Warming Harvest Recipes

The mornings are crisp with the not so familiar whisperings of Autumn and the evenings birthright as crisp and glacial. Now is a essence time to not single-handedly aggrandize but to begin changing our menus from light and airy recipes of Summer to the warming foods of the loud climate to come.

This is likewise a essence time to think up some culinary magick in your kitchen!

Cider-Roasted Vegetables

"This recipe adds great apple go and by add-on warm spices it helps to pressure your wanted intentions."

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* 8 carrots, peeled and sliced at an turn
* 2 large parsnips, cut during pieces
* 1/2 figurine califlower, cored, cut during pieces
* 1 large prosperous onion, peeled, sliced in chunks
* 6-8 garlic cloves, peeled
* 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
* 1/3 cup apple cider or apple snifter
* 1 tablespoon light russet dearest
* Sea brackish and just place period

* Preheat oven to 375 degrees
* Unite the carrots, parsnips, califlower, onion and garlic in a scalding pan, or large pottery scorching serving of food.
* In a window measuring cup whick together the cider vinegar, apple cider and russet dearest.
* Swell the cider sauce in the vegetables and toss to edge habitually. Evolve with sea brackish and period to taste. Intensity the vegetables uncovered for about 20 proceedings. Farm scalding until the vegetables are subtle but not hard, out of the ordinary 10-15 proceedings.

"Kitchen Witch Tip:"License together your own combination of vegetables. Elevate that tough vegetables (dream carrots) carry longer to roast than softer vegetables (dream zucchini). To make amends, cut carrots, parsnips, potato wedges, and onions during thinner pieces, and zucchini, summer force, and mushrooms definitely thicker. Brocoli florets, cauliflower pieces, chunks of fall squashes, and spawn red potatoes are all great for scalding. Appraise and worry fun!

Cinnamon Zucchini Cash"Unloading prosperity, love, and better psychic perceptive during your life with this cinnamon-laced currency to exalt and suffer your garden's lush get together."

* 3 serving dishes unbleached common flour
* 1 teaspoon scorching powder
* 1 teaspoon scorching knock back
* 1-2 teaspoons cinnamon
* 1 teaspoon fine sea brackish
* 3 large free-range generate, laughingly overcome
* 1 cup canola or vegetable oil
* 2 serving dishes light russet dearest, steadily strict
* 2 teaspoons saccharine vanilla heart
* 2 serving dishes just grated zucchini, stressed out on paper towels
* 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)

* Preheat oven to 325 degrees
* oil and flour 2 81/2-inch lounge pans
* In a mixing cave plot the flour, scorching powder, scorching knock back, sea brackish, and cinnamon. Add the generate, oil, russet dearest, and vanilla, and hit until blended. Collect in zucchini and walnuts. Split beat concerning lounge pans. Be selected for for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in the fore emerges clean. Fantastic the pans on a position via you turn out the loaves. Channel the currency closely wrapped in supple facade or aluminum mark.

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Golden-haired Be the source of Consomm

"Soul-warming, fit pumpkin-orange colors of the climate are essence for available the Autumn climate."

* 2 tablespoons whole oil
* 1 medium-sized prosperous onion, peeled, diced
* 1 teaspoon place reddish-brown
* 1 tablespoon good curry powder (useful or hot), or to taste
* 5 carrots, peeled, processed, or carefully chopped
* 2 prosperous potatoes, peeled, cubed
* 1 (15 bit) can pumpkin puree
* 5 serving dishes rural animal protein or vegetable potage
* 1 (14 bit) can light coconut milk
* 1 tablespoon light russet dearest
* Red period flakes
* Sea brackish just place period

"Garnish:"Critical lotion or rural, graphic yogurtFreshly grated nutmeg

In a large chowder pot, heat the whole oil in medium heat and cook the onion for 2-3 proceedings. Add reddish-brown and curry powder, and stir; bear to cook onion until placid and keen. Add the carrots and prosperous potatoes, toss, and cook for 5 proceedings. Add the purred pumpkin and toss with a move, mixing well. Swell in the animal protein or vegetable potage and bring the chowder a high sit on. Pretense, turn down the heat, and bear to silently sit on for 30 proceedings. By way of a potato masher, silently squash the cubes of prosperous potato. Add the coconut milk, russet dearest, and red period flakes to taste. Evolve with sea brackish and period. Cook for out of the ordinary 10 proceedings.

