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Amulets and spirit bundles
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 05:00 PM
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by Samantha Holloway
At specific times in a Pagan's life, she or he might be or feel vulnerable, and that's when amulets, talismans and spirit bundles come in handy. Depending on your Trad, these items can be made of anything from silver and gold to simple wood or clay, can be natural and found objects or can be specifically crafted for the occasions. Here are some examples:
Birth / Naming: Present the child with items representing protection and health, like rowan branches, protective runes, small pieces of iron to protect from faeries, and so on.
Travel: Amethyst and feathers for safe journeys, a magnet to bring them home, salt to clear the way, a little of home's earth or one of it's stones, runes for travel safety.
Birthdays: Small stones numbering the same as how old the person is, plus one; herbs and runes for health and longevity, oak for long life.
Trauma: Stones to ease mental distress, herbs for the same, runes for fortitude and new beginnings, healing herbs, a piece of home's stone to offer a foundation, a small object to connect to someone who was lost, token symbols of the Deities.
Read the complete article: National Examiner
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Imbolc Celebration Recipes
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Posted by: Makarios on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 10:00 AM
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By Akasha
Traditional foods for the Imbolc celebration include those made with seeds, (to symbolize growth), raisins (a fruit of the Sun God), pork, poultry, or lamb, with sides of potatoes, cabbage, onions, and garlic. Imbolc is the mid-point of the dark half of the year, and though stored foods are running low, it is a celebration of renewal and preparation for Spring.
Maiden Wakes Muffins
2 cups flour
2 Carrots, grated
1/2 cup raisins
1 green apple, peeled, cored, grated
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup almonds, sliced
2 tsp. baking soda
3 eggs
2 tsp. cinnamon
2/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp.vanilla
Soak raisins in hot water, in a covered bowl, for 30 minutes. Drain thoroughly. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large non-metal bowl, mix flour, soda, cinnamon, and salt. Stir in carrots, raisins, apple, and almonds. In a separate bowl, beat eggs, oil, and vanilla until well blended. Stir egg mixture in to the flour mixture until just wet. Grease muffin pan with a little butter or use cupcake/muffin cups. Divide the batter into the cups and bake for 20-22 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan. Makes 8 servings.
Read the complete article: Celtic Connection
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Pagan Car Protection Charm
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 11:00 AM
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by Kris Bradley
As a modern domestic witch a large amount of time can be spent in your car. There are multiple spells for automobiles: everything from protecting your car from having issues in the snow to quick prayers to get a better parking spot. Protection spells for your car can be elaborate rituals invoking gods and goddesses, burning herbs and casting circles. There is, however, a very simple charm that you can create to invite a protective spirit to your car, much like inviting a domestic deity into your home.
The first step starts with a small, plastic toy. The trick is to find a toy that represents something that you find to be fierce and protective: lion, bear, dragon, dinosaur, griffon, leopard, wolf, gorilla, tiger, elephant. Track down a miniature representation of the animal and cleanse it in whatever way feels best to you. This could mean a sage smudging, leaving in a moonlit window overnight, etc..
Read the complete article: National Examiner
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When Magic Fails
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Posted by: Makarios on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 12:00 PM
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By Ruby Sara
<snip> Spellcraft works. I believe this, and I have seen it in action. I have no need to argue that it works to people who do not believe in it. I’ll leave complicated explanations of why it works to those who like that sort of analysis. But I can say without hesitation: magic works.
