Hi, folks!
The world is all washed clean. The light is a little odd at the moment. There’s thick cloud where the sun ought to be and it’s shifted where the light is coming from to the south of where it actually is. It’s 54F and just a light breeze, just enough to stir the leaves of the clematis, but not the alder.
Tempus re-filled all the feeders yesterday and I had plenty to watch to distract me from what I needed to get done. We haven’t seen any Stellar Jays for a while, but there was one little while when we had a dozen or so flying in and out and squabbling. There’s one over there again. He was sitting on the fuchsia basket and then dropped down and pecked at the bread. I’m surprised we haven’t had squirrels or chipmunks in the flat feeder. ..and there came and went a hummingbird.
Speaking of hummingbirds….several radishes have gone to seed in the window box and a hummingbird spent a while yesterday drinking out of the blooms.
I also had a long while with my Peterson Field Guide to Western Birds. I was trying to decide if I was ID-ing those golden birds right. They’re grosbeaks all right, but I wasn’t quite sure whether they might not be orioles. They aren’t. Luckily Peterson’s has little arrows to point out what will tell you which is which on the pictures! The problem is that they’re way orange for grosbeaks. It must be some local variation, but what was telling was the white wing spots on the males and an orange stripe on the side back of the head, and then the females/juveniles that were with them, that are *totally* different from orioles.
A goldfinch just flew into the alder and then swooped past the porch. I got a good look!
I thought it over and I’m cancelling the workshops/classes this Saturday. All of them conflict with the parade or other activities for Beachcomber’s. We’re doing Green Screens Friday and Saturday.
We have a special class scheduled for Thursday 6/28 at 5pm on the History of Wicca by a local Gardnerian HPS. The New Wiccan Church is scheduling a lot of these talks in honor of Geraldmas (Gardner’s birthday month) and I thought it would be very interesting to have a Gardnerian perspective on this since most of us are from the eclectic end of the spectrum. Everyone is invited. There’s no charge for this event and it’s being set up for the class day between Wicca 103 and Wicca 102. We’ll be taking up a collection to pay for Deb’s gas, since she’s coming in from Eugene.
I did get most of the schedule for the July Psychic Fair put together. I’ve got it below in the calendar and I sent it to Karin, but I think I’d better go over it again and it’s *still* incomplete.
I didn’t get out to the garden yesterday. There was too much to do, and then Paul called and we had one of our hours-long calls and that put paid to the time I would have spent outdoors. It was far too soggy, anyway, not a hard rain, but mist-with-an-attitude, the kind that soaks you to the skin.
I’m heading down to the shop this morning. We have to re-set the back of the shop so the Green Screen studio is accessible and I have fabrics to pull out and a hood pattern to set up. I keep thinking that there’s something more, but not sure what…. Anyway, Tempus will be there and I’ll be back down at 6:30 or so to close up since there’s a House Capuchin meeting at 7:30.
The shop opens at 10 today. Summer hours, 10am-7pm, Wednesday through Monday. If we’re supposed to be closed, but it looks like we’re there, try the door. If it’s open, the shop’s open!
Love & Light,
Anja
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Today
The Moon is a waning crescent. Waning Moon Magick - From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. Waning Crescent Moon –Best time for beginning introspective magicks that are more long term. Phase ends at 8:02pm on Thursday.
Mercury is becoming more easily visible after sunset. Look for it low in the west-northwest in the fading twilight. It forms a long, vertical triangle with Pollux and Castor above it.
Early risers can watch the waning Moon march toward Jupiter and Venus, which are emerging this week from the sunrise glow.
Look a third of the way from Arcturus to Vega for the dim semicircle of Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown. It has one modestly bright star, Alphecca. Two thirds of the way from Arcturus to Vega is the dim Keystone of Hercules.