Award this special warming chowder with a waft of inferior lotion or graphic yogurt, and some just grated nutmeg.

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Offer is a story commonly told as regards campfires and in the leader pure impression of church classrooms and from pulpits. It is an oft ordered story what display is so ominously spiritual capability in it.

Taking into account...on the rim of the Era of Cyrus display lived a sound chieftain called Cagular who shattered sound detachments of the military of Cyrus.

Decisively the ruler massed a sound military that marched down and vanquished Cagular and all his services,

Last his contravene, Cagular, his clever companion and two children stood in the prudent of Cyrus awaiting sentences.

The ruler began to suspect this gigantic imperial man who had finished war on his services.

"Cagular," he asked, "What would you do if I spared your life?"

"Your declare." He replied, "If you spared my life I would return to my home and stomach your lovely servant for the rest of my life."

"And what," queried the emperor, "would you do if I spared the lives of your children?"

Promptly Cagular assumed, "If you spared the lives of my children I would pronounced my wordy multitude, place your normal higher their heads and lead them to acquire for you on any region."

The Sovereign was awed and so irrefutably he asked, "And what Cagular, would you do if I spared the life of your wife?"

"Cagular drew himself up to his full six feet of mass and replied, "For that sir, I would die for you."

So stirred was the ruler that he relaxed them all and returned Cagular to his sphere display to act as officer ther.

As Cagular and his companion finished their way back to their home he turned to her and assumed, "Did you turn up the pebble at the oral cavity to the palace...the stand-in colors balanced with one latest and the numbers fixed so perfectly?"

"No," was her simple tribute, "I did not turn up."

"Due, undoubtedly you noticed the tapesty on the walls as we went down the adopt arrived the throne room?"

"No, I did not turn up."

"Due," Cagular asked, "What in tell name did you notice?"

At this suspect, his companion looked up arrived his eyes with all the love a female can stow for a man and assumed, "I fortitude get you, my husband, what I noticed. I noticed the man who assumed he would die for me."

Dedication. Lovingly. Genuineness. To the Member of the aristocracy who linked with mental picture by the manger miracle.

Who gave new meaning to the herenow and the hereafter,

Who finished the go on a journey whilst a symbol of grief and symbol of transcendent sacrifice.

And we are asked to keep on for Christ...few us ever reality asked to die for Christ...

O Member of the aristocracy of hosts, blessed (up and doing, okay, to be envied) is the man who trusts in You [test and believing on You, committing all and confidently looking to You, and that minus dread or query]! Psalm 84: 12

Fit your works upon the Member of the aristocracy [commit and trust them absolutely to Him; He fortitude set down your brains to become pure to His fortitude, and] so shall your strategy be lay down and succeed. Proverbs 16: 3

We love Him what He topmost appreciated us (1 Jn. 4:19).

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Tao Te Ching Read By Jacob Needleman

Tao Te Ching (read by Jacob Needleman)

The Tao Te Ching, a 6th century B.C. Chinese happen as expected, is one of the world's most distinguished sources of spiritual wisdom. This authoritative edition by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English captures the soul of Lao Tsu's idiom, bringing the Tao Te Ching's powerful broadcast to a whole new measure of students.

This troop is read by standard truth-seeker and marker Dr. Jacob Needleman, who equally provides instructive interpretation on the manual. This ancient classic presents timeless spiritual meditations on wisdom in action, illustrating grim lessons that stay on the line resonated with its students for centuries.

The reading by Jacob Needleman of Jane English's edition is probably the paramount prepare of the Tao De Ching in English. In adjunct to Dr. Needleman's reading, once the reading he provides a oration that includes history to the Tao and a interpretation / intrepretation of the manual.

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Zodiac Tarot Horoscope

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Seven of Pentacles: Good news arrives. You are creating your own sense of success or failure. If you want more than you have received - prove it and create a new path for yourself. Help is on the way. Financial good news nears. Hard work. Clever process. Material Progress. Growth, Money. Rewards are due, make your last minute adjustments to ensure profit. The tools for transformation are in your hands. You are responsible for your life, and your determination and stamina will keep your life and business fruitful. Ingenuity. Slow progress, but profitable. You've sown your seeds, now you can rest and see what begins to sprout from all of your effort. You shall reap what you have sown.

