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Many of us travel over the holidays, gathering with family to celebrate. Let's use the power of Friday the 13th to cast a holiday protection spell. Friday is Venus's day, a day to attract beauty, comfort, luxury, and goodness to you. Venus governs love and romance, desires and passion. It also rules what you value and how you relate to others, and 13 is Venus's lucky number. Say:I call on Venus to protect and guide. May her pleasures always abide.May thirteen further bless all my people with ...
Love comes in many different flavors. One of these is what the ancient Greeks called storge, or familial love. This is a subtype of platonic love, which is based on affection rather than sex or romance. Storge takes as much care and maintenance as romantic love, just in different ways. Turn off your electronics and pay attention to each other. Shared meals, game nights, and cuddle piles are all good. Pagan families may work spells or rituals together. This work is sacred to Hestia, the Greek ...
Today, obtain some wind chimes with a sound you love. If it's sunny out, spread a white cloth outdoors in sunlight and place your chimes on top. Allow them to soak in the power of the sun for a minute or two. Otherwise, cleanse them by bathing them in incense or herbal smoke or by misting them with rose water. Hold the chimes to your heart. Feel grateful for all the many blessings you already have. Let this gratitude carry over as you visualize and expect waves of wealth and prosperity to pour ...
Time for romance! Consider this excerpt from the 1648 poem "Corinna's Going a Maying" by Robert Herrick:See how Aurora throwes her faireFresh-quilted colours through the aire:[…]Our life is short; and our dayes runAs fast away as does the Sunne:[…]So when you or I are madeA fable, song, or fleeting shade;All love, all liking, all delightLies drown'd with us in endlesse night.Then while time serves, andwe are but decaying;Come, my Corinna, come,let's go a-Maying.What else is there ...
