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Our flower of the month, the daisy, is a cheerful flower. It is a magickal flower. Take nine fresh daisies in your dominant hand. Think of your romantic desires. Do you seek a new partner? Do you want a relationship with loyalty, purity, and honor? Focus on your intention for the relationship you have or want as you pull off the petals of the daisies one at a time. Go outside. Hold the petals in both hands and make your wish. On the ground, draw the word(s) that is most emblematic of the ...
This is Ostara, the Spring Equinox. Day and night stand equal, with day growing as we approach the warm season. Balance is something we all need in life. Take some time today to practice with it. For this exercise, you need about a dozen small to medium rocks. It helps if they are flat enough to have a top and a bottom. Lay the largest rock on a flat piece of ground. Move it around until it’s as stable as you can make it. Set the next-smaller rock on top. Feel for its balance point with ...
The new year is over a week behind us now. Have you stuck to your resolutions? It’s okay if you haven’t, but don’t completely abandon them. This simple charm will help you to get back on track, and it uses everyday items that you probably already possess or can acquire easily: * 1 egg* 1 black felt tip pen* A sheet of newspaper from this year* A rolling pin or hammer Crack the egg. You can eat the contents, since you’ll be working with the shell and not the actual egg. ...
By this time of year, the berries on holly—a traditional symbol of winter celebrations—will have turned red. Having been raised in Millville, New Jersey, (one of) the holly capital(s) of the US, I chose holly as one of the two plants on my personal totem. Two majestic holly trees flanked the entrance to the driveway of the home in which I grew up. Holly has a rather slow growth rate; those two trees had been there for approximately fifty years. In Celtic mythology, holly is revered ...
