Category: Spiritual Toolbox
Land Healing: Distance Work and Levels of Connection
The Laurel Highlands – Overlooking the mountains
Often, working as a land healer is very local work: you work with the plants, animals, bodies of water, insect life, and many other aspects of life that are nearby to you. Depending on where you live, this is often ample enough for any of us to do. But, you may also feel led to do work at distance on behalf of a place–perhaps a place you visited or one that is calling to you. Even though you live far away or cannot reach that place, you want to help. This is where distance land healing can come in.
An important aspect of energetic land healing (that is, working in a ritual way to help bring positive energy, blessing, and healing to land, bodies of water, animals, plants, insects, and more) is distance work. Often, land we want to heal (such as those…
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The Energies of July 2020
The beginning of July has brought with it some decidedly turbulent weather and an unseasonable end to the peaceful, warm summer weather that we had been enjoying during June. Watching the wind tear through the garden recently reminded us once again of how fragile our environment really is and how important it is not to underestimate the power of nature.
Those very same turbulent weather patterns are also offering us a flavor of the nature of the energy flow over the next part of the year. With this in mind, we might all be wise to keep a daily check on our grounding and make sure that our energetic foundations are secure so that we are able to withstand any storms that might pass through over the next few months.
The general energy flow for July is likely to feel quite intense with some particularly active, turbulent energy creating the…
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Beyond Divination: Four Spiritual Uses for the Tarot
Beautiful artwork. Thanks for sharing.
When people think of the Tarot, they often think of its primary use as a divination tool. Tarot is an incredibly versatile tool, and now you can get hundreds of decks on practically any theme, choose from dozens of books to help you learn, and access a wide variety of free online resources. Learning to read them as a divination method is as straightforward as picking up a book, drawing cards, and reading entries–and yet mastering them can take a lifetime.
I wanted to share a few additional ways that I’ve used the Tarot over the years to enhance my spiritual practice. The Tarot has many uses beyond divination, and learning some of these can deepen your work with the Tarot even further. These methods can be tied directly to divination uses, help you learn the Tarot in a new way, or be used on their own. All images are…
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3 magical ways to nurture yourself during a retrograde & Eclipse Season
This is our final eclipse of this eclipse season and this one might actually be visible for many on the northern hemisphere!
This is a penumbral lunar eclipse which happens when the Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned, but not perfectly. This means that the Earth blocks some of the sun’s light from reaching the moon and covers all or part of the moon with it’s shadow.
The lunar eclipse will be visible for many of us this time if the sky is clear. For others it might be eclipsing while the moon is rising or setting.
Here is a link with the timing and a map of the eclipse.
When it comes to an eclipse… even if you can’t see the event you will definitely feel it, especially when our intuition and emotions are in tune with the moon!
Remember that eclipses shake the current energy up so that we can see what isn’t working, and release it or heal it so we are free to expand and move forward. This gives you the power to integrate the lessons that have been coming up over the last month or two.
This full moon eclipse is also in Capricorn. Capricorn is very goal oriented and helps us stick to our plan and intentions with it’s gentle nurturing hand. With careful planning and diligent daily effort, this week can help you make the changes you’ve been wanting to make for a long time now.
Read original article at: Spirit de la Lune ~ 3 Magical Way To Nurture Yourself A Retrograd & Eclipse Season
ASCENDING SOUL: CRYSTAL TALISMAN MAGIC FOR THE FULL MOON LUNAR ECLIPSE IN CAPRICORN
We have yet another full moon lunar eclipse, this one in Capricorn, happening at 12:44am Sunday July 5th.
The download I received continues to guide us through the healing cycle and archetypal patterns initiated by the recent new moon solar eclipse.
I opened to channel and this is what first came through:
“Cycles and patterns, cycles and patterns.
The world goes round and round.
Moon in an earth sign, sun in a water sign,
The earth eclipses the water.
From fire and water, to earth and water,
Building, creating steady ground.
