Cat’s Morning Bits for January 25, 2022
Good Morning Beautiful Souls and Welcome to the New Year! Grab a cup of your favorite morning brew and start things off with “Today’s Inspirations”. I hope you find something here that will make you feel good or help you on your path today.
Blessings, Cat
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January Quotes
“The birds are gone, The ground is white,
The winds are wild, They chill and bite;
The ground is thick with slush and sleet,
And I barely feel my feet.”
- Winter Poems
gardendigest.com
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January Events
Jan 1, 2022, Happy New Year!
Jan 2 New Moon at 10:33 am PST/ 11:33 am MST /1:33 pm EST
Jan 6 12th Night- Epiphany
Jan 14 Mercury goes Retrograde until February 3
Jan 17 Full Wolf Moon at 3:48 pm PST /4:48 pm MST/6:48 pm EST
Jan 21 Celtic Tree Month of Rowan begins
Feb 1 Lunar new Year: Tiger
Feb 2 Imbolc
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Spirit Library: Moment of Choice
Kate Spreckley
For most of this month we have been encouraged to discard our old ways and to embrace new perspectives, new understandings and finally a new beginning. As a result, many have been pushed into places and spaces which are challenging and uncomfortable as we face the realization that real change is needed.
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Spiritual morning routine | cozy rituals & productive habits to start the day
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Spirituality & Health: 7 Daily Shinto Rituals BY AZUMI UCHITANI
Purification is the most important principle in Shinto, a Japanese tradition based on the belief that there are millions of powerful local spirits in nature
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Learn Religions:
Vesta (Roman)
This hearth goddess of Rome was the one who watched over home and family. As a hearth goddess, she was the keeper of the fire and sacred flame. Offerings were thrown into the household fires to seek omens from the future. Vesta is similar in many aspects to Brighid, particularly in her position as a goddess of both home/family and of divination.
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MBG: 9 Unique Ways To Use Clear Quartz On Your Spiritual Journey
If you’re at all into crystals, odds are, you have a piece of clear quartz or two in your collection. But how much do you actually know about this popular stone and how to use it? We asked the experts so you don’t have to—here’s what they had to say.
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Pagan Library: Brigit’s Blue Ass Of Inspiration Ritual For Imbolg /Cory Cochran
The month of February, truly a month of ice in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, is a dormant time, when all life and activity appears to be…yawn…low-key and rather boring. The following ritual is dedicated to the goddess Brigit, who tends the fire in the hearth, and in this case the hearth where inspiration burns. If you’ve felt uninspired during the “dark times” of Winter,
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Daily Good: Prayer for the Earth: An Indigenous Response to these Times
In his lifetime Stan Rushworth, an elder of Cherokee descent who was raised by his grandfather, has seen a river die, animals disappear, and the proliferation of box stores. The devastation of climate change is not new to him – his elders have been telling him about it all of his life. The traditional indigenous wisdom that is needed now is looking at how indigenous populations have managed to survive a 95% population reduction through destruction and genocide. He calls on us all to come back to right relationship, to be sorrowful for what is happening, because without this we have lost our humanity. And yet we cannot stop with the sorrow and tears because “there’s too much work to be done” and we must figure out together how to do that work. { read more }
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Treehugger: 10 Intriguing Tahoe Rim Trail Facts
The Tahoe Rim Trail is a long-distance hiking trail that circumnavigates one of the world’s oldest lakes—Lake Tahoe, thought to be more than 2 million years old1—in the devastatingly scenic Sierra Nevada and Carson ranges
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EarthSky News: Visible planets, stars, moon, more, late January and February
Find these visible planets in late January and February 2022:
Venus
Jupiter
Saturn
Mercury
Mars
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Patheos-Pagan: A clear concise intention is vital for spells and life
ANN TRIP
This month the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, New Jersey’s focus is on the meaning of intention. This is part of the January Soul Matters’ theme of “Living with Intention.”
Intention is essentially your goal, what you want to happen. When Pagans prepare spells, we put our intent into them. I try to explain this to the mundane people by comparing spell work to ‘enhanced’ prayer.
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Pagan Playlist: Dzivia – Dzikaje Palavańnie (Wild Hunt)
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Inner Journey:
THE POWER OF SILENCE
“Growth takes place in a person by working at a deep inner level in a sustained atmosphere of silence.”
— Dr. Ira Progoff
How can we hear our wise voice of intuition if we are always thinking, talking and distracted by outer events?
If we take time daily to experience physical stillness and to direct our attention inside, we can begin to find the peace, love, will and wisdom that exist as our essence.
“Only when one is connected to one’s own core is one connected to others… And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It’s the place of reflection and contemplation, and it’s the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.”
— Angeles Arrien
higherawareness.com
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A Note from the Universe
Isn’t it odd? Of all the people in all the world who are starting to “get it,” how few actually give it to themselves.
I think it’s because they forget to live it.
Live it,
The Universe
tut.com
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Try this recipe for Imbolc
Today’s Recipe: Lemon Poppyseed Muffins with Lemon Glaze
Moist poppyseed muffins with a hint of lemon come alive with a tart lemon glaze. So good you can’t eat just one! You can substitute yogurt for the sour cream, if desired.
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Magical Correspondences for Tuesday
Magickal Intentions: Courage, Physical Strength, Revenge, Military Honors, Surgery and the Breaking of Negative Spells, Matrimony, War, Enemies, Prison, Vitality, and Assertiveness
Element: Fire
Incense: Dragon’s Blood, Patchouli
Planet: Mars
Star Signs: Aries and Scorpio
Angel: Samuel
Power Colors: Red and Orange
Herbs & Plants: Red Rose, Cock’s Comb, Pine, Daisy, Thyme, and Pepper
Sacred Stones: Carnelian, Bloodstone, Ruby, Garnet, and Pink Tourmaline
Oil: (Mars) Basil, Coriander, Ginger
Deities include Ares, Lilith, The Morrigan, Tiwaz, Tyr
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Daily Wisdom
January 25, 2022
Decisions
“Choice of attention – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.”
-W.H. Auden
We decide where we put our attention, and wherever we put our attention grows, and becomes more important in our lives. We decide how to spend our days, what to read, where to go, what to say and with whom to talk. All of that has some affect on our inner life. We can feel it; we can see the results
-Lissa Coffey coffeytalk.com
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Daily Tarot: The World
People may come to you for help in making a difficult decision or two. This will be second nature to you and no decision will be beyond your capabilities. The World is not so big that it can hold choices you are unable to make or decisions that could overwhelm you. Be exceptionally confident, capable, and at ease in public and private sectors today.
astrology.com
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About Cat’s Morning Bits: These daily posts are reblogged from various email newsletters that I receive each day.
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