Daily Stuff 6-3-12 Festival of Bellona
Hi, folks!
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
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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
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Transit of Venus info - http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/o bservingblog/Your-Viewing-Guide-to-the-Transit-of- Venus-155396605.html
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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
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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
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Calendar
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Affirmation/Thought for the Day – In the Name of the Maiden: I will remember to smile.
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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?
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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?"
The woman looked up from her book and said, "About ten minutes."
A short time later, we heard an announcement over the loudspeaker: "Willette B. Long, your table is now ready."
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