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Pagan Ways To Celebrate With Valentine

Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com   trickster9993

Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:21 am (PST)




Pagan Ways To Celebrate With Valentine
New Witch News Letter http://www.newwitch.com/archives/02winter/read/valentines.html

Now that the Pagan origins of St. Valentine's Day are clear, why not expand on the usual ways of celebrating and create a few traditions of your own?

A sexy fantasy. Use the story of the Lupercalia lottery to create a luscious lover's fantasy. Imagine that you have been chosen by lot to be together today - and need to get to know each other for the first time.

Honor Venus - Cupid's mother - with roses. Design a pentacle in the middle of the bed with rose petals; burn rose incense; place rose bath crystals on your partner's pillow with a note suggesting that you bathe together.

There's nothing like flowers. It's difficult to get away from roses for expressing the most direct sentiment but it can be fun to choose other flowers for a change. (Or if your florist is sold out!) If you look up the romantic Victorian age significance of each flower, you can capture just the right message you wish to convey. With your offering, include a copy of by Kate Greenway, an illustrator and leading maker of valentines in the 19th century. Some floral meanings include:


Iris - affection, warmth
Carnations - joy or fascination
Lily-of-the-valley - happiness
Lemon Blossom - fidelity

To promote a lusty atmosphere try daisies, violets and hibiscus.

Hide and go seek. Hide a bottle of wine, a sentimental CD, a new piece of sexy night wear or a vanilla or jasmine-scented candle where your lover will find it.

High-tech romance. Don't forget email - as racy as you want, but cool it on the office computers!

Dark, sweet, and juicy. Watch the movie and feed each other hot fudge sundaes. Don't forget the whipped cream and cherry. (I'm not going to tell you exactly what to do with them.)

The apple of my eye. The apple tree is considered the tree of love; share a candied apple.

However you celebrate Valentine's Day do so by recalling that it was a Pagan rite first. Playful, sexy, full of affection - it is a special day definitely in keeping with our witchy selves.

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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Lupercalia, Lupercal And Luperci

Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com   trickster9993

Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:24 am (PST)




Lupercalia, Lupercal And Luperci
http://www.witchology.com/contents/february/lupercalia.php

February is the month of love magic and ancient Pagan sex rituals, so why is it named after a Christian saint? Explore the following information to find out more about St Valentine's Day and its Pagan origins.
Lupercalia, the Real St Valentine's Day
By Dr Leo Ruickbie, Director of WICA.

The Ancient Pagan Festival of Lupercus, Roman God of Fertility

The Lupercalia was one of the most ancient Roman festivals, which was celebrated every year in honour of Lupercus, the god of fertility. The festival was held on the 15th of February in the Lupercal, where Romulus and Remus were said to have been nurtured by the she-wolf; the place contained an altar and a grove sacred to the god Lupercus. Here the Luperci assembled on the day of the Lupercalia, and sacrificed goats and dogs—animals remarkable for their strong sexual instinct, and thus most appropriate sacrifices to the god of fertility.

The Lupercal
Sacred Cave of the She-Wolf

The Lupercal was the cave or grotto at the foot of the Palatine, in which the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome; from it issued a spring. It seems to have been a sanctuary of some sort, and at least had a monumental entrance. This sacred cave of the she-wolf gave its name to the priestly order of Luperci and the fertility festival of Lupercalia.

The Luperci
Pagan Priests of Fertility

The Luperci were the priests of the fertility god Lupercus. They formed a college (sodalitas), the members of which were originally youths of patrician families, and which was said to have been instituted by Romulus and Remus. The college was divided into two classes, the one called Fabii or Fabiani, and the other Quinctilii or Quinctiliani. These names, which are the same as those with which the followers of Romulus and Remus were designated in the early Roman legends, seem to show that the priesthood was originally confined to certain gentes.

