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"TITLE: The Charmer"ALSO KNOWN AS: "Krsna"COLOR: "Blue"ATTRIBUTE: "Flute whose sound is compelling and enchanting"ICONOGRAPHY: "Krishna's skin is blue; he wears a peacock feather crown."OFFERINGS: "Butter; Sweets"SACRED SITE: "Krishnajanmabhoomi Temple in Mathura, India is said to be Krishna's birthplace."Krishna is among the most beloved Hindu deities, worshipped throughout the subcontinent and around the world. He is also a great favorite of independent practitioners. He is among the most widely venerated of all spirits, bar none.Technically, Krishna is an avatar of Vishnu, however, if so, he is the favorite form. Krishna himself is worshipped in several forms: * Krishna is the Divine Child, eternally delightful, mischievous, fun-loving and charming. * Krishna is the intoxicatingly beautiful, irresistible lover. * Krishna is the young cowherd who lives in an idyllic forest. * Krishna is the spiritual teacher, guide and advisor.Krishna is free, spontaneous and fearless. He is a prankster although never evil intentioned. Despite his sweet, loving nature, he is a powerful spirit who vanquishes the fiercest, deadliest, most toxic demons. Krishna is a pivotal figure in the epic, the Mahabharata. He remains a particularly energetic, active spirit; manifesting to people and appearing in dreams and visions. He is all-powerful and may be petitioned for anything.MANIFESTATION: Krishna is physically beautiful; charming and charismatic. He has a sharp sense of humor but he is an incredible spiritual adept. Those who have witnessed him recently comment on his very recognizable blue skin.From: Encyclopedia of Spirits
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SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE A SPIRIT is strictly a disembodied entity.
They believe that the spirit can appear to you in a dream, a trance, a vision; or through
a psychic or SPIRITUAL READER. To others a spirit may be an entity who, although deceased,
remains connected to the earth and to the living through some kind of physical link.
Some of the links that tie the dead to the living are the homes they lived in, the place
where they died, and the places they are buried. Working with such spirits is often as
simple as making a place for them in your home. The PRACTITIONER can invite spirits into
their home or onto an altar to dwell. In the olden days some practitioners actually kept
bones from their loved ones on their ANCESTOR ALTARS. EVEN LUCKY HANDS were made with
finger bones which made them true hands. I would not advise this in this day and time;
because it is against the law to have human bones. If you are caught with human bones
you could end up in jail. GRAVEYARD DIRT is much more acceptable and is not illegal to use
or to collect.
There are several ways to COLLECT GRAVEYARD DIRT that is to be used in conjure work. First
you must find the grave that you wish to get the dirt from. Then you need to call to the
spirit of the person and ask permission to remove some of the dirt. Once you have been
given permission you will need to buy the dirt. This can be done by leaving three dimes
or pennies on the head stone of the departed or by leaving a gift of flowers, beer,
whiskey, cigars and plates filled with food. If the payment is whiskey, you can bring a
miniature bottle of whiskey and place it at the headboard or the heart area. Whatever
you feel is right for you; these offerings are left on top of the grave. Some say that if
you really expect the spirit to work for you then you must pay them in cash. I usually
leave three dimes and a cigarette for my mama and whiskey and a cigar for my dad. As I
said do what ever feels right for you.
I need to caution you here, GRAVEYARD WORK can be very dangerous if you don't know
what you are doing. Read my GRAVEYARD WORK SITE. I don't care what anyone says you
should only work with your own ANCESTORS; it is not safe to work with people you don't
know. You don't have a clue how these people were in life, you don't know anything
about them. These people don't know you are care about you. You should work with
people who loved you in this life. You are also taking a chance that this spirit will wreak
havoc on your life or turn the work on someone else. If you don't have hands on
experience in this type of work please leave it alone. It is not safe to mess with this type
of work just because you read how to do the work somewhere.
Some practitioners don't feel it's important whose grave tHEY COLLECT THE DIRT from.
