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As one year ends and another begins, it's a good time to purify our homes to receive the New Year. One of the favorite purifying scents to use is bayberry. For this ritual you'll need one bayberry-scented pillar candle. Raise your power hand and walk clockwise around your home as you visualize a stream of light coming from your fingertips. Seal your home with this psychic energy. Light your candle and place it on your altar or coffee table. Allow it to burn for about an hour. Snuff out the ...
Yule - Winter Solstice Full Moon 3:13 am Witches and Pagans use water charged under the Full Moon for purification rituals and miscellaneous cleansing work, such as washing religious statues, crystals, pentagrams, magical mirrors, and other tools. Moon water can also be added to baths and for cleaning wounds. Moon water is one of the greatest liquids for anointing the body's energy points before starting ritual work. Different paths anoint the body in different ways. Purification points for ...
Yom Kippur Today is Yom Kippur, a traditional Jewish holiday meaning "Day of Atonement." At this time, Jews seek God's forgiveness for their sins; wrongs against other people are supposed to be repaired prior to this holiday. They also fast and refrain from doing any work. It is customary to wear white clothes, symbolizing purity. Paganism does not have a concept of "sin," but does offer behavioral guidelines. So today is a good time to consider your relationship to the gods and to other ...
In China, February 3 is known as Risshun or Setsubun. Similar to New Year's Eve, the festival has long been renowned as a most auspicious time for driving away evil, bad luck, and harmful energies. One of the most common Risshun practices is called mamemaki, which can translate as "bean throwing." As part of the exorcism of evil, tradition holds that members of the household should throw roasted soybeans out of the doors and windows of the home. To take this element of practice into our own ...
