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HERB AMULETS

POSTED BY: "SILVER FOX" SILVERFOX 57@HOTMAIL.COM TRICKSTER9993

Tue Nov 9, 2010 6:49 am (PST)

Herb Amulets

Source: Pathwalkers.net

For Negative Forces In The Home

At the front and back door of your house, hang two bunches of clover upside down. As you hang each bunch, feel the negative energy around you and direct it to each bunch. The cloves will then set out to fight the negativity around your house.

Protection For The House

Get a fresh, whole coconut, drain it, then, cut it in half. In a bowl mix fresh rosemary, basil, and half a cup of uncooked rice. Blend these together, then cover both halves of the coconut with the mixture. Fit the coconut together and wrap a white ribbon around it to keep it shut. Go outside on a Sunday night and bury it in the backyard. It will protect your

home and backyard.

Another Protection For The House

With a red ribbon tie a bunch of garlic to the corner of your front door. It will protect you and your loved ones from negative vibes that may enter your house. Never let anyone use the garlic for anything else.

To Improve The Mind

In a little yellow drawstring bag carry vanilla beans, fresh rosemary and petals of a lily of the valley and place it around your neck. With each breath visualize your mind becoming stronger, remembering dates you will not want to forget.

For A Job Interview

Fill a jar with crushed pecans, add three drops of rose oil and keep a luck hand (root of an orchid) inside with the lid shut tight. After three nights, place your lucky hand and seven pecans in a little red drawstring bag and take it with you to job interviews. With this little bag, you will feel confident while questions are being asked and will have a good chance of getting the job you want. Don't let anyone else, see the red drawstring bag.

For Spiritual Awareness And Psychic Strength

In a medium size jar half filled with almond oil, add a teaspoon of dry yerba santa, damiana and spearmint leaves with seven drops of lime essential oil. Mix together with a plastic spoon and screw the lid on top. This is be used before spiritual healings, or for divination purposes. Place three drops on your hands before you start rub them gently together and place on your forehead. Then take them to the back of your neck, breathe deeply and start your work. You may even like to use this blend in your bath.

For Astral Traveling

In a little purple drawstring bag, place two teaspoons each of dry angelica and crushed peppermint leaves and add a smoky quartz that has been cleansed with lavender essential oil. As you do this, visualize what you would like from the astral realm and very night before you go to bed rub the drawstring bag on the bottom of your feet. This will take you where you want to go and protect you along the way.

Protection From Evil

Make four little blue drawstring bags, each the same size. Mix in a bowl dry angelica, Solomon's seal and balm of Gilead buds. As you do this visualize your house protected from evil. Divide the mix into four equal amounts and fill each bag with it. Hang them or hide them in the four, corners of your house.

For Sleeping Problems

Make yourself a little purple drawstring bag and as you do this think of a having a good night's sleep. Inside add a teaspoon of valerian and each night hold it in your hand while you lay in bed. Before you know it you will be soundly asleep and when you awake the little bag will be somewhere in your bed.

For Courage

Sprinkle dry yarrow and thyme in your shoes. It will not only give you courage but it will stop the fear so you can accomplish what you have set out to do.

For Money In Your Purse Or Wallet

If you find yourself without a cent, sprinkle dry sassafras in your purse or wallet and you will always have enough for the things you need to buy.

For Money

In a green bowl mix equal parts of ginger, Irish moss and sesame seeds. Crush together to form a powder and as you crush it visualize your money needs. Light a charcoal tablet (cube) and on top add a quarter of a teaspoon of your money powder. Concentrate, inhaling deeply. Do this for ten minutes every night for seven nights, beginning on a Thursday night just after the sun goes down.

For Prosperity

Sprinkle fresh alfalfa sprouts in the front and back of your house. As you do this visualise your most wanted needs and recite the following:

"May the ground take this offering I give.

May it bring me prosperity which is in great need"

Do this, seven times every Thursday and don't be shy sprinkling plenty of alfalfa sprouts.

Silver Fox

"It is all true, it is not true. The more I tell you, the more I shall lie. What is story but jesting Pilate's cry. I am not paid to tell you the truth."

Jane Yolen; The Storyteller

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INFUSION MAGICK

POSTED BY: "SILVER FOX" SILVERFOX 57@HOTMAIL.COM TRICKSTER9993

Tue Nov 9, 2010 6:50 am (PST)

Infusion Magick

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Please make sure these herbs aren't poisonous by referring to Herbal Correspondences. Although some herbs are listed as dangerous, please make 100% sure.