Mars (magnitude +0.6) shines orange near the hind foot of Leo, in the southwest at dusk and lower in the west as evening grows late. Mars is still less than halfway from Regulus (off to its lower right) to the Saturn-and-Spica pair (left). Mars will shoot the gap between Saturn and Spica in mid-August. In a telescope Mars is gibbous and tiny (about 7.3 arcseconds wide), continuing to fade and shrink.
Celtic Tree Month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 –
Goddess Month of Rosea runs from 6/13 - 7/10
Runic Half-month of Odal 5/29-6/13- The rune Odel signifies ancestral property, the homestead, and all those things that are “one’s own”.
Runic half-month of Dag, 6/14-6/28 – Beneficial rune of light, health, prosperity and openings, signifying the high point of the day and the high point of the year when in light and warmth all things are possible.
Sun in Gemini
Moon in Aries
Chiron, Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Juno, Pluto Retrograde
Color: Red
Harvest 6/12-14
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©2012 M. Bartlett, Some parts separately copyright
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Calendar
6/13 – Wednesday, 3pm – Herbs Outdoors – (weather permitting)
6/14 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon
Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm
6/14 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7 (no class this week)
Planting 6/15-16
6/16 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop (not this week)
Noon-ish – Care and Feeding of a Rock Tumbler (not this week)
3pm - Sewing Workshop (not this week)
6/16 – Waldport Beachcomber Days
Harvest 6/17-18
6/17 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101
Noon - Brea’s Elements (counseling)
2pm - Practical Craft (not this week)
6/18 – Monday – 6pm – Wicca 101 – Lesson 5-6
New Moon, 6/19, 8:02am
Sun enters Cancer 4:09pm
Planting 6/20-21
6/20 – Wednesday 7pm, Circle business meeting for Litha (run-through)
6/21 - 5pm - Wicca 103 – Lesson 7
Litha Sabbat Open Circle, 6/22, Friday, 7pm at Ancient Light (waxing moon)
6/21 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea
Saturn Direct 6-25-12 1am
Venus Direct 6-27-12 8:07am
6/28 - 5pm - Wicca 101-4 – Special Class on the History of Wicca!!!!!! (Donations will be accepted for Deb’s gas to get here from Eugene)
Planting 6/29-30
June 30 - July8 – Psychic Fair – Special Guests, Kat Cunningham, Carl Neal & Lupa Bi
6/30 – Saturday, 10am-6pm – Kat Cunningham
6/30 – Saturday, 11am - Herb Workshop
Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler
2pm –
3pm - Sewing Workshop
6pm - Metta Meditation
7pm – Movie Night, showing Full Circle (discussion follows)
7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101
Noon - Brea’s Elements (class)
1pm – Free showing of ?
3pm – Discussion follows movie
7pm – Movie Night, showing The Goddess Remembered (discussion follows)
7/2 – Monday, Carl Neal Workshops
11am - Herb Workshop
7pm – Movie Night, showing The Burning Times (discussion follows)
The Day of Remembrance for Knjaz Sviatoslav the Great - Cherven (July) 3
Full Blessing Moon – 7/3/12 11:52am - Successful Goat Moon
7/3 – Tuesday, 6pm - Circle Barbeque
7/3 – Waldport Independence Day Celebration (fireworks begin at dusk)
Planting 7/4
7/4 – 11am - Herb Workshop
3pm – Sewing Workshop
7/4 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat – waning
Harvest 7/5-6
7/5, Thursday – 11am - Herb Workshop
3pm – Sewing Workshop
5pm – Wicca 102 begins
7/6, Friday – 11am - Herb Workshop
3pm – Sewing Workshop
7pm – Movie Night, showing Howl’s Moving Castle (discussion follows)
Planting 7/7-8
7/7 – Saturday, Readings by Angelica Rose
11am - Herb Workshop
Noon - Care & Feeding of a Rock Tumbler
3pm - Sewing Workshop
4pm - Therianthropy 101 (1 hour) Lupa Bi
6pm - Metta Meditation
7pm – Movie Night, showing Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (discussion follows)
7/1 – Sunday, 10am – Wicca 101 (no class this week)
Noon - Brea’s Elements (class)
1pm – Free showing of ?
