Cat’s Morning Bits for May 2, 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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The woods were full of deer;
and running
everywhere
fresh water-
brooks, rundles,
springs and creeks.
-Charlies Reznikoff (1894-1976)
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Spiritual Unite: White Owl Totem – Giving You Laser Sight
The White Owl is an animal with strong symbolism across many different cultures.
If the White Owl is your animal totem, you can be expected to have a lean towards connecting with natural wisdom, insight and intuitive vision.
https://www.spiritualunite.com/articles/white-owl-totem-giving-you-laser-sight/
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ThoughtCo: Including Kids in Pagan Practice
As the modern Pagan movement progresses and evolves, the Pagan community has grown to encompass people of all age levels. Those who discovered Paganism as teens or college students two or three decades ago are now raising their own children, and so the demographic within the Pagan community is constantly changing. It’s not uncommon at all to meet families in which one or both parents are Pagans or Wiccans, and they may have kids who follow a variety of religious paths.
https://www.learnreligions.com/include-kids-in-pagan-practices-2561804
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Spirit Library: Magical Breakthroughs – May 2019 Energy Forecast
Hi my friend,
We have so much to catch up on, so let’s get right to it!
Magical Experiences
The month of May will offer us a combination of energies that will help us create more magical experiences and synchronicity in our lives, in a grounded and steady way.
https://spiritlibrary.com/emmanuel-dagher/magical-breakthroughs-may-2019-energy-forecast
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Elephant Journal: How Empathy Improves our Relationships—All of Them.
No two humans are exactly alike.
From different upbringings, experiences, genetics, personalities, and dispositions, it’s unlikely for anyone to walk through life without conflicting with someone else’s beliefs. Disagreements are inevitable.
Since human connection is so important to our well-being, how do we resolve human conflicts healthily, in order to have strong, long-lasting relationships?
https://www.elephantjournal.com/2019/04/how-empathy-improves-your-relationships-all-of-them/
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MNN: 11 astonishing facts about jellyfish
Did you know jellyfish have outlived the dinosaurs by hundreds of millions of years, and some have been to space?
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/11-astonishing-facts-about-jellyfish
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EarthSky News: Arc to Arcturus, spike to Spica
Tonight, look outside in the evening and learn a phrase useful to sky watchers. The phrase is: follow the arc to Arcturus, and drive a spike (or speed on) to Spica. You can use this phrase in any year.
First locate the Big Dipper asterism in the northeastern sky. Then draw an imaginary line following the curve in the Dipper’s handle until….
https://earthsky.org/tonight/follow-the-arc-to-arcturus-in-may
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Patheos-Pagan: The Birth of Artemis
To Artemis
I sing of Artemis, whose shafts are of gold, who cheers on the hounds, the pure maiden, shooter of stags, who delights in archery, own sister to Apollo with the golden sword. Over the shadowy hills and windy peaks she draws her golden bow,
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/adamantinemuse/2017/02/birth-goddess-artemis/
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Inner Journey:
FIND PEACE INSIDE
“All spiritual disciplines are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit.”
— Swami Ramdas
Getting into the habit of meditating, praying and/or resting daily helps us pull back from our preoccupation with the material world. In silence and solitude, we have an opportunity to pay attention to what’s happening inside rather than outside.
When we do this consistently, we learn to relax and to quiet and detach from our mental chatter and our turbulent emotions. As we begin to witness ourselves in personality, we also begin to experience our soul.
“Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent.” If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.”
— Eknath Easwaran
higherawareness.com
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Wise Woman Herbal: Got Ramps?!
Worthy of its own festival, ramps are a springtime rite celebrating a Southern Appalachian delicacy. Smelly as a ram in spring, ramps get their nickname from the Old English word “ramson” for wild garlic. They are also affectionately known as the spring onion, wild leek, and in French, ail sauvage and ail des bois, which translates as (no surprise!) wild garlic.
http://www.wisewomanmentor.com/articles/7310369
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Today’s Recipe: Homemade Hot Chocolate
Hot chocolate is one of our favorite morning beverages and we make it at home from fresh harvest cacao beans. The beans are sun dried, cooked and grinded then placed into molds to form blocks or bars of raw unsweetened chocolate. We call them “tablea”.
https://www.thriftyfun.com/Homemade-Hot-Chocolate.html
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Magical Correspondences for Thursday
Intentions: Luck, Happiness, Health/ Healing, Religion, Legal Matters, Male Fertility, Treasure and Wealth, Honor, Riches, Clothing Desires, Leadership, Public Activity, Power and Success, Trade and Employment
Incense: Cinnamon,Henbane Nutmeg and Sage
Planet: Jupiter
Sign: Sagittarius and Pisces
Angel: Sachiel
Colors: Purple, Royal Blue and Indigo
Herbs/Plants: Cinnamon, Beech, Buttercup, Coltsfoot, Oak
Stones: Sugilite, Amethyst, Turquoise, Lapis Lazuli and Sapphire
Oil: (Jupiter) Clove, Lemon Balm, Oakmoss, Star Anise
Goddesses: Juno, Hera, Kwan Yin, Mary, Cybele, Tara, Mawu, Mlaba Mwana Waresa, Ishtar, Nuit
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Daily Wisdom
May 2, 2019
Understanding
“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
-Heraclitus (540?- 480?)
Where do we find understanding? It doesn’t just come from education. It isn’t just in books. How easy that would be it if were so! Understanding is not something that is generated in our minds. It starts with our mind, but whatever it is becomes understood when it finds its way into our heart. We understand because we can relate, we can identify, we can see that we are not separate from that which we seek to understand.
-Lissa Coffey
coffeytalk.com
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Beliefnet: 21 Reasons Driving Inspires Us
We asked readers what inspires them most about driving. They told of their passion for becoming one with their cars and hitting the open road. They shared special moments behind the wheel enjoying…
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