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Full Pink Moon

By Tara Sutphen

The Full Pink Moon (Native American) at 5* Scorpio will culminate April 25, 2013 12:57pm PST/3:57pm EST (Farmers Almanac).

This Full Pink Moon and aspects are having us take a look into our minds eye, deeply identifying how we create aliveness in our personal lives. Even the most conscientious can be tangled in chaos. And as if we don’t have enough to worry about, we sometimes take on others problems. Adding this month a minor Lunar Eclipse, this type of eclipse is one of the three shortest of the 21^st Century, the next fleeting one will be in 2042. Eclipses are about change or letting go, bringing something exciting or illuminating, and/or getting rid of what is no longer needed. Releasing sentiments of lack, negative over all feelings or being chained by certain circumstances, we can use eclipses as a clearing method. You are being prodded gently to find your prowess, instinct, and personal power once again. Releasing a mindset on what doesn’t work in everyday life. We have to make effort to not allow drama or dissension. Our lives are supposed to be productive and enjoyable. We are not to be mired in negative thought, angst, nervousness, misgivings of people close, or doubting our sociability and lovability. Society and mainstream western living has us playing by many man-made rules, and sometimes struggling with our security needs. Many people either act out or freeze, but it’s how we get back on course. As a gentle reminder everyone and everything is supposed to work in our favor. We are to be in the flow of life. When nothing is easy, it’s about change. Go deeply within your mind, allow yourself to guide your time and energy back on track.

Journal Questions:

Are you harboring resentment

• About yourself
  
• Or others
  

Are you trying to be invisible

What issues surround

• House
  
• Love
  
• Family
  
• Parents
  
• Mate
  
• Children
  

What do you want and why

Delight or Drudgery

• Love
  
• Career
  
• Job
  
• Health
  
• Relationships
  
• Friendships
  
• Happiness
  
• Exercise
  

 Deep Goals

• Spiritually
  
• Emotionally
  
• Intellectually
  
• Materially
  
• Physically
  

Many times we must reposition our minds as well as our hearts to open to the opportunities and possibilities being offered.

“Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.”~ Eric Hoffer

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Tarot Cheat Sheet

by Tara Sutphen

directions:

*All cards read upright

*One clear question – When you ask a question, make it simple. 

*A beginner should only use answers as hindsight not literal fact. Remember this is “fun”.

*If your question doesn’t concern a person(s), read court cards Page, Knight, Queen, and King as the meaning of the card. 

To Start:

*One card for one question. Even if  you are not familiar with tarot cards and their meanings. Read the picture and symbolism, then access your feelings about the card and the question and then try reading the psychic vibration. Then go back to the meaning of the card.

*Layout’s from link websites at the end.

Higher Arcana

O-   Fool- start of the journey, risk

I-     Magician- New Beginnings, expect magic and surprise

II-    High Priestess- Guidance, Wisdom, Intuition

III-   Empress- Creativity, Kindness, Security

IV-   Emperor- Authority, Responsibility, Mastery

V-    Hierophant- Professional advice, contracts, formal marriage

VI-   Lovers- Love commitment, choice, decision

VII-  Chariot- willpower, obstacles overcome, ambitious

VIII- Justice- balance, composure, legal matters

IX-   Hermit-Wisdom, inner search, outer search

X-    Wheel of Fortune- Fate,Good luck, Karma

XI-   Strength- emotional strength, physical strength, self control

XII-   Hangman- sacrifice, devotion, deprivation

XIII-  Death- change, ending, new way of life

XIV-  Temperance- calm, patient, enduring

XV-   Devil- weird experiences, anger, difficulty

XVI-  Tower- Overwhelm, struggle, conflict

XVII- Star- Optimistic, love, healing

XVIII-Moon- confusion, observing, sad

XIX-   Sun- happiness, cheerful, carefree

XX-    Judgment- analysis, insight, conclusion 

XXI-   World- Completion, Triumphant, culmination

Wands

Wands – element Fire – Fire signs: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

Fire = Action, the spirit

Ace Wands – plans, ambition, desires

2 Wands – motivation, reason, attainment

3 Wands – support, provide, champion

4 Wands – meaningful, manifest, develop

5 Wands – minor problems, struggle, exploit

6 Wands – victory, conquest, win

7 Wands – challenge,tenacity, fearless

8 Wands – activity, journey, movement

9 Wands – endurance, perseverance, longevity

10 Wands – burdens, obligations, responsibilities

Fire sign person or characteristics of card

Page Wands – young m/f or messenger, dispatcher, attendant

Knight Wands – young male or hesitate, suspend, standstill

Queen Wands – female or effective, forceful, vibrant

King Wands – male or dynamic, productive, accomplished

Pentacles

Pentacles – element Earth – Earth signs: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

