Spring Planning

Well the days are getting longer and I am soooo ready. I admit it, this daughter of the moon is solar powered! I am making my list of things to have ready for the celebration that I feel coming on.

When Wiccan/Witches think of ritual, the first celebrations are usually seasonal, with Imbolc in February and then the Equinox, officially setting the schedules associated with active growth. What about personal rituals that no one really notices? I don’t mean the spring cleaning that hits everyone regardless of location, but personal celebrations.

These are the most meaningful as they mark our acceptance of age and, for some, might be the only ritual that can be performed without much persecution from family and non-pagan friends. What can you do if you need that personal celebration but cannot indulge in open rituals?

Refresh your candle supply

Take a little jaunt to your local occult shop or make your own bearing the color correspondences you will use the rest of the year. Be sure to have anointing oils also. Even a candle from Walgreen’s can be dressed and used for quite, internal rituals and meditations.

Change your make up.

Yes, that’s right, sort through the old stuff and start imagining a new color palette more suitable for being a year older and a bit more daring. There is nothing so powerful as casting a glamour that reflects your internal vibrance. Don’t forget to get new skin care items, preferably all natural. This might be a good time to start learning how to make your own!

Create or buy new personal ritual tools.

If you are able to create a small altar, do it, using items that aren’t recognized by others as ritual tools. Placed in a special corner of your home the energy will still be as important as those that are extremely ornate.

Have a special meal.

NOT Easter dinner, that’s Christianity. Spicy foods, raw foods with lots of grains, dried fruits and nuts, eaten with the fingers while watching a sunset is calming and gets you reconnected with the world outside. It’s a great way to shake off winter doldrums.

Plan your garden and get ready to plant.

Even if it is a container garden, start getting the space ready now. The growth of this garden represents your growth, so find plants that make you smile. Try to choose plants that require little tending and refrain from pruning them to get that perfect shape. They represent that part of yourself that is wild, creative, and productive.

Spring rituals come in many shapes and sizes. Follow your inner voice and create your own rituals, small and private, that celebrate your life as only you can!

Predictive Dreaming

I love doing dream interpretations. Even when phone isn’t the best vehicle for an interpretation, mainly because e-mail is cheaper for the dreamer, the conversation surrounding the interpretation is always enlightening.

There is a huge gap between the primitive area of the mind and the daily, tech based world of day to day life. Messages from the dream world are limited to 5, or maybe 6 senses. It doesn’t add and subtract, it doesn’t play events for us like a DVD player. It give the most important bit of information and then it usually wakes you. This was no more apparent then an interpretation I did by phone through Keen.

A fellow called because of a disturbance. A dream had revealed something that seemed nonsensical, which we had discussed in an earlier call, and he was calling to tell me how things turned out. The main action in his dream had been a slamm ing sound, which shook him awake immediately, but it was a dream sound, not someone actually slamming anything in real life. Of course, he had crept around his apartment to see if anyone was there or if anything was missing. He called me to figure out what that sound meant.

I don’t know why, but I had the distinct impression that the sound wasn’t made using the item owned, and that it wasn’t his bedroom door. Don’t ask me why or how…if I think about it too much I can’t do it!

His call this time was to say that the sound was indeed the end of his relationship with a woman who had a bad temper. His dream had provided the sound of her slamming the car door on, now get this, a rental car. His dream was his warning. With this warning firmly at work between his ears, he was busier thinking about the dream discussion than the fact that he had tried to work things out with his ex.

Sometimes, a dream doesn’t make sense but is our shield against pain in the waking world.

Britney Part 3…the last look for a while…..

Well true to form things have quieted down as Britney has turned her attention to rebuilding the ideal life that she thinks she needs.

Rumors have flown about her trying to get pregnant again and Dr. Phil has been humiliated by his lack of judgment in his haste to fulfill his own desires, at the behest of the Spears family. Things have quieted down. Perhaps the press has finally realized they are as much part of the problem as Britney’s fragile state of mind.

Her personality number is 7.

She has probably always felt a bit different from others and has enjoyed the fame she garnered when younger. Once grown, her need to still be different has been her achilles heal and it is unfortunate that the courts saw fit to insist on her marching in lock step with what passes for a good mother. If she had been able to get through this bad spell without legal interventions, she may have proved to be a wonderful parent. Again, the pressure to conform is simply too much.

It is important to remember that there are those around you who are struggling with the same life path issues, and the same manipulations by those who claim to have their best interests at heart…which is probably a mask to hide their need to control others.

I have a suggestion for those who are interested in seeing the proclivities in others or, more importantly, themselves.

Write your birth name – first, middle, and last, and add up the values for the letters:

Then add up the letters of your birth month along with the day and year. These are the numerical values that express some of your deep seated tendencies.  The values attributed to the numbers can be use in naming everything from children to businesses, depending on one’s goals.  Oddly enough, there is a great deal of accuracy present in the interpretation or analysis of a number’s “influence”.

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