Basically infusions, brews and washes are just tea. Herbs steeped in hot water to release their volatile oils and essences into the water so the resulting liquid may be used to transfer their energies to an object, place or person. Infusions may be used in a number of ways; to sprinkle around a space or onto an object or person, to bathe an object or person, or to drink as tea. They are generally brewed when they will be used as they do not keep well. The herbs may be mixed in advance and placed in small cheesecloth bundles, ready to use like a tea bag. If you use a particular infusion often you may want to make up these tea bags and have them on hand. Mixing the herbs should be done with ritual, visualization and the appropriate time correspondences as with any magical herb preparation. The prepared tea bags should be stored in an airtight jar, in a dry, cool place. The following table lists some herbs traditionally used in infusions for various magical intents.

Herbs Traditionally Used in Infusions

Bistort Infusion is sprinkled to drive out poltergeists.

Boneset Infusion is sprinkled to drive out evil.

Buchu Tea is brewed and drunk to develop psychic powers.

Cascara Infusion is sprinkled at home before going to court to win favor with the judge/jury.

Chamomile Infusion is added to bath to attract love.

Cinquefoil Wash the head and hands with the infusion 9 times to rid yourself of hexes.

Clover, Red Infusion is sprinkled to drive away evil and negativity.

Cohosh, Black Infusion is added to the bath to cure impotency.

Damiana Infusion is drunk to increase sexual stimulation.

Dill Infusion is added to the bath to attract love.

Fumitory Infusion is sprinkled around the house to attract money.

Gentian Infusion is added to the bath to attract love.

Ginseng Tea is drunk to induce lust.

Hibiscus An infusion of the flowers is drunk to induce lust.

Hyssop Infusion is sprinkled or added to the bath for purification.

Kava Kava A tea is drunk to enhance psychic powers.

Lemon Infusion is used to induce lust.

Lemon Verbena Infusion is sprinkled or added to the bath for purification.

Lovage Infusion is added to the bath to attract love.

Marigolds Infusion is added to the bath to attract respect and admiration.

Mimosa Infusion is added to the bath to break hexes.

Mugwort Infusion is used to wash divinatory tools to increase their effectiveness.

Orange Infusion is added to the bath to be more attractive.

Parsley Infusion is added to the bath for purification.

Pineapple Infusion is added to the bath to attract luck.

Poke Infusion is sprinkled or added to the bath to break hexes.

Rattlesnake Root Infusion is added to the bath for protection.

Rose Rosebud tea drunk before bed induces prophetic dreams.

Rosemary Infusion is added to the bath for purification.

Rue Infusion is added to the bath for breaking hexes and exorcism.

Saffron Infusion is drunk to improve psychic powers.

Sagebrush Infusion is added to the bath for purification.

Shallots Infusion is added to the bath for luck.

Solomons Seal Infusion of the roots is sprinkled to drive away evil.

Tormentil Infusion is drunk to improve psychic powers, and give protection.

Vervain Infusion is sprinkled to exorcise evil spirits and negativity.

Wintergreen Infusion is sprinkled for purification.

Yarrow Infusion of the flowers is drunk to improve psychic powers.

Yerba Mate Infusion is drunk as a lust inducing potion.

Yerba Santa Infusion is added to the bath to be more beautiful.

Yohimbe Infusion is drunk as a lust inducing potion.

Silver Fox

"It is all true, it is not true. The more I tell you, the more I shall lie. What is story but jesting Pilate's cry. I am not paid to tell you the truth."

Jane Yolen; The Storyteller

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Disseminating Moon Moves Into Libra

"I'm one with the Idol

and open to Her Debate"

20th Day of the 1st Cosmological Classification

Ruled by Demeter

Cosmological Tree Classification of Beith/Birch

3rd Day of the Celtic Tree

Month of Luis/Rowan

20th Day of the Classification of Imbolgen -

Days of Reclaiming

Moon Phase: Disseminating Moon

Moon sets: 9:23AM EST

Moon rises: 10:28PM EST

Moon in Virgo v/c 5:36PM EST

Moon enters the Cardinal Air

Smidgen of Libra at 6:59PM EST

Rhiannon's Classification of the Moon

Cosmological Meditation: The constellation

your soul-friends make.

