Author: A Solitary Pagan
Hypnosis Lucid Dreaming Ritual
Mugwort Flower Essense Remedy * A bathtub STEP 1: Draw a warm bath just before going to bed. Add 20 drops of mugwort into the water. STEP 2: Sit in the bath in quiet meditation to clear your mind, for about 5 minutes. STEP 3: Visualize the dream you want to have… and see yourself interacting however you wish inside the dream. STEP 4: Go to bed…and dream…
Dreamwork
We have all had those dreams which we can vaguely remember and strive to figure out what they mean. So what are dreams? Dreams are the language of the subconscious, encoded in symbols, which is trying to tell you something as you sleep. I hope that this brief guide will help in this respect and will act as a few pointers in trying to understand them. First, it may be an idea to keep a pen and note...
Dream Catcher in Your Window
Place a dream catcher in your window to catch bad dreams before they come to you. Also try a broom under your bed, if you can’t find a dream catcher.
Cutting Ties with Bad Dreams
An athame placed between your mattresses will ‘cut’ the ties between yourself and old bad dreams so they cannot come again.
Tea Leaf Divination
Anything from clouds, crystals, incense smoke, or tarot, oracle, or playing cards can be read for divining purposes. All you need is to feel attuned to interpreting what you see. Images may appear to you unbidden with a voice within you, telling you the meaning of what you see. The image you see may even change upon acknowledging it, to confirm your thoughts/feelings on the matter. As always, list...
Hermes
ORIGIN Greek. Messenger of the gods. KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 800 BC but probably earlier until Christianization (circa AD 400). CENTER(S) OF CULT Pheneos (Arcadia); otherwise few specific places, but strongly associated with wayside shrines and cairns. ART REFERENCES probably certain prehistoric phallic figures marking boundaries; Parthenon frieze; Hermes of Praxiteles in Olympia. LITERARY S...
Deities Of The Moon
Across many cultures and throughout history, the Moon has been regarded as a symbol of transformation, intuition, and the cycles of life. Numerous deities are associated with the Moon, each representing distinct qualities of lunar energy. These deities are often honored in rituals for growth, the removal of negativity, fertility, intuition, magick, and the enhancement of dreams. Arianrhod is a sig...
Deities for Protection
Anubis (Egyptian) : The jackal headed god. Anubis is the gatekeeper to the underworld a protector and a guardian. Anubis can walk with you during challenging magickal situations. He can help to remove fear so you can find the courage to do what needs to be done. Colors: Green and Black. Crystals and stones: malachite and nebula. herb: Myrrh Artemis (Greek) The maiden Goddess of the crescent m...
Deity – Soul
There are 2 types of souls. Those that use their minds to live life with, and souls that use their hearts. The soul uses both but typically one makes the most decisions, certainly not all in most cases. There are souls that are led through emotions, feelings, hormones, the spur of the moment, the thrill of excitement, the physical is their way of interpreting the spiritual. These souls are souls t...
Deities For Power
These deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase. Apollo Apollo, the Greek Sun God, was twin brother of Artemis, the Moon Goddess. As god of the solarlight, Apollo made the fruits of the Earth ripen, and at Delos and Delphi where he slew Python, thefirst crops were dedicated to him.(Python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the Mother Goddess i...
Mercurius
ORIGIN Roman. Messenger god. KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 400 BC to circa AD 400. SYNONYMS Psychopompus; Oneicopompus; HERMES (Greek); Mercury. CENTER(S) OF CULT Circus Maximus (Rome). ART REFERENCES sculptures and carvings. LITERARY SOURCES Aeneid (Virgil), etc. One of the twelve major deities of Olympus, Mercury is modeled closely on the Greek god Hermes. In Roman mythology, he is the son of JU...
Hermes Trismegistus
The thrice greatest Hermes,” amythological blend of the Egyptian god Thoth, who governedmystical wisdom, magic, writing and other disciplines,and was associated with healing; and the Greekgod Hermes, the personification of universal wisdom andpatron of magic, the swift, wing-footed messenger godwho carried a magic wand, the caduceus. The ancientGreeks associated Hermes with Thoth so closely that t...