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Happy Virgo season! Creating a sugar scrub for this zodiac sign was a little bit of a challenge, since I prefer to work with plants in their natural state. While looking through The Hearth Witch’s Compendium: Magical and Natural Living for Every Day by Anna Franklin to see which plants corresponded to the sign of Virgo, three stood out to me: Almond, Lavender, and Mace.
The Autumn Equinox occurs each year around September 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and March 21 in the Southern Hemisphere. It marks one of two times each year that there is an equal balance of day and night. The Autumn Equinox Tarot Reading with Kajora Lovely can give you some personal insight during this time of year.
The Autumn Equinox, or Mabon, has become a part of Neo-pagan celebrations, marking the first day of fall. It’s at this time that night and day are at a harmonious balance, with equal amounts of day and night. Equinoxes mark balance and also a seasonal change. This time of year is good for spellwork and intention setting on issues related to balance, harmony, protection, wealth, and abundance.
It’s almost Friday the 13th! While this can seem ominous to some, it’s also a celebration of the Norse goddess Freyja.
Freyja oversees love, sex, fertility, death, warfare, magic, and witchcraft. You can learn more about her here. Some of the plants and foods associated with her are almonds, strawberries, and honey.
I’ve been wanting to make something that incorporates her ingredients for some time, but it only recently occurred to me to use the ingredients in their natural form, not as essential oils. Since I’m a big fan of sugar scrubs, I realized how easy it is to use fresh or frozen strawberries, runny honey, and almond flour. The nice thing about this recipe is that so long as you have access to frozen strawberries, you can make it any time of year, or during the summer with fresh strawberries.
These particular ingredients are great because not only do they have magical benefits, they have physical benefits as well. According to The Hearth Witch’s Compendium: Magical and Natural Living for Every Day by Anna Franklin:
Can be used as a gentle exfoliant, and is used for regeneration, divination, fertility, love, luck, and money.
Has antibacterial properties, helps to nourish and feed the skin, and can help remove blackheads.
Has Vitamin C and works to help reduce fine lines, wrinkles, blemishes, and acne. Can be used for blessing, love, and fertility.
2 Strawberries, macerated
⅛ cup Coconut Oil, melted
½ tsp Honey
1 tbsp Almond Flour
1 ½ cups Sugar
Cut the strawberries into small pieces, then place in a bowl and mash thoroughly with a fork. Add the melted coconut oil and honey, stirring to combine thoroughly.
In a separate bowl, combine the almond flour and sugar. Use a spoon to break up any small clumps, and mix to thoroughly combine.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry, and stir thoroughly until all of the ingredients are combined. If the mixture seems too wet, you can always add more sugar one teaspoon at a time. If the mixture is too dry, either add another strawberry or a touch more honey.
Store in an airtight container and use within a week or so. Since this includes fruit, I recommend storing it in the refrigerator in between uses so it maintains maximum freshness.
If you work with the Norse goddess Freyja, you can call in her energy before making the scrub. I only advise this if you have already introduced yourself and begun working together, and have your own practice and/or relationship with her.
Freyja: Norse Goddess of Love, Witchcraft, and War
Love Sugar Scrub with Rose and Cardamom
Every year when there is a Friday the 13th, we’re actually celebrating Freyja’s Day. This is for two reasons. First, the English word Friday comes from the Scandinavian names for days of the week, and Friday is Frejya’s Day. Freyja’s number is 13, and therefore any Friday the 13th is her day, and a time to celebrate this goddess.
Who is Freyja? She’s a Norse goddess, and one of my favorite deities to work with, so I’d like to share the information I’ve compiled on her. Most of the information I’m sharing I’ve learned from Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes, in addition to supplemental sources on the internet.
There are other sources that go into greater depth, but keep in mind that like many other pagans around the world, the Norse people did not have a written language. Most common knowledge about pagan deities comes from the people who conquered them. For example, most of the information on Celtic tribes and their practices came from the Romans, who were pagan, but also had a written language.
Freja by John Bauer
What we know today about the Norse people and their customs comes from Christians who invaded and converted the people living in modern day Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland. Their traditions were captured in the Prose Edda and Poetic Edda by the Christian Snorri Sturluson, which were written in Icelandic. Women were not as highly regarded as men during the Viking era, so a greater emphasis has been placed on male deities, although the Norse pantheon certainly had a large amount of female deities as well.