LEO (July 23-August 22) Five of Cups: All is not lost. Worry. Regret. Crying over spilled milk. Disillusionment. A relationship or partnership doesn't fulfill it's potential. Don't make the situation or your feelings bigger than they are. Turn to self for the love and sympathy that you are searching for. Look for the positive in what you are experiencing now. Let go of what is not real. Bitterness during a struggle to release. making a mountain out of a molehill. Only the weak spots are gone, you still have much to be grateful for. Love the one you are with. Grieving memories. A great strength is found as you let go of that which you hold on most to. Release the negativity, so that new trust may be found. Holding on to what isn't working anymore. Detach from the unsolved issues and look for new inspiration.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Ten of Cups: Joy. Looking for a reason to celebrate with loved one. Trust is restored. Triumph. Love. Tears of triumph. Motivated by the love of others. True friendship. Contentment. Tender moments enjoyed. Money doesn't buy love. Home is where the heart is. Spirituality. Finding faith. True wisdom is ours. Reflections of kindness. Dancing beneath a waterfall. Dreams are fulfilled. Positive feelings. Filled with great peace and comfort. Love from they neighbor. Good surroundings. An end to a long cycle. Showered in affection. Emotional bliss. Your wish has been granted. Cleansing the pain. Seeing rainbows after the storms. Togetherness. Swelling with goodness. Enjoyment from the simple things in life. Sweet endearments. A spiritual river flows through us.

LIBRA (September 23-October 22) Three of Wands: Enterprise. Figuring out a plan. A new direction. Follow new clues. Adventure that becomes our inner calling. Negotiations. Expansion. Ideas present new foresight. We figure it all out now, and there's no turning back. Getting the assistance we've been asking for. Possible partnership or relationship. Practical journey. Successful business adventure. Professional communications. Collecting our thoughts as we grasp our future. A spiritual direction. Travel. Knowing what we want to do now and we're going for it. Mapping out a new location. Creating a business from a hobby or talent. Opportunities arrive. Becoming open-minded and seeing a new perspective. Foresee potential issues. Mental strategy. 'I just know, and I'm trusting it'. Our ship finally comes in. Giving back to the world. Let go of inhibitions and see where it takes you.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 21) Four of Pentacles: Holding on too tightly. Hoarder. Inability to let go. Stale, but safe. Protected. Holding onto great strength and power that we have created. Mold grows as nothing is shifted. Creating our own prison. Growth in finances, that keep you locked into yourself. Look for a way out, or a for a small window of opportunity. Knowing you have the ability to open and close doors. Miserly. Scrooge. Refusal to stray beyond our own four walls. We reflect the world we have built. Choosing to be cheap. Unable to see what is ahead. Dependent on experience and spirituality. You are not alone. the key to happiness exists within your heart. Tough cookie. Security matters. Lacking vision by our own walls. Lacking flexibility. Can't think outside the box. Won't think outside the box. Desperate, but not serious enough to create change. Locked in our own world. Attachment to material things. It's all about what I have, and not what I share. Barriers are from our own doing. Obstacles and walls exist only in our minds.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21) King of Pentacles: Man of great wisdom. Reliable. Savvy business skills. Being rich with spiritual and material gifts. Helpful individual. Steady progression. Owning up to responsibility. Doing the right thing. Sensual savoring of appreciation. Take the no-nonsense approach. Dependability. Trust is developed. Receiving an endowment. Friendly handshake. Help comes in. Generous assistance and support arrives. Honorable and unshakable individual. Financial advisor. Being accountable brings strength and honor. Decisions made from integrity. What is touched, turn to gold. A competent individual. Mature behavior enhances our power. Knowing what is best for others, as well as for ourselves. Taking care of family and friends. Sharing of our wealth. Enjoying a successful period in one's life. Accomplishment and success arrives. We get what we worked hard for. Achievement, good reputation, and substantial earnings. Favorable benefactor. Play it smart now. Successful projects. We're someone that everyone counts on. Good news financially.

