Cat’s Morning Bits for August 23, 2022
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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August Quotes
“If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?”
Steven Wright
gardendigest.com
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August 2022 Events
Aug 1 Lammas / Lughnasadh
Aug 5 Celtic Tree Month of Hazel begins
Aug 11 Full “Sturgeon” Moon at 6:35 pm PST/ 7:35 pm MST/ 9:35 pm MST
Aug 27 New Moon at 1:17 am PST/ 2:17 am MST/ 4:17 am EST
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Spirit Library: Weekly Forecast: August 21 – 27, 2022
Kelly M. Beard
This has turned into a one-year process March 2022 -thru- February 2023, which has several implications. First of all, Vesta is what is “sacred” – not just important or valuable but SACRED, to you, the individual.
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Easiest Mooncake Recipe (Snowy Style)
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Spirituality & Health:What Makes an Ordinary Place a Sacred Space?
by Alizah Solario
With one in five Americans now unaffiliated with organized religion, a new generation is on a journey to create—or discover—the next great sacred space.
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Learn Religions: Mabon: The Autumn Equinox
Explore the mid-harvest festival
By Patti Wigington
Updated on June 25, 2019
It is the time of the autumn equinox, and the harvest is winding down. The fields are nearly empty because the crops have been plucked and stored for the coming winter.
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MBG: Virgo Season Is Here: Ready To Lean Into Its Grounded & Practical Energy?
Summer is starting to wind down, and that can only mean one thing: Virgo season is upon us. Starting August 22, the sun will move into this grounded and earthy sign, and there are a few key astrological themes to keep in mind. Here’s what to know.
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Working with Plant and Animal Spirits/ Chaotic Witch Aunt
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Exemplore:7 Symbolic Interpretations of Dreams About Hair and Hair Loss in Dreams
RÓISÍN AISLING IRELANDMAY 11, 2022
Merovingian monarchs believed it had magical powers. Cutting it was Samson’s demise. Keri Russell’s character chopped her locks in the TV show Felicity and caused a national uproar.
Clearly, hair has a great impact on our lives and on our dreams.
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Treehugger: How to Save Tomato Seeds: Step-by-Step Instructions
Saved properly, dried tomato seeds can last years.
When you buy new seeds at the store, they often come from large companies that treat their crops with pesticides and other hazardous chemicals. Saving seeds from your own produce each year is a more environmentally friendly alternative.
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EarthSky News: Teapot points to Milky Way center
Come to know the Teapot of Sagittarius
Our Milky Way galaxy is a vast collection of hundreds of billions of stars. We’re not in the galaxy’s center, but instead about 2/3s of the way out from center, in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms. On August evenings, all of us on Earth can gaze toward the galaxy’s center in a dark sky.
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Patheos-Pagan: Why Love Spells (Still) Matter — The One about Consent
AUGUST 20, 2022 BY IRISANYA MOON
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the need for love spells.
I wanted to talk about why they’re essential in a not-so-soft world. We need desire and hope and longing. Connection.
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Pagan Playlist: Münknorr -Aegishjalmur[Full Album]
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Inner Journey:
REFUSE TO BE A VICTIM
“We focus on the negatives, losing ourselves in the ‘problem.’ We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.”
— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Nothing and no one can make us a victim. We do it to ourselves when we allow external circumstances to hold power over us.
Although we have no control over what happens to us, we ALWAYS have a choice in how we respond. We hold our power when we accept complete responsibility for our thoughts, feelings and actions.
“A man may fall many times but he won’t be a failure until he says someone pushed him.”
— Elmer G. Letterman
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
— Steven Biko
higherawareness.com
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A Note from the Universe
You’ll know they understand you when they start appreciating you.
And you’ll know you understand them when you start appreciating them.
Oh, the crazy simplicity –
The Universe
tut.com
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Today’s Recipe: Pineapple Sangria
Easy sangria recipe that can be easily altered based on fruit you have on hand and personal taste.
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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
August 23, 2022
Silence
“Silence is the mother of truth.”
-Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Silence gives birth to so many wonderful things. It is from this space of infinite possibilities that all great works flow. It is from this realm of vast wisdom that we all learn and grow.
-Lissa Coffey coffeytalk.com
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Daily Tarot: The Devil
Some days you just want to be self-indulgent, and today is one of those days. Put those feelings on the back burner while at work or out in public. After the serious part of the day is over, the danger actually increases for you. Don’t overindulge and make yourself sick or regretful. Sometimes too much of a good thing is too much, and you want to start tomorrow feeling good.
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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