BloggerhoodPrompt-Gratitude

 

Gratitude is this week's blog prompt. I am going to start off with the challenge though. This weeks challenge is Warm Colors-Art. I chose to work with a photo of myself. Taken after Passion Parties Convention 2014 was over with. My hair had been curled the night before... I was through being glamorous and just snapped a normal selfie. Then I changed it to a warmer color. Well darker at least. It felt warm to me. I'm not sure if 'warm' means blue or any warm type of color. And for all I know in the graphics world I may have actually turned it cooler. *lol* I'm not an official artist or art student.... But I do like the outcome of this photo.

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Gratitude... I am grateful to Manda first of all for the opportunity to really think more in depth about gratitude today. I am grateful for all of my plants, herbs and flowers that are still alive and thriving. I planted sunflowers, rosemary, echinaea, viola, cilantro, corn, potatoes, pumpkins, marigolds, forget-me-nots, moon flowers, lavender, candy tuft, moss roses and sage. I am grateful that I have a job to pay my bills. Although it is no longer my dream job, as my dreams have changed. I am still grateful to have it. I am very grateful for my Passion Parties business. I get the unique opportunity to give women a gift. The gift can have many names, many meanings for many different reasons. It could be the gift of feeling sexy, free, or empowered as a woman. It could be the gift of improving or changing a relationship. Creating a new relationship, reviving an old one...

I am also grateful to be an Independent Passion Parties Consultant because this wonderful company, this wonderful opportunity has given birth to growth. Personal strides in growth for myself. I do not think that I would have ever gotten on an airplane and flown someplace I've never been to before - and by myself! I do not think that I would have ever driven to a big city and found someone's house which I had never been to before. 

I am grateful for magick, wicca, and the power of the Universe. If I had not had the courage to finally open that door I would not have found all the personal power that I have today. I feel like I have a much higher self asteem because of magick and Passion Parties. And all that I've learned over the past 3 years.

Thank you Universe! Thank you Universe! Thank you Universe! And thank you to my God and Goddess who help me along my path... )O(

But these are not the only things that I am thankful for. To list all the things in this life that I am grateful for would be completely impossible. I have the most amazing family. I am not great at showing my love and gratitude. I forget to call on anniversaries. I don't get gifts mailed off in time. But I am grateful that I have the kind of family that those things don't really matter. We know how much we love one another...
Without the family I have, and was raised in. I do not think I could have love and gratitude for all of the other things...

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BlahBlahBloggerhoodPrompt-PlacesI'veBeen

(near) Forks, Washington
The Hoh Rain Forest

Today I joined The Divine Secrets of the Blah Blah Bloggerhood! I already love the first prompt and challenge. This weeks prompt is 'places I've been'. - or want to go... The above photo is taken by my daughter when she and her family went on the Forks Twilight Tour in Forks, Washington. It is a dream of mine to go there too. It is so beautiful. So peaceful looking and oh so serene. Just my kind of place!

For anyone who does not already know I am a 'one of those Twilight people'. I had even thought it would be wonderful to move to Forks. I already know how magickal and wonderful Washington is. As I used to live in the Ellensburg area for 12 years. That is where my two kids were raised. And where they call home.

The water in Washington is very very blue and absolutely breathtaking.

I now live in Wyoming, in a small town called Greybull. Population 1800. It is very scenic and beautiful here too with majestic mountains, waterfalls and no shortage of awesome huge stones.

Shell Falls, Wyoming

Big Horn Mountains - between Cody and Greybull Wyoming

I am originally from Des Moines Iowa. I was born and raised there. I moved to Bakersfield California and lived there for 4 years. My parents and my sister and her family still live there. I lived in Ellensburg and Kittitas Washington for 12 years, and have been in Greybull Wyoming for about 13 years now.

signature tag colored by me
lineart purchased at ALP

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  Bringing my passion dreams and success to light... - So mote it be. Blessed Be
Thank you for this fun & inspiring blogging Emberlyn Rayne

Dilemma...

Today I was faced with a big decision. I have a Passion Party tomorrow night that is out of town. Out of state actually! I live 2 hours away from Billings Montana in Greybull, Wyoming. This was originally a very very exciting and happy thing to have happen to me. But through the couple of weeks since this party was booked with me. My husband and I are not doing so well. He makes a habit of coming home drunk, saying mean things to me. Then pretends like it never happened. Well the latest is that my gasoline card is being cut off that I use to go back and forth and I'm suppose to just 'figure it out'. So here lies the dilemma. I have $200.00 in my checking account. Do I go do this party, use most of my gasoline money (that is suppose to get me back and forth to work - I live an hour away from work). Take the chance of not having money to get to work and back home the next day?.. What if there are no sales at all.

