Messages In This Digest (8 Messages)
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- Tuesday's Correspondence...June 21 Blessed Summer Solstice! From: Cher Chirichello
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- Today's Goddess: Lady of Regla Cancer Begins (Various Locations) From: Cher Chirichello
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- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S LORE From: Cher Chirichello
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- Fairy Charm Spell From: Cher Chirichello
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- Daily Aromatherapy Tip For relaxation and stress r From: Cher Chirichello
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- Folksong from Lithuania From: Cher Chirichello
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- DailyOM: Staying Afloat amidst the Spin From: Cher Chirichello
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- Hey Everyone: Happy and Blessed Summer Solstice, Mid Summer and Lith From: Cher Chirichello
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Tuesday's Correspondence...June 21 Blessed Summer Solstice!
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:31 pm (PDT)
Tuesday's Correspondence...June 21 Blessed Summer Solstice!
Today's Influences: Destination, War, Courage, Surgery, Physical Strength
Deities: Lilith, Mars, Aries, the Morrighan, Aset [Isis], Soorejnaree, Pingalla, Anna, Aine, Danu, Yngona, Bellona, Aida Wedo, Sun Woman
Aromas: Hellebore, Carnation, Patchouli
Incense: Lignum Aloes, Plantain
Candle: Red
Color: Red and orange
Planet: Mars
Metal: Iron
Gemstones: Garnets, ruby
Herbs & Plants: Thistles, holly, coneflower, cactus
Associations: War and conflict, enemies, initiation, marriage and protection
Perform Spells involving courage, physical strength, revenge, surgery, and the breaking of negative spells.
What's Happening Today:
Waning Moon, the period between the Full Moon and the New Moon. This is a time for banishing and rejecting things in our lives that we no longer wish to carry around with us.
Spell work: Wisdom, endings, release, banishment, intuition, prophecy, death and resurrection, divination, old age, dep secrets, reversal of fortune, postmenopausal women, the power of healing
Holly King Returns
The Holly King, who is the dark twin, rules from midsummer to midwinter. He represents withdrawal and rest. His tree, the holly, has leaves that are evergreen and its bright berries glow red when all else is bare of fruit. Thus while his reign is one of withdrawal culminating in apparent lifelessness, his symbology reminds us all the time that he is his brother's other self and holds life in trust while it rest.
Bald Eagle Day
Beatles' Yesterday & Today released
Birthday of Olympia Dukakis
Cherry Festival (Hamburg, Germany)
Gemini zodiac sign ends
Lailat Al-Garr (Muslim Night of Power)
Loch Ness Day
National Vanilla Milkshake Day
New Identity Day
Portland Rose Festival (Oregon)
St. Osana of Mantua (patron of schoolgirls)
Summer Solstice
Midsummer
Litha
The Summer Solstice
The summer solstice is the time when the sun is in its glory. This is the longest day of the year and the shortest night. The date of the summer solstice varies slightly from year to year.
One of the four major festivals of the solar year, when the Sun reaches the quarter points on the zodiac wheel. It now reaches the cardinal ("hinge") point of 90B0 as the Sun enters the sign of Cancer, the Crab. For the next month, the side-to-side moves of the Crab are favored in all things. This is more a time to organize of what has been gained, and plan what comes next, than it is either to start new enterprises or dissolve old ones that don't work. The Crab lives where it can jump sideways into an ocean wave when threats appear. Those who have the grace, humility and aquatic skill to do this are favored now. The sideways motion of the Crab is also that of the Farmer, who works sideways in rows to preserve productive order.
Among the countless Summer Solstice celebrations and ceremonies: The Sonnenwende ("Sun's turning") of the Norse calendar, so named because at this point in the year, the Sun reaches its farthest northern sunset point on the horizon, and must now begin moving south, and bringing with it the hotter, more rapid movement of Summer, and everything else that the South implies. The season of husbandry begins now in bonfires that mark this day as the one when the Sun's light stays longest in the Sky.
In northern Russia, especially in St. Petersburg, this day begins the White Nights, which last for the next ten days. In this and other fire festivals that can get more raucous than most, fireworks and all, many people love the days of the Long Light because this is the best time to burn the chaff and the worry of the year gone by, and get ready to work the field under the waxing Sun, and care for children.