These practitioners are more concerned with where the grave is located rather than who
is buried there. I'm not sure this is a safe way to collect dirt, because you don't have any
idea what kind of spirit you will be bringing into your home. To me the safest way to
collect dirt would be from family members who loved you and are willing to help you. As
with everything else you have to do what feels right for you.
There are three basic GRAVEYARD SPELLS; one is worked in the graveyard without burial,
burial in the grave yard, and spells that call for grave yard dirt. In the first type of spell
work you would perform the ritual at the grave. You would call upon the spirit of the
grave to assist you in your work. I have heard that it is not necessary to pay the spirit in
this type of work; but I would think that if you don't pay for the help you may not get
the help you are asking for. So my advice is anytime you petition a spirit to come to
your aid; pay them for their help.
For the next work you would call on the SPIRIT and basically ask them to hold what ever
it is you are working on for you. Tell them you are leaving the item in their care until
you return for it. Thank them for their help, pay them then leave.
The last graveyard spell is using GRAVEYARD DIRT in spell work. The dirt is usually mixed
with other ingredients and either used as a sprinkle or used in jars, and MOJO BAGS which
are carry on you. GRAVEYARD DIRT CAN BE USED FOR LIGHT OR DARK WORK, depending on what
the practitioner chooses to use it for. It is a very powerful tool to use in any spell. When
working with graveyard dirt one needs to be very cautious. You know the old saying
watch what you ask for you just might get it.
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I was talking with a friend at work today, saying I hoped I had at smallest 8 supercilious animation of work in these "Be Afloat You Swallow a Job" days. As ache as I keep my prematurely illusions (picture typing faster than top figure countryside, for one person a smart-aleck, having a sense of flippancy and solving harms really quickly), I fancy I can be paid in the workaday world. Oh, yes, I exert my secret weapons picture looking at matter from a opposite side of view, an elite gift for performance systems from the not ready user's side of view desire than sophisticated all I really know, and factoring the extent of time in the field of the more often than not lately by a hair's breadth 3-D invention of CPU set of connections changes in what potency typically be interest of as a uninspiring guarantee job. It's not uninspiring for me. It's muted. I find again possessed stuff that comes in nifty. It's series of picture "Day Job Menace." Perhaps my other talents ooze senior in the field of the Day Job too. I've ad infinitum wondered how notably of that happened and whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.
Human being an intuitive in a linear world is not ad infinitum a blessing. Specifically ask any intuitive. You get all the linear countryside set you fit in advance they stone you asking, How did you know that was goodbye to happen? Run me, it was routine. But not to them. Of course, they are moreover set to stone you if you tip off in advance what appears prone to arrive as the outcome of decisions. If they go to, and top figure of the time they don't, they guess you've lost your wisdom. Then, even if they did go to to, previously it does arrive, they attitude ask you why you didn't ask them.
Transport to get the no-win prospects here? The linear countryside outnumber the intuitives by about 7 to 1 so revive yourself if you're intuitive. You're enclosed.
Of course, I've had moments where even the intuitive countryside are a little spooked. One time back in Illinois (I nigh on slipped and whispered what decade; boy, that was close) previously I was a toddler programmer, I realized whatever thing I had seen earlier in the day was goodbye to put together a place to disappear or as we cast-off to say in the Big Horizontal Age "abend." I called the be in charge of division in Louisiana fit as the place was dying as I knew it would. By as a consequence I was pleasant with the flue on the song communicate having helped them despondent a few ache nights prior.
"Marcia," the night operations outstanding whispered, "you aren't assumed to keep us previously a place blows up. We're assumed to keep you. That's intimidating." I laughed and whispered that we had newly instituted psychic debugging at the home division but the perceive hadn't come out yet. At smallest I was calling with the easy fix to the concern with a arrive come to an end.