Sun in Aquarius

Sunrise: 7:37AN EST

Sunset: 5:26PM EST

Cosmological Challenge for the Day: "In the function of

is the source of your inmost

refreshment?"

Samhain (Calan Gaeaf) Locale

of the Engagement

January 23rd, 2011

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SUN DAY - this is the Day of Perseverance, Building and Transformation.... Impart are inadequately magickal energies for wake to ointment stress. The Latin celebrity for Sunday, our first day of the week, is "Dies Solis "('sun's court). In ancient Greek, it was called "Hemera Heliou. "In the Old English language, it was everyday as "Sunnandaeg"; in Gathering place English, "Soneday. "All of these titles mean the vastly thing: the day of the sun.

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[From: Ellen Dugan's "Subtract of Witchery"]

Denial Ronald Hutton And Peregrin Wildoak

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"Peregrin Wildoak" is a Ancient times Revisionist:

* who never uses his real name, setback noticeably at the rear anonymity to tiptoe around clash for slight

* who denies that offer was any Pagan Holocaust at all

* who disputes that offer were any Pagans ever killed by the Post-mortem at all, and

* who even disputes that offer ever were any Pagan or Egyptian mysteries!

"Peregrin," era setback at the rear anonymity, has been one of the greatest extent dangerous attackers of our order in the 20 time Witch Likelihood waged on the Internet adjacent to the Solid Want of the Fair-haired Opening, the obvious order of the Rosicrucian Want of the Alpha et Omega.

Ancient times REVISIONIST

"Peregrin Wildoak"

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For the facilitate of new readers, Peregrin and his special sock/meat puppets hold been republishing "AD NAUSEUM" the exceedingly tired loll vernacular points on this quiz upper and upper for living now, yet Peregrin never addresses even one scholorly voice disapproval to his straw man arguments!

IN Far-off Language, THE Precisely Sphere Roughly speaking IS:

"WHY IS THE New "PEREGRIN WILDOAK" AND HIS Punch AND Extract PUPPETS SO Smitten Along with THE Self-control OF PAGAN Relic In the same way as ANTIQUITY?"

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DEMIGOD Professor - RONALD "Q" HUTTON

Triumph OF THE MOON is a monumental study for which Professor Hutton deserves accolades with reference to the origins of Wicca in Southern England. Even, Hutton perfectly states in Triumph that the breadth of his study is limitation to Wicca in Southern England.

My soul voice disapproval is the transfer in which Hutton, in in imitation of chapters of Triumph, makes unwrap generalizatioins about the lack of survival of elements of ancient Paganism in Continental Europe without giving out a single slash of times of yore data to to back up such incompetent statements, which thriving put your feet up the clear-cut breadth of Hutton's study.

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The Road To Hell

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Where Do We Go From Here An Evangelical Response To President Obamas Re Election

