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Ritual for a Festival Meal

5/15/2019

By Deborah Globus

A festival is a day or period of celebration, and while Google says it’s typically a religious commemoration, when we’re responsible for our own spiritual path, we get to make our own festivals!

This is the festival meal we used to celebrate my friend, June’s 75th birthday. The basic idea comes from Grandmother Moon by Zsuzsuanna E. Budapest, and we spiced it up a bit with sacred space with some candles and tarot cards for inspiration.

Because you’re in sacred space, anything and everything you do during the meal becomes a sacred act. Every bite you take is a sacred act; every conversation you have is a sacred act (no matter how ridiculous or raunchy or irreverent.) Every act of generosity, every sip of wine, every meeting of the eye – they all become sacred within sacred space.

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Imbolc Ritual for Manifesting Your Intentions

2/3/2016

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by Deborah Globus

Imbolc 1996 with so many candles and so many intentions

Imbolc marks the halfway point between the Winter Solstice
and the Vernal Equinox.

It’s a celebration of longer, warmer days and the first hints of returning Spring.

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Blessing Your Home With Light – A Yule Ritual for 2016

12/17/2015

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by Deborah Globus

There’s just 6 days to go until to the shortest day of the year. That makes the night of Tuesday, December 22nd the longest night of the year. That’s a lot of dark.

The idea behind this ritual is to experience that dark within the safety and security of your home. In today’s culture of cheap and easy electricity, and technology we don’t get to experience a whole lot of darkness.

Seriously – even if I could turn off all the computers, cable boxes, UPSs, and clocks, I’d still have a streetlamp glaring in my living room window. Real darkness is our homes can be hard to come by.

But let’s try!

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How to Have the Holidays You've Always Wanted

11/18/2015

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by Deborah Globus

Mine is a practical sort of spirituality.

Once I suspect something isn’t working, I turn my attention to finding something that will make it work.

Case in point: the Starbucks cup debacle. (Bear with me – I promise this will be enlightening, and not just a little bit humorous!)

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Celebrating Samhain: A family-friendly ritual for Halloween

10/29/2015

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by Deborah Globus

Celebrating Samhain: a family-friendly ritual for Halloween and honoring your ancestors

"The Wheel of the Year spins on and on, bringing us to and from one season and from and to another..."

-Edain McCoy

Halloween's roots go back much farther than our modern celebrations of jack-o-lanterns and trick-or-treating.

Across many cultures it's widely acknowledged that this time of year the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead is thinnest. It's a time for recalling and recollecting our ancestors, and those that have gone before us.

This family-friendly ritual provides a magical framework for honoring your own ancestors and introducing your children and other ritual participants to your loved ones that have passed on.

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Prosperity Spell 101

6/10/2015

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by Deborah Globus

I don’t usually go in for the “magic” behind the stuff I do. I much prefer the psychology and the brain science behind it.

But sometimes I come across something that works with - no explanation - but it’s so good that there’s no reason to fight it!

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Summer Solstice 2014

6/22/2014

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by Deborah Globus

Today we celebrated the Summer Solstice. Technically we were a day late but with an eleven year old, a fifteen year old, and all the other characters that attend we’ve found it’s best to be a little flexible with timing, lest we don’t celebrate at all.

We celebrated the Solstice with a Norse boast, a drinking game that the Norsemen of the cold North used to while away the long nights of winter. We borrowed it, feeling that the boasting aspect of it – making things as grand and elaborate and LONG as possible – seemed in alignment with the sun’s longest journey in the sky.

A Norse boast is drunk in four rounds as follows:

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Lost in the Woods - A Photographic Journey

12/6/2013

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by Deborah Globus

This week I feel lost in the woods…

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A Ritual for Spring 2013

3/20/2013

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by Deborah Globus

This one goes out to my friends at The Creative Haven:

My circle of friends always celebrated the Vernal Equinox by tying colored “ribbons” to trees to bring into our lives what we were hoping for in the upcoming season. We would use color symbolism to represent the quality we were looking for, sometimes combining colors to get just the right feeling.

Want to play along?

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My name is Deborah Globus and I am La Padre. With me you'll find the support you need to uncover practical, do-able spiritual practices that work for you. I offer new perspectives on old practices like journaling and ritual, with a side of compassion and a healthy dose of humor, just to keep it down-to-earth and real!

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