Freyja, the Norse goddess of witchcraft, death, love, and fertility, was later condemned by Christian missionaries as the “Queen of Witches.”
Freyja is actually not technically a name—its literal translation means “Lady.” She has a brother, who goes by Freyr, whose name literally means “Lord.” Their parents are Njörðr, the Sea, and Herta, the Earth.
Freyja is the goddess of love, warfare, sex, fertility, death, beauty, magic, and witchcraft. She oversees battles, can bestow or remove fertility, can be petitioned for love, and was born knowing the divine secrets of witchcraft and the Runes. This is due to the fact that she is part of the Vanir, a people believed to practice witchcraft and have a strong connection to the Earth.
According to Judika Illes, “Freya was no obscure goddess but beloved and worshipped over a vast European territory including Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, the Germanic lands, Holland, and Anglo-Saxon Britain. She remains among the most beloved and widely venerated Pagan goddesses today. No spirit annoyed Christian authorities more than Freya. Ironically, the result was that Freya survives more vividly than virtually any other female European spirit. Constant condemnation kept Freya from fading into obscurity.”
Freyja in the Dwarf's Cave by Louis Huard
Illes continues: “Freya was denounced as a Queen of Witches. Women who venerated her were automatically branded ‘witches.’ And, of course, Freya’s rites and traditions did encourage magical practice, mediumship, shamanism, and female autonomy with Freya herself as the role model, behavior the new regime considered abhorrent and sinful.”
This does not come as much of a surprise: even though some pagan traditions relied heavily on heteronormative and patriarchal gender roles, there were outliers. Since Freyja oversaw battles and ruled over magic, she owned her own sense of power and ability to change fate. By being able to bestow and control magic, divination, fertility, love, war, and death, she held a great deal of power in her hands. It’s not a surprise someone considered so powerful, especially for females, was so difficult to extricate from the population Christian missionaries wanted to convert.
Norse gods are divided into two subgroups: the Æsir and the Vanir. Freyja and her family are part of the Vanir, and less is known about them than their counterparts. What is known is that the Æsir and Vanir were at war, and the Æsir were triumphant. As part of their truce agreement, Njörðr, Freyja, and Freyr were sent to live with the Æsir.
Norse mythology states the Vanir were living in what is now Scandinavia when the Æsir arrived. According to Judika Illes, “The Vanir evoked greater hostility from the Christian Church than their Aesir counterparts, so less information about the Vanir now survives.” The most we know about the Vanir is from those sent to live with Æsir.
What we do know about the Vanir is that they were shapeshifters associated associated with magic, creative energy, the sea, prophecy, eroticism, fertility, and shamanism. Our current view of elves is not so different from the Vanir, and it was believed that every rock, tree, and natural site had a Vanir spirit attached to it.
Personally, I find it interesting that the Vanir sound very powerful and mysterious, which is likely what made them seem like a threat to the Æsir. They held certain powers and knowledge unknown to the Æsir. The interesting part about this is that, according to the legend, Freyja shared much of her inherent knowledge with the Æsir shortly after becoming their hostage.
The Norse god Óðinn, a member of the Æsir, was the first to befriend her, and from her he learned the ways of seiðr, a form of magic and fortune telling that was considered women’s magic and not suitable for men. Freyja knew the meanings of the Runes, but according to the legend told by Snorri Sturluson, Freyja’s knowledge of the Runes led Óðinn to cut out one of his eyes and hang himself from Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life, for nine days while staring into the Well of Wyrd, the well the tree sits upon. After nine days and nine nights of staring into the well, the Runes appeared to him, and he knew their meaning.
Runes are the individual letters of the Norse alphabet, and were used for magical, divination, and fortune telling purposes. I find this particular story of Freyja and Óðinn fascinating because it shows the distinction between the Æsir and the Vanir. Óðinn had to put himself through a great tribulation to acquire knowledge Freyja already possessed.
However, considering that Óðinn was known for being very clever, this story is not a complete surprise because he likely saw an opportunity to learn something that most of his male peers would not, and he rebuffed criticism that associating with “women’s magic” made him weak. (The Norse placed a large emphasis on males doing strictly manly things and women doing strictly feminine things.) What I appreciate is that this was the beginning of Óðinn and Freyja working in tandem, both of them crossing expectations of their gender as they pleased.
