This Sagittarius New Moon is a time of Rebirthing Ideas and New Projects. Options are available. Do not feel stuck. Be open as you have new opportunities for movement. Teaming with others or gaining studies and/or support will be available. It can seem unusual. The Eclipse offers innovation, insights and Dreams coming true.
We are constantly need to come back to center, being brave and in resonance no matter the outside circumstances. Allow for Grace. What makes you feel at peace, practice that feeling every day.
*How to become balanced:
PHYSICAL: health and the way we treat our cleanliness, posture, and overall treat our bodies is a part where being balanced. Our body is the most precious gift we have and without it we can’t exist. If we don’t stay healthy we certainly can’t enjoy all the other aspects of life.
Full Beaver Moon
By Tara Sutphen
The Full Beaver Moon (Native American) at 8* Gemini will culminate, November 30, 2020 1:30am PST/4:30am EST (Farmers Almanac). It is also a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse. When we have an eclipse, it’s time to change or let go of something holding us back. Take time to meditate on what you’d like unblocked or cleaned up in your life as it brings something exciting or illuminating to each of us.
This Full Beaver Moon is about Communicating on a deeper level. What has been hidden from you will come to light. Something you might have held back will be discussed or revealed. How do you rate yourself as a communicator. Do you have many secrets. What if there are secrets revealed to you. How do you react. Emotionally we aren’t always in touch with how we communicate and if it can be improved upon.
Communication Tips:
There are simple ways to develop how to speak when we want to be heard. We don’t always convey the most important topics to each other and being a good communicator takes effort. Being able to articulate a concept, solution or decision isn’t always easy. Knowing how to get our point across especially when someone doesn’t see things quite the same as you do can be frustrating. It’s not about dominating a conversation. It’s better to have quality speaking rather than quantity chit-chat. At times there is no way around having a lot of chatter with each other. Humans like the sound of each other, but are they listening? Are you listening?
When we take the time to listen, we can learn to do things correctly in our lives. From book learning to listening to elders and skilled authorities in any subject. If we listen intently enough, we progress with contributing to our security and well-being. We don’t always get an answer, but we can grow emotionally, intellectually and learn how to take care of ourselves and others. It’s always important to know how to listen and speak when we want to be successful.
Being a leader and doing significant work are important, but to be effective we need to know how to put into practice our communication skills.
1. Inner Knowing
What are you interested in? Are you building your self-esteem and confidence. What are your personal skills that you’ve developed. They don’t need to be academic or athletic skills, they can be being a good friend, mother, father or liking pets.
2. Sincerity
Connect with others when they are speaking. Your mind takes breathes, so you don’t always hear everything someone is saying to you. It’s easier in life if you are kind and leave everyone with a smile or appreciation.
3. Consistency
We don’t do any favors to anyone if we can’t keep our word, pull our weight and practice what we preach. Emotional Consistency is a key ingredient to lasting happiness. Integrity to your family and those you love are important.
4. Compromise
Knowing how to share.
5. Listening
Building a bond
6. Be Polite
Everyone deserves respect.
7. Ask & Receive
Effectively ask questions. The Answers might not always be from the person you asked but if we are patient the answer will not elude us.
8. Sharing
When we help and support others. Others help and support us.
9. Teaching
When we contribute what we know, we allow others to create a way to take care of themselves. Everyone interprets their way of doing things.
10. Do not interrupt
Listen more than talk
11. Ask questions
Be interested about others and our world
12. Curiosity
Don’t lose your curiosity, stimulate your mind by learning new things. Its considered one of the key things to staying youthful.
Journal Questions:
Secrets you carry:
Are you seen as Constructive or Destructive Communicator?
Where do you build your life:
How can you communicate in your personal life or work life: List 3 things if not 3 sentences
Your Aspirations:
What Inspires you:
(5 sentences or more)
Who Inspires you:
(5 people and why)
_____ You are given advice and wise choices everyday. But are you listening? Do you eat your greens to promote your Lifeforce, do you meditate and rest, do you exercise and eat enough to promote your inner fuel to give you the impetus to be strong. Do you study what interests you, do you work at a job you like, are you employed by fair and decent people, are your friends constructive or destructive in your life… the list goes on and on. Choices.
