night passes, eat the oranges, and use the lemons (minus their peels) in teas/punches/hot drinks. As you use them try to remove the peels in large chunks or in easy to work with sections. Using a spoon, carefully scrape out as much of the white inner rind as you can without damaging the zesty outer peel. Scatter the remaining outer peels on a cookie sheet and dry them on low heat in the oven (200F or less). Watch them to make sure they are drying but not scorching. Remove them from the oven, and let them cool. If you have a fire or incense burner, burn some of the incense resins, saving most to use in the pillows. Crumble the dried peels up into smaller bits, break up the cinnamon sticks up into smaller pieces, and add the spices, resins and peels to the herb mixture. Mix well. Gather up the scraps of material, and sew up small bags: 3-6 inches/75-150mm should be fine. Leave one side open: small openings will make it more difficult to fill the bags later. If you want to use the ribbons and floss to embroider protective or other magical symbols or representative designs, it will be easier to do before you stitch the sides together. Work on this to keep you awake, thinking of the season and what it means to you as you do it. If these are intended as gifts, think kindly and lovingly of the folks you will be giving these to. Fill each of the bags with the herb/spice mixture, but not so full that it is hard: people will want to smell them, but they need to be soft enough to sleep on. Fold the last side inward, and stitch closed. If you want, a small loop of ribbon may be added at this point at the top. After the sun rises, and you have finished your celebrations, set these aside, and finish them when you have/make time during the day if they aren't done. When you go to bed, slip one or more of these into you pillow case, and inhale deeply as you relax before sleeping. Watch for special dreams as you sleep. Dream Pillows In German and Nordic traditions believed the power of the sun on Midsummer made it easy for humans to access the unseen worlds. Many divinations and vision quests were practiced on this night. To this day prophetic dreams play a large role in Scandinavian lore. The Danes used to place St. John's Wort under their pillows to induce prophetic dreaming, while the Celts and the English used Mugwort, which is just as potent, but without the toxic qualities of St. John's Wort. If you wish to practice dream magick on Midsummer night you may want to make a dream pillow to help enhance your dreams. You will need: Small square of blue or purple fabric (preferably cotton), 4x8 inches. Make sure you leave room around the edges for a seam. Matching thread Needle Herb you wish to use (mugwort, lemongrass, or lavender are good herbs for dream magick) Directions Take the piece of cloth and fold it over so that it makes a square. Sew up all sides EXCEPT ONE, leave one side open so you can stuff your pillow. Turn the pillow inside out, stuff it with your chosen herbs, and sew up the final side. Make sure you are visualizing your goal as you do this, as is plays a large role in the dream magick. When you are finished making the pillow take it to bed with you and place it under your pillowcase, making sure its fragrance will reach you. Before going to sleep, visualize what you wish to dream. You may wish to add a chant too this, to help lull you into sleep. Have a notebook and pen ready to jot down any impressions or dreams you have upon waking. Do this even before you stretch, dreams have a tendency to fade quickly from memory. http://www.wyldwytch.com/weavings/candb/06_05lith a/index.htm * **** * Energy list 6/6 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! Update 6/9 She’s ready to be off the list! Thank you! * **** * Silliness – The Buddhist at McDonald's Why did the Buddhist order a Happy Meal at McDonald's? 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The sky is so very blue this morning! It’s already 53F and the feeder is covered with birds. I’ve been doing counseling this morning, almost before I got my coffee… online…. It ate the time when I would normally write! So…this is skimpy…. I got the lapis necklace made. It’s a spendy necklace, $80, but that’s lapis….. I had some of that pizza for lunch. The flavors were blended more, although I’m not sure that’s a recommendation…but it was tasty both ways. The chive oil got done and I managed to write out a tutorial with pictures. By now, Karin has posted it on the website. I’ll get the link up tomorrow. No one was in for rock tumblers, so I re-organized the rock tumbler cart. …and *wow* was I busy! Musta been 50 people through the shop, yesterday…. When Willow got there for Sewing Workshop we sidetracked into Sun Medallions. We’re going to do a Treasure Hunt thing for Beachcombers’. Tempus was a Darwinia’s all day and when he finally got to the shop, I put my feet up because they were hurting and just refused to move. They were planting bamboo…. I have to scoot, pretty quick. I try to be at the shop by 9 on Sundays and today I have to clear the herb stuff off of the class table before the Job Corps bunch gets there. The shop opens at 10am today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is waning gibbous (Disseminating Moon). Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. After nightfall, Vega is the brightest star shining on the eastern side of the sky. Deneb is the brightest to its lower left. Look for Altair farther to Vega's lower right, still rather low. These three form the big Summer Triangle. This season there's another, temporary "summer triangle" in the southwest: bright Arcturus high on top, the Saturn-Spica pair below it, and Mars off to the pair's right or lower right. Last quarter Moon tonight (exact at 6:41 a.m. Monday morning EDT). The Moon, half-lit, rises in Aquarius in the middle of the night. By that time the Summer Triangle is very high in the east, high above it. Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Pisces Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Amber Planting 6/10-11 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/10 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft 6/11 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Harvest 6/12-14 6/13 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm 6/14 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 Planting 6/15-16 6/16 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days Harvest 6/17-18 New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 10, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:31 AM PDT, 9:00 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:54 AM PDT, 9:36 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:06 AM PDT, 10:25 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:05 AM PDT, 11:26 PM PDT Moon, 12:42 AM PDT, 12:40 PM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 41m Length of Day, 15h 28m Tomorrow will be 0m 41s longer. Waning Gibbous, 58% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible Su 10 High 5:28 AM 6.2 5:31 AM Rise 12:43 AM 65 10 Low 12:02 PM 0.2 9:00 PM Set 12:40 PM 10 High 6:42 PM 6.9 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Full Circle - Breaking free demands filling your own heart first, with absolute, unapologetic honesty. It is a matter of going back to where we all started. * **** * Journal Prompt – What is? - What is something that really makes you angry? * **** * Quotes You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. - Napoleon Hill You take for granted what comes easy to you. But others would love to learn your brilliance. - Nika Stewart You will grow as soon as you decide to become remarkable—and do something about it. - Seth Godin Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. – Buddha Dancing is not rising to your feet painlessly like a whirl of dust blown about by the wind. Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi * **** * Magick – Litha Litha History - Celebrating the Summer Solstice from http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/lithathesummersols tice/p/Litha_History.htm An Ancient Solar Celebration Nearly every agricultural society has marked the high point of summer in some way, shape or form. On this date – usually around June 21 or 22 – the sun reaches its zenith in the sky. It is the longest day of the year, and the point at which the sun seems to just hang there without moving – in fact, the word “solstice” is from the Latin word solstitium, which literally translates to “sun stands still.” The travels of the sun were marked and recorded. Stone circles such as Stonehenge were oriented to highlight the rising of the sun on the day of the summer solstice. Traveling the Heavens Although few primary sources are available detailing the practices of the ancient Celts, some information can be found in the chronicles kept by early Christian monks. Some of these writings, combined with surviving folklore, indicate that Midsummer was celebrated with hilltop bonfires and that it was a time to honor the space between earth and the heavens. Fire and Water In addition to the polarity between land and sky, Litha is a time to find a balance between fire and water. According to Ceisiwr Serith, in his book The Pagan Family, European traditions celebrated this time of year by setting large wheels on fire and then rolling them down a hill into a body of water. He suggests that this may be because this is when the sun is at its strongest yet also the day at which it begins to weaken. Another possibility is that the water mitigates the heat of the sun, and subordinating the sun wheel to water may prevent drought. Saxon Traditions When they arrived in the British Isles, the Saxon invaders brought with them the tradition of calling the month of June Aerra Litha. They marked Midsummer with huge bonfires that celebrated the power of the sun over darkness. For people in Scandinavian countries and in the farther reaches of the Northern hemisphere, Midsummer was very important. The nearly endless hours of light in June are a happy contrast to the constant darkness found six months later in the middle of winter. Roman Festivals The Romans, who had a festival for anything and everything, celebrated this time as sacred to Juno, the wife of Jupiter and goddess of women and childbirth. She is also called Juno Luna and blesses women with the privilege of menstruation. The month of June was named for her, and because Juno was the patroness of marriage, her month remains an ever-popular time for weddings. This time of year was also sacred to Vesta, goddess of the hearth. The matrons of Rome entered her temple on Midsummer and made offerings of salted meal for eight days, in hopes that she would confer her blessings upon their homes. Midsummer for Modern Pagans Litha has often been a source of contention among modern Pagan and Wiccan groups, because there's always been a question about whether or not Midsummer was truly celebrated by the ancients. While there's scholarly evidence to indicate that it was indeed observed, there were suggestions made by Gerald Gardner, the founder of modern Wicca, that the solar festivals (the solstices and equinoxes) were actually added later and imported from the Middle East. Regardless of the origins, many modern Wiccans and Pagans do choose to celebrate Litha every year in June. In some traditions, Litha is a time at which there is a battle between light and dark. The Oak King is seen as the ruler of the year between winter solstice and summer solstice, and the Holly King from summer to winter. At each solstice they battle for power, and while the Oak King may be in charge of things at the beginning of June, by the end of Midsummer he is defeated by the Holly King. This is a time of year of brightness and warmth. Crops are growing in their fields with the heat of the sun, but may require water to keep them alive. The power of the sun at Midsummer is at its most potent, and the earth is fertile with the bounty of growing life. For contemporary Wiccans and Pagans, this is a day of inner power and brightness. Find yourself a quiet spot and meditate on the darkness and the light both in the world and in your personal life. Celebrate the turning of the Wheel of the Year with fire and water, night and day, and other symbols of the triumph of light over darkness. Litha is a great time to celebrate outdoors if you have children. Take them swimming or just turn on the sprinkler to run through, and then have a bonfire or barbeque at the end of the day. Let them stay up late to say goodnight to the sun, and celebrate nightfall with sparklers, storytelling, and music. This is also an ideal Sabbat to do some love magic or celebrate a handfasting, since June is the month of marriages and family. * **** * Energy list 6/6 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! Update 6/9 She’s ready to be off the list! Thank you! * **** * Silliness – GCF: First Aid After an accident, a woman stepped forward and prepared to help the victim. She was asked to step aside by a man who announced, "Step back please! I've had a course in first aid and I'm trained in CPR." The woman watched his procedures for a few moments, then tapped him on the shoulder. "When you get to the part about calling a doctor," she said, "I'm already here!" **** View (0) Comments For This Post
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I’m loving the sunshine this morning. It’s been so wet that I can *really* appreciate dry. We’re starting to get customers coming in complaining about the weather, saying things like, “It’s June. Why is it raining?” The answer (and at least once, not out of *my* mouth!) was, “It’s Oregon!” There’s a new picture, one of those “motivational” ones, that I’ve been giggling over since I first saw it. At first all you see is a guy water-skiing, then if you look more closely you can see that the guy who is minding his tow rope is in the back of a *pick-up* and then you see the lines on the water-covered road! The caption is something like, “It’s summer!” and then below that in little type it says, “In Oregon….” Tempus is in here watching one of the finches and commenting on his red feathers. It’s mostly been chickadees and sparrows and this finch this morning. …and I typed, “chickens” instead of “chickadees” the first time and whined about, “There are *no* chickens on this porch!” making Tempus splutter with laughter. He’s been in here making awful puns, bringing me “puns with my coffee”. It’s in the low 50’s outside, with just a light breeze. The sunshine is making the next door roof steam. …and yes, if you hadn’t twigged to it by now, I’m talking about weather, birds, flowers, sunshine hitting different places in my study, gardens…. as a way of honoring the Turning of the Wheel. The seasonal changes are one of the better ways of keeping track. …speaking of which, we’re close enough to Solstice that the day length is only changing by 49 seconds…. Even though it was pouring rain by the time we left for the shop I harvested a basketful of roses. It was so wet that my hoodie didn’t dry until late afternoon and the roses just got left on the class table overnight, since even after shaking off they were still damp. After doing paperwork yesterday I settled in to jewelry-making, doing some repairs on small stuff (mostly my own, but a couple as a favor for a friend) and then finishing the jet & amber with a pentacle that I was working on the day before. I got earrings made for those and then worked on organizing and tidying the bead area, hoping to find my silver spacer beads. I did find them, but only after knocking one of the organizers onto the floor. The back of my office chair seems to have “popped” and is leaning back farther than it used to and that’s bad in that small space. The organizer is on the “grumple table” in the office area and as I swung the chair to reach for something, there was a crash and I didn’t quite turn the air blue, but it was definitely heading that direction. Thankfully, only the top part popped open, but that’s how I found the spacers, since I had put them into that organizer for some reason. I also found some beads that I had intended for a bracelet. So I got the lapis and moonstone necklace started, but had to stop when my hands started complaining, so I went back to organizing beads in between talking to customers and friends. The crash reminded me that I had a bunch of beads in the bottom drawer of that organizer that just needed to get put away so that I can find and use them, so that ended up being most of the rest of the day. Tempus got his errands done and got back around 5pm and we came home at just a little after closing time and made pizza with several cheeses, fresh mushrooms and onion and olives. Oh, that was good! We have some for lunch today and even with my breakfast still in front of me I’m looking forward to it! Herbs Workshop is going to be on making chive blossom oil, although I’ll have to chase Tempus over to the store for some good olive oil before I start. As always there are dried herbs to process and fresh ones to get sorted out. Rock Tumblers won’t entail opening any, although if someone comes in, we’ll do a class on the Moh’s Hardness scale with hands-on looking up some of the crystals and labeling then. Sewing workshop at 3pm. We’re going to be talking about beanbags. …and Tempus picked up my machine. It got fixed. Apparently when the needle broke, it wedged things and all the shaking and rattling of taking it to the shop dislodged the broken bit and nothing actually broke but the needle. The tech did the maintenance that it needed, so I’m ready to roll on sewing again. I’ll be by myself at the shop today, so the workshops may be more hands-on than usual. The shop opens at 10am today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is waning gibbous (Disseminating Moon). Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Binocular observers are often told to recognize a globular cluster as "a fuzzy star." How fuzzy? You can make the comparison very directly between the globular cluster M5 and the star 5 Serpentis just southeast of it. The star is magnitude 5.1; the cluster is 5.7 in total. See Gary Seronik's Binocular Highlight finder chart and article in the June Sky & Telescope, page 44. Venus, having crossed the Sun from east to west during its transit on June 5th, is now very deep in the brightest glow of dawn. Don't confuse Venus with Jupiter, which is less low in the dawn and somewhat to the right. The two planets are 14° apart on the morning of June 9th and 9° apart by June 16th. Use binoculars as daylight brightens; look just above the east-northeast horizon. Jupiter and Venus are on their way up for a grand showing high in the morning sky this summer. Jupiter is coming into view deep in the glow of sunrise. Celtic Tree Month of Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Aquarius enter Pisces at 12:22pm Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Black Harvest 6/7-9 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/9 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop Planting 6/10-11 6/10 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft 6/11 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Harvest 6/12-14 6/13 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm 6/14 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 Planting 6/15-16 Harvest 6/17-18 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 09, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:31 AM PDT, 8:59 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:55 AM PDT, 9:36 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:07 AM PDT, 10:24 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:06 AM PDT, 11:25 PM PDT Moon, 12:15 AM PDT, 11:34 AM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 41m Length of Day, 15h 28m Tomorrow will be 0m 46s longer. Waning Gibbous, 68% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 - I am fair among flowers - Color: Purple - Class: Peasant - Letter: H - Meaning: Being held back for a period of time - Hawthorn - Like willows, hawthorns have many species in Europe, and they are not always easy to tell apart. All are thorny shrubs in the Rose family (Rosaceae), and most have whitish or pinkish flowers. The common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) and midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata (Poiret) DC.) are both widespread. They are common in abandoned fields and along the edges of forests. Both are cultivated in North America, as are several native and Asiatic hawthorns. Curtis Clark Huathe - Hawthorne Ogam letter correspondences Month: April Color: Purple Class: Peasant Letter: H Meaning: Being held back for a period of time to study this month - Ur - Heather and Mistletoe Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Purple Class: Heather is Peasant; Mistletoe is Chieftain Letter: U Meaning: Healing and development on the spiritual level. Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible Sa 9 High 4:28 AM 6.9 5:32 AM Rise 12:16 AM 75 9 Low 11:13 AM -0.6 9:00 PM Set 11:35 AM 9 High 5:53 PM 6.9 9 Low 11:53 PM 2.0 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – A successful marriage isn't finding the right person - it's being the right person. * **** * Journal Prompt – What does this quote say to you? - Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein * **** * Quotes We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell What's worse than being blind? Is to have sight but no vision. - Helen Keller Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. - Will Rogers You are full if you are in tune with the universe. If you are not in tune with the universe, then your are empty. And out of that emptiness comes greed - greed is to fill it, with money, houses, furniture, with friends, lovers, with anything. – Osho St. Valentine's Day The South is a dream of flowers With a jewel for sky and sea, Rose-crowns for the dancing hours, Gold fruits upon every tree; But cold from the North The wind blows forth That blows my love to me. The stars in the South are gold Like lamps between sky and sea; The flowers that the forests hold. Like stars between tree and tree; But little and white Is the pale moon's light That lights my love to me. In the South the orange grove Makes dusk by the dusky sea, White palaces wrought for love Gleam white between tree and tree, But under bare boughs Is the little house Warm-lit for my love and me. - Edith Nesbit, 1858 - 1924 * **** * Magick – Litha Herbed Vegetables - 2 medium sweet potatoes, cut into 1-inch cubes 2 carrots, cut into chunks 1 parsnip, chunked 1 red onion, quartered 1 tbs olive oil 3 cloves garlic, minced 2 tsp dried herbs (marjoram, thyme, basil, rosemary and oregano) 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp pepper 1) Fill a 13x9x2 baking dish with the chopped vegetables. 2) Combine the oil, garlic, herbs, salt and pepper and drizzle over top. 3) Cover pan with foil and bake at 425F for 30 minutes. 4) Remove foil and stir. Bake uncovered for another 5-10 minutes Quinoa and Black Bean Salad - Rain Redknife - Makes 6 to 8 entrée servings or 16 side-dish servings. 1 1/2 cups quinoa, well rinsed 1 1/2 cups canned black beans, rinsed and drained 1 1/2 Tbsp red wine vinegar 1 1/2 cups cooked corn (fresh, canned or frozen) 1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped 4 scallions, chopped 1 tsp. garlic, minced fine 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper 1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped fine 1/3 cup fresh lime juice 1/2 tsp. salt 1 1/4 tsp. ground cumin 1/3 cup olive oil 1) Rinse quinoa in a fine sieve under cold running water until water runs clear. This step is important--don't omit! 2) Put quinoa in a pot with 2 1/4 cups water. 3) Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer 20 minutes or until water is absorbed and quinoa is tender. 4) Fluff with a fork, transfer to a large bowl and allow to cool. While quinoa cooks, toss beans in a small bowl with vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. 5) When quinoa is done, add beans, corn, bell pepper, scallions, garlic, cayenne and parsley to the quinoa. 6) Toss well. In a small bowl whisk together lime juice, salt and cumin. 7) Add oil in a stream while whisking. 8) Drizzle over salad and toss well with salt and pepper. Note - Salad may be made a day ahead and refrigerated, covered. Bring to room temperature before serving. Source: www.aicr.org , by permission. ZUCCHINI CASSEROLE – Gordon Ireland - (Serves 6-8) 5 zucchini 2 eggs, beaten 1 cup sour cream 1 cup sharp cheddar cheese 2 cups mozzarella cheese 1 teaspoon basil 1/2 teaspoon ground oregano 3/4 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon ground rosemary 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1 cup fresh mushrooms 1 small chopped tomato 1/2-cup bacon bits 2 cups prepared croutons 1/2 cup of Parmesan cheese 1) Grate cheeses 2) Preheat oven to 350 F. 3) Mix all ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. 4) Place the mixture in a lightly greased 9 X 13 baking pan 5) Bake for 30 minutes. Lemony Summer Squash - Rain Redknife - Source: _Light & Easy Diabetic Cuisine_ by Betty Marks (by permission) 1 lb Summer squash, 1 Tbsp walnut oil, or other oil of your choice 1 clove Garlic 1 tsp Dried rosemary, crumbled 2 Tbsp Fresh lemon [or lime!] juice 1) Slice squash into 1/4" rounds 2) Mince garlic. 3) Crumble rosemary. 4) Heat oil in a non-stick skillet on medium. 5) Cook garlic 1 minute. 6) Add squash and cook, stirring gently, until tender, about 4 minutes. 7) Stir in remaining ingredients and heat through. Note - Also delicious cold * **** * Energy list 6/6 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! * **** * Silliness – GCF: The Wedding Dress Groom-to-be to his fiancee: "$6,800 for a dress that's only going to be worn ONCE? What's up with THAT?!" "Who says it's only going to be worn once?" "Oh? You're planning to get married again? Gee, thanks." "That's not what I meant." "You know you can't wear white the second time, anyway." "No, but I do hope to have a daughter. She'll wear it on her wedding day. And she'll have a daughter who will wear it on her wedding day. And her daughter will wear it on her wedding day. It will become a family heirloom." "I'll bet your mother never bought such an extravagant dress." "Oh yeah? Well, she did too, smarty!" "Then why don't you wear hers?" "Who wants to get married in THAT old thing?" **** View (0) Comments For This Post
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I’ve walked into brilliant sunshine in the study this morning. The alder appears to have leaves of green metal with diamond points that throw flashing bits of light all over. Reflections from the wet railing and roof of the house next door make it hard to look out, coming in from the dark bedroom. Blurred wings of a hummingbird frame the jeweled back. Now, it’s dim green and drippy again. At least I don’t need to water the plants! The temp is just over 50 and we’re getting gusts into the teens, but mostly just steadily dripping rain. Little birds have been all over particularly, the chickadees, one of whom was doing a “hummingbird”, flapping hard trying to see in the study window. I spent a long time early yesterday arguing with the house computer, running various diagnostics and getting absolutely nowhere. It has to go in, although I want to run a full back-up first, so a lot of stuff is going to be odd over the weekend and possibly into next week. I got some more weeding done, yesterday, harvested more buttercups and rose petals, grazing my way through some of the salad greens. Those, cheese fingers and tea were lunch. I picked another calendula blossom and then the red roses from out front, then got a shower and took off for the shop. Class went well. We’re down to one session left. After class Tempus was still doing paperwork, so I took a nap in back and then started working on a couple of necklaces. We haven’t had any 2nd degree necklaces in stock for a while, and I found some more of my jet, so I finished a simple bead necklace of graduated color amber and small jet beads and started another of larger beads that will have a pentacle pendant. I’m still hunting my silver spacer beads. I know I bought them. Why can’t I find them? When I do I’m putting together a lapis and moonstone necklace that will suspend a lapis and silver crescent moon. Tempus has errands in Newport today. I’ll be at the shop. I think today’s going to be a jewelry day. I have to finish getting the tags on the pendants that I got from Quasar Gems last week and then work on those two necklaces. I’d probably better also get a couple more of the Willendorf figure necklaces done, as well. A drip from the porch roof almost knocked a hummingbird out of the air! I know they’re small, but, wow! He had been on the syrup feeder and was hovering over the herb box when a big drop his him squarely in the back. He dropped by a foot and almost hit the herb planter on the railing! The shop opens at 10am today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Space Weather News for June 7, 2012 - http://spaceweather.com HUBBLE TRANSIT OF VENUS: Transits of Venus are rare. Transits of Venus with the Hubble Space Telescope alongside are unprecedented. Astrophotographer Thierry Legault has captured a historic photo of Hubble crossing the face of the sun right beside the inky-black disk of Venus. It is highlighted on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com. The world's largest collection of Venus Transit images may be found in Space Weather's new realtime photo gallery: http://spaceweather.com/gallery/ SOLAR FLARE ALERTS: Would you like a call when sunspots erupt? Solar flare alerts are available from http://spaceweathertext.com (text) and http://spaceweatherphone.com (voice). *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is waning gibbous (Disseminating Moon). Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. With June well under way, the Big Dipper has swung around to hang down by its handle high in the northwest during evening. The middle star of its handle is Mizar, with little Alcor right next to it. On which side of Mizar should you look for Alcor? As always, on the side toward bright Vega, which is now shining in the east-northeast. Saturn (magnitude +0.5, in Virgo) shines high in the south at nightfall. Below it by nearly 5° is Spica, looking a trace fainter and bluer. By late evening they move to the southwest. Uranus (magnitude 5.9, at the Pisces-Cetus border) is low in the east before the first light of dawn. Neptune (magnitude 7.9, in Aquarius) is in the southeast before dawn. Celtic Tree Month of Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Aquarius Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: White Harvest 6/7-9 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/9 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop Planting 6/10-11 6/10 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft 6/11 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Harvest 6/12-14 6/13 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm 6/14 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 Planting 6/15-16 Harvest 6/17-18 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com * **** * Celtic tree month Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 - I am fair among flowers - Color: Purple - Class: Peasant - Letter: H - Meaning: Being held back for a period of time - Hawthorn - Like willows, hawthorns have many species in Europe, and they are not always easy to tell apart. All are thorny shrubs in the Rose family (Rosaceae), and most have whitish or pinkish flowers. The common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) and midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata (Poiret) DC.) are both widespread. They are common in abandoned fields and along the edges of forests. Both are cultivated in North America, as are several native and Asiatic hawthorns. Curtis Clark Huathe - Hawthorne Ogam letter correspondences Month: April Color: Purple Class: Peasant Letter: H Meaning: Being held back for a period of time to study this month - Ur - Heather and Mistletoe Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Purple Class: Heather is Peasant; Mistletoe is Chieftain Letter: U Meaning: Healing and development on the spiritual level. Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible F 8 High 3:32 AM 7.7 5:32 AM Set 10:26 AM 84 8 Low 10:26 AM -1.2 8:59 PM 8 High 5:04 PM 7.0 8 Low 10:49 PM 2.1 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Your life can only be measured by the amount of imagination you have, when you imagine beauty, you manifest it, when you imagine love ,you give it, when you imagine all that is great , you become it, your life is only what you make of it, so make it happen....imagine first. * **** * Journal Prompt – Friends - Which friend has had the greatest impact on your life and why? * **** * Quotes There are times when I think the eradication of idiocy should be easy; at other times when I think that there is too much idiocy to eradicate; at other times I think that idiocy is omnipresent, but what little wisdom there is, is enough. Today, I wonder what the most efficient and sustainable ratio of idiocy to wisdom is. - Paradigm Shift Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. - Dinah Shore True strength is delicate. - Louise Nevelson (1889-1988) Russian artist We have to earn our wings every day. - Frank Borman You are a placeless fire All places burn away in, A whirlpool of Nowhere Drowning me deeper, deeper. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated * **** * Magick – Litha Warmth of the Sun Ritual - Herban Corner - Summer is at its height right now. It is a perfect time to take advantage of the deep heat of the Sun for magical ritual. Go outside today and turn your face, with your eyes closed, to the Sun. Feel the warmth, and see the light passing through your eyelids. Visualize the light flowing down into your body. As it fills you to overflowing, it brings health and vitality to your every cell. See this light flow into the land around you. Visualize a small Sun beginning to form in the center of your body. Feel this expand and glow as the warmth and energy of the Sun in the sky merges with your personal energy. The radiance extends out beyond your body in a protective oval of light. You are connected to all things. Repeat this ritual any time you feel drained, depressed, or ill. ~ Kristin Madden )0( * **** * Energy list 6/6 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help. 6/4 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! 5/8/12 - 9-year-old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. Starting radiation. Family and friends asking help for him and for the children that know him. Update 4/7 He’s doing pretty well and back in school despite the treatments. Update 5/8 No news is good news. Update 5/25 He is 10x better. He is in full remission. * **** * Silliness – GCF: Cactus Watering During a tour at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, a New York City woman mentioned that she was raising a type of cactus in a pot on her apartment balcony. Another tourist asked her how she kept from watering it too much, because the cactus would die if over watered. "I subscribe to the Tucson newspaper," replied the New Yorker. "Every time I read that it rained in the desert, I give my plant some water." **** View (0) Comments For This Post
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Wicca 103 tonight at 5pm. It’s raining steadily, warm-ish and breezy. Running around outside properly clothed I was fine. In the house (with no shoes and only in my pijjies) I’m freezing. I gotta go find my bathrobe…. Birds have been all over the feeders this morning. I have a hummingbird staring in the window at me. …well, I did. By the time I was done typing he was off and away. I stopped counting at 100 of ‘em in the middle of yesterday afternoon. This morning it’s all been those and the chickadees. You can see the bird pix that I put up here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150098 915019148.317578.714224147&type=3&l=05e8d3e276 Most of yesterday was in the garden. I spent at least 4 hours total outside out of 8. During the sunniest part I stayed up on the porch, but I planted more beans (something’s eating the others ), planted one tomato into a bucket, which meant that I cleared out a bunch of old pots into the bottom of the bucket and cleared the gardening table of the old pots, swept and generally picked up. One thing was that the hummingbirds kept coming even with me working on the porch. In fact I have a spot on the top of my head where one hit me! I dunno if it was claw or beak, but when I said, “Ow!” and put my hand up it came away bloody and I have a small scab and a sore spot even yet. When the sun began to wester I got out the two big tubs with cracked bottoms, put lawn clippings & compost in the bottom and put in the seed ‘taters, then covered ‘em up with lawn clippings. I have another set of potatoes and will certainly have some more as soon as what’s in the cupboard grow beards…which they tend to. I started to drag one of the big tubs up onto the porch, but couldn’t lift it. I’m thinking salad after things start to dry out… I settled in to weeding and harvesting at that point, although since I had to keep getting up to go for tools, to answer the phone, etc., I didn’t get nearly as far as I should have or hoped to. I did get some newspaper mulch down, but not enough. That will be going on all week when I have a few minutes in the mornings. I’m going to need to get strips or shreds in and around the yarrow, the dandelions, burnet and chives before everything dries out for the summer. I harvested the calendula & buttercups, some burnet and chives (almost ready to do chive oil!) a dandelion leaf or two and a handful of sorrel. Quite a bit of that went into dinner! I did finally get salt onto the far end of the path to kill off the weeds and I need to get in there and pull a lot of what’s trying to come up. Since my rolly is home I’ll be going at that if it dries out a little. In between all that I worked on Beachcombers’ pix and website, but didn’t make the headway that I had wanted to…. Too many interruptions… I finally crawled into the bathtub, knowing that we had esbat in the evening, and then when I got out I had just enough time to set up some dinner for Tempus and folks started arriving. We did get some decisions together, but were missing one person with some of the information. We are trying to make Pan-Pagan completely revenue neutral this year. The shop has sponsored a *lot* of this event for several years, but we can’t carry the load this time. So we’re selling ads in the handbook. They’re really reasonable… less than $25. Great opportunity to market right to pagans! Let me know if you’re interested and I’ll get you a write-up. Today, Tempus is at the shop. He’s doing paperwork, but come in and shop! I’m at the house trying to finished up the stuff that I’ve been trying to get done for 3 days… at least today I can’t get all that distracted by outdoors…. Well, except for tomatoes…and harvesting rose petals… and woodruff . There’s a raven on the porch railing. I have the window open and he’s eyeing the opening (which isn’t large enough for him.) I think he’s looking at my plate of toast. Sorry bud! That’s breakfast! The shop opened at 10am today. Tempus is there and I’ll be back by 5pm for class. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is waning gibbous (Disseminating Moon) . Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Have you ever explored the swarm of galaxies awaiting your telescope by the head of Serpens? Work your way through them using the detailed finder chart in Sue French's Deep-Sky Wonders article in the June Sky & Telescope, page 56. Jupiter is buried deep in the sunrise. Celtic Tree Month of Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Capricorn enters Aquarius 7:17am Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Green Planting 6/5-6 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/6 – Wednesday, 7pm, esbat, waning moon Harvest 6/7-9 6/7 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 6/9 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop Planting 6/10-11 6/10 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft 6/11 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Harvest 6/12-14 6/13 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Planting 6/15-16 Harvest 6/17-18 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 07, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:32 AM PDT, 8:58 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:55 AM PDT, 9:34 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:08 AM PDT, 10:22 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:07 AM PDT, 11:23 PM PDT Moon, 11:45 PM PDT, 9:15 AM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 39m Length of Day, 15h 26m Tomorrow will be 0m 54s longer. Waning Gibbous, 86% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 - I am fair among flowers - Color: Purple - Class: Peasant - Letter: H - Meaning: Being held back for a period of time - Hawthorn - Like willows, hawthorns have many species in Europe, and they are not always easy to tell apart. All are thorny shrubs in the Rose family (Rosaceae), and most have whitish or pinkish flowers. The common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) and midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata (Poiret) DC.) are both widespread. They are common in abandoned fields and along the edges of forests. Both are cultivated in North America, as are several native and Asiatic hawthorns. Curtis Clark Huathe - Hawthorne Ogam letter correspondences Month: April Color: Purple Class: Peasant Letter: H Meaning: Being held back for a period of time to study this month - Ur - Heather and Mistletoe Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Purple Class: Heather is Peasant; Mistletoe is Chieftain Letter: U Meaning: Healing and development on the spiritual level. Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible Th 7 High 2:40 AM 8.4 5:32 AM Set 9:15 AM 91 7 Low 9:39 AM -1.8 8:59 PM Rise 11:46 PM 7 High 4:15 PM 7.0 7 Low 9:49 PM 2.1 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done. * **** * Journal Prompt – When? - Once, when you were very frightened, what happened? * **** * Quotes The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities he has in which to speak to us seriously. In quietude and solitude before the face of God our souls can hear better than at any other time. - O. Hallesby The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - G. K. Chesterton The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. - Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher Then followed that beautiful season...Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sometimes We Don't Talk Much, Debbie And I so today we take an afternoon drive to an orchard buy two jars of dark honey, an acorn squash, three cucumbers, six ears of corn, a gigantic muskmelon, a sack of hot peppers for seventy-five cents, a half-dozen tomatoes, a small basket each of Jonathans, McJonathans and Akanes, talk all the way there through the corn-green countryside, drive around through small towns clustered north of Omaha like beautiful mushroom rings around an old stump, and we talk about the living it takes talk until years fall down like rain, and we drive our red car through the green hills back to Omaha where our children nestle like mice in an old grain bin, and we bring back our box filled with fresh fruits and vegetables and we bring back ourselves, filled with our lives. Poem: "Sometimes We Don't Talk Much, Debbie And I" by Greg Kosmicki, from Some Hero of the Past. © Word Press. Reprinted with permission. * **** * Magick – Litha Feathered Wreaths During Midsummer the Goddess prepares to give birth, and the fields are ripe with the first harvests. These wreaths are woven with red and yellow feathers, symbolizing the birth of the crops and fertility, and also prosperity. They can be used as a magickal talisman upon the altar or in the home to bless it with fertility and prosperity. Yellow feathers (prosperity) Red Feathers (fertility, goddess) Pipe cleaners (yellow, red, or white) Scissors Hot Glue gun and glue sticks Trim any excess fuzz or unwanted areas off of the feathers. Take three pipe cleaners and twist them together securely at the top. Start braiding the pipe cleaners, making sure you have a snug braid, and twisting on more pipe cleaners as needed if you run out of length, until you have the desired size of the wreath. Twist the ends of the wreath together securely, and poke the stems of the feathers in the braid of the wreath, alternating yellow and red feathers. If you wish you may secure a loop to the top of the wreath for hanging. You may need to secure the feathers a bit more with the hot glue. Research for these crafts came from The Chronicles of Avalon, and Sabbats: A Witch's Approach to Living the Old Ways, by Edain McCoy. By DarkFire Raven http://www.wyldwytch.com/weavings/candb/06_05lith a/index.htm Crafts Midsummer Feather Wreath - (For Litha) http://members.aol.com/ivycleartoes/feather.htmlM aterials: Craft wire Red feathers Yellow feathers Decorative ivy vines Glue gun Directions: Form a braided wreath with brown craft wire. Then form another braided wreath that fits inside the first one. Glue yellow feathers to one wreath until the craft wire cannot be seen; do the same with the red feathers on the other wreath. Then place one wreath on top of the other and wind them together with the ivy vines. Ritual use: You may wish to leave the wreaths separate until the Litha ritual, at which point you bind the yellow wreath and the red wreath together to symbolize the marriage of the God and Goddess. Since yellow and red are so interchangeable in whom they represent, it is up to you if you want to assign one wreath to the God and one to the Goddess. * **** * Energy list 6/4 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! 5/8/12 - 9-year-old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. Starting radiation. Family and friends asking help for him and for the children that know him. Update 4/7 He’s doing pretty well and back in school despite the treatments. Update 5/8 No news is good news. Update 5/25 He is 10x better. He is in full remission. * **** * Silliness – GCF: Health Club Hours The first day at my new health club I asked the person at the front desk, "I like to exercise after work. What are your hours?" "Our club is open 24/7," was the helpful response, "Monday through Saturday." **** View (0) Comments For This Post
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Herbs Outdoors at 3pm. Esbat tonight, here. The sun has streamed in the window almost without pause since I got into my study two hours ago, despite the fact that the computer still says that it’s overcast… hmm…. And then I go back to check that and it now says that it’s clear…but overcast at 11,000 feet. I think the computer is still asleep! It’s up to nearly 60F. The birds have been going nuts. Tempus got some more seed and refilled that feeder and they’ve been going at it, steadily. All of those birds have been small this morning (chickadees, sparrows, finches, but with the stale bread out, the big ones go for that and leave the seed feeder alone. After he refilled the hummingbird feeder there were at least 100 visitors! The level has dropped significantly. I may have a decent pic of a hummer, too, at least it looks good in the camera. I’ll be getting the pictures up later. I meant to do it yesterday and then this computer started acting up. Yeah, my house computer is going to need to go in to get its teeth cleaned or get deloused or something. I spent yesterday trying to get enough of the essential files backed up that I can re-create things if something goes sideways. …which sent what I was going to work on yesterday sideways, already. I had to re-build the Wicca 103 lesson 7 handout. Something chewed on it and it was full of holes. I didn’t know computers had moths, just bugs? When the class handout saved onto the flash drive, the parts that had “holes” just showed up blank on the other computer, so I had to put the pieces back in. That, at least, took only a short while, since I had the clues to which pieces I had originally used. I didn’t manage to get out to the garden because of that, except for a few minutes, but Tempus did some of the prep work so that I can. He was out picking up some of the larger wand pieces and he cut the grass. I have to salt the path to cut down on the amount of weeds coming up through it. He’s going to have to dig a few plants, still. Does anyone need rugosas? We’ve got a bunch! We’ve got a weird one, as well. The species rose has apparently begun to tip over to the northeast. No idea why, but we’re going to have to do something about righting it. Does anyone need sea pinks (thrift)? Those are naturalizing into the grass at the base of the retaining wall and there are a lot. I need to dig some myself, hoping to get them growing in a few other places, but there are going to be a lot and I can spread the wealth. Did anyone get to see the Transit of Venus? We went out with a welder’s glass, but I was disappointed. I guess my glasses are worse than I thought. Tempus got to see the dot, but I couldn’t find it. I did watch on the computer, but that’s not the same. I still have Beachcombers pictures to do today and website stuff as well as garden. The shop opens at 10am today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is Full and waning. Full Moon Magick: From fourteen to seventeen-and-a-half days after the new moon. “And better it be when the moon is full!”! Prime time for rituals for prophecy, for spells to come to fruition, infusing health and wholeness, etc. A good time for invoking deity. Full Phase ends at 4:12pm on Wednesday. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Look very high in the south after dark for bright Arcturus. Much lower, and perhaps a bit right, are Saturn and (below it) Spica. Farther down to their lower right is the four-star pattern of Corvus, the Crow. Mars (magnitude +0.5) shines orange near the hind foot of Leo, high in the southwest at dusk and lower in the west as evening grows late. It's now roughly a third of the way from Regulus (off to its lower right) to the Saturn-and-Spica pair (left). Mars is heading east against the stars to pass right between Saturn and Spica in mid-August. In a telescope Mars is gibbous and tiny (about 7.7 arcseconds wide), continuing to fade and shrink. Celtic Tree Month of Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon in Capricorn Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Topaz Planting 6/5-6 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/6 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/6 – Wednesday, 7pm, esbat, waning moon Harvest 6/7-9 6/7 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 6/9 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop Planting 6/10-11 6/10 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft 6/11 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Harvest 6/12-14 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Planting 6/15-16 Harvest 6/17-18 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 06, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:32 AM PDT, 8:57 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:56 AM PDT, 9:34 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:08 AM PDT, 10:21 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:08 AM PDT, 11:22 PM PDT Moon, 11:09 PM PDT, 8:03 AM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 37m Length of Day, 15h 25m Tomorrow will be 0m 58s longer. Waning Gibbous, 93% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 - I am fair among flowers - Color: Purple - Class: Peasant - Letter: H - Meaning: Being held back for a period of time - Hawthorn - Like willows, hawthorns have many species in Europe, and they are not always easy to tell apart. All are thorny shrubs in the Rose family (Rosaceae), and most have whitish or pinkish flowers. The common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) and midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata (Poiret) DC.) are both widespread. They are common in abandoned fields and along the edges of forests. Both are cultivated in North America, as are several native and Asiatic hawthorns. Curtis Clark Huathe - Hawthorne Ogam letter correspondences Month: April Color: Purple Class: Peasant Letter: H Meaning: Being held back for a period of time to study this month - Ur - Heather and Mistletoe Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Purple Class: Heather is Peasant; Mistletoe is Chieftain Letter: U Meaning: Healing and development on the spiritual level. Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible W 6 High 1:49 AM 8.8 5:32 AM Set 8:03 AM 97 6 Low 8:52 AM -2.2 8:58 PM Rise 11:09 PM 6 High 3:26 PM 7.0 6 Low 8:53 PM 2.1 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – You may not recognize it, but you are gifted for something! Whether it be big or small, do what you are gifted to do and you will be happy. * **** * Journal Prompt – What do you think? - In “Horton Hatches the Egg,” by Dr. Seuss, Horton the elephant says, “ I meant what I said and I said what I meant… An elephant’s faithful one hundred percent!” What do you think Horton meant when he said this? * **** * Quotes Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. - Claude Bissell Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. - Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) US writer The body is an ocean, rich with hidden treasures. - Brian Perez The difference between birds with wings and holy people with the Wings of passionate Love, is that birds with their wings fly in a certain Direction, which is always changing, and holy beings with Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) * **** * Magick – Litha deborah To: Hearth_Witch@yahoogroups.com From: "deborah" Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:47:09 -0000 Subject: [Hearth_Witch] Midsummer Traditions Midsummer Traditions Midsummer has always been a time for celebration and dancing. Traditionally, there were bonfires to celebrate the Sun. The bonfires were believed to have the power to burn away all negativity and evil. People jumped the flames, much as they had at Beltane, making wishes. It was believed that the summer grains would grow only as high as they were able to jump. The Celts built their bonfires near holy wells or on a border or boundary of some sort because they considered borders to be magickal entrances to the Underworld. In some places, people light fires on midsummer eve. They stay up until midnight to welcome in midsummer day, and, when the fires die down, men run or jump through the embers to bring good luck. Ancient Pagans had a custom for Midsummer which consisted of wrapping straw around the wheel of a cart, lighting it on fire, and then rolling it down a tall hill. These flaming wheels were called "Catherine Wheels" and they emulated the action of the sun, which would begin waning after Midsummer day. If the fire went out before the wheel got to the bottom of the hill, it indicated a good harvest. Since Midsummer is both a time of protection and of divination, in ancient times, the rootstock of a male fern plant was trimmed into the likeness of a hand and smoked in the Midsummer fires. These 'Hands of Glory' were hung in houses for protection. It was said that if the hands glowed with a blue flame, they were revealing hidden treasure in the earth. There is still a famous summer solstice celebration at Stonehenge, the ancient stone circle on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. On the night before midsummer, a group of white-robed Druids gather at Stonehenge to watch the sun rising. As it comes up, the sun rises exactly over the Heel Stone, one of the stones that lies outside the main circle at Stonehenge. Many midsummer celebrations were moved to the feast of St John the Baptist (24th June). But since Midsummer was a time of magic and wonder-working, evil spirits were said to appear, and people gathered herbs and flowers to protect themselves. One of the most powerful was the plant known as 'chase-devil', which we now call St John's Wort. People used it in potions, and wove the flowers into garlands to decorate their houses or protect their farm animals. They believed that the herb could shield them from the power of evil spirits and could help them foretell the future. ~author unknown Weekly Celebrations For June: International Volunteers Week - 1-7 National Step Parents Week - 1-7 National Fishing Week - 1-7 National Black Single Parents Week - 3-9 National Hug Holiday Week - 3-9 Fan Fair Celebration Week (2nd Week) National Safe Boating Week (2nd Week) National Small Business Week - 3-9 National Nursing Assistants Day and Week - 3-9 National Superman Week 7-10 National "Take a kid fishing" Week - 9-10 National Meet a Mate Week - 11-17 National E-Mail Week - 11-17 National Little League Baseball Week - 11-17 National Men's Health Week - 11-17 National Hermit Week - 13-20 National Amateur Radio Week - 17-24 National Forgiveness Week - 17-23 National Helen Keller Deaf - Blindness Awareness Week - 24-30 National Special Recreation Week - 27-31 National Straight Laced and Loose Women Week - 30-7/1 Monthly Celebrations For June: Adopt-a-Shelter Cat Month American Rivers Month Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month Fireworks Safety Month Gay and Lesbian Pride Month Happy Women Month International Men's Month International People Skills Month National Accordion Awareness Month National "Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism" Month National Beef Steak Month National Cancer in the Sun Month National Dairy Month National Fireworks Safety Month National Fresh Fruits & Vegetables Month National Frozen Yogurt Month National Ice Tea Month National Pest Control Month National Philatelic Writers Month National Ragweed Month National Rebuild Your Life Month National Rivers Month National Rose Month National Safety Month National Scleroderma Awareness Month National Student Safety Month National Turkey Lover's Month National Vision Research Month Surimi Seafood Month * **** * Energy list 6/4 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! 5/8/12 - 9-year-old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. Starting radiation. Family and friends asking help for him and for the children that know him. Update 4/7 He’s doing pretty well and back in school despite the treatments. Update 5/8 No news is good news. Update 5/25 He is 10x better. He is in full remission. * **** * Silliness – GCF: Clarity A "Life and Career" coach met with a prospective client one morning and asked the client what he wanted to get out of their sessions. "Clarity," the client said very firmly. "And on what issues are you looking for clarity?" the coach asked. "Well," he said in a less confident tone, "I'm not sure." **** View (0) Comments For This Post