In the Celtic calendar, this day is called Litha, and honors the water goddess. Many European peoples also honored the Green Man, leafy symbol of nature's resurgence, counterpart to the Egyptian Osiris.
In some Native American calendars, this day begins the Month of the Flicker. Hunting is easier than it usually is.
Taoist festival honoring the Heavenly Emperor Shang-Ti and celebrating the active presence of the Tao in all things. This is the time when the masculine Yang force is at its peak, and initiates the season of fire, south and Summer.
In many ancient calendars, this is one of the year's best times for honoring Wise Women. In the Greco-Roman calendar, this was the Day of All Heras (Roman counterpart Juno, for whom this month is named), when people gather to listen to women who have achieved spiritual Union with the Great Goddess. In ancient Britain this was the Day of Cerridwen, celebrating all Wise Women.
Among the Lakota and other Native Americans of the plains, the days before the early summer Full Moon are the annual time of the Sun Dance, a festival of fasting and healing ceremonies affirming the manifestation of Takuskanskan the Creator in all things.
Summer Solstice: (also known as Midsummer, Alban, Hefin, Litha,and Sonnenwende) The day of the Sun's Turning, the longest day of the year when the sun is at its zenith. The Water Goddess and the Green Man are among those dieties who are honored on this day. The ideal time for divinations, healing rituals, and the cutting of divining rods, dowsing rods, and wands.
Kemetic/Egyptian - Wadjet ceremony, honoring the cobra Neter whose protective power as destroyer of evil made her so important to the life of the nation that she appeared in the uraeus serpent on pharaoh's crown and other regalia. This marks the 35 days of purification before the next flood season.
Ancient Greece: Aphrodite's Day; and also the day of All-Heras (and her Roman counterpart, Juno, for which this month isnamed) when wise women who had achieved spiritual union with the Goddess were listened to and honored.
Asia: Taoist festival honoring the Heavenly Emperor Shang-Ti and celebrating the active presence of the Tao in all things. At this time the masculine Yang force is at its peak, and season of fire, south, and Summer begins.
(Southern Hemisphere) Yule - occurs on the date of the winter solstice. It is also known as Winter Rite, Midwinter, and Alban Arthan. Yule is celebrated on the longest night of the year, and it is seen by many as the time when the sun
begins its journey back from the darkness to the fullest light, celebrated at the Summer Solstice. It is the festival of the Sun's rebirth, and a time to honor the winter aspects of the God and Goddess. The festival of Yule was originally
celebrated in Norse and Germanic countries, and many Pagans choose to honor those aspects of the God and Goddess at this time of year.
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Today's Goddess: Lady of Regla Cancer Begins (Various Locations)
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:37 pm (PDT)
Today's Goddess: Lady of Regla
Cancer Begins (Various Locations)
Themes: Kinship; Protection; Kindness; Moon; Love; Devotion; Fertility; Relationships
Symbols: Fish; Moon; Silver (lunar) or Blue Items (her favorite color); Crab
About the Lady of Regla: This West Indian fish mother swims in with summer rains as the bearer of fertility, family unity, prospective life mates, and other traditionally lunar energies. Shown in art looking much like a mermaid, the Lady of Regla is also the patroness of this astrological sign.
To Do Today: In astrology, those born under the sign of Cancer have a great deal of compassion, desire family closeness and stability, and are ruled by the moon, all of which characterize this goddess's energies to a tee. How you emphasize those powers depends on what you need. For harmony at home, add blue highlights to your decorating scheme, and wear pale blue clothing when having difficult conversations.
Eat fish or crab today to digest a little extra self-love or empathy, or to encourage fertility in any area of your life. To spice up this magic, serve the fish with a bit of lemon juice--a fruit that emphasizes devotion and kinship.
If you'd like to dream of future loves or get the Lady of Regla's perspective on a difficult family situation, leave her an offering of yams before going to bed. According to local custom, this invokes Regla's favor and you will experience helpful night visions--so take notes!
By Patricia Telesco From "365 Goddess"
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S LORE
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:40 pm (PDT)
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S LORE
Cinquefoil, campion, lupine and foxglove nod on your doorstep; Nutka rose, salal bells, starflower and bleeding-heart
hide in the woods, fully green now. Litha has come, longest day of the year, height of the sun. Of old, in Europe, Litha
was the height too of pagan celebrations, the most important and widely honored of annual festivals.