What is our recourse. Generally everyone is afraid of making mistakes, but do we make the best selections when we weigh all our options? Where is there opportunity and sometimes with risk, or possibilities of peace. It’s what we decide we’re willing to develop through creating our own reality. We can pinpoint lucidity or go round and round in confusion. Never knowing what we want or making a commitment. We could weigh ourselves down or make the decision of what we want.
—— “Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” ~Mark Twain
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Full Blue Hunter’s Moon
By Tara Sutphen
The Full Blue Hunter’s Moon (Native American) at 8* Taurus. A Blue moon is when there is a second Moon in a month. This month it lands on Samhain, the pagan sabbat called Halloween. Samhain is the middle point between fall equinox and winter solstice, the nights are getting darker now. Rest and Rejuvenate, Dream and Create, Plan and Recharge. We are given an opportunity to take the high road and not the low road. We are asked to step into our personal power as gracefully as we can. There is a surge about relying on yourself, on your knowledge, skills and tool set. You are having an opportunity to clear unneeded responsibilities and old karma.
First of all, purge all that no longer serves you. No more dwelling on the negative, sit with your eyes closed and take a couple deep breaths, remove all pressure, heaviness and worries away from your body
Here’s some tips on how to make clear decisions.
B. Use your Intellect – How do you reason:
Reasoning gives you a chance to be more objective about yourself and your needs over the emotional side of your nature.
C. Visualize your future
D. Stop Arguing
E. Progressive Movement
We’re to work on creating our personal power this Full Moon Month. All Dreams are born in the dark as our days of light are limited, allow plans and goals to be developed. We can fail many times, but we’ll find what we are looking for eventually. If its people, places or things, we are to remain hopeful, polite and adventurous. It’s our birthright to survive and thrive in this world and allows us to become the very best we can be.
—— “I should add, however, that, particularly on the occasion of Samhain, bonfires were lit with the express intention of scaring away the demonic forces of winter, and we know that, at Bealltainn in Scotland, offerings of baked custard were made within the last hundred and seventy years to the eponymous spirits of wild animals which were particularly prone to prey upon the flocks – the eagle, the crow, and the fox, among others. Indeed, at these seasons all supernatural beings were held in peculiar dread. It seems by no means improbable that these circumstances reveal conditions arising out of a later solar pagan worship in respect of which the cult of fairy was relatively greatly more ancient, and perhaps held to be somewhat inimical.”
― Lewis Spence, British Fairy Origins
—“Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be.”
― Eleanor Estes, the Witch Family
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By Tara Sutphen
The Full Thunder Moon (Native American) at 10* Pisces will culminate, September 1, 2020 11:22pm pacific | September 2, 20201:22am eastern (Farmers Almanac).
This Pisces Full Moon is all about depths. How you linger or lounge in contemplation and introspection. How an idea germinates is often associated with an emotional response to creativity or problem solving. Deep within, one can certainly find and obtain an obscure or hidden flaw needing to come to light and squelched. The first step is “not allow your mind and psyche to fool itself”. You could write down all what you think bothers you. Analysis can liberate stress and issues, such as doubt, fear, upsets, repression, compliances and drama.
When distress is mixed with the Piscine water energy, we look at whether the truth is mixed with illusion or secret motives. There can be an underlying or foggy way of looking at things. Phobias, bad habits, unsavory behavior need to be revised. It can be the simplest putdowns turning a persons sincerity into a bitter struggle, an innocence turning into a scorn or a fight. While blocks and limitations lie close at hand as well. It can take a concerted effort to alleviate what holds you back, especially when you think your faults are often lost or faintly visible. Or you don’t take the time to fix your inner nature.
Inward study or meditation can bring observations into a state of being seen or explored. From that knowledge you begin comprising a compassionate nature and using your intuition to further your objectives. There is a re-focus and it matches a positive outlook. Revising your emotional structure is in the works. You are asked to adjust your attitude. You may be asked to modify in many ways. To be pain-free in every way is the goal.
Humans are on reset: what do we do and how do we go forward. We all have a tool set and competence. Maybe you are missing pieces of your success formula, your health regime, deep wisdom, extra knowledge or your love techniques.
Creating a Good Life:
Journal Questions:
3-5 sentences+ for each question.
