Messages In This Digest (6 Messages)
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- CT Familiys xmas Yule log may have started fire From: Cher Chirichello
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- This is NOT a good time to hold back deep emotions From: Cher Chirichello
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- Goddess of the Day: Yemaya From: Cher Chirichello
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- Thursday's Correspondence...December 29 From: Cher Chirichello
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- Good Fortune Coin Cake From: Cher Chirichello
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- Daily Aromatherapy Tip - Lemon Myrtle From: Cher Chirichello
Messages
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CT Familiys xmas Yule log may have started fire
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:49 pm (PST)
I know it's Magical and Spiritual, Beautiful and fun, but when we use
fire that is something that much be totally respected and never
underestimated, NEVER, EVER EVER LEAVE ANYTHING BURNING IF YOUR NOT
GOING TO BE THERE IN FRONT OF IT...NEVER! I don't care who or what you
are, this tragedy of this entire family is a good lesson to everyone
that uses fire as a tool for so many things. BE RESPONSIBLE AND PUT THE
LOGS, CANDLES, LANTERNS ANYTHING THAT USES FIRE out before you leave the room and esp if your going to bed...MY GODS, this log was still hot
ashes that is WAY MORE HOTTER THEN THE FIRE! Please be safe and
again....NEVER LEAVE ANYTHING BURNING AND THINK IT WONT HAPPEN TO YOU!
The fatal Connecticut fire that killed a fashion-marketing exec's three
children and parents was possibly sparked by embers from disposed
fireplace ashes, The Post has learned.
The ashes from the family's Christmas Eve yule log may have been still smoldering when they were left outside the 100-year-old, $1.7 million, Long Island Sound-view Victorian, said a source.
The wind may have blown the embers into the old, wooden building, sparking the blaze.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/ log embers may have sparked fire that killed Madonna Badger's parents, 3 kids www.nypost.comlocal/conn_ house_where_ died_in_fire_ is_9L1w0pmo2b5Xz tIYVOWWQI# ixzz1hs46Mjs3Yul e
The fatal Connecticut fire that killed a fashion-marketing exec's three children.
Cher
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This is NOT a good time to hold back deep emotions
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:30 pm (PST)
This is NOT a good time to hold back deep emotions, this is a time to share them, embrace them and learn from them. Share everything, thoughts, fears, deep emotions, Love, this is also a great time to reach out to people you haven't heard from and start new routines, and most importantly ..... MEMORIES, allow them to come out and share them!!
When we need to embrace what we feel and allow them to come out, you don't necessarily need to share with another person, share with the universe, your higher power, a simple journal, as long as you share them and not hold them back any longer.............IT' S NOW TIME TO AWAKEN! Cher NJP
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Goddess of the Day: Yemaya
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:32 pm (PST)
Goddess of the Day: Yemaya
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Suggested Mantra: Nourishment
Mother Water, Star of the Sea, Yemaya is the protector of women. Her healing powers are carried in the great waters,
her energy powerful during the ebb and flow of life challenges.
Suggested Affirmations:
*I voice my needs
*Freedom is a birthright I enjoy
*It is easy to articulate my feelings
*I am freed through communication
*I release my anger, I embrace joy
*Others recognise my needs and honour them
*I connect with my needs, and let them be known
Related Gemstones: Lapis Lazuli, Aquamarine, Turquoise (light blue stones ), Pearl, Coral, Mother-of-Pearl (ocean-sourced ).
West
African, Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean goddess Yemaya is Mother Water,
Orisha of the Oceans. She represents mother love and the affairs of
women - fertility, children, birthing, the home and family. She is the
merciful goddess of creation and protector of women during conception
and childbirth, and of children during their childhood. She is the deep
ocean of comfort for those in need.
African deities (orishas) are
usually represented by flowing, swirling images of colour and movement,
depicting the elemental energies rather than an anthropomorphised
image. Yemaya's energy is depicted with sky blue, white and silver
swirling colour.
