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1.: "Share A Recipe Day", 1/16/2012, 4:00 am From: which_witch_is_witch@yahoogroups.com

2.: Today's Goddess: GUNNLOED Wassail Day (England) From: Cher Chirichello

3.: Tuesday's Correspondence...January 17 From: Cher Chirichello

4a.: Invocation to Lakshmi, India From: Cher Chirichello

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1.: "Share A Recipe Day", 1/16/2012, 4:00 am

Posted by: "which_witch_is_witch@yahoogroups.com" which_witch_is_witch@yahoogroups.com

Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:40 am (PST)

Reminder from: which_witch_is_witch Yahoo! Group
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"Share A Recipe Day"
Monday January 16, 2012
4:00 am - 5:00 am
(This event repeats every month on the third Monday.)

Notes:
"Share a Recipe Day" Share your favorite recipies, if it has
anything to do with Holidays/Sabbat/Esbate/season, please share more about it with us or share some memories or old traditions.
If you borrow the recipe please make sure that persons name is on it and also links if possible so people know where you got and get credited for it

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2.: Today's Goddess: GUNNLOED Wassail Day (England)

Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411

Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:45 pm (PST)

Today's Goddess:GUNNLOED
Wassail Day (England)

Themes: Creativity;
Wisdom; Health; Protection; Fertility
Symbols: Mead; Poetry;
Cauldron or Cup; Apples

About Gunnloed:This Teutonic Goddess guards the mead (a honey wine often made
with apples) of sagacity and the muse- a refreshment most welcome at the outset
of a new year. In art, Gunnloed is depicted as a giantess; according to stories
about her, she stood vigilantly by the magic cauldron of Odherie until Odin
wooed her and stole much of the elixir away.

To Do Today:For inspiration and insight, pick out a cup that's special to
you and fill it with apple tea and a teaspoon of honey (a mock mead). Stir it
clockwise, saying,

Gunnloed, come to me, put ingenuity in
this tea! Drink the tea to internalize the magic. If possible, sip it quietly
while enjoying a good book of heartening poetry.

Alternatively, sip some mead, quaff some
apple juice, or eat an apple today for health, and give a little of the
leftover liquid to nearby trees. In Anglo-Saxon tradition, this festival marked
a time to enjoy wassail, a spiced apple cider or mead with herbs. Farmers
shared this beverage with the apple groves to keep them fertile. Wassail
literally means "be well" or "be whole." Drink of the
wassail cup to ensure yourself of Gunnloed's gifts of well-being, creativity,
and happiness all year
)0( By Patricia Telesco

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3.: Tuesday's Correspondence...January 17

Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411

Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:45 pm (PST)

Tuesday's Correspondence...January 17

Today's Influences: Conjurations, Predictions, Knowledge, Writing, Eloquence

Deities: Lilith, Mars, Aries, the Morrighan, Aset [Isis], Demeter, Ceres, Spider Woman, Bona Dea, Oya, Devi-Kali, Hella, Rhiannon, Coatlique, Maman Brigette, Sekhmet, Het Heret [Hathor]

Incense: Cinnamon, Cinquefoil

Perfumes: Sweetpea, Lavender, Mastic, Frankincense, Cloves

Color of The Day: Yellow, Gray, Violet

Candle: Purple Violet

Planet: Mars

Metal: Iron

Gemstones: Garnets, ruby

Herbs & Plants: Thistles, holly, coneflower, cactus

Associations: War and conflict, enemies, initiation, marriage and
protection

Use for magick involving mental issues, learning, higher education, addictions, communications, travel, young people, messages, perception, self-expression, artists, poets, and writers

What's Happening Today:

Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day
Business Day
Carnivale begins (Italy)
Constitution Day (Philippines)
Felcitas (Old Roman Goddess of Good Luck)
Fire From the Sky Day
National Feedback Day
National Hot Buttered Rum Day
National Printing Ink Day
National Public Employees Appreciation Day
Pig Day
Professional Boxers Day
San Antonio Abad (Mexico)
St. Anthony's Day (patron of basket weavers, brush makers, butchers, domestic animals, grave diggers, herdsmen, swine; against eczema, ergotism)
St. Devota's Day (patron of Corsica, Monaco)
Straying Toward the Path Day
Thomas Crapper Day
Wassailing the Apple Trees
World Religion Day

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4a.: Invocation to Lakshmi, India

Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411

Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:52 pm (PST)

I am whatever is. Whatever is, I am.
I am whatever is visible. Whatever is
visible, I am.
I am whatever is invisible, Whatever is
invisible, I am.
I am whatever is alive, Whatever is
alive, I am.
I am whatever moves and breathes.
Whatever moves and brethes, I am.
I am the very spirit of life. The very
spirit of life, I am.
Everything that exists in time is part
of me. I am everything that exists.
When time ends, I will end. I will
vanish, disappear, dissolve.
And with me, everything else will
vanish, disappear, dissolve.
I alone can create, and I alone destroy,
this universe.
Everything that exists is mine.
Everything that exists is me.
~Invocation to Lakshmi, India

There is nothing in the universe that
does not partake in the essence of the Goddess. In Hindu religion, the Goddess
creates everything we see, hear, feel, smell, taste. She is the energy from
which all the matter in the universe is made.

The vision of the Goddess is echoed by
contemporary science, which has rediscovered what some philosophies have long
known: that matter and energy are intimately connected. The dance of subatomic
particles, flashing in and out of existence as they swim in their quantum soup,
is not far distant from the dancing Goddess who creates all the visible and invisible
world through her movement. Whether we call her Lakshmi or the implicate order,
there is an ultimate reality to this universe. Whatever we call it, we must
marvel at its greatness and its mystery.

)0(By Patricia Monaghan

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