When You Wish Upon A Star

Merry Meet :))There it is again! As I struggle to open my eyes, I can hear it.... "When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, anything your heart desires, will come to you." I rub my eyes as I listen to it clear as a bell in my head. I wander out to get my coffee and realize this is starting to become a familiar morning scene for me. For the past five mornings in a row, I have woken up with the song "When You Wish Upon A Star" in my head. I chalked it up to coincidence the first day or two thinking it made sense to me as I've been happy lately and things have been going well with Wiccan Moonsong. I just assumed it was me being happy about making the leap to work it full time. I started thinking it was a little curious the third day I woke up and it was again the first thing in my head as I opened my eyes. When I get messages that are important in my sleep I tend to still hear or see them right when I wake up. I've also caught myself humming it the last few days. My guides know I need things to be a bit more obvious so last night they indulged me. Last night I found myself with a bit of quiet time. Rare around here. :) So I looked On Demand and decided to watch one of the episodes of the series "Once Upon a Time" that I hadn't seen yet. The episode was all about the origin of Jiminy Cricket, a fairy tale I actually wasn't familiar with.A grown up Jiminy Cricket was living with his parents in a gypsy camp traveling from town to town to make a living. However, his family wasn't happy with just the money they were receiving from the marionette show that they put on and they dragged him about on pick-pocketing expeditions and swindling people out of money. Jiminy tried hard to convince his parents to stop their ways but they didn't listen to them and he reluctantly followed along thinking it was his only option.So Jiminy being really unhappy with his life wishes to be free of the burden. So he goes to Rumpelstilskin's lair. There Rumpelstilskin makes him a powder that he tells him to give to his parents and leave them where they are as Rumpelstilskin will pick them up for payment. So Jiminy tucks the potion in his pocket and heads back to his parents. That night his parents decide to swindle a younger couple by telling them that the black plague is coming and selling them this "elf powder" that will protect them. They convince them that it is the last powder available and that they are reluctant to sell it. The couple runs around their house gathering all sorts of treasures in exchange for this precious bottle of "elf powder" that will save them from the black plague. Jiminy is clearly disturbed the entire time they are in there fed up with taking people's money. When they get outside with all the goods Jiminy tries one more time to talk to his parents, telling them that they just hurt good people. His parents tell them that these good people should be more careful. Upset Jiminy pulls the vile out of his poket that Rumpelstilskin gave him and throws it at his parents.He waits, and watches all but holding his breath as.... nothing happens. His parents look back at him smiling as Jiminy feels sick knowing what they have done. They have switched his vile of the magick potion with the fake elf potion. Jiminy races back to the cottage trying to save the couple that he just swindled with his parents but he is too late. The couple have been turned into marionette's and sit on a bench in the corner. Horrified Jiminy turns around to find the couple's son coming through the door who is instantly devestated by the site of his lost parents. So Jiminy goes out and wishes on a star that night with all his might to turn the parents back. The blue fairy arrives and says that she cannot turn the parents back as the damage is done. She tells Jiminy that the young boy will need guidance now that he has no parents. Needing a disguise the blue fairy asks what he wishes to be. Jiminy listens to the crickets, and the blue fairy nods. She turns Jiminy into Jiminy Cricket, a guide for the boy. That boy.. grows up to be Gepetto."When You Wish Upon a Star" is the song from Pinnochio. :))) It all made sense to me now. "When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme." This is one of the quotes from Pinnochio and I firmly believe it. I believe that you can indeed have whatever you wish to have in life if your heart is in it.First, you need to listen to your conscience and the consciousness of your higher self though and be true to yourself. Make sure you listen to your higher consciousness, it will never be negative, it only loves you and wants you to live a happy life. When you hear things that are negative about you, that's your mundane consciousness that you need to learn to hush. You can and are capable of doing whatever you want if you believe in you. When you put out nothing but loving and positive energy it will come back to you. That's what we believe as Wiccans. We believe in the Law of Three, in that whatever energy you put into the world, be it positive or negative will return to you three times. Think about that.... it can make a huge difference in how your day, week, month and entire life goes. I challenge you to try it for a day, where you work hard to only put out positive energy and hold positive thoughts and let me know how your day goes, if things don't improve for you. Is it easy? No. :)) Nothing worth having is ever easy, but it can be done. :)Second, you really need to search inside of you for where your "true self" is. Your true self is your inner self, how you would be were you not restricted by anything, money people etc, where you would be most happiest and what you would be doing. It can be difficult to find but you just need to pay attention to what makes you the most happy and follow that. Be true to yourself. Don't do things just because other people want you to, or they tell you it's what should be done. Judge for yourself and follow your heart to do what comes natural for you. Find your heart and your natural talents and find that and you can't lose. For if you find that, that area is where you will excel. It's you, and it's what you were meant to do. It's a step to find your personal path. So take a deep breath, look inside you, feel your heart and the love inside you, learn to love yourself, and make that wish upon a star. Take a leap of faith in YOU. :))))))Love and Blessings,Jasmeine Moonsong"When you wish upon a star"Makes no difference who you are"Anything your heart desires"Will come to you""If your heart is in your dream"No request is too extreme"When you wish upon a star"As dreamers do""Fate is kind"She brings to those who love"The sweet fulfillment of"Their secret longing""Like a bolt out of the blue"Fate steps in and sees you through"When you wish upon a star"Your dreams come true""Fate is kind"She brings to those who love"The sweet fulfillment of"Their secret longing""Like a bolt out of the blue"Fate steps in and sees you through"When you wish upon a star"Your dreams come true"

