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Taken from Morning Mantras by CICO Books
The Summer Solstice, upon which the Wiccan festival of Litha is observed is this week! Here we share some information about Litha from The Beginner’s Guide to Wicca by Kirsten Riddle, and a simple ritual you can follow to honor this point in the wheel of the year. If you would like to receive more news, advice, motivation and mantras from our Health, Mind, Body & Spirit books, make sure you subscribe to Mindful Living here.
LITHA: June
Celebrated over the longest day and the shortest night the summer solstice, Litha, marks a turning point in the wheel of the year. The goddess is pregnant and flourishing and the earth is bathed in light, but it’s all about to change: the return of the dark is imminent. The god, also known as the Oak King, is about to hand over the baton of power to his twin brother, the Holly King. This is the time of year to celebrate everything you’ve achieved so far, to embrace joy and to develop a sense of fun. The seasons are changing and winter is on its way, but this shift in balance is needed to keep the wheel turning.
DEITY All sun goddesses, including the Norse Sunna and the Japanese Amaterasu
ALTAR DECORATIONS Oak leaves, flowers (particularly sunflowers), bread, honey, yellow and orange candles
HERBS All herbs
COLORS Blue, green, orange, purple, red, yellow
LITHA RITUAL
To honor the sun at the height of its power during this summer solstice celebration, rub a little sunflower oil into the wax of an orange or yellow candle. As you do this, think of all the things you’d like to manifest during the rest of the year. When you’re ready, light the candle and stand before it. Breathe in and, as you breathe out, imagine pouring your love into the flame, and see it rising up toward the sun. Say “I honor the strength and the power of the sun. I move forward giving thanks for all that is done. Upon this day, upon this hour, I embrace the might of the sun’s radiant power.” Let the candle burn down.
Taken from The Beginner’s Guide to Wicca by Kirsten Riddle, CICO Books
What an enormous waste of your precious time, Dear One, to spend even one more minute wondering 'what if?'
Michelle Stevens, author of The Soul’s Agenda
Acknowledge this, accept this as the truth for yourself, and release all thoughts, beliefs, and judgments to the contrary, and you will open yourself up to an experience of self-love. Do the same for others, see them in alignment with source as powerful, empowered creators, channels of the divine, and you will open yourself up to an experience of truly loving them. What could be more exhilarating, what could feel better, more joyful, meaningful, real, and profound than connecting with another soul and coming into alignment with the divine together, experiencing more of all that is together? Nothing, that’s what. That is why the desire to be in love, and the experience of falling in love and being in love, is such a powerful one.
Taken from The Soul’s Agenda by Michelle Stevens, published by CICO Books
The four astrological elements are fire, earth, air and water. Every fourth sign shares the same element, so there are three signs for each. These are known as the triplicities.
The Fire Triplicity - Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
The Earth Triplicity - Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
The Air Triplicity - Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
The Water - Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
Find out more from Be Your Own Astrologer by Joanna Watters (CICO Books)
New Moon / Full Moon
If you were born just after the New Moon, it doesn’t mean you’re a young soul but that you are starting off on a new soul project and are sailing into a life of discovery. Your feelings and actions work together, your mind and heart tend to agree, for better or worse. You’re here this life to explore and experiment, to find what excites you. When you’re young, you can be open and enthusiastic, if a bit simplistic, and see events from a single perspective.
You catch fire when you start a project and inspire others easily, but you might find it harder to maintain your enthusiasm and finish. After an adventurous and exploratory youth and early adulthood, you are able to find one thing you love, or are skilled at, and run with it. As you age, you learn to see layers of complexity and shades of gray, and finish what you begin.
Taken from Moon Wisdom by Heather Roan Robbins (CICO Books)
It’s tough being a pug in the modern world, so here’s some great ideas to navigate your way through those Valentine’s Day difficulties.
Taken from The Little Book of Pug Wisdom by Gemma Correll (CICO Books)
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Today's #MorningMantrainspires us not to live a passive life. Be engaged. Like our #MondayMantras? You'll love our new book #MorningMantras and we've got three copies up for grabs! To win a copy see our Instagram page for more details.
