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Summer seems so far off, but it really is just a tick in time away. Gather your calendar and a pen and do a manifesting spell. Cast a circle for protection. Call in the directions: East, bring the winds of inspiration.South, fan the fire of dreams.West, fill me with watery creation.North, make real what I need. On your calendar, mark out times to take vacations: a half day spirited away from work, a weekend escape, or a weeklong absence from your work, home, town, and chores. Say this out ...
Honensai, or Harvest Festival, is a Japanese celebration of fertility and prosperity. So today, reflect on the abundance that is already richly flowing through your life, and contemplate what you’d like to channel this energy into next. A creative project? A budding friendship? Your physical health? Once you’ve chosen a focus, select a crystal that symbolizes your desire, such as aventurine for new friendship, apatite for creative projects, or clear quartz as a multipurpose crystal ...
Write your name in the middle of a blank sheet of paper. Around your name, write the names of friends you are trying to strengthen relationships with. We find this spell is especially helpful when you write down the names of people who live a distance away. After you’ve written down the names of your friends, draw a circle connecting them all together, with spokes from that circle pointing back to you. As you draw the circle and the spokes, say: May the bonds we haveforged remain ...
Today is Card Reading Day. Many people will reread greeting cards, but you can also read tarot cards. With the waning moon in Scorpio today, there’s an added dimension of going deep. This tarot spread picks up on your blind spot, or that which you keep hidden from yourself. Hold a deck of tarot cards and connect with it. Pass it around your waist widdershins (counterclockwise) three times and say: Deck of cards, tell me true,Reveal what’s hidden,through and through. Shuffle the ...
