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Full Strawberry Moon on the Summer Solstice

by Tara Sutphen, posted in Full Moon, Hypnotherapy, metaphysical, Moon, sorce the moon, spiritual, Tara Sutphen

Full Strawberry Moon on the Summer Solstice

By Tara Sutphen

The Full Strawberry Moon (Native American) at 1* Capricorn will culminate, June 21, 2024 6:10pm PDT/9:10pm EDT (Farmers Almanac). This Full Strawberry Moon is about coming back constructively into your powerful self. 

How do you want to be seen in the world? What do you want to actively pursue? Take the time now to look inward to gather the knowledge that you need to be more self-aware and productive. You might’ve been in the planning stages recently and in the past months, but now is the green light to start gaining momentum to the goals you want to accomplish. Capricorn is always ambitious but this full moon is on the summer solstice. You are to learn to shine. You are being positioned to gain light and speed. Know what you want and why you want it!

Proactive Movement: 

  1. Focus your mind
  2. Solving issues and problems
  3. Set goals
  4. You are in the present
  5. Make good choices
  6. Don’t be lazy
  7. Begin and Begin Again
  8. Take an extra minute to do things well
  9. Do not worry on what you can’t control
  10. Build a team or resources 
  11. Take the initiative 
  12. List your skills
  13. List your leadership abilities 
  14. List your cooperation abilities 
  15. List what you’d like to learn
  16. Look at the best in others 
  17. Look at the best in yourself
  18. Surround yourself with problem solvers
  19. Stay away from troublemakers 
  20. Keep a steady mind and wit
  21. Be respectful and responsible 
  22. Treat past failures as opportunities 
  23. Channel frustration into production
  24. Channel anxiousness into production 
  25. Develop a schedule 
  26. Value your time
  27. There is always a way to achieve 

When you actively move towards becoming knowledgable or successful, you allow your life to flow in the direction of fulfillment. Move forward as the past is already gone. Decisions are to be made in your future. Allow yourself to start making good to great choices. 

Journal Questions:

Are you constructive or destructive:

  • About yourself
  • Or others
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Work arena
  • Neighborhood
  • City
  • State
  • Country
  • World

Are you trying to be invisible – or are you outwardly visible?

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

What do you want and why

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

How can you change: List 3 things if not 3 sentences

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

 Your Aspirations:

  • Spiritually
  • Emotionally
  • Intellectually
  • Materially
  • Physically

__By being more conscious of what you want and why you want it, when you do start creating momentum you will find your life improves. Your personal growth will bring you satisfaction and new ideas. Remember that some of your goals will not only be about a successful career. To lead an enriched life, we wish to maneuver many choices, including gaining love and good health. We need to be embarking upon our contentment and enjoyment of the world. Allowing ourselves to find our center and expand. 

—— “Simply put, the Law of Attraction states that you will attract into your life whatever you focus on. Whatever you give your energy and attention to will come back to you. So, if you stay focused on the good and positive things in your life, you will automatically attract more good and positive things into your life. – Jack Canfield (Author & Motivational Speaker)

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Beltaine

by Tara Sutphen, posted in celtic, metaphysical, metaphysics, New Age, Pagan, Tara Sutphen

Beltaine

by Tara Sutphen

Beltaine is the “Celebration of the Light”,the light time of the year. The dark time being remembered by Samhain. May 1 is the day in the middle of the spring and the summer equinox’ (10* Taurus). May Day is the time for love and the happiness of summer on it’s way.

Beltane | Beltaine is a celebration of the union of souls, The union of minds, and the union of bodies. The earth mother calls her progeny to replenish the earth. Flowers decorate hair and everywhere. Maypole ribbon dances, with two circles interweaving around a decorated tree or pole, clockwise dance circles. Bonfires or candles to spark the sacred fire of union and fertility.

Druids and Pagans raised the Beltaine fires on hilltops on May Eve, the fires were lit in order to bring the sun’s light down to earth. Earth awakening from it’s long winter nap and the flowers are in bloom and frolicking abounds. Joy alights your body, mind, and spirit, the colors become brighter, you see the best in everyone, casting away all worries and doubts you collected over the winter time.All nightmares become daydreams of love, hope and harmony.