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It’s the most beautiful fairy rain right now. Brilliant sunshine and a fine delicate bunch of water droplets falling out of the sky! We’re going from shower to sun and back again. When the sun is out it’s very bright, the contrast between “in” and “out” is hard on my sleepy eyes. It’s pretty breezy, but there was a branch on a cedar on the far side of the gully that was moving oddly. Turned out a towhee was hopping along it and making it shake up and down, jerkily. A raven landed on the stale bread tray and just walked a huge chunk. Little birds have been pecking out bits, landing on the chunks and grabbing a bite, but this one picked up a chunk as big as a chickadee and flew off with it! Now, the sun’s one and it’s just steadily dripping…and then pouring. It looks like someone is running a hose in front of the porch. Tempus is going to have to do the feeders this morning. I think the hummingbird feeder is empty. The seed feeder only has seed in one tube and the ravens have chucked another chunk of the bread onto the floor. I want to try to get out into the garden to mulch around some of the plants to keep the weeds down. I’m not going to be able to have Tempus turn up another section of the open spots because of the rain, but maybe he can help me with the sweetgrass. Tempus and I started the morning, yesterday, by stopping and getting some pictures of the iris, then ran down to Patterson to grab pix of the giant vetch. Watch for that album today! I didn’t have time to trot down to the beach after the angelica picture, but we have some time on that. It doesn’t quit blooming until late summer. I got the stones finished being headered. There wasn’t quite enough room on the crystals wall without rearranging, so the new malachites, ambers and aquamarines are all in a basket on the table, instead, until Tempus has some time to work on that wall. The tumblers are going again. The small one is on the final polish, but the big tumbler is running on coarse grit again with the couple of the rhodonites that didn’t quite get far enough along to go on to the 2nd grit. I added some agates, one marble, and some onyx, that we just found, chunks from a mortar that got broken a couple of years ago. We won’t have the rock tumbler workshop this coming weekend, but will let these roll until the following one. Marius came in and we got caught up on various things. The big one is that he’s only got Friday of Beachcombers’ weekend off, so he’s going to train Willow & Tempus on doing the green screen portraits that day…on-the-job training… and then they’ll take it over completely on Saturday/Sunday. …and then we got into the how-to’s of funding Pan-Pagan. By then Willow had shown up, so the notepads came out and we got into the decision making. The thing is that we have to set priorities and we had to figure out the ad sizes & prices for the handbook. That took some hashing out and we were also discussing some things to bring to the full Circle at esbat tomorrow… like 501c(3) status for the Circle as a “church”. I did a quick “mock-up” of the Handbook for Pan-Pagan, based on the stuff from last year, then Marius headed out and Willow grabbed the phone book, the lists off the bulletin board, and got to work on the phone in the classroom, while I got back to shop stuff. I tried all day to get the tags for the new semi-precious stone pendants done. I got side-tracked by the meeting, but the tags finally got made and cut and about 1/3 of the pendants labeled before class. We waited a while for one student, but she never showed, and the class finally ran the full 3 hours. …and then Tempus and went home and I took a long hot soak and crashed. Tempus and I slept in this morning. I’ve had a cup of coffee and he just handed me a lovely bowl of hot cereal. Transit of Venus is today. Links below. Chances are the clouds are going to make it not possible to see here. Last one until 2117. I don’t think I’m going to have this body on by then. I’ve got to get the newsletter stuff together today, and then work on the pictures, including the Beachcombers stuff. I should go through the website again, checking for product that we don’t have any longer. There’s a Beachcombers’ meeting at the Moose at 5pm that I should try to get to, as well. The shop is closed on Tuesdays. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** NASA Science News for June 2, 2012 - What's the best reason to observe the 2012 Transit of Venus? It could be history. Today's story from Science@NASA recounts one explorer's role in "the Apollo program of the 18th Century." FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/02jun_jamescook/ RELATED VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Lx4fC42KI *** Transit of Venus info - http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/o bservingblog/Your-Viewing-Guide-to-the-Transit-of- Venus-155396605.html *** Space Weather News for June 5, 2012 - http://spaceweather.com TRANSIT OF VENUS: The historic 2012 Transit of Venus commences today, June 5th, at 3:09 pm Pacific Daylight Time (22:09 UT). Spaceweather.com is covering the event with observing tips, a real-time photo gallery, and links to live webcasts from around the world. Extraordinary photos of Venus taken during the hours leading up to the transit are also featured on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com . SOLAR WIND: A stream of high-speed solar wind is buffeting Earth's magnetic field, stirring geomagnetic activity around the poles. NOAA forecasters estimate a better-than-even chance of high-latitude geomagnetic storms during the next 24 hours. Aurora alerts are available from http://spaceweathertext.com (text) and http://spaceweatherphone.com (voice). *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is Full and waning. Full Moon Magick: From fourteen to seventeen-and-a-half days after the new moon. “And better it be when the moon is full!”! Prime time for rituals for prophecy, for spells to come to fruition, infusing health and wholeness, etc. A good time for invoking deity. Full Phase ends at 4:12pm on Wednesday. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Transit of Venus across the face of the Sun this afternoon for North and Central America; on June 6th local date for Asia, Australia, and much of Europe. Lots more information and further links: Your Viewing Guide to the Transit of Venus. Mercury is beginning to emerge into view low in the sunset. By late this week, look for it low in the west-northwest about 30 minutes after sundown. Don't confuse it with Capella well to its right, in the northwest. Celtic Tree Month of Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 – Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible. Sun in Gemini Moon Sagittarius enters Capricorn at 5:31am Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Red Planting 6/5-6 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/6 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/6 – Wednesday, 7pm, esbat, waning moon Harvest 6/7-9 6/7 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 6/9 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop Planting 6/10-11 6/10 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft 6/11 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6 Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Harvest 6/12-14 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Planting 6/15-16 Harvest 6/17-18 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 05, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:32 AM PDT, 8:57 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:56 AM PDT, 9:33 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:09 AM PDT, 10:20 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:09 AM PDT, 11:20 PM PDT Moon, 10:24 PM PDT, 6:52 AM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 36m Length of Day, 15h 24m Tomorrow will be 1m 2s longer. Full, 99% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 - I am fair among flowers - Color: Purple - Class: Peasant - Letter: H - Meaning: Being held back for a period of time - Hawthorn - Like willows, hawthorns have many species in Europe, and they are not always easy to tell apart. All are thorny shrubs in the Rose family (Rosaceae), and most have whitish or pinkish flowers. The common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) and midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata (Poiret) DC.) are both widespread. They are common in abandoned fields and along the edges of forests. Both are cultivated in North America, as are several native and Asiatic hawthorns. Curtis Clark Huathe - Hawthorne Ogam letter correspondences Month: April Color: Purple Class: Peasant Letter: H Meaning: Being held back for a period of time to study this month - Ur - Heather and Mistletoe Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Purple Class: Heather is Peasant; Mistletoe is Chieftain Letter: U Meaning: Healing and development on the spiritual level. Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences Month: May Color: Black and Dark Brown Class: Chieftain Letter: D Meaning: Security; Strength to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Silver White Class: Shrub Letter: E Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible Tu 5 High 12:59 AM 9.1 5:33 AM Set 6:52 AM 99 5 Low 8:04 AM -2.4 8:57 PM Rise 10:25 PM 5 High 2:37 PM 7.0 5 Low 7:59 PM 2.1 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – I honestly face both the light and the shadow within me to harmonize all aspects of my spirit. * **** * Journal Prompt – Friends - What would you do if a friend borrows things from you but never returns them? * **** * Quotes Parents that can't say no to their kids can't prepare them for success either. - Steve Keating CSE People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. - Dave Barry Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye. – Musashi Miyamoto Reflective thinking turns experience into insight. - John Maxwell The Cow From Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart. She wanders lowing here and there, And yet she cannot stray, All in the pleasant open air, The pleasant light of day; And blown by all the winds that pass And wet with all the showers, She walks among the meadow grass And eats the meadow flowers. * **** * Magick – Litha Strawberry rhubarb punch - From Llewellyn's Witches' Datebook 2006 Rhubarb – enough to make 3 cups chopped 3 cups water 6 oz can frozen lemonade 2 cans water 3/4 cup sugar quart of lemon/lime soda Garnish - strawberries and lemon verbena 1) Chop rhubarb 2) Simmer rhubarb in water until tender 3) Add a lemonade, water and sugar. 4) Strain and chill. Just before serving, add soda. 5) Garnish with strawberries and lemon verbena. Note – Goes well with Solstice cookies Chilled Avocado Cucumber Soup - Rain Redknife 2 small or one x-large ripe avocado 2 cucumbers, peeled, seeded 1 cup vegetable broth--I use Swanson's canned 1 cup half-and-half, Silk or evaporated skim milk 2 Tbsp lime or lemon juice 1 small sprig fresh basil or tarragon Salt to taste Garnishes: 1/4 cup chopped green onions 1/2 cup chopped tomatoes Mint sprigs 1) Peel and cut up avocado and cucumbers. 2) In a food processor or blender, place the avocado, cucumbers, broth, half-and-half, herb and lime juice. 3) Blend until mixture is smooth. 4) Season to taste. Refrigerate, covered, until chilled. 5) If soup gets too thick, add more milk or broth. 6) Sprinkle each cup with green onions and tomatoes before serving, and/or garnish with mint sprigs. Recipe by Rain Chilled Strawberry-Mint Soup - Makes 2 servings 1 1/2 cups sliced fresh strawberries 3/4 cup sour cream 3/4 cup heavy cream 2 tablespoons orange juice 2 tablespoons honey 1 1/2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh mint leaves Fresh strawberry slices, kiwi fruit slices, or fresh mint sprigs 1. In a food processor or blender, place the strawberries, sour cream, heavy cream, orange juice, and honey; whirl until smooth. 2. Stir in mint. 3. Taste for sweetness; if necessary, add more honey. 4. Refrigerate until well chilled. 5. To serve, put into cold soup bowls and top with strawberry slices, kiwi fruit slices, or mint sprigs.. Recipe courtesy of Monica Resinger, editor of Creative Home and Gardening. For more recipes and information, visit Monica at http://www.geocities.com/plantldy.geo © 2001, Monica Resinger, adapted by Anja 2009 Solstice cookies - From Llewellyn's Witches' Datebook 2006 - Makes about 3 dozen. 1/2 cup butter 1/4 cup brown sugar 1 egg, slightly beaten 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 cup flour 1 cup whole wheat flour 3/4 tsp baking powder 1 1/2 cups rolled oats 3/4 cup chopped apricots, dates, or raisins 1/2 cup toasted sunflower seed 1 to 4 tbs water as needed 1) Preheat oven to 375*F. 2) Cream butter and sugar; add egg, vanilla, and salt, mixing well. 3) Stir dry ingredients together. 4) Mix wet and dry. Add water a tablespoon at a time until dough holds together. 5) Drop on greased cookie sheet, flatten slightly. 6) Bake 10 to 12 minutes. Note - Serve with strawberry rhubarb punch. * **** * Energy list 6/4 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up! 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! 5/8/12 - 9-year-old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. Starting radiation. Family and friends asking help for him and for the children that know him. Update 4/7 He’s doing pretty well and back in school despite the treatments. Update 5/8 No news is good news. Update 5/25 He is 10x better. He is in full remission. * **** * Silliness – GCF: Non-Plumber's Helper Because I couldn't unplug the toilet with a plunger, I had to dismantle the entire fixture. That's no small feat for a non-plumber. Jammed inside the drain was a purple rubber dinosaur, which belonged to my five-year-old son. I painstakingly got all the toilet parts together again, the tank filled, and I flushed it. However, it didn't work much better than before! As I pondered what to do next, my son walked into the bathroom. I pointed to the purple dinosaur I had just dislodged and told him that the toilet still wasn't working. 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Wicca 101 at 6pm! It’s green and wet, although not dripping at the moment and 54F. The feeder is still. The garden is green and thankful. Class went well in the morning. We had 14 from Job Corps! Brandon managed to sell all but six of his chicks yesterday! That was pretty good. People who had seen them came back and several others got phone calls or e-mails from several of you. Thanks for spreading the word! Tanya was there for ½ the day today. She donated a signed copy of her book on tassiography to the shop. I wish we could have gotten her some more readings during the weekend, but I’ve been talking to her about coming back for Pan-Pagan to do another workshop. I got more of the new crystals sorted out and bagged and built headers for the malachite, the aquamarine and for some of the ambers. Hopefully those will get onto the wall tomorrow. What came out of the rock tumblers is looking pretty good. There are a few that are going to have to be kept back for another run, but there’s some ruby zoosite and rhodonite that are looking really good to go into the 2nd grit and the one nephrite that got a chip knocked off before and went through this round is ready to go. Nick spent the day working on Tempus’ car and Willow’s, doing maintenance and diagnosing what the issue was with Tempus’ car…it looks like a snapped spring, of all things. Once he got it apart, it seems to have been easy to find. Several of us went down to watch the sunset and Brandon got to spend a while drumming on the beach. Tempus and I went to Patterson and curled up on a bench. It was too dark to take pictures, already, but there was a beautiful giant vetch and a couple of seaside angelica plants that we’re going to go back in the morning to look at. We also brought the green screen home and if the weather cooperates we’re going to try to get iris pictures from the beautiful stand of blue-violet ones over on Range Drive. Willow, Kaleb, Brandon, Nick, Tempus and I had dinner together and then everyone headed home. Did anyone manage to see the eclipse? It was overcast and wet, here. It was a long weekend, but a *lot* of fun! Today, after we try to get those pictures of the iris & other plants, I have those headers to finish and to make the labels for the new pendants. Class is tonight at 6pm. That’s pretty much it! The shop opens at 10am today and we’ll be there through class time. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** NASA Science News for June 2, 2012 - What's the best reason to observe the 2012 Transit of Venus? It could be history. Today's story from Science@NASA recounts one explorer's role in "the Apollo program of the 18th Century." FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/02jun_jamescook/ RELATED VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Lx4fC42KI *** Transit of Venus info - http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/o bservingblog/Your-Viewing-Guide-to-the-Transit-of- Venus-155396605.html *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! 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Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. This evening the bright Moon shines well to the left of Antares. The crescent of Venus is growing ever thinner as it nears the Sun. Venus is essentially hidden in the glare of the Sun this week — except for about 6 hours and 20 minutes when its black silhouette transits the face of the Sun itself on June 5–6 (on the afternoon of the 5th for North America). For full information, see our article Your Guide to Viewing the Transit of Venus and its links to safely viewing the Sun, photographing the event, watching it on webcams worldwide, and much more. This will be the last Venus transit until 2117. Celtic Tree Month of Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Sun in Gemini Full Strawberry Moon in Scorpio enters Sagittarius at 5:32am Neptune Retrograde 6-4-12 2:03pm Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Rose Harvest 6/4 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/4 – Full Strong Sun Moon at 4:12am, Pathfinding Horse Moon 6/4 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5 Planting 6/5-6 6/6 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/6 – Wednesday, 7pm, esbat, waning moon Harvest 6/7-9 6/7 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 6/9 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop Planting 6/10-11 6/10 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Harvest 6/12-14 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Planting 6/15-16 Harvest 6/17-18 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 04, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:33 AM PDT, 8:56 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:57 AM PDT, 9:32 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:09 AM PDT, 10:19 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:10 AM PDT, 11:19 PM PDT Moon, 9:30 PM PDT, 5:46 AM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 35m Length of Day, 15h 23m Tomorrow will be 1m 6s longer. Full, 100% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 - I am fair among flowers - Color: Purple - Class: Peasant - Letter: H - Meaning: Being held back for a period of time - Hawthorn - Like willows, hawthorns have many species in Europe, and they are not always easy to tell apart. All are thorny shrubs in the Rose family (Rosaceae), and most have whitish or pinkish flowers. The common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) and midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata (Poiret) DC.) are both widespread. They are common in abandoned fields and along the edges of forests. Both are cultivated in North America, as are several native and Asiatic hawthorns. Curtis Clark Huathe - Hawthorne Ogam letter correspondences Month: April Color: Purple Class: Peasant Letter: H Meaning: Being held back for a period of time to study this month - Ur - Heather and Mistletoe Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Purple Class: Heather is Peasant; Mistletoe is Chieftain Letter: U Meaning: Healing and development on the spiritual level. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible M 4 High 12:10 AM 9.1 5:33 AM Set 5:46 AM 99 4 Low 7:16 AM -2.3 8:57 PM Rise 9:31 PM 4 High 1:47 PM 6.8 4 Low 7:06 PM 2.1 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – I am willing to do all that the Mother lets me know needs to be done. Attachment to other aims leads to frustration. * **** * Journal Prompt – Wiki - As a whole, do you live for tomorrow or today? Explain. * **** * Quotes Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. - Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian revolutionary More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. - Napoleon Hill Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. – Dag Hammerskjold Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. - Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) French actor Misery and joy have the same shape in this world: You may call the rose an open heart or a broken heart. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi * **** * Magick – Litha Let us begin. Let us sing. . Singing of the small corn. Singing of the large corn. Singing as the evening falls. Singing as the light dawns. The light dawns and finds us singing, singing as the corn waves tassels at us. The dark falls and finds us singing, singing while the squash waves leaves us. The earth rumbles from the beating of our basket drums. The sky rumbles from the beating of our basket drums. The rain comes. The rain comes. ~Pima Rain-Making Song The plants that feed us need sun and water and soil in order to thrive. Too much of one, too little of another, will mean a ruined crop - and, because we depend upon plants for food, will mean starvation and death as well. Our forebears knew the necessity of balance between sun and rain, between night and day, between rest and activity. Too often, today, the balance is lost, so that newscasters bemoan the rain our farms and gardens need - and which we, in turn, need as well. When the weather thwarts our plans this summer, when weekends are rainy and evenings damp, let us recognize the rain's necessity and thank the goddess for her bounty. The lush green fields, and full larders, will be our rewards . By Patricia Monaghan ~ From "The Goddess Companion" and GrannyMoon's Morning Feast 1-800-THE-MOON ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ People thought that midsummer was a time of magic and wonder-working. Evil spirits were said to appear, and people gathered herbs and flowers to protect themselves. Midsummer is the magical time when the days are longest and the nights are shortest. This was when ancient peoples gathered to celebrate the sun and its life-giving power On Litha, tie a bunch of fennel with red ribbons and hang over the door for long life and protection of the home. Hang a bundle of fresh herbs out to dry. Use them to cook summer veggies. Today, light a white candle and place it in front of a mirror. Say a prayer and let it burn out. One of the most powerful was the plant known as 'chase-devil', which we now call St John's Wort. People used it in potions, and wove the flowers into garlands to decorate their houses or protect their farm animals ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ Summer Solstice by Rhiannon Cotter - http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/tigris/567/i d20.htm Summer Solstice, the longest day, represents a turning point from Spring to Summer during which the Sun God directs the ripening and blossoming of the grain and fruit. Here in the heat of the Summer, the crops are transformed as are our actions, thoughts and plans. All things are tempered by the heat of the Sun. Blossoming and ripening of our works are manifested, or they shrivel and die in the heat. All the while, sexual energy is growing. The Sun God impregnates the Earth Goddess in a sweet "petit mort"---as the cup is to the Goddess, so too is the athame to the God. Litha - The Simple Facts Midsummer: Summer Solstice, Alban Hefin (Caledonii) A fire lit and kept alight until midnight brings good luck to the house and its occupants. Dreams will be more lucid on this night so adopt some of the psychic dream routines from Marmy's Bedroom page. A time to perform rituals for personal power and protection, to celebrate the Sun Lord's power. The longest day of the year and the Sun God at his strongest. The Goddess is heavy with pregnancy just as the Earth is ready for harvesting. It also marks the waning of the year as each day becomes shorter, heralding the onset of Autumn and then Winter. The Summer Solstice, the longest day, is a time of triumph for the light. In many Wiccan celebrations, this is when the Oak King, who represents the waxing year, is triumphed over by the Holly King, who represents the waning year. The two are one: the Oak King is the growing youth while the Holly King is the mature man. Healings and love magick are especially suitable at this time. Midsummer Night's Eve is supposed to be a good time to commune with field and forest sprites and faeries. Litha (pronounced "LITH-ah") is one of the Lesser Wiccan Sabbats and is usually celebrated on June 21st, but varies somewhat from the 20th to the 23rd, dependant upon the Earth's rotation around the Sun (check the calendar). According to the old folklore calendar, Summer begins on Beltane (May 1st) and ends on Lughnassadh (August 1st), with the Summer Solstice midway between the two, marking MID-Summer. This makes more logical sense than suggesting that Summer begins on the day when the Sun's power begins to wane and the days grow shorter... (Images to the left and below are by Anthony Meadows and from Llewellyn's 1998 and 1999 Witches' Calendars. Click on either image to go directly to Llewellyn's Web Site.) The most common other names for this holiday are the Summer Solstice or Midsummer, and it celebrates the arrival of Summer, when the hours of daylight are longest. The Sun is now at the highest point before beginning its slide into darkness. Other names for this time in the Wheel of the Year include Alban Heruin, (Caledonii or the Druids), Alban Hefin (Anglo-Saxon Tradition), Sun Blessing, Gathering Day (Welsh), Whit Sunday, Whitsuntide, Vestalia (Ancient Roman), the Feast of Epona (Ancient Gaulish), All-Couple's Day (Greek), and St. John's Day. Scottish Pecti-Witans celebrate Feill-Sheathain on July 5th. In the Italian tradition of Aridian Strega, this Sabbat (Strega Witches call them Treguendas rather than Sabbats) is known as Summer Fest - La Festa dell'Estate. Scandinavians celebrate this holiday at a later date and call it Thing-Tide. In England, June 21st is "The Day of Cerridwen and Her Cauldron". And in Ireland, this day is dedicated to the faery goddess Aine of Knockaine. And finally, in Northern Europe - June 21st is "The Day of the Green Man". The Litha Sabbat is a time to celebrate both work and leisure, it is a time for children and childlike play. It is a time to celebrate the ending of the waxing year and the beginning of the waning year, in preparation for the harvest to come. Midsummer is a time to absorb the Sun's warming rays and it is another fertility Sabbat, not only for humans, but also for crops and animals. Wiccans consider the Goddess to be heavy with pregnancy from the mating at Beltane - honor is given to Her. The Sun God is celebrated as the Sun is at its peak in the sky and we celebrate His approaching fatherhood - honor is also given to Him. The faeries abound at this time and it is customary to leave offerings - such as food or herbs - for them in the evening. Symbols to represent the Litha Sabbat are such things as fire, the Sun, blades, mistletoe, oak trees, balefires, Sun wheels and faeries. Altar decorations might include Summertime flowers - especially sunflowers - love amulets, seashells, aromatic potpourri and Summer fruits. If you made Sun wheels at Imbolc, you should now display them prominently. Hang them from the ceiling or place them on trees in your yard. You may also want to decorate them with yellow and gold ribbons and Summer herbs. Deities associated with Litha include all Father Gods and Mother Goddesses, Pregnant Goddesses and Sun Deities. Particular emphasis might be placed on the Goddesses Aphrodite, Astarte, Freya, Hathor, Ishtar, Venus and other Goddesses who preside over love, passion and beauty. Other Litha deities include Athena, Artemis, Dana, Kali, Isis, Juno, Apollo, Dagda, Gwydion, Helios, Llew, Oak/Holly King, Lugh, Ra, Sol, Zeus, Prometheus, Ares, and Thor. The cycle of fertility has been expressed in many god-forms. One pair of these - which has persisted from early Pagan times to modern folklore - is that of the Oak King and the Holly King, Gods respectively of the Waxing Year and the Waning Year. The Oak King rules from Midwinter to Midsummer - the period of Fertility, Expansion and Growth; while the Holly King reigns from Midsummer to Midwinter - the period of Harvest, Withdrawal and Wisdom. They are the light and dark twins, each being the other's alternate self, thus being one. Each represents a necessary phase in the natural rhythm, therefore both are good. At the two changeover points, they symbolically meet in combat. The incoming twin - the Oak King at Midwinter, the Holly King at Midsummer - "slays" the outgoing one. But the defeated twin is not actually considered dead - he has merely withdrawn during the six months of his brother's rule. On Midsummer Night, field and forest elves, sprites, and fairies abound in great numbers - making this a great time to commune with them. Litha is considered one of the best times to perform magicks of all kinds, for it is considered a time of great magickal power. Especially effective magick and spells at this time include the performance of those for love, healing and prosperity. A wreath can be made for your door with yellow feathers for prosperity and red feathers for sexuality - intertwined and tied together with ivy. This is also a very good time to perform blessings and protection spells for your pets or other animals. You may want to choose to include your pet within your cast Circle at this Sabbat celebration, and even present him or her with a special gift (such as a tiny pentacle to attach to his or her collar). I have done this and found it very rewarding and heartwarming. Nurturing and love are key actions related to Midsummer. If you haven't yet done so, Litha is a good time to perform your Self-Dedication Ceremony... or - if you have been practicing Wicca for a while - you may choose to perform a simple Re-dedication/Affirmation as a part of your Sabbat celebration. Ritual actions for Litha might include placing a flower-ringed cauldron upon your altar, plunging of the sword (or athame) into the cauldron, balefire leaping (outdoors) and the gathering and drying of herbs. Herbs can be dried over the ritual fire if you're celebrating outdoors. Leap the bonfire for purification and renewed energy. Ritually, use mirrors to capture the light of the Sun or the flames of the fire. Some things that are considered taboo on this holiday are giving away fire, sleeping away from home, and neglecting animals. Colors associated with the Summer Solstice include white, red, maize yellow or golden yellow, green, blue and tan. Altar candles could be either a combination of blue, green, and yellow --- or red and gold. Stones to use during Litha include all green gemstones, especially emerald and jade. Other appropriate gemstones are tiger's eye, lapus lazuli and diamonds. Animals associated with this Sabbat include robins, wrens, all Summer birds, horses and cattle. Mythical creatures include satyrs, faeries, firebirds, dragons, thunderbirds and manticores. Plants associated with Midsummer are oak, mistletoe, frankincense, lemon, sandalwood, heliotrope, copal, saffron, galangal, laurel and ylang-ylang. Herbs associated with this Sabbat are chamomile, cinquefoil, elder, fennel, hemp, larkspur, lavender, male fern, mugwort, pine, roses, Saint John's wort, wild thyme, wisteria and verbena. Traditionally, herbs gathered on this day are extremely powerful. Incense for the Litha Sabbat Ritual might be a combination of any of the following or simply one of them by itself... frankincense, myrrh, sandalwood, lemon, pine, jasmine, rose, lotus, or wysteria. Traditional Pagan foods for Litha include fresh vegetables of all kinds and fresh fruits such as lemons and oranges. Other standard fare may be pumpernickel bread as well as Summer squash and any yellow or orange colored foods. Flaming foods are also appropriate. Traditional drinks are ale, mead, and fresh fruit juice of any kind. May the Lord and Lady bless you all with lots of love, prosperity, health, and well-being! If you need any help with anything Wiccan, Witchy or Pagan. need a potion or spell help E-Mail me, or add me to your MSN Messanger with ask_a_witch@hotmail.com web hosting domain names video sharing online games photo sharing free blog advertising online http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/tigris/567/ id20.htm * **** * Energy list 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! 5/8/12 - 9-year-old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. Starting radiation. Family and friends asking help for him and for the children that know him. Update 4/7 He’s doing pretty well and back in school despite the treatments. Update 5/8 No news is good news. Update 5/25 He is 10x better. He is in full remission. * **** * Silliness – Nun of Your Business While shopping in a food store, two nuns happened to pass by the beer, wine, and liquor section. One asked the other if she would like a beer. The second nun answered that, indeed, it would be very nice to have one, but that she would feel uncomfortable purchasing it. The first nun replied that she would handle it without a problem. She picked up a six-pack and took it to the cashier. The cashier was surprised, so the nun said, “This is for washing our hair.” Without blinking an eye, the cashier reached under the counter and put a package of pretzel sticks in the bag with the beer. “The curlers are on me.” - Joke shared by Beliefnet member smoothsable **** View (0) Comments For This Post
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Wicca 101 at 6pm! It’s green and wet, although not dripping at the moment and 54F. The feeder is still. The garden is green and thankful. Class went well in the morning. We had 14 from Job Corps! Brandon managed to sell all but six of his chicks yesterday! That was pretty good. People who had seen them came back and several others got phone calls or e-mails from several of you. Thanks for spreading the word! Tanya was there for ½ the day today. She donated a signed copy of her book on tassiography to the shop. I wish we could have gotten her some more readings during the weekend, but I’ve been talking to her about coming back for Pan-Pagan to do another workshop. I got more of the new crystals sorted out and bagged and built headers for the malachite, the aquamarine and for some of the ambers. Hopefully those will get onto the wall tomorrow. What came out of the rock tumblers is looking pretty good. There are a few that are going to have to be kept back for another run, but there’s some ruby zoosite and rhodonite that are looking really good to go into the 2nd grit and the one nephrite that got a chip knocked off before and went through this round is ready to go. Nick spent the day working on Tempus’ car and Willow’s, doing maintenance and diagnosing what the issue was with Tempus’ car…it looks like a snapped spring, of all things. Once he got it apart, it seems to have been easy to find. Several of us went down to watch the sunset and Brandon got to spend a while drumming on the beach. Tempus and I went to Patterson and curled up on a bench. It was too dark to take pictures, already, but there was a beautiful giant vetch and a couple of seaside angelica plants that we’re going to go back in the morning to look at. We also brought the green screen home and if the weather cooperates we’re going to try to get iris pictures from the beautiful stand of blue-violet ones over on Range Drive. Willow, Kaleb, Brandon, Nick, Tempus and I had dinner together and then everyone headed home. Did anyone manage to see the eclipse? It was overcast and wet, here. It was a long weekend, but a *lot* of fun! Today, after we try to get those pictures of the iris & other plants, I have those headers to finish and to make the labels for the new pendants. Class is tonight at 6pm. That’s pretty much it! The shop opens at 10am today and we’ll be there through class time. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** NASA Science News for June 2, 2012 - What's the best reason to observe the 2012 Transit of Venus? It could be history. Today's story from Science@NASA recounts one explorer's role in "the Apollo program of the 18th Century." FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/02jun_jamescook/ RELATED VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Lx4fC42KI *** Transit of Venus info - http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/o bservingblog/Your-Viewing-Guide-to-the-Transit-of- Venus-155396605.html *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is Full and waning. Full Moon Magick: From fourteen to seventeen-and-a-half days after the new moon. “And better it be when the moon is full!”! Prime time for rituals for prophecy, for spells to come to fruition, infusing health and wholeness, etc. A good time for invoking deity. Full Phase ends at 4:12pm on Wednesday. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. This evening the bright Moon shines well to the left of Antares. The crescent of Venus is growing ever thinner as it nears the Sun. Venus is essentially hidden in the glare of the Sun this week — except for about 6 hours and 20 minutes when its black silhouette transits the face of the Sun itself on June 5–6 (on the afternoon of the 5th for North America). For full information, see our article Your Guide to Viewing the Transit of Venus and its links to safely viewing the Sun, photographing the event, watching it on webcams worldwide, and much more. This will be the last Venus transit until 2117. Celtic Tree Month of Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Sun in Gemini Full Strawberry Moon in Scorpio enters Sagittarius at 5:32am Neptune Retrograde 6-4-12 2:03pm Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Rose Harvest 6/4 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar 6/4 – Full Strong Sun Moon at 4:12am, Pathfinding Horse Moon 6/4 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5 Planting 6/5-6 6/6 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/6 – Wednesday, 7pm, esbat, waning moon Harvest 6/7-9 6/7 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 6/9 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop Planting 6/10-11 6/10 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Harvest 6/12-14 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Planting 6/15-16 Harvest 6/17-18 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing (discussion follows) 7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of ? 