Freya by irenhorrors
When a battle takes place, Freyja takes on her nom de guerre Valfreya and leads the Valkyries to battle. The Valkyries are psychopomps who ferry souls of the recently dead to the next realm, and in battles would typically ferry them to two places. Valfreya has first pick of the dead, and Óðinn has second pick, but ultimately everyone who dies in battle is split evenly between the two.
Those whom Óðinn chooses go to live in with him in Valhalla. Those whom Freyja chooses are taken to her realm, which is known as Fólkvangr, a meadow with a large hall called Sessrúmnir, where love songs are constantly played.
Each of these powerful deities chooses soldiers who spend the afterlife with them and ultimately fight alongside them at Ragnarök, the end of the world and a massive battle. At Ragnarök the Jötnar (giants) who were present for the creation of Earth will leave their icy homes, Fenrir, a giant wolf held on a magical chain, will break loose and devour parts of the Earth, along with Óðinn. Until this point, both Freyja and Óðinn will fight alongside their chosen fallen soldiers. Freyja is among the spirits who survive Ragnarök, many of which are female.
Freya's Due by Sam Flegal
There are some interesting similarities between Freyja and the Norse goddess Frigg, who oversees and is Óðinn’s wife. Some believe it’s possible that these two are actually the same person or deity, and I think this is plausible, mainly due to the fact that Freyja is not a name, but a title, and Frigg is an actual name.
Frigg is known as a “Well Beloved Lady” and also goes by the names Frigga, Fricka, and Saga, and is the goddess of matrimony, fertility, divination, and childbirth. It is unknown if she is part of the Æsir or Vanir. As the wife of Óðinn she is associated with marriage and fidelity. Her bird is the Stork, and her hall is Fensalir, where happily married couples spend the afterlife together.
According to Judika Illes, “It can be very difficult to distinguish Frigg from Freya. Although clearly distinct spirits in Scandinavia, the two may have merged into one spirit in the German lands, although as so much information has been lost, suppressed, and garbled, it’s not impossible to definitively determine. Ironically, because Christian authorities despised Freya so intensely, more lucid, substantial information regarding her and her traditions survive.”
The theory that Freyja and Frigg are the same person is compounded by the belief that Óðr, Freyja’s husband, is actually Óðinn. Whether this is true or not, Óðr and Freyja had two daughters together: Hnoss and Gersemi. Not much is known about them.
Freya Driving Her Cat Chariot by Dani Kaulakis
Freyja is known for being beautiful and having long blond hair, but she is also a shapeshifter and can take on any form. She has a magical falcon feather cloak that enables her to fly and wears a glowing necklace forged by dwarves called Brísingamen.
She rides a chariot pulled by two silver cats (possibly lynxes) that some say are named Bygul and Trjegul. Not surprisingly, Freyja is associated with cats, as well as falcons, rabbits, cuckoos, ladybugs, oxen, swallows, and boars. Her colors are yellow, white, green, red, pink, and light blue.
Freyja’s materials are gold and amber, and she loves flowers. The plants affiliated with her are Almond, Arnica, Bedstraw, Benzoin, Bird Berry, Clover, Cypress, English Daisy, Hemp, Henbane, Holly, Mistletoe, Mugwort, Opium Poppy, Primrose, Rose, and Strawberry. The essential oils associated with her are Benzoin, Birch, Cypress, Myrrh, Rose, and Sandalwood.
Offerings to Freyja can include any of these items, along with her favorite foods: Ale, Apples, Barley, Edible Flowers, Honey, Mead, and Pork. Treating cats well is one way to pay homage to her—either by feeding feral cats or adopting cats and treating them well. As the goddess of love, she enjoys love poems and songs, which can be heard at Fólkvangr.
Heimdallr returns the necklace Brísingamen to Freyja by Nils Blommér
Since Freyja oversees love, sex, fertility, magic, witchcraft, warcraft, death, pleasure, glory, and beauty, her favored people are soldiers, veterans, jewelers, seers, shamans, witches, and practitioners of the magical arts. It is believed that you can use the Runes to communicate with her.
If you would like to work with Freyja, I suggest starting by introducing yourself and seeing if she wants to work with you. To do this, you can meditate, call her name in your mind three times, and see how she appears to you. If she does not look at you or does not appear, you are not meant to work with her at this time. If she does, you can see what she does or how she appears. Even if nothing much happens during your meditation, you may see her again in future meditations, or some clarity will come on the work you two are meant to do together.
Also, if you like Freyja’s energy and would like to find a way to incorporate that into your daily or self care routine, check out my recipe for a Freyja-themed Sugar Scrub with strawberries, almond, and honey.
