Messages In This Digest (4 Messages)
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- Gemstone Lore - Hawk's Eye From: Silver Fox
- 2.
- A Celebration of May Day From: Silver Fox
- 3a.
- A Beltane Binding Spell From: Silver Fox
- 4a.
- A Fairy Spell For Beltane From: Silver Fox
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Gemstone Lore - Hawk's Eye
Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com trickster9993
Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:43 pm (PDT)
Hawk's Eye
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic by Scott Cunningham
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http://www.psychic-revelation. com/reference/ a_d/crystals/ tiger_eye_ blue.html
http://www.healingcrystals.com/ Tumbled_Blue_ Tiger_Eye_ -_Tumbled_ Stones.html
http://www.druidsfoot.com/crystals/ tiger-eye
Energy: Projective
Element: Air
Deity: Sekhmet
Planet: Jupiter
Plant: Agrimony, Aloe Vera, Rosemary, Sandalwood, Mint, Lupin, Larkspur
Chakras: Brow, Throat
Astrological: Capricorn, Leo, Sagittarius
Resonates to the number: 4 & 9
Mohs Hardness: 7
Ray Colors:
Powers: Lack of Detachment, Need for a Different Perspective
Hawk's Eye, which is also known as Falcon's Eye and Blue Tiger's Eye is basically an unoxidized form of the familiar golden colored Tiger's Eye. All Tiger's Eye stones are members of the Quartz family, they get their characteristic look from the iron oxide staining that creates the golden brown stripes look. When this process is incomplete, it creates Hawk's Eye. This stone like the other varieties of Tiger's Eye are found in Austria and Africa.
All of the various "Eye" stones have been considered to be strong talismans. It was believed that a person possessing one could see everything, even behind closed doors. Egyptians carved them into god figurines, to represent divine vision. Much of the magic and stone work with Tiger's Eye can also be used with Hawk's Eye, so a study of Tiger's Eye is a worthy consideration.
Communication
Hawks Eye helps to enhance the integrity of communication and practical communication. It can help you find the courage to recognize thoughts and ideas, and the willpower to carry them into the physical realm.
Environment & Wildlife
Hawk's Eye is generally thought to be a useful stone for any magic involving birds and especially birds of prey. Some feel that Hawk's Eyes best magic is for helping with conservation work for birds.
Healing
Hawk's Eye can be used in magic to help over a fear of flying.
This stone is very calming and helps to reduce stress. Hawk's Eye can help to calm an overactive sex drive.
This stone supposedly can also be used for eye problems especially those involving focusing. Good for sinus congestion. Helps relieve spine and neck problems.
Luck
It is also said to bring good luck to one who wears or carries it.
Meditation
Deepens meditation and helps us see the truth in ourselves and in others. It can be used too for Astral Travel, Clairvoyancy and Remote Viewing.
While all forms of Tiger Eye help to raise vibrations, Tiger Eye also balances higher energies with the lower Chakras, which keeps you feeling connected when working with higher goals. If you are nervous about giving a presentation or speaking in public, keeping a piece of Hawk's Eye in your pocket can help relax your Throat Chakra and clear any blockages.
Perspective
Like a hawk or other bird of prey, Hawk's Eye helps us to gain perspective, to see and face situations more fully, to expand our horizons. It helps us to be able to see a problem more clearly as from a Hawk's eyes.
One exercise is to hold a piece of Hawk's Eye, and imagine being your favorite bird, flying high above your situation. See it, not as a mass of problems, but as a pattern that can be changed. Say to yourself, "With distance, I can see the pattern I'm seeking and create it."
Protection
As a stone of Air Travelers, Hawk's Eye offers protection when traveling.
For Healing, it protects or guards against negative energy from others.
Silver Fox
"It is all true, it is not true. The more I tell you, the more I shall lie. What is story but jesting Pilate's cry. I am not paid to tell you the truth."
Jane Yolen; The Storyteller
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A Celebration of May Day
Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com trickster9993
Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:47 pm (PDT)
A Celebration of May Day
By Mike Nichols
"Perhaps it's just as well that you won't be here ... to be offended by the sight of our May Day celebrations."
—Lord Summerisle to Sgt. Howie from The Wicker Man
There are four great festivals of the Pagan Celtic year and the modern Witches' calendar, as well. The two greatest of these are Halloween (the beginning of winter) and May Day (the beginning of summer). Being opposite each other on the wheel of the year, they separate the year into halves. Halloween (also called Samhain) is the Celtic New Year and is generally considered the more important of the two, though May Day runs a close second. Indeed, in some areas—notably Wales—it is considered "the great holiday".
May Day ushers in the fifth month of the modern calendar year, the month of May. This month is named in honor of the Goddess Maia, originally a Greek mountain nymph, later identified as the most beautiful of the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades. By Zeus, she is also the mother of Hermes, God of magic. Maia's parents were Atlas and Pleione, a sea nymph.