3pm – Discussion follows movie
7/8 – 10am - Writer's Q&A (1 - 1.5 hours)
July 8-14 Free Cascadia Witch Camp www.freewitchcamp.org
Harvest 7/9-11
Planting 7/12-13
7/12 – Thursday – Waldport Chamber of Commerce meeting – Noon
Waldport City Council Meeting – 2pm
Uranus Retrograde 7-13-12 2:49am
Harvest 7/14-15
Mercury Retrograde 7-14-12 7:16pm
Juno Direct 7-16-12 3:57am
Planting 7/17-18
7/18 – Wednesday 7pm, esbat - dark moon esbat
New Moon, 7/18, 9:24pm
7/19 - 3pm, Crones’ Tea
7/20 – Ramadan Begins
Perun's Day - Cherven (July) 20
Sun enters Leo 7/22 3:01am
7/25 - Wednesday 7pm- biz meeting, Lughnasadh run-through
Planting 7/26-27
Pallas Retrograde 7-30-12 3:30pm
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8/1 - Wednesday 7pm, esbat - full moon
Full Corn Moon – 8/1 8:27 – Dreaming Heron Moon
Harvest 8-2
Planting 8/3-8/5
Lughnasadh Sabbat Open Circle, Friday 8/3, 7pm at Ancient Light – Full Moon Waning
August 4-5 – Psychic Fair – Special Guest, Carl Neal
August 4-5 – Pathways to Transformation Psychic Fair, Yachats Commons
Harvest 8-6-7
Oregon Coast Pan-Pagan Gathering, Friday – Sunday, September 28-30
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www.wunderground.com
Jun. 13, 2012, Rise, Set
Actual Time, 5:31 AM PDT, 9:01 PM PDT
Civil Twilight, 4:54 AM PDT, 9:38 PM PDT
Nautical Twilight, 4:06 AM PDT, 10:26 PM PDT
Astronomical Twilight, 3:03 AM PDT, 11:29 PM PDT
Moon, 1:57 AM PDT, 3:45 PM PDT
Length Of Visible Light, 16h 44m
Length of Day, 15h 30m
Tomorrow will be 0m 28s longer.
Waning Crescent, 29% of the Moon is Illuminated
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Celtic tree month of Duir Oak - Jun 10 - Jul 7 - The oak of myth and legend is the common oak (Quercus robur L.). It is sometimes called the great oak, which is a translation of its Latin name (robur is the root of the English word "robust"). It grows with ash and beech in the lowland forests, and can reach a height of 150 feet and age of 800 years. Along with ashes, oaks were heavily logged throughout recent millennia, so that the remaining giant oaks in many parts of Europe are but a remnant of forests past. Like most other central and northern European trees, common oaks are deciduous, losing their leaves before Samhain and growing new leaves in the spring so that the trees are fully clothed by Bealltaine. Common oaks are occasionally cultivated in North America, as are the similar native white oak, valley oak, and Oregon oak. Oaks are members of the Beech family (Fagaceae). Curtis Clark
Duir - Oak Ogam letter correspondences
Month: May
Color: Black and Dark Brown
Class: Chieftain
Letter: D
Meaning: Security; Strength
to study this month - Eadha - White Poplar or Aspen Ogam letter correspondences
Month: None
Color: Silver White
Class: Shrub
Letter: E
Meaning: Problems; Doubts; Fears.
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Tides for Alsea Bay
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
/Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
W 13 Low 3:14 AM 1.2 5:31 AM Rise 1:57 AM 36
13 High 9:06 AM 4.8 9:02 PM Set 3:45 PM
13 Low 2:39 PM 2.1
13 High 9:03 PM 7.1
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Affirmation/Thought for the Day – Many a child who watches television for hours and hours will go down in history, not to mention math, English, and geography.
