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[Earthwise] Digest Number 2571

Messages In This Digest (4 Messages)

1.
Making A Magickal Egg From: Silver Fox
2a.
Hunting The Wild Egg From: Silver Fox
3.
March Hare Energy To Spare Spell From: Silver Fox
4a.
Natural Ostara Eggs From: Silver Fox

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Making A Magickal Egg

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

Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:18 am (PDT)




Making A Magickal Egg
Author unknown

Eggs are probably the most popular symbol of this sacred time. Since eggs symbolize so well the ideas of newness, creation, potential and growth, why not make a Magick Egg to contain the energies of your hopes and wishes for the coming season

Take a fresh raw egg (do not boil it!) and dye it the appropriate color for your wishes:

Green for growth, prosperity or healing;
Red or Pink for love and marriage;
Purple for spiritual growth and psychic development;
Yellow for new beginnings and successful studies;
Blue for peace and serenity;
Orange for power and energy.

With a straight pin, poke a hole in each end of the egg, place your lips over the hole at one end and blow the contents of the egg out over the sink or in the yard. This will take a few minutes. If your yolk is a bit tough, once you've gotten most of the white of the egg out, take your straight pin and penetrate the skin of the yolk then finish blowing the rest of the yolk out.

Once your egg is empty, using your straight pin again, make small holes all the way around the middle of the egg, lightly mark one spot so that you'll be able to fit the egg back together correctly, then take a thin blade and saw through so that you have two halves. Handling it carefully, rinse the inside of the egg and dry it.

Now it is time to fill your egg with your wishes and energies for your goal. Three has always been a magickal number so you'll use two herbs and one stone charged with your wishes to fill your egg.

Your Green Egg will use chopped bay leaves, cinnamon chips and a citrine stone;
Your Red or Pink Egg will use rose petals, damiana and a rose quartz stone;
Your Purple Egg will use poppy seeds, white sandalwood and an amethyst stone;
Your Yellow Egg will use lavender, allspice and a clear quartz stone;
Your Blue Egg will use chamomile, hops and a blue topaz stone and
Your Orange Egg will use bloodroot, patchouli and a gold tiger's eye stone.

Fill one half of the egg at a time, concentrating on your goal and infusing the herbs and stone with your power.

Light a candle in the same color as your egg and begin to drip small bits of melted wax on the seam of the cut eggshell to fuse it back together. As you do this, continue to visualize your wishes and, if you like, repeat a short chant or power words as you go.

If your wax drippings on the eggshell are lumpy, after you have fused the egg completely, hold the waxed area just above your candle flame to warm it and then smooth it with your finger.

Keep your Magick Egg in a safe place and when you have achieved manifestation of your
Goal, bury it in your yard.

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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Hunting The Wild Egg

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

Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:18 am (PDT)




Hunting The Wild Egg
Source: Ostara by Edain McCoy

Easter egg hunts were first popular in the United States in the spring of 1862, when America was in the middle of its hideous Civil War in which young men were dying daily of injuries and disease, and famine was starting to appear in many areas of the ravaged South. First Lady Dolly Madison was the first dignitary to host an "egg roll" on the lawn of the Capitol building in Washington D.C., during the War of 1812 in an attempt to garner public support for her unpopular husband. But it was President Abraham Lincoln who tapped into the archetypical importance of the egg as a symbol of hope and new life. He ordered decorated eggs and other popular treats to be hidden on the White House lawn. He then issued a public invitation to the children of Washington D.C. to come and search for them on Easter morning. With few exceptions, American presidents have kept up the practice and it has since become a cherished national Easter custom mimicked around the nation.

Many people are unaware that the egg-hunting custom predates President Lincoln by at least two thousand years. In Asia and India, the practice of hunting hidden eggs in spring was symbolic of the belief that we are fully responsible for our actions and reactions, and that we must each find our own way to life renewed. Because this incorporated reincarnation themes, the egg hunt was a time to reflect on the balances of rights and wrongs and how to improve one's position in the next life.

In German and Scandinavian lands, the tradition of offering eggs to the Goddess in exchange for blessing so r wishes was a common spring practice. With the rise of Christianity in Europe making Pagan practices a capital offense, those offerings had to be hidden where only the Goddess could find them. Thus the "egg hunt" by the authorities ensued, and was eventually made into a game for children.

The sear for eggs also has a deeper metaphysical meaning in many cultures, in particular in the East. The hunt represent the soul's eternal quest for life renewed so that it may have the opportunity to perfect itself and reach a union with the deities.

The Teutons buried eggs under barns and animal dwellings to increase the fecundity of livestock, or placed eggs beneath beds to encourage human fertility. Eggs were also buried by the Teutons and Anglo-Saxons in spring to make gardens and fields fertile. They were believed to bless gardens and farmland with fertility and abundance. This is a practice still used by many modern Pagans who enjoy planting and tending magickal gardens.

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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March Hare Energy To Spare Spell

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

Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:19 am (PDT)




March Hare Energy To Spare Spell
By Estha McNevin, 2010
http://www.llewellyn.com/spell.php

Color of the day: White
Incense of the day: Lily

Out of soft sculpting putty, create a small hare. As you sculpt, envision the boundless energy of spring flowing all around you. Let the excitement and rebirth of life, as it peeks through the veil of winter, invigorate you as you give your March hare shape and detail.

On a scrap of parchment, list the things you want to have more energy to accomplish. Dry your hare on the paper and try to envision yourself completing those tasks with ease and nimble skill.

Communicate with your hare often and carry her around when you find yourself feeling sluggish. Enjoy talking openly to your creation and develop an entire life story of wild adventures for your hare. Opening our lives to the enlivening essence of this amazing creature can help fuel us in those last lingering days of winter. The hare reminds us that life is meant to be playful and inspiring.

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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Natural Ostara Eggs

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

Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:20 am (PDT)




Natural Ostara Eggs
Source: Unknown

Natural egg-dying is like recycling. It takes a li'l bit longer to do. Cover your plant material (see list below) with about 3 inches of water, bring to a boil, and simmer until the color looks good. You'll probably have to let the eggs sit in the dye overnight, so if you're planning more than one color per egg, start this a few days before Oestara. Experimenting is half the fun, but here are some hints to get you started:


Yellow - Carrots, Fenugreek, Turmeric, White grape juice
Yellow Orange - Vanilla extract
Orange - Dandelions, Yellow onion skins, Paprika, Orris root
Pink - Heather, Iris blossoms
Red - Cayenne, Madder root, Red onion skins
Reddish Purple - Purple grape juice, Red raspberries
Blueish Purple - Beet juice, Blackberries, Mulberries
Blue - Black raspberries, Blueberries, Red cabbage
Green - Bracken, Carrot tops
Yellow Green - Daffodils

Wanna get fancy? Gather some small leaves, ferns, flowers and grasses. Dip them in water (to help them stick) and press them onto your eggs. Wrap each egg in a piece of cut up pantyhose and secure it with a twist tie before dyeing. When you remove the flower or leaf, it's design will appear (either in white or in your first dye-color). Rub your finished eggs with a tiny bit of vegetable oil on a soft cloth to shine them.

Too hard?? No hosiery??? Okay, try using crayons to draw spirals and pentagrams on the eggs before dying them.

Now, plan a fertility ritual for your garden. Bury an Oestara egg in the east corner of your garden, or one egg for each direction, or dig an entire circle for them (depends on how much you hate egg-salad).

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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