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It's still Beltane season, a time when we like to feel sexy and romantic! A great way to bring that feeling in is to create a salt or sugar scrub with some wonderful aphrodisiac essential oils. Gather the following items: 1 cup carrier oil (almond, apricot, jojoba, etc.) ½ cup sugar or salt A combination of your favorite sensual essential oils (or a single oil), such as jasmine, ylang-ylang, sandalwood, neroli, and rose A small glass bowl A metal spoon A glass jar with a ...
In many places, this is the peak of spring planting season. Fall-planted flowers bloom in spring, "as early as the ground can be worked" seeds sprout, and you can start planting things that need warmer feet—especially if you pop a cover over them to trap the sun's heat and keep off late frosts. Even if you don't have room for a whole garden, you can usually manage a window box or a pot on a porch. For this spell, you'll need one or more garden stakes, some twine or wire, garden pins, and ...
Many flowers that enjoy full sunlight also resist heat and drought. They are often associated with the sun and the element of fire. Examples include sunflowers, sunchokes, black-eyed Susans, daisies, Indian blankets, marigolds, Mexican hats, yellow coneflowers, and zinnias. Sunflowers and some others are heliotropic, leaning toward the sun. You can pick these flowers and preserve them to save the sun's energy for the darker parts of the year. Small, soft flowers like marigolds may be pressed ...
The Wiccan and Neopagan sabbats that are not equinoxes and solstices occur on dates that are similar but not astrologically precise. We are currently in the midst of astrological Beltane. Take a bottle of your favorite wine, kombucha, or other nonalcoholic beverage. With a flashlight in hand, safely travel to a calming, hidden place after nightfall. Using a black permanent marker, draw crescent moons on the bottle. Meditate and then visualize the obscured moon enchanting the liquid. Once ...
