Something Fun For Walpurgisnacht

This is a series of vintage postcards from Paris, printed in 1910 depicting a Witches Sabbat.

Here's one, the rest can be found on my new website, More Cool Pictures, here: Something Fun For Walpurgis Night

Gypsy Spell For A Windy Day

To stir up the wind to dry washing on a line, stand with your back to the breeze and exhale facing the washing.

To make it less windy...

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It's Kite Flying Day!

Themes: Wishes; Freedom; Playfulness; Air; Movement
Symbols: Wind; Sailing Ships
Presiding Goddess: Shina Tsu Hime

About Shina Tsu Hime:
This Japanese wind goddess disperses the morning fog. She also keeps away evil, distracting winds, winds that threaten to uproot or blur our spiritual focus. Because of this, Shina Tsu Hime has become the patroness of sailors and farmers, the latter of whom pray to her for fertile winds bearing seed and rain....

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Flowers for Your Astrology Sign

Every astrological sign has flowers associated with it. These might be, but are not necessarily the same as the flowers assigned to the specific months of the year, and some flowers are assigned to more than one astrological sign.

Here's the list:

• Aries - (March 21 - April 20) - Honeysuckle
• Taurus - (April 21- May 20) - Rose
• Gemini - (May 20 -June 21) - Rose; Violet
• Cancer - (June 21 -July 20) - Rhododendron...

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Flowers Of The Month

Each month has specific flowers associated with it. This list is similar to, but not the same as the flowers associated with specific astrological signs.

Here's the list:

• January - Carnation, Snowdrop. 
• February - Violet, Primrose. 
• March - Daffodil, Jonquil.
• April - Daisy, Sweet Pea. 
• May - Lily-of-the-Valley, Hawthorn. 
• June - Rose, Honeysuckle.
• July - Water Lily, Larkspur.
• August - Gladiolus, Poppy....
• September - Aster, Morning Glory.
• October - Cosmos, Calendula.
• November - Chrysanthemum.
• December - Narcissus, Holly.

This post has been moved to my new website, The Pagan Calendar, and can also be found here: Flowers of the Month 

Spell for Healthy Flowers and Plants

Gather together a green votive candle and a yellow votive and dress them with patchouli oil. Place the candles near the plant you wish to protect and grow vibrantly and say the following words as you light the candles...

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Ritual For Floralia

Color: Pink
Element: Earth
Daily Meal: Vegan. Beans. Salad with edible flowers in it. Flower jams.
Offerings: Give flowers to people. Allow a rabbit and a goat to run free in the house.

Altar: Upon a cloth of pink set a pitcher of water, pots of earth, flower seeds, incense of flowers, a bowl of beans, and many fresh flowers should be strewn around the room. The candles of Walpurgisnacht (if you have been observing it) should remain and be lit, and a sixth added to them, for Odhinn's journey continues even as we celebrate Floralia.

Floralia Invocation

Hail Flora, Lady of Beauty!

We must have not only our bread,

And our work, and our discipline...

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Floralia: The Roman May Day Celebration

The Romans had a celebration for just about everything. Certainly, any deity worth their salt got a holiday of their own, and Flora was no exception. She was the goddess of spring flowers and vegetation, and one of many fertility goddesses. In fact, she was so well respected as a fertility deity that she was often seen as a the patron deity of Roman prostitutes....

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Flora's Self Love Beauty Spell

Flora is the Roman spirit of flowering plants and, by extension, of fertility and the life-force. Her festival, the Floralia, once began April 27th and continued for six days of revelry, especially by women of all ages celebrating their own bodies and natural beauty. The festival was celebrated in the nude until the third century CE, when Roman authorities ordered that revelers be clothed. The festival held out in that form for one more century until all pagan festivals were banned...

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The Goddess Flora

Flora is the Roman Goddess of flowering plants, especially those that bear fruit. Spring, of course, is Her season, and She has elements of a Love-Goddess, with its attendant attributes of fertility, sex, and blossoming. She is quite ancient; the Sabines are said to have named a month for Her (which corresponds to our and the Roman April), and She was known among the Samnites as well as the Oscans, where She was called Flusia....

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