CAPRICORN (December 22-January 19) Nine of Swords: Choosing solitude. Paranoia. Darkness falls upon us. Afraid of the night. Nightmare. You are making your own misery. Living a nightmare that exists in your mind. Feeling threatened. A cycle is about to end. Endless suffering creates a feeling of being trapped. Threats and fears become overbearing, forcing us to react. Worries over tomorrow overwhelm us. Fear that we may be revealed in some way. Sleep deteriorates. Agitation. Unable to separate the nightmares from reality. Afraid of being judged, criticized. Secrets do not become you now. Fear to anger, to fear, to anger. Hiding in our own darkness. Negativity is feeding from our fears. We're worried about what others will think. Trouble always finds me. We think that people care too much about our private affairs. Our past still haunts us. We seclude ourselves. Waiting for the worst to happen. Be careful of what you believe now. The boogie man is under your bed.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 18) Queen of Swords: Perception and quick-wit is delivered. Pay attention to all that is around you. Commanding. Listen to what is being said, but also tune-in to what is not being said. Have your 'thinking cap' and 'listening ears' on in order for your vision to become crystal clear. Unprocessed information or interesting news comes your way that helps steer your direction. Communicating keeps you mentally active and quick, allowing you to become clever, confident and brave in your presentation. Assumption and avoidance confuse you from reaching your goal. Dominance. To separate the nonsense from the facts... you must ask the right questions, to get the right answers.

PISCES (February 19-March 20) Ten of Wands: You are choosing the harder path all on your own. Integrity and honor is a lonely road. Too much success. Overloaded. Burdened by choice. Holding the torch. Creating a strong backbone. I'm right and everyone else is wrong. Responsibility and stamina is strengthening self-respect. Fires burning strong. Feeling a heavy weight when doing the right thing. Martyr complex. Assuming that the world depends on us. Courage and righteousness. Coming to an end of a cycle. Holding great strength. Showing others what we are truly made of. Great spirit. Overworked. Holding the weight of the world on our shoulders. Willing to take on the whole crowd. Bearing great pain is building character. The journey is almost finished. Nothings is going to stop you. When all bets are against you, you are the one who pulls through and has the last laugh. Proving yourself to others. Dependent on winning for self-esteem.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Four of Wands: The wheel is turning again. Celebration. Good structure. Fruits of labor. Enjoying the good life. Possible romance. Rest. Hard work pays off. Loyalty. Home is where the heart is. Trying and succeeding. Defending and protecting what's right. Super hero. A happy workplace. What to do with all this energy? Coming to the rescue. Good intentions come from a strong heart. Harmony. Possible promotion. A fire still burns. Satisfaction. Harvest. Powerful love. A happy home. Liking who you are becoming. Contained within your own positive world. Passion is contained. Settling an old score. Pride and honor. A wedding. Secluded and happy. Strong barriers. Display of commitment. Looking for a new home. Receiving an invitation. Walls of love. Building a new resting stop. Being a good neighbor. Cycle completed and moving on to next project. Prosperity. Happy organization. Blessings. Great heart. relying on your own light.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Eight of Swords: Avoiding the painful truth. Censorship. Strained. Unable to make a move. Restriction causes self-doubts. Crisis. Seeking perfection. Social paranoia. Frightened of getting hurt. Flaws imperil our growth. Paralyzed with fear. Mentally challenged. Physically challenged. Seeking approval from others to determine success. Seeing obstacles and problems that don't exist. Foreseeing issues. Critical care. Creative block. In constant conflict with ourselves. Bondage. Indecision. Feelings of being trapped. Creating our own prison. Internal empowerment available if you seek within. Writers cramp. Disliking crowds and craving solitude. Afraid to face fears. Can not make a decision. Stage fright. Wrongdoings. No matter which way you turn, you see another hurdle to cross. Criticism and judgment hurt now. Loss of confidence. Feeling incompetent. Self esteem damaged.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The Hermit: Searching for the truth. Choosing solitude to escape the noise. Divine light. Spiritual grounding. Prayers. Finding our true inner light. Dependence on higher knowledge. Home with nature. Meditation. Be still now and listen to your surroundings. What everyone thinks of me is none of my business. Sign of help ahead. Silence is golden. Wisdom. Getting therapeutic counseling. Professional therapy. A book filled with powerful knowledge. Stars speak to you. Metaphysical practice. New age. Great wisdom. Centering within ourselves to find answers. Self-knowledge. Tree hugger. The night sky tells us a story. Grounding. Lone wolf. Happily secluded at home. Blending in with he scenery. Ain't nobody else's business but our own. Illumination. Fascination with mountains. Candle in the wind. The key is good listening. Living the simple life. Studying the past to understand our present and tomorrow. Inner guidance.

Books You Might Enjoy:

Richard Johnson - The Zodiac Stellar Stories
Aleister Crowley - Rosa Coeli
Yogi Ramacharaka - Yogi Philosophy

Curse Witch Magic

The Curse witch magic starts with an ability an is the standard of curses that are constant and reasonable. Offer are four types of curses: low reasonable effect curses, nifty reasonable effect curses, abandoned effect curses and the open-minded curse.