3pm – Discussion follows movie Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 04, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:33 AM PDT, 8:56 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:57 AM PDT, 9:32 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:09 AM PDT, 10:19 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:10 AM PDT, 11:19 PM PDT Moon, 9:30 PM PDT, 5:46 AM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 35m Length of Day, 15h 23m Tomorrow will be 1m 6s longer. Full, 100% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 - I am fair among flowers - Color: Purple - Class: Peasant - Letter: H - Meaning: Being held back for a period of time - Hawthorn - Like willows, hawthorns have many species in Europe, and they are not always easy to tell apart. All are thorny shrubs in the Rose family (Rosaceae), and most have whitish or pinkish flowers. The common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) and midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata (Poiret) DC.) are both widespread. They are common in abandoned fields and along the edges of forests. Both are cultivated in North America, as are several native and Asiatic hawthorns. Curtis Clark Huathe - Hawthorne Ogam letter correspondences Month: April Color: Purple Class: Peasant Letter: H Meaning: Being held back for a period of time to study this month - Ur - Heather and Mistletoe Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Purple Class: Heather is Peasant; Mistletoe is Chieftain Letter: U Meaning: Healing and development on the spiritual level. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible M 4 High 12:10 AM 9.1 5:33 AM Set 5:46 AM 99 4 Low 7:16 AM -2.3 8:57 PM Rise 9:31 PM 4 High 1:47 PM 6.8 4 Low 7:06 PM 2.1 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – I am willing to do all that the Mother lets me know needs to be done. Attachment to other aims leads to frustration. * **** * Journal Prompt – Wiki - As a whole, do you live for tomorrow or today? Explain. * **** * Quotes Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. - Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian revolutionary More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. - Napoleon Hill Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. – Dag Hammerskjold Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. - Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) French actor Misery and joy have the same shape in this world: You may call the rose an open heart or a broken heart. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi * **** * Magick – Litha Let us begin. Let us sing. . Singing of the small corn. Singing of the large corn. Singing as the evening falls. Singing as the light dawns. The light dawns and finds us singing, singing as the corn waves tassels at us. The dark falls and finds us singing, singing while the squash waves leaves us. The earth rumbles from the beating of our basket drums. The sky rumbles from the beating of our basket drums. The rain comes. The rain comes. ~Pima Rain-Making Song The plants that feed us need sun and water and soil in order to thrive. Too much of one, too little of another, will mean a ruined crop - and, because we depend upon plants for food, will mean starvation and death as well. Our forebears knew the necessity of balance between sun and rain, between night and day, between rest and activity. Too often, today, the balance is lost, so that newscasters bemoan the rain our farms and gardens need - and which we, in turn, need as well. When the weather thwarts our plans this summer, when weekends are rainy and evenings damp, let us recognize the rain's necessity and thank the goddess for her bounty. The lush green fields, and full larders, will be our rewards . By Patricia Monaghan ~ From "The Goddess Companion" and GrannyMoon's Morning Feast 1-800-THE-MOON ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ People thought that midsummer was a time of magic and wonder-working. Evil spirits were said to appear, and people gathered herbs and flowers to protect themselves. Midsummer is the magical time when the days are longest and the nights are shortest. This was when ancient peoples gathered to celebrate the sun and its life-giving power On Litha, tie a bunch of fennel with red ribbons and hang over the door for long life and protection of the home. Hang a bundle of fresh herbs out to dry. Use them to cook summer veggies. Today, light a white candle and place it in front of a mirror. Say a prayer and let it burn out. One of the most powerful was the plant known as 'chase-devil', which we now call St John's Wort. People used it in potions, and wove the flowers into garlands to decorate their houses or protect their farm animals ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ Summer Solstice by Rhiannon Cotter - http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/tigris/567/i d20.htm Summer Solstice, the longest day, represents a turning point from Spring to Summer during which the Sun God directs the ripening and blossoming of the grain and fruit. Here in the heat of the Summer, the crops are transformed as are our actions, thoughts and plans. All things are tempered by the heat of the Sun. Blossoming and ripening of our works are manifested, or they shrivel and die in the heat. All the while, sexual energy is growing. The Sun God impregnates the Earth Goddess in a sweet "petit mort"---as the cup is to the Goddess, so too is the athame to the God. Litha - The Simple Facts Midsummer: Summer Solstice, Alban Hefin (Caledonii) A fire lit and kept alight until midnight brings good luck to the house and its occupants. Dreams will be more lucid on this night so adopt some of the psychic dream routines from Marmy's Bedroom page. A time to perform rituals for personal power and protection, to celebrate the Sun Lord's power. The longest day of the year and the Sun God at his strongest. The Goddess is heavy with pregnancy just as the Earth is ready for harvesting. It also marks the waning of the year as each day becomes shorter, heralding the onset of Autumn and then Winter. The Summer Solstice, the longest day, is a time of triumph for the light. In many Wiccan celebrations, this is when the Oak King, who represents the waxing year, is triumphed over by the Holly King, who represents the waning year. The two are one: the Oak King is the growing youth while the Holly King is the mature man. Healings and love magick are especially suitable at this time. Midsummer Night's Eve is supposed to be a good time to commune with field and forest sprites and faeries. Litha (pronounced "LITH-ah") is one of the Lesser Wiccan Sabbats and is usually celebrated on June 21st, but varies somewhat from the 20th to the 23rd, dependant upon the Earth's rotation around the Sun (check the calendar). According to the old folklore calendar, Summer begins on Beltane (May 1st) and ends on Lughnassadh (August 1st), with the Summer Solstice midway between the two, marking MID-Summer. This makes more logical sense than suggesting that Summer begins on the day when the Sun's power begins to wane and the days grow shorter... (Images to the left and below are by Anthony Meadows and from Llewellyn's 1998 and 1999 Witches' Calendars. Click on either image to go directly to Llewellyn's Web Site.) The most common other names for this holiday are the Summer Solstice or Midsummer, and it celebrates the arrival of Summer, when the hours of daylight are longest. The Sun is now at the highest point before beginning its slide into darkness. Other names for this time in the Wheel of the Year include Alban Heruin, (Caledonii or the Druids), Alban Hefin (Anglo-Saxon Tradition), Sun Blessing, Gathering Day (Welsh), Whit Sunday, Whitsuntide, Vestalia (Ancient Roman), the Feast of Epona (Ancient Gaulish), All-Couple's Day (Greek), and St. John's Day. Scottish Pecti-Witans celebrate Feill-Sheathain on July 5th. In the Italian tradition of Aridian Strega, this Sabbat (Strega Witches call them Treguendas rather than Sabbats) is known as Summer Fest - La Festa dell'Estate. Scandinavians celebrate this holiday at a later date and call it Thing-Tide. In England, June 21st is "The Day of Cerridwen and Her Cauldron". And in Ireland, this day is dedicated to the faery goddess Aine of Knockaine. And finally, in Northern Europe - June 21st is "The Day of the Green Man". The Litha Sabbat is a time to celebrate both work and leisure, it is a time for children and childlike play. It is a time to celebrate the ending of the waxing year and the beginning of the waning year, in preparation for the harvest to come. Midsummer is a time to absorb the Sun's warming rays and it is another fertility Sabbat, not only for humans, but also for crops and animals. Wiccans consider the Goddess to be heavy with pregnancy from the mating at Beltane - honor is given to Her. The Sun God is celebrated as the Sun is at its peak in the sky and we celebrate His approaching fatherhood - honor is also given to Him. The faeries abound at this time and it is customary to leave offerings - such as food or herbs - for them in the evening. Symbols to represent the Litha Sabbat are such things as fire, the Sun, blades, mistletoe, oak trees, balefires, Sun wheels and faeries. Altar decorations might include Summertime flowers - especially sunflowers - love amulets, seashells, aromatic potpourri and Summer fruits. If you made Sun wheels at Imbolc, you should now display them prominently. Hang them from the ceiling or place them on trees in your yard. You may also want to decorate them with yellow and gold ribbons and Summer herbs. Deities associated with Litha include all Father Gods and Mother Goddesses, Pregnant Goddesses and Sun Deities. Particular emphasis might be placed on the Goddesses Aphrodite, Astarte, Freya, Hathor, Ishtar, Venus and other Goddesses who preside over love, passion and beauty. Other Litha deities include Athena, Artemis, Dana, Kali, Isis, Juno, Apollo, Dagda, Gwydion, Helios, Llew, Oak/Holly King, Lugh, Ra, Sol, Zeus, Prometheus, Ares, and Thor. The cycle of fertility has been expressed in many god-forms. One pair of these - which has persisted from early Pagan times to modern folklore - is that of the Oak King and the Holly King, Gods respectively of the Waxing Year and the Waning Year. The Oak King rules from Midwinter to Midsummer - the period of Fertility, Expansion and Growth; while the Holly King reigns from Midsummer to Midwinter - the period of Harvest, Withdrawal and Wisdom. They are the light and dark twins, each being the other's alternate self, thus being one. Each represents a necessary phase in the natural rhythm, therefore both are good. At the two changeover points, they symbolically meet in combat. The incoming twin - the Oak King at Midwinter, the Holly King at Midsummer - "slays" the outgoing one. But the defeated twin is not actually considered dead - he has merely withdrawn during the six months of his brother's rule. On Midsummer Night, field and forest elves, sprites, and fairies abound in great numbers - making this a great time to commune with them. Litha is considered one of the best times to perform magicks of all kinds, for it is considered a time of great magickal power. Especially effective magick and spells at this time include the performance of those for love, healing and prosperity. A wreath can be made for your door with yellow feathers for prosperity and red feathers for sexuality - intertwined and tied together with ivy. This is also a very good time to perform blessings and protection spells for your pets or other animals. You may want to choose to include your pet within your cast Circle at this Sabbat celebration, and even present him or her with a special gift (such as a tiny pentacle to attach to his or her collar). I have done this and found it very rewarding and heartwarming. Nurturing and love are key actions related to Midsummer. If you haven't yet done so, Litha is a good time to perform your Self-Dedication Ceremony... or - if you have been practicing Wicca for a while - you may choose to perform a simple Re-dedication/Affirmation as a part of your Sabbat celebration. Ritual actions for Litha might include placing a flower-ringed cauldron upon your altar, plunging of the sword (or athame) into the cauldron, balefire leaping (outdoors) and the gathering and drying of herbs. Herbs can be dried over the ritual fire if you're celebrating outdoors. Leap the bonfire for purification and renewed energy. Ritually, use mirrors to capture the light of the Sun or the flames of the fire. Some things that are considered taboo on this holiday are giving away fire, sleeping away from home, and neglecting animals. Colors associated with the Summer Solstice include white, red, maize yellow or golden yellow, green, blue and tan. Altar candles could be either a combination of blue, green, and yellow --- or red and gold. Stones to use during Litha include all green gemstones, especially emerald and jade. Other appropriate gemstones are tiger's eye, lapus lazuli and diamonds. Animals associated with this Sabbat include robins, wrens, all Summer birds, horses and cattle. Mythical creatures include satyrs, faeries, firebirds, dragons, thunderbirds and manticores. Plants associated with Midsummer are oak, mistletoe, frankincense, lemon, sandalwood, heliotrope, copal, saffron, galangal, laurel and ylang-ylang. Herbs associated with this Sabbat are chamomile, cinquefoil, elder, fennel, hemp, larkspur, lavender, male fern, mugwort, pine, roses, Saint John's wort, wild thyme, wisteria and verbena. Traditionally, herbs gathered on this day are extremely powerful. Incense for the Litha Sabbat Ritual might be a combination of any of the following or simply one of them by itself... frankincense, myrrh, sandalwood, lemon, pine, jasmine, rose, lotus, or wysteria. Traditional Pagan foods for Litha include fresh vegetables of all kinds and fresh fruits such as lemons and oranges. Other standard fare may be pumpernickel bread as well as Summer squash and any yellow or orange colored foods. Flaming foods are also appropriate. Traditional drinks are ale, mead, and fresh fruit juice of any kind. May the Lord and Lady bless you all with lots of love, prosperity, health, and well-being! If you need any help with anything Wiccan, Witchy or Pagan. need a potion or spell help E-Mail me, or add me to your MSN Messanger with ask_a_witch@hotmail.com web hosting domain names video sharing online games photo sharing free blog advertising online http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/tigris/567/ id20.htm * **** * Energy list 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! 5/8/12 - 9-year-old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. Starting radiation. Family and friends asking help for him and for the children that know him. Update 4/7 He’s doing pretty well and back in school despite the treatments. Update 5/8 No news is good news. Update 5/25 He is 10x better. He is in full remission. * **** * Silliness – Nun of Your Business While shopping in a food store, two nuns happened to pass by the beer, wine, and liquor section. One asked the other if she would like a beer. The second nun answered that, indeed, it would be very nice to have one, but that she would feel uncomfortable purchasing it. The first nun replied that she would handle it without a problem. She picked up a six-pack and took it to the cashier. The cashier was surprised, so the nun said, “This is for washing our hair.” Without blinking an eye, the cashier reached under the counter and put a package of pretzel sticks in the bag with the beer. “The curlers are on me.” - Joke shared by Beliefnet member smoothsable **** View (0) Comments For This Post
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Last day of Psychic Fair! Schedule is below. Tanya’s teacups and tea are all set out and ready! It’s overcast, but the clouds are high and despite the forecast of rain, then sun is trying to break through. It’s only 50F, so chillier than it’s been. I’ve been watching the small birds on the feeder. Someone cleared off the rest of the bread cubes, so none of the big birds have been around, but there was a chickadee first, then a towhee, and sparrows, but all one at a time. I skittered out the door at a little after 9:30 with my basket, not sure if I’d have anything much to collect, but found a handful of new buttercups in the garden, then went after comfrey, horehound, one pink rose and finally some woodruff. I got to the shop a little early because I knew that cleaning off the class table was going to be interesting. I was right, since we finished at just about 10:45 and the folks that had been talking about coming for class showed up at 10:50, so we started right in. We started with the fresh herbs, identifying, talking about properties and also what this couple wants to learn about herbs while we got them prepped for drying and also a little bit of those techniques and the feel of the different herbs. We started into processing some dried ones, but that didn’t get all that far. Brandon’s chicks were in the shop for a while, but I started stuffing up, so we got them into the sun outside. He’s going to stay into the evening today, but we do have more people coming to look at the chicks, so get ‘em while they’re still here! They’re quite an assortment of sizes and colors…and please pass the word! He’d like to not have to drive them back up with him. The afternoon was a lot of sitting and talking and I’ve been working on getting the new crystals inventoried, priced and set out. We’ve got some beautiful lapis handstones again, a couple of shivery-clear quartz, points in citrine and lapis, lots of earrings, small orbs (apatite!), even some aquamarine, and the most beautiful malachites. I have a whole huge handful of semi-precious stone pendants to tag and string, still. We didn’t get to Rock Tumblers, so that will be today’s Practical Craft. In the evening, since no one showed up for the Meditation, we took the tape back to the house, and ate while we watched, then spent several hours talking about it and other related topics. I’m heading for the shop at 9am and the others will follow as they’re ready. Schedule for today! 6/3 – Sunday, 10am-6pm - Tea Leaf & Tarot Readings by Tanya Lester, Tasiographer 6/3 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of The Burning Times 3pm – Discussion follows movie The eclipse is tonight!!!!! The shop opens at 10am today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** NASA Science News for June 2, 2012 - What's the best reason to observe the 2012 Transit of Venus? It could be history. Today's story from Science@NASA recounts one explorer's role in "the Apollo program of the 18th Century." FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/02jun_jamescook/ RELATED VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Lx4fC42KI *** Transit of Venus info - http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/o bservingblog/Your-Viewing-Guide-to-the-Transit-of- Venus-155396605.html *** NASA Science News for May 28, 2012 - On Monday, June 4th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across the Pacific from China to the United States. FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/28may_strawberry/ VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aszUiI6J-L8 *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair & sharpenings - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. …plus we have a new set just for Pan-Pagan with this year’s logo. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is waxing gibbous. Waxing Moon Magick - The waxing moon is for constructive magick, such as love, wealth, success, courage, friendship, luck or healthy, protection, divination. Any working that needs extra power, such as help finding a new job or healings for serious conditions, can be done now. Also, love, knowledge, legal undertakings, money and dreams. Phase change from Waxing to Waning occurs early Tuesday morning at 4:12am. Full Moon Magick: From fourteen to seventeen-and-a-half days after the new moon. “And better it be when the moon is full!”