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Who doesn’t feel the love in th e air after Beltane? That celebration of love and fertility can last all month. Are you in the mood for love with someone who’s near you? Someone far away? Are you feeling May’s currents of passion? Set up your altar with all the love trinkets you can find—candy hearts, chocolate kisses, bright jewelry, photos of the one you love, cut flowers in a vase, or anything else you’re inspired to add. As you light a pink candle (of course), ...
Spring is springing and the roots of Mother Earth’s flora are beginning to grow in strength. Let’s do a little work on our own roots. Sit calmly in a comfortable spot outside, wearing minimal or comfortable clothing (or none at all!). Visualize your root chakra growing down into the earth in a dark red color. While doing so, repeat the Sanskrit word Muladhara. (This is the ancient Vedic Hindu name for the base chakra.) Visualize this root going deep into the earth’s molten ...
March is Women’s History Month, a good time to perform ancestral magic. Envision the women of your lineage: your mother, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, and beyond; your cousins, aunts, and great-aunts. Maybe you have photos of them you can place on your altar, or things of theirs, such as jewelry or dishes. As you look at them, invoke the resilience of these strong women who survived, thrived, and had children. Their strength and resilience are written in your DNA. Envision a strand of ...
Avoid the winter blues by embracing hibernation. For this spell, don comfy clothes and fuzzy slippers. Have dark chocolate or a cup of hot chocolate ready. Set a blue candle in a dish of crushed ice—blue for the winter blues and the subtle blue of ice and snow. Sit before the candle on a comfortable couch or chair, wrap yourself in a blanket (again, fuzzy is good!), and repeat: As the depths of winter near,May I sleep deep like the bear.Curling up in dark embrace,Nurturing soul with calm ...