Beltaine or Beltane is an anglicization of the Irish “Bealtaine” or the Scottish “Bealtuinn.” — “bel,”brilliant”, “tene” “fire”

Things to do on Beltaine alone or with a group

Create a Beltaine circle or group

Buy or Pick flowers

potluck

maywine (alcoholic or non alcoholic)

Candles, Fireplace, Bonfire — Lighting a fire with a blessing

May pole (you can use a tree if you don’t have a pole) garnish w. greenery and flowers – tie long ribbon

If you create a May pole, make lots of wishes while you walk clockwise into your future, and at the end of wrapping the ribbon say a blessing for yourself and end with “to love and be loved, So it is”. If the tree/pole ribbons pretty and sturdy enough you could leave until Samhain.

Some of the questions that you can ask your friends or family are:

What were the highlights in your winter? Everyone must come up with at least one if not several highlights. What are the dreams to enliven your spring and summer? Every one should convey their intentions for the summer.

Making Maywine

Ingredients

• 2 bottles of dry white wine

2 cups strawberry liqueor

Non-Alcoholic version: Substitute sparkling water and grape juice, sparkling water and apple juice

• 5 thin orange slices

• and/or

• 1 cup sliced strawberries

• 12 sprigs of woodruff

• 1 teaspoon sugar (more or less, as preferred)

• Edible flowers (to be added after all ingredients have been mixed together)

Directions

Soak the dried woodruff overnight in the wine.

Add the rest of the ingredients, stir with a wooden spoon, and let it steep for an hour or so.

Serve very cold, with edible flowers floating atop in the punch bowl.

The taste is both sweet and fruity.

American Heritage Dictionary

wood·ruff  Audio Help (wŏŏd’rəf, -rŭf’)  Pronunciation Key

n.

1. A fragrant perennial herb (Galium odoratum) native to Eurasia and North Africa and widely cultivated as a shade ground cover, having small white flowers and narrow leaves used for flavoring wine and in sachets. Also called sweet woodruff.

2. Any of various plants of the genus Asperula, having whorled leaves and small funnel-shaped flowers.

Woodruff is sold in the herb section at markets and nurserys..

Edible Flowers

Alliums…chive flowers

Borage

Basil Flower Blossoms

Broccoli Florets. those little yellow flowers

Citrus Blossoms

Nasturtiums

Rose Pedals

Johnny Jump Up

Pansy

Mint Flowers

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Writing About the spirit world Host: estelle Erasmus interviews Tara Sutphen

by Tara Sutphen, posted in metaphyics, metaphysical, New Age, soul writers, Tara Sutphen

Estelle Erasmus, an award-winning journalist and writing coach, has written for over 150 publications, including The New York Times, The Week, Next Avenue, WIRED, The Independent, The Washington Post, Salon, AARP: The Magazine and more. She has been editor-in-chief of five national consumer publications. She is also an adjunct instructor for NYU’s School of Professional Studies/Center for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts, where she recently received the 2023 Teaching Excellence Award, and teaches a journalism course at NYU’s lauded High School Academy each summer for rising seniors who travel from around the globe to attend. She also hosts the popular Editor-on-Call events for NYU, where she is in conversation with top editors from prestigious publications.

Erasmus was the “All About The Pitch” columnist for Writer’s Digest magazine, and teaches writing classes there. She is host/creator of the popular podcast Freelance Writing Direct. She is a three-time Blog Her Voice of the Year winner, and performed an original work in  the inaugural New York City production of Listen to Your Mother. Estelle’s articles for the New York Times and Washington Post have gone globally viral (with more than 500 comments on her NYT piece, “How to Bullyproof Your Child”). She has appeared on “Good Morning America”, “Fox News with Ernie Anastos” and has had her articles mentioned on “The View”.

She speaks often about publishing and improving your writing at conferences such as The American Society of Journalists and Authors, The Writer’s Digest Conference, Hippocamp, The Erma Bombeck Writer’s Conference, Mom 2.0, and more.

Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published from New World Library is available for order online and wherever books are sold.

Despite once being called the “Dating Diva” in her single days and teaching Power Dating (as noted in her New York Times Styles Tiny Love Story), she’s been married for nearly two decades, has a teenage daughter and a Havanese dog. She loves to decompress by watching reality television. In her spare time, she loves singing, reading, visiting museums, playing tennis, and acting as taste-tester for her daughter’s baking adventures and her husband’s wine explorations.