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Love comes in many different flavors. One of these is what the ancient Greeks called storge, or familial love. This is a subtype of platonic love, which is based on affection rather than sex or romance. Storge takes as much care and maintenance as romantic love, just in different ways. Turn off your electronics and pay attention to each other. Shared meals, game nights, and cuddle piles are all good. Pagan families may work spells or rituals together. This work is sacred to Hestia, the Greek ...
Flowers come in a stunning variety of shapes, sizes, scents, colors, and textures. They have a language all their own, and they can speak to you deeply, uplifting and touching your soul. Flowers can be employed to treat various spiritual and physical ills. They brighten the spirit and speak to the spirits. This becomes very evident in Mexican and Mexican American culture in the fall. Marigolds, the flower of October, become a bright beacon for the spirits. Pathways are created from them that ...
In every moment, we're viewing ourselves and the world through a particular lens. Like a pair of glasses, our lens can become smudged by family patterns, cultural conditioning, and other biases. Regularly "cleaning our glasses" aligns our individual sight with a more expansive spirit point of view. With spirit sight, we're able to see previously hidden options in life, free ourselves from the harsh perspective of the inner critic, and more. Sit comfortably where you won't be disturbed. Close ...
National Ride the Wind Day is a time to marvel at not only the magic of flight but also the power of wind to create energy and help us travel—and you don't even have to fly in a plane, jump from a helicopter, or windsurf to partake in the fun! One of the simplest ways to celebrate is to fly a kite, and you can easily add a little more magic to it as well. The magic is simply adding some written intentions or symbols to your kite so that as it rises, so does your intent. You can write on ...