! Prime time for rituals for prophecy, for spells to come to fruition, infusing health and wholeness, etc. A good time for invoking deity. Eclipses - Lunar eclipses always occur on the day of the Full Moon. Positive magicks should not be performed in these months until after the eclipse is over. This evening, look for Antares about 4° lower right of the full Moon (as seen from North America). Partial eclipse of the Moon before and during dawn Monday morning for central and western North America. The partial eclipse begins at 3:00 a.m. PDT; mid-eclipse (with 38% of the Moon's diameter in shadow) is at 4:03 a.m. PDT; partial eclipse ends at 5:07 a.m. PDT. For details see June 4th's Partial Eclipse of the Moon. Celtic Tree Month of Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Sun in Gemini Moon in Scorpio enters Sagittarius at 5:32am Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Rose * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar ---------------------- June 1-3 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Tanya Lester, Tasiographer 6/3 – Sunday, 10am-6pm - Tea Leaf & Tarot Readings by Tanya Lester, Tasiographer 6/3 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of The Burning Times 3pm – Discussion follows movie Harvest 6/4 Lunar Eclipse – 6/4/12 4:03am 6/4 – Full Strong Sun Moon at 4:12am, Pathfinding Horse Moon Neptune Retrograde 6-4-12 2:03pm 6/4 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5 Planting 6/5-6 6/6 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/6 – Wednesday, 7pm, esbat, waning moon Harvest 6/7-9 6/7 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 6/9 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop Planting 6/10-11 6/10 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Harvest 6/12-14 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Planting 6/15-16 Harvest 6/17-18 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi 6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham 6/2 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 2pm – 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing (discussion follows) Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 03, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:33 AM PDT, 8:55 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:57 AM PDT, 9:31 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:10 AM PDT, 10:18 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:11 AM PDT, 11:18 PM PDT Moon, 8:27 PM PDT, 4:48 AM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 34m Length of Day, 15h 22m Tomorrow will be 1m 10s longer. Waxing Gibbous, 98% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 - I am fair among flowers - Color: Purple - Class: Peasant - Letter: H - Meaning: Being held back for a period of time - Hawthorn - Like willows, hawthorns have many species in Europe, and they are not always easy to tell apart. All are thorny shrubs in the Rose family (Rosaceae), and most have whitish or pinkish flowers. The common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) and midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata (Poiret) DC.) are both widespread. They are common in abandoned fields and along the edges of forests. Both are cultivated in North America, as are several native and Asiatic hawthorns. Curtis Clark Huathe - Hawthorne Ogam letter correspondences Month: April Color: Purple Class: Peasant Letter: H Meaning: Being held back for a period of time to study this month - Ur - Heather and Mistletoe Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Purple Class: Heather is Peasant; Mistletoe is Chieftain Letter: U Meaning: Healing and development on the spiritual level. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible Su 3 Low 6:27 AM -1.9 5:34 AM Set 4:49 AM 96 3 High 12:55 PM 6.6 8:56 PM Rise 8:27 PM 3 Low 6:13 PM 2.1 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – In the Name of the Maiden: I will remember to smile. * **** * Journal Prompt – Friends - If you and your best friend could have a free limo for 24 hours, where would you go and what would you do? * **** * Quotes The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. - Gertrude Stein, U.S. writer The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of. - Rilke The only thing worthy of you is compassion – invincible, limitless, unconditional. Hatred will never let you face the beast in man. — Thich Nhat Hanh The only way to deal with an unfree world is to make yourself so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus Success is Counted Sweetest by Emily Dickenson Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag today Can tell the definition So clear of Victory As he defeated-dying On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear! * **** * Magick – Litha Pagan parenting: midsummer crafts and activities for children - Looking for some great Midsummer crafts and activities for your kids this solstice? Liven up Litha with some of these ideas. [Also great for the Younger Self] COLLECT HERBS - Herbs collected at dawn on Midsummer have long been thought to be especially charged with magic. Get up early and collect some from your garden to be dried and used throughout the year. If you don’t have an herb garden, try going to a natural area. Take along a book that identifies wild herbs, and choose some to bring home and dry. Make sure that you can identify those that you choose to ensure you are not taking home poisonous plants, and never, ever ingest herbs you collect from the wild. WASH IN DEW - While you are up early, collect some dew of the grass or tree leaves and wash your face with it. Dew collected on the morning of Midsummer is also highly charged with powerful nature magic. Whoever washes with it is blessed by the Goddess. PLAY GAMES - Summer Solstice was a prime time for merry making and frolicking, since it fell between the two hardest work seasons– planting and harvesting. People loved to play games during this joyous time of year when the sun was at its peak and the land was warm and ripening. Incorporate some of that fun into your holiday celebration– cut loose and play games. Have a water balloon fight, toss a frisbee, or run relay races. HAVE A BARBECUE - Midsummer is a fire festival. The Sun Lord is at his height of power and glory. Cooking outdoors on an open fire is a great way to celebrate the season. Allow children to roast hot dogs or marsh mallows (with a long stick and adult supervision) on the flame of life as it crackles and burns. MAKE A BURNING MAN - One long-surviving Pagan tradition is that of making a burning man, which represents the Sun Lord, in all of His flaming splendor, at the point of the year in which He begins His decline. Giant burning men have been erected at large festivals and burned on enormous bonfires, however a small version that can be placed on the barbecue or in the fire pit will suffice for your needs. Gather sticks and twigs and make a small human figure by tying them together with twine. At sunset, have an adult put the burning man on his “pyre” and watch it go up in flames. Know that as he turns to ash, so does the year begin to wane. MAKE A SUNDIAL - What better craft for the longest day of the year than to create your own sundial? If you have land upon which you can make a permanent sundial on the ground, gather some stones or shells, and a large stick. It should be a place that is in an open area that gets full sunlight all day. Plant the stick half-way into the ground, in the center of where your sundial will be. Pack the soil around it well. Then, from dawn till dusk, every hour on the hour, place a stone at the spot where the protruding top of the stick points. As the seasons change, you will note the differences of where the shadows fall, allowing children to witness the changes in the sun’s journey through the year. If you don’t have any land, you can still make a portable sundial. Get a round wood plaque from a craft store (the type used for making clocks works well). Let the children paint and decorate it if they wish. On Midsummer, put it in a place where it will get full sun all day. Drill a hole in the center (most clock face wood plaques will already have one) and put a stick firmly into it. Use glue around it to ensure its sturdiness. Then, glue a small stone or rock-- every hour on the hour– exactly where the stick’s shadow points. You can store your sundial indoors, and bring it out whenever you please. FEED THE FAIRIES - As depicted in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the shortest night of the year has always been known as a night when the veil between our world and the world of the fairies is thin. Fairies are at their most active on the night of Litha. Children may wish to gather together a plate of sweet treats and ripe fruits and leave it out for them. Befriending the fairies on the solstice is a smart move, lest they may use their mischievous magic to trick you! Written by M.S. Beltran - © 2002 Pagewise You are here: Essortment Home >> Family & Parenting >> Children:General >> Pagan parenting: midsummer crafts and activities for children < http://www.essortment.com/family/paganparenting_s brf.htm Sun Sachets These are a fun goodie to make to give away. You can do them up with a fragrant potpourri inside or fill them with “sun munchies” for your friends. Materials 1 piece each of yellow, orange and red tulle or other lightweight material. (Tulle circles are available in the wedding section of craft stores) Gold glitter and glue Bright red yarn 1 each bright colored summer fabric flower Tools 1 needle with an eye large enough for the yarn Fillings Dried rose petals Dried marigold and sunflower petals sprinkled with an essential oil that says “summer” to you “gorp” made from sunflower seeds, butterscotch hard candies, red M&M’s and “orange slices” or orange jelly beans or gummi bears Directions 1. Cut 3 circles of the tulle, 1 from each color: 9” yellow, 8” orange, 7” red 2. Stack the circles on top of each other in order 3. Thread the yarn onto the needle. Do not tie a knot in the yarn. 4. Stitch through all 3 circles, taking large (1” long) stitches about 1 inch in from the edge of the smallest. IOW, you will be stitching around a 6’ diameter circle, catching all three layers. 5. Pull yarn through, leaving about a 6” “tail”. 6. Put dots of the glue on the parts of the tulle that show on the outside of the 6” stitched circle, then sprinkle with glitter. 7. Let dry. 8. Run the yarn through the base of the silk flower. 9. Clip off yarn, leaving 6” tails at both ends. 10. Repeat with however many circles you have. 11. Put about 2 tablespoons of your filling in the center of each circle. 12. Pull up yarn evenly around the filling, making a pocket and evening up the ends of the yarn. 13. Slide the flower up the yarn to the gathered part, then wrap the yarn several times around the top of the packet and tie. 14. Spread the tulle out on the top so the glittered parts show. Laminated Window Hangings for Litha you will need: - lined paper - laminating paper - crayons - Litha cookie cutters(the big ones) - scissors & a single hole punch - a pencil what to do: Lightly trace the shapes of suns, wedding cake or other Litha figures with your pencil. Cut out those shapes with scissors. Colour in the shapes with your crayons lightly. Laminate the shapes with laminate paper, and cut off the excess edges, leave about 3mm extra laminate paper. Punch a hole through the top of the shape and hang it up in your window. * **** * Energy list 6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! 5/8/12 - 9-year-old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. Starting radiation. Family and friends asking help for him and for the children that know him. Update 4/7 He’s doing pretty well and back in school despite the treatments. Update 5/8 No news is good news. Update 5/25 He is 10x better. He is in full remission. * **** * Silliness – GCF: Will it be Long? When my husband and I showed up at a very popular restaurant, it was crowded. I went up to the hostess and asked, "Will it be long?" The hostess, ignoring me, kept writing in her book. I asked again, "How much of a wait?" 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2nd day of Psychic Fair! Schedule is below. It’s dim, green, damp and more than a bit foggy outside, mid-50’s. Every so often a soft rain comes pouring down for a bit and you can just see the plants lifting leaves up to catch it and enjoy a refreshing drink. A towhee is sitting on the planter on the porch railing and a chickadee is on the feeder. There’s a new set of bread cubes out. Tempus got up well before I did. You can also see the grass and weeds in the herb garden pushing out roots…. That’s a little scary. …and the rugosa doing the same, which is even scarier. The plant is going to eat everything else if we can’t control it somehow. When we got into the shop yesterday almost my first task was to take the things that I had harvested on the way into the back and get them into the dryer. There were a dozen rose blossoms from the species rose, petals from the climbing pink and climbing blaze roses that are on the pathway and petals from the “Czerveny” rose that was Grandma’s favorite, a handful of buttercups, one calendula, and a scattering of dandelions. …and then I spent the rest of the day cleaning up, helping customers and getting new stock set up. We are set up with a new honey stick supplier, Hanna’s Honey, from over in the Valley. We end up with what feels like an odd assortment of flavors, but as we go I’ll swap them out for others, so we can sample a lot of different ones. There’s natural (of course), sour cherry (always my favorite), blueberry, wintergreen, chocolate (which I tried and is delicious!) and… licorice… which smelled wonderful, but I’m not used to seeing *black* honey sticks! That’s one I’ll have to try. It was the first, so several people came in to pick up things that are on hold, which I am glad of. It’s kindof a pain, when the shelf starts to overflow. We had several large groups in yesterday from long distances, one from Idaho and one from Nevada, who told me that rain and green look like another world to them, but I don’t where the rest were from. During the day I heard from Tanya and Brandon both as they were heading our way and they both got here in plenty of time. There was also one lady who traveled in from Ashland for the workshop. The Tea-Leaf Reading Workshop was really fascinating. We had a 9 people, although only 5 were there for the whole thing, and one couple flew in to say hi and then vanished. She’ll be doing readings all weekend. This morning’s Herbs workshop is going to start with the bindweed & bay, and then go on to how to tell is stuff is dry enough for putting away. Brandon has a car trunk full of chicks that will be in the shop over the weekend. His talk is at noon today, but he’ll be available for consultations and questions until noon tomorrow. Rock Tumbler workshop is being put off until 2pm, and then we’ll go on with the rest of the Psychic Fair weekend stuff. Sewing workshop is a “bring your project or we’ll find you one!” The Metta Meditation (which is a simple group meditation, especially good if you’ve never tired anything like this) is at 6pm and then we’ll start the movie at 7. The month’s movie is “The Burning Times”, by special request, since several people missed it the last time and we’ll go on into discussions afterwards. Schedule for today! 10am-6pm - Tea Leaf & Tarot Readings by Tanya Lester, Tasiographer 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Brandon Tweed on Raising Fowl 2pm – Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows) The shop opens at 10am today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** NASA Science News for May 31, 2012 - NASA astronomers announced today they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with neighboring Andromeda. FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/31may_andromeda/ *** NASA Science News for May 28, 2012 - On Monday, June 4th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across the Pacific from China to the United States. FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/28may_strawberry/ VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aszUiI6J-L8 *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair! - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is waxing gibbous. Waxing Moon Magick - The waxing moon is for constructive magick, such as love, wealth, success, courage, friendship, luck or healthy, protection, divination. Any working that needs extra power, such as help finding a new job or healings for serious conditions, can be done now. Also, love, knowledge, legal undertakings, money and dreams. Waxing Gibbous Moon - From seven to fourteen days after the new moon. For spells that need concentrated work over a ¼ moon cycle this is the best time for constructive workings. Aim to do the last working on the day of the Full moon, before the turn. Phase ends on 6/2 at 4:12pm. Eclipses - Lunar eclipses always occur on the day of the Full Moon. Positive magicks should not be performed in these months until after the eclipse is over. Full Moon Magick: From fourteen to seventeen-and-a-half days after the new moon. “And better it be when the moon is full!”! Prime time for rituals for prophecy, for spells to come to fruition, infusing health and wholeness, etc. A good time for invoking deity. Phase change from Waxing to Waning occurs early Tuesday morning at 4:12am. By 10 or 11 p.m. (depending on your location) the Summer Triangle is up in the east. Its top corner is Vega: the brightest star in the eastern sky. Deneb is the brightest star to Vega's lower left. Look for Altair substantially farther to Venus's lower right. Celtic Tree Month of Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Sun in Gemini Moon in Libra enters Scorpio 5:31am Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Rose Planting 6/1-2 * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar ---------------------- June 1-3 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Tanya Lester, Tasiographer 6/2 – Saturday, 10am-6pm - Tea Leaf & Tarot Readings by Tanya Lester, Tasiographer 6/2 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Brandon Tweed on Raising Fowl 2pm – Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows) 6/3 – Sunday, 10am-6pm - Tea Leaf & Tarot Readings by Tanya Lester, Tasiographer 6/3 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of The Burning Times 3pm – Discussion follows movie Harvest 6/4 Lunar Eclipse – 6/4/12 4:03am 6/4 – Full Strong Sun Moon at 4:12am, Pathfinding Horse Moon Neptune Retrograde 6-4-12 2:03pm 6/4 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5 Planting 6/5-6 6/6 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/6 – Wednesday, 7pm, esbat, waning moon Harvest 6/7-9 6/7 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 6/9 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop Planting 6/10-11 6/10 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Harvest 6/12-14 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Planting 6/15-16 Harvest 6/17-18 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 02, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:34 AM PDT, 8:54 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:58 AM PDT, 9:30 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:11 AM PDT, 10:17 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:13 AM PDT, 11:16 PM PDT Moon, 7:15 PM PDT, 4:00 AM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 32m Length of Day, 15h 20m Tomorrow will be 1m 13s longer. Waxing Gibbous, 95% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 - I am fair among flowers - Color: Purple - Class: Peasant - Letter: H - Meaning: Being held back for a period of time - Hawthorn - Like willows, hawthorns have many species in Europe, and they are not always easy to tell apart. All are thorny shrubs in the Rose family (Rosaceae), and most have whitish or pinkish flowers. The common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) and midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata (Poiret) DC.) are both widespread. They are common in abandoned fields and along the edges of forests. Both are cultivated in North America, as are several native and Asiatic hawthorns. Curtis Clark Huathe - Hawthorne Ogam letter correspondences Month: April Color: Purple Class: Peasant Letter: H Meaning: Being held back for a period of time to study this month - Ur - Heather and Mistletoe Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Purple Class: Heather is Peasant; Mistletoe is Chieftain Letter: U Meaning: Healing and development on the spiritual level. