Healing on the next full moon

The next full moon will be on the 30th November. It's when the lunar light is full and energy is increased. Full moons are often ideal for when to be creative and working on cleansing. It's also got a gravitational effect on the tides that keeps the Earth stable. The misunderstood full moon phase has a strong influence that interferes with sleep, moods and dreaming. This is because humans are out of tune with the natural world, and so the full moon puts people out of sync instead of making them feel in harmony. It's now nearing the Full Moon. That is when we shall do gathered healing vibes to those all over during this pandemic. Many more people are coming down sick. Sadly many lives have already been lost. 🌷🌷🌷🌷

Healing work for this on the next full moon on 30th November. All you need to do is make healing thoughts, send out warmth, prayers, blessings, and choose to make healing any way you want. Some prefer to use candles, or crystals and incense. Whatever form of healing incantation and blessing you choose to make during the full moon, be safe, careful and know what you're doing. Think about healing those that are ill, and think of those who are struggling with the virus, who feel scared and alone. Use your compassion to send them loving energy. Think of flowers, the sunlight and even of the tides, the sea. The sounds of waves, and warmth of the sun, the scent of flowers and the calm of the moon. 

This is a beautiful thing I shall say during the full moon on the 30th November:

Prayer for Eir

Physician of the Gods,
the Merciful One.
I ask you to speed medical healing,
to speed the recovery
of illness or injury.
I ask you to inspire the doctors
to do no harm,
and to do well in treating the one whom I pray for.
Inspire the doctors to have mercy,
as you have mercy.
Inspire the one whom I pray for
to be patient and hopeful.
Hail Eir,
Greatest Physician.

by Nornoriel Vanyahildë = Prayer for the healing goddess Eir..    at Odin's Gift.

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Some native spices of Europe

There are a load of many spices found in Europe and British Isles. Not imports from tropical places but actual wild plants that are considered spices. Onion is one of them. Now there is garlic that protects against evil spirits. There is Angelica, used to add new flavours to fish soup. Wild rosemary is found in the northern hemisphere mostly if Europe so it strikes people as mad! 

There is also Angelica, Asarabacca, Elder, Garlic mustard, Ivy (ground), Sweet flag, chives, blue fenugreek, celery, Horseradish, borage, juniper, myrica game, mugwort, caraway and others. Some from southern Europe can be grown in colder climates of the north. These would be thyme, rosemary, marjoram, pennyroyal, spearmint,  and  many others.  

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A book for mushroom season

 

This book can help you to find out about mushrooms that are found nearby. Wild mushrooms come in all varieties and what's really important is to learn how to identify them. This will help explain which fungi is edible and those that are poisonous. This book is called "Mushrooms and Toadstools in Colour" by Else and Hans Hvass. This is probably one of the first mushroom books I owned. This time of year is when mushrooms sprout all over. If you want to pick mushrooms for food, books about them are quite a good help. It's an illustrated read published by Blandford Press in 1961. This is a children's book on mushrooms, although anyone learning about the subject can have a copy.

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Suggestions

 

It's an idea to make recommendations, reviews and suggestions for materials that help me and encourage me every day. I often write about subjects to show people how to learn more about the natural world. It's not only visiting websites, typing keys in a search engine and hope to get whatever results. It takes studying and reading. So I shall make a suggestion now and then, of what materials to read. I will make a start tonight. We just had a full moon, and the season has made people think of the paranormal so what I want to quickly talk about is this book: 

Ghosts and Goblins: Stories for Halloween by Wilhelmina Harper. Originally this was published in 1936 and the image shows another version published in 1965. It has gone out of print, although you may come across second hand copies in the market, online or in the library. Described by Google  as "well-known shivery tales of cats, goblins, witches and ghosts from many countries of the world" 

A small reference book for anyone starting to learn about fauna is Berries (A Blandford Mini-Guide) by Hedvig Wright Ostern. This is 128 pages and was first published in 1981. It will help you find out the various plants and berries and flowers. The same people have also published a variety of books on different nature subjects. This pocket book will show the berries of Britain.

I will post more suggestions another time. 

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