Lugh: Celtic God of Warfare, Poetry, Craftsmanship, and the Sun
On Friday, September 13th, there’s a Full Moon in Pisces. This day also coincides with celebrating Freyja, the Norse goddess of love, war, divination, witchcraft, and fertility.
Since the Full Moon in Pisces coincides with Freyja’s Day this year, I think it’s an excellent time to explore our own unique gifts. We’re also heading into fall, a time when we begin to draw inward and focus a bit more on ourselves than we did during the warmer months.
Happy September! Here are the tarot readings for each astrological sign. If you’re interested in booking a tarot reading or reiki healing, learn more about rates and offerings here and email kajoralovely@gmail.com to book your session!
Before we say goodbye to summer in 2019 and dive into all things fall, I’d like to share this recipe that you can use any time of the year: Rose and Cardamom Bath Salts.
Bath salts are great to use when you have achy or sore muscles, after a reiki healing session, or when you need some quality time to yourself. The scientific benefits of Epsom salt baths have not been proven, however, salt is used in witchcraft for cleansing your personal energy field and protection. For more on that, check out my guide on making your own protection salt.
This recipe in particular is one of my favorites. Roses are not only good for the skin, they bring in the energy of love, which is especially helpful after a reiki healing session. Since so much energy is flowing through the body, it can make a difference to recuperate in a warm bath with the essence of love.
In the past I’ve been guided to make this for myself and some of my reiki clients, which is why I am sharing this recipe with all of you! I added cardamom because it smells wonderful and adds a bit of passion, but if you don’t feel comfortable adding it in, you can always make a simple bath salt mixture with just Epsom Salts and dried roses.
Now let’s get into the properties of each of these ingredients. The information below comes from The Hearth Witch’s Compendium: Magical and Natural Living for Every Day by Anna Franklin.
Rose relates to all aspects of rebirth, resurrection, funerals, memorials, initiations, luck, love, passion, sexuality, sensuality, seduction, and marriage. It’s astringent, toning, anti-inflammatory, regenerative, and promotes new cell growth. It can be good for aging, dry, and sensitive skin, and can help to rehydrate and smooth the skin.
Cardamom relates to all aspects love, passion, and lust. It’s ruled by Venus, the planet of love.
Both of these ingredients are ruled by the element of water, which is a feminine energy and relates well to a warm bath.
1 cup Epsom Salt
5 dried Roses
1 tsp ground Cardamom
Pull the petals off of the dried rose stems and either chop finely or grind in a spice grinder. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and stir thoroughly. If you want more roses or cardamom, add more to your liking. Place either in a satchel or directly into a hot bath. Stir the ingredients in your bathwater until the salt has dissolved, and relax in the bath for at least 20 minutes.
Have some questions about love? You can book a tarot reading with me, Kajora Lovely! I do tarot readings over the phone, in emails, or in person in the Los Angeles area. You can learn about rates here and email me at kajoralovely@gmail.com to book!
Rose and Cardamom Love Sugar Scrub
How to Make Your Own Protection Salt
Lughnasadh, also known as Lughnasa, means “the marriage of Lugh.” It is also known as Lammas, which means “loaf mass.” A Northern European and Celtic tradition, today it is celebrated on August 1, when the first grain is cut for the oncoming winter and the first harvest is celebrated.
According to Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes, “Once upon a time, Lughnasa was a four week festival: the last two weeks of July and the first two weeks of August, roughly corresponding to when the sun is in Leo, the astrological sign that belongs to the sun and epitomizes its power. In modern Irish Gaelic, the month of August is Lunasa. However, the modern Wiccan sabbat of Lughnasa is almost always devoted solely to the eve of July 31st leading into Lughnasa day on August 1st.”
In The Hearth Witch’s Compendium: Magical and Natural Living for Every Day by Anna Franklin, it states: “Lughnasa is named for the pan-Celtic god Lugh, who is said to have founded annual funeral games on this date to commemorate Tailtu, his foster mother. The festival is also called Lammas, from the Anglo-Saxon hlaef-mass (meaning “loaf mass”), and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of 921 CE mentions it as ‘the feast of first fruits.’”
Franklin continues: “Lughnasa is a harvest festival, marking the end of the period of summer growth and the beginning of the autumn harvest. Lughnasa celebrates the fruition of the year’s work with the weaning of calves and lambs, the ripening of corn, and the first apples, pears, bilberries, blackberries, and grapes. An old custom was to pick the first apples and make them into a drink called Lammas Wool.”
