Messages In This Digest (12 Messages)
- 1a.
- Re: Prayers and healing sought on large scale From: Sidhe Wolf
- 2a.
- Re: Prayers and healing sought From: Sidhe Wolf
- 3a.
- Total eclipse From: lionaire
- 3b.
- Re: Total eclipse From: Lady Nightshayde
- 3c.
- Re: Total eclipse From: LadyHawk_Jax
- 4a.
- Re: Fw: : Joy, Joy, Joy From: Marcia Wallace
- 4b.
- Re: Fw: : Joy, Joy, Joy From: Lady Nightshayde
- 5.
- Creative Uses for Candles for Holiday Decorating From: Lady Nightshayde
- 6.1.
- Cool Website of the Day From: Lady Nightshayde
- 7a.
- Wassailing From: Lady Nightshayde
- 8.
- How We Gather and Celebrate Yule From: Lady Nightshayde
- 9.
- **Share A Spell Day**, 12/6/2010, 12:00 am From: 13Witches@yahoogroups.com
Messages
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Re: Prayers and healing sought on large scale
Posted by: "Sidhe Wolf" sidhefaolchu@gmail.com mikisidhewolf
Sun Dec 5, 2010 5:38 am (PST)
Done, Joi. Let us know when they're found, safe and sound with Goddess'
help.
BB,
Miki
On 4 December 2010 19:55, joi <joisrose@yahoo.com > wrote:
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> of time and surround them with light love and protection. Please just keep
> them in your thoughts*
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Re: Prayers and healing sought
Posted by: "Sidhe Wolf" sidhefaolchu@gmail.com mikisidhewolf
Sun Dec 5, 2010 5:43 am (PST)
Thank you, LadyHawk. Update:
Today, with the help of a huge supertanker plane from the USA and now a
second big plane from Russia, along with lots of smaller ones from other
countries, the fire finally looks like being under control. Barring any
surprises, they hope to have it out by evening. The rare wildlife from Hai
Bar was saved, but lots of 'regular', free wildlife has lost its habibat and
possibly its lives. 41 people are dead and many more homeless, including an
artists' colony and a youth village. One of the people killed was a 16 year
old boy who volunteered with the fire department. A 'curiosity' - they were
showing the waste that had been someone's home in the artists' colony (Ein
Hod) and showed a burnt statue - which looked very much like a Willendorf
goddess!
BB,
Miki
On 4 December 2010 19:48, LadyHawk_Jax <ladyhawk_jax@yahoo.com > wrote:
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> *Love, Light and Abundant Blessings, *
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> Subject: Re: [13Witches] Prayers and healing sought
> To: 13Witches@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, December 4, 2010, 12:26 PM
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Total eclipse
Posted by: "lionaire" lion1@embarqmail.com lionaire1
Sun Dec 5, 2010 9:54 am (PST)
Lady Nightshayde,
Where can we find the time zone we live in that isn't UT time. I live in the Central time zone and I haven't been able to figure out the correct time for me. Thanks.
Lionaire
The problem isn't getting old,
It's getting ourselves to accept it.
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Re: Total eclipse
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Sun Dec 5, 2010 11:04 am (PST)
Lady Nightshayde,
Where can we find the time zone we live in that isn't UT time. I live in the Central time zone and I haven't been able to figure out the correct time for me. Thanks.
Lionaire
What'sNew:A Solstice Eclipse
Hollywood couldn't have timed it better. Just hours before the December solstice, the Full Moon slips into Earth's shadow. Weather permitting, the entire event will be visible to viewers in North America, beginning in the late hours of December 20 and continuing into the early hours of the 21st. For observers in the U.S., the Moon will be high overhead; in fact, the Full Moon at midnight will be the highest visible until 2020! As with all total lunar eclipses, this one begins with a penumbral phase, during which the Moon enters the outer edge of Earth's shadow cone. This phase is imperceptible to the naked eye at first, and the Moon dims only gradually. The next phase, partial eclipse, begins when the Moon begins to enter the umbra - the dark part of Earth's shadow cone. It appears as though something is taking a "bite" out of one side of the Moon's disk. This bite grows ever larger, until the entire disk of the Moon is in the umbral shadow - the period of totality. The figure below illustrates some of the geometry involved.
A simplified movie illustrating the movement of the Moon - first into Earth's penumbra, then into the umbra, can be viewed here.
