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Your task for this week :
take some time to celebrate imbolc and the first stirrings of Spring . . .
for ideas check out Lady Snowflakes Imbolc lesson
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New Pop Up Products
2015 Australian Moon Products
For the next two weeks we'll be taking orders for the Australian Moon diaries, wall charts, Moon Rites book and a DVD on Menstuation - for delivery late August. Pop Up products are only temporarily available as we change these around every two weeks . . . .
check out all our new products
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new gemstone pendants only $9
A simple stone with a hole through it to wear around your neck must be one of the earliest forms of amulet - still effective today. These pendants are a great way to connect with the energies of the different crystals and / or the different zodiac sign associations - which stone is for your sign?
check out all our new products
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Quote of the Week
"Perhaps the day will come where the validity of one's spirituality will be judged not by the correctness of one's theology but by the authenticity of one's spiritual life. When that day comes, an authentically spiritual Buddhist and an authentically spiritual Christian may find that they have more in common with each other than they do with those in their respective religions who have failed to develop their spirituality."
David N. Elkins
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Daily Lore and Legend
August 4
Each year on this date, it was believed that the waters of Scotland's Loch-mo-Naire became charged with miraculous magickal powers to heal all who drank it or bathed in it. For many years it was a custom for those who visited Loch-mo-Naire to toss in a coin of silver as an offering to the benevolent spirits that dwelled within the lake.
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Sincerely
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Wit of the Week
I've learned so much from my mistakes, I'm planning to make a lot more.
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Shop Chat - join our inner circle
I am finalizing the starting content to our new Inner Circle program starting in August that includes as a centrepoint a more interactive and expanded version of the wicca course - The success of the program will depend on your enthusiastic participation - so all feedback is most welcome.
I've put up a new link on the website to join up
some early and encouraging feedback
Hello Margaret,
Just a quick hello and response to the note received today, . I am really looking forward to EVERYTHING! One day I will advance on that comment and add some ideas to your brainstorm list but for now I just wanted to let you know im very excited about the new ideas so far put out there. Please add me to the Private facebook and also to the list for the 2nd Wicca Course (really looking forward to that) and anything else I can be added to lol. I am very interested in the secret pages of knowledge, I love learning and want to learn so much more.... what a great idea! You are bloody brilliant and I love what you are doing, You have been in my life for so long now 10 yrs + and I don't expect that to ever change! Just keeps getting better. One day I would love to actually meet you and just give you a big hug haha
Keep up the fabulous work you are doing
Thanks for everything
C
Merry Meet Margaret,
Thank you for the wonderful information package you've sent for me to look at, your ideas are brilliant and keeping in mind that we are all about keeping our home grown uncle fester's strong and thriving providing us with great quality products
S
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New Inner Circle Program
Introducing our newly revamped "Inner Circle" Members program.
My vision is that Inner Circle members will have access to
* Special pages on the website that will contain a growing amount of information, building up to a full resource library over time
* The option to participate in a second level of our "Wicca Course" as a new group - starting early August and focussing on living a more magickal life - with more interaction and learning activities
* A Private Facebook page for sharing and discussion - with new themes to explore each month
* For instance I've been playing with the idea of "Magickal Solutions to Everyday Problems" and really want to explore this more with you as a specialist community of like minded souls
* Discounts on select products, most notably the "Pop Up Products" that feature in a changing array on the website each fortnight
* Special previews and occasional members only offers
* Other surprises not even dreamed of yet!
To participate in the "Inner Circle" Members program.
* You automatically qualify outright as an Inner Circle Member when you've spend $300+ with us in the last 12 months (over at least two orders).
* Those customers identified as our "Friends of the Family" can get a free upgrade to Inner Circle Membership while active in any one of our monthly surprise clubs (until your yearly total reaches $300 and you then qualify outright)
* Anyone can also participate as an Inner Circle Member without product purchase qualifications by becoming a direct subscriber for $10 / month
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In the News - Thousands of women, accused of sorcery, tortured and executed in Indian witch hunts (India)
If it began like the others, the first sign that Saraswati Devi would be murdered was an accusation delivered to a shaman. Perhaps she had offended someone. Perhaps someone had fallen sick and had wondered why. Perhaps a community well had suddenly dried and someone needed blaming. Perhaps they chose her because Devi was lower caste, because she was a woman, and because they'd probably get away with it.