While doing research on Lughnasadh, I found that different sources seem to disagree about the origins of the holiday, whether it is based on funeral games or a wedding. Nonetheless, it is a celebration of the deity Lugh, who was once widely celebrated throughout Europe. To learn more, keep reading reading below about the pan-Celtic god Lugh.
Pagan spiritual traditions followed their daily lives, and we see this with the Celtic Wheel of the Year holidays that mark the solstices, equinoxes, and events about every six weeks in between. As farmers, their connection to the land would be a strong one, and crop yield influenced your chances of the surviving the winter.
Lughnasadh marks the first culling of the grain, which in many ways is a controversial food today, but in the past it acted as a filler, especially if there were not enough animal protein and vegetables to solely eat during the winter.
This holiday is followed by the celebration of the god Mabon on the Autumn Equinox, which is known as the second harvest festival of the year. By this time, most of the food that could last the winter has been stored, and people are preparing for fall and winter to settle in.
Therefore Lughnasadh is a time to enjoy the fruits of the summer, the Sun, and the bounty that comes with the warmer months of the year. You can celebrate Lughnasadh by eating seasonal fruit and vegetables, baking your favorite bread, having a party with your friends and loved ones, or by enjoying the sun (while practicing sun safety, of course).
It can be a time to ask your spirit guides and deities for help with abundance in your life. You can also ask for abundance for others as well, especially if you want to help those whose lives continue to be affected by a bad harvest or famine.
For more ideas and information, check out Kajora Lovely’s Lughnasadh board on Pinterest.
The colors for Lughnasadh are yellow and green, symbolizing the sun and plants at this time of year.
According to The Hearth Witch’s Compendium: Magical and Natural Living for Every Day by Anna Franklin, these are the plants and essential oils for Lughnasadh:
Alder - Apple - Basil - Benzoin - Borage - Chicory - Daisy - Fennel - Fenugreek - Frankincense - Gorse - Honeysuckle - Ivy - Marshmallow - Mugwort - Nasturtium - Oak - Pine - Poppy - Sunflower - Vine - Woad
The most commonly eaten foods during this time also include grains of any kind, bread, grapes, and wine.
Lughnasadh is about celebrating the harvest, seeing what you’ve grown in the last few months and cultivating what will sustain you for the winter ahead. This tarot reading helps you do that in your personal life, and answers the following questions:
What is an accomplishment you’ve had this year?
What is a new tool or lesson you’re meant to keep using in the future?
Something you’re meant to keep in mind during this time
This reading can be done over Zoom, Skype, phone, or sent to you in a detailed email. It is $70, which can be paid over Venmo or PayPal. To book your reading, email Kajora Lovely at kajoralovely@gmail.com.
Engraving of Lugh that was discovered in Paris in 1867 and is preserved at the Carnavalet museum.
Lugh is a Celtic god who was once worshipped across Western Europe and the British Isles. Other names for him are Lug, Luc, Master of All Skills, and The Shining One. In Wales he is known as Lleu Llaw Gyffes, which means Bright One of Skillful Hand, and in other parts of Europe he was known as Lugos, or Raven.
He is the lord of the sun, light, victory, craftsmanship, and war. Lugh’s favored people are physicians, soldiers, warriors, artists, artisans, crafts people, and poets. He’s considered a master poet, warrior, sorcerer, metalworker, cupbearer, physician, harper, and builder.
Lugh is known for using spears in battle, writing poetry, and playing the harp. His planet is the Sun, his plant is red corn cockles, his bird is the raven, and his animals are the lion and horse.
According to Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes, “At least fourteen European cities are named for Lugh including Laon, Leyden, Loudon, and Lyon. Lyon’s old name was Lugdunum, meaning “Lugh’s Fort.” That city is believed to have been his cult center. Its coins bore the images of ravens, which may be a reference to Lugh. Carlisle in England, the former Lugubalium, is also named in Lugh’s honor. Some theorize that Lugh’s name is reflected in an older name for Paris: Lutetia. The Romans identified Lugh with Mercury. Many European churches dedicated to Michael the Archangel are believed to have been built over sites once dedicated to Lugh. Post-Christianity many of Lugh’s sacred functions were reassigned to saints like Patrick and Luke.”