But today after thinking all week long, do I go do this party or not. Will I get any money out of it? How will I go back and forth to work?.. I suddenly realized. Just maybe this party is what I need. Maybe the God & Goddess are giving me exactly what I need. So after trying to talk myself out of it all week long. I am happy that I am going to go do this party for my friend and do a good job.

If there are not any sales, then there are just not any sales. It's that simple. But on the other hand, by me going and doing a Passion Party I will get out of town for a while, which will feel good. I get out side my comfort zone. So I also get personal growth. I get my name/business out there more. I get to make some ladies laugh, have fun. Maybe I even get to make a new friend of two. I am making new connections. I get to make the decision to not take the easy way out. Taking the easy way out would actually only make me feel worse.

Of course I'm scared and nervous to find someone's house I've never been to in a huge city. But we do have Google Maps in this day and age *giggles* AND I AM A WITCH! I am powerful! I am strong! I got this!!

I believe the Goddess has aligned this opportunity for me for a reason. This party will be with women who are in beauty and nail tech school. Oddly enough thats what I'm wanting to learn too. I've wanted to be a cosmetologist since I was a little girl. I want to get out of nursing so very very desperately (i'm a C.N.A.) and would love to go to school for nail tech and have a hugely successful Passion Parties business!!

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Dandelions

I am learning about the healing and wellness of dandelions. Every part of the dandelion is useful and edible. The leaves are easy to spot from other so-called weeds in your yard. They resemble the open mouth of a lion.

Today I spent some time with my 1 year old grand daughter Leena,outside picking dandelions.

Fresh dandelions can be added to your salad. There are many medicinal uses for dandelions. I've done a little reading on how to cook with them to make cookies, wine,etc... too

I discovered a blog today that I like a lot.

Common Sense Homesteading 

Earlier - before we went outside Leena thought I was lonely. And brought some friends to sit with me...

lunch time for Nana and Leena. Scrambled eggs - cageless brown farm eggs with

rosemary, sage, cheese, bonfire witches salt, and a lil' ketsup.

Leena chasing after her 14 year old cousin Evey. Evey pick me up!! lol

At long last a wonderful laugh for Nana!

Now I'm ready to go Auntie Nicole's for a nap and give a big present in my panties! *hee hee hee*

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Merry Beltane Wishes! I had a wonderful Beltane ritual tonight and last night as well. No spells for tomorrow. So I had to get them all in. *lol* I have been crafting all day long. Creating candles, decorating containers. I am trying to find things around my house to decorate to use as candle holders. Today I poured out 2 cans of vienna sausages and glittered the outside of the cute little can. Poured a candle into one of them.

My written spell, that was chanted times nine and burned. I also finally made myself a simple witches ladder. It was last minute and is just 1 piece of hemp string *lol* It sure did work like a charmer though!

I will probably sell this style for $5.00 It contains some of my home made Beltaine Incense Blend I just made last night. (Sunshine and Giggles is what I may name this little creation)

I just had to take a quick pic of this candle that I made today. The texture is the best I've done in the last two years since I've started candle crafting!!
It is made up of different candles I've made in the past. Some oopsie candles that sunk, or did not turn out like I wanted. I painted the inside of the candle mold with gold candle color. (That is the golden lines you see at the top of the candle. - That is on purpose).  But it is very smooth, clean, not cracked or flawed!

My palm wax arrived today along with some new scents to try out. I've never worked with palm wax before. I have to say that I LOVE IT!!!
Plumeria was my first try...
So I made myself a candle in a wine glass I had sitting around.

I just love the cracking and crystalizing effect of palm wax!

And just look at how my prosperity jar has grown over the past month!
#gratitude

WhataWonderfulLife

What a wonderful life it is! Thank YOU Universe! Thank you Universe! Thank you Universe! Just this past week or so has been great. Burning incense, receiving new magickal books, creating candles, creating incense, keeping up on house cleaning, organizing, spending time with family, journaling, daily prosperity exercise, making progress with my Passion Parties business. 

I am open to success and abundance that I deserve! Powerful intention! I have been watching my prosperity jar grow. I have been working on my business growing as well.

My Prosperity Space for The 30 day Prosperity Exercise
with Jasmeine Wiccan Moonsong 

I've been so creative lately. Yesterday I learned that we (our planet) are coming up on a Cosmic Cross. And that those of us who are empaths, extra sensitive, are going to feel it strongly. Maybe its why I felt so strongly compelled to get back into Witch-School again, re-stock herbs and oils I've been out of, order more books I've not added to my collection yet, be more of a practicing everyday kind of witch.

For my daughter's birthday I did not buy her one single gift. Believe me, its not as awful as it sounds. I merely crafted everything myself. I felt SO good about that yesterday! I made her a red/pink gardenia and warm vanilla sugar candle!

