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Motivation Monday
💖🤰🤱💖Wishing you all a Blessed and Magickal Mother’s Day💖🤰🤱💖
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Just did a live unboxing of my Mystery package that I ordered for Mother’s Day. I am a bit surprised that I got mostly candles and one oil in my large box, but I am going to trust the cards on this one.
Weekly pagan lingo – Altar
The altar will be the foundation of your magickal tools. For spell-casting purposes, the altar is the surface on which the spell is worked. It symbolizes the centre of the self and the centre of the universe. It is the focus and support for the magickal energy you raise.
An altar can be a table or area dedicated for ritual work. There are many books out there that show you the basic structure and suggestions as to the placement of certain tools when it comes to the altar. These books are simply helpful guides when it comes to a traditional altar or altars within the structure of certain types of practices. The great thing about the nature of the paganism is it allows you to follow your intuition, whatever feels right to you. So don’t feel you have to have something set somewhere because someone told you that is where it belongs.
You can have a very elaborate or very simple alter, whatever fits your needs. It may change with the seasons or stay the same with limited additions and subtractions. It’s your altar you create it as you desire.
Most witches set up alters before casting their magick circles so that they have all their tools ready and not have to open and close the circle. I practice in a room and cast my circle to take up the space of the room because even though I have my alter set up I am bound to forget something.
Alters can be made from a self, a nightstand, or a table. It could be a small table, the kitchen counter, a bookshelf, anything really. I know someone that uses a step stool. Perhaps your alter is a rock outside or a stump.
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Aqua
The color of Aqua is ideal for magickal work towards compassion, gentleness, and harmony.
*Some of this information was taken from Llewellyn’s complete book of correspondences by Sandra Kynes*
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Ritual Preparation
Basic Ritual/Spells casting Structure
This is a guideline, not something set in stone that anyone is saying you must do. Use it, change it to meet your needs, or discard it.
We all have different routines when it comes to casting. I find that personally it is always nice to have a small checklist in mind when I start to prepare for casting anything.
So what I have done here is put together a basic guideline that I find to be helpful in my practice and wanted to share with all of you. Again these are in no way set in stone and can be changed to suit your needs. It is just a suggestion.
1. Ritual Preparation:
A) Choose a time and a place
B) What tools will you need?
C) How are you going to raise energy?
D) Choose how you want to cast and close your protective circle.
I do go into further detail in my coaching program and seminars. If you would like to sign up send me a message.
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Motivation Monday
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Image from The Universe Has Your Back deck by Gabrielle Bernstein www.gabbybernstein.com
Illustration by Micaela Ezra www.micaelaezra.com
Weekly Pagan Lingo: The Akashic Records
When speaking about the Astral Plane with others the topic of the Akashic Records does tend to be brought up, a lot. These are records that are believed to be kept and accessed only in the Astral plane. Akashic Records hold information about every human life including their past lives. Naturally it is also believed that they are guarded by higher beings so not just anyone is granted to see them.
Myself being one that naturally traveled into the Astral Plane as an adolescent without knowing it for some time, I had no clue what this was when people began to talk to me about it. Imagine how awkward I felt when I looked at people confused during conversations about the Astral plane and they used a lingo I never heard before. I was just learning about this place I found myself in at night and they were talking about searching for their Akashic Records.
In my mind over the years I would always envision a big filing cabinet that held all my records as these conversations went on. There are different theories as to how the Records are kept and what they look like. In my research and journeys I have found that many people do agree that once you reach a level that you can obtain access to your records then you can look into your past lives and even into the future ones.
The Beltane Altar
The Altar decorations that are suggested for Beltane would be items like: baskets, bells, beltane cakes, broom, butter churn, cauldron, colors (of all shades of red, white, all shades of green, pale yellow, light blue, lavender), chalice, dairy foods, daisy chain, eggs, fauna, fertility, fire, flowers (chaplet), handfastings, honey, maypole, oat cakes, phallus shaped candle to symbolize fertility, potted plants, the priapic, stones (of rose quartz, emerald, sapphire, bloodstone), wand, wildflowers, wine (red or blush)
Share with us what items you like to put on your Beltane altar. Better yet share with us a picture of your lovely Beltane Altar )O(
*This beautiful altar is here:https://www.instagram.com/faeriehearthwitch/*