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Color of the day: Purple Incense of the day: Balsam Today marks the end of Passover and the beginning of spring for those of the Jewish faith. What better time to do a ritual around growing things! Gather your gardening tools, soil, seeds, and small containers. Place them on your altar and call the directions. Breathe deeply and say: Goddess Ceres, Mother of the Harvest. Goddess of the plants, of the time of growing. Ceres, I ask your blessings upon these items. May my garden spring forth, ...
Color of the day: Gray Incense of the day: Lily Spring is in full swing, so it's a good day for spring cleaning. Physical cleaning is as important as psychic or spiritual cleaning. Get a stick of incense, preferably something aromatic like cedar or copal, or use a sage smudge. Gather your tools: brushes and brooms (remember the broom is a symbol of Witchcraft), rags, mops, and cleaning products. Put them in the middle of the kitchen or some other clear spot. Use the broom to draw a circle ...
Color of the day: Pink Incense of the day: Thyme Good Friday comes this month, the old woman runs, With one-a-penny, two-a-penny, Hot Cross Buns. Whose virtue is, if you believe what's said, They'll not grow moldy like common bread. The Anglo-Saxons originally made these sacramental cakes to honor the spring goddess, Eostre. The early Christian church tried to ban the little cakes with no success, so they cut a cross on top of each bun and called them Hot Cross Buns. They are considered very ...
Color of the day: White Incense of the day: Violet Some calendars mark today as the day of Prosperpina's rise from Hades to rejoin her mother and bring spring back to the world. Other calendars place it earlier or later in the cycle. Use today's energy to return the light to dark corners of your own life. Do you feel an awakening? Do you feel the need to reconnect, to come out of your winter's hibernation? What energy do you want to bring out into the world for the next cycle? What has grown ...
