Having A Bad Day?

Grab your calendar and mark the days!
Here we have a list of the 56 Unfortunate days of the year:

January:
7 days: 3, 4, 6, 13, 14, 20, 21.

February:
7 days: 3, 7, 9, 12, 16, 17, 23.

March:
8 days: 1, 2, 5, 8, 12, 16, 28, 29....

... I am so sorry to do this to you, but this post has been moved to my new website, The Pagan Calendar, and can be found in its entirety here: Unlucky Days

Is Today Your Lucky Day?

Grab your calendar and mark the days!
What we have here is a list of the 53 Fortunate days of the year:

January:
6 days: 1, 2, 15, 26, 27 and 28.

February:
4 days: 11, 21, 25, 26....

... I am so sorry to do this to you, but this post has been moved to my new website, The Pagan Calendar, and can be found in its entirety here: Lucky Days

Make A Voodoo Doll Out Of Anything!

This is the first in a series of videos by Planet Voodoo on how to make a Voodoo doll out of absolutely anything. In this episode, Voodoo Mama takes you on a hunt for junk in some barns and show you how to make a guardian Ju Ju using all salvaged items. It's Voodoo Gone Green, y'all.

How To Make A Voodoo Doll

Here's a trippy little movie conjured up by Planet Voodoo showing how to make your very own New Orleans-style Voodoo Hoodoo doll.

August Moon Names

What follows is a list (in alphabetical order) of the names given to the August moon. Also listed is the tradition and/or origin of that moon name:

Acorns Ripen Moon ~Maidu
Autumn Moon ~Taos
Barley Moon ~other
Berry Moon ~Anishnaabe
Big Harvest Moon ~Creek
Big Ripening Moon ~Creek...

... I am so sorry to do this to you, but this post has been moved to my new website, The Pagan Calendar, and can be found in its entirety here: August Moon Names

Warrior Meditation for Lughnasadh

At Lammas (or Lughnasadh), the harvest is kicking in. This is a time of year when the masculine energy of the earth is in full swing. For starters, it's the season of the spirit of grain, and a time to honor Lugh, the craftsman god. Lugh was not only a craftsman, but a gifted smith and swordsman. The season from late summer to the middle of fall is often a season of heightened energy for those who identify with the warrior soul.



Who Is the Warrior?
The warrior in today's society is someone who understands the idea of right action. He or she follows a code of honor, and abides by that code even when it may be inconvenient or unpopular. The warrior recognizes that the forces of creation and destruction must be balanced...

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Lammas - A Feast of Bread

In early Ireland, it was a bad idea to harvest your grain any time before Lammas -- it meant that the previous year's harvest had run out early, and that was a serious failing in agricultural communities. However, on August 1, the first sheafs of grain were cut by the farmer, and by nightfall his wife had made the first loaves of bread of the season.

The word Lammas derives from the Old English phrase hlaf-maesse, which translates to loaf mass. In early Christian times, the first loaves of the season were blessed by the Church...

... I am so sorry to do this to you, but this post has been divided into two separate posts, and moved to my new website, The Pagan Calendar. They can be found here: Lammas - A Feast of Bread, and here: Lammas Bread

Campfire Bread

Ingredients:

• 8 cups flour
• 2 tablespoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 4 tablespoons butter or shortening
• 1 cup of milk

Method:

Combine the flour, baking powder... I am so sorry to do this to you, but this post has been moved to my new website Gypsy Magick and Lore (hosted at shirleytwofeathers.com) and can be found in its entirety here: Campfire Bread

Meditating on Moonbeams

Mix your mind with the moonbeams at night. Wash your sorrows in their rays. Feel the mystic light spreading silently over your body, over trees, over vast lands. Standing in an open space with quiet eyes, behold, beyond the limits of the moonbeam-revealed scenery, the bedimmed fringe of the shining horizon....

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Magickal Gardening

Gardens can be both products of enchantment and independent producers of enchantment; they are a living, on-going magic spell. Gardens may be arranged in any variety of ways - color-coordinated, whatever was on sale at the nursery, even completely haphazardly. If you select, coordinate, and arrange plants according to the magic powers they radiate, then planting a garden becomes one style of casting a spell. Thus your desire to draw wealth, protection, or fertility to one's home is manifested by carefully arranging the appropriate plants, and vigilantly removing those possessing opposing, contradictory powers...

... I am so sorry to do this to you, but this post has been moved to my new website, Book of Shadows, and can be found in its entirety here: Magickal Gardening