References

Plutarch, 'The Life of Romulus' [Plut. Rom. 21]
Plutarch, 'The Life of Julius Caesar' [Plut. Caes. 61]
Smith, 1875:718
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Other Information on Lupercalia
Encyclopedia Britannica
LUPERCALIA, a very ancient, possibly pre-Roman, pastoral festival in honour of Lupercus. Its rites were under the superintendence of a corporation of priests called Luperci, whose institution is attributed either to the Arcadian Evander, or to Romulus and Remus. In front of the Porta Romana, on the western side of the Palatine hill, close to the Ficus Ruminalis and the Casa Romuli, was the cave of Lupercus; in it, according to the legend, the she-wolf had suckled the twins, and the bronze wolf, which is still preserved in the Capitol, was placed in it in 296 B.C. But the festival itself, which was held on February 15th, contains no reference to the Romulus legend, which is probably later in origin, though earlier than the grecizing Evander legend. The festival began with the sacrifice by the Luperci (or the flamen dialis) of goats and a dog; after which two of the Luperci were led to the altar, their foreheads were touched with a bloody knife, and the blood wiped off with wool dipped in milk; then the ritual required that the two young men should laugh. The smearing of the forehead with blood probably refers to human sacrifice originally practised at the festival. The sacrificial feast followed, after which the Luperci cut thongs from the skins of the victims and ran in two bands round the walls of the old Palatine city,. the line of which was marked with stones, striking the people who crowded near. A blow from the thong prevented sterility in women. These thongs were called februa, the festival Februatio, and the day dies febraiatus (februare = to purify); hence the name of the month February, the last of the old Roman year. The object of the festival was, by expiation and purification, to secure the fruitfulness of the land, the increase of the flocks and the prosperity of the whole people. The Lupercal (cave of Lupercus), which had fallen into a state of decay, was rebuilt by Augustus; the celebration of the festival had been maintained, as we know from the famous occurrence of it in 44 B.C. It survived until A.D. 494, when it was changed by Gelasius into the feast of the Purification. Lupercus, in whose honour the festival.was held, is identified with Faunus or Inuus, Evander (Eiiavnpos), in the Greek legend being a translation of Faunus (the "kindly"). The Luperci were divided into two collegia, called Quinctiliani (or Quinctiales) and Fabiani, from the gens Quinctilia (or Quinctia) 2 and Fabia; at the head of each of these colleges was a magister. In 44 B.C. a third college, Luperci Julii, was instituted in honour of Julius Caesar, the first magister of which was Mark Antony. In imperial times the members were usually of equestrian standing. See Marquardt, Romische Staatsverwaltung, iii. (1885) p. 438; W. Warde Fowler, Roman Festivals (1899), p. 390, and article in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (3rd ed. 1891).
Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition, 1911
Lupercalia
It was the festival of the Lupercalia, which, according to many writers, was originally celebrated by shepherds and also has some connection with the Arcadian Lycaea. At this time many of the young lads of the nobility and many of the magistrates run up and down through the city naked, in playfulness and laughter, striking those they meet with thongs of hide still shaggy. And many women of rank purposely get in their way and like children at school present their hands (or their backsides) to be struck, believing that this will help the pregnant to an easy delivery, and the barren to pregnancy.
Norman O. Brown, Luperalia, 1973
The God of the Lupercal
On 15 February, two days after the Ides, there took place at Rome the mysterious ritual called Lupercalia, which began when the Luperci sacrificed a goat at the Lupercal. There was evidently a close conceptual and entymological connection between the name of the festival, the title of the celebrants, and the name of the sacred place: as our best-informed literary source on Roman religion, M. Terentius Varro, succinctly put it, 'the Luperci [are so called] because at the Lupercalia they sacrifice at the Lupercal... the Lupercalia are so called because [that is when] the Luperci sacrifice at the Lupercal'.
T.P. Wiseman, 'The God of the Lupercal', Journal of Roman Studies, 1995
Lupercalia: She-Wolf
Lupercalia ia a Roman ritual of purification and fertility dating from such an ancient time that even the Romans of the first century B.C.E. had forgotten its origin and to which Gods it was dedicated and even the meaning of some of its symbolism. (Contrary to Z Budapest's statements, it was not known whether it was to Faunus and in fact I think it may have been sacred to the more ancient founding Goddess, Rumina, the She-Wolf of Rome.) Central to the ritual is the lustration (light flogging) with a goat skin scourge (see, Gardner didn't invent it). This was often accompanied by much rowdiness and horse-pla- y. The purpose was the purification of the people from curses, bad luck and infertility. The ritual is performed on February 15. The name of the month comes from the februa, anything used in purifying including wool (used for cleaning), brooms, pine boughs (which make the air sweet and pure), etc.
Internet Book of Shadows, c.1999
Crying Wolf: The Pope and the Lupercalia
This article examines the Contra Andromachum, the open letter in which Gelasius of Rome (A.D. 492-496) condemned the continued involvement of members of the now Christian élite in the Lupercalia. It is suggested that the Pope's argument is less straightforward than has been supposed: the current status and recent history of the festival are left unclear, and the Pope's allegations about the motives of its sponsors are of dubious credibility. Of more significance is the public aspect of the festival, and in particular the opportunities it provided for those who organized it to advertise a connection with the heritage of Rome.
Neil McLynn, 'Crying Wolf: The Pope and the Lupercalia', Journal of Roman Studies, 98.1, 2008, pp. 161-175.


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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Women's Spiritual Leadership & A New Kinship with Nature Emerging on

Posted by: "karentate108" karentate108@ca.rr.com   specialjourn

Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:28 am (PST)



Greetings Friends and Family,

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"Sacred Feminine is rising globally among women from many diverse
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Australia)

~ There are some potent conversations at the
intersection of feminism and faith which may be giving rise to whole new
paradigm of women's leadership.