My daughter's handmade birthday gifts. April 12, 2014
1. Gardenia, warm vanilla sugar pink candle
2. Dragon Heart Incense Kit: Dragon Heart natural loose incense (in bottle, tagged, moon charm)
1 pkg of 10 self igniting charcoal discs and 1 cinnamon stick for stirring.
1 small cauldron with lava rocks
1 hand written label including magickal/energy properties of ingredients and
list of ingredients used in Dragon Heart Incense

I also made myself a little something...

My first ever lavender candle.
Dragon Heart Incense added to candle wax.
Ambrosia Sugared Resins added to top of my candle. She just needs a little charm!

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Ace of Wands!

Today's Prosperity Exercise, another fabulous tarot card! 

I am loving this prosperity exercise. I have not missed a single day yet.  I always manage to find a dollar in change around the house to add to my prosperity jar. The cards that I'm drawing out seem to be so customized to me and what is going on with me. Amazing! 

The Ace of Wands represents power, new beginnings, ambition, enthusiasm, passion and growth. It is the most potent and purest form of the masculine element of fire. This card shows a creative force that can not be contained. Revealing the creative and career path that I am on...

I feel like I have taken my life, my path back into my own hands. I am in control of my path! I have started back at Seasons in Avalon School of Witch Arts. Ordered new books to read, my rosemary essential oil and lavender essential oil is on its way to me! I feel happy with my magickal path. I've gone back to Pagan Space too. If your a member of this free community or would like to join, look me up - WiccanMoon.
 I include magick in my life everyday and every way I possibly can. It's only a matter of time before my Passion Parties business takes flight and I will not have to be working in a nursing home anymore & can be my own boss!

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No Fear and Fearless are my new power words. I was so excited to get home today to find $1.00 in change around my house, and put it into my prosperity jar!!  Today's tarot card drawn is Knight of Swords.

Knight of Swords - Witches Tarot - Ellen Dugan & Mark Evans

I thought about looking at my prosperity space all day long at work! I shared my new prosperity exercise with a couple of co-workers. I love sharing things that I'm so passionate about.

The Knight of Swords was another amazing card for me. Each card I draw seems to fit my life so perfectly. It's amazing and thrilling. Today I will quote much more from Ellen Dugan's Witches Tarot Companion. I do not have anything having to do with tarot memorized, haven't learned about what all tarot is, or how it works...

So, the quotes on the tarot cards are just that - quotes. They are never my own words.

"The knight' cloak and his horse's bridle are both trimmed in yellow and detailed with a heraldic hawk design.  Which symbolize eagerness and the thrill of the chase.  The colors and heraldry clearly illustrate the knight's link to the element of air.  The Knight of Swords is all about valor, momentum, shrewdness, bravery and service. The element of air pushes along the perception of speed; the knight's strength and forward motion are evident.  He is a fearless individual, and his ideals and beliefs propel him forward.  He stands up for what he believes in.  This knight illustrates very best qualities of the suit of swords: balance, energy, intillegence and drive coupled with responsibility.

Meanings

If we had to sum up this card in two words, they would be - no fear. When this card comes roaring into a reading, expect excitement, movement and adventure.  There is a need for action, and it is time for you to dive in and be the hero.  ... "

 

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The World - Tarot Card - The Witches Tarot Deck/Ellen Dugan

Last night I added a new part to my Prosperity space. I decided to draw a new tarot card each day & leave it sitting by my prosperity jar. Last nights card was the Seven of Pentacles. An excellent card! Today - The World. Two excellent cards to start off my prosperity exercise.

'Spiritual lessons have been mastered. There is a sense of freedom & harmony to be enjoyed.  Newly acquired knowledge, strength, and spiritual understanding will now be put to good use.'

Today I also have so far gotten to put a check mark by 3 of my 4 tasks on my to-do list. Plus I did some crafty fun as well. I glittered a vase with purple flowers and sunflowers in it, & added a few sparkles to the flowers as well. I just couldnt resist! *lol*

My Passion Parties business desk...

close up of my newly glittered vase. Ombre' styled green, lavender, silver, purple, silver

As I was cleaning around the house today I kept noticing something odd. I'm finding change here, there, and everywhere! *lol* Everytime I see some silver coins, I think - oh! money for my prosperity jar!!

If you have ever considered joining Wiccan Moonsong's Daily Magick but not sure about it. I will tell you it is well worth it! Just got my 1st e-mail from her today. And WOW! Great information and help in just one email. Her love and devotion just pour right through.

I am so much happier & content with magick in my daily life! Blessed Be )O(

 

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Today I read on Jasmeine Wiccan Moonsong's blog about a prosperity exercise that really cheered me up and perked my interest.

Prosperity Space

This is a month long commitment, I started it today Monday March 31st 2014.

