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"Luna del cervo''
13 luglio 2022
G.Ghirelli Caelpher
🕯 Merry Imbolc everyone! 🌿🕯
Hope you all had a blessed and healthy Imbolc.
To me Imbolc is even more important this year because I recently got the news that my thesis got approved which means I have graduated from university! My thesis researched pagan elements in upcoming celtic christianity in early medieval times, including research on the goddess Brigid and Saint Brigid. With the blessings of the goddess, who formed the inspiration behind my thesis, I got to graduate and receive my bachelor degree, so I am very grateful. Imbolc also is a day and celebration to begin planning your way forward in life, the power of new beginnings and determination to grow and heal, so graduating right before Imbolc really strenghtens my personal growth in life and the hopefulness of my dreams coming to fruition blessed by the gods.
I spent the day by having a high-tea lunch with my mother and grandparents at a monastery that was turned into a hotel and restaurant. But they kept the chappel so I walked and looked around there. For me that is also a way of honoring religion in general, which is part of my practice, even though I'm pagan and not christian. The whole week the weather had been gloomy and rainy but today the sun shone the whole day which was beautiful, also since Imbolc is the day to honor the coming of the sun and light and thus the coming of spring and new beginnings and for the sunlight to feed the fruition of your dreams and desires. In the evening I listened to Imbolc music and prayed to Brigid.
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“Blessed Bridget comest thou in Bless this house and all of our kin Bless this house, and all of our kin Protect this house and all within Blessed Bridget come into thy bed With a gem at thy heart and a crown on thy head Awaken the fire within our souls Awaken the fire that makes us whole Blessed Bridget, queen of the fire Help us to manifest our desire May we bring forth all that as good and fine May we give birth to our dreams in time Blessed Bridget comest thou in Bless this house and all of our kin From the source of Infinite Light Kindle the flame of our spirits tonight”
— Imbolc, Lisa Thiel
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❄️️ Imbolc 🌷
(pronounced ee-molc, also called Candlemas)
What Is Imbolc? ❄️️➡️️🌷
Imbolc is celebrated roughly when winter begins to turn to spring. Traditionally it also marked the successful survival of the harsh winter months and the beginning of the agricultural season. The returning sun is welcomed and the Celtic goddess Brigid is honored.
Traditional Lore/Activities 🕯️
- Each candle within a household should be lit, if only for a moment, to honor the sun’s return.
- If there is still snow on the ground one should draw an image of the sun in it.
Foods Associated with Imbolc 🥐
- Sour cream and other dairy dishes.
- Spicy foods.
- Spiced wine.
- Raisins.
- Foods containing peppers, onions, leeks, shallots, garlic, and chives.
Modern Activities 🎨
Cooking/Baking
- Lamb Stew - from @liberumbrarum
- Sour Cream and Honey Cake - from @liberumbrarum
- Imbolc Ritual Cake - from @phynxrizng
- Milk Tea for Imbolc - from @queerkitchenwitch
- Bread and Butter Pudding - from @althara
- Imbolc Desserts - from @phynxrizng
Self Care
Imbolc Bath - from @magickmomma16
Crafts
- Candle making.
- Weave traditional Brigid’s Crosses.
- Plan what herbs/flowers you want to grow during the upcoming spring and summer.
- Burn your Yule greens to help winter on its way.
Colors and Altar Decor 🌸
- White
- Pink
- Red
- Yellow
- Amethyst
- Bloodstone
- Garnet
- Ruby
- Onyx
- Turquoise
- Green Candles
- Brigid’s Crosses
- Potted Bulbs
- An Anvil or Hammer
- Poetry
☀️Blessed Litha!🌻☀️
Blessed Litha to everyone who celebrates the summer solstice!
I spend the weekend prior to the solstice at my best friends house, we went to play midget golf near the beach and had a good laugh at the restaurant. We also had a BBQ with her family in the garden and roasted some marshmellows.
Unfortunaly during the solstice day itself it was very grey, cloudy and rainy so there wasn't much opportunity to eat outside, but I spend a little while in the garden while my mom was planting pumpkins (because Mabon and Samhain are ahead of us, you gotta prepare). Due to the weather we couldn't see the sun and due to pandemic restrictions events at Stonehenge were cancelled and there was no possibility to travel to the UK. Luckily English Heritage did a live stream of the sunset and sunrise in which they also talked some historical facts. After that I baked a sunflower themed, orange flavoured cake for me and my mom to celebrate and honour Litha.
