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Color of the day: Indigo Incense of the day: Lavender This is the let-down season for many. To lift your spirits, celebrate now with a ritual meal. Buy or prepare one of your favorite meals, and serve it on your best dishes. Use a pretty tablecloth, placemat, and cloth napkins, or buy paper party linens. Set the table as if a favorite celebrity or other VIP were coming to have a meal with you. Before eating, wash your hands as an act of purification. Ask: "O lord and lady, join me in my meal ...
Color of the day: Turquoise Incense of the day: Musk Today is the birthday of the prophet Nostradamus. In honor of him, perform a divination. Place a dark cloth on a table. Have a finger bowl of water on the table. Get out your favorite divination tool. Light a few candles, and turn out the lights. Rinse your fingers in the bowl, and say: "I wash myself of all confusion and distractions. I cleanse myself from selfishness. I come with pure intent." Hold your divination tool over one of the ...
Color of the day: Topaz Incense of the day: Neroli In the United States, today is the day before Thanksgiving. Often, as we prepare for holidays, there is a great deal of stress. We wonder: "How will I ever get it all done-the cooking, the cleaning, the preparations?" In the midst of your busy preholiday busyness, take just a few moments for a quick calming spell. Have handy some lavender essential oil, diluted with a carrier oil. Pour a few drops into your palms. Sniff, then sniff again. ...
Color of the day: Green Incense of the day: Sandalwood Today is the Christian All Souls' Day, a holiday very similar to the Celtic Samhain. It is a day for remembering friends and family who have died. The Sun is in Scorpio today, and appropriately, the tarot card appropriate to this day is the Death card. The Death card can indicate physical death, but it more often means transformation. It focuses on the death of an old way of living or thinking and on the birth of a new way of life or ...