–what are you needing to change or a sentiment or habit to remove from your life –
-How can you rebalance:
People problems
Money problems
Relationship problem
Health problems
Personal issues
Bad habits
Phobias
Career problems
Past choices
Stress
Overwhelmed
Where are you most ambitious:
relationships
career
job
homelife
friendships
marriage
children
beauty
exercise
eating
inside maintenance
outside maintenance
person maintenance
place maintenance
thing maintenance
Your new viewpoint:
acceptance of yourself
acceptance of others
Spending too much time on others and not yourself
Spending too much time on yourself and not on others
Forward movement toward positive activities
Forward movement toward negative activities
-Time management, how long with each:
Family
Friends
Job
Career
Money
Beauty
Health
Harmony
Things
Strangers
-When creating calmness in your life:
Breathing deeply a few times a day
Drinking more water
Taking a walk
Meditating
Praying
Writing in a Journal
Creating a solution
Creating plans
Giving Hugs
Offering Smiles
Saying nice things to people
Waving here or there to people
Enjoying a color
Enjoying nature
Enjoying architecture
Complimenting your kids
Complimenting everyone
-Can you clearly say this is what I do now and I like it or I’d like to see a change:
——
*Using your Intuition: Using your intuition and psychic ability to move forward. Feeling good about the decisions you make. Knowing when wrong feelings happen they can indicate going in a wrong direction.
*When meditating, remember you’re going to go past your mind and it’s set ideas, and proceeding toward the heart, taking it deeper, releasing false sentiments and just float in your divinity, going deeper and deeper to your very essence. Reaching into the core of your being. Shift into knowing you will begin to float in calmness as the eclipse takes away anxiety and confusion, replaced is gifts of knowledge and wisdom, quality of time and being one with your adventure on earth.
——Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. ~Thomas Aquinas
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Full Sturgeon Moon
By Tara Sutphen
The Full Sturgeon Moon (Native American) at 11* Aquarius will culminate, August 3, 2019 8:59am PdT/11:59am EdT (Farmers Almanac).
This Full Sturgeon Moon is about going over plans. It’s a time to pause and think things through again. As your future is unfolding you need to be in touch with the times. Thinking, saying and acting in a clear forward way. People are prickly and situations are unclear, and to keep away from the confusion you must make choices and plan for days, weeks and months ahead. Being diligent now will help you through un-chartered waters.
Your future relies on you making these plans upcoming. It’s best to be sensible and not dramatic right now. You’re to activate your dependability. Places, People, jobs and situations should all be looked at and graded from 1-100. And anything below 50 should be diagnosed and reassessed. You can make plans on how things need to be restructured and organized. If you plan for sound changes, rearranging your time, money and circumstances won’t be so disruptive. And it will be your idea, which is how it’s supposed to be,
When making decisions upcoming, remember why you’ve come to this juncture. Are you supposed to be making changes or any sudden moves. Are you supposed to hold sacred space for your family, friends and neighbors. If you’ve been displaced in some way, are you being saved in the long run. Or are you feeling alarmed and somewhat downtrodden. When you stay focused, you can traverse the roadblocks. When there is something you want and the universe keeps saying no. Anxiety play a big role in keeping us stuck and trapped. Aquarius is a “get out of jail free” card. You are to free your mind, free your fears, free your talents and free your repression.
Staying Calm and Breathing Deeply, the new day will dawn and you will trust your mind and its reasonableness. You will think of your children and pets, family members or friends. You begin the balance of creation and beauty. You know your options and benefits… There will be a rightness.
Here’s some tips on how to make clear decisions.
B. Use your Intellect – How do you reason:
Reasoning gives you a chance to be more objective about yourself and your needs over the emotional side of your nature.
C. Visualize your future
D. Stop Arguing
E. Progressive Movement
Forward movement, we have been lead toward knowledge. The internet alone is full of useful information. Decipher, connect, or act accordingly on clueful information.
Everyone knows what’s wrong to do…bad habits, addictions, procrastination or rebelliousness. Bad tempers or isolation, release misfortune and start by being resourceful, capable and enterprising. Learning to listen again. Drinking plenty of water, and meditate. Resonating with the earth and expecting the very best instead of the very worst.
