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Herbal Sleep & Dream Pillows

Combine any of the following herbs into a lovely sleep sachet, or sew them into a pillow for yourself, or as gifts for others.

PS: Trying sewing sigils into your dream pillows for extra help.

Catnip: Relaxing, helps bring deep sleep.

Chamomile: Calming, relaxing, and said to keep bad dreams away.

Hops: Relaxing and brings peacefulness.

Lavender: Soothing, relaxing and eases headaches.

Lemon Balm: Relieves stress, anxious and nervous feelings, insomnia, stress, and headaches.

Rose petals: Brings warmth and love.

Rosemary: Traditionally used to bring deep sleep and keep away bad dreams.

Sweet Marjoram: Calms restlessness and nervousness.

Catnip: Relaxing, helps bring deep sleep.

Chamomile: Calming, relaxing, and said to keep bad dreams away.

Cloves: Brings warmth and an exotic feeling to dreams, add only 2-4 per pillow.

Hops: Relaxing and brings peacefulness.

Lavender: Soothing, relaxing and eases headaches.

Lemon Verbena: Uplifting, used to add “lightness” to dream blends.

Mugwort: Greatly enhances lucid dreaming and helps with remembering of dreams.

Peppermint or Spearmint: Enhances clarity and vividness in dreams.

Rose petals: Brings warmth and love, may be used to evoke romantic dreams.

Rosemary: Traditionally used to bring deep sleep and keep away bad dreams.

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Aura Quartz & Amethyst 💖💜💙

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Some of my favorites at the moment <3 aqua aura spirit quartz, amethyst, blue aragonite, angel aura, green fluorite, pink dolomite, purple fluorite, spirit quartz and citrine.

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New altar layout! I feel like I change it so much haha. This one is for Imbolc. I made sure to put lots of moss and clear Quartz to symbolize ice and the coming spring. Blessed Imbolc to everyone! 🌙🌿❄️

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Aqua,tanzanite and angel aura crystal points

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Wire wrapped quartz points

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I’ve been spending my day working on a big shop update which will hopefully take place in a few hours. Lots of trees, wire wrapped crystals and some pyrite rings will be available 💖

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The Wheel of the Year

The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by many modern Pagans. It consists of either four or eight festivals: either the solstices and equinoxes, known as the “quarter days”, or the four midpoints between, known as the “cross quarter days”.

The festivals celebrated by differing sects of modern Paganism can vary considerably in name and date. Observing the cycle of the seasons has been important to many people, both ancient and modern, and many contemporary Pagan festivals are based to varying degrees on folk traditions.

In many traditions of modern Pagan cosmology, all things are considered to be cyclical, with time as a perpetual cycle of growth and retreat tied to the Sun’s annual death and rebirth.

Yule/Winter Solstice: a festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples, later undergoing Christian reformulation resulting in the now better-known Christmastide. A celebration the beginning of longer days, as this is the shortest day of the year in terms of sunlight. 

Imbolc: the first cross-quarter day following Midwinter this day falls on the first of February and traditionally marks the first stirrings of spring. It is time for purification and spring cleaning in anticipation of the year’s new life.  For Celtic pagans, the festival is dedicated to the goddess Brigid, daughter of The Dagda and one of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Among witches reclaiming tradition, this is the  time for pledges and dedications for the coming year. Ostara/Spring Equinox: from this point on, days are longer than the nights. Many mythologies, regard this as the time of rebirth or return for vegetation gods and celebrate the spring equinox as a time of great fertility.

Germanic pagans dedicate the holiday to their fertility goddess, Ostara. She is notably associated with the symbols of the hare and egg. Her Teutonic name may be etymological ancestor of the words east and Easter. Beltrane: traditionally the first day of summer in Ireland, in Rome the earliest celebrations appeared in pre-Christian times with the festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, and the Walpurgis Night celebrations of the Germanic countries. 

Since the Christianization of Europe, a more secular version of the festival has continued in Europe and America. In this form, it is well known for maypole dancing and the crowning of the Queen of the May.

Litha/Summer Solstice: one of the four solar holidays, and is considered the turning point at which summer reaches its height and the sun shines longest.

Luchnassad/Lammas: It is marked the holiday by baking a figure of the god in bread and eating it, to symbolize the sanctity and importance of the harvest. Celebrations vary, as not all Pagans are Wiccans.  

The name Lammas (contraction of loaf mass) implies it is an agrarian-based festival and feast of thanksgiving for grain and bread, which symbolizes the first fruits of the harvest. Christian festivals may incorporate elements from the Pagan Ritual.

Mabon/Autumn Equinox: a Pagan ritual of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth and a recognition of the need to share them to secure the blessings of the Goddess and the God during the coming winter months. The name Mabon was coined by Aidan Kelly around 1970 as a reference to Mabon ap Modron, a character from Welsh mythology. Among the sabbats, it is the second of the three Pagan harvest festivals, preceded by Lammas / Lughnasadh and followed by Samhain.

Samhain: considered by some as a time to celebrate the lives of those who have passed on, and it often involves paying respect to ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets, and other loved ones who have died. In some rituals the spirits of the departed are invited to attend the festivities. It is seen as a festival of darkness, which is balanced at the opposite point of the wheel by the festival of Beltane, which is celebrated as a festival of light and fertility.

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2016 Full Moon Dates

January 23, 8:46pm Eastern – Wolf Moon February 22, 1:20pm Eastern – Snow Moon March 23, 8:01am Eastern – Worm Moon April 22, 1:24am Eastern – Pink Moon May 21, 5:15pm Eastern – Flower Moon June 20, 7:02am Eastern – Strawberry Moon July 19, 6:57pm Eastern – Buck Moon August 18, 5:27am Eastern – Sturgeon Moon September 16, 3:05pm Eastern – Harvest Moon October 16, 12:23am Eastern – Hunters Moon November 14, 8:52am Eastern – Beavers Moon December 13, 7:05pm Eastern – Cold Moon

2016 New Moon Dates

January 9, 8:30pm Eastern February 8, 9:39am Eastern March 8, 8:54pm Eastern April 7, 7:24am Eastern May 6, 3:30pm Eastern June 4, 11:00pm Eastern July 4, 7:01am Eastern August 2, 4:45pm Eastern September 1, 5:03am Eastern October 1, 12:12am Eastern October 30, 12:38pm Eastern November 29, 7:18am Eastern December 29, 1:53am Eastern

2016 Total Lunar Eclipse

March 8, 8:58pm Eastern

2016 Equinoxes & Solstices

Spring Equinox March 20, 12:31am Eastern

Summer Solstice June 20, 6:35pm Eastern

Autumn Equinox September 22, 10:21am Eastern

Winter Solstice December 21, 5:45pm Eastern

Check out all of my 2016 calendars here!