Canticle of the Sun

Most high, all-powerful, all good, Lord!

All praise is yours, all glory, all honor

And all blessing.

To you alone, Most High, do they belong.

No mortal lips are worthy

To pronounce your name....

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Blessing Of The Sea

From Llewellyn's 1994 Magical Almanac, we have the following description of this summer holiday:

"A beautiful city was once believed to have risen gracefully off the shores of a small French village in Brittany, France, only to have been washed away in a high tide. Every year, on the first Sunday in August, the priests go to this fabled spot and ...

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Hazel Magick

Ruler: Hermes, Aemgus, Artemis, Diana
Type: Tree
Magickal form: branch, nut

Hazel wood is excellent for making all purpose magickal wands, it is one of the most powerful wands for divination. Wands made of this wood symbolize white magick and healing. Dowsing sticks (forked sticks) are used to find water, buried treasure, and locate lost objects.

If you are outside and in need of magickal protection quickly draw a circle around yourself with a hazel branch. For protection while walking, wrap hazel twigs or branches around your walking stick or cane....

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Sign of the Hazel

If you are born under the energy of the Hazel Moon in Celtic astrology, (August 5 - September 1), there is a good possibility that, you are highly intelligent, organized and efficient. Like the Holly, you are naturally gifted in academia, and excel in the classroom. You also have the ability to retain information and can recall, recite and expound on subjects you’ve memorized with amazing accuracy. You know your facts, and you are always well informed. This sometimes makes you appear like a know-it-all to others, but you can’t help that; you’re genuinely smart and usually know the right course of action because of your impressive knowledge base.

You have an eye for detail, and like things to be “just so.” Sometimes this need for order and control can lead to compulsive behaviors if left unchecked.....

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Gypsy Fetish for Successful Sales

Teeth which have been buried for many years, serve to make a singular fetish. They are mingled with the bones of a tree-frog, and the whole then sewed up in a little bag. If a man has anything for sale, and will draw or rub this bag over it, he will have many offers or customers for the articles thus enchanted...

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Old Gypsy Cure For A Toothache

To cure toothache the Transylvanian gypsies wind a barley-straw round a stone, which is thrown into a running stream, while saying:

"Oh dukh ándre m're dándá,

Tu ná báres cingerá!

Ná ává kiyá mánge,

Mire muy ná hin kere!

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More Teeth Lore

Gypsy lore surrounding teeth is as follows:

• A child's first tooth must, when it falls out, should be thrown into a hollow tree.
• Those which come out in the seventh year are carefully kept, and whenever the child suffers from toothache, one is thrown into a stream...

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Festival of the Tooth

The Festival of the Tooth - An extended and lavish holiday which commemorates a holy relic of Buddha, his eye tooth.

Kandy is a beautiful city in Sri Lanka. On a small hill is a great temple which was especially built to house a relic of the Buddha - his tooth. The tooth can never be seen, as it is kept deep inside may caskets. But once a year in August, on the night of the full moon, there is a special procession for it. But other festivities occur on ten days leading to that final day....

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Lammas Ritual Potpourri

Ingredients:

• 20 drops clove bud oil
• 25 drops sandalwood oil
• 1 cup oak moss
• 2 cups dried pink rosebuds
• 2 cups dried red peony petals...

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A Solar Wheel for Lughnasadh

You can create a Solar Wheel or a Corn Man Wheel using a wire coat hanger, cardboard, and several ears of Indian corn complete with the husks.

The wheel can then be used to decorate your altar, or you could hang it on your door as a decoration and a celebration of the wheel of the year. Corn is a symbol of fertility, and a Solar Wheel invokes the power of the Sun to bring health and happiness to your home....

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