Cat’s Morning Bits for July 17, 2019
Good Morning Beautiful Souls, 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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Deep in the greens of summer sing the lives
I’ve come to love. A vireo whets its bill.
The great day balances upon the leaves;
My ears can hear the bird when all is still.
-Theodore Roethke (1908-63)
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Spiritual Unite: Does Rejecting Actually Equal Accepting?
They say if we want to change something within ourselves, we must first accept it. How do we accept something we do not like? Also, is it necessary to accept it?
We know that what we resist persists. So what happens when we are not happy with a component of our lives and how do we move into a state of acceptance so we can embrace it, grow from it, and release it for good?
https://www.spiritualunite.com/articles/does-rejecting-actually-equal-accepting-guest-post/
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ThoughtCo: Make a Loaf of Lammas Bread
Bread is the ultimate symbol of the Lammas season. After all, once the grain is harvested, it is milled and baked into bread, which is then consumed. It is the cycle of the harvest come full circle. The spirit of the grain god lives on through us in the eating of the bread. In many traditions, a loaf of special bread is baked in the shape of a man, to symbolize the god of the harvest.
https://www.learnreligions.com/lammas-lughnasadh-bread-recipe-4588964
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Daily Good: Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson
“For years I have been not so much envisioning Emily Dickinson as trying to visit, to enter her mind, through her poems and letters, and through my own intimations of what it could have meant to be one of the two mid-19th-century American geniuses, and a woman, living in Amherst, Massachusetts. Of the other genius, Walt Whitman, Dickinson wrote that she had heard his poems were “disgraceful.” She knew her own were unacceptable by her world’s standards of poetic convention, and of what was appropriate, in particular, for a woman poet. Seven were published in her lifetime, all edited by other hands; more than a thousand were laid away in her bedroom chest, to be discovered after her death.
http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=8130
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Elephant Journal: Crack Open your Heart & Ease your Journey with these Mercury Retrograde Affirmations.
Mercury is in Retrograde until July 31st and a little bit after that due to the after shadow effect.
So, during this time, many of us have been feeling the pull of our core wounds. While we enter a truly tender phase and are inclined to run from the pain, we must remember that when Mercury is in retrograde it begs us to look into our dark corners to understand these wounds and shed light on where our ego has trapped us
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A Little Bit of Besom Lore
1) Never give away a used broom. It bring bad luck to you and the person you gave it to.
2) You should never sweep your house at night. The faeries and spirits that live in and around your home find it an insult.
3) To keep ghost out of your home, you should lean your broom against the door jamb.
4) If you drop a broom on the floor, you will have company.
5) If you unmarried and step over a broom that is on the floor, you will never marry.
6) The first items brought into a new home should be a new broom and a loaf of bread. It will bring good luck.
7) Never sweep dust out of the front door with your broom. All the good luck will be swept out with the dust!
8) Taking a broom across the water brings bad luck.
9) You should never lean a broom against a bed or the person who sleeps on that side will die.
10) Never hit someone with a broom, it will make them lazy.
collected from various internet resources
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MNN: Remembering Apollo 11 and the giant step that changed everything
It’s been 50 years since the Apollo 11 mission and the first step on the moon. Here’s a look back in photos.
Fifty years ago, a rocket carrying the Apollo 11 crew blasted off from Earth on its historic mission to land humans on the moon. The mission launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969, carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/blogs/remember-apollo-11-photos
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Daily Tarot: The Pope
It’s important to stick with the plan already in place and be loyal to those who are already committed to you. You’re not so much part of a team as you are the leader of a group of people who will do what you ask of them if you only treat them properly and look after their needs, especially the tiny personal ones.
astrology.com
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EarthSky News: Watch for a daytime moon
In the coming mornings, watch for a daytime moon. No matter where you are on Earth, look generally westward after sunrise to see the moon in a blue daytime sky, assuming yours is clear.
Why can you see the moon in the daytime now?
https://earthsky.org/tonight/daytime-moon-this-upcoming-week
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Today’s Deity: Rhiannon, Horse Goddess of Wales
In Welsh mythology, Rhiannon is a horse goddess depicted in the Mabinogion. She is similar in many aspects to the Gaulish Epona, and later evolved into a goddess of sovereignty who protected the king from treachery.
https://www.learnreligions.com/rhiannon-horse-goddess-of-wales-2561707
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Patheos-Pagan: How to Hold a Solo Sacred Cacao Ceremony
It is a powerful experience to share the cacao with a group of people but don’t feel you must be in a group to experience the medicine of cacao. As cacao is linked with opening the heart and emotions, you might prefer to hold a ceremony alone in familiar surroundings. When you begin to open up and explore your emotions, you never know how wide your heart will open
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/awaywiththewitch/2019/01/how-to-hold-a-solo-sacred-cacao-ceremony/
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Inner Journey:
THINK FOR YOURSELF
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
— Rita Mae Brown
Where do you need to think for yourself?
When we begin to cultivate awareness of our thoughts and emotions, we begin to see just how much we live according to other people’s and society’s beliefs and actions. Don’t get upset by this. Just get in touch with how you really think and feel inside and begin to express your authenticity.
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”
— Alan Keightley
higherawareness.com
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A Note from the Universe
If summer resisted fall it wouldn’t really be summer or fall.
Better to celebrate the season you’re in… especially those of your wonderful life.
Everything keeps getting better,
The Universe
tut.com
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Today’s Recipe: Watermelon Dessert Pizza
A fun dessert or party treat that looks like pizza but is sweet!
https://www.thriftyfun.com/Watermelon-Dessert-Pizza.html
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Magical Correspondences for Wednesday
Intentions:Rules healings, the mind, Communication, Divination, Writing, Knowledge, Business Transactions, Debt, Fear,Loss, Travel and Money Matters, Addictions, Young People, Messages, Perception, Self Expression.
Incense: Jasmine, Lavender, Sweet Pea, Cinnamon, Cinquefoil
Planet: Mercury and Chiron (though this is a moon of Pluto)
Sign: Virgo
Angel: Raphael
Colors: Orange, Light Blue, Grey, Yellow and, Opalescent colors and Violet
Herbs/Plants: Fern, Lavendar, Hazel, Cherry, Periwinkle
Stones: Aventurine, Bloodstone, Hematite, Moss Agate and Sodalite
Oil: (Mercury) Benzoin, Clary Sage, Eucalytus, Lavender
Goddesses: Aset [Isis], Demeter, Ceres, Spider Woman, Bona Dea, Oya,
Devi-Kali, Hella, Rhiannon, Coatlique, Maman Brigette, Sekhmet, Het Heret
[Hathor]
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Daily Wisdom
July 17, 2019
Sharing
“Friends share all things.”
-Pythagoras (580? – 500? B.C.)
True friends share things without even realizing it sometimes. When one of us feels joy, that joy is shared by our friends – we are happy for each other! Whether it is good news or bad news, it feels good to share it with a friend, with someone who will feel the emotions and help us through it.
-Lissa Coffey
coffeytalk.com
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