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Journal Prompt – Multicultural Connections - What country did one of your ancestors come from? Explain how you think your life would have been different if you were living in that country today.
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Quotes
As soon as you start doing what you always wanted to be doing, you'll want to be doing something else. - First Law of Living
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Being preoccupied with problems smothers the gratitude for the good we have in our lives. - Phil Reinhardt
Business today consists in persuading crowds. - Thomas Stearnes Eliot (1888-1965) US writer
SONG OF THE VALKYRIE
The wind is at my back.
It is raging, it is blowing
And I feel myself
Blown forward with it.
I scream a battle cry…
And this is my battle song:
To Freya! To Odin!
We own the Earth
With our spears;
We own the sky
With our flying steeds.
Sing battle songs
To wake our warrior
Spirits;
Swirl the wind higher,
Stronger!
We pound our spears
Upon the ground as we
Sing,
We clash our swords
Upon our rounded shields.
Our armor shines golden
Our runes glow bright blue,
Our steeds stomp their feet
And sweep their wings
In readiness.
Hear ye our battle song!
To Freya! To Odin!
We own the Earth
With our spears,
We own the sky
With our flying steeds.
Mount up, Sisters!
Put on your bright helmets
And your falcon cloaks
We ride the winds!
We come, heroes…
Valhalla awaits you!
Onward to the battleground!
Heroes’ brave spirits
Flickering their last,
Will call to us
Blood to heated blood;
And will come with us
On our night ride.
Onward to Valhalla
We will go;
The winds urging us onward,
The birds in the sky
Answering our cries
With their own.
To Odin! To Freya!
We ride. - © Copyright 12/21/05, Beth Johnson (Mystic Amazon)
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Magick – Litha
Strawberry-Carrot Tea Bread (3 views)
From: herbalmuse
Strawberry-Carrot Tea Bread Delicious Living Magazine --
Serves 16 / Instead of trans-fatty margarine or shortening, this treat uses canola oil, rich in monounsaturated fat, for tenderness and texture. Strawberries add natural sweetness; if you use frozen berries, drain all liquid before adding to batter.
Tea Bread
1/2 cup canola oil
1 cup packed brown sugar or sucanat
2 eggs
1/2 cup nonfat vanilla yogurt
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/4 cups finely shredded carrots
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 cup finely chopped strawberries, fresh or frozen and thawed
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Strawberry Glaze
1/3 cup puréed strawberries, fresh or frozen and thawed
1/2 cup nonfat vanilla yogurt
3 tablespoons powdered sugar
1. Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, mix oil and brown sugar or sucanat with an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, blending well. Add yogurt, water, and vanilla while continuing to beat. Add carrots and blend.
2. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Add dry ingredients to carrot mixture, blending for 2 minutes until batter is smooth. Gently fold in strawberries and walnuts.
3. Pour batter into a lightly greased and floured 12-cup tube or bundt pan. Bake 50–55 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool and invert onto a serving plate.
4. For glaze, mix puréed strawberries, yogurt, and powdered sugar in a small bowl. Drizzle entirely over cooled cake, or reserve to drizzle over each serving.
My version Tea Bread
1/2 cup corn oil
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/4 cups finely shredded carrots
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 cup finely chopped strawberries, fresh or frozen and thawed
1/2 cup chopped hazelnuts
Strawberry Glaze
1/3 cup puréed strawberries, fresh or frozen and thawed
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
3 tablespoons powdered sugar
1. Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, mix oil and brown sugar with an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, blending well. Add yogurt, water, and vanilla while continuing to beat. Add carrots and blend.
2. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Add dry ingredients to carrot mixture, blending for 2 minutes until batter is smooth. Gently fold in strawberries and walnuts.
3. Pour batter into a lightly greased and floured 12-cup tube or bundt pan. Bake 50–55 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool and invert onto a serving plate.
4. For glaze, mix puréed strawberries, yogurt, and powdered sugar in a small bowl. Drizzle entirely over cooled cake, or reserve to drizzle over each serving.
