Hi, folks!
Psychic Fair starts today. Tasiography (tea-leaf reading) workshop at 7pm!
It’s dim and green again, but there’s a lot of fog. It rolled in yesterday evening, making the air smell of salt. It’s very quiet, not even a tremble of a leaf from a breeze and already pretty warm, in the upper 50’s.
A Stellar Jay greeted me with a loud shriek when I walked into the study this morning, then left his perch on the exercise bike and went to the feeder, then to the railing. A raven showed up and chased him off, looked around for bread and, not finding any, flew off after that.
More red is showing on the species rose and I gotta get Tempus out there after the rugosa blooms. I’m realizing that if we’re going to have any rose bread we gotta start grabbing quick!
I harvested the newly-bloomed buttercups yesterday as I was heading for the car, but didn’t have enough time for the flax. Maybe I’ll get that this morning. Yes, those are rosebuds on that bush. Not a lot yet, just the storm warnings….
Tempus just put some stale bread out and the raven has been back twice. The first time he set a chunk aside and gulped a bunch of smaller pieces, then flew off with a large one. The 2nd time he grabbed two chunks and almost couldn’t get airborne.
I’ve got the halo picture up here:
During the early part of the day, yesterday, I processed the calendula, ½ the sage blossoms, the blue violets and the lilacs. I still need to untangled and hang the bindweed and the bay.
My supper at the shop yesterday before class was some of the pasta/tomato salad. Omg, is it *ever* better on the 2nd day! The directions say to let it sit for an hour… piff! Let it sit overnight.
Class was short last night. One student was really feeling ill and had to go home, but we were still there until 9pm. I’ve apparently lost the rest of the Class 7 handout, except for the outline, so that’s another task for this week, either to find it (I hope!!!!) or to re-create (groan!).
Pan-Pagan is on the next stage which is getting the class list whittled down and starting to get the information to and back from the leader/teachers, and at the same time we’re going to start fundraising. There’s a Facebook Group is you want to get in on the current information. “Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering” is the name. Search that name and then ask to join.
Oh man, I’m running very late!
Teal-leaf reading workshop this evening. Call the shop, facebook me or just show up. It’s a “by donation” workshop cost. I’m looking forward to it.
Brandon should be here with his chicks tonight. He says, “No eggs, but I’ll explain…” Looking forward to seeing him, too! …and all of you!
Psychic fair this weekend! http://www.ancientlight.info/events/#fair Check the schedule below for the rest of the stuff. I’ve had a couple of requests to re-run The Burning Times, so that’s the movie for the weekend.
The shop opens at 10am today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open!
Love & Light,
Anja
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NASA Science News for May 28, 2012 - On Monday, June 4th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across the Pacific from China to the United States. FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-na sa/2012/28may_strawberry/
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aszUiI6J-L8
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Ancient Light’s website – www.ancientlight.info – You *can* order from here! …or e-mail…or call on the phone… or Facebook….etc…..
Tempus does Outdoor Power Equipment repair! - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magycke-Mower-Small -Engine-Service/132610430115634
http://www.ancientlight.info/magycke/
Café Press Products from Ancient Light - http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight Everything from T-shirts to pillows to coffee mugs to journals with witchy or just fun designs! The newest designs are here: http://www.cafepress.com/ancientlight/8866346 These are the Your Personal Satyr designs.
Spoonflower Fabrics - http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/coastalanja The newest designs are in the Anja’s Spring Garden collection (think daffodils in the snow and violets…). We have designs for sale in the Bugs ‘n Slugs Collection, the Garden Collection and Mushroom Collection and two Pagan Collections are coming soon.
Our Circle’s site! - http://www.ancientlight.info/circle/ Add things by e-mailing me here. mbartlett@harborside.com
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Today
The Moon is waxing gibbous. Waxing Moon Magick - The waxing moon is for constructive magick, such as love, wealth, success, courage, friendship, luck or healthy, protection, divination. Any working that needs extra power, such as help finding a new job or healings for serious conditions, can be done now. Also, love, knowledge, legal undertakings, money and dreams.
Waxing Gibbous Moon - From seven to fourteen days after the new moon. For spells that need concentrated work over a ¼ moon cycle this is the best time for constructive workings. Aim to do the last working on the day of the Full moon, before the turn. Phase ends on 6/2 at 4:12pm
By 10 or 11 p.m. (depending on your location) the Summer Triangle is up in the east. Its top corner is Vega: the brightest star in the eastern sky. Deneb is the brightest star to Vega's lower left. Look for Altair substantially farther to Venus's lower right.
