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Your task for this week :
Take some time to celebrate our last winter full moon for 2014 - it is also the biggest "super moon" for the year.
for full moon inspirations and ritual supply goodies check out our full moon surprise parcels
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New Pop Up Products
2015 Australian Moon Products
For one more week we'll be taking orders for the Australian Moon diaries, wall charts, Moon Rites book and a DVD on Menstruation - 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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Witch's Ladder with gemstones $84
A modern witch's ladder is a string beads - also known as Pagan Prayer Beads. These ones have been made building on the power of 3 - with three groups of beads in a 3 x 9 x 21 (33 beads) arrangement. They form a wonderful meditative or ritual tool. The beads enable a witch to concentrate on repetitive chants or incantation without having to keep count. This enables you to focus will and energy on the desired goal.
check out all our new products
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Quote of the Week
"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it." Margaret Thatcher
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Daily Lore and Legend
August
Celebrations of the Mother Earth month continue in Bolivia - Aymara indigenous peoples mark the beginning of the Mother Earth (Pachamama) month with a ritual in the Bolivian Andes to pay tribute to the goddess of Earth.
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Sincerely
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Wit of the Week
" Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
Mark Twain.
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Shop Chat - new found freedom
Hayden is celebrating and enjoying his new found freedom of being able to drive again. He has had many eye problems over the past few years - cataracts and diabetic retinal damage and had to surrender his drivers license. Now after a few years of treatment his eyesight is stable enough to earn back his license. I actaully go out and play bridge at least a few times each week, whereas he would sometimes go weeks without leaving Woodend - and end up a bit cabin crazy. I am also enjoying not having to be the driver all the time . . . .
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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 10th August and focusing 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
to register The success of the program will depend on your enthusiastic participation - so all feedback is most welcome.
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
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In the News - Coven will mark start of First World War (UK)
THE Cauldron of Cerridwen, a Wiccan coven from Upavon, will host a Pagan remembrance ceremony on Saturday at Avebury Henge at noon, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great War, and to remember those that paid the ultimate sacrifice.
The ceremony will be fairly traditional, with poetry and prose and personal accounts from the period. There will be a twominute silence with Last Post and Reveille, and following the ceremony a wreath will be laid at the village war memorial.
There are many Pagan servicemen and women currently serving, and many more in the veteran community, and this is one of the first of these types of ceremonies to take place.
It is hoped that this may become a regular occurrence in November each year for Remembrance Day
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In the News - 'Goddesses' to swim naked at the full moon in Oregon City (US)
As the full moon rises on Saturday, Aug. 9, a group of mortal women will shed their clothes and swim nude in the moonlight - transforming, so they say, into goddesses.
They call it the Naked Goddess Swim, now in its second year, an event that invites any and all women to Clackamette Cove (known by some as Clackamas Cove) in Oregon City to join in the moonbathing.
First-time swimmers pay $32 to swim, also earning their official goddess bathing cap. Returning swimmers pay a discounted $22. Women - men aren't allowed to participate - can sign up for the naked swim online.
Those who want to participate but can't or don't want to swim can sign up to simply frolic in the moonlight, organizers say. The event is also looking for "kayak Gods" - men or women who assist the swimmers in kayaks on the water. Bidding for those positions starts at $50.
The money raised by the Naked Goddess Swim goes to Friends of Clackamas Cove and breast cancer research.
Still in its infancy, the swim has few rules, relishing in the primal joy of it all. Organizers describe it simply as an event "where mere mortal women shed their suits and inhibitions to swim as Goddesses in the full moonlight."
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In the News : Police investigate white supremacist use of Stonehenge solstice pics(UK)
Police are to launch an inquiry after a white supremacist group used images of pagans celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge to promote their racist ideology.
The chairman of the Pagan Police Association, a group of police officers who are pagan, pledged to investigate the use of around a dozen pictures, which showed the ceremonies and revelries at the Wiltshire landmark earlier this summer, which were posted by a member of the organisation 'White Heritage' on its website.
The article included captions proclaiming the paganism as the 'true religion' of British people, and denouncing something called the 'Roman Christian Jewish' invasion.
. . . one pagan leader, King Arthur Pendragon, denounced the use of his image, and those of his friends and fellow solstice-goers. . . . .
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Goddess of the Month
Hathor by Kimi Ravensky
 (Egyptian with a name that means 'House of Horus' ).
Patron of - the sky, the sun, , music, dance and the artistic abilities. She was believed to be the personification of the Milky Way which was viewed as the milk that flowed from the udder of a heavenly cow. Her early appearance is that of a cow bearing the sun disk between her two horns, but in later periods she was depicted as a woman with a cows head, and now there are different versions, such as a beautiful woman with a crown of two horns that surround a sun disk.
She was a very ancient Goddess and her following was unusual as both men and women were her priest's ,most were artisan's,musicians and dancers who turned their talents to creating rituals that were considered astounding throughout Egypt ..
The Sycamore tree was sacred to Hathor, it is said from this tree that she was thought to hand out good wishes/blessings to the deceased in the afterlife. Hathor's symbology included such items that included the Sistra ( a type of rattle), two horns and sun disc headdress, the Menat ( a necklace made of turquoise that could also could have been used for percussive music, mirrors also play a leading role.
As are most Deities, she is quite complex, so look her up and get to know her over this month.
Source: submitted by a reader of this newsletter in 2008
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Your Say - yeahh way to go!
Hello Margaret
Great to get my surprise in the post and that i am an Inner Circle Member . . . .Thank you and looking forward to being part of your new journey or should i say 'ours' With members prices a little lower too, maybe we can spend what we have saved back with you , yeahh way to go
Regards S
ps Looking forward to the Wicca Course part 2, Keep up the good work
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