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The hearth is the center of your home. It may be a fireplace, a woodstove, a central furnace, or even your kitchen range. Wherever it is, it deserves a blessing. Begin by cleaning your hearth—a gesture of care and respect. Perhaps your fireplace or woodstove needs the chimney or flue swept and cleaned, and the floor in front of it swept or polished. A furnace may need its filter changed or vents vacuumed out, while your range might need to be cleaned and polished. Some of these are ...
Today is National Houseplant Appreciation Day. Plants relate to the element of earth. Houseplants bring a little bit of nature indoors. There are many ways to observe this holiday. Talk to your houseplants. Prune overgrown plants and remove any dead leaves. Share snapshots of your plants online. For a winter mood booster, visit a greenhouse or other plant shop and spend time among luxurious plants. If you have room, buy yourself a new houseplant. Now is also a good time to cast a spell for ...
This is Bake Cookies Day. Have you heard the term "Cakes for the Queen of Heaven" before? Many Pagan traditions included one or more days for baking special cakes, cookies, or other treats for their goddess—or god, as in Egypt it was for Osiris. Now is a perfect time to make Pagan cookies. Find cookie cutters shaped like pentagrams, deer, cats, trees, stars, goddesses, gods, or whatever other themes suit your patron(s). You can also make round cookies and write runes or blessings on them ...
In 1872, Victorian poet Christina Rossetti felt inspired to write "A Christmas Carol," a long poem that describes the world's terrible winter before the birth of Jesus. Read the first verse aloud to get the feeling:In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,In the bleak midwinter, long ago. But while our winter may be cold, it is not bleak! We know the planet is naturally spinning into its season of ...
