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Today is Good Friday in the Christian faith, and also a Full Moon that is known by many names. The April Full moon was called Seed Moon in Medieval England, Planter's Moon in Colonial American, and Peony Moon in China. The Celts called it Growing Moon, and Neopagans know it as Awakening Moon. Combining these popular meanings, Cast a spell for "awakening goodness: with the full energy of the Moon. Take a sheet of paper, and quickly write the numbers one through ten on the left side. Just as ...
Eggs are potent symbols of fertility and reference the ongoing, interconnected cycles of life and birth. Bless each egg before using, and offer thanks as the egg is cracked. Cook with eggs: Make a quiche, custard pie, or deviled eggs. Serve an all-the-eggs-you-can-eat breafast! Meditate on the circular forms as symbols of solar energies. Dye eggs with natural colors. Simmer eggs with onion skins for golden-brown eggs, or in pureed beets for pink, or parsley for green. Use a white crayon ...
Creative energy is all around you during the spring; here's a spell to bless a new project. You'll need an orange candle, a cinnamon stick, and a deck of tarot cards. You'll be using all four aces to bring balance to your project. Arrange the cards around the candle, light the candle, and, holding the cinnamon stick in your hand, meditate a bit on the tarot images before you. Letting the light from the orange candle warm you, rub the cinnamon stick between your hands to warm it, and smell ...
Use this as it is the last Full Moon of winter (in the Northern Hemisphere) to contemplate endings and beginnings. Let's be mindful of the Wheel and promise of the Goddess-the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. Have we slept through the long, cold time of death, and are we ready for the time of rebirth? Did we take inventory of our successes and failures in the past year? Have we resolved issues that blocked our successes? Are we ready to shed our outer layers, like snakes shed their ...