But, it also fails. It doesn’t work all the time, or in the ways we expect, or when we expect it too. This too is a fact. It may fail for a million reasons, including a thousand of them that we simply will never understand. Maybe we messed it up – forgot a gesture, chose the wrong combination of materials, missed a step, mispronounced a critical word. Maybe once upon a time we knew how to Do This, and our minds, drugged by the sleepy lullabies of civilization, have forgotten. Maybe we weren’t working within the stronger arena of our own talents and knacks. Maybe it was too large to begin with, throwing one artist with a chisel up against a seventy mile high and thousand mile wide wall made of 45 foot thick concrete…it can’t be done by a single person in one lifetime (i.e. global activist magic works, but it takes time, and a large, fierce people working in concert like some precious, angry and justice-seeking organism). Maybe the spirits, or the Spirit, or the gods, or the ancestors, or the angels, or any other Powers whose ability to better see and manipulate the vasty and mind-blowing sea of webstrands that sing in the space between this breath and the next decided you needed something else, for your own good, or because they like to see you sweat, or for their amusement, or because you can’t possibly see the larger context of your actions, or for a million reasons we can’t know. If you don’t believe that (and there are a trillion ideas from a million minds about the hows and whys of magic, and the traditions and teachings are many), then maybe you believe something like: a part of you doubts…the magic or the specific working, or yourself, and your higher mind is sabotaging the work to protect you from something not in your best interest. Or maybe, sometimes, we don’t know why and there is no greater message for you or for the people – it just didn’t work. It just didn’t.
Read the complete article: Pagan Godspell
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Brigid's Wheel
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 03:00 PM
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 by Andy
Brigid is one of the other names of Imbolc, the pagan feast at the start of February. As the name implies, this holiday is sacred to the Irish goddess Brigid. Brigid is a fire goddess, a blacksmith, a healer, a midwife, etc... In this article, I am going to focus one specific aspect of Brigid, Her cross.
<snip> Common in Ireland was the form of Her cross made in woven wheat. Since we tend not to have wheat available in our culture, you can create Brigid's Cross in rope. The weave works in string, but without the width, you won't be able to see the pattern. Take a piece of rope about 5 feet long and ¼ of an inch in diameter. Tie the ends together to make a loop. Lay it out like figure 3 (put the part with the loop knot at the end of any of arms). Now fold the bottom arm over the arm to the left of it. Don't fold it from the center, leave a little space. Then fold (now from the center) the left arm over what was the bottom arm and over the top arm. Next fold the top over the ex-left arm and over the right arm. Finally, fold the right arm over the ex-top arm and tuck it through the loop formed by the extra space at the top of the ex-bottom loop. Basically, move each arm as in figure 4.
Read the complete article: Widdershins
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Harvesting NewYear's Day luck
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 09:00 AM
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by Heather Atwood
You may eschew horoscopes and tarot readings the rest of the year, but, headlines being what they are these days, it's almost a civic duty to be superstitious about New Year's Day. Maybe it should be a collective effort.
First of all, nothing, nothing, nothing must leave one's house in the virgin year — not recycling, not the cat, not the empties from the night before — before something new comes in. Still, superstition seems to respect a clever effort to maneuver around it, so apparently the New Year's Day sprites think it's fine to tie a string to a basket just before midnight, set the basket outside one's door, and haul it in at 12:01, making certain one's hand remains inside.
My personal good fortune strategy is lentils, which I've been eating on New Year's Day for a very long time, and, knock on wood, things aren't terrible. I throw in kale, or spinach, or any leafy green because somewhere along the line I heard that represents actual cash.
Read the complete article: Gloucester Times
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Elemental altar for Pagan kids
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Monday, December 14, 2009 - 03:00 PM
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Altars can be as simple or complex as their creator desires. For those just starting out in the Craft, whether children or adults, simple is generally a wise approach. Creating an elemental altar offers young Pagans an easy way to have personal sacred space. Other options exist for setting up an altar and they are quite beautiful. However, for the young and the new, the details are often confusing. Fear not though, Pagans learn and grow. They find and develop new ways of doing things -- knowing how to create an altar is definitely on the list of skills that evolves with time. For now, keep it simple.
First, think about what the altar is for. It is a sacred place. Depending on the details of the tradition someone follows, it is used to honor and work with the Elements, the Ancestors, the Gods and Goddesses.
