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Color of the day: White Incense of the day: Cedar Tonight is the Norse Festival of Modresnach, or the Anglo-Saxon Mother Night. It is also called the Night of the Mothers in Germanic tradition, and it is from this holiday that many of our modern Yule and Christmas traditions derived. For instance, evergreen trees were decorated with lights to represent Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life, on which Odin hung. Feasts and presents celebrated the gifts that the goddesses give their earthly children. In ...
Color of the day: Lavender Incense of the day: Myrrh December 4 is feast day for Pallas Athena, Chango, and St. Barbara. All three of these are associated with warriors and offer protection against lightning. This protection can be extended to include protection from fire, explosions, and sudden deaths of all sorts, including on the battlefield. The Greek goddess Athena is the patroness of not simply war but also of strategy. Like her Roman counterpart, Minerva, she is also associated with ...
Color of the day: Ivory Incense of the day: Maple The New Moon in Scorpio occurs just as we are about to leave this particular Sun sign. What have you learned about your own darkness in these last weeks? This Plutonian sign holds knowledge, magic, and power, but here is also found intensity, passion and sometimes even a recognition of our own cruelty. Sit in the darkness, by the light of a single candle, and ask yourself: What part of yourself are you afraid for the world to see? How do you ...
Color of the day: Gold Incense of the day: Clove November 5 is Guy Fawkes' Day in Britain. Some may ask: Why do people across the world still gather around bonfires to burn effigies and watch fireworks in order to celebrate the discovery of Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament on this date in 1605? The answer: Freedom. In the early days of the United States, the celebration was called by the alternative name "Pope's Day," referring to the fact that it blew a hole in ...