This explains why in the STARZ original series American Gods based on the Neil Gaiman novel of the same name, there’s a scene where the character Lugh drunkenly yells at a statue of St. Patrick in New Orleans.
As a deity, Lugh is divided between two groups: his father’s people, the Tuatha Dé Danaan and his mother’s people, the Fomorians. He chooses his father’s side in a battle against his mother’s side. As Illes states in Encyclopedia of Spirits, “the myth may be interpreted as indicating the beginnings of patriarchy in Ireland.”
Also known as Fomoire in Old Irish and Fomhóraigh, there are only pieces of information about the Fomorians. Interestingly, Illes does not include further information about the Fomorians in Encyclopedia of Spirits, although many mythological blogs do write more on this subject.
This piece goes into greater detail about the myths and legends related to the Fomorians, but as with most pagan traditions, very little is known. This occurs with much older faiths for multiple reasons. Often the people who worshipped pagan deities did not have a written language, and capturing the power of words in symbols was considered a sacred act and only done by those of a certain spiritual rank, such as druids, shamans, priests and priestesses, or other spiritual leaders.
What is known about many faiths is through the eyes of those who conquered them. For example, most of what we know about Celtic faiths is from the Romans, who did have a written language. Often the original sacred sites, shrines, and objects were destroyed or replaced by the people and faiths that conquered them. As time passes, objects and places turn into ruins, and history is forgotten, especially as the local populations change faiths.
The scattered information that exists about the Fomorians states that they were related to the sea, sometimes considered sea creatures or monsters. They were associated with ships and seafaring, which some interpret to mean that the Fomorians could have been Nordic people. The Fomorians also may have been very tall.
Some depictions state that they had one leg or one eye, and were large, hideous creatures. They’re seen as resembling chaos, disorder, evil, night, wild nature, and likely were hunter-gatherers. They were the rivals and sometimes spouses of the Tuatha Dé Danaan, who likely conquered and colonized the Fomorians.
Disputes between the two lead us to the story of Lugh, who chose to align himself with the Tuatha Dé Danaan, his father’s people.
Based in Ireland, the Tuatha Dé Danaan means “Children of Danu.” They are depicted in Lebor Gabála Érenn, known in English as The Book of Invasions or The Book of Conquests, which is about the mythic invasions of Ireland, and was written in the 11th century.
Compared to the Fomorians, the Tuatha Dé Danaan were seen as representing order, farming, good, light, and the attributes of those who brought in order amidst the chaos. They were later conquered and displaced by the Gaels.
In Encyclopedia of Spirits, Illes states that “When the Gaels successfully invaded Ireland, their predecessors, the divine Tuatha Dé Danaan were literally driven underground. They established their own parallel realms beneath the Earth. Fairy mounds are their portals. The Dagda, among the leaders of the Tuatha Dé Danaan assigned each member of the Tuatha Dé residence in a sidhe or mound. The Tuatha Dé Danaan became known as the Sidhe.”
Some other well known members of the Tuatha Dé Danaan are Angus mac Og, the Dagda, Boann, Blathnat, Aine, Airmid, Dian Cecht, Manannan, Becuma, and Ogma.
7 Ways to Celebrate Litha, the Summer Solstice
The month of August begins with a New Moon in Leo. This event helps us start fresh when it comes to success, joy, loyalty, confidence, strength, and leadership. New Moons signal the beginning of the Moon’s next phase. There are new slivers of light on the Moon, and its strength begins to grow. This makes it a great time to set new intentions for ourselves or make a new start.
Typically when we talk about moon phases and rituals related to them, they can be treated as separate: you release on the Full Moon, cut cords during the Waning Moon, and set new intentions on the New Moon.
So before you set your intentions related to all of the fiery and expressive attributes of the sign of Leo, why not release what keeps you from making those intentions become a reality?
There’s a Full Moon in Capricorn on Tuesday July 16th, and this is a great time to harness the hardworking and ambitious energy of the sign of Capricorn. During this Full Moon, there will also be a partial lunar eclipse, meaning there may be some revelations and information coming to light.
If you’re looking for some guidance during this time, book a Full Moon in Capricorn Tarot Reading with Kajora Lovely.
Happy eclipse season! There is some interesting activity going on in the sky this month, including two eclipses. The first is a Solar Eclipse on July 2nd, that coincides with the Dark Moon before the New Moon in Cancer on July 3rd. The Eclipse Tarot Reading with Kajora Lovely can give you some insight into the lessons that can come up during this time.