And here is a rough schedule of events for this particular eclipse, with times given in both Eastern Standard Time and Universal Time (formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time). (All events occur on December 21 in these time zones; adjust the date and time accordingly for your location.)
Event
EST
UT
Partial eclipse begins
1:33 am
6:33 am
Total eclipse begins
2:41 am
7:41 am
Mid-eclipse
3:17 am
8:17 am
Total eclipse ends
3:53 am
8:53 am
Partial phase ends
5:01 am
10:01 am
Just how dark the Moon gets during totality varies with every eclipse. Some eclipses have produced a totally dark Moon; on other occasions the Moon will glow a dull red or coppery color - a result of sunlight being refracted around the edge of Earth by our planet's atmosphere. In effect, the red glow is the effect of every sunrise and sunset happening on Earth at that instant, and, as you can imagine, the effect is dependent upon the cloudiness of the atmosphere along Earth's terminator, but also - and even more importantly - upon the clarity and dust content of Earth's atmosphere along the day/night line. Volcanic eruptions, for one, can raise huge quantities of dust high into Earth's atmosphere, and this can be long-lived. Such dust will diminish the amount of light being refracted through Earth's atmosphere, resulting in a darker lunar eclipse. Even knowing the general state of Earth's atmosphere, however, is not sufficient to forecast accurately the appearance of a lunar eclipse. The best advice: go out and watch the event as it unfolds.
What's New: A Solstice Eclipse
Love Each Day,
Lady Nightshayde
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Re: Total eclipse
Posted by: "LadyHawk_Jax" ladyhawk_jax@yahoo.com ladyhawk_jax
Sun Dec 5, 2010 11:06 am (PST)
Lionaire, here is a site that will give you that conversion.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclo ck/converter. html
Love, Light and Abundant Blessings,
LadyHawk
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, lionaire <lion1@embarqmail.com > wrote:
From: lionaire <lion1@embarqmail.com >
Subject: [13Witches] Total eclipse
To: 13Witches@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, December 5, 2010, 12:54 PM
Lady Nightshayde,
Where can we find the time zone we live in that isn't UT time. I live in the Central time zone and I haven't been able to figure out the correct time for me. Thanks.
Lionaire
The problem isn't getting old,
It's getting ourselves to accept it.
Anonymous
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Re: Fw: : Joy, Joy, Joy
Posted by: "Marcia Wallace" marcia_m_wallace@charter.net marciawallaceq@rocketmail.com
Sun Dec 5, 2010 10:37 am (PST)
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Re: Fw: : Joy, Joy, Joy
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Sun Dec 5, 2010 11:09 am (PST)
What a lovely card! Thanks for sharing.
Love Each Day,
Lady Nightshayde
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Creative Uses for Candles for Holiday Decorating
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Sun Dec 5, 2010 12:14 pm (PST)
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Cool Website of the Day
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Sun Dec 5, 2010 12:30 pm (PST)
The World of Owls
http://www.worldofowls.com/
Love Each Day,
Lady Nightshayde
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Wassailing
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Sun Dec 5, 2010 1:05 pm (PST)
Wassailing
Rise, dear lord of sunlight, rise.
Return to us, and return us to the light.
On winter days you live within us
like a secret blaze.
Rise now again, lord Mithras,
rise up victorious.
For generations "wassailing" was a popular practice throughout the
Yule season and from Christmas Eve through to the Twelfth Night in
Britain, and other parts of Europe. Today, however, it is celebrated
in very few places. The word "wassail" (pronounced either "woes-il"
or "woss'l") comes from the old Anglo-Saxon toast wes hal or waes
hail, meaning "be whole" or "be healthy!" This was originally a
general greeting but by the twelfth century it had become more
specifically used as a drinking toast.
Traditionally a number of Yule toasts were drunk from a communal
wassail bowl, everyone toasting one another in good spirit. The bowl was usually wooden, turned from maple or ash, and was brightly decorated with evergreens and colored ribbons.
Although within the house the wassail bowl might be passed around, the more common form of wassailing was for a group of revelers to go from house to house, around the village, bearing a large wassail bowl with them. They would sing one of the traditional songs and toast the health of the house occupant's. In turn, the occupants would toast them and refill the bowl so that they might continue on their way. One of the traditional wassails was hot ale, nutmeg, and sugar, knownas "lamb's wool." Sometimes eggs and cream were also added. Many times the drink was accompanied by offerings of food.
