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Today is both National Hammock Day and Summer Leisure Day. Taking the time to rest and relax is important. Allowing your body to slow down is part of self-care. Lying in a hammock outside is a great way to slow down and observe the beauty of nature while putting your feet up. Lying horizontal with the ground can help you see things from a new point of view. You can look up and watch the leaves toss and turn in the air as they are blown by the breeze. When you take time to rest, it can help you ...
It's July, the high note of the year. Now, summer's song is being sung. It's a song you can hear, see, and sense. You can hear it in the rumble of a thunderstorm and in the cricket's drowsy trill in the warm late afternoons. You can see it in a meadow frosted white with daisies and splashed with the gold of blackeyed Susans. And you can sense it in the evening breeze, which carries the breath of August. Capture the essence of the season with this meditation. Sit outside and get comfortable. Be ...
Your creative energy requires differing levels of protection as you progress through a project. When the initial idea sparks, perhaps you remain more open as you take in a range of possibilities, but then you might shut out the peanut gallery so you're not distracted by everyone else's opinions of what you "should" do. Select a container with a lid, such as a cauldron, jar, or box. Name your project on a piece of paper and place it inside. Imagine the container glowing with divine light, ...
Set up protective barriers with a banishing salt made with alder charcoal and blackthorn. With its sharp thorns, blackthorn is a hedgerow tree that not many are brave enough to cross. Alder is found growing along watery borders, and when cut, its light wood turns a reddish orange. This gives the impression that the tree bleeds, linking it to war and the supernatural. With the addition of protective bay and star anise seed, this salt is perfect to sprinkle around doorways or property boundaries ...