The old Celtic name for May Day is Beltane (in its most popular Anglicized form), which is derived from the Irish Gaelic Bealtaine or the Scottish Gaelic Bealtuinn, meaning "Bel-fire", the fire of the Celtic God of Light (Bel, Beli, or Belinus). He, in turn, may be traced to the Middle Eastern God Baal.
Other names for May Day include: Cetsamhain (opposite Samhain), Walpurgisnacht (in Germany), and Roodmas (the medieval church's name). This last came from church fathers who were hoping to shift the common people's allegiance from the Maypole (Pagan lingam—symbol of life) to the Holy Rood (the cross—Roman instrument of death).
Incidentally, there is no historical justification for calling May 1 `Lady Day'. For hundreds of years, that title has been proper to the vernal equinox (approximately March 21), another holiday sacred to the Great Goddess. The nontraditional use of `Lady Day' for May 1 is quite recent (since the early 1970s), and seems to be confined to America, where it has gained widespread acceptance among certain segments of the Craft population. This rather startling departure from tradition would seem to indicate an unfamiliarity with European calendar customs, as well as a lax attitude toward scholarship among too many Pagans. A simple glance at a dictionary (Webster's 3rd or O.E.D.), encyclopedia (Benet's), or standard mythology reference (Jobe's Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore & Symbols) would confirm the correct date for Lady Day as the vernal equinox.
By Celtic reckoning, the actual Beltane celebration begins on sundown of the preceding day, April 30, because the Celts always figured their days from sundown to sundown. And sundown was the proper time for Druids to kindle the great Belfires on the tops of the nearest beacon hill (such as Tara Hill, Co. Meath, in Ireland). These "need-fires" had healing properties, and skyclad Witches would jump through the flames to ensure protection.
Sgt. Howie (shocked): "But they are naked!"
Lord Summerisle: "Naturally. It's much too dangerous to jump through the fire with your clothes on!"
—from The Wicker Man
Frequently, cattle would be driven between two such bonfires (oak wood was the favorite fuel for them) and, on the morrow, they would be taken to their summer pastures.
Other May Day customs include: walking the circuit of one's property ("beating the bounds"), repairing fences and boundary markers, processions of chimney sweeps and milkmaids, archery tournaments, morris dances, sword dances, feasting, music, drinking, and maidens bathing their faces in the dew of May morning to retain their youthful beauty.
In the words of Witchcraft writers Janet and Stewart Farrar, the Beltane celebration was principally a time of "unashamed human sexuality and fertility". Such associations include the obvious phallic symbolism of the Maypole and riding the hobbyhorse. Even a seemingly innocent children's nursery rhyme "Ride a cock horse to Banburry Cross …" retains such memories. And the next line, "to see a fine Lady on a white horse", is a reference to the annual ride of Lady Godiva through Coventry. Every year for nearly three centuries, a skyclad village maiden (elected "Queen of the May") enacted this Pagan rite, until the Puritans put an end to the custom.
The Puritans, in fact, reacted with pious horror to most of the May Day rites, even making Maypoles illegal in 1644. They especially attempted to suppress the "greenwood marriages" of young men and women who spent the entire night in the forest, staying out to greet the May sunrise, and bringing back boughs of flowers and garlands to decorate the village the next morning. One angry Puritan wrote that men "doe use commonly to runne into woodes in the night time, amongst maidens, to set bowes, in so muche, as I have hearde of tenne maidens whiche went to set May, and nine of them came home with childe." And another Puritan complained that, "Of forty, threescore or a hundred maids going to the wood over night, there have scarcely the third part of them returned home again undefiled."
Long after the Christian form of marriage (with its insistence on sexual monogamy) had replaced the older Pagan handfasting, the rules of strict fidelity were always relaxed for the May Eve rites. Names such as Robin Hood, Maid Marion, and Little John played an important part in May Day folklore, often used as titles for the dramatis personae of the celebrations. And modern surnames such as Robinson, Hodson, Johnson, and Godkin may attest to some distant May Eve spent in the woods.
These wildwood antics have inspired writers such as Kipling:
Oh, do not tell the Priest our plight,
Or he would call it a sin;
But we have been out in the woods all night,
A-conjuring Summer in!
And Lerner and Lowe:
It's May! It's May!
The lusty month of May!...
Those dreary vows that ev'ryone takes,
Ev'ryone breaks.
Ev'ryone makes divine mistakes!
The lusty month of May!
It is certainly no accident that Queen Guinevere's `abduction' by Meliagrance occurs on May 1 when she and the court have gone a-Maying, or that the usually efficient Queen's guard, on this occasion, rode unarmed.
Some of these customs seem virtually identical to the old Roman feast of flowers, the Floralia, three days of unrestrained sexuality that began at sundown April 28 and reached a crescendo on May 1.
