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Here is a neat instruction sheet to weave your palm fronds into a cross: Click here to print off instruction sheet Happy Palm Sunday everyone and may you and your family have a great week on spring break and celebrating all the various spring holidays and traditions this month!...
Happy New Year 2009! May the year of our Lord 2009 bring you abundance, knowledge, strength, health and prosperity to you and your family for generations to come beyond the horizon that anyone can imagine! I hope that you have made (and will keep at least one) New Year’s resolution (I have) and that you will use your quiet times thoughtfully in prayer and contemplation to bring about the outcome that you want to see. Here is a little about New Year’s traditions around the world. Enjoy! New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Traditions There are many ways that different cultures welcome in the New Year, but one thing is common that they have is lights, noise and food! Take a moment and read about how you can meld some of these traditions into a memorable ceremony for your home. It is almost Universal that every home needs to be as clean as it possibly can. This means moving furniture, catching those “dust bunnies”, washing windows and for some, taking down the Christmas tree and cleaning up the pine needles as my family has been doing all this past week! Many will spend the New Year’s with guests and visitors and if you are going to someone’s home, bring them a bottle of wine or champagne so that they can toast in the New Year in style. the sharing of food is also common, with certain traditional foods being made and consumed for a brighter year. In Greece, for example, January 1st is the feast of St. Basil, so traditional cakes baked with silver or gold coins in them are baked with the person retrieving the coin from their slice of cake being especially lucky that year. In the Southern United States, many families make a feast of baked ham, black eyed peas with ‘pot liquor’ (the liquid from the peas), collard greens and cornbread. The greens symbolize green backs or “folding money” and the cornbread as “gold”. Some make their greens with a coin in the pot and some make a certain dish named “Hoppin’ John”, which has the black eyed peas and rice in a casserole type dish. While my family is from Louisiana and we prefer our black eyed peas over cornbread, we will be having a spiral cut ham and okra with our meal. Here is a recipe for Hoppin’ John from the About.com website: http://southernfood.about,com/od/blackeyedpeas/r/bl80308c.htm> In Brazil, practitioners of the indigenous religions of Santeria, Candomble, Macumba and Zarabanda create little boats of cardboard and fill them with little perfume bottles, candies, liquor and sweets, along with petitions and cast them adrift on the shore for the Goddess Iemanja/Yemoya/Yemaya to accept. If your boat is taken out to sea, you wishes will be granted that year. No matter what tradition you follow, make sure you buy a new broom for the New Year, make sure the kitchen cabinets are full of nutritious foods, light white candles on the hearth or the family dining table and at midnight, open the front door and raise a toast to the incoming New Year 2009! ...
Don’t Forget! The second annual Banishing Negativity Ritual and Reversible Candle and Petition Burning will be Wednesday, December 31, 2008 (New Year’s Eve). If you are interested in “sending away” all the negativity from the last year and ready to open up your doors to a brighter 2009, purchase a tealight candle petition offering. If there are particular people in your life that just need to depart, purchase a black poppet doll in their name so they can “get out” and “stay away”. For more information about the Banishing Negativity Ritual and Reversible Candle Burning, go to: http://www.tarotbyjacqueline.com/banish2008.html ...
Free Candle Spells | Weaving Palm Fronds from Palm Sunday
Posted by Jacqueline on Apr 4th, 2009 in Money Drawing Prosperity Spells, Rants and Raves, Special Announcements | Comments Off on Free Candle Spells | Weaving Palm Fronds from Palm Sunday
Here is a neat instruction sheet to weave your palm fronds into a cross: Click here to print off instruction sheet Happy Palm Sunday everyone and may you and your family have a great week on spring break and celebrating all the various spring holidays and traditions this month!...Readers Questions | What Do I Do When the Candle Goes Out?