This is the earth forming anew under our feet.”
The moon will be in Capricorn, an earth sign ruled by the planet Saturn, relating to building and structure and toil and triumph. Saturn is the structurer, Father Time, the sacred masculine.
The sun is in Cancer, a water sign ruled by the moon, relating to the home, family nurturing, the emotions, intuition, imagination, and the sacred feminine.
Capricorn builds the world. Cancer builds a world of its own, within.
The sacred feminine is the energy, the flow.
The sacred masculine forms the metaphysical structure or vessel.
It is a time of creating.
This will be a very magical eclipse, one that can initiate us into a new way of being – individually, and collectively.
Don’t miss out if this calls to you and speaks to your soul, because it means your time of becoming is now.
Read original article at: Krista Mitchell ~ Ascending Soul; Crystal Talisman Magic for the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Capricorn
Rituals and Prayers for Peace
Peace is a fundamental part of the druid tradition. The ancient druids had roles as peacemakers and justices, and today, many druids find themselves in a position of promoting and fighting for justice and peace. A lot of this work is happening right now: working towards for the equal rights and treatment of black, brown, and indigenous people; fighting on the front lines of the pandemic as a medical worker or essential personnel; or and trying to work for inner peace in these challenging times, just to name a few. Given what is happening at present, it seems like a very good time to start, reaffirm, or deepen a spiritual practice that focuses on spreading peace. Thus, in this post, I’ll share a peace meditation, peace prayers, and peace rituals that you might use as part of your practice. I also think that the more of us that do the…
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The Allegheny Mountain Ogham: An Ogham for the Northern Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern USA
By Dana O’Driscoll, The Druid’s Garden Blog (druidgarden.wordpress.com), Copyright 2020.
The Ogham is an ancient alphabet, used to write early Irish and later Old Irish. The inscriptions that survive of Ogham, some 400 or so primarily on stone, are found throughout Ireland, Wales, and England. The inscriptions are thought to date from the 4th century and onward, although how old the tradition is is subject to some disagreement. In the modern druid tradition, the Ogham has also been associated with divination, and many druids use Ogham as a means to connect with sacred trees in the landscape. However, for people living in places outside of the British Isles, making local Oghams allows them to connect both with some of the roots of our tradition in druidry but also wildcraft and localize their druidry. This Ogham is designed for the Northern Appalachian mountain region in the United States while being…
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Solar Eclipse in Cancer Lunar Report | Welcoming in the Blessing Moon
A solar eclipse is when the shadow of a new moon crosses the face of the earth. The solar masculine is aligned and supporting the Lunar feminine at this time.
The moon is in between the Earth and the Sun in an exact alignment for a portal to open. Karmic healing can take place and intentions set during this time can be in effect for 6 months to 2 years with this current astrology.
This new moon and solar eclipse takes place in the sign of Cancer which can affect our sense of home and belonging. . This eclipse offers us a chance to reset and renew and step deeper into our transformation.
Each new moon, using our Tune to the Moon planners and our Spirit de la Lune decks, we create the moonthly lunar report.
Read original article at: Spirit de la Lune ~ Solar Eclipse in Cancer Lunar Report | Welcoming in the Blessing Moon
Standing Stones at the Summer Solstice
Ancient peoples set standing stones in various places in the world. In places, such as in the British Isles or Iceland, you can still often find these standing stones, trilithons, stone circles or stacks of stones. While their many uses are shrouded in antiquity and subject to some speculation, in the Druid Magic Handbook, John Michael Greer describes standing stones can channel the solar current into the earth, which offers blessing and healing to the land. I think it’s likely that standing stones can do many other things (tell time, point to astronomical features, be places of worship and community). Today, new groups of people and individuals are choosing to set stones. For our purposes, today, setting stones for land blessing and healing is certainly a good thing to do to provide spiritual support for the land.
The Summer Solstice is a fantastic time to raise a standing stone–in…
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