Tag: Rituals
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Prosperity Spells Sell Well in a Bad Economy
Photo from http://flickr.com/photos/lisa_yarost/; creative commons license. It was Edain McCoy who first called my attention to it—the link between the current economy and prosperity spells. I honestly had not noticed. And maybe that’s a good thing. I’d just returned from a trip to the Daytona-Orlando area where New Age shop owners talked of the…
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16 AUGUST 2008 Lunar Eclipse: Rituals and Meditations for the Full Moon in Aquarius
Photo by jetalone; creative commons license. To hear about eclipses and moon phases, plus other good stuff, sign up for our RSS feed (right column), bookmark us, or follow us on Twitter, now available.) Honestly. I hadn’t planned to post about the upcoming lunar eclipse quite yet, but here we are on 8 August 2008…
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Serious Moonlight: Ideas for Your July Full Moon Meditations and Rituals
Do the rocks control the river or does the river have more power? Engaging photo by Hamad Darwish; used here under a creative commons license The New Moon and Full Moon are always wonderful times for meditation and ritual, or just for self-reflection on where you are in your life. The Full Moon of July…
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Once in a (Scorpio) Blue Moon
Photo by robwallace May 19-20 (depending on your time zone) marks the second Sun-Moon combination of Taurus and Scorpio in a month, and I’m always surprised at how many new readers drop in to find a ritual or a good ritual tip for this Full Moon. This one, being an even more intense Scorpio…
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Scorpio Moon: Is It Real or Is It Illusion?
Here’s a replay of a previous post about a ritual from 2005, just because we have double full moons in Scorpio with a Taurus sun for the April-May 2008 time frame. This was during my Cancer Scare of 2005–turned out to be a caffeine-induced lump–but I was just coming to grips with starting over and…
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Giveaway Time! Let’s Celebrate Taurus
As the Sun moves into Taurus 20 April, it’s time to celebrate with a give-a-way. Why? Well, because CELEBRATE EVERYTHING is my personal theme for this year and if you look, it’s not hard to find good things in life. The prize is a pretty orange and blue Balance-and-Expression necklace by a local artist, as…
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Powerhouse Rituals: One Reason this Spring Is So Bright
I can give you a laundry list of energetic and astrological reasons why this Spring 2008 is so powerful and so good for launching yourself in new directions, but I’ll focus on the answer to just one question: How can this full moon be in Aries and the first of the solar new year? I…
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Time-Lining Intentions
Photo by Morti Riuuallon I’m combining long-term intentions with daily intentions in two rather effective ways. First, I hold my “morning strategy sessions with the Universe” at usually about 5:30 AM when I’m on my way to work. I have time alone to decide how I want my day to go, what I want to…
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A Small Eclipse Ritual: Under a Blood Red Moon
Photo by Black Dog Photography The lunar eclipse of 20 February 2008 was quite pretty in the here-and-there moments that the cloud-cast sky allowed a peek. I love it when I can curl up in a blanket in the back yard hammock and watch an eclipse with one of the kids with me, but the…
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The Spiritual Ad Lib
Photo by Computer Science Geek Eclipses are wonderful times to harness the power of the moment for a personal new moon ritual. They also have a tendancy to surprise me with little messages that come up, sort of like a spiritual ad lib. Last night under a bright smattering of stars, with grass under my…