Hope you all had joyful celebrations! Blessed be☀️
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🌿🍊Litha Orange Honey Cake🍊🌿
Hello my greenies! Happy Litha! I hope you’re all enjoying the summer sun and nature. Even during quarantine, if you’re able to take a walk in nature without contact with others, I highly recommend doing so. If you’re unable to go outside, I recommend taking the time to bake and maybe listen to some nature sounds on youtube. Those have helped me during these times. I wish you all the best with this yummy cake! I hope you all like this recipe:)
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ½ cup softened unsalted butter
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup milk
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 tbsp fresh orange juice
- 2/3 cup honey
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- around a tbsp of orange zest
Optional Glaze
- ½ cup honey
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- some lemon juice
- juice of 4th of orange
- couple pats of ground cinnamon
- dash of vanilla
- ½ cup (maybe.. I never measure this out)sliced almonds
- Mix until syrup state.
Directions
- Preheat Oven for 350°F and coat pan with non-stick or other alternative. I honestly don’t know what size my pan is…so I’d say eyeball it and see how much you can fit? Lol
- In medium bowl, mix dry ingredients (including the orange zest). Set that to the side while you mix the other ingredients in a larger bowl.
- Sift the dry ingredients into the bowl with the other ingredients in batches. So, sift a little in and mix then repeat that until all the dry ingredients are mixed in.
- Pour the mixture into the pan and cook for about 28 to 35 minutes. Check with a long toothpick:3 After you take out you can pour over an optional syrup that I think is amazing!
There’s no particular chant I do for this recipe, I mostly just pray for the sun and for the health of those I care for. I like to visualize the sun and its heat and color wrapping me in an embrace and that same warmth infusing the cake.
I hope you call have a lovely Litha and special time with those you love a care for.
- Kenzie
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☀️🌿Litha Lavender Thyme Chicken🌿☀️
Hello my greenies! I have here a recipe to celebrate Litha! I am recovering from the removal of all four of my wisdom teeth and am unable to feast accordingly. I hope everyone can celebrate and eat for me, so I have here a favorite chicken recipe that I have especially during Litha and many times during the summer.
I will put the corresponding meanings of all the ingredients for the recipe at the end of the post and hope everyone enjoys my recipe. I hope to be posting more soon!
***You can use these ingredients for a whole chicken, but the amount for the coating will need to be adjusted and so will the cooking time. There are many websites that can tell you how to prepare a whole chicken, if that is also what you are looking for.
Ingredients
- 3 or 4 chicken breasts (I use 3, but I think the recipe would work with four as well.)
- 1 tbsp of dried lavender
- 2 tbsp of dried thyme or 4 sprigs of fresh and pulled off the stem.
- drizzle of olive oil or coconut oil
- 1 tbsp of garlic powder
- 1 and ½ tbsp of onion powder
- 3 tbsp of honey
- 1 whole lemon.
- dash of salt and pepper
- dash of oregano
Directions
- If lavender is not crushed, crush until powdery. Then in a small bowl, mix lavender, thyme, garlic powder, and onion powder.
- In a separate bowl, place the three chicken breasts and add the salt and pepper. Mix well and after drizzle the oil, honey, and fresh squeezed lemon juice. Mix thoroughly.
- Place in the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Make sure all parts of the chicken are covered.
- Cover the bowl and let the chicken sit for three hours in the refrigerator.
- Once complete, stir the chicken in the bowl again and then place the chicken into a roasting pan and sprinkle oregano on the tops.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F. Place the chicken in the oven and bake for 45 minutes, make sure you flip after 23 minutes. When done, take the chicken out and let it sit for about 5 minutes before you eat. While it sits begin the chant.
“With the heat of the day and kiss of the night, summer bring love and spirit to me. Let me feel the child-like dance. Let me embrace myself. I am my own fire.”
- While speaking these words allow yourself to hold in the heat inside you. Let it move around through your system and on your skin. Rise that heat up into your neck and float around your head. Then have it come out of you, so now you only feel a slight glow. Have this warmth embrace your house and everything in it until that happiness is surrounding you.
- Then enjoy your meal!
*I always find that this meal goes well with some honey garlic potatoes, thyme roasted carrots, Zucchini casserole, and fresh baked flaky biscuits.
If you decide to make this recipe please send me pictures! Although I can’t eat any solids at the moment, I would feel satisfied just by seeing everyone else enjoying their meals. I hope you enjoy this recipe and have a special Litha!
- Kenzie
ingredient correspondences
- dried lavender - love, protection, healing, sleep, purification, and peace.
- dried thyme - wards negativity, purification, healing
- garlic powder - healing, protection, purification, guards against negative magic and the envy of others.
- onion powder - prosperity, stability, endurance, and protection.
- honey - binding properties, love, and used in offering rituals.
- lemon - cleansing, spiritual opening, purification, and removal of blockages
- oregano - joy, strength, vitality, and added energy
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Bright Imbolc!
✨🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯✨
☀️Blessed Litha everyone!☀️
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🍃🌿🌾 HAPPY IMBOLC EVERYBODY! 🌾🌿🍃
How I celebrated Thargelia this year.
