Beltane2014

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!

Prosperity Exercise-Day7

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!

ProsperityJar-NoFear

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.  ... "

 

ProsperityJar-day2

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(

 

ProsperityExercise

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 

PaganBlogPostPrompt-G

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

FearofSuccess

Fear Of Success. Just three simple words. But what do they REALLY mean? I will say them again. Fear of Success. Still sounds simple enough. Why would I or anyone else be afraid to succeed? Hmmm... That does not feel like an answer though. It does not feel as though I have resolved a question. I will look deeper! Because I ponder those words a lot. What is the deeper meaning. What is the answer. What is the reason why I really am not where I want to be with my Passion Parties business.

-- If I have the huge success that I really truly want as an Independent Passion Parties Consultant, my whole life will change. It will change a lot. It will change from feeling down, self-doubting, down from lack of money. I won't want want want and not get. I will have a whole huge world open to me. Maybe that is what is scary to me. Success, getting things I want, having money for nice clothes, more make up, candles, buying crafts, having friends, going shopping,  being able to be more social. Those are all things that I do not have.

Okay, so now I've finally answered the question. What now? Go out and make it happen of course! How?

Do things that are outside of my comfort zone, walk outside the box!!

Make big differences! Make big changes!

        Pass out awesome cool business cards -   ordered! at  Zazzle with Myka Jelina art!! 

Get out of town! Go someplace where people are. Where people have money, and like to spend money, smell good, look good.

Make a Vision Map - Where can I see where I'm going if I have no map! How will I know when I arrive without a map!

All in all, I think that I need to realize that success does not happen overnight. When we gain weight, we might later on make the decision to loose weight. Ok, the decision is made. That is not what brings it to light though. Keeping focused on the goal, doing the work of exercising, making better food choices, and over a period of time whether its months or years is what brings that goal to light. Then we have our success...

signature tag drawn & colored by me

LookingOverThePast

Today I found myself looking over old c.d.s at things I've made in years past. And I suddenly began to see a funny pattern. Magick! Many years before I even had the realization that I am a magickal person. Which was not until 2011. All the years before I had been dabbling in it without realizing it. Just because I was collecting graphics that I liked. I've been surrounded by witches, pagans, and magickal people the whole time and did not even see it.

Just because someone's name was Rhiannon, Isis, Selene, Raven, Sicara. I did not associate them as being dark, evil, or scarey. I was completely comfortable with those names. I think they are beautiful. It could be their real name or made up. But I never once associated their names with magickal arts, wicca, witch, paganism, eclectic, and the plethora of other magickal names associated with magick or spirituality.

As I look through my past signature tags, the kinds of graphics I was ordering - that I was attracted to. And the people's names who were making them. I am surprised that I've been doing that for many more years than what I have actually been admiting to being magickal. Many more years than I've actually been learning about paganism, celtic, welsh, egyptian, and norse gods and goddesses. For many more years than I've been celebrating the turning of the wheel, the changing of the seasons.

I did not even know paganism was still alive until just 3 years ago!

I thought it was an ancient way of living so far gone that no body today was even aware it had ever existed. I longed for it though. I could see myself having lived in those days.

Lets look at some of the things I've collected over the years. BEFORE I realized who and what I am. *lol*

Martima Heavenly 2008

 

 this little triple moon I find particularly interesting. The year was 2008 That is still 2 years before I picked up a book on wicca, paganism, witchcraft, gods and goddesses, magickal nature. Two years before I had ever done any searches online. 2 years before I found out paganism was still alive.... Okay I won't go on and on but. See my point! *giggles*

Some of these particular signature tags I made, some I drew...

 

 this silly lil cutie is my own dabbling *lol*

 

one of my more favorite pixels I've drawn & colored

 I couldn't resist making this one. It reminded of an
Edgar Allen Poe kind of time...

Lets take a look at the kinds of signature tags I was ordering for others now ---

 This is from a website that was around called Cassiopeia! She had all the best signatures. All the unicorns, goddesses, castles, dragons!

 Baubbles n' Broomsticks - can't get much more witchy and magickal than that

 a beautiful sigtag with a renaissance looking dress by Dees Deesignz.

 

lovelies by CandyTuft-Closed

Shayna at Enchanted Hollows

 Another Martima Heavenly - closed

 my friend Jacqui was making tons of these adorable dragons!