Journal Questions:
Who do you get along with:
Are you seen as Contructive or Destructive?
Where do you build your life:
How can you be more connected in your personal life or work life: List 3 things if not 3 sentences
Your Aspirations:
What Inspires you:
(5 sentences or more)
Who Inspires you:
(5 people and why)
_____Crossroads present themselves more often than not in our lives. You actually know when you are making a right resolve or a wrong choice. As painful as it is at the time, the long run establishes a clearer picture and as we go through life we understand the why’s. They may be agonizing, but we can be set free, and can be our beautiful “a-ha” moments.
“To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Life’s Complex Journey
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Full Thunder Moon
By Tara Sutphen
The Full Thunder Moon (Native American) at 14* Capricorn will culminate, July 4, 2020 9:44pm pacific | July 5, 202012:44am eastern (Farmers Almanac). Date and time:
4 July 2020 – 08:26MST
Moon distance to earth:
235,528 miles
Age moon:
14.2 days
Moon phase:
Full Moon
Percentage visible:
100%
This Capricorn Full Moon is a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse. Twilight will darken 1/3 of the moon. It can be observed in North, Central, South America, some southwestern parts o Europe and Africa. When we have an eclipse, it’s time to change or let go of something holding us back. Take time to meditate on what you’d like unblocked or reconstructed in your life.
This Capricorn Moon is all about devising plans. There is a focus and it matches a goal oriented attitude. Revising your work-life and your home-life is in the works. You are asked to adjust your attitude and achieve. You may be asked to modify in many ways. We don’t always like it, but even when we think we’re not changing, the earth is adapting every second. Not only do human lives go in all directions, the earth is traveling at 66,000 mph through space, only gravity keeps us rooted here. We are living miracles, yet we fight our circumstances. As humans we tend to look at the small picture.
When we’re in our every day, are you listening to the steps to take or are you resisting forward movement and evolving. You know when your life and your route become more difficult, these are shamanic signs and you’re being asked to be in the flow through situations and conditions. If you have a lot of unrest and chaos in your mind, then you’ll start to journey with no real meaning or end, we seem to be habitual beings of creation. What we fabricate for ourselves manifests. It might not look what we think it should, but going forward isn’t an option, it’s what is. We may even think there are obstacles or people in our way, but usually we are our own complication. We aren’t even supposed to ask someone else to change, because the universe is actually asking you if you’re having a problem. We are to move aside or remove our self from the situation. Capricorn is an inner radar or compass and it is always pointing you towards a favorable result. Always. If we allow everything to work on our behalf…
Humans are on reset: what do we do and how do we go forward. We all have a tool set and competence. Maybe you are missing pieces of your success formula, your health regime, deep wisdom, extra knowledge or your love techniques.
Creating a Good Life:
Journal Questions:
3-5 sentences+ for each question.
–For the eclipse, what are you needing to change or a sentiment or habit to remove from your life –
-How can you rebalance:
People problems
Money problems
Relationship problem
Health problems
Personal issues
Bad habits
Phobias
Career problems
Past choices
Stress
Overwhelmed
Where are you most ambitious:
relationships
career
job
homelife
friendships
marriage
children
beauty
exercise
eating
inside maintenance
outside maintenance
person maintenance
place maintenance
thing maintenance
Your new viewpoint:
acceptance of yourself
acceptance of others
Spending too much time on others and not yourself
Spending too much time on yourself and not on others
Forward movement toward positive activities
Forward movement toward negative activities
-Time management, how long with each:
Family
Friends
Job
Career
Money
Beauty
Health
Harmony
Things
Strangers
-When creating calmness in your life:
Breathing deeply a few times a day
Drinking more water
Taking a walk
Meditating
Praying
Writing in a Journal
Creating a solution
Creating plans
Giving Hugs
Offering Smiles
Saying nice things to people
Waving here or there to people
Enjoying a color
Enjoying nature
Enjoying architecture
Complimenting your kids
Complimenting everyone
-Can you clearly say this is what I do now and I like it or I’d like to see a change:
What are you doing now
What job will you have next year
What job will you have in 5 years
What job will you have in 10 years
Do you stay with a career
Do you change careers often
Do you like jobs
Do you like responsibility
Do you like to be a boss
Are you a good boss
Are you a good employee
What makes you happy
When you were a child what did you want to be when you grew up
What is your career
What is your self confidence
What is your earning potential
What is your verve for life
Are you a winner
Are you sometimes winning
Are you winning yet losing
Are you losing but close to winning
What could make you win
What could make you content
—- Now is your time. You are not in dress rehearsal. How you secure your future in up to you. Getting your feet on solid ground, aligning to your giving and receiving nature, putting a smile on your face, not being in fear, and owning your self-worth. You are a lovable soul, no matter if you think otherwise. You may shield yourself from like, love, success, and good health, but you are given the same formula as every human. Everything is fixable. Capricorn is logic in every factor.