For the rest of the year the wassail bowl was entrusted to the care
of the "wassail king," the person responsible for its safekeeping.
This was a great honor, and in many villages the privilege was
jealously guarded by one family, passing on the title from generation to generation.
Not only were people toasted but so also were apple trees. The group would stop and drink a health to the tree, then throw a glassful of the punch into the branches to propitiate the spirits. Sometimes cider-soaked pieces of toast were stuck on the ends of the branches. Old songs sung at the apple tree went:
Old apple tree
We've come to wassail thee
Every twig: apples big
Every bough: apples enow! (enough)
Bear well and bloom well, so merry let us be
Let every man take off his hat and shout to the old apple tree
Old apple tree, we wassail thee
Hoping thou wilt bear
Hatfulls, capfulls, three-bushel bagfulls
And a little heap under the stair!
At one time guns were also fired into the trees or, prior to
firearms, the trees were beaten with sticks to awaken the powers of
fertility.
There were many variations to the wassail song, sung as the villagers processed from house to house. As the house occupants came out togreet the wassailers, they would join in where appropriate. Here is a version from Yorkshire, in the north of England:
Here we come a-wassailing,
among the leaves so green,
Here we come a-wassailing,
so fair to be seen.
Love and joy come to you.
And to your wassail too.
And God bless you and send you
A happy new year.
In Gloucestershire they sang:
Wassail! Wassail! All around the town,
Our toast is white; our ale is brown.
Our bowl is made from the white maple tree
With the wassailing bowl, we'll drink to thee.
For it's your wassail and it's our wassail!
And it's joy be to you, and a jolly wassail!
A major part of the singing dealt with the matter at hand - obtaining food, drink, and sometimes even money. Some of the verses dealt directly with this:
Good master and mistress,
A good health to thee we give.
And sing jolly wassail as long as we may live.
Come hurry! Come bring us a bowl of the best,
We hope that your soul in Heaven do rest.
But if you do bring us a bowl of the small,
Then down fall butler, bowl and all!
Now neighbors and strangers, we always do find
And hope to be courteous, obliging, and kind.
And hope your civility to us will be proved
With a piece of small silver in token of love.
In some areas the wassail bowl itself was not used. Instead, the
villagers would bear a "wassail bough." This was an evergreen branch decorated with bright colored ribbons and bells. They would carry it from house to house and sing their songs, being invited in to eat and drink in return. Sometimes they would receive gifts and small amounts of money.
Wassail
1 gallon cider (hard or non-alcoholic)
6 cinnamon sticks
2 teaspoons allspice, whole
1 teaspoon each clove and ground nutmeg
Tart apples
Put clove and allspice in a mesh bag or tea ball. Place all
ingredients in a
large pot and heat until the apples burst.
by Raymond Buckland
Blessed Be,
Lady Nightshayde
Love Each Day,
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How We Gather and Celebrate Yule
Posted by: "Lady Nightshayde" LadyNightshayde9@aol.com nightshayde99
Sun Dec 5, 2010 1:22 pm (PST)
Rekindling the Fires: How We Gather and Celebrate for Yule
by Catherine Harper
I am a person much concerned with the rituals of hearth and home, and
in general I am more likely to mark the turnings of the year in my
kitchen or garden, or alone in the woods, than I am in larger gatherings. But
even this preference aside, Yule seems to me a holiday that focuses around these
intimate spaces. In the face of the darkest time of the year, who we
share our table with is especially important. If sunlight brightens the
whole community, away from the sun one can pick those who are each of our
chosen families by candlelight. Winter, to me, breeds a love of small
spaces .Reaching for this sense of family and continuity is a challenge for
the many of us who are first-generation pagans. I know that I want to be able
to reach back to my own memories of being a child and find something
there that I can bring forward to give to the children in my life. But this
can be almost an archaeological challenge, finding amid so much past the
right pieces, bringing them to the surface, cleaning them and restoring them
to some kind of meaning.
I have a vague fondness still for stockings, but no context from
which to hang them, and the woman who knitted the stockings I once loved is
dead and gone. That memory I can love and yet watch recede into the
distance.
I remember the candles on a tree in the yard of one of my dearest
childhood friends that, starting with the youngest child, we would each light
in turn on the eve of the winter solstice, singing carols into the night.
