Hi, folks!
Wicca 101 at 10am and Brea’s Elements at Noon.
There’s a very bedraggled Stellar Jay bouncing around on the porch. He’s been in the planter, the fuchsia basket, landed on the top of the hummingbird feeder, on the railing and on the seed feeder…and then flew away, being replaced by a lot of sparrows. …who have now also flown away. …and then some hummingbirds… I’m drinking my coffee and trying to wake up.
It’s raining, steadily. It’s already 55F and not a breath of wind. We’re in the cloud layer, as far as I can tell. It was interesting watching this fog roll in late in the evening when we were still at the shop.
I got down to the shop a little past 8:30, yesterday morning, and started in trying to get ready for what I knew was going to be a long day. There was a lot of last minute find-this-put-that-away stuff that needed to happen.
Sash & Josh got there a bit later and got their game pavilion set up and then I set up the prizes inside and got the basket tags printed. They also decided to set up on July 3rd, hoping to get a bit more business.
At about that time some of the students from the Sunday class who were going to be in the parade were wandering around town, so they stopped in to say hi and tell me about what all was going on.
The phone kept ringing and then around 10am people started coming in to shop. By then Willow was there and Tempus showed up, eventually, with bread and rose petals in hand…or rather, in backpack….
…and from that point on, one thing ran into another. We had people in and out shopping….ran through a whole stack of business cards. The parade was fun and very, very loud. …although I have to say, Sash is louder than a PA system. When he was doing his spiel about the games I had to go inside because he made my ears hurt more than the fire sirens!!!
I managed to get the last of the sun hats “strung” with tie cords, too, so that’s done for the summer. I still have a few that I have to try to scrub or wash, since they’re acquired some dirt during their time in storage. They’ll have to get done later, but I have plenty.
We did pictures of the some of the young folks in their parade outfits, and I worked on the computer doing the souvenir photos and eventually put up an album. There’s a whole stack of Tempus in his wizard outfit, since he and Marius played a bit on Friday.
Late in the day, while we still had customers, we were taking it in turns to wait on people and spending a lot of time sitting down… The fog started rolling in, late in the day and it gave everything a look of mystery.
Tempus went over to the grocery store, looking for pot stickers for dinner, but ended up with pierogies, instead, which we baked when we got home. As we were leaving the shop, the dance was going on over at the Moose and the Fire Dancers had just finished.
Classes today, but there are a lot of people in town, still, so we may just wander over to enjoy the sandcastle building, although with the rain, some of the young folks may not be interested. We’re also going to close down the classes a bit early today, since we’re all pretty tired.
The shop opens at 10 today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open!
Love & Light,
Anja
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Today
The Moon is a waning crescent. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Hecate’s Brooch – 3-5 days before New Moon – Best time for Releasing Rituals. It’s the last few days before the new moon, the time of Hecate’s Brooch. This is the time that if you’re going to throw something out, or sweep the floors, or take stuff to Good Will, Do it! Rid yourself of negativity and begin the letting go process. Phase ends at 8:02pm on Sunday. End of the cycle - In the time leading up to the “New Moon” you may do banishings and other baneful magicks and healings that require blasting a disease away. The “tide change” from Dark to New occurs at 8:02am on Tuesday.
Can you see the big Coma Berenices star cluster? Does your light pollution really hide it, or do you just not know exactly where to look? The cluster is 2/5 of the way from Denebola (Leo's tail) to the end of the Big Dipper's handle (Ursa Major's tail). The cluster is about 5° wide — a big, dim glow in at least a moderately dark sky. Its brightest members form an inverted Y that nearly fills a binocular view.
Mercury (about magnitude –0.3 and fading) is very low in the west-northwest about 30 or 40 minutes after sundown. Don't confuse it with Capella far to its right, in the northwest. Pollux and Castor are above Mercury early in the week, and to the right of it by June 23rd.
Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 –
Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10
Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible.
Sun in Gemini
Moon in Taurus entered Gemini at 10:24pm last night….
Chiron, Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde
Color: Yellow
Harvest 6/17-18
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Calendar
6/15-17 – Waldport Beachcomber Days
6/17 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101
Noon - Brea’s Elements (class)
2pm - Practical Craft (not this week)
8am-Noon Father’s Day Breakfast at the Moose Lodge
10am-Noon – Sand Castle & Sculpture contest (from Port to Bridge)
1pm – Sand Castle judging
Noon – Raffle Winner announced
6/18 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6
Treasure Chest Drawings start at Noon at Washington Federal Bank
New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am
6/19, 7pm – Tuesday, Wicca 104 last class – At Anja’s
7/20 - Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm
Planting 6/20-21
6/20 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting)
6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through)
6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7
Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon)
6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea
6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 Last Class!!!!
Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am
Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am
6/28 - 5pm - Wicca 101-4 – Special Class on the History of Wicca!!!!!! (Donations will be accepted for Deb’s gas to get here from Eugene)
Planting 6/29-30
June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi
6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham
6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop
Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler
2pm –
3pm - Sewing Workshop
6pm - Metta Meditation
7pm – Movie Night, showing Full Circle (discussion follows)
7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101
Noon - Brea’s Elements (class)
1pm – Free showing of ?
3pm – Discussion follows movie
7pm – Movie Night, showing The Goddess Remembered (discussion follows)
7/2 – Monday, Carl Neal Workshops
11am - Herb Workshop
7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows)
The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3
Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon
7/3 – Tuesday, 6pm - Circle Barbeque
7/3 – Waldport Independence Day Celebration (fireworks begin at dusk)
Planting 7/4
7/4 – 11am - Herb Workshop
3pm – Sewing Workshop
7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning
Harvest 7/5-6
7/5, Thursday – 11am - Herb Workshop
3pm – Sewing Workshop
5pm – Wicca 102 begins
7/6, Friday – 11am - Herb Workshop
3pm – Sewing Workshop
7pm – Movie Night, showing Howl’s Moving Castle (discussion follows)
Planting 7/7-8
7/7 – Saturday, Readings by Angelica Rose
11am - Herb Workshop
Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler
3pm - Sewing Workshop
4pm – Lupa, Therianthropy 101 (1 hour) Lupa Bi
6pm - Metta Meditation
7pm – Movie Night, showing Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (discussion follows)
7/8 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 (no class this week)
10am – Lupa, Writer's Q&A (1 - 1.5 hours)
Noon - Brea’s Elements (class)
1pm – Free showing of Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime)
3pm – Discussion follows movie
July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org
Harvest 7/9-11
7/11 – 7pm – House Capuchin meeting at Ancient Light
Planting 7/12-13
7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon
Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm
Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am
Harvest 7/14-15
Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm
Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am
Planting 7/17-18
7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat
New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm
7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea
7/20 – Ramadan Begins
Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20
Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am
7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through
Planting 7/26-27
Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm
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8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon
Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon
Harvest 8-2
Planting 8/3-8/5
Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning
August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal
August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons
Harvest 8-6-7
Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30
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www.wunderground.com
Jun. 17, 2012 Rise Set
Actual Time 5:31 AM PDT 9:03 PM PDT
Civil Twilight 4:54 AM PDT 9:40 PM PDT
Nautical Twilight 4:05 AM PDT 10:28 PM PDT
Astronomical Twilight 3:02 AM PDT 11:31 PM PDT
Moon 4:06 AM PDT 7:35 PM PDT
Length Of Visible Light 16h 45m
Length of Day 15h 32m
Tomorrow will be 0m 11s longer.
Waning Crescent, 4% of the Moon is Illuminated
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Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark
Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences
Month: May
Color: Black and Dark Brown
Class: Chieftain
Letter: D
Meaning: Security; Strength
to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences
Month: None
Color: Silver White
Class: Shrub
Letter: E
Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears.
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Tides for Alsea Bay
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
/Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
Su 17 Low 6:19 AM -0.5 5:31 AM Rise 4:07 AM 6
17 High 12:50 PM 5.7 9:03 PM Set 7:35 PM
17 Low 5:56 PM 2.9
17 High 11:46 PM 7.6
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Affirmation/Thought for the Day – At least once a day sit and do nothing!
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Journal Prompt – What do you think? - What do you think of someone who has bad manners?
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Quotes
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me. - Chinese Proverbs
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. - Dave Barry
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa
If you want to be a holy man, you've got to be committed. When you make a decision you cannot waver in any way. You'd never see Gandhi during a hunger strike sneaking into the kitchen in the middle of the night. 'Gandhi...what are you doing down there?' 'Umm, I thought I heard a prowler...and I was going to hit him over the head with this big bowl of potato salad.' - Jim Carrey
THE CRIMSON LEAF
I watched as one small crimson leaf clung to the barren branch,
Sad to see all that brilliant color fall to the ground to die.
It was fast approaching winter, and I would miss the bright colors.
Sometimes I feel like that small crimson leaf, hanging on,
Reluctant to let go, afraid that my individuality will be destroyed;
But still I hold on to you, afraid and not really trusting your love.
I know I am but the latest of many, but my personality is bright,
I am caring and I have brought you much happiness and love.
Still, there exists in you a timing clock that rings when things are over;
And affairs are always over before two years have passed by.
All the brightness, passion and intelligence of my nature
Have been directed at pleasing you and bringing joy into your life...
But I have always known in my heart that it was one-way only.
I have not the value to you that I have had to others, that did not
Have your deep place in my heart. Ironic that we cannot chose
The ones that we will love.
I feel like that bright leaf, beautiful for a time, but that will disappear
Forever. Already my passionate love has begun to pall on you,
And even my bright red hair is dimming and becoming paler....