In other images, She is a mermaid or a beautiful woman.
Yemaya
brings forth and protects life through all the highs and lows, even
during the worst atrocities that can be suffered. She reminds women to
take time out for themselves, to nurture their own needs and to respect
their deserved position in life.
Her Modern Energy
If Yemaya
is speaking to you today, ask yourself, who or what is it that is taking
all your time and energy? Whose problems are you trying to fix at the
expense of your own vital energy? And why are you trying to fix them
(for approval )? Yemaya does not ask that you conquer your problems nor
dominate the source of your problems, but instead to learn how to dance
with the ebb
and flow of the inevitability of the life cycle.
Yemaya
gives you permission to pamper yourself, and for one week at least, to
retire from being the "fixer", the "nurturer", the "servant." The world
will not end if you withdraw to take care of yourself for a while.
Do This:
Spend
some time this week building a shrine to Yemaya, with ocean-sourced
items ( especially the conch shell ), crystal and silver objects, and
symbols to represent the Moon and stars.
On a Saturday, enjoy watermelon and brew your own raspberry leaf tea (this will take around two weeks to prepare ).
Raspberry
leaf tea: Tie organically grown raspberry leaves in a bunch and hang in
a warm, dark area until dry. Strip the leaves, crumble them into your
favourite tea-pot or cauldron, and brew Yemaya's tea. Take your time to
drink this - cancel appointments and other demands for your time, and
let yourself truly, purely, "be" in the moment! Alternatively, on a full
Moon, invoke Yemaya's energy by "drawing down the Moon". Here is a
suggestion that is in Ffiona Morgan's book, "Goddess Spirituality." This
ritual can be done as a private ritual with yourself, preferably
outside under the full Moon. (If it is not possible to go outside, you
can sit or stand facing a window in view of the Moon, with the Moon's
rays shining in on you ).
Start by chanting "Ma", "Yemaya", or
"Luna" for five or ten minutes, to raise energy for the drawing down.
Then place your hands with palms facing the Moon, index fingers and
thumbs touching, forming the sacred triangle, or sign of the yoni.
Spread your fingers as wide as possible, so they are receptors for Moon
energy. After you chant to raise power, focus all your energy and vision
on Mother Moon and draw Her energy down into your body.
Move
your hands, if desired, back and forth, from arms-outstretched position
to your heart and back again. After a few minutes of holding your hands
up to the Moon, you can feel them tingle. This is magickal energy. This
can take 15-20 minutes, but you may take more or less time, there are no
rules.
Here are some songs and chants to the Moon:
"Yemaya, O Lo Do, Agua Lo Do Mi O" ( repeat over and over again ).
"Moon, Moon, Moon on my mind, think I'll fly" ( repeat over and over again ).
Simple Shower Ritual
First,
gather your shower and ritual tools. You will need a bar of soap ( pick
one that is special to you because of the scent or whatever ), a big,
fluffy white towel, 3 white votives or pillars and your favourite
incense. Pick a soothing CD to put on.
Next, arrange the
candles, put on the CD and light the incense. Hang your towel nearby.
Take 5 deep breaths, centre, and ground yourself before beginning.
Take
the soap and carve a pentagram on both sides of the soap. Ask for the
sense and presence of the Goddess. Hold the bar in the air and say
these words:
"O Mother Goddess, Bless this soap that you have seen
Soap to make me pure and clean.
Clear away all dirt and grime
Protect my body all the time. Blessed be."
Place it in the soap holder.
Lastly, take each candle and carve a pentacle or protective rune on its side. Grab all three candles in your hands
and repeat these words:
"Candles that I light this day,
Keep all evil thoughts away.
As the water washes me,
Burn out all negativity. Blessed be."
Kiss each candle then light it. Now you are ready for your shower.
As the water runs over you visualise all your stress, sadness and worries rinsing away, the bubbles cleaning off dirt
and leaving your skin glowing with a radiant white glow all around you.
This will keep you feeling strong and protected all through the day.