I love and remember the smell of a fresh fir tree brought inside, but
equally I remember being seven and in tears faced with that same tree
two weeks later that had died and dried and lost its needles. And
mixed in with my childhood memories of yearning for lights and magic are my
adult wishes for fewer malls, a different sort of family and a clear line of
demarcation drawn between what I do and what is so nationally celebrated as
Christmas.
Out of these conflicting needs has come our own synthesis. I don't
pretend that the answers that our dialog with the past has produced extend to
anything beyond our own threshold. We don't bring in a tree, though
that ritual is as pagan as it comes. We do exchange presents and stay up
all night and party and play and keep a light going through all the long
hours of darkness. At midnight, everyone gathers in front of the fire and
feeds it with tokens of things they are glad to have seen the last of,
accompanied by explanations and applause. (A ritual that started more or less by
accident but has grown and continued until it has developed such momentum I
suspect I will never see the end of it.) We make candles. We eat soup, bread and
little sandwiches, and trays of cakes, cookies and fruit tarts.
In the last several years, these gatherings have begun to set fruit.
When they started, we were college students and young adults, mostly. Now,
we are overrun by children, competing among each other to dip candles
thicker than their own wrists, gorging on sweets, playing tournament mancala,
helping grind flour, swimming laps in the hot tub and staying up far past
their accustomed bedtimes.
My senses of past and present are becoming satisfied. Bit by bit, out
of the flotsam from our childhoods, from the chance occurrences that
recurred and became tradition, from literature, from history, from the stories we
have imagined for ourselves, we are building something solid, something
that returns and carries us along with it, something that we will pass on.
(To people who will doubtless prune it into a shape they find
pleasing. There is no point in being too attached to any particular notions for
the future....)
Meanwhile, for me Yule will smell like fir and beeswax and taste like
cinnamon. In this land of evergreens, it is natural to bring in a
little greenery when so much else has died away. In a time of darkness, of
course we make a fuss over light and warmth. And when there is so
little in season for the table but we need the extra nourishment to stave away
the cold, our celebratory food is rich with saved eggs and butter, and spiced to overcome the monotony of the winter stores. And in 15 years, or 20, if the
gods be kind, a nephew, or niece, or godson (or child?) will call me from
another city where they have gone to work or to school and say "That
cake, you remember? You used to make it on longest night? Do you still have the
recipe?"
Gingerbread
This is simply the best gingerbread in the world. The recipe is not
original with me, but it has changed more than a bit in my keeping and may in
yours as well.
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
3/4 very hot water
1 1/4 cup flour
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Butter and flour your baking
pan. (I use a 9-inch round pan, but a pair of loaf pans also works well.)
Cream together the butter and sugar. Add the molasses. (It is very
efficient if you pour the hot water in the same measuring cup you just poured
the molasses out of -- it will dissolve the molasses residue and save you
time.) Add spices. Alternately, add a bit of the hot water and a bit of the
flour until both are thoroughly blended. Beat in the egg, and then quickly
whisk in the baking powder and soda. Now quickly, before you lose any rise
from your leavening, pour the batter into your pan and pop it in the oven.
Cook for about half an hour, or until the middle is firm.
Moldable Shortbread
When I was young, I found a variant on this recipe and used it to make
cookies in the shapes of fruit, stippling little balls of orange-
colored dough to give them the texture of citrus peel, piercing them with a
clove to make a blossom end, painting a blush on the surface of
peaches and so forth, rather in the manner of marzipan. But the dough can be made
into almost any form, as long as it is mostly flat. You can think of it as an
edible, cookable play-dough. Don't be timid with the food color -- bright
colors make it much more fun.
1 part sugar
2 parts butter
Flavoring to taste
5 parts flour
Food coloring
Cream together the butter and sugar, add flavoring if desired and then
blend in flour. (If your one part is equal to half a cup, you can use
1 teaspoon vanilla extract, or a bit less almond extract, a bit more
Grand Marnier, a teaspoon of citrus zest, a couple of tablespoons of minced
candied ginger or whatever suits your fancy.)
Divide the dough into sections and add a different color of food
coloring to each one, mixing it in first with a fork and then with
your fingers. Form each color into a ball, wrap with plastic and refrigerate for at
least an hour.
When it is chilled, form it into whatever shapes you -- or your children
like. Bake at 325 for 20 to 30 minutes. If the dough becomes hot and
sticky while it is being worked, just stick the cookies into the
refrigerator to chill before you bake them. As long as they are cold when they hit
the oven, the texture will be fine.
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