Month: March 2011

Magickal Focals

Focals are used for amplifying, focusing and concentrating magickal energy. They should blend with the potion you are making or spell you are casting. You can use many focal blended together. You will find that focals like food, music, scented oils, candles, incense and decoration, all add more power to your magick. The following is a list of focals used in magick.

Visual Focals—-Sight. Things you look at. Examples include: photographs, symbols, drawings, paintings, statues, flowers.

Auditory Focals—-Sound. Thing you hear. Examples include: music, singing, chanting, drumming, humming, breathing, ocean, fountains, birds.

Gustatory Focals—-Taste. Things you taste. Examples include: food, beverages, and the salt on your skin.

Kinesthetic Focals—-Touch. Things you can touch. Examples include:  skin, plants, fabrics such as velvet, carved chalices, shells and crystals.

Olfactory Focals—-Smell. Things you can smell. Examples include:  scented oils, scented candles, foods and incense.

Intuitive Focals—-Psychic. Sense. Things you can sense intuitively. Examples include: ritual jewelry and talismans.

The Three Steps of Magick

Your altar provides the sacred space for doing magick to attain your goals. The three basic steps of magick are:

  1. intention and expectation

  2. desire

  3. experiencing

You can apply the three steps to all your magick making. First, you need really understand what your intentions are and what it is you expect, and most of all, that you really want it. Second, you must have a strong desire to attain your magickal goal. Third, you must merge with Oneness, with divinity, as deeply as possible, and then a little deeper still, allowing your intention, expectation, and desire to flow out of you and move out into the world. Imagine releasing thought energy so strong that it becomes real.

Page Finished

Just a quick note to let you know the page about March is up and finished. You will find info about everything from the month to the ruling planet Neptune. Also some good info about Pisces and their characteristics, likes, dislikes and also possible health problems. Turned out to be pretty interesting even if I do say so myself, considering I’m a Pisces myself, lol! Check it out though, it is pretty interesting!

Trying Something New

This is a quickie, I promise. I am going to try something new. Instead of keeping the monthly information on the main page, I am going to put that info over in the page section of the blog. On the main page, I hope to keep information that is new and helpful to those visiting the blog. If this doesn’t work good, I’ll go back to the old way of posting about the months.

Thank you.

‘THINK on THESE THINGS’

‘THINK on THESE THINGS’
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler

In the frantic search for something that has meaning to life, we have a tendency to do a thing simply because everyone else is doing it. It becomes a “thing,” a fad that must be done to keep on the inside circle. There’s little originality, little thought, but a lot of following along in beaten paths.

It is a mistaken idea to believe that all I see with my eyes and the limits of my thinking are the limits of the world. There is a tremendously interesting world out there never before investigated, and I am an individual like no one else.

It is quite marvelous to break through the shell of the middling and to discover the ability to see and feel, and to hear more keenly. Suddenly, I can feel more kindly, not because of who I am on this earth, but because I’m a child of God.

I can see more color, more light, more vision because I’m not being shown, I’m discovering. My world is no longer based on passing fancies, but on the lasting built slowly within me, with love.

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Available online! ‘Cherokee Feast of Days’
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler.

Elder’s Meditation of the Day – March 2

Elder’s Meditation of the Day – March 2

“.the voice and the heart are not working together.”

–Barney Bush, SHAWNEE

We can say any words we want with our voice but we cannot hide the true meaning and the true spirit behind the words. The true meaning is always understood. The voice is heard in the physical world, but the meaning is transmitted in the spiritual world. If our voice says one thing but the heart is saying something else, it’s the something else that is heard. It is said that the truth will set you free. Reaching the truth means your voice and your words will be in alignment with the heart.

Great Spirit, let my tongue, speak the truth today.

March 2 – Daily Feast

March 2 – Daily Feast

“I have a right!” Only, says a wise sage, if you accept the responsibility that goes with it. We have a right to be full-fledged people of dignity and decency and respect, as long as we are decent and respectful to those around us. The right for a good life belongs to all of us – as long as we value it, work for it, and keep it good. We have a right to speak our minds, but we have to know the tremendous responsibility of words. We have a right to cultivate our spiritual preferences and to see them bear fruit in every good thing. It is our right to be who we are without the burden of regret and resentment. But we have to remember that our rights are limited to where our rights end – and another person’s rights begin.

~ These were not our ways. We kept the laws we made and lived our religion. We have never been able to understand the white man, who fools nobody but himself. ~

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‘A Cherokee Feast of Days’, by Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Daily OM for 3/2 – The Feeling Underneath

The Feeling Underneath
Compulsive Apologies

If you find yourself apologizing often it might be time to look at why you feel compelled to say “I’m sorry” so often.

Many people suffer with the tendency to apologize all the time, chronically, for everything. On the one hand, apologizing is a social convention that keeps interactions between people polite, and in that way it can be very helpful. On the other hand, if we find ourselves apologizing for everything, it might be time to look at why we feel compelled to say “I’m sorry” so often. Ultimately, saying you’re sorry is saying that you are responsible for something that has gone wrong in the situation. Whether it’s negotiating a parking spot, moving through the aisles of the supermarket, or reaching for what you want, there are times when sorry is the right thing to say. But there are other times when “excuse me” is more accurate.

Sometimes saying you’re sorry is like saying that the other person in the equation has more of a right to be here than you do. Of course, it’s true that using the word sorry can simply be an innocuous way of defusing tension. However, if you find that you say sorry all the time, you might want to look a little deeper and see where in your psyche that might be coming from. If it’s a pattern, breaking it may simply take some awareness and practice.

The first step is observing yourself each time you say it, without being hard on yourself about it. Throughout your day simply notice when you apologize. At first, you might be surprised to see that you do it even more than you first realized. After a day or two of simply observing, try to tune in to what it is you are feeling right before you say it. You might be feeling threatened, embarrassed, intensely anxious, or a variety of other feelings. Over time, try to stop yourself before the words come out and just be with the feeling that’s there. You may recognize it as one from your childhood, one that’s been with you for a long time. The more you are able to see it, the freer you will be not to be sorry all the time.