The low curses are based off the dream up of you imagining the inflammable soir of a very low action with a nifty closing stages. In addition to saying academically or out echoing "I curse you sum or place here} to baby or low action here}!" Say it with arrogance and the low emotion that came with the inflammable intention. These moments are necessary to slice the anger and vex to clasp off the curse. An example: Say "I curse this store to not lose clientele in the end track of closing its doors." Do this some time ago imagining the soir which aggravated your vex. The nifty closing stages is the execution of yourself.

Encouraging reasonable effect curses are the curses that use the low bearing as an energy furnish and justification a nifty soir. Do this by saying some time ago focusing on and noticing whatever thing that possibly will be enlarged that is causing low emotion, a conliction possibly. "I curse you to passage in anywhere you shut in you are question but not in anywhere it is unnecessary!" This type of curse wish constantly be effective at removing low emotion and bringing nifty have a spat from it to your life.

An abandoned curse is the effect of an abandoned nuclear offer fulfil. It starts with someone and it spreads to other hurry. A virus management possibly will adjoin to this effect. AIDS is a good replica. Point on everything you know about AIDS and say "I curse AIDS to not passage and to make itself conceal. May it be effective on any person that has it. May it as well be cured." Now unlike good replica is to management chubbiness. Point on the low notion that chubbiness begets from you. Now say out echoing or academically "I curse chubbiness of hurry to make itself conceal, no obey what and down in the dumps any shape starting with the bodyguard overobese!"

The open-minded curse is the type of curse that takes from the low and begets a nifty and low track. Point on what tribulations you self-control synchronize and say out echoing or academically. "I curse my tribulations to self destruct or settle themselves and to personal a chief point in the right direction on cheating held tribulations as a track of it." This can effect whatsoever that is having a come forth.

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Eruption thou before time i' the charmed pot!

Two times, reserve strain and trouble;

Stir rocket, and caldron bubble.

William Shakespeare "Macbeth"

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A Lovely Yule

We had a very sweet Yule here, and the weather wasn't so cold as I was expecting, which is always good!

Lucas' altar got a tropical touch with the branch we took from our garden. The little tree we usually use is inside a box, inside another huge box, ito my mom's bedroom's attic, with her Christmas ornaments. So it would be too messy to take it off the place, and we decided choosing something different this year. It became a cute thing, and I guess we'll start doing it from now on:

My altar followed the same pattern, with a funny branch chosen by my little witch. I decorated it with little drawings he made to replace the ones he used on his tree. I'll laminate them for future sabbaths, so cute they got! ;)

A couple of months ago, Lucas made a fun drawing representing a Fire Monster, and asked me to make it in felt. With the many Etsy orders to create, I ended up not making it, and when I was trying to figure out what to give him as a Yule gift, this Monster came to my mind, and I put my hands to work:

I tried to be as faithful to the original as possible, and filled it with calendula and lavender. The little buddy's trunk is a bit longer than it should, but the final "art" was okay. I put it in a cloth green bag and placed it at his altar. Of course, on Yule morning, he went straight to it, and he loved his new friend!

This year, I didn't make any special dinner, but to compensate, we got lots of dried branches and leaves, and made a little fire outside, into an old metal bowl. We drew sacred symbols on a small lumber as a Yule log, and put it on the fire, along with pieces of paper with our good wishes for the arriving season:

The night was wonderful, so starry and quiet... We spent a long time watching the fire, the stars, sharing an apple while focusing on good vibes, thanking the Goddess and the God for our lives and asking for protection during the dark months ahead. We also ran around the fire, greeting the sun that would get stronger and stronger now. (I bet the neighbours were open-mouthed at the sight of us jumping up and down and making funny dances, and thinking, "what the heck...?", lol).

We talked about the importance of always honoring these sacred dates, saluting the seasons so vital for us. I silently said an extra "Thank you" to the gods for another precious moment I was sharing with my little son. I feel really blessed to be able to have these special times with him, so full of meaning. I feel so humbly happy that I succeed to create a tradition as a pagan mom, to have open, sweet talks to him and have the chance of explaining how I perceive the spiritual world, something this close to us, on our daily lives, and to listen to his own ideas and thoughts about it. Lucas walks his path so naturally, and it's such a joy watching him living it, that I feel my heart getting warm to the point of melting...

I hope you all had a lovely time celebrating your Solstice too! :)

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