Messages In This Digest (4 Messages)
- 1a.
- Flower Blessing From: Silver Fox
- 2a.
- Flowers, Herbs, And The Faeries Of May From: Silver Fox
- 3.
- Day Of Blood From: Silver Fox
- 4.
- Faerie Lore - The Fae at Beltane From: Silver Fox
Messages
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Flower Blessing
Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com trickster9993
Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:21 am (PDT)
Flower Blessing
By Ellen Dugan; CyberMoon Daily Magick
Date: April 28 -May 1
Call on Flora to bless your gardens and all the pots of flowers and container gardens you've just planted. Flora is pictured as a lovely young woman carrying flowers. She wears a floral robe with garlands of flowers adorning her shoulders. The best way to contact Flora is to toss a few fresh flower petals in the air and call her name out loud. Then repeat this charm three times. Happy Floralia!
Today is Flora's festival day, may it dawn bright and fair
Lady, please hear my call as I toss these petals to the air
Bless my flowers, help them grow healthy, strong, and true
May your power charm these plants, blessing all I do.
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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Flowers, Herbs, And The Faeries Of May
Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com trickster9993
Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:23 am (PDT)
Flowers, Herbs, And The Faeries Of May
By Edain McCoy, Llewellyn's 1995 Magical Almanac
From Beltaine to Midsummer, the faery kingdom celebrates the newborn spring. Throughout the centuries, Europeans made note of which vernal foliage was attractive to the wee folk and, by contrast, which plants would offer protection. Those plants marked with an asterisk (*) are poisonous and should be cultivated only with great caution, and should never be grown wherever children or pets are present.
Bluebell --- If bluebells ring in your garden, an evil faery is near.
Carnation --- The red ones draw faeries who enjoy healing animals.
Clover --- Wildly attractive to faery life.
Cowslip --- The best choice for attracting faeries to your yard.
Dandelion --- Believed to be used by faeries to make beverages.
Dill --- The fresh plant has a scent faeries dislike.
Foxglove* --- A favorite of earth elementals.
Hawthorne --- Sacred to faeries, as well as to May Queen.
Heliotrope* --- Enjoyed by fire elementals.
Gorse --- Repels virtually all faery life.
Hollyhock* --- A faery favorite, particularly the pink variety.
Lilac --- The gentle scent draws faery life.
Lobelia* --- Will help attract winged faeries.
Mistletoe* --- Can also attract unpleasant tree faeries.
Morning Glory* --- Repels unwanted night faeries
Mushrooms* --- Often used by faeries to mark the boundaries of their sacred circles or portals to their world.
Pansy --- Known to attract parades of trooping faeries.
Primrose --- Believed to give faeries their power of invisibility.
Rosemary --- The fresh plant protects from baneful faeries.
Sassafras --- Enjoyed by air elementals.
Shamrock --- A form of clover Celtic faeries adore.
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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Day Of Blood
Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com trickster9993
Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:24 am (PDT)
Day Of Blood
By Ember on March 24, 2010
http://www.llewellyn.com/spell. php
Timing: March 24
Color of the day: Brown
Incense of the day: Bay laurel
This day was a day of mourning for the Roman god Attis, who castrated himself out of guilt after he betrayed his lover, Cybele. He bled to death, and was then resurrected. This represents the life cycle of cutting down and rising again, as mourners held a vigil over an empty tomb, symbolizing the god's resurrection. This universal cycle is celebrated in many different ways in various religious traditions during the springtime of the year.
To symbolize the blood of life and the cycle of renewal, decorate your altar (or other sacred space) with red and white flowers and candles. Fill a goblet with red wine or red fruit juice and chant the following:
As all things, wax and wane,
Life does, too, again and again.
Celebrate the cycle of life as you drink and save a little liquid to pour outside on the ground as an offering to the Earth.
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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Faerie Lore - The Fae at Beltane
Posted by: "Silver Fox" silverfox_57@hotmail.com trickster9993
Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:24 am (PDT)
Faerie Lore - The Fae at Beltane
By Patti Wigington, About.com
Beltane1 is traditionally a time when the veil between our world and that of the Fae is thin. In most European folktales, the Fae kept to themselves unless they wanted something from their human neighbors. It wasn't uncommon for a tale to relate the story of a human being who got too daring with the Fae -- and ultimately paid their price for his or her curiosity! In many stories, there are different types of faeries. This seems to have been mostly a class distinction, as most faerie stories divide them into peasants and aristocracy.
Early Myths and Legends
In Ireland, one of the early races of conquerors was known as the Tuatha de Danaan, and they were considered mighty and powerful. It was believed that once the next wave of invaders arrived, the Tuatha went underground. In hiding from the Milesians, the Tuatha evolved into Ireland's faerie race. Typically, in Celtic legend and lore2, the Fae are associated with magical underground caverns and springs -- it was believed that a traveler who went too far into one of these places would find himself in the Faerie realm.
Another way to access the world of the Fae was to find a secret entrance. These were typically guarded, but every once in a while an enterprising adventurer would find his way in. Often, he found upon leaving that more time had passed than he expected. In several tales, mortals who spend a day in the fairy realm find that seven years have passed in their own world.
Mischievous Faeries
In parts of England and Britain, it was believed that if a baby was ill, chances were good that it was not a human infant at all, but a changeling left by the Fae. If left exposed on a hillside, the Fae could come reclaim it. William Butler Yeats3 relates a Welsh version of this story in his tale The Stolen Child. Parents of a new baby could keep their child safe from abduction by the Fae by using one of several simple charms: a wreath of oak and ivy kept faeries out of the house, as did iron or salt placed across the door step. Also, the father's shirt draped over the cradle keeps the Fae from stealing a child.
In some stories, examples are given of how one can see a faerie. It is believed that a wash of marigold water rubbed around the eyes can give mortals the ability to spot the Fae. It is also believed that if you sit under a full moon in a grove that has trees of Ash, Oak and Thorn, the Fae will appear.
Are the Fae Just a Fairy Tale?
There are a few books that cite early cave paintings and even Etruscan carvings as evidence that people have believed in the Fae for thousands of years. However, faeries as we know them today didn't really appear in literature until about the late 1300s. In the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer4 relates that people used to believe in faeries a long time ago, but don't by the time the Wife of Bath tells her tale. Interestingly, Chaucer and many of his peers discuss this phenomena, but there is no clear evidence that describes faeries in any writings prior to this time. It appears instead that earlier cultures had encounters with a variety of spiritual beings, who fit into what 14th century writers considered the archetype of the Fae.
So, do the Fae really exist? It's hard to tell, and it's an issue that comes up for frequent and enthusiastic debate at any Pagan gathering. Regardless, if you believe in faeries, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Leave them a few offerings in your garden as part of your Beltane celebration -- and maybe they'll leave you something in return!
©2009 About.com, Inc., a part of The New York Times Company. All rights reserved.
Links in this article:
1. http://paganwiccan.about.com/ od/beltanemayday /a/AllAboutBelta ne.htm
2. http://classiclit.about.com/ od/irishmytholog y/Irish_Mytholog y.htm
3. http://classiclit.about.com/ od/yeatswilliamb utler/tp/ aatp-wby. htm
4. http://classiclit.about.com/ od/chaucergeoffr ey/tp/aatp_ gchaucer. htm
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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