Today's Goddess: Carna
Carna's Festival ( Rome )
Themes: Health; Kinship; Change; Opportunity
Symbols: Beans; Pork
About Carna: Carna presides over all matters of physical and spiritual health, well-being, and wholeness. Carna is also the patroness of the hinge, meaning she can help us open or close any doors in our life.
To Do Today: Romans traditionally gathered with their family on this day, offering Carna beans and pork to thank her for continued good health. This translates into a meal of pork, beans, and bacon to internalize her well-being! If you're a vegetarian, just stick with the beans.
To get Carna's assistance in getting an opportunity to open up, try this bit of sympathetic magic: Take any bean and go to your door. Stand before the door and say,
Carna, help this magic begin; my future turns on your hinge.
Open the way, starting today!
Open the door as you say "open the way," and put the bean outside in a safe place to draw Carna's opportunities to you.
To permanently close a chapter in your life, just alter the spell a bit. This time begin with the door open, saying,
Carna, help me leave the past behind;
by this spell this situation bind.
Away it goes, the door is closed!
Put the bean outside the door and close it as you say "the door is closed," leaving the problem outside your life.
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By Patricia Telesco From "365 Goddess" and GrannyMoon's Morning Feast