The killers came for her on Saturday. Two of her sons tried to save her, but couldn't and were beaten. Their punishment wouldn't match Devi's. Before the 14 villagers inflicted injuries so severe they would claim her life, they "forced her to consume human excreta," police told the Hindustan Times.
Though shocking by nearly any standard, the murder was not unique. It was not even uncommon in pockets of rural India.
In places where superstition and vigilantism overlap and small rumors can turn deadly, nearly 2,100 people accused of witchcraft have been killed between 2000 and 2012, . . . . .
read the full story
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In the News - Is there a Black Country Triangle? West Midlands Police receive scores of 999 calls in three years reporting sightings of witches, zombies and ghosts (UK)
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West Midlands Police have received 71 reports of witches ghosts and zombies over a three year period - however the Black Country is officially werewolf-free.
Between 2011 and 2013, the force was obliged to investigate reports of paranormal activity in what has now been dubbed The Black Country Triangle.
According to Nick Duffy of the West Midlands' Ghost Club, much of this upsurge is probably due to poor quality American television shows dealing with the paranormal.
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'I am very surprised by the number of reports of witchcraft. I guess that is down to the popularity of TV shows such as Charmed.
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In the News : AP Stylebook Initiates Journalists To Term Wicca (US)
. . . . an entry for Wicca was added on July 14th. Here's the full text: Altar from the Edwards Air Force Base Wiccan service. "Wicca: Religion shaped by pagan beliefs and practices. The term encompasses a wide range of traditions generally organized around seasonal festivals, and can include ritual magic, a belief in both female and male deities, and the formation of covens led by priestesses and priests. Wiccan is both an adjective and a noun. Uppercase in all uses.
read the full discussion
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Recipe of the Week - Moon cakes for the full moon
or at Imbolc - by Seren
These cookies are perfect for full moon festivals. have them as part of the day's events or just with a cup of your favourite brew. bringing the moon into our lives makes us feel more whole and a part of the universe.
Imbolc is a time when the first signs of life are seen returning to the land and the goddess changes her robes of crone for those of maiden..
Ingredients;
1 cup butter or margarine
250 gms castor sugar
2 tspns grated lemon peel
1/4 tsp salt
185 gms (or 1 1/3cups) sr flour
340 gms (or 1 1/2cups) ground walnuts
1 tsp of vanilla essence
icing:
use your favourite icing and be creative to the season.
or mix:
2 cups icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 1/2 tablespoons water
this icing will be white to reflect the moon's glow.
preheat the oven to 190 degrees. in a large bowl, cream the butter , sugar, and vanilla essence until fluffy and light. mix the lemon peel, salt, flour, and walnuts in a bowl. gradually add the flour mixture to the butter and sugar. mix until well blended. cover and chill thoroughly for at least 2 hours.
when the dough is chilled, roll it to a thickness of .25 centimetre and cut with a cookie cutter. crescent shaped if possible. place the cookies 1.25 centimetres apart on baking paper lined tray. bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
after baking, allow the cookies to stand for 5 minutes. spread the icing over tops of cookies while they are still warm.
Blessed Be and Peace Seren*
Source: submitted by a reader of this newsletter in 2008, with thanks to in part to The Wicca Cookbook by Jamie Wood and Tara Seefeldt. 2000 celestial arts publishing.
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Your Say - Southern Hemisphere walls
Merry Met Margaret,
Just wondering if you'll be offering any 2015 calendars based in the southern hemisphere? The current lot on offer are beautiful, but I'd rather (and I think many others would too) prefer a calendar that suits our part of the world.
Blessed be, L
HI L
I understand, which is why I emphasise that all these ones are US based - we normally have a number of southern hemisphere moon/gratitude diaries (e.g. see this weeks Pop Up products) but I don't think I've seen a coloured picture wall calendar with Southern Hemisphere magickal dates - will keep my eye out though.
Cheers,
M
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