Earth = Prosperity, the body

Ace Pentacles – success, well-being, fortunate

2 Pentacles – adaptable, changeable, versatile

3 Pentacles – concepts, ideas, planning

4 Pentacles – cautious, mindful, careful

5 Pentacles – neediness, lack, poverty

6 Pentacles – charity, gift, beneficence

7 Pentacles – risk, gamble, adventure

8 Pentacles – skill, employment, career

9 Pentacles – ambitious, acquire, income

10 Pentacles-attainment, profit, benefit

Earth sign person or characteristics of card

Page Pentacles – youth f/m or willpower, determination, purpose

Knight Pentacles – young male or constructive, practical, functional

Queen Pentacles – female or rewarding, useful, worthwhile

King Pentacles – male or acquisitive, money-making, worldly

Swords

Swords – element Air – Air signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

Air = intellect, the mind 

Ace Swords – intensity, focus, power

2 Swords – calm, agreement, truce

3 Swords – sorrow, separation, regret

4 Swords – improving, isolation, recovery

5 Swords – adversary, competitor, rival

6 Swords – improvement, passage, journey

7 Swords – foresight, new plans, confidence

8 Swords – restriction, limitation, inhibition

9 Swords – anxiety, despair, anguish

10 Swords-trouble, sorrow, suffering

Air sign person or characteristics of card

Page Swords – youth m/f or introspective, self-analysis, shy

Knight Swords – young male or retroactive, nostalgic, background

Queen Swords – female or consideration, discussion, understanding

King Swords – male or commanding, powerful, strategic

Cups

Cups – element Water – Water signs: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

Water = feelings, the heart

Ace Cups – love, devotion, spirituality

2 Cups – love, friendship, marriage

3 Cups – celebration, ceremony, occasion

4 Cups – dispirited, forlorn, sad

5 Cups – partial loss, disappointment, disheartened

6 Cups – memories, childhood, remembrance

7 Cups – dream, fantasy, desire

8 Cups – departure, withdrawal, temptation

9 Cups – happiness,enchanted, euphoria

10 Cups-fulfillment, joy, contentment,

water sign person or characteristics of card

Page Cups – youth m/f or supportive, congenial, nurture

Knight Cups –  young male or  proposal, present, supplier

Queen Cups – female or loving, gentle, yielding

King Cups – male or desire, passion, demand

Celtic Cross

cards:

1 up until now

2 Now

3 conscious mind

4 subconscious mind

5 going out

6 immediate future

7 environment

8 situation to arise

9 hopes or fears

10 the answer to your question

Layouts

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http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/learn/spreads/

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 Full Moon of Winds

By Tara Sutphen

The Full Moon of Winds (Celtic) at 6* Libra will culminate March 27, 2013 2:27am PST/5:27pm EST (Farmers Almanac).

This Full Moon of Winds is to remind us of the beauty within and throughout. We are to love who we are and what we do. Removing all doubt in our minds into a workable way of being. Learning balance we begin to see the best in ourselves. When we look deep within our heart we can be open to receive gentleness and understanding from our self as well as from others. We each choose a path to live in this life, our service to others as a career or help-mate is defining and casts our progress day to day. Many defining moments have set you on your journey. People you’ve met, jobs you taken, careers you sought, food you eat, exercise you’ve done, choosing friends and partners, how you treat people you love. What are the signs you’ve been accumulating. Have you been paying attention. Signs are secret language, much as a cryptogram. We have these symbols everyday to point the way, mostly through unhappiness but through our sordid feelings we often don’t act on true recovery or constructive action. Life is a long time and yet it’s fleeting. Sometimes we need to learn the lesson over and over again. The theory is we live for all eternity, but we are mortal beings, it is important we recognize where we are and what we’re doing…and to live the best we can is essential.