There are other, even older, associations with May 1 in Celtic mythology. According to the ancient Irish Book of Invasions, the first settler of Ireland, Partholan, arrived on May 1, and it was on May 1 that the plague came that destroyed his people. Years later, the Milesians conquered the Tuatha De Danann on May Day. In Welsh myth, the perennial battle between Gwythur and Gwyn for the love of Creiddyled took place each May Day, and it was on May Eve that Teirnyon lost his colts and found Pryderi. May Eve was also the occasion of a fearful scream that was heard each year throughout Wales, one of the three curses of the Coranians lifted by the skill of Lludd and Llevelys.
By the way, due to various calendrical changes down through the centuries, the traditional date of Beltane is not the same as its astrological date. This date, like all astronomically determined dates, may vary by a day or two depending on the year. However, it may be calculated easily enough by determining the date on which the sun is at fifteen degrees Taurus (usually around May 5). British Witches often refer to this date as Old Beltane, and folklorists call it Beltane O.S. (Old Style). Some covens prefer to celebrate on the old date and, at the very least, it gives one options. If a coven is operating on `Pagan Standard Time' and misses May 1 altogether, it can still throw a viable Beltane bash as long as it's before May 5. This may also be a consideration for covens that need to organize activities around the weekend.
This date has long been considered a "power point" of the zodiac, and is symbolized by the Bull, one of the tetramorph figures featured on the tarot cards, the World and the Wheel of Fortune. (The other three symbols are the Lion, the Eagle, and the Spirit.) Astrologers know these four figures as the symbols of the four "fixed" signs of the zodiac (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius), and these naturally align with the four Great Sabbats of Witchcraft. Christians have adopted the same iconography to represent the four Gospel writers.
But for most, it is May 1 that is the great holiday of flowers, Maypoles, and greenwood frivolity. It is no wonder that, as recently as 1977, Ian Anderson could pen the following lyrics for the band Jethro Tull:
For the May Day is the great day,
Sung along the old straight track.
And those who ancient lines did ley
Will heed this song that calls them back.
Most Recent Text Revision: Tuesday, May 3, 2005 c.e.
Text editing courtesy of Acorn Guild Press.
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Silver Fox
"It is all true, it is not true. The more I tell you, the more I shall lie. What is story but jesting Pilate's cry. I am not paid to tell you the truth."
Jane Yolen; The Storyteller
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A Beltane Binding Spell
Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com trickster9993
Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:49 pm (PDT)
A Beltane Binding Spell
By Edain McCoy; 2005 Spell-A-Day
Color of the day: Orange
Incense of the day: Sage
In the Wiccan wheel of the year Beltane celebrates the marriage of the God and the Goddess. Many modern Wiccans enjoy a Beltane wedding because of the sexual imagery contained in this sabbat's rituals. One feature of the celebration is the tying together of the couples' hands. We call this handfasting, a name given to the Celtic customs of trial marriages. With a length of silk you can weave a spell to bind something to you. Wrap one end of the silk snugly around your left hand. Wrap the other end of the silk to something or someone else, provided you have consent. You may want to confirm your relationship to your best friend, a work partner, or with a small child. You may wish to keep objects, such as books, jewelry, or money, from being lost. You will need to personalize the words of power so that they are more specific to your purpose. What follows is a blueprint. The finished spell is yours to build.
High and hot the Beltane fire,
I bind you now by my desire.
No one shall harm, lose, or take,
Because a binding upon it I make.
When the silk is removed, the spell remains. Keep the silk and visualize the spell to recharge the binding as necessary.
Silver Fox
"It is all true, it is not true. The more I tell you, the more I shall lie. What is story but jesting Pilate's cry. I am not paid to tell you the truth."
Jane Yolen; The Storyteller
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A Fairy Spell For Beltane
Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com trickster9993
Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:49 pm (PDT)
A Fairy Spell For Beltane
By: Nancy Bennett; Spell-A-Day
Color of the day: White
Incense of the day: Coriander
In a woodland clearing, spread a clean green cloth. On it place small cakes and flowers, especially primroses, in a circle. Imagine the magic around you and say:
O Fairy Queen,
Upon your white steed,
Within me plant
A magic seed.
From you may spring
Many new beginnings.
Great Queen,
Accept these offerings.
Leave the items and walk around the altar three times, then slowly walk the path back to your home. Listen for the sound of laughter and bells and know you are blessed. Beltane is the time when fairies return from their winter rest, carefree and full of mischief and delight. On the night before Beltane, in times past, folks would place rowan branches at their windows and doors for protection. If you do not wish the fairies to visit, do the same! This is also a perfect time for night or predawn rituals to draw down power to promote fertility in body and mind. At Beltane, the Pleiades star cluster rises just before sunrise on the morning horizon. The Pleiades is known as the seven sisters, and resembles a tiny dipper-shaped pattern of six moderately bright stars in the constellation of Taurus, near the shoulder. Watch for it low in the east-northeast sky, just a few minutes before sunrise.
Silver Fox
"It is all true, it is not true. The more I tell you, the more I shall lie. What is story but jesting Pilate's cry. I am not paid to tell you the truth."
Jane Yolen; The Storyteller
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