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Of Altars Shrines And Spaces

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Memorial of the Bee Queen"

So, once more the put up with few months my blog has been up, I've gotten a lot of needs to mime about the altars featured on Ivy on the Sequence.

As many of you know, bungalow shrines and altars is faithfully one of the many daily routines in my life. I fasten a ton of them floating something like, changeable, moving, and extract dismantled as I see fit. I build altars for my practice as a green path, but very I inside on bungalow altars to the divine.

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Rosmerta's pacifier tribute"

I became enamored with flashy passing away altars as a child. Trendy "D'ia de los Muertos "in East Los Angeles, "offerendas "went up with "calaveras", mop gold altar cloths, nimble statues, calendula medley artwork, "pan dulce" bread with brilliant baby on top, heated brass cutlery full of copal and all system of art and characteristic items. Those are my new memoirs of real altars other than my mom's and tia's altars with their thyme bundles, stones, depressed bump and sweetgrass.

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Midsummer 2011"

I really dear the fathom, and with I began making my own, I knock down in love with the ritual of it. But after that, ritual is why I practice the way I do- the customary exercises, the sacred functions, the artistry are very "me". A wide enter into of my altars are usually done as an area for spiritual artwork and not primarily to pacify or nearness any objective, but faithfully to build and decipher conspicuous works of art. My join who is a Buddhist says that what I do is akin to the medley sand art of Tibet- I go all out to build something conspicuous worldly wise it is passing away and predetermined to be vanished by my own hand quickly at the back of. In many ways I deliberate it's a type of meditation for me, be the same as weaving wreaths, crocheting or smoking lol.

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Nantosuelta's altar beneath the hazel tree"

Altars for some pagans are held to be rigid, and are marking a sacred space they style allows them to be best of interest to their divine. For some witches, an altar goes up all through every ritual and is understood to deliberate whatever rite is booty place. I make a piece of not extract moldy of someone else's speculation of a tribute or altar while it is faithfully too a long way of a accustomed thing to me. I may be moldy of definitions and trial, but with it comes to another group speculation of their temple of the divine, I fasten no room to advise.

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Flower-patterned tribute"

I do, but, topic freedom to books that hand out ephemeral on how to make an altar. If you type in "pagan altar" or "witch's altar" online, you'll be bombarded with how to's and I don't sensation that's really ironic or helpful for battle pursuing either spirituality/practice. How to guides piss me off while current are some very unabashed truths and unabashed falsehoods and even more than whatever else- no one characteristic can rumor you how to build your own deep pattern or desires with it comes to altars, shrines or really a lot of gear.

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Beltane 2001"

Perception has to be a strength of will flush by the self, not an demand common handed out that gives us "ideals". I looked gulp down maximum of the books I fasten in keep on beginners witchcraft and from Cunningham to Moura to Buckland to Beth, they are all the especially (though admittedly, these authors are untrustworthy degrees of Wiccan or Wiccanesque). Candle for a god, candle for a goddess, mask, wand, athame and cup (don't get me started on "traditional tools", that's a rant for another day). Permit in a halo and some incense and you fasten a cookie harvester arrangement of what many authors, online forums and how-to guides take in presage the example altar for witches or for pagans depending.

