TWO OF CUPS

• CONNECTION
• TRUCE
• ATTRACTION

making a connection

joining with another
celebrating a marriage or union
cementing a friendship
establishing a partnership
working together
sharing
helping and being helped
seeing commonalities

SEVEN OF PENTACLES

• ASSESSMENT
• REWARD
• DIRECTION CHANGE

assessing

evaluating the status
reflecting on progress to date
reviewing what’s been done
pausing to check results
making sure you’re on course
finding out where you stand
taking stock

Make Your Voice Heard As You Tread Gently On Our Mother Earth by David Rankine

Making Your Voice Heard
Before buying crystals, remember to ask where the crystal comes from and how it was mined. A lot of crystals are strip mined, which is very harmful to the land, and when handled often have a feeling of being psychically fractured or distressed about them.

*Axinite*

*The name Axinite is from the Greek acine (meaning “axe”) for the axe-like shape of the original crystal formations.
*Usually Reddish brown. They also occur in yellow, yellow-orange, light blue, violet, grey and even black.
*Aids in decision making,

Making a general purpose wand

Making a wand can be fun but more than that it can be a powerful tool used in your Wiccan work. Below I have outlined how to make a general purpose wand, this is open to as much or as little adjustment as you prefer. Wands can be made for a single specific purpose to give greater power to a spell. You can change the wood it is made from to correspond to properties needed within the specific spell or purpose, You can also use a different crystal, Quartz is good because it is able to adapt to what ever purpose it is needed for.

Making Herbal Teas

LESSON ONE

 

Herbal tea is one of the easiest and simplest way of using herbs and is my preferred method. Most people drink herbal teas for their medicinal value, although some do drink them purely for taste.

Mabon Background

Background:
Mabon marks the Second Harvest, the end of the grain harvest (which begun at Lughnasadh), and rests on the Autumn Equinox. The Equinox mirrors dwindling of life (and eventual progression to rebirth), as well as the struggle for balance; day and night are equal for a single day. The pagans of old didn’t have the ability to determine astrological positions as we do today. The Europeans, therefore, celebrated this Sabbat on September 25th; actually.  The Celts marked their days from sundown to sundown, so the Mabon celebration actually started on the sundown of our September 24th. Today, with the help of our technology, we can calculate the exact day of the Equinox; the date when the sun enters the sign of Libra, the Balanced Scales, which appropriately fits the Equinox. In the Wiccan tradition we celebrate from sundown of the 21st to sundown of the 22nd. September 25th is a medieval holiday which the Church Christianized under the label of “Michaelmas,” a feast in honor of the Archangel Michael. It is thought that the Roman Catholic Church at some point considered assigning the quarter dates to the four Archangels, since they had assigned the cross quarters to the four gospel-writers. Making the Vernel Equinox a holiday called “Gabrielmas” was taken into consideration in honor of the angel Gabriel’s announcement to Mary on Lady Day. This Sabbat can also be known as: the Second Harvest Festival, Feast of Avalon, Cornucopia, Wine Harvest, the Fall Equinox, Harvest Home, the Autumnal (or Autumn) Equinox, Festival of Dionysus, Alban Elfed (Caledonii, Druidic), Winter Finding (Teutonic), or Equinozio di Autunno (Strega). The full moon closest to the Autumn Equinox is called the Harvest Moon, and farmers would harvest their corps by this moonlight as part of the Second Harvest celebration.

Green Man

by Alan G. Hefner

A legendary pagan deity who roams the woodlands of the British Isles and Europe. He usually is depicted as a horned man peering out of a mask of foliage, usually the sacred oak. He is known by other names such as “Green Jack, “Jack-in-the-Green” and “Green George.” He represents spirits of trees, plants and foliage. It is believed he has rain making powers to foster livestock with lush meadows. He was frequently depicted in medieval art, including church decorations.