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We have all heard that term Spring Cleaning. It is that time of year that you go out of your way to make sure the spider’s webs are clogging up your corners, your stove is spotless and your carpet is fresh as the day it was placed. It isn’t that you don’t do this already on a weekly basis, but you go that extra mile. To be honest, I don’t know exactly where the term spring cleaning came from. There are many thoughts that it came from the New Year’s traditions of the Scottish to it being a good time for dusting due to the climate in the northern hemisphere.…

Cast A Spell On A Spring Garden To bless your new spring garden with fertility and growth, follow these easy steps created from, “Spellcaster: Book of Magick”. Choose young plants and seeds, organic fertilizer and a sunny place in the yard to plant. Gather your gardening tools and ask the Goddess and Greenman for a blessing of your plants to grow and thrive. Now gather a few items to protect and enhance your garden with magick. Items you will need: Green ribbon. Wooden stakes for each row. Wand with an orange blossom, daffodil or orchid tied to the wand with green ribbon. Apple, cut into small pieces. 1-5 geodes (rock…

The Happiness Project This has been a very bad year for most of us, of all Races, religions, Faiths and Beliefs. Depression sets in quickly and easily, with reports from our friends and family, telling us if bad happening in their lives. It has been very hard to find light in the darkness. Even at my job someone posted a sign that read. “Due to the poor economy the light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off”. This is a time when we struggle daily to find balance. When we find it hard to get a moments peace. BUT this is the time when we NEED Joy,…

The sixth month of the Gregorian Calender, June is the first month of summer. June derives it’s name from the Roman Goddess Juno. Her Greek counterpart is Hera. The traditional birthstone amulets of June are alexandrite, moonstone, and pearl; and the rose is the month’s traditional flower. June is shared by the astrological signs of Gemini the Twins and Cancer the Crab, and is sacred to the following Pagan deities: Juno, and all gods and goddesses who preside over love, passion, and beauty. During the month of June, the Great Solar Wheel of the Year is turned to the Summer Solstice, one of the four Lesser Sabbats celebrated each year…

June 1 Festival of the Oak Nymph. This Pagan celebration honors all hamadryads (female nature spirits who are believed to inhabit oak trees). Decorate a Pagan altar with acorns and war some oak leaves in your hair. Kiss an oak tree or place a small offering of some kind before it, and the tree nymphs who dwell within it will surely bestow a blessing upon you. June 2 Shapatu of Ishtar. A Pagan festival dedicated to the goddess Ishtar is celebrated every year on this date. She is the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian deity who presides over love and fertility as well as war. The birth of the god Apollo…

Carnelian Balance creativity and mental processes.  Good for wheezing.  Confidence, boldness, initiative, dramatic abilities, assertiveness, outgoingness.  precision , analysis, appetite, awareness of feelings.  Warms and cleanses blood, kidneys, stimulates appetite, emotions, passion, sexuality, physical energy.  Celebration, reproductive system, menstrual craps, arthritis, gall bladder, pancreas.  Historically also used to pull excess fever out through the feet.  Used in Middle East in recent times as an amulet to restrain nose bleeds and excessive menstrual flow.  Defense against the Evil eye and poverty.  Believed in India to protect the wearer against the falling of walls.  Helps with asthma. Cat’s Eye In the Middle Ages was believed to protect the wearer from the evil…

Summer Solstice and Backyard Camping What joy radiates through the house as summer begins!  The warmth of summer fills us with a languid feeling. Why hurry? This is the time to relax and recharge from Father Sun’s amazing energy. The celebrating of the Summer Solstice is an ancient custom that is as appropriate today as it was long ago. The week leading up to the solstice is the time to gather anything you have around the house that has images of suns and fairies. Plan to have a feast that day. Grill out and eat as many yellow foods as you can think of! Corn on the cob, yellow peppers,…

Environmental Factors of Ghost Hunting We’ve covered a lot of events, phenomenon, and terminology associated with ghost hunting over the months. Unfortunately for many in the mainstream sciences these still amount to fringe science; so I thought it time to touch on some of the principles of environmental and natural science to show how they apply to paranormal research. For all the advances we’ve made in science, there is much about our physical world, let alone the spiritual and psychological, that we have yet to understand. Parapsychology theories propose that hauntings are caused by the environment’s ability to capture or “record” events; and that the spirit, once free of its…

Merry meet and Welcome to my Kitchen. Come on in and grab a cuppa and see what we can share. This month I am focusing on a different way to use the Bounty of our Mother Earth. The year round bounty that is accessible like it never was in years gone by. And once frozen or dried you may be able to use this beauty and flavor year round. We do not always think about the flowers of our plants. We focus on the leaves and roots, but forget that the blooms are often as flavorful as the rest of the plant. And many are gorgeous. So this month I…

Haunting Profits How much would you pay to experience a haunting?  Some may ask why anyone would want to expose themselves on purpose to spirits.  Others who are interested in ghost hunting feel this is a good way to start out in the field.  While there are tours and events at reportedly haunted locations all over the U.S and abroad, some want a more personal experience.  This is where “haunted” auction items come into play. There are some famous stories of haunted items picked up at auctions, like “The haunted E-Bay painting” that I discussed in a previous article.  Some paranormal enthusiast may be familiar with Harold who is believed…