Posted by Jacqueline on Feb 25th, 2009 in Money Drawing Prosperity Spells, Proper Candle Preparation, Rants and Raves, Readers Questions | Comments Off on Readers Questions | What Do I Do When the Candle Goes Out? Readers, this is the continuation of an e-mail with questions from a reader that I felt were good to answer in blog posts. You may find a friend or even yourself experiencing some of the same things as our reader who writes: Reader: I was reading the instructions that were enclosed with the oil and powder sachets. It said that IF a candle went out do not re-light it due to negative forces. Jacqueline:>>>>>Yes. Throw candle away and start over. You either didn’t do it right or the thing that you are trying to change is too big and strong and you have to ‘tweak’ your spell. Reader: Should I throw it away (my present plan)? Jacqueline: >>>>Start over. Readers, it is important to focus and prepare your candles right in accordance to traditional cleansing and blessing/anointing methods either taught by your spiritual group or by doing research here at Free-Candle-Spells. There is a category to the right called Proper Candle Preparation, that can answer most of your basic questions. If your candle goes out, toss it out. It is either of poor quality because of hasty, cheap labor manufacturing or you can consider the candle to not have been properly prepared for the situation. With regards to cheap labor, the wick is held down by an aluminum ‘button’ that weighs the wick to the bottom of the glass. However, this does not insure you against wicks with too much ‘play’ in them that they wiggle left or right of center when candle is cooling during the pour. Once a wick has too much ‘play’, it has the tendency to ‘float’ all over the inside of the glass, and even potentially dipping over onto itself and extinguishing the flame. Now for the metaphysical or spiritual answer; you did not prepare the candle properly before lighting and/or the ‘entity’ or ‘problem’ you are burning your candle for is larger than you first realized. Begin again with a fresh candle and maybe even bolster or ‘prop it up’ with a white candle in glass next to it, to bring angelic light and purity to the candle spell. Thank you for the great questions as it has spurred on some more questions that will be posted in the next week! ...New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Traditions – Candles, Food, Fun!
Posted by Jacqueline on Dec 31st, 2008 in Beginners Candle Spells, Love Candle Spells, Moon Phases and Candle Spells, Proper Candle Preparation, Rants and Raves, Special Announcements, Various Saints Candle Spells | Comments Off on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Traditions – Candles, Food, Fun!
Happy New Year 2009! May the year of our Lord 2009 bring you abundance, knowledge, strength, health and prosperity to you and your family for generations to come beyond the horizon that anyone can imagine! I hope that you have made (and will keep at least one) New Year’s resolution (I have) and that you will use your quiet times thoughtfully in prayer and contemplation to bring about the outcome that you want to see. Here is a little about New Year’s traditions around the world. Enjoy! New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Traditions There are many ways that different cultures welcome in the New Year, but one thing is common that they have is lights, noise and food! Take a moment and read about how you can meld some of these traditions into a memorable ceremony for your home. It is almost Universal that every home needs to be as clean as it possibly can. This means moving furniture, catching those “dust bunnies”, washing windows and for some, taking down the Christmas tree and cleaning up the pine needles as my family has been doing all this past week! Many will spend the New Year’s with guests and visitors and if you are going to someone’s home, bring them a bottle of wine or champagne so that they can toast in the New Year in style. the sharing of food is also common, with certain traditional foods being made and consumed for a brighter year. In Greece, for example, January 1st is the feast of St. Basil, so traditional cakes baked with silver or gold coins in them are baked with the person retrieving the coin from their slice of cake being especially lucky that year. In the Southern United States, many families make a feast of baked ham, black eyed peas with ‘pot liquor’ (the liquid from the peas), collard greens and cornbread. The greens symbolize green backs or “folding money” and the cornbread as “gold”. Some make their greens with a coin in the pot and some make a certain dish named “Hoppin’ John”, which has the black eyed peas and rice in a casserole type dish. While my family is from Louisiana and we prefer our black eyed peas over cornbread, we will be having a spiral cut ham and okra with our meal. Here is a recipe for Hoppin’ John from the About.com website: http://southernfood.about,com/od/blackeyedpeas/r/bl80308c.htm> In Brazil, practitioners of the indigenous religions of Santeria, Candomble, Macumba and Zarabanda create little boats of cardboard and fill them with little perfume bottles, candies, liquor and sweets, along with petitions and cast them adrift on the shore for the Goddess Iemanja/Yemoya/Yemaya to accept. If your boat is taken out to sea, you wishes will be granted that year. No matter what tradition you follow, make sure you buy a new broom for the New Year, make sure the kitchen cabinets are full of nutritious foods, light white candles on the hearth or the family dining table and at midnight, open the front door and raise a toast to the incoming New Year 2009! ...Banishing Negativity Ritual and Reversible Candle Spell
Posted by Jacqueline on Dec 30th, 2008 in Beginners Candle Spells, Love Candle Spells, Proper Candle Preparation, Rants and Raves, Reversible Candles, Special Announcements | Comments Off on Banishing Negativity Ritual and Reversible Candle Spell
Don’t Forget! The second annual Banishing Negativity Ritual and Reversible Candle and Petition Burning will be Wednesday, December 31, 2008 (New Year’s Eve). If you are interested in “sending away” all the negativity from the last year and ready to open up your doors to a brighter 2009, purchase a tealight candle petition offering. If there are particular people in your life that just need to depart, purchase a black poppet doll in their name so they can “get out” and “stay away”. For more information about the Banishing Negativity Ritual and Reversible Candle Burning, go to: http://www.tarotbyjacqueline.com/banish2008.html ...