I'm still reeling from last week's election. Most people I know are, too. Even though the polls told us clearly enough that President Obama was highly likely to win, many of us had persuaded ourselves in the end Mitt Romney would prevail.In the weeks leading up to the election evangelicals across the country prayed, held rallies, preached, wrote and in general did everything possible to assure the faithful that God was going to defeat Obama. But in the end, Romney didn't even do as well as John McCain, the 2008 Republican candidate against Obama.It was as though David slung his stone at Goliath, and missed.Beyond the election itself many people are pointing to the fact that the evangelical voice in the United States doesn't carry much weight anymore. The days of the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition and Focus on the Family being able to swing the course of an election are long gone. These days, Billy Graham's full-page newspaper ads pleading for the Republican cause didn't make any difference at all. In fact, they may actually have hurt.Following the election Al Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary as well as one the nation's best-known bloggers (www.almohler.com), declared the election a catastrophe for moral issues: "Evangelical Christians must see the 2012 election as a catastrophe for crucial moral concerns. The election of President Obama returns a radically pro-abortion President to the White House, soon after he had endorsed same-sex marriage. President Obama is likely to have the opportunity to appoint one or more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, and they are almost sure to agree with his constitutional philosophy.""Furthermore, at least two states, Maine and Maryland, legalized same-sex marriage last night. Washington State is likely to join them once the votes there are counted. An effort to pass a constitutional amendment preventing same-sex marriage went down to defeat in Minnesota. These came after 33 states had passed some measure defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. After 33 victories, last night brought multiple defeats.""Other states considered issues ranging from abortion and marijuana to assisted suicide. While not all were lost, the moral shift was evident in the voting patterns.""Clearly, we face a new moral landscape in America, and huge challenge to those of us who care passionately about these issues. We face a worldview challenge that is far greater than any political challenge, as we must learn how to winsomely convince Americans to share our moral convictions about marriage, sex, the sanctity of life, and a range of moral issues. This will not be easy. It is, however, an urgent call to action. "All of this is true. In fact, the situation for evangelicals may be even more challenging than we realize. Beyond the obvious moral issues, there's a more subtle yet powerful force at work in the steady erosion of religious liberty. The new age the United States has entered has little patience for people of traditional Christian beliefs. Personally, I think all this will end up for the good. I really do. For two reasons: the first is that the situation we find ourselves in now is actually freeing us up from some of the harmful situations evangelicals had gotten into. And second, if we get really serious about the gospel and building the Kingdom, we may well find our nation ripe for revival.For decades evangelicals have grown more and more entangled with the Republican Party. There were several good reasons for this, most notably that Republicans in general adopted our position on moral issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. Our thinking was that political victories would lead to effective churches. The reality was the opposite happened, and the closer we aligned with a single party the more we distanced ourselves from where the other half of the nation was living. We compromised our witness for the sake of power.It's not that we should stop advocating for the live of the unborn or stop speaking up for biblical marriage, it's just that we can't be so closely aligned with one political party that we dilute the fact that the gospel is intended for people of all political parties and all lifestyles.Now that our political power is not what it used to be, we may well find that our spiritual authority is more visible.Now we can get serious about the gospel. I shared with my people last Sunday ten important principles that evangelical churches have to keep in mind as we negotiate the new world we're in. If we can keep these in front of us, our nation may move into a new season of spiritual renewal. That's my hope and prayer, anyway.Here are the ten principles:. "AUTHENTICITY." We can't live as hypocrites, judges, cynics or curmudgeons anymore. We have to strive above everything else to be authentic followers of Jesus.. "A GREATER LOVE." Like the first century believers in Antioch, who were first called "Christ-ians" or "little Christs" because of the way they loved each other, we have to embrace a deeper love.. "A WILLINGNESS TO SUFFER." American Christians have by and large escaped the suffering that Jesus said his followers would experience. That's about to end, I believe. And we must be willing to embrace the suffering that's probably coming our way.. "A WILLINGNESS TO SERVE." Now that we're no longer under the illusion that power makes us effective, we're free to serve others in Jesus' name. Just as He did.. "A RELIANCE ON PRAYER MORE THAN EVER BEFORE." Prayer is what moves God to empower the church to in turn impact the world. This new season we're in will call out prayer among God's people more than ever.. "REAL COMMUNITY." In our nation of polarized, angry people, the church simply must find a way to build real community. This alone gives credibility to our witness.. "THE CAPACITY TO LIVE IN AN UNCLEAN WORLD WITHOUT BECOMING UNCLEAN OURSELVES." Our nation's moral landscape is littered with the broken lives that immorality always brings with it. This is where we live but we have to do so without becoming unclean ourselves. That's not an easy position to be in, yet one the Lord told us to take.. "PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY." Our people must assume personal responsibility for their own spiritual maturity. The days when churches made it their main business to pamper their congregations are over. We need strong men and women today to meet the challenges before us, not whiny babies who think only of their own needs.. "A NEW VISION OF THE MAIN THING AND THE MANY OTHER THINGS THAT AREN'T THE MAIN THING." All churches get distracted by lots of secondary issues. We have to keep the Main Thing-the gospel-clearly and simply at the center of all we do.. "A TRUST IN THE HOLY SPIRIT TO MAKE A WAY WHEN WE CAN'T SEE A WAY."The Holy Spirit in the end determines the effectiveness of our churches. If the new culture of hostility toward the gospel teaches us anything, it teaches us that apart from the work of the Holy Spirit we're incapable of accomplishing anything for the Kingdom.. "THE ENDURING VALUE OF THE LOCAL CHURCH." In today's environment, it's the local church that will make a difference in people's lives. Not denominations. Not high profile para-church ministries. Not celebrity pastors. Just ordinary, faithful people, bound together in common worship, mission and love and determined to reach out to the lost people around them.