Celtic Tree Month of Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9
Goddess Month of Hera runs from 5/16 - 6/12
Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”.
Sun in Gemini
Moon in Libra enters Scorpio 5:31am
Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde
Color: Rose
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Calendar
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Planting 6/1-2
June 1-3 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Tanya Lester, Tasiographer
6/1 – Friday, Tea Leaf Reading Workshop 7pm – by donation
6/2 – Saturday, 10am-6pm - Tea Leaf & Tarot Readings by Tanya Lester, Tasiographer
6/2 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop
Noon - Brandon Tweed on Raising Fowl
2pm – Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler
3pm - Sewing Workshop
6pm - Metta Meditation
7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows)
6/3 – Sunday, 10am-6pm - Tea Leaf & Tarot Readings by Tanya Lester, Tasiographer
6/3 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101
Noon - Brea’s Elements (class)
1pm – Free showing of The Burning Times
3pm – Discussion follows movie
Harvest 6/4
Lunar Eclipse – 6/4/12 4:03am
6/4 – Full Strong Sun Moon at 4:12am, Pathfinding Horse Moon
Neptune Retrograde 6-4-12 2:03pm
6/4 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5
Planting 6/5-6
6/6 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting)
6/6 – Wednesday, 7pm, esbat, waning moon
Harvest 6/7-9
6/7 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 5/6
6/9 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop
Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler
3pm - Sewing Workshop
Planting 6/10-11
6/10 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101
Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling)
2pm - Practical Craft
Chiron Retrograde 6-11-12 10:12pm
Harvest 6/12-14
6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon
Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm
Planting 6/15-16
Harvest 6/17-18
6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days
New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am
Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm
Planting 6/20-21
6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through)
Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon)
6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea
Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am
Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am
Planting 6/29-30
June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi
Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30
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www.wunderground.com
Jun. 01, 2012, Rise, Set
Actual Time, 5:34 AM PDT, 8:54 PM PDT
Civil Twilight, 4:58 AM PDT, 9:30 PM PDT
Nautical Twilight, 4:12 AM PDT, 10:16 PM PDT
Astronomical Twilight, 3:14 AM PDT, 11:15 PM PDT
Moon, 5:59 PM PDT, 3:20 AM PDT
Length Of Visible Light, 16h 31m
Length of Day, 15h 19m
Tomorrow will be 1m 16s longer.
Waxing Gibbous, 88% of the Moon is Illuminated
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Celtic tree month Huath Hawthorn May 13 - Jun 9 - I am fair among flowers - Color: Purple - Class: Peasant - Letter: H - Meaning: Being held back for a period of time - Hawthorn - Like willows, hawthorns have many species in Europe, and they are not always easy to tell apart. All are thorny shrubs in the Rose family (Rosaceae), and most have whitish or pinkish flowers. The common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) and midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata (Poiret) DC.) are both widespread. They are common in abandoned fields and along the edges of forests. Both are cultivated in North America, as are several native and Asiatic hawthorns. Curtis Clark
Huathe - Hawthorne Ogam letter correspondences
Month: April
Color: Purple
Class: Peasant
Letter: H
Meaning: Being held back for a period of time
to study this month - Ur - Heather and Mistletoe Ogam letter correspondences
Month: None
Color: Purple
Class: Heather is Peasant; Mistletoe is Chieftain
Letter: U
Meaning: Healing and development on the spiritual level.
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Tides for Alsea Bay
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
/Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
F 1 Low 4:44 AM -0.5 5:34 AM Set 3:20 AM 81
1 High 10:57 AM 5.9 8:54 PM Rise 5:59 PM
1 Low 4:23 PM 1.9
1 High 10:32 PM 8.5
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Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Relationships are the proving grounds for my growth
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Journal Prompt – What would you? - What would you do if you won the lottery?
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Quotes
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. - Madonna
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive. - Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) US Politician
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe.
I
Hear the sledges with the bells
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
II
Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And an in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells,bells,
Bells, bells, bells
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
III
Hear the loud alarum bells
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor,
Now - now to sit or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging,
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows:
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling,
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells
Of the bells
Of the bells, bells, bells,bells,
Bells, bells, bells
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!
IV
Hear the tolling of the bells
Iron Bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
And the people - ah, the people
They that dwell up in the steeple,
All Alone
And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone
They are neither man nor woman
They are neither brute nor human
They are Ghouls:
And their king it is who tolls;
And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
Rolls
A paean from the bells!
