Peace be with you, my friends! Today is the Feast of the Assumption. The day that celebrates when the Blessed Virgin Mary was taken into heaven body and soul. It is a very important feast day for Catholic and Orthodox Christians around the world. I just wanted to take a few moments and share this greeting on this most special of days. As always, I wish you peace, prosperity and happiness!
In a very short amount of time the entire city was covered by an avalanche of volcanic rock and ash and thousands of people perished. The city was discovered once again in the early 18th century and has been in excavation ever since. The victims of Mt. Vesuvius’s eruption were entombed in fiery ash and many centuries later it was discovered that if workers poured plaster into cavities in the earth, an exact replica of a person…
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All Voodoo doctors and queens hold services this Saint John’s night, which is the most powerful of the year for doing any kind of spiritual work as the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is at its thinnest. Today I would like to share a link to an article I’ve written about the Feast of Saint John with a video of Mambo Sallie Glassman of New Orleans performing the service on Saint John’s night. You can…
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I had heard my grandmother and great-aunt, now in their 90’s, speak about the May Day celebrations of their youth, but it was not until I was in my twenties and began to travel abroad that I learned of the widespread observance of this day and it’s spiritual roots. In the Anglosphere many May Day traditions have their origins in the ancient pre-Christian festival of Beltane once widely celebrated in Britain and Ireland. On this night, people…
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Peace be with you! I just wanted to wish a Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it and a Happy Spring, the season of new life and rebirth! Throughout Holy Week, I have been doing a lot of cooking and entertaining of friends and it has given me the idea of writing a blog entry on food magic, which I plan to post here at some point in the upcoming week. Until then, I wish you…
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