This is a valuable tonic for tired eyes and blurry vision.
2 tablespoons fennel seeds 2 tablespoons eyebright 2 tablespoons bilberry powder 2 tablespoons gotu kola leaves, optionalSimmer in 2 cups of water for 15 minutes. Strain and drink half a cup daily. Two tablespoons of gotu kola leaves may be steeped for 10 minutes after the tonic has been simmered to increase circulation from the carotids.
When life has let you down and no one seems to care; have a cup of tea and wait for things to come your way.
1 tablespoon skullcap leaves and flowers 1 tablespoon passionflower 1 teaspoon lavender flowers and leaves 1 teaspoon chamomile flowers 1 tablespoon lemon grassCombine all and steep in 2 cups of boiled water, covered, 15 minutes. Strain and surrender.
This is a soothing tea to enjoy when the mind can’t slow down.
2 tablespoons hops 2 tablespoons chamomile flowers 2 tablespoons lemon balm or spearmint leaves (peppermint is too stimulating) 1 teaspoon chopped lavender leavesSteep in 2 cups of boiled water, covered. Strain after 10 – 15 minutes and drink 1/2 – 1 cup to relax.
Native Americans of the Midwest used this tonic to alleviate bronchial coughs and congestion.
2 tablespoons pleurisy root 1 tablespoon mullein root 2 tablespoons elecampane root 1 tablespoon cramp bark 1 teaspoon licorice root or ginger 2 tablespoons osha root, optional; take only if there is congestion or a productive cough 2 tablespoons yucca, dried and split, optional; take only if there is wheezingSimmer in 2 cups of water, covered for 15 minutes. Strain when cool and drink half a cup daily to facilitate the lungs or drink half a cup three times daily to alleviate congestion. For wheezing, add dried and split yucca, and add half a cup to coffee or drink alone up to 3 times daily.
This tea may also be used as a gargle for sore and tickling throats or as a compress on the forehead to relieve a stuffy head.
1 teaspoon thyme leaves 1 teaspoon sage leaves 1 teaspoon lavender leavesSteep the above herbs in 2 cups of boiled water for 10 – 15 minutes. Strain and drink 1 cup to relieve sinus congestion.
Tomorrow is ‘National Cancer Survivor’s Day’ and I feel honored to share a mystical Feng Shui cancer healing meditation that comes courtesy of philosopher Grandmaster Lin Yun. He has always taught that the following ‘cure’ was only to be used to augment appropriate medical treatments. But Professor Lin Yun additionally recommended adding this energetic intervention in order to heal in body, mind and spirit. He strongly suggested that any cancer patient meditate daily on ‘The Six True Colors.’ He held that transmitting this auspicious and healing color sequence to the afflicted cancer cells could bring about a rewarding response. This specific sequence represents a holy figure — a god or the Buddha — and they are believed to bring an exponential increase in spiritual power. The sequence is as follows: white, red, yellow, green, blue and black. Visualizing this series being transmitted to the site of the afflicted cells for twenty minutes a day can help restore harmony and health while also bringing great blessings. This is powerful and healing Feng Shui and I am indebted to Lin Yun for allowing me to share this information with the world!
By Ellen Whitehurst for Astrology.com
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Jade Runes are most commonly used for questions about love, friendship, and relationships. Ken is the rune of light and knowledge, driving away darkness and ignorance and revealing hidden truth. This rune also brings forth images of friendship and comfort. Ken is the light of inspiration, the light of imagination, and a beacon in the darkest hours. |
This Tarot Deck: Golden Tarot
Metals must undergo extremes of temperature, folding and pounding, but the end product is infinitely superior to impure ore mined from the earth. In this image, the soul volunteers the ego for a cleansing and healing experience which may turn the personality inside-out, but which brings out the gold hidden within the heart. (This card is entitled “Art” in the Crowley deck.)
The two days before any Full Moon constitute a 48-hour time-period of preparation for the enlightening vibrations about to enter humanity and the Earth. We are now within that electro-magnetic aura since the upcoming Full Moon – with the Sun in Gemini and the Moon in Sagittarius – occurs early Monday June 4, followed by Neptune being virtually motionless as it shifts from direct to retrograde motion in Pisces. Therefore, this entire weekend has a spiritual, religious and philosophical high-vibration going on if you can tune into those rarified qualities of life. On the more practical and pragmatic levels of being, you can make headway with arts, crafts, hobbies and especially scientific-mathematical projects as Mercury makes an inspirational, 72-degree rapport with its higher-guardian planet Uranus (6:49AM PDT). Healing forces continue to show their strength (following last night’s Moon-Chiron trine) as Ceres makes an inspirational, 72-degree alliance with Chiron (1:01PM PDT). This Ceres-Chiron connection can also be utilized to alter your diet and enhance your nutritional needs. Your productivity quotient rises – as long as you don’t fall prey to the shadow side of lunar Scorpio (projecting anger on well-meaning friends, associates and family members). Strive to improve the quality of your primary partnerships tonight – courtesy of the monthly Moon-Juno union (11:36PM PDT). Mystery movies and who-done-it bestsellers can capture your imagination.
Hawthorn Tree Month
Color: Purple
Element: Air
Altar: Upon a cloth of purple place a vase of the budded hawthorn twigs, a knife, incense of gardenia and marjoram, and a figure of the Goddess.
Offerings: Contemplate something that is both beautiful and painful.
Daily Meal: Serve fruit juice with the food.
Huath Invocation
Call: Now is the time of the flower’s blossoming.
Response: Now is the time when the hand reaches forth to pluck.
Call: Now is the time when we struggle with our instincts…
Response: To take beauty for ourselves, or to leave it in its place.
Call: Now is the time when we must remember that all plants are not ours.
Response: We did not plant the forest, and it does not belong to us.
Call: We were not the first beings on this earth.
Response: We have come young and late, and the trees look down upon us.
Call: They groan from the centuries of our meddling.
Response: They grow thorns to protect themselves.
Call: Now is the time when the hawthorn goddess steps forward.
Response: Now is the time when the heartless lady lifts her hand.
Call: Now is the time of great beauty in the world.
Response: Now is the time when Nature protects her beauty.
Call: The hawthorn goddess stabs us to the heart with beauty.
Response: She reminds us of our place in the world.
Call: She reminds us that we do not own this green planet.
Response: She reminds us that our grasping fingers can still bleed.
Call: She makes the hedges that our animals cannot cross.
Response: She sets the boundaries that no man may cross.
Call: She makes our hearts beat faster or slower.
Response: Her berries are sweet, but she protects them.
Call: We must respect her as we respect the Earth….
Response: The Green Man falls before her, heedless and headless.
Call: She is the blade of all trees, and we shed our blood for her.
Response: She is the teeth of Nature, and we give way before her might.
Chant:
Cauldron of Changes
Blossom of Bone
Arc of Eternity
Hole in the Stone
The Witchcraft Chronicles 
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