~ It is important to have intentional conversations
about the many dimensions of diversity in the community of women right
now ... which includes racial issues like economic inequity, white
privilege, etc but also includes the gaps between activists/ scholars
and faith/spirit and eastern/western and inter-spiritually and
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~ How can the feminine voices of compassion, unity and
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separation?

~ The community of spiritual women in North America is
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Individual women are often strongly identified with a particular segment
of the larger community: secular feminists, feminist theologians, women
of faith, religious women, and women of spirit not affiliated with
religion. There are subtle cultural forces at work that lead to
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~ Where are the naturally arising opportunities for
partnerships and synergy?

~ Many women's organizations and networks are
structured in traditional 'masculine' ways utilizing hierarchical
leadership models and processes which do not invite the deepest feminine
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~ How can we nurture the leadership and power that is
emerging from women now?

~ How do we catalyze our collective transformational
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~ The Alchemy of our Spiritual Leadership: Women
Redefining Power to be held April 28 - May 1 in San Francisco will be an
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Gemstone Lore - Aqua Aura

Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com   trickster9993

Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:53 am (PST)




Aqua Aura
Wikipedia
http://rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/gems/aquaaura.html
http://www.shimmerlings.com/gemstones/aqua_aura.htm
http://www.celestialights.com/aqua_aura_quartz/aqua_aura_quartz.html
http://www.crystalsrocksandgems.com/Healing_Crystals/Quartz/AquaAuraQuartz.html

Energy: Both projective and receptive
Element: Fire and Water
Planet: Sun and Moon
Chakras: Throat
Astrological: Leo, Gemini and Capricorn
Resonates to the number:
Key of:
Mohs Hardness: 7
Ray Colors: Blue, Violet
Powers: Healing, mediation, telepathy, increasing awareness, Protection, psychics and power

Aqua Aura is a synthetic crystal, the result of a molecular bonding of Quartz Crystal with 24k Gold powder in a vacuum and then heating it that results in a beautiful metallic light blue crystal. It is a process that has been awarded a United States Patent in 2006. While the patent may have been awarded in 2006, this method of creating Aqua Aura has been around for dozens of years. It is the same method used in coating steel ball bearings. The Aqua Aura treatment of Quartz is used to reveal twinning in Quart Crystals that would have otherwise gone undetected.

Metaphysically, Aqua Aura has the qualities of both Quartz and Gold. Both gemstone and metal properties should be researched as well when working with this gemstone. It is appropriate that aqua aura is quartz crystal coated with gold, that most precious of metals. In this combination they create a transparent stone of deep aquamarine, the color of communication. Quartz has a harmonizing effect and aligns the chakra system. Gold imparts a more assertive energy to the wearer and the blue color helps stimulate the throat chakra, improving communication abilities through speaking.

Aqua aura helps us to discover our soul's purpose for being, to learn what makes each of us unique. It assists us in finding ways to share ourselves in a way which deepens our appreciation and enjoyment of who we are while contributing to the larger family of consciousness. It is particularly helpful for distance spiritual energy healing because of its ability to send energy.

Chakra

Although Crystal Quartz has an enlightening effect on all the chakras, Aqua Aura is highly stimulating to the 5th, Throat Chakra, enhancing one's ability to communicate inner truth, at it also has a soothing and relaxing effect on the emotional body.

Communication

Aqua Aura can enhance communications of all kinds. It can also assist in conscious awareness of one's own motivations and patterns.

It can assist someone in plumbing their own emotional depths and heights while simultaneously retaining inner peace. It can also be an aid to those who wish to become conscious channels for spiritual wisdom, clearing and opening the pathways of inter dimensional communication.

Energizing

Place in a glass of mineral water overnight. Drink the water for an energizing effect. Also place Aqua Aura in your bath water for the same energizing.

This stone contains positive energy that removes mental blocks and promotes a sense of
Justice.

Healing

Physically Aqua Aura is reputed to help with throat problems, stress-related illness, immune system deficiencies, and the thymus gland. To relieve depression as well as anxiety, and to assist in creating an aura of peace and well being in oneself and one's surroundings.

Aqua Aura Quartz has a very high and intense vibration. It has been used to activate the energy of other minerals and gemstones for healing work, and can be a potent stone when used in body layouts for activation of the Chakras. It can be success fully applied to smooth and heal the Auric field, and to release negativity from one's emotional, physical,
intellectual and spiritual bodies.

Money

Aqua Aura is said to attract success and prosperity.

Protection

Keep in your car for protection against car accidents and tickets. Carry to help ward off accidents and bad luck. Aqua Aura works as a shield from psychic or psychological attacks.

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."
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