Thank the Goddess for her presence and put all tools away for next time.
Love and light,
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Thursday's Correspondence...December 29
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:35 pm (PST)
Thursday's Correspondence...December 29
Today's Influences: Conjurations, Predictions, Knowledge, Writing, Eloquence
Today's Goddesses: Aset [Isis], Demeter, Ceres, Spider Woman, Bona Dea, Oya, Devi-Kali, Hella, Rhiannon, Coatlique, Maman Brigette, Sekhmet, Het Heret [Hathor]
Incense: Cinnamon, Cinquefoil
Aromas: Sweetpea, Lavender, Mastic, Frankincense, Cloves
Color of The Day: Yellow, Gray, Violet
Candle: Violet, light blues, greens
Planet: Jupiter
Metal: Tin
Deities: Thor, Zeus, Jupiter, Juno
Gemstones: Turquoise, amethyst, lapis lazuli
Herbs & Plants: Honeysuckle, oak trees, cinquefoil
Associations: Honor and family loyalty, harvests, clothing and riches, fealty
Use for magick involving mental issues, learning, higher education, addictions, communications, travel, young people,
messages, perception, self-expression, artists, poets, and writers
What's Happening Today:
Kwanzaa, Day 4: Ujamaa (Cooperative Economy)
Broadway Day
Feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury (aka Thomas a Beckett; patron of the blind)
King's Day (Nepal)
Pepper Pot Day
Festival of Autonomous Media
St. Trophimus of Arles' Day
Paternoster Row Day
St. Tropez's Day (patron of children; against gout)
National Chocolate Again Day
Day of the Nymphs - Young and beautiful, the nymphs were basically tutelary (guardian) deities of the forests and mountains.
The Dryads, for example, were nymphs that danced around oak trees to prevent their being cut down.
Dec 29 Haloa
On the 26th day of the month of Poseidon, Greek women gathered for the Merry Womens Mysteries of Demeter and Kore, which later also
honored Dionysos. Women carried first fruits and the new wine of Dionysos from Athens in procession to the open threshing floors. Lucius
says it ends with a great feast. "Much wine was set out and the tables were full of all the fields that are yielded by land and sea, save only those
prohibited in the mysteries, I mean pomegranate and apple and domestic fowls and eggs and red sea mullet and black tailed brayfish and shark.
" Men prepared the feast and then withdrew leaving the women to alone enjoy themselves, consuming cakes in the shape of genitals and trading
obscenities, scurrilous jests and mutual abuse.
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Good Fortune Coin Cake
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:37 pm (PST)
Good Fortune Coin Cake
Incense of the day: Gardenia
When I was a child, as
each year drew to a close my Greek grandmother would follow an ancient
Byzantine custom of baking a "coin cake." To make such a coin cake, drop a blessed coin into the batter prior to baking your cake. When the cake is cut, whomever receives the coin has good luck during the coming
year. Be sure to sterilize your coin before-hand by placing it in
boiling water for one minute; you may also wish to wrap it in aluminum
foil before adding it to the batter. Tell everyone before you serve the
cake that they may find a coin—no one should be surprised. Slice the
cake in this manner: The first piece is for the home; the next for the
head of house. Thereafter, slices are passed from oldest to youngest.
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By: James Kambos
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Daily Aromatherapy Tip - Lemon Myrtle
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:39 pm (PST)
Daily Aromatherapy Tip - Lemon Myrtle
Botanical name Backhousia citriodora
A wonderful, uplifting lemony scent. Antibacterial, antiseptic,germicidal.
Compared to Tea Tree, it appears to be a stronger germ killer.
Similar to Eucalyptus as a preventative for respiratory ills.
Try using in a diffuser or aroma lamp to keep colds, coughs
and sinus problems at a minimum. Has a high (95%) citral content
making it a powerful antibacterial, antiseptic and antifungal oil.
Not recommended for use on the skin as it can be irritating to sensitive skin.
A uplifting yet soothing oil.
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