*How to become powerful: You must have role models to emulate, you don’t always have to be liked but you must fulfill what people need. You will have to have a “Strategy and Skill”. You will keep strategizing, knowing how to guide yourselves and others into growth and abundance. Be careful as you can end up working in boring jobs for many years and gain no real power or prestige. You can be wanting recognition. But there is only one thing to remember and again plan for, power has “an end”. You will be usurped by the younger generation or go out of vogue in some way. If you can be fair and aboveboard, you’ll gain respect along with money. You can keep going forward, having a great life, well earned and be treated nicely in old age.
*Using your Intuition: Using your intuition and psychic ability to move forward. Feeling good about the decisions you make. Knowing when wrong feelings happen they can indicate going in a wrong direction.
*When meditating, remember you’re going to go past your mind and it’s set ideas, and proceeding toward the heart, taking it deeper, releasing false sentiments and just float in your divinity, going deeper and deeper to your very essence. Reaching into the core of your being. Shift into knowing you will begin to float in calmness as the eclipse takes away anxiety and confusion, replaced is gifts of knowledge and wisdom, quality of time and being one with your adventure on earth.
—– “God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.” ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince & the Pauper
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0* Cancer New Moon (no moon – starry dark sky, the time of dreaming), culminating June 21, 2020 on Summer Solstice with an Annular Solar Eclipse. Eclipses are about change and solar eclipses are about getting a gift of some kind. It can be to bring something exciting or illuminating into your life.
This Cancer New Moon is about your emotions and finding balance in your home life. How might we use the eclipse to change our personal world to the one we really want to be in. Where we use our heart, and figure out who and what is important. While using your instinctual nature to center yourself, take a moment to find your balance. This can be taking a deep breath. We all have wants, needs, and desires. Where best do we activate our personal power to recognize and flowing toward life being an easy ride instead of upward battle or game of strategy. When our instincts are in a quandary, we find our self to be irrational and irritable. When we take 60 seconds to breathe and pause.
Let us come back to solid ground. To Calm thoughts: your life starts in the
home — your wellness starts from the home, beauty starts from the home, success starts from the home. And… spirituality starts from the home. This is why it’s important to create a sanctuary and wholesome life. When you walk out your front door with “structure” you can find your next level of wellness, happiness, success, and love. Inner formation of strength and vitality renews your spirit to conquer an outer world.
Often seen in the eyes of our elders we must be reasonable or have something to trade. Be it time and energy to an actual craft. We must stay open, tuning into our primal survival instinct and our conscious motives. We must conform to what is good for us, helping us sustain our home life and feelings of emotional stability. If everything is going wrong for you, what is going right for you. Where are you not listening to the inner workings of your heart, of your wants, your mind, your goals and your treaties. Those compromises you’ve made to be living the life you are living right now. You’ve made choices and now find yourself where you are. Look at your feet and know this is where you stand. Look in the mirror and see deeply into you. Look at your hand and know what do you do well.
Journal Questions
-Natural Behavior:
List a positive and a negative trait you posses with each word
and tribulations
of life
-Natural Instincts:
-We often say we are confused and don’t know what we want, but it may be that we don’t know how to get what we want.
So we settle…
-Make a fantasy of a house, what kind of land it’s on, what it looks like on the outside, what it looks like in the inside.
-List anything that would make for a happy home.