Solstice Herb Bread - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7039/Ash linCB.html
3 C. flour
1 tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 pkg. dry active yeast
2 tbsp. chopped fresh chives
2 tsp. chopped fresh rosemary
1 tsp. fresh thyme
1 1/4 C. hot water
2 tbsp. Crisco
1. Mix 2 cups of the flour, sugar, salt and yeast in a large bowl.
2. Add herbs, water, and Crisco.
3. Beat slowly, stirring in remaining cup of flour until smooth.
4. Scrape batter from sides of bowl and let rise in a warm place for 35 minutes or until it doubles in bulk.
5. Punch down and beat with a spoon for about 15 seconds.
6. Place dough in a greased loaf pan, patting down and forming a loaf shape with your hands.
7. Cover and let rise again for about 30 minutes or until it again doubles in bulk.
8. Bake at 375 for 40-45 minutes.
9. Brush top with butter or margarine and remove from pan to cool.
MORNING SUNSHINE MUFFINS - Makes 12 muffins.
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp. double-acting baking powder.
½ tsp. salt
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 tbsp. melted butter
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup chopped dates
2 tbsp. marigold petals, chopped
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
2. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
3. In a separate bowl beat eggs.
4. Mix in butter, milk, dates and marigold petals.
5. Add wet ingredients to dry, mixing just enough to evenly moisten.
6. Spoon mixture into greased muffin tins, filling halfway.
7. Bake for 15 to 20 min., or until tops are lightly browned.
8. Delicious served with marigold butter.
BUTTERMILK SCONES -
3 cups Flour
1/3 cup Sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
3/4 teaspoon Salt
2 Tablespoons Butter
1 cup Buttermilk
3/4 cup Currants
1 teaspoon Grated Orange Rind
1 Tablespoon Heavy Cream
1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon
2 Tablespoons Sugar
1) Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2) Use an ungreased baking sheet. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl.
3) Stir well with a fork to mix and fold air into batter.
4) Add the butter and cut into the flour mixture, using a pastry blender or two knives, or work in, using your fingertips, until the mixture looks like fresh bread crumbs.
5) Add the buttermilk, currants and orange rind.
6) Mix only until the dry ingredients are moistened.
7) Gather the dough into a ball and press so it holds together.
8) Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface.
9) Knead lightly 12 times.
10) Pat the dough into a circle 1/2-inch thick.
Glaze
11) In a small bowl combine the cream, cinnamon and sugar; stir to blend.
12) Brush the dough with the glaze.
13) Cut the dough into 18 pie-shaped pieces.
14) Place the scones 1 inch apart on the baking sheet.
15) Bake for about 12 minutes or until the tops are browned.
16) Serve hot with Orange Honey Butter.
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Energy list
6/12/12 – Wanting to have a baby and it’s taking a while.
6/11/12 – Had brain surgery today for a right brain cancerous tumor.
6/6/12 – A friend is having cancer surgery today and asking for help.
6/4/12 – Neighbor harassing and stalking. The law isn’t helping. Putting up wardings and could use some energy to get them to go up and stay up!
6/2/12 – Student in 101 class, had flu, collapsed, ended up in hospital, now has a lung filling up with fluid…. Help! Update 6/7 – She’s quit smoking, is up and running around, but still coughing pretty hard.
5/29/12 – Car accident. Painful, not serious, but ow!
5/19/12 – Dealing with a persistent ex, a mistake from the git-go, stressed and feeling under attack constantly. Help!
5/16/12 – For someone who has found a dream job and wants some extra oomph to help him get it.
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Silliness - GCF: The Horn
One day, a man was driving with his four-year-old daughter and beeped his car horn by mistake.
She turned and looked at him for an explanation.
He said, "I did that by accident."
She replied, "I know that, daddy."
He replied, "How'd you know?"
The girl said, "Because you didn't say 'JERK' afterwards!"
