MEDIUM APRICOT MEAD

Gallons: 5
Ingredients
13 pounds fresh, raw alfalfa or clover honey
2 pounds fresh, raw wildflower (or other dark) honey
7 pounds fresh frozen or fresh apricots, crushed
2 pounds fresh frozen or fresh apricots, crushed (in secondary)
2 teaspoons Great Fermentations of Santa Rosa mead yeast nutrient (made up to Roger Morse’s formula in the book Making Mead)
2 packets Champagne Yeast (dry or liquid)

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Suggestions for Exercises – Tarot Lesson 16

Exercise 16.1 – Traditional Position Pairs in the Celtic Cross

Bold phrases refer to card meanings. Italic phrases refer to position meanings.

  1. Position 1— Position 2
    (A) Page of Cups — Knight of Pentacles
    My son is a sweet, sensitive guy who takes everything to heartHis teacher is too inflexible and grim. She’s driving my son too hard by insisting on an unreasonable level of perfection.

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Lammas

Lammas, also known as Lughnassad, is celebrated on August 2. It is the first of the harvest festivals.  This is when the grains are cut and the gardens are beginning to be harvested. 

The days are now getting shorter and fall is approaching.  This is a Sabbat celebrated by breads and grains.  We often hold feasts due to the crops being so plentiful.

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