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible Sa 2 Low 5:37 AM -1.2 5:34 AM Set 4:01 AM 90 2 High 11:59 AM 6.2 8:55 PM Rise 7:15 PM 2 Low 5:19 PM 2.1 2 High 11:21 PM 8.9 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Make this an alive day! * **** * Journal Prompt – What does this quote say to you? - What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson * **** * Quotes If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin If we're looking for outer conditions to bring us contentment, we're looking in vain. - Ayya Khema, If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. - Bette Reeves If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid. - Eddie Izzard (Definite Article) Before a flower can open in the rose garden thousands of thorns come to pierce it. Although the soul has received only grief. Love has made her turn away from the world: Look for the ecstasy of a lover of God – all the joys of this world lie at its feet. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) * **** * Magick – Litha deborah To: Hearth_Witch@yahoogroups.com From: "deborah" Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:24:04 -0000 Subject: [Hearth_Witch] Litha, The Summer Solstice Litha, The Summer Solstice - by Gordon Ireland Litha is also known as the summer solstice, Midsummer, All Couples Day, and Saint John's Day. Litha is one of the fire festivals and occurs on the longest day of the year. This is the time of year when the sun reaches its highest apex, at the Tropic of Cancer. It is the day when light overcomes darkness, a day of power. Litha also is one of the "quarter days" or the Lesser Sabbats. Litha, as a Wiccan holiday, has the Sun/God reaching full power, and the Goddess pregnant with child. She holds promise of the bounty of the harvest yet to come. Litha's name, depending which author you read, has its roots in Greco-Roman, (McCoy, page 149) or according to Our Lady of the Prairie Coven, Litha means opposite of Yule. This may possibly have Saxon roots, though that is pure speculation. No others authors that were researched for this article offered any explanation as to the origins of Litha other than it is name for Midsummer. Midsummer traditionally marks the beginning of summer (i.e. schools out). Actually midsummer marks the actual middle of the Celtic summer, falling between Beltane and Lughnasadh. Midsummer is known also as a night of magic, made famous by William Shakespeare with his play Midsummer's Nights Dream. As a Quote from Puck can attest to: Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand; And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be! (Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene 2) June in Europe and America is historically the busiest month for weddings, hence All Couples Day. This tradition begins because this time of the year was a time of rest for the Ancient Celts, the time between planting and harvesting. June allowed time for the wedding festivals and rest. This is best described in an English child's nursery rhyme. "…marry in the month of May most surely you will rue the day. Marry in June when roses grow And happiness you'll always know…" Author Unknown (McCoy, 167) Saint John's Day celebrates the birth of St. John exactly six months before the birth of Christ as he foretold of Christ's coming. The Celts, as was their way, easily adopted this day and incorporated into their summer solstice festivities just as they did with Beltane/May Day. A poem demonstrates how the Celts and other cultures were able to incorporate the various pagan meanings of Litha with a Christian one. In praise of St. John-- May he give health to my heart. St. John comes and St. John goes, Mother, marry me off soon! Author Unknown (Henes, page 61) Litha's celebrations are as varied as the authors who write them are. The times that the ritual should take place are also varied. McCoy suggests that the ritual take place on the eve before June 21. (Pages 163-66) McCoy further states that during the ritual one should jump over or walk in between two purifying fires. (Pages 153-54) Author of Celestially Auspicious Occasions: Seasons, Cycles and Celebrations, Donna Henes, says that Midsummer is a sun festival and is best done during the daylight hours between sunrise and high noon. (Page 56) Litha rituals as all ritual should be personal. Several of the authors give basic outlines some for covens, some for the solitary. Most of the authors used for this essay are Wiccan. This particular point of view uses a very pregnant Lady and a Lord at the height of his powers. This ritual, no matter what the tradition or the Gods/Goddesses involved should include either the sun or a fire, or both. * **** * Energy list 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! 5/8/12 - 9-year-old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. Starting radiation. Family and friends asking help for him and for the children that know him. Update 4/7 He’s doing pretty well and back in school despite the treatments. Update 5/8 No news is good news. Update 5/25 He is 10x better. He is in full remission. * **** * Silliness – The past, present and future walked into a bar. It was tense….. **** View (0) Comments For This Post
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Psychic Fair starts today. Tasiography (tea-leaf reading) workshop at 7pm! It’s dim and green again, but there’s a lot of fog. It rolled in yesterday evening, making the air smell of salt. It’s very quiet, not even a tremble of a leaf from a breeze and already pretty warm, in the upper 50’s. A Stellar Jay greeted me with a loud shriek when I walked into the study this morning, then left his perch on the exercise bike and went to the feeder, then to the railing. A raven showed up and chased him off, looked around for bread and, not finding any, flew off after that. More red is showing on the species rose and I gotta get Tempus out there after the rugosa blooms. I’m realizing that if we’re going to have any rose bread we gotta start grabbing quick! I harvested the newly-bloomed buttercups yesterday as I was heading for the car, but didn’t have enough time for the flax. Maybe I’ll get that this morning. Yes, those are rosebuds on that bush. Not a lot yet, just the storm warnings…. Tempus just put some stale bread out and the raven has been back twice. The first time he set a chunk aside and gulped a bunch of smaller pieces, then flew off with a large one. The 2nd time he grabbed two chunks and almost couldn’t get airborne. I’ve got the halo picture up here: During the early part of the day, yesterday, I processed the calendula, ½ the sage blossoms, the blue violets and the lilacs. I still need to untangled and hang the bindweed and the bay. My supper at the shop yesterday before class was some of the pasta/tomato salad. Omg, is it *ever* better on the 2nd day! The directions say to let it sit for an hour… piff! Let it sit overnight. Class was short last night. One student was really feeling ill and had to go home, but we were still there until 9pm. I’ve apparently lost the rest of the Class 7 handout, except for the outline, so that’s another task for this week, either to find it (I hope!!!!) or to re-create (groan!). Pan-Pagan is on the next stage which is getting the class list whittled down and starting to get the information to and back from the leader/teachers, and at the same time we’re going to start fundraising. There’s a Facebook Group is you want to get in on the current information. “Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering” is the name. Search that name and then ask to join. Oh man, I’m running very late! Teal-leaf reading workshop this evening. Call the shop, facebook me or just show up. It’s a “by donation” workshop cost. I’m looking forward to it. Brandon should be here with his chicks tonight. He says, “No eggs, but I’ll explain…” Looking forward to seeing him, too! …and all of you! Psychic fair this weekend! http://www.ancientlight.info/events/#fair Check the schedule below for the rest of the stuff. I’ve had a couple of requests to re-run The Burning Times, so that’s the movie for the weekend. The shop opens at 10am today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open! Love & Light, Anja *** NASA Science News for May 28, 2012 - On Monday, June 4th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across the Pacific from China to the United States. FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/28may_strawberry/ VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aszUiI6J-L8 *** Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc….. Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair! - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634 http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/ Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs. Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon. Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com *** Today The Moon is waxing gibbous. Waxing Moon Magick - The waxing moon is for constructive magick, such as love, wealth, success, courage, friendship, luck or healthy, protection, divination. Any working that needs extra power, such as help finding a new job or healings for serious conditions, can be done now. Also, love, knowledge, legal undertakings, money and dreams. Waxing Gibbous Moon - From seven to fourteen days after the new moon. For spells that need concentrated work over a ¼ moon cycle this is the best time for constructive workings. Aim to do the last working on the day of the Full moon, before the turn. Phase ends on 6/2 at 4:12pm By 10 or 11 p.m. (depending on your location) the Summer Triangle is up in the east. Its top corner is Vega: the brightest star in the eastern sky. Deneb is the brightest star to Vega's lower left. Look for Altair substantially farther to Venus's lower right. Celtic Tree Month of Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12 Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”. Sun in Gemini Moon in Libra enters Scorpio 5:31am Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde Color: Rose * **** * ©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright * **** * Calendar ---------------------- Planting 6/1-2 June 1-3 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Tanya Lester, Tasiographer 6/1 – Friday, Tea Leaf Reading Workshop 7pm – by donation 6/2 – Saturday, 10am-6pm - Tea Leaf & Tarot Readings by Tanya Lester, Tasiographer 6/2 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon - Brandon Tweed on Raising Fowl 2pm – Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop 6pm - Metta Meditation 7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows) 6/3 – Sunday, 10am-6pm - Tea Leaf & Tarot Readings by Tanya Lester, Tasiographer 6/3 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (class) 1pm – Free showing of The Burning Times 3pm – Discussion follows movie Harvest 6/4 Lunar Eclipse – 6/4/12 4:03am 6/4 – Full Strong Sun Moon at 4:12am, Pathfinding Horse Moon Neptune Retrograde 6-4-12 2:03pm 6/4 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5 Planting 6/5-6 6/6 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting) 6/6 – Wednesday, 7pm, esbat, waning moon Harvest 6/7-9 6/7 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6 6/9 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler 3pm - Sewing Workshop Planting 6/10-11 6/10 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling) 2pm - Practical Craft Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm Harvest 6/12-14 6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm Planting 6/15-16 Harvest 6/17-18 6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm Planting 6/20-21 6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through) Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon) 6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am Planting 6/29-30 June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30 * ***** * www.wunderground.com Jun. 01, 2012, Rise, Set Actual Time, 5:34 AM PDT, 8:54 PM PDT Civil Twilight, 4:58 AM PDT, 9:30 PM PDT Nautical Twilight, 4:12 AM PDT, 10:16 PM PDT Astronomical Twilight, 3:14 AM PDT, 11:15 PM PDT Moon, 5:59 PM PDT, 3:20 AM PDT Length Of Visible Light, 16h 31m Length of Day, 15h 19m Tomorrow will be 1m 16s longer. Waxing Gibbous, 88% of the Moon is Illuminated * **** * Celtic tree month Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 - I am fair among flowers - Color: Purple - Class: Peasant - Letter: H - Meaning: Being held back for a period of time - Hawthorn - Like willows, hawthorns have many species in Europe, and they are not always easy to tell apart. All are thorny shrubs in the Rose family (Rosaceae), and most have whitish or pinkish flowers. The common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) and midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata (Poiret) DC.) are both widespread. They are common in abandoned fields and along the edges of forests. Both are cultivated in North America, as are several native and Asiatic hawthorns. Curtis Clark Huathe - Hawthorne Ogam letter correspondences Month: April Color: Purple Class: Peasant Letter: H Meaning: Being held back for a period of time to study this month - Ur - Heather and Mistletoe Ogam letter correspondences Month: None Color: Purple Class: Heather is Peasant; Mistletoe is Chieftain Letter: U Meaning: Healing and development on the spiritual level. * **** * Tides for Alsea Bay Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible F 1 Low 4:44 AM -0.5 5:34 AM Set 3:20 AM 81 1 High 10:57 AM 5.9 8:54 PM Rise 5:59 PM 1 Low 4:23 PM 1.9 1 High 10:32 PM 8.5 * **** * Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Relationships are the proving grounds for my growth * **** * Journal Prompt – What would you? - What would you do if you won the lottery? * **** * Quotes I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. - Madonna I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive. - Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) US Politician The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe. I Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. II Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten-golden notes, And an in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells,bells, Bells, bells, bells To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! III Hear the loud alarum bells Brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire, Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor, Now - now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows: Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells,bells, Bells, bells, bells In the clamor and the clangor of the bells! IV Hear the tolling of the bells Iron Bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple, All Alone And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone They are neither man nor woman They are neither brute nor human They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells! And his merry bosom swells With the paean of the bells! And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the paean of the bells Of the bells: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells To the sobbing of the bells; Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells: To the tolling of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells Bells, bells, bells To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. * **** * Magick – Litha Ginger Snap Mead – author unknown Ingredients 18 lbs light clover honey 1 cup lemon juice zest of 2 lemons 2 gallons water 4 oz fresh ginger slices (each about the size of a quarter) 2 packets of sherry yeast 1) Bring ginger, juice and zest and 2 gallons water to a full boil. 2) Turn off the heat and pour into a fermenter (7-10 gallon carboy). 3) Add honey and stir well, then add cold water to 5 gallons. 4) Add rehydrated yeast when temperature is 70º - 80º. 5) Allow to remain in primary fermenter for 2-3 MONTHS before transferring liquids only to a secondary fermenter. (rack) After 3-4 months in the secondary fermenter it will be time to bottle. Note - It is best after it has been in the bottle for a few months. The longer the better. Brightest Blessings )O( Aradian deborah To: Hearth_Witch@yahoogroups.com From: "deborah" Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:18:30 -0000 Subject: [Hearth_Witch] Ginger Snap Mead Ritual Mead – Takes at least 1 day 2 1/2 gallons water 1 C meadowsweet herb 1 Cup woodruff sprigs 1 Cup heather flowers 3 cloves 1 Cup honey 1/4 cup brown sugar 1 Cup barley malt 1 oz brewers yeast 1. Pour water into a large cauldron or kettle. 2. Bring to a boil and add the meadowsweet herb, woodruff sprigs, heather flowers, and cloves. 3. Boil for 1 hour and then add the honey, brown sugar, and barley malt. 4. Stir 13 times in a clockwise direction, then remove from heat. 5. Strain through a cheesecloth and allow the mead to cool to room temperature. 6. Stir in the brewers yeast. 7. Cover with a clean towel and let it stand for one day and one night. 8. Strain again, bottle, and store in a cool dry place until ready to serve. Soft Mead - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7039/Ash linCB.html 1 quart water, preferably spring water 1 cup honey 1 sliced lemon 1/2 tsp. nutmeg pinch salt juice of 1/2 lemon 1. Boil together all ingredients in a non-metallic pot. 2. While boiling, scrape off the rising "scum" with a wooden spoon. 3. When no more rises add the salt & lemon juice. 4. Strain and cool. 5. Drink in place of alcoholic mead or wine during the Simple Feast. ROSE PETAL PUNCH - A handful of strongly scented rose petals will delicately flavor a punch for a summer evening. A large bottle or container with a seal that holds at least an ½ gallon 3 handfuls fresh red rose petals 2 tablespoons raw sugar 1 quart chilled water Zest of 1 lemon Juice of two lemons 1 bottle white wine (the lighter flavored ones are best, sparkling is great) 1. Two or three hours before you want to serve the punch rinse rose petals. 2. Put them into the bottle. 3. Add sugar to the roses 4. Add water, zest and lemon juice 5. Chill. 6. When ready to serve, pour liquid through a mesh strainer into a punch bowl. 7. Add wine and stir well. Note – This goes very well with a rosebud/borage/mint ice ring ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REMEMBER: DO NOT use flowers that have been sprayed with any type of pesticides.......... * **** * Energy list 5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow! 5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help! 5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it. 5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps! 5/8/12 - 9-year-old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. Starting radiation. Family and friends asking help for him and for the children that know him. Update 4/7 He’s doing pretty well and back in school despite the treatments. Update 5/8 No news is good news. Update 5/25 He is 10x better. He is in full remission. * **** * Silliness – GCF: Flashlights Flashlights used by my National Guard unit can withstand almost anything. And to prove it, they come with a lifetime warranty. Nevertheless, nothing is indestructible, which is why the warranty also cautions, "Void with shark bites, bear attacks and children under the age of five." **** View (0) Comments For This Post
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