So it’s a little bit late but here is how I celebrated Thargelia this year, 2019. So this was the fourth year that I celebrated Thargelia, and every year I feel like I am making progress in it, if that makes sense, and every year has been completely different. This year I felt a bit ‘bad’ about how I acted this Thargelia, even though it was still fine and so on the other hand I did feel good about it, so it was a bit double for me in a way.
Oke so now to the actual things I did this Thargelia:
On Artemis’ day:
- So first of all, like I try every year I took part in fasting.
I fasted for about 18 or 19 hours. Around lunch time I felt a little hungry but throughout the day my body got used to the fast and the ‘hunger’ stopped. But in the evening around 9 I did break my fast even though I wasn’t really that hungry, I just felt like oke this was good and now I need to eat something. Which I found pitiful of myself, and I did think about it twice before I decided to actually eat because I wanted to fast for longer but on the other hand I felt good and proud of the fact that I had fasted for the biggest part of the day.
- I spend most of my day cleansing myself and my house and altar.
- I did put on new clothes, however not my symbolic clothes and jewelry that I usually wear to honor Artemis, so that felt a bit double for me as well.
- Then I lit some (fake) candles, put my symbolic jewelry for Artemis next to it to make a little altar and I wrote down two things about myself (/ my life) I wanted to get rid of on paper and ripped those and threw them away, in order to symbolize casting out the pharmakoi, or scapegoats. After that I poured a libation of wine to honor her while reciting Homeric Hymn #9 to Artemis, Orphic Hymn #34 to Leto and Homeric Hymn #27 to Artemis.
(Actually when I did that, it was already after midnight but oke. That’s still semi the end of the day so.)
On Apollon’s day:
- I started the day baking a chocolate, strawberry, walnut cake to honor Artemis, Apollon and Leto.
- In the evening I made a sort of compact, smaller and more salad-like (instead of soup) version of panspermia and
(fake)mannas. After cooking that - I put the food, together with an orange I was offering to Apollon (and Artemis and Leto) on the altar together with the wine libation. And then I recited Orphic Hymn #33 to Apollon and again, like I had done the day before as well Orphic Hymn #34 to Leto
. (By the time I finished it was midnight but oke.) - In the evening I also ate an orange and of course throughout the day I listened to music (both associated and seen as an offering to Apollon, although I rather unconsciously did so).
I didn’t veil, although I wanted to, and didn’t recite all the hymns that I wanted to recite, this Thargelia, nor did I do everything on the time that I wanted to. Over all I had some double feelings and didn’t always feel fully ‘cleansed’ but I did have good feelings, especially during the time I spend at the altar. So that’s how I spend my (fourth year of) Thargelia.
Hope you all had a good Thargelia and felt well! And may you be blessed by the gods!
Kalà Thargélia
Happy Thargelia everybody!
I will do an update on Sunday about how I spend Thargelia this year, hope you all have a blessed and good Thargelia.
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Festival of Night
This is a festival many devotees of Nyx have made together. We felt She needed a special day to celebrate Her, just as many other deities do. This ritual is to be performed on the night of the last Full-moon before Yule.
Steps of the ritual:
Cast a circle, use a white candle for spirit and use the purple one in the center to focus on Nyx.
Ask her to be present in the ritual.
Say/ Sing this Hymn: It is of you I see the Night through. It is of you that I go to sleep every night, safe and sound. It is of you that I began to cherish the night, and the sleep that came with it. It was of you, oh Goddess of the Night, that I was able to rest easy when the darkness swallowed me at the end of the day. It is of you that gave me the sight to see in the darkest of times, when things seemed dim. It is of you that granted me the power to blast through the pain and misery. It is of you, my mother Nyx, that I was able to follow the path to success. I thank you, oh sweet Mother, for all that you grant me. I thank you for all you give, and for all you say. Nyx, Goddess of Night, Mother to all her children of the darkness, I thank you for all that you do.
Give her an offering of your choice (remember she is a cthonic deity).
Take some time to think of all you want to accomplish with Her in the New Year, all your hopes and dreams.
Then reflect on what she’s done for you, what she’s given you, and how she’s helped you throughout your life.
End the reflection with this thank-full prayer: I thank you Nyx, for your wisdom and guidance. For keeping me sane when others drive me to insanity. I ask of you this night, to keep me safe while I sleep, And to help me ward off any nightmares that insist on coming. I also ask of you, sweet mother of the night, to keep those who wish to talk negatively to me from doing so. I thank you Nyx, the Goddess of Night, For granting me the strength and power to get through my bad days. For helping me along when I wanted to give up. You are an outstanding goddess and mother to your children. I thank you.
Close your circle.
A Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this! @justyour-averagewitch @cordelia-nightsong @awh-nyx @lelxndi @thegirlwhoknewall And thank you to all I didn’t write down!
Here’s a link to @cordelia-nightsong‘s original ritual
Happy holidays :)
Blessed Mabon everybody!
I am celebrating by spending the weekend with my family.