Celebrating the Seasons: Midsummer

The Magick of Emotions: Finding Your Own Magick

Healing: Techniques that Work

Perspective: Developing the Five Senses and Beyond

Monthly Calendar: Workshops

Share Your Magick: Articles, Book Reviews, Special Requests

Small Print: Getting On and Off the List

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Since this time of year is the peak of fertility, the focus in typically on love, purification and divination, to name a few. It is the time to gather your magickal herbs and to make ready to commune with the nature spirits.

Some of the herbs sacred to this holiday are: chamomile, cinquefoil, fennel, lavender, mullein, rue, thyme, St Johnswort and vervain. Sunflowers make an excellent altar offering, and it's nice to gather some morning dew for your ritual.

In her book, Solitary Witch, Silver Ravenwolf has included a lovely Midsummer Invocation which follows:

We wish you all a Blessed Litha and a fruitful summer!

Until next time......Love and Blessed Be,
Coral

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1. Do you believe in magick?
2. Do you really believe in magick?
3. Do you believe that you are capable of consciously creating what you want in your life?
4. Do you really believe that you are capable of consciously creating what you want in your life?

5. Do you understand Quantum Physics?

Ok! Now how many of you are still with me and remain intent on finding the formula for creating your own magick? This is where many of you will decide that maybe creating magick is better left for others to seek. I mean don't you find that it is a humans nature to react in such a way? Many people consider this pretty normal when faced with choices that involve study, commitment, focus and consistency? Of course this is perfectly fine and I am certainly not asking a single one of you to consider anything more from yourself than to be your perfect self in this moment, true to your deepest feelings and desires, and if you do not desire to create your own magick then so be it. If you can say that you like your life and all that it entails just the way it is then you do not need to continue reading any further.

For those of you who are asking that Spirit open your hearts and minds to the magick that lies within your dormant awareness I will attempt to assist you along your quest. By tickling your imagination just enough for you to seriously consider how much you are willing to dedicate of your time and energy to activate this innate ability you already have within you. I hope to help you dissolve those old preprogrammed illusions of self-doubt and low self worth.

Depending upon the depth of your studies and practices concerning metaphysics over the years the following information that I am about to share with you from my experiences and studies will be absorbed and understood. Even if you have never read a metaphysical book or sat in meditation your imagination will be stretched a bit. Exercises for your imagination. What a fun idea. I watch and listen on a daily basis to the purest joy and laughter that bubbles from my grandchildren as they share their imagination with each other and me. What a blessing and a beautiful reminder of our divinity they are. For me they are perfect mirrors for looking at my mystical self.

Now, let's get back to our focus of locating the magick within you and with that statement I will have you take a "look" at your life as it is. I want you to list three things that you want to create more of in your life. For instance you may want more abundance, more love, more playtimes, more creativity, etc. You make your own list and really think about these three choices before deciding, keep the list simple and precise, now each morning when you start your day; I want you to consciously focus your awareness on each one of your choices. Start with the first choice you wrote down. Focus your attention to seeing yourself already having this and then I want you to feel the emotions that are a part of it, you may better understand how to do this if you relate to it as to daydreaming. All of us have experienced moments of daydreaming. Now I want you to call it "conscious creating", for this is not a dream, it is as real as the chair you are sitting in at this time. Next I want you to release it and move on to your second choice, holding this creation within your awareness while once again seeing it as you picture it as a part of your present life. Experience once again the emotions that are a part of this creation. Yes, now release it. Go on to the third choice on your list and do the same exercise as you have with the first and second choice. You have completed your creations. These exercises can take place while you are dressing for work, having your first cup of tea or coffee, while you are brushing your teeth, etc. You do not have to be sitting in meditation to "consciously create" what you want. You do have to maintain a mental awareness through out the rest of your day of any thoughts or actions that do not compliment your conscious creations. Let's say you are wanting a salad out somewhere for your lunch that day and you brought your lunch with you today. What would your mental reaction be? Would your thoughts start justifying why you shouldn't buy that salad you want, such as, it cost too much, I don't really have the money, I'd be wasting a sandwich, etc. In a situation like this if you truly want the salad. Buy it, eat it and enjoy it! So you see the first step in reprogramming those old thought patterns surrounding what you truly want is to delete the old ones and affirm the new thoughts and feelings that support your desired conscious creations. There is no elaborate plan; you do not have to be concerned with the details of how your creations are going to work out. All you do is be certain of your desires, create them, affirm them, release them to the Universe and mind your thoughts consistently.

If you want to know the way energy / thoughts works then by all means study Quantum Physics. One of the most recent books I might suggest for alchemical studies is The Magdalen Manuscript by Tom Kenyon and Judi Sion. Charlotte and Coral at Charlotte's Web will be happy to point it out to you in the store.

