Cat’s Morning Bits for March 3, 2020
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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A monster owl
out on the fence
flew away. What
is it the sign
of? The sign of
an owl.
-Lorine Niedecker (1903-70)
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Pioneer Thinking: Herbal Virus Killer: Echinachea
Echinachea boosts the immune system by making the white blood cells, the fighter cells in our bodies, work more efficiently. Echinacea is truly a miracle herb to fight flu virus and other infections.
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ThoughtCo: Celebrating Ostara, the Spring Equinox
With the arrival of March comes the promise of spring—the month is said to roar in like a lion, and if we’re really lucky, roll out like a lamb. Meanwhile, on or around the 21st of the month, we have Ostara to celebrate. It’s the time of the vernal equinox if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, and it’s a true marker that Spring and warmer,
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MBG: Your March 2020 Horoscope Is Here: What’s In The Stars For You?
March comes in not so much like a lion…but certainly like the kind of animal you’re wary of encountering outside its cage. Amid headlines of a global public health pandemic and plunging markets (which we predicted months ago in our 2020 Horoscope book), we’ve got nine days of Mercury retrograde left, as the planet of communication, technology, and travel rounds out a backspin that started on February 16.
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Daily Good: A Window as Wide as the World
“One afternoon, my two-year-old daughter and I idled around our apartment complex in Bangalore, watching a dragonfly hover over a thorn, when suddenly she began pointing toward the fringe of lawn below. There, a cat leaped at a wiry viper hatchling as it peeped out of its hole…” This evocative short piece describes a mother and daughter’s glimpse of urban wildlife.{ read more }
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Today’s DIY: Ostara crafts and altar
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Elephant Journal: Empaths: Stop Ignoring your Human Bullsh*t Detector.
I’ve spent a lot of time healing from narcissistic abuse, mostly out of absolute desperation to stop the pattern from repeating (because, ouch).
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MNN: Red pandas are actually 2 separate species
Quite possibly the cutest animal in the world is actually two different species, researchers have discovered.
The bushy-tailed red panda that lives in the high forests of Asia is already endangered, and this new discovery may make conservation efforts even more important.
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EarthSky News: Moon and Winter Circle March 3-4
These next few evenings – March 3 and 4, 2020 – the waxing moon is moving inside the Winter Circle, sometimes called the Winter Hexagon. It’s a large circular (hexagonal) star asterism – not one of the 88 official constellations, but just a noticeable pattern of stars – consisting of six 1st-magnitude stars in six separate constellations
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Patheos-Pagan: Ostara: Decorating Eggs In Celebration Of Spring Equinox
Over the last week, Michigan has been transformed into the Ice Planet Hoth. Temperatures have been hovering in the low teens and inches of fluffy white snow have filled our lawns, sidewalks, and highways.
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Inner Journey:
GROWING OURSELVES
“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
We are all on a life-long journey. It is a search for who we are and why we are here. It is a journey that expands our consciousness.
There is an urge within each of us to move forward in life. It is an urge to become more whole, to find more meaning, and eventually to help others. It is human nature to strive for a sense of well-being.
We all go through the same growth cycles, though our experiences may appear entirely different. By understanding the process of personal and spiritual growth, we can work more effectively with the process, instead of fighting and resisting it.
“We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.”
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
higherawareness.com
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A Note from the Universe
The Universe
tut.com
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Today’s Recipe: Slow Cooker Cheesy Cauliflower Casserole
A great cauliflower side dish that goes well with just about anything. An easy way to get kids to eat veggies.
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Magical Correspondences for Tuesday
Intentions: Courage, Destination, Physical Strength, Revenge, Military Honors, Surgery and the Breaking of Negative Spells, Matrimony, War, Enemies, Prison, Vitality, and Assertiveness
Incense: Dragon’s Blood, Patchouli, Lignum Aloes, Plantain
Perfumes: Hellebore, Carnation, Patchouli
Planet: Mars
Sign: Aries and Scorpio
Angel: Samuel
Colors: Red and Orange
Herbs/Plants: Red Rose, Cock’s Comb, Pine, Daisy, Thyme and Pepper
Stones: Carnelian, Bloodstone, Ruby, Garnet, and Pink Tourmaline
Oil: (Mars) Basil, Coriander, Ginger
Goddesses: Aset [Isis], Soorejnaree, Pingalla, Anna, Aine, Danu, Yngona, Bellona, Aida Wedo, Sun Woman
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Daily Wisdom
March 3, 2020
Evolution
“I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be – that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth, I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
If we all hold to that vision of peace, of compassion, of goodness – we, as a society and as a world, will evolve towards that vision. Like the caterpillar that was born to evolve into a butterfly – we have a purpose which lies beyond our daily scope of events. There is so much more to us than we can see. And so much that we can contribute than we can comprehend.
-Lissa Coffey
coffeytalk.com
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Daily Tarot: Death
It’s probably nothing you can prepare for, but the Death card indicates that a sudden change is headed your way. Does it signify an actual, literal death or dramatic end? No. You may still go through a similar grieving process, but this death is of the figurative variety. In order for something new to begin, something else has to end. A feeling of liberation will follow.
astrology.com
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