When you are faced with problems, do you freeze, crumble or go into action
-Life’s Details, Actions & Results
How are you going into action on your problems right now
-Are you happy with the results so far in your life
-Are you making the most of where you live
-Where you are standing
Stories: 2 sentences or more
—Release a mindset and old communication style on what doesn’t work in an effective world. How do you move about in your environment to acquire confidence, and constructive acts or good manners. Where can a Revelation or two give meaningful thought to create purposeful achievement. How can we use the eclipse to change. You’ve been speaking since infancy but are you getting your needs met. Is your life is in working order. You may feel you are at your base instinctual level seeking to survive. It isn’t about crying in the wilderness, it’s the show of strength in human involvement and evolvement. Finding the real voice, unlocking ourselves into how we should be and not how we think we should be.
Here is the website to see the Solar Eclipse. http://www.timeanddate.com
The annular solar eclipse will won’t be completely blocked out, it will appear to have a solar ring. This has been called “the ring of fire”. It takes several minutes for the moon to pass in front of the sun but the total eclipse lasts less than a second. The path of the annular solar eclipse takes it across Africa, Central Asia and South East Asia on Sunday, 21 June. This phenomena will not happen again until June 21, 2039.
| Starts | 8:45 pm PDT |
| Total (Start) | 9:47 pm PDT |
| Maximum | 11:40 pm PDT |
| Total (End) | 1:32 am PDT |
| Ends | 2:34 am PDT |
Since this day sits on Midsummers Eve, the Summer Solstice and American Fathers Day.
Summer Solstice, Midsummer, Litha
By Tara Sutphen
21st June
“In the world’s audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight” – Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941)
-Summer Solstice marks the end of the waxing year. And the rays of the sun directly strike one of the two tropical latitude lines. June 21 marks the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere, as winter begins in the southern hemisphere. On this day, the earth’s “circle of luminescence” will be from the Arctic Circle to the Antarctic Circle. The equator receives twelve hours of daylight, as there will be 24 hours of daylight at the North Pole and 24 hours of darkness at the South Pole.
-All over the world people honor this day as an important reminder of the apex of light and to cast away evil and their problems. Northern Hemisphere inhabitants use June 21 as the day of celebration, but the splendor of light lasts from new moon to full moon.
Worshipping the Sun’s great power, all cultures celebrate in some way. Celts and Slavs dance around bonfires while Chinese marked the day honoring Li, the Goddess of Light. The celebrants of modern and ancient ceremonies tune in that life comes from the sun. It is life giving and life supporting. We’ve recently had the good fortune to have electricity, greenhouses, and shipment suppliers. How will you celebrate? We all may not get a chance to dance around the bonfire but it’s a time to bask in the light, sit in the sun, cast our worries away and awaken to our lives.
Recipes:
Summer Pasta Salad
2 cucumbers chopped
2 big tomatoes chopped
1/2 red onion chopped
5 tbsp lime juice
4 tbsp cilantro (coriander)
2+ tbsp honey
salt/pepper
2 cups shell macaroni (optional: gluten free)
Directions
Cook pasta, drain.
Combine lime juice, cilantro, honey, salt & pepper in small bowl.
In a large bowl, combine pasta vegetables. Toss gently in lime dressing.
Dill Pickle Pasta Salad
1 (16 oz) pkg large shell pasta (optional: gluten free), ½ c. dill pickle juice plus 4 tbsp. pickle juice (divided), 2/3 c. mayonnaise (optional: veganaise), 1/3 c. sour cream (optional: plain yogurt), Salt & Pepper to taste, ¾ c. sliced or diced dill pickles, ¼ c. onion, 2 tbsp. minced fresh or dry dill spice, (optional: 2/3 c. diced or grated cheddar or almond cheese)
Directions: Cook pasta to pkg specifications. Rinse & drain cold water, add ½ c dill pickle juice, set aside, In another bowl, add 4 tbsp dill pickle juice , mayo, sour cream, salt & pepper (optional: dash of cayenne), Drain off excess pickle juice from pasta and mix with dressing, chill one hour and serve.
Spinach-Strawberry Salad
Yield: 4 to 6 servings 1/2 cup white sugar 2 tablespoons sesame seeds 1 tablespoon poppy seeds 1-1/2 teaspoons minced onion 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1/4 teaspoon paprika 1/2 cup vegetable oil 1/4 cup cider vinegar 1 bag (10 ounces) fresh spinach 1 pint strawberries, sliced thin In a blender, combine the sugar, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, onion, Worcestershire sauce, paprika, oil, and vinegar. Blend well. If the dressing seems thick, add a few drops of water.