I plan to facilitate a six-week class in the fall for further training and knowledge regarding alchemical magick for beginners. If you have an interest in signing up for this class please go to my web site and contact me at my e-mail address. You will be contacted in advance with further information when it is time.

For now I close with these reminders, don't be afraid of your light, of your greatness, create only what you truly want and know that you are a child of God therefore that same divinity is within you. Connect to your magick now.

Divine Blessings,

Ann Bastuba

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This is a real testimony to how simple techniques can help heal a person in need. Realize also that the person requiring the healing gave 'permission'. This is a thank you note that was sent by Ann Bastuba who facilitates the meditation session at Charlotte's Web. This happened about three weeks ago.

I, too want to thank you all for allowing your love light to shine...."

Divine Blessings,
Ann

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Developing the Five Senses and Beyond

This article is about development not only of the basic five senses but also of expanding your five senses and the development of that extra sense referred to as the sixth sense.

As we explore expanding the five senses we will build toward the sixth sense. The expansion of our five senses will lead to development of a related portion of the sixth sense.

Most of us have five fully developed senses. The senses are the basis of our personal development and the development of perception. The senses include seeing (eyes), hearing (ears) smelling (nose), touching (skin sensors), tasting(tongue and mouth), and the so called sixth sense (mind). All of us may have the sixth sense, which is the most powerful of senses, but few of us use it. Some people may be missing one or more sense or may have lost functioning. Nature may make up for the loss of a sense by expanding the ability to sense or intensifying other senses.

I remember a blind man who sharpened knives and scissors at a flea market. Once I was waiting to have my knives sharpened. The blind man finished sharpening the knives of the man in front of me. The blind man asked for seven dollars. The customer gave the blind man three one dollar bills. The blind man told the customer that he had only received three dollars and needed four more. How did the blind man know? The man had been blind since birth and his eyes were solid white. The embarrassed customer gave the blind man his money. When I asked the blind man how he knew how much money he had, the man said by the feel of the bills. Can someone finely tune the senses and make them stronger? The answer is YES! If this is true of our five senses, then it is also true of the sixth sense and the sixth sense is further enhanced by the increased development of the five senses. The sixth sense includes ESP.

During the fifties and sixties, there was a Parapsychology lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The lab was run by a couple named Rhine (Lousia was the lady) booth of who had PhDs. The Rhines developed techniques of testing Extra Sensory Perception (ESP). During the process of research, the Rhines discovered that the same testing techniques could be applied to teaching ESP.

HEARING: The actual sense of hearing is the first sense we develop. The fetus in uteri can hear and responds to the mother's voice as well as to other noises. Hearing is also the last sense we are able to experience even for a short while after we die. Even while one is in a coma, one can hear. Some human's sense of hearing is so good that they can hear a dog whistle.

When you hear something psychically, it is known as clairaudience (hearing voices). Clairaudience is the ability to hear audible messages from outside the normal range of sources. This ability need not be limited to voices, but can also be other things such as someone who heard a train wreck that occurred many hundred miles away.

TELEPATHY is the ability to hear the thoughts of others. Telepathy is the ability most people think of when they hear the word "psychic". At the Whole Life convention, one of the vendors, an adolescent, asked if I was psychic. When I said I was, he asked me if I could tell him his name. I said, "Good Lord! Don't you know your own name"? He unwisely said, "Yes, I just want to know if you really are psychic". I told him as far as I was concerned his name was MUD. The roar of laughter from behind me caused him to stop.

Developing the ability to physically hear is in a sense similar to straining to hear a whisper across the distance. Do you remember a commercial by Unity? The scene was a noisy, busy city. There was a cricket singing, but nobody could hear it. Only one person could hear. By tuning out the loud noises, that one person could hear the soothing song of the cricket.

Excercise #1

Get into a comfortable position and relax. The room should be quiet. Perhaps it is best to do this exercise at night while others are asleep. Close your eyes and listen for the noise in the room. Expand that to awareness of the noise outside. Identify the sources of the sound. Further expand to a place at a distance. What sounds can you hear in another town? Now, go to a noisy place, or turn up the radio or television. Pick a sound that can barely be heard. Check it out. If you have a baby or small child in the house, train yourself to hear the child from different rooms. This can be very helpful. Remember when they get quiet, they are usually up to something. Can you hear what it is?

Now in a relaxed state, in a place very quiet, can you hear whispers? If you focus, you can begin to hear little whisper-like messages. For instance, we have all heard of voices being picked up on tapes that evidently came from the spirit world. Your mind can also do the same. Move yourself into the next day, what will you hear at work? Practice and this ability to "hear" (or become clairaudient) will develop.

It is necessary to explore all the other 5 senses and to expand them into portions of what becomes the 6th sense. For now, we will end at "Hearing, and the Development of Clairaudience". More detailed information with hands on practice occurs in the classes on Psychic Development, which are being offered at Charlotte's Web.

Until July, Blessed be!

Elizabeth

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