Taken from Morning Mantras by CICO Books.
TITANIUM QUARTZ
Quartz crystal bonded with titanium and niobium.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Flame aura quartz, rainbow quartz, rainbow aura quartz, aura quartz, royal aura
COMMON SOURCE: USA
ASTROLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS: All star signs
CHAKRAS: All
HEALING QUALITIES: A “feel better crystal” that centers emotions. It helps you see another’s point of view and stimulates energy flow and change. Good for meditation, it helps you find your own true path through life and is helpful for career decisions. It also improves your ability to see auras.
PHYSICAL BENEFITS: Good for anything to do with body fluids, such as helping dehydration and water retention. Helps prevent illness, quells fever, and helps bone cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis.
Taken from The Little Pocket Book of Crystal Tips and Cures by Philip Permutt (CICO Books)
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New month. New start. An ideal #MorningMantra for the first day of February! It's brighter mornings from here on out! 👌
Taken from Morning Mantras by CICO Books.
Colour in your own ‘Wheel of Fortune’ tarot card.
Taken from Colour Your Tarot by Liz Dean (CICO Books)
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Treat bedrooms as sacred spaces
Keep your bedroom free of clutter for peaceful, restful sleep. Treat this area as if it is a sacred space, since this is where you spend all of your sleeping, subconscious time. It is where you leave the conscious world, and go into another dimension. Here is where you dream dreams, and let yourself go. Here is where you rest, cocooned from the world. So keep this space sacred and special.
Keep the energy of the bedroom free from energy that is negative, harmful, stale, or hostile–so throw out things that make the energy turn sour. Instead, place only things you love in your bedroom, things that make you feel pampered and beautiful.
Practical Tips
1. Don’t store clothes high on elevated shelves in your bedroom. This is a bad idea because they create heaviness above the sleeping level. Store your winter wardrobe in a storeroom and keep all of your suitcases in another room.
2. Keep all exercise equipment, bikes, and wall mirrors out of the bedroom. Your place of rest is not your gym.
3. Make sure that all work-related junk is kept away from the bedroom. Do not have a work desk here, so that you eliminate the danger of work-junk piling up inside the bedroom. Keep computers and telephones out. Let children have a special study room, rather than a desk in their bedroom. If there are insufficient rooms in your house for this, try to place the desk a little away from the bed so that junk that builds up on the desk does not affect the sleeping child.
4. Keep all dirty clothes inside a laundry basket. Nothing is more yin than dirty clothes, and the energy permeates any room pretty fast.
5. Do not place junk under, over, or beside a bed. Keep beds clean at all times.
6. Keep all doors clear of junk so that they open and close smoothly.
7. Never hang questionable art on the walls of your bedroom.
8. Keep windows clear of clutter. Curtains can be left open or closed at night, but it is advisable to let the light flow in once the sun shines. Nothing brings in better yang energy than morning sunlight.
See the rest of this blogpost and other #MotivationalMonday posts here.
Taken from Lillian Too’s 168 Ways to Declutter Your Home and Re-Energize Your Life (CICO Books)
If you're struggling to warm up with your New Year's exercise regime learning specially designed stretches, like this kneeling lunge, will help to ensure that “your gait becomes fluid and easy; you move with efficiency and confidence”.
To learn how to safely execute this stretch, and learn more, on our blog.
Taken from Stretching With Ease by Linda Minarik (CICO Books)
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Hemimorphite Crystal
Taken from The Little Pocket Book of Crystal Tips and Cures by Philip Permutt (CICO Books)
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Start your week right! This #MorningMantra is just the motivation we need to get going on a Monday morning.
Taken from Morning Mantras by CICO Books.
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With regards to mindful living, we're aiming to take a little more time for ourselves in 2016, and what better way to do so than with our colouring pencils. Today we've got a brand new colouring sheet for you to download and print.
This colouring sheet is taken from our Colour Yourself to Calmness Postcard Book, with original artwork by Sue Coccia, available here.