Fire, love and magick wreathe 'round this time. As on Beltane in Ireland, across Europe people of old leaped fires for
fertility and luck on Midsummer Day, or on the night before, Midsummer Eve, according to Funk and Wagnall's Standard
Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend. Farmers drove their cattle through the flames or smoke or ran with burning
coals across the cattle pens. In the Scottish Highlands, herders circumambulated their sheep with torches lit at the
Midsummer fire.
People took burning brands around their fields also to ensure fertility, and in Ireland threw them into gardens and
potato fields. Ashes from the fire were mixed with seeds yet to plant. In parts of England country folk thought the
apple crop would fail if they didn't light the Midsummer fires. People relit their house fires from the Midsummer
bonfire, in celebration hurled flaming disks heavenward and rolled flaming wheels downhill, burning circles that hailed
the sun at zenith.
Midsummer, too, was a lovers' festival. Lovers clasped hands over the bonfire, tossed flowers across to each other,
leaped the flames together. Those who wanted lovers performed love divination. In Scandinavia, girls laid bunches of
flowers under their pillows on Midsummer Eve to induce dreams of love and ensure them coming true. In England, it was
said if an unmarried girl fasted on Midsummer Eve and at midnight set her table with a clean cloth, bread, cheese and
ale, then left her yard door open and waited, the boy she would marry, or his spirit, would come in and feast with her.
Magick crowns Midsummer. Divining rods cut on this night are more infallible, dreams more likely to come true. Dew
gathered Midsummer Eve restores sight. Fern, which confers invisibility, was said to bloom at midnight on Midsummer Eve
and is best picked then. Indeed, any magickal plants plucked on Midsummer Eve at midnight are doubly efficacious and
keep better. You'd pick certain magickal herbs, namely St. Johnswort, hawkweed, vervain, orpine, mullein, wormwood and
mistletoe, at midnight on Midsummer Eve or noon Midsummer Day, to use as a charm to protect your house from fire and
lightning, your family from disease, negative witchcraft and disaster. A pagan gardener might consider cultivating some
or all of these; it's not too late to buy at herb-oriented nurseries. Whichever of these herbs you find, a gentle snip
into a cloth, a spell whispered over, and you have a charm you can consecrate in the height of the sun.
In northern Europe, the Wild Hunt was often seen on Midsummer Eve, hallooing in the sky, in some districts led by
Cernunnos. Midsummer's Night by European tradition is a fairies' night, and a witches' night too. Rhiannon Ryall writes
in West Country Wicca that her coven, employing rites said to be handed down for centuries in England's West Country,
would on Midsummer Eve decorate their symbols of the God and Goddess with flowers, yellow for the God, white for the
Goddess. The coven that night would draw down the moon into their high priestess, and at sunrise draw down the sun into
their high priest. The priest and priestess then celebrated the Great Rite, known to the coven as the Rite of Joining or
the Crossing Rite.
Some of Ryall's elders called this ritual the Ridencrux Rite. They told how formerly in times of bad harvest or
unseasonable weather, the High Priestess on the nights between the new and full moon would go to the nearest crossroads,
wait for the first stranger traveling in the district. About this stranger the coven had done ritual beforehand, to
ensure he embodied the God. The high priestess performed the Great Rite with him to make the next season's sowing
successful.
In the Middle Ages in Europe, traces of witchcraft and pagan remembrances were often linked with Midsummer. In Southern
Estonia, Lutheran Church workers found a cottar's wife accepting sacrifices on Midsummer Day, Juhan Kahk writes in Early
Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries, edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Gustave Henningsen. Likewise, on
Midsummer Night in 1667, in Estonia's Maarja-Magdaleena parish, peasants met at the country manor of Colonel
Griefenspeer to perform a ritual to cure illnesses.
In Denmark, writes Jens Christian V. Johansen in another Early Modern European Witchcraft chapter, medieval witches were
said to gather on Midsummer Day, and in Ribe on Midsummer Night. Inquisitors in the Middle Ages often said witches met
on Corpus Christi, which some years fell close to Midsummer Eve, according to Witchcraft in the Middle Ages, by Jeffrey
Burton Russell. The inquisitors explained witches chose the date to mock a central Christian festival, but Corpus
Christi is no more important than a number of other Christian holidays, and it falls near a day traditionally associated
with pagan worship. Coincidence? Probably not.