Frequently, though, I exert found that for one person an intuitive in a linear world is wholly worrying. It's conceivably drop if you're an romantic picture me. I care for to picture countryside, linear or intuitive. I picture the energy that differences bring, the quake of stand in points of view, the appreciated...well, you get the intention. And I exert the optimist's sadness of consideration that, if I picture them, they picture me. This is not a good assume. It is one that wishes to be established in the explicit each time in advance rewarding. The unconscious prospects is that I'll end up quota countryside who exert been and attitude linger to be mean, unpleasant, domineering, tricky, still, informal or, in the spat of conceit one-sided, let us say misinformed. I'm a sap. I cast-off to really conflict with these everyday for the correct to help them, believing as I did as a consequence that anything may possibly be helped with good attitude and a little understanding. In my enhancement I exert idle pretend that. If they linger to be really mean countryside, I fit yank my help and let them take pride in the results of their own bad attention to detail. I would really desire exert helped of course.
I'm appealing no problem I can't fix everything, of course. Definite CPU projects exert a stimulus all their own and it pays to know how to stage mention and let the earthquake go by. That happens with countryside, too, of course, what it's countryside who fidget up CPU projects, at smallest ability prematurely blood with the cost of a bad outline having the upset outcome sometimes of harming countryside. For instance, a "really good intention" that gets implemented with a very dangerous and startling effect on founding can outcome in countryside losing money or their jobs. They potency accuse a CPU for it, but that's lately what they don't know the name of the celebration who was so gung-ho to get that outline in that they didn't motivation to get snarled all the look over from others. Perhaps they did get snarled it, but it sounded so notably picture a sneeze causing a rainstorm cater-cornered the world that it didn't make sense to them. It was ancient history their belief. But maybe someone near them did understand that sneeze and its cost.
So what's this got to do with tarot, you ask? Correctly, maybe fit about everything. In our traditional learning, we're taught to guess about matter realistically. Demonstrably, the linear countryside are goodbye to really lighthearted with this what this complete system deed disruption in the field of order. That's alphabetical order for the really linear, picture the way my prematurely husband stored his socks: Black comes in advance blue. I was lucky they got in a drawer, for one person the non-linear one. Correctly, THAT didn't work out as you potency lavish. But what happens if you've got whatever thing goodbye on and all that linear or diplomatically 3-D consideration isn't working? Discern is lately one tool at our disposal; it's not the lately tool.
At Readers Farmhouse 2011, Barbara Moore taught us opposite ways to refresh a arise for tarot. One of my partners whispered, "The 5 of Swords is stalking me!" We determined we would be keen on back and be opposite the critical logic of the win-lose prospects portrayed in the 5 of Swords. We built-up a arise called The Sword of Perform.
Preliminary, we sought-after to pin down slap what the stamp is, so we started out with cards in the set of a sword pinning down the stamp. It looks picture this:
...............1.............
...........2......3..........
...............4.............
...............5.............
If you squint, you can see that 1 is the handgrip and the straight razor (4 and 5) has "pinned down" whatever thing marooned in the earth. We looked at the traditional RWS 5 of Swords and determined that each of the cards represents the reaction to these questions:
1. What's in the air? The 5 of Swords has incline grey fumes that upshot picture they are for one person whipped in the texture.
2. The same as sword do I set down? This card is picture the logic, discord or consideration that the control uniqueness has let go of or set mention. It's not working in this spat.
3. The same as sword do I garner up? This card is the logic, discord or consideration that the control uniqueness (hey, that's YOU) would garner up and use.
4. The same as is in the water? See in this card, ancient history the countryside, communicate is water which represents gut reaction and stream. Frequently in a intention where logic isn't quota you, communicate is whatever thing else goodbye on.
5. What's ancient history the mountains? In the top score of the RWS 5 of Swords are mountains which can be obstacles to sad or goals to arrive at. The same as attitude be the outcome?
Now the really glamorous part of this arise happens. We sought-after to turn this from fit a "let's pin down what's goodbye on" reading in the field of a "what's the best action to carry" reading. It's the Sword of Perform, while all. We resolute that for a sword to be paid, it vital to be razor-sharp up and main for action. How do we turn our sword around? So we encouraged our #5 card to the space larger than the #1 card to get the result quicker to the stamp and expand our #6 card.
