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Today is National Love Your Skin Day. Our world is populated with people of many different hues. This day is an opportunity not only to love your largest organ but also to think universally by embracing the skin colors of others and showing a bit of love for humanity. Cut random sizes of snippets of varied skin colors from images printed from websites or in magazines. Glue these different skin tones on a piece of poster board or cardboard. With a Sharpie, draw a heart shape in the center of ...
What does it mean to you to be liberated? Some of life's shackles we choose, and others are thrown upon us from an early age as we grow into social expectations and demands. To free ourselves from these bonds, we must first identify what has us locked up. Using the tarot or an oracle deck, look through your cards and select one that makes you the most uncomfortable. This card represents a shadow in your life that is asking for healing or releasing. Create an altar for this card, perhaps ...
June is Pride Month, and celebrations and political rallies will occur throughout many countries. Pride Month can be traced back to the Stonewall Uprising in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969. The first anniversary of the riots was commemorated with a peaceful march, which many consider the first Pride Parade. LGBTQIA+ people were and are integral to many Pagan/occult/Witchcraft communities, especially the modern Pagan movement. I've been proudly representing the B in LGBTQIA+ my whole life. ...
Today kicks off National Garden Week. That means this is a great time to do a garden blessing. Collect five quarter-size stones, crystals, or glass drops to represent air, fire, water, earth, and spirit. Select five points in your garden marking east, south, west, north, and center. This is where you will deposit your markers. You can leave them showing or bury them if you're concerned that someone may wander off with them. Start in the east and place the air stone. Say: Air, bring easy ...
