Sitting quietly, I began to make a list of everyone I could think of, living
or dead, that I needed to forgive. I was aware that they had not acted from
any sense of malice but that what they had done sprang from who they were.
Even so that did not erase my resentment. I also included the names of those
I felt needed to forgive me. I had not deliberately set out to hurt them,
either.

 

Resentment and guilt take up space that could be better filled with positive
feelings. I had felt them gnawing at me and I wanted them gone. While it may
help to speak with the person I feel resentment toward, yet even then the
feeling may not completely go away. All too often I may not be able to do
this, either. The forgiveness exercise is designed to relieve me of the
burden of these feelings. It has worked for me in the past.

 

As I wrote down their names I thought about the people. Perhaps they would
continue to do whatever they had done that had bothered me. Yet maybe next
time I would be more tolerant or have lower expectations, thus easing the
impact. Some of them were unreachable—either dead or no longer in my life. I
might even have forgiven them several times over and then uncovered a new
layer of resentment. The act of forgiveness is an ongoing process, not a one
time experience.

 

At last I was finished. Holding the list over a stainless steel bowl, I set
it on fire, saying, “I freely forgive all those who knowingly or unknowingly
may have injured me, and I request and accept the forgiveness of all those I
may knowingly or unknowingly have injured.�?I repeated these words until the
list was ashes. Then I scattered them outside. As I came back in I smiled.
My heart felt so much lighter.

 

As often as you need to, may you find it in your heart to forgive and to
accept forgiveness.

 

Blessings and Best Regards, Tasha Halpert

 

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Daily Aromatherapy Tip  -  Go Astray

Sprinkle in an essential oil burner...

Patchouli                                 1 drop
Sandalwood                                2 drops
Clary sage                                1 drop
Mandarin                                  4 drops

This wayward fragrance wafting through the air
leads a girl astray, and entices her to enjoy
the naughty pleasures of misbehaving for a day.

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A refreshingly original new book on using essential oils   as aphrodisiacs
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"Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest
journey you have ever taken.
It is the journey to find yourself." ~Katherine Sharp
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The Herban Corner -  Celtic Tree Magic
 
SAILLE   WILLOW
 
Willows are magical trees with slender pale silver-green leaves. The weeping
willow originated in China, where it graced cemeteries as a symbol of
immortality, and the tree had spread to the Near East by Biblical times. As
Old Testament reference to the exiled Jews hanging their harps upon the
willows as they wept beside the rivers of Babylon led to the weeping
willow’s classification by Linnaeus as Silax babylonica. In ancient Greece,
the goddess Hera was born under a willow on the island of Samos, where a
magnificent temple was built to honor her. In the underworld kingdom of
Pluto and Persephone, Orpheus touched a willow branch and received the gift
of supernatural eloquence. Willow groves are sacred to Hecate, dark goddess
of witchcraft.

During the Middle Ages, the willow became a traditional motif adorning
tombs. Early 19th-century gravestones throughout New England were decorated
with the willow emblem. An old spell uses willow to dismiss love and
transform passion into friendship.

At Full Moon snip a foot-long tendril from a weeping willow tree and braid
it with equal lengths of bright red and cool green yarn. Tie three knots in
the braid and hang the charm in an airy room until the Moon is in its last
quarter. On three successive nights untie the knots one by one in privacy
and silence while concentrating on your desire. Before the New Moon rises,
burn the red strand to ashes and throw to the winds. Coil the willow and
green wool together and place in an envelope for safekeeping.

The willow of the Druids was not the weeping willow, but the tree or shrub
we know as the pussy willow. The Irish called the pussy willow one of the
"seven noble trees of the land."

The pussy willow is used in love charms as a guard against evil and its
wands are often employed in divination. Reflecting the ancient status of the
pussy willow, it is the wood to "knock on" and avert bad luck.
Medieval herbalists placed all willows under the rulership of the moon.
 
Excerpted From Elizabeth Pepper, The Witches�?Almanac, Ltd.
 
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Crone's Corner -   New Ventures Spell

If you need support for a new venture, fill a small jar or tin with popcorn,
and carry it with you for at least twenty-four hours. First thing in the
morning and last thing at night, or whenever you think of it, shake the tin
and say:

Corn of Kore, oh Goddess grand!
Let my business grow and expand.
I will till and plant the seed.
Goddess Kore, let me succeed!

After one day, pop the corn and visualize your fortunes expanding.
Internalize the power of this spell by eating the popcorn. In the spring,
plant a small patch of corn in honor of Kore..

GrannyMoon's Morning Feast Archives
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Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest
journey you have ever taken.
It is the journey to find yourself." ~Katherine Sharp
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"The Goddess Companion"
.
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  U niverse 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.
 .  .
By Patricia Managhan - From "
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1567184634/ancestordetect08> The
Goddess Companion" and GrannyMoon's Morning Feast
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What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of
what - eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living
longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that
sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.
~ Sarah Bernhardt