Remove the stems from the spinach and tear the leaves into bite-size pieces. Arrange them on individual salad plates or in a salad bowl. Arrange the strawberries on top. Drizzle the dressing over the strawberries and serve.
Bonnie Brae Strawberry Pie
A mixture of cooked and fresh berries helped make this pie a family favorite.
1 quart strawberries or 1 large package frozen strawberries, thawed and drained 3/4 cup water 4 tablespoons cornstarch 1 cup sugar 1/4 cup water 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 cup sliced berries, fresh or frozen, thawed and drained whipped cream whole berries for garnish Combine strawberries and water in saucepan. Cook until just softened, about 4 or 5 minutes. (Let frozen berries thaw; heat but don’t cook them.) Mix together cornstarch, sugar, and water until smooth; add to hot berries. Cook over medium heat until clear. Add lemon juice; immediately remove from heat and let cool. Place sliced berries in cooked pie shell. To assemble pie, pour cooked mixture over berries, top with whipped cream, and garnish with whole berries.
Old-Fashioned Buttermilk Wedding Cake
Yield: Makes 12 to 16 servings.
1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened 3 cups sugar 4 cups cake flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 cups buttermilk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon butter flavoring 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 6 egg whites Preheat over to 350° F. Grease and flour three 9-inch round cake pans. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Pour in buttermilk and begin mixing slowly. Continue to mix until well blended. Add flavorings and stir. In another bowl, beat egg whites until stiff. Fold the egg whites into the cake batter. Divide the batter evenly among the prepared pans. Bake for 20 minutes at 350° F, then lower heat to 300°F and bake for about 25 minutes longer, until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Remove cakes from oven and cool on racks. After 10 minutes, remove from pans and continue cooling on racks.
Cream Cheese Frosting 8 ounces cream cheese, softened 3 cups confectioners’ sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract No wedding needed to have this cake
Other food /drink ideas –
mint iced teas, dandelion salads, strawberry shortcakes, geranium leaf sorbet, berry pies
Ceremonies:
The Druids celebrated with “The Wedding of Heaven and Earth”.
Two people represent Mother Earth and the Sun King. Create a Bonfire, dancers adorned in garlands and flowers, and young men jumping through the tall flames. A time of cleansing and renewal. The participants playing Mother Earth and the Sun King go to each participant, and speak to each person as though planting seeds of growth, imparting words of love, wisdom, thankfulness and prosperity.
Candle or Bonfire Ritual
With a candle or your bonfire – Give blessings in the 4 directions. Cast a blessing for yourself, a blessing for the harvest, a blessing for your loved ones, and a blessing for the earth. (make this blessing 3-5 sentences long for each subject) A Call to Love
Single women are to sleep with 4 flowers under their pillow Flowers:
Flowers blooming in your area, also daisies, roses, lilyof the valley, calendulas, marigolds
Decorations:
daisy chains, lavender wreaths, rosemary garlands Head wreath
Circle base, thin gauge wire, or vines and tie or wire on flowers of your choice Symbols:
Fire to celebrate the power of the sun, Sun Wheels, Medicine Wheels, Stone Circles, Candle Circles, Mother Goddess, Ripening fruits, Sun Dials, Feathers, and Swords/Blades. Candles:
Green & Blue representing the earth White representing God light
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Meditation By Tara Sutphen
Following Tara’s “under the stars” induction, you travel to a sacred stone circle in the middle of a meadow. Here, in the center of the circle, you meet a beautiful woman dressed in chiffon. As she chants, you experience an expanding vortex of power within: “Where light meets darkness … where the beginning encircles the end … where joy nullifies pain … we now choose to slip between the worlds beyond time, beyond space, and we invoke the positive powers of the Universe to assist us to manifest our desires.” Chakra balancing is followed with an inspiration ritual in which you open your heart and mind to the limitless positive potentials of life on earth. You withdraw an object from a box that relates to your purpose. Walking counter clockwise you recall a happy event from the past and transmit the vibrations into the present. A clock becomes a symbol placed in the circle to assist you make the most of your valuable time. Much more. 30 Minutes.
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