Read the complete article: The National Examiner
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Amulets, Talismans, & Charms
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 01:00 PM
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by Richard Webster
There is some confusion about lucky charms, amulets, and talismans, and many people think they are synonyms. In fact, although the differences are sometimes subtle, each is created for a different purpose: a charm is worn to attract good luck; an amulet provides protection from danger; and a talisman is used to attract a particular benefit to its owner.
LUCKY CHARMS - Charms were originally spoken or sung. The word charm comes from the French charme, which means song. The blessing that a priest gives at the end of a service is an example of this sort of charm. But gradually, people came to the conclusion that spoken words were ephemeral, while a solid object was permanent. Objects that had special significance – such as a splinter that was believed to be from the cross of Jesus – replaced sung or spoken charms. Almost anything can (and has been) used as a charm. Buttons and coins are good examples. This is because these items are frequently lost, and found by others. Anything that you find can be used as a charm. Small objects that are given to you also make good charms, because of the pleasant connotations they provide. Many gift stores have a selection of small objects that can be used as charms.
Read the complete article: Llewellyn
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Ways to keep the demons away
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 05:00 PM
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by Darrell Norman
I just learned of a pre-Christian Celtic tradition that is still being practiced in Scotland and relates to one that most of us have engaged in here.
Mary Beard, a classics professor at Cambridge University, wrote in the London “Times Literary Supplement” about her visit to a “clootie well” in northern Scotland. The idea, she says, is to hang cloths (clooties) on trees around a well or spring to cure an illness. You are to dip a cloth in the water, use it to wash the affected spot, and then hang it on a tree branch. Or you can bring a cloth that has been in contact with an ill person. As the cloth rots away, it is supposed to take the illness with it.
Beard posted some photographs of the clootie well she visited, and they show cloths of all colors hanging from the trees. The mess brought to mind the kind of yard sales my father used to call “rag sales.” It was Celtic custom to leave objects at wells and springs as votive offerings, perhaps to gain the favor of the gods, perhaps to fend off underground demons that might bubble up with the water.
Read the complete article: Gadsden Times
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How To Carve Pumpkins With Power Tools
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 01:00 PM
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by Tom Mardone
You can carve a pumpkin with a kitchen knife but why would you want to? Extreme Pumpkins.com advocates the use of power tools for the purpose of pumpkin carving. In this section we will provide some advice on when to use your:
Jig Saw - Almost Always. I use my jig saw the way that other people use a kitchen knife or pumpkin carving tool. The jig saw is perfect for all sorts of intricate cuts. It can cut large areas quickly and can turn corners precisely. A jigsaw is meant to carve pumpkins.
Drill - Sometimes I use a drill to make holes in a pumpkin. It is surprising how much better a round hole looks than an awkwardly cut hole. For this reason I like to use a drill to make the center of eyeballs, or other holes in a pumpkin. It only takes a second and I already own the drill.
Sawzall - At least once per pumpkin. I use a Sawzall or reciprocating saw at least once per pumpkin. I always use it to remove the cap or bottom of the pumpkin. The pumpkin is thickest at the top and bottom and those areas are toughest to get through. A reciprocating saw works wonders.
Router - All The Time. When I want to remove the skin of the pumpkin without going all the way through, I use a tool called a router. If you don't have one, I understand, but if you do, you should consider trying it. A round will remove the skin of a pumpkin right now. Of course, it will also fling it in your face, so wear safety glasses.
Read the complete article: Extreme Pumpkins
Note: ...there are many step-by-step, 'how-to' videos, ideas, designs etc...
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HUBBLE, bubble, toil and trouble – all magically mixed up with flour, sugar and eggs.
Without a doubt the most recognizable symbol of Halloween is a pumpkin carved into a jack-o-lantern. To understand the origins of how pumpkin carving began and what it really means we must first take a look at the holiday itself. How long has Halloween been around? Have there always been pumpkins carved? Here are some answers!