Journal Questions:

What are your defining moments

• Love
  
• Happiness
  
• Career
  
• Health
  
• Surprises
  
• Goals
  
• Wisdom
  

Write out a few pages of:

Defining people who are your role models

What jobs have you taken with no forethought

What job do you think has changed your life

What careers have you sought

Are you happy or disgruntled with your current career

What else would you like to do

Are you good at choosing friends

Are you good at choosing your partner/spouse

How do you treat people you love

Write out your list of wants:

• House
  
• Love
  
• Family
  
• Parents
  
• Mate
  
• Children
  

What signs do you have positively in

• Love
  
• Career
  
• Job
  
• Health
  
• Relationships
  
• Friendships
  
• Happiness
  
• Exercise
  

 Are you in tune with your feelings

• Spiritually
  
• Emotionally
  
• Intellectually
  
• Materially
  
• Physically
  

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.~ Rumi

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Shamrock & Gold Coin Cookies

• 2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
  
• 2/3 cup sugar
  
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
  
• Fine green sugar sprinkles
  
• Yellow-gold coarse sugar
  

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 325°. Combine butter, sugar, vanilla and salt, and beat with electric mixer on medium until blended. Add flour; mix on low until incorporated. Shape dough into a disk and wrap in wax paper. Chill for 2 hours.
   
2. Soften dough at room temperature. Place oven racks in upper and lower thirds of oven.
   
3. Halve dough. Roll to 1/4 inch thick and cut out shamrock shapes; save scraps. Repeat. Place cookies on two parchment-paper-lined baking sheets. Bake for 20 minutes (switch oven racks and turn pans halfway through cooking) until lightly golden. Remove; top with sprinkles. Transfer to cooling rack.
   
4. Mold scraps into 1-inch balls; roll balls in sugar. Arrange 2 inches apart on baking sheet; flatten to 1/4 inch thick with bottom of a glass. Bake for 20 minutes on top rack. Transfer to cooling rack. From: http://www.myrecipes.com
   

Spring Equinox

By Tara Sutphen

21st March – Spring Equinox marks the mid-point of the Waxing Year, the nights and days are balanced once again; the time when Kore, (Persephone) was believed to have returned from the Underworld where she had ruled throughout the Winter. The spark of light, born at Winter Solstice has reached maturity, and from here onwards, the days progressively grow longer than the nights. Western culture proclaims this the first day of Spring.

Older traditions called the Spring Equinox, Ostara; the time of the festivals of the Grecian Goddess, Eostre, and the Germanic Ostara, both fertility Goddesses of Dawn. These influenced the naming of the modern-day Easter Holiday. New greenery bursts forth from sleeping seeds in the countryside, as metaphorically, pagans also plant their own seeds for future goals, future projects and growth at this time.

Decorated eggs, being symbols of fertility are symbolic of Ostara. In days gone, Europeans gave gifts of decorated eggs to new brides, in the hope that they would bear many children. Similarly, bowls filled with eggs were given to farm workers by the farmer’s wife, to ensure a rich harvest. Most all cultures see the egg as a symbol of Life; the actual home of the Soul. In Russia, decorated eggs are still given as gifts to loved ones and buried in graves to ensure rebirth.

The women gathered the eggs only from hens which were around a rooster and decorated them, allowing no one to watch them work as they transferred the goodness of the household to the designs on the eggs, thus keeping evil away. Dyes were mixed to secret family recipes and special blessings placed on each egg.

The Spring Equinox defines the season where Spring reaches it’s peak, with the powers of light increasing. The God of Light, (Llew), now gains victory over his twin, the God of Darkness. Llew was reborn at the Winter Solstice and is now old and strong enough to vanquish his rival twin and mate with his Mother Goddess. The great Mother Goddess, who returned to her Virgin aspect at Imbolc, welcomes the young Sun God’s attentions and conceives a child. The child will be born nine months from now, at the next Winter Solstice, when the cycle closes, only to begin anew.

Here are some of the colours used on Ostara Eggs, and their meanings:

White:
Purity

Yellow:
Wisdom, a successful Harvest, or Spirituality

Green:
Spring, rebirth, wealth, youth, growth, happiness

Blue:
Good health, clear skies

Orange:
Power endurance, ambition,courage

Red:
Happiness, hope, passion, nobility, bravery, enthusiasm, love

Brown:
Enrichment, good harvest, happiness

Purple:
Faith, trust, power

Pink:
Success, friendship, love

Black:
Remembrance

The custom of eating Hot Cross Buns also has pagan origins. The Saxons ate buns that were marked with a cross in honour of Eostre; ancient Greeks consumed these types of buns in their celebrations of Artemis, Goddess of the hunt, and the Egyptians ate a similar cake in their worship of the Goddess Isis.