6. The same as is the best action to carry to get to the best outcome?
The arise changes to this, the Sword of Action!
...............6.............
...............5.............
...............1.............
...........2......3..........
...............4.............
So, if you're looking for a arise to help you get in the manner of that linear consideration, try The Sword of Perform and make logic and thought work for you.
Ultimate wishes!
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One people make a case that reburying ancient "pagan" bones is outstanding reverent.Gift are sundry inconvenience with this: * We don't know what burial burial they would assertion pet * If you rebury them with their grave-goods, it's very true that the subterranean may be looted * Stretch if we know wherever and how they were recessed, we do not inevitably know if they subscribed to the virtuous burial according to which they were recessed, nor do we know what liturgy was second hand * We do not know that any ritual we perform for them would be logical * We do not know if present Pagan beliefs are close up to Neolithic, Sculpture Age, or even Iron Age beliefs * The original site is recurrently no longer all-around as a burial place * Studying them ruse we can find out outstanding about them - how they lived, wherever they were untrained, what illnesses they had - which is the adjacent you can get to reconstructing their actual kinship * Specialized techniques that phantom be all-around in the select for bone sense phantom be better than individuals all-around now * If you pleasing the notion that the bones assertion some "spirit" residing in them, that spirit power be pleased to be getting all the misfortune from archaeologists and museum staff * Discern does not automatically make equal to reburial - it can moreover mean remembering the dead * One cultures grip that subsequently the subterranean site has been unpredictable, it cannot be re-consecrated * Gift were extensively separate burial philosophy in the historic - excarnation, trade fair in burial mounds, income, and so on - which supposedly reflected separate beliefs about the physique and consciousness (time we can honest deduction what individuals beliefs power be by using ethnographic parallels) * An assortment of ancient cultures (e.g. the Egyptians and the Norse) believed that the continuation of the name of the frozen was very resulting. Like the Egyptians pleasing to cancel someone from history, they airy-fairy their name from all the monuments. Reburying the ancient dead resigns them to nonexistence subsequently outstanding. * All and sundry in modern Britain is descended from ancient people, and no cultural association involving modern Pagans and ancient people can be identified, so Pagans assertion no outstanding apposite than individual very to say what happens to the bones of ancient people
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July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. It is known as the Hay Moon or the Meadow Moon because the meadows are at their greatest point of growth in this month, and it is a time for hay-cutting.Other names for this month's Moon include: Blood Moon, Grain Moon, Green Corn Moon, Herb Moon, Hungry Ghost Moon, Wort Moon.Native American fishing tribes called it the Sturgeon Moon because sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze.The energies surrounding this full moon are ones of success, happiness, and fulfilment. We are blessed with the first harvest of the season - a reward for all our hard work. For this reason, July's full moon is also known as the Blessing Moon. Energy moves into creation. Opportunities for self-reliance and confidence, unity and balance abound.The Moon at this time brings us feelings of being connected. Connection to Spirit encourages us to first recognize blessings in our own lives, and then pay them forward - thus continuing the cycle of positive energy.CORRESPONDENCES: * "Colors:" Green, silver, blue-gray * "Gemstones:" Moonstone, white agate, opals or pearls * "Trees:" Ash and oak * "Gods": Juno, Venus, Cerridwen, Athena, Nephthys, Lugh * "Herbs:" Mugwort, hyssop, lemon balm * "Element:" Water This is a great time to do divination and dreamwork. Find a way to incorporate the watery energy of the Blessing Moon into your spell crafting and ritual. Enjoy the relaxing feeling of July's full moon and use it in your personal meditation.CELEBRATING THE FULL MEADOW MOON (FULL BUCK MOON): * Wear shades of green to honour the herb harvest * Adorn your hair and altar with herbs and greenery * Burn sage, lavender or rosemary incense * Prepare herbal tea and lavender or lemon balm cookies * Bless your herb garden
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