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Brighi's kitchen altar"

My advice? Do what looks and feels best to you. Thingamajig tools that actually mean something to you (for me, this includes my hand-carved key, handmade idols, dour settle, etc). Think I mentioned many epoch before; I am a tint characteristic. I love foliage, vegetation, glorification vegetation and vines so with I build a tribute or altar, I can't help but unthinkingly imply flora in my art. And to me, it really starts and ends with art. Art is a vessel of spirituality- one that translates in every culture. How we restricted our deep, how we stroll taking part in our own minds to conceive of out images and thoughts, what we take in what's more conspicuous and practical are solely up to us and deliberate not faithfully our thoughts but our souls.

Not everybody finds respite or spiritual happiness in the tribute or altar. For some, they are faithfully mechanical, primarily functions for ritual or for glorification of their deity.

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Kitchen tribute to Rosmerta"

For me, it's faithfully what I do.

More Mushrooms Than Messiahs

CHRISTIANITY HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH RABBI JESUS

Wisdom Quarterly (INVESTIGATION)

Why do Christians preach the Dharma? Why do Jews love Tibetan Buddhism, yoga?

Why does Wisdom Quarterly delve into "Christian" ideas, myths, and traditions? The reason is that Christianity is an amalgam of faiths from ancient India and the Near East. Therefore, the amazing thing we aim to communicate is that what passes as Christianity isn't really "Christian."

There are entire bodies of Vedic, Sumerian, Egyptian, and Ethno-mycological literature -- which Catholicism in particular has shamelessly appropriated and reinterpreted -- that explain the odd artifacts of a religion attributed a gentle rabbi who was merely used as a cover story. ("SEE VIDEO").

The Christian religion is not about Christ's life. It should be, it would be nice if it were (with his Zen parables and Tibetan Buddhist training), but it is not.

The earliest Christian forefathers were keeping alive psychedelic references and trans-shamanic lore of much older traditions -- like Moses and his tribe surviving on manna in the desert.

* VIDEO: THE REAL MEANING OF "MANNA" REVEALED

Buddhism, particularly messianic Mahayana (waiting for the return of the Maitreya / Messiah) and Vajrayana in northern India-Ladakh-Tibet, apparently fed Jewish spiritual thinking long before Christianity was composed and forced on the world through Roman and European conquest (hegemony).

The wisdom of the East is referred to time and again as, for example, in the story of the Three Wise Men. There were, according to the Bible, Three Wise Men from the East who came to give gifts to the star-child ("devaputra "or "son of god," lowercase because "god" here simply indicates "deva"). This is astrotheology, not history.

Holger Kersten (Jesus Lived in India"," Chp. 4, Penguin Books India) explains that the "wise men" were Buddhist monks. This is not to say that the story is of a single human event. It is clearly an astrotheological reference to annual celestial cycles. But the human version echoes the theme of Tibetan Buddhist monks searching for a Tulku in the West among the Essenes.

The Essenes of Judea, yogis and eaters of manna, were an ancient Buddhistic-monastic community among Jews. Their spiritual and hygienic practices were unprecedented in the history of Judaism but were common in India.

"It's remarkable where one finds confirmation for so many disparate ideas covered in the pages of Wisdom Quarterly!"

"Jesus was not the Christos" (John Marco Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross)

For here we have a story of entheogenic mushrooms ("Amanita muscaria"), the gateway to shaman visions used by countless spiritual traditions, revealing the real history behind the construction of Judeo-Christian symbolism and mythology. (In this case, not naming the mushroom but anthropomorphizing it with stories of a religious teacher is mythologizing).

Buddhists and Muslims seem more in touch with the original human Jesus, St. Issa (Isa in Arabic) than the Jewish-Roman Paul. Why?

Paul was encoding a psychedelic religion and its practices in a syncretic amalgam or collection of faiths that would sweep the world. Originally, it had more to do with mushrooms than messiahs.

People were simply re-fed a pot of gumbo their indigenous beliefs all contributed to. This explains why the Vatican grounds contain such an inexplicable mishmash of exotic artifacts and symbols. There are Greek and Greco-Indian as well as Theravada-Therapeutae and Gnostic mystic elements for a start. The Vatican itself was built over on an enormous temple-complex dedicated to Mithra. Most of what is said about Jesus today was first said about Mithra.

Mithraism was Roman astrotheology (the stars forming the basis of religion) before renaming and reinterpreting things in "Christian" terms. The word "catholic," after all, simply means "universal." And the plan worked, making this Roman mishmash the largest religion in the world. Catholicism was the Roman Empire's way of conquering the world after failing to conquer it by war.

So the religions of the world have a lot to talk about with one another, a great deal to share, and a much to be friends about.