There are conflicting ideas as to what the cross symbol represents. One suggestion is that it is a Christianisation of horn symbols that were stamped on cakes to represent an ox, which used to be sacrificed at the time of the Spring Equinox. Another theory relates to Moon worship; the bun representing the full Moon, and the cross, its four quarters. Christianity gave new meanings to the symbolism of the buns, saying the cross represented the Crucifixion Cross. Thus, superstitions arose crediting these buns as being charms against evil, so after Good Friday, people would save one or two of them to hang in their homes as amulets. During the festival season and indeed, for a long time afterwards, fishermen would carry these Easter buns in their boats, for protection.

The Easter Bunny is another symbol which has obvious links to fertility, rebirth, and the abundance of life which is evident in Spring.

According to myth, Eostre was a playful Goddess whose reign over the earth began in Sring when the Sun King journeyed across the sky in his chariot, bringing the end of Wnter. Eostre came down to Earth then, appearing as a beautiful maiden with a basket of bright colorful eggs. Eostre’s magical companion was a rabbit who accompanied her as she brought new life to dying plants and flowers by hiding the eggs in the fields.

Traditional Foods
Leafy green vegetables, Dairy foods, Nuts such as Pumpkin, Sunflower and Pine. Flower Dishes and Sprouts.

Herbs and Flowers
Daffodil, Jonquils, Woodruff, Violet, Gorse, Olive, Peony, Iris, Narcissus and all spring flowers.

Incense
Jasmine, Rose, Strawberry, Floral of any type.

Sacred Gemstone
Jasper

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.~Confucius

Sent to you by Tara Sutphen, owner of Sutphen Corp/Valley of the Sun and Sutphen Co, Spokeswoman for Alaska ASU. Happy St. Patricks Day. Blessings & Love XOX

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Full Snow Moon

By Tara Sutphen

The Full Snow Moon (Native American) at 7* Virgo will culminate February 25, 2013 12:25am PST/3:25pm EST (Farmers Almanac).

This Full Snow Moon has us looking in the mirror again and interpreting that we’re beginning to know who we are, we’re still not sure what we’re doing on earth though. If only we can stay with deep conscious thought and disregard the immature aspects of our self and others. Growing up has had some challenges. Relationships in general need to be working for you rather than against you, as you’re ready to be a good friend and family member. Healthy assertion and easy company seems to be part of the equation. You’re asking yourself pertinent “me” oriented questions. Becoming clear on your needs and wants, and there is movement again. You’re looking up, down and all around you finally. Stuck feelings are lifting as fears and habits are discarded. You’ve been waiting for perfectionism in yourself and others, but that seems to be a continual stall. Life is calling, living is waiting. And then there’s Love. Your feet are really on the ground, you now touch the things around you. You’re becoming intune again. Think of your inner resonance as a musical instrument, flow in the harmony of sound. And with that sound, allow light of the sun into your inner sanctum every day, let’s imagine you see yourself shining ever brightly in the mirror, glimmering on the outside, as your heart and organs in your body shine too. The connection of light and sound, helping you feel better and improved…

Journal Questions:

Are you a perfectionist?

• About yourself
  
• Or others
  

Write out your list of expectations:

List of Perfection

• House
  
• Love
  
• Family
  
• Parents
  
• Mate
  
• Children
  

How is your life different from your expectations?

How can you bring your life more in synch

Are you taking less than?

• Love
  
• Career
  
• Job
  
• Health
  
• Relationships
  
• Friendships
  
• Happiness
  
• Exercise
  
•  

 What do you need to make your wishes come true

• Spiritually
  
• Emotionally
  
• Intellectually
  
• Materially
  
• Physically
  

There is perfection in imperfection. We may see things one way, but another sees their perspective. If we can come to terms with others way of seeing things sometimes, we become less difficult on ourselves and remain open to experiences.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ~Steve Jobs (American Entrepreneur Apple co-Founder, 1955-2011)

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Snow Moon Painting: NANALIA PEREVOZCHIKOVA

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Love Spell by Tara Sutphen

2 Red Candles

  Choose a candle for you & the other candle is for your Beloved (Known or Not Known)

Wand (optional)

Repeat after me

  I Bequeath My Heart for Thy Love

Pour drops of wax into your Beloveds candle

Repeat after me

  I Call Forth My Beloved

Pour drops of wax from Beloveds candle to your candle

Repeat after me

  Ebodiment of True Love, Come to Me

  Epitome of Real Love, Come to Me

  Beloved, Beloved, Be the Ideal

  Connection of The Souls

Wave your hand clockwise over the candles (creating movement)

Repeat after me

  I Cast Intent, I Mark It, I Beseech It, I Ask It and So It Is……

Point your finger or wand -North

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