And his merry bosom swells
With the paean of the bells!
And he dances, and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the paean of the bells
Of the bells:
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the bells
Of the bells, bells, bells
To the sobbing of the bells;
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells
Of the bells, bells, bells:
To the tolling of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells, bells, bells
To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
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Magick – Litha
Ginger Snap Mead – author unknown
Ingredients
18 lbs light clover honey
1 cup lemon juice
zest of 2 lemons
2 gallons water
4 oz fresh ginger slices (each about the size of a quarter)
2 packets of sherry yeast
1) Bring ginger, juice and zest and 2 gallons water to a full boil.
2) Turn off the heat and pour into a fermenter (7-10 gallon carboy).
3) Add honey and stir well, then add cold water to 5 gallons.
4) Add rehydrated yeast when temperature is 70º - 80º.
5) Allow to remain in primary fermenter for 2-3 MONTHS before transferring liquids only to a secondary fermenter. (rack)
After 3-4 months in the secondary fermenter it will be time to bottle.
Note - It is best after it has been in the bottle for a few months. The longer the better.
Brightest Blessings )O( Aradian
deborah wrote:
To: Hearth_Witch@yahoogroups.com
From: "deborah"
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:18:30 -0000
Subject: [Hearth_Witch] Ginger Snap Mead
Ritual Mead – Takes at least 1 day
2 1/2 gallons water
1 C meadowsweet herb
1 Cup woodruff sprigs
1 Cup heather flowers
3 cloves
1 Cup honey
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 Cup barley malt
1 oz brewers yeast
1. Pour water into a large cauldron or kettle.
2. Bring to a boil and add the meadowsweet herb, woodruff sprigs, heather flowers, and cloves.
3. Boil for 1 hour and then add the honey, brown sugar, and barley malt.
4. Stir 13 times in a clockwise direction, then remove from heat.
5. Strain through a cheesecloth and allow the mead to cool to room temperature.
6. Stir in the brewers yeast.
7. Cover with a clean towel and let it stand for one day and one night.
8. Strain again, bottle, and store in a cool dry place until ready to serve.
Soft Mead - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7039/Ash linCB.html
1 quart water, preferably spring water
1 cup honey
1 sliced lemon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
pinch salt
juice of 1/2 lemon
1. Boil together all ingredients in a non-metallic pot.
2. While boiling, scrape off the rising "scum" with a wooden spoon.
3. When no more rises add the salt & lemon juice.
4. Strain and cool.
5. Drink in place of alcoholic mead or wine during the Simple Feast.
ROSE PETAL PUNCH - A handful of strongly scented rose petals will delicately flavor a punch for a summer evening.
A large bottle or container with a seal that holds at least an ½ gallon
3 handfuls fresh red rose petals
2 tablespoons raw sugar
1 quart chilled water
Zest of 1 lemon
Juice of two lemons
1 bottle white wine (the lighter flavored ones are best, sparkling is great)
1. Two or three hours before you want to serve the punch rinse rose petals.
2. Put them into the bottle.
3. Add sugar to the roses
4. Add water, zest and lemon juice
5. Chill.
6. When ready to serve, pour liquid through a mesh strainer into a punch bowl.
7. Add wine and stir well.
Note – This goes very well with a rosebud/borage/mint ice ring
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REMEMBER: DO NOT use flowers that have been sprayed with any type of pesticides..........
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Energy list
5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow!
5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help!
5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it.
5/13/12 – “I am still very sick and have been for a month now - really need help kicking this on the spiritual plane - depression makes you sick and I am having a hard time climbing out of this hole. I now have bronchitis as well as the ongoing infection - see Dr again on Monday - This is probably the only request for help/healing I have ever made - but I just can't seem to kick this on my own. Whatever you think will help - I feel like I am dying a very slow and painful death.” Update 5-8 Doing better, but still need help. Update 5/17 Sunshine helps!
5/8/12 - 9-year-old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. Starting radiation. Family and friends asking help for him and for the children that know him. Update 4/7 He’s doing pretty well and back in school despite the treatments. Update 5/8 No news is good news. Update 5/25 He is 10x better. He is in full remission.
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Silliness – GCF: Flashlights
Flashlights used by my National Guard unit can withstand almost
anything. And to prove it, they come with a lifetime warranty.
Nevertheless, nothing is indestructible, which is why the warranty
also cautions, "Void with shark bites, bear attacks and children
under the age of five."
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