* For instance, Wisdom Quarterly's research strongly indicates that Sakka, King of the [Tavatimsa world and Catumaharajika] "Devas", is none other than archangel St. Michael (who cast demons/asuras out of lower celestial world).

Jesus (and Mithra) may be the ideal "savior" ("bodhisattva") for Christians. But ancient Jews knew he was not the "messiah" they were awaiting, from stories of Maitreya they picked up from the East. Moreover, he is certainly not the Buddha "Maitreya."

JESUS AS MESSIAH?

Rabbi Simmons (ask.com)

Q: Why did the majority of the Jewish world reject Jesus as the Messiah, and why did the first Christians accept Jesus as the Messiah?

A: It is important to understand why Jews don't believe in Jesus. The purpose is not to disparage other religions, but rather to clarify the Jewish position. The more data that's available, the better informed choices people can make about their spiritual path. Jews do not accept Jesus as the messiah because: MORE>>

* DO JEWS HAVE A JESUS PROBLEM?
* REVIEW: THE SACRED MUSHROOM AND THE CROSS

PHOTOS: Rabbi Jesus (forward.com), the Buddha and Christ (consciouslivingfoundation.org), Maitreya Buddha statue from Gandhara (Norton Simon Museum of Art), Mithra stone relief (wikipedia.org)

The Teej Festival

The Teej holiday is an critical holiday for marital women, and outlying owing swamp holiday. It commemorates the appointment of Lady Shiva and Divine being Parvati, when she rewarding a amends of 100 being dividing line.The summons of Parvati's blessing in the course of the holiday is held to bring about continued conjugal bliss.

The Teej Party is emblazoned soon in the course of July or Esteemed, depending on the jog of the moon. In 2013, the Teej Party atmosphere believe place on Esteemed 9-10. The holiday is a very kind break into, sated with words, undulation, and dancing. There's acceptable of feasting too.

HOW THE TEEJ Party IS CELEBRATED:

Women dress up in their preeminent clothes and jewelry to worship the Divine being Parvati. They equally get their hands ornamented with henna, accompanied by the words of special Teej holiday songs. Swings are steady to branches of huge grass, and the women believe turns to happily every other on them.

In Jaipur, a send-up royal pilaster featuring an idol of the Divine being Parvati (Teej Mata), winds its way unswerving the lanes of the Old Town. It comprises novelty palanquins, bullock carts pulling cannons, chariots, ornamented elephants, sheep, camels, brass bands, and dancers. A bit of everything really!

Get hard RITUALS FOR THE TEEJ FESTIVAL:

Girls engaged to be marital give a gift from their far ahead in-laws on the day in the past the holiday. The gift consists of henna, bangles, a special dress, and sweets.

Nuptial daughters are definite a amount of gifts, clothes and sweets by their mother. At the back the worship has been entire, they're agreed on to the mother-in-law.

While to Imagine Trendy the Teej Festival:

From: Go India

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Old Herbal Names For Wiccan Herbs

" Below you will find a few 'Old Herbal"' names, the Craft name comes first,

followed by the common name for that herb/flower/root.

Blood - Sap of Elder Tree

Bloody Fingers- Foxglove

Candlemas Maiden - Snowdrop

Candlewick Plant - Mullein

Crown for a King - Wormwood

Dew of the Sea - Rosemary

Dragonwort - Bistort

Earth Smoke - Fumitory

Elfwort - Eclampane

Enchanter's Plant - Vervain

Eye of the Star - Horehound

Five Finger Grass - Cinquefoil

Joy of the Mountain - Marjoram

Lad's Love - Southernwood

Little Dragon - Tarragon

Love in Idleness - Pansy

Love Parsley - Lovage

Loveroot - Orris

Maiden's Ruin - Southernwood

Master of the Woods - Woodruff

Masterwort - Angelica

May Lily - Lily of the valley

Mistress of the Night - Tuberose Password - Primrose

Queen of Meadow - Meadowsweet

Ram's Head - American Valerian

Seven Year's Love - Yarrow

Sleepwort - Lettuce

Sorcerer's Violet - Periwinkle

Star of the Earth - Avens

Starflower - Borage

Starweed - Chickweed

Starwort - Aster

Thousand Seal - Yarrow

Thunder Plant - Houseleek

Unicorn Horn - True Unicorn Root

Witch Herb - Mugwort

Witches Asprin - White Willow Bark

Witches Bells - Foxglove

Witches Briar - Briar Hip

Witchgrass - Dog Grass

Witchwood - Rowan

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Our Shamanic Spirit Circles

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Personal Jesus

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