My birthstone magic

It's March and I've just celebrated my birthday. My birthstone is aquamarine and it's one of the few birthstones that is able to be used in calming down anger spells. 

Visualise the aquamarine stone. This can be worked on yourself or others. Focus on all of the anger, and its rage. Imagine that you are casting all of this anger into that stone and being drowned inside. The powers of the aquamarine will absorb it all and eat its negative energy. 

You can also use an ordinary stone or a pebble for this, but there is a slight difference. Visualise anger being shifted into the stone and then throw away that stone into a river, pond, stream or a lake. This cleanses the anger until it's gone.   

Say that incantation to your gods and goddesses, who watch over the waters, let the anger fade away, and disappear. Then say a thanks.

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Hair of Skadi

 The Winter leaves us with snowfall and icy paths. What else is left in woodlands after a snowy time is a very pretty amount of white silvery hair. It's really a curious formation of ice and is called "hair ice" as it's often left on rotting deadwood. This looks like luxurious silky hair as if  it were made by a winter goddess after brushing her hair. Now really hair ice is quite a rare natural phenomena but it just looks very beautiful. It's appearance on deadwood of a type with broad leaves, and on medullary rays but not appearing over strong bark. Hair ice is formed by a fungus called Exidiopsis effusa of the Auriculariaceae family. The cold snow makes all these gorgeous looking silver locks in a dark woodland, as low temperatures under 32 F with a damp air give this ice that look. It can stay there for days, all depending on the weather and if it changes or not. 

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Call of the moon

 It is full moon night. The full moon in March is called a few names like Crow Moon, Sap Moon and Worm Moon. Sap for the new budding plants growing on soil, trees and branches. Crows finding next new homes for laying eggs and departing from mist of winter, with mating season ahead. Worm moon, for the soil and creatures tucked away over winter now woken up, such as the snails and bats and worms. 

Worms. Wyrms. White wyrm legend. Many wyrms in myths and folklore across the British Isles. Wyrms, not worms, but wyrms, the sleeping dragons. 

Snow is forecast, but so too is World War Three. The snow and worm moon. Snow wyrm. Ice dragon defend us here.

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