Anciently, pagans and witches hallowed Midsummer. Some burned for their right to observe their rites; we need not. But
we can remember the past. In solidarity with those burned, we can collect our herbs at midnight; we can burn our
bonfires and hail the sun.
By Melanie Fire Salamander
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Fairy Charm Spell
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:41 pm (PDT)
Fairy Charm Spell
Fairies
are respected and feared in Gaelic culture, accepted as a fact of life
by a people acknowledging the mystic realm. Victorian visions of
gossamer-winged lovelies are actually a romanticized version of the
Sidhe, a fairy spirit-race believed by the Scotch/Irish to have powers
to harm and confuse the vulnerable, and influence human fate. According
to one charming Irish custom, when a child spills a drink at a picnic or
outing, the adult refrains from scolding him or her, saying instead:
"Leave it to the fairies!" Fairy lore asserts that fairies abhor a
miserly spirit. To appease fairies in your life, leave small gifts of
food and drink in your garden, on your doorstep, or any outside place
you sense might be a fairy ring or fairy tree. ~Karri Ann Allrich
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Daily Aromatherapy Tip For relaxation and stress r
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:42 pm (PDT)
Daily Aromatherapy Tip
For relaxation and stress relief take a warm bath with your favorite essential oils then add
1-2 drops of Clary Sage essential oil to a bath towel and rub yourself dry with it.
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Folksong from Lithuania
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:43 pm (PDT)
O mother sun! Come to us here!
O father cloud! Go to them there!
Over there the forests are aflame,
and we are drowning in water here!
O brother wind, blow these clouds away!
O sister clouds, rain on our neighbors!
We have had enough rain.
Come back to us mother sun!
~Folksong from Lithuania
On
the year's longest day, the Baltic people of Lithuania and Latvia rose
early to begin the celebration of Saule, the sun mother. On this day,
she was believed to dance, weaving silver shoes, on the hilltops. Dew
gathered this morning has potent qualities, the Baltic peoples held,
because it was imbued with the energy of the sun .
The Baltic
people expressed their loving dependence upon the sun in hundreds of
thousands of folksongs or dainas preserved in the Lithuanian capitol of
Cilnius. There, one can read songs like this one, in which the sun is
addressed almost as a member of the family. This intimacy with the
divine is an especially charming feature of Baltic tradition. On this
day, let us imagine dancing like the dear sun herself, gaily celebrating
the season of light.
By Patricia Monaghan - From " The Goddess Companion"
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DailyOM: Staying Afloat amidst the Spin
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:59 pm (PDT)
DailyOM - Taking Things Personally
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Staying Afloat amidst the Spin
Taking Things Personally
Try not to take everything personally, things that people say and do don't always have anything to do with you.
Every time you interact with others, you have the choice to listen to, acknowledge, and let go of their words, or you can take what they are saying personally. Taking things personally is often the result of perceiving a person's actions or words as an affront or slight. In order to take something personally, you must read negative intent in an individual's words or actions. But what people do and say has no bearing upon you and is usually based on their own experiences, emotions, and perceptions. If you attempt to take what they do or say personally, you may end up feeling hurt without reason.
If you are tempted to take a comment or action personally, creating some distance between yourself and the other person can help you. Try to determine what is at the root of your feelings. Ask yourself if the other person's words or actions are just reinforcing some insecurity within you or if you can really be sure that an offense was intended. You may even want to ask them what they meant. Finally, put yourself in the other person's shoes. Instead of taking their words as the truth, or as a personal affront, remember that whatever was said or done is based on their opinion and is more reflective of what is going on inside of them, rather than having anything to do with you. You may have been an easy target for someone having a bad day, and their comments may have been offered with no ill intentions.
When you recognize that what anyone says or does doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, you will no longer feel hurt or attacked. While it's easy to take things personally, you should never let anyone's perceptions or actions affect how you see yourself or your worth. Your life is personal to you, and it is up to you to influence your own value and sense of well-being.
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Hey Everyone: Happy and Blessed Summer Solstice, Mid Summer and Lith
Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411
Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:59 pm (PDT)
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