1.  Decorate any container.

2. Write an affirmation list

3. Put in $1.00 each day, read affirmation list when money is added each day.

 I cleared a corner in my kitchen. This is a cupboard shelf as you walk into my kitchen. So I'm sure to see it every day. I washed up a triangle shaped jar I bought at a second hand store 3 years ago. I loved it. But didn't actually have a use for it. I added patchouli, sage, a ruby chip, $1.00 in change I found around the house, my Passion Parties business card, my Sacred Oaks Alchemy business card (for hand mades), and a bay leaf that I wrote "money prosperity" on in glittery reddish pink ink. Burned a sage, rosemary, cinnamon mixture in my cauldron I whipped up on the spur of the moment. Added two faery guardians from my best friend Tanya in Canada. What better plant to sit next to it than one of my bamboo plants. Bamboo plants are the bringer of fortune and prosperity. 

I love glitter. So I glittered the bottom part of the jar with green glitter and a sprinkling of my SRC I just mixed up. So my prosperity jar is protected and anointed the color of luck, prosperity and abundance as well as herbs!  I've wrapped a green hemp string around the neck of the jar 9 times and added a pentacle broom charm to decorate it as well.

I love my prosperity jar. I think I will find ways to have a dollar each day to add to it!

This is actually the 3rd of 3 magickal things I did today. I re-joined Witch-School, signed up for Moonsong's Daily Magick.

Blessed Be )O( 

            Julie 

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Pagan Blog Project-Week 13-Letter G:   Grateful Green Witch

As a green witch I am grateful to the Universe for all that comes my way. Good, bad or indifferent I accept it all. As a green witch I believe that everything in nature is alive. It lives, it breathes, everything has an energy t it. It is all here to aid us in our journey. I believe that the planet Earth belongs to the plants and animals and that we are to co-exists. I believe that we belong to the Earth, not that the Earth belongs to us humans.

The green witch is one who works with nature. Using herbs, incense, plants as a way of life, for the natural magickal properties.  Learning when to plant, sow, and cultivate my magickal garden is much the way that the farmer tends to their fields as well. I learn to plan my planting according to the moon phase. These things are so fascinating for me to learn and use.

When I was a child I often saw myself (or someone?) as a woman in an old cottage, sweeping with a corn broom on a cobblestone walkway, trees, many plants outside, lots and lots of bottles oils, jars of plants and herbs on plain wooden shelves...

Green Witchcraft is the use of plants, herbs, oils. These can be used in rituals, daily cooking, candle crafting, crafting of other items such as oils, bath salts, gris-gris bags, and anything you can think of to use in everyday mundane and magickal life. 

Not just herbs have magickal properties. Everything in nature does. Fruits, vegetables, eggs, animals, trees, house plants, weeds, etc...What are some of the common everyday herbs that have magickal properties? 

Sage:  wisdom, protection, longevity, healing, prosperity.
Rosemary: protection, healing, sleep, youth, love, lust, mental clarity. Rub rosemary oil on aching muscles. Add rosemary oil to your shampoo for increased hair growth.
Orange: luck, love, money, divination. Nicknamed the 'love fruit'
Marigold: protection, prophetic dreams, legal matters, - carried in your pocket strengthens justice to smile favorably on you. 
Rhubarb: protection, fidelity. Wear a rhubard root on a piece of string around the neck to protect against stomach pain.

*herbs descriptions: Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magickal Herbs. Scott Cunningham*
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Tired of Working with Tyrants...

Every day at work it feels like I fight for the right to be myself, to speak, to have feelings and thoughts. But am treated like I'm a robot or a solider. "I am a Spiritual Being having a human experience. Not a Human Being having a Spiritual experience!"

In my one year written evaluation, it was written that I am to read the minutes and sign them if I did not attend the mandatory meeting. ok, so where are the minutes? No minutes are ever taken by anyone. No minutes are made available for any of us to sign. *shrugs*

I ask about the care of a resident, & I'm told to not get short with the D.O.N. (director of nursing) and told SHE is the one who wrote the note. Wow! *lol* That is why I was asking for help with the situation.
Whatever...
I'm so disgusted with nursing. They do the opposite of what they tell you is right. Residents have the right to make their own decisions, residents being involved with activities is what prevents depression and wanting to die. Yet we are basically told to go lay down every resident after breakfast & lunch. Which just happens to be the exact same time that activities are going on!

I'm excited when I'm gone from there to think about other things in life. Nature, herbs, candles, intent, my home, my family and my home business Passion Parties by Julie.

I have new spring products that were introduced at our annual convention, that I've just recently returned from. I'm excited to show our new body whip in pomegranate ginger and coconut lemongrass scents.

I learned so many exciting things at convention this year! Very excited to implement some of it into my own business.

Blessings - Julie