Before long my heart will break; and you will tramp my scarlet self
Under your feet, as you go out my door. Then you will hunt for the
Next bright hopeful, that will give too much and receive too little,
Only to be trampled at the last.
Remember that my temper is fierce, like my scarlet hair. The more
You turn cold, the more my temper also becomes a cold anger,
And that is the most dangerous kind of all. Remember the old saying,
"Revenge is a dish Best eaten cold," and beware - © Copyright 10/5/05, Beth Johnson (Mystic Amazon)
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Magick – Litha
Mom McCoy’s Lemon Chess Pie – Gordon Ireland - (Makes one nine inch pie)
1 unbaked pie shell
2 cups granulated sugar
1 tablespoon flour
1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon corn meal
4 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup real lemon juice
1/4 cup grated lemon peel
1. Preheat oven to 375 F.
2. Place unbaked pie shell in a deep-dish pie pan.
3. Mix the sugar, flour, cornstarch and cornmeal, throughly
4. Then add eggs, milk, butter, lemon juice, and lemon peel.
5. Beat until smooth.
Pour mixture into the pie shell and bake for about 40 minutes or until top is golden brown.
Baklava From Cookie Recipe.com - Makes 2 dozen. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7039/Ash linCB.html
This Near Eastern pastry is made of many layers of paper-thin dough with a filling usually of honey and ground nuts. If you like honey, you'll probably like Baklava.
2 cups unsalted butter
1/2 pound of phyllo dough
2 cups chopped pecans
1 1/2 tablespoons cloves, whole
3 cups water
1/3 cup white sugar
1 cinnamon stick
1 cup honey
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
2. Melt the butter over low heat.
3. Pour 2 tablespoons of the butter into the bottom of a 13 x 9 inch baking pan.
4. Layer 3 sheets of the phyllo dough in the pan. Trim dough to fit.
5. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of pecans over the phyllo dough.
6. Layer 3 more sheets of dough and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of pecans.
7. Continue dough - pecan layers until pan is 3/4 full.
8. With a sharp knife, score phyllo dough to form diamonds.
9. Press a clove at each end of the diamonds.
10. Pour remaining butter over the dough.
11. Bake 45 to 50 minutes, until dough is golden brown.
12. While dough is baking, combine the sugar, water and cinnamon stick in medium saucepan.
13. Bring to boil, stirring constantly.
14. Simmer for 10 minutes.
15. Add the honey and simmer for 2 minutes longer.
16. Remove from heat and discard cinnamon stick.
17. Pour honey mixture over hot baklava.
18. Let cool on wire racks.
19. Cut into diamonds.
LAVENDER ICE CREAM –
14 oz. whole milk
1 1/2 oz. fresh lavender flowers and leaves
2 oz. crystallized ginger, minced
1 cup sugar
3 egg yolks
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1. In a saucepan, slowly heat the milk to approximately 200 degrees F.
2. Remove from heat, add the lavender flowers, and steep for 15 minutes.
3. While it is still warm, strain the milk through a cheesecloth.
4. Add the ginger and sugar to the milk.
5. Place the egg yolks in a small bowl and pour in half of the milk mixture.
6. Stir the mixture with a spoon, and then pour it back into the saucepan.
7. Place the pan over low heat and cook until the mixture is approximately 200 degrees F.
8. Remove the saucepan from the heat and stir in the whipping cream.
9. Refrigerate the mixture until it is well chilled, then process in any ice cream machine.
Quick method: - Soften high-quality vanilla ice cream, add the lavender and re-freeze. Leave in the freezer for at least one day.
Peach Cobbler with Vanilla Ice Cream
Ingredients:
In the 9" x 13" UNGREASED pan, layer the ingredients in this specific order:
20 ounce can of crushed pineapple, undrained
1 pound fruit of your choice
1 pound of peaches
box of cake mix
chopped pecans
melted butter
sugar
Directions:
1. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 45 minutes, until golden brown.
2. Let stand until lukewarm.
3. Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
4. You can reheat individual cobbler servings for 1 minute in microwave.
5. To reheat the whole pan, bake for 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
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Energy list
6/12/12 – Wanting to have a baby and it’s taking a while.
6/11/12 – Had brain surgery today for a right brain cancerous tumor.
6/6/12 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help.
6/4/12 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up!
6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! Update 6/7 – She’s quit smoking, is up and running around, but still coughing pretty hard.
5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow!
5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help!
5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it.
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Silliness - Rabbi in the Catholic Hospital
Rabbi Levy had to spend time in a Catholic hospital. He became friends with the Sister who was a nurse there. One day, she came into his room and noticed that the crucifix on the wall was missing. She asked him good-naturedly, "Rabbi, what have you done with the crucifix?"
"Oh, sister," chuckled Rabbi Levy, "I just figured one suffering Jew in this room was enough."
