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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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Two Candles - A Ritual for Calling In Love

2/14/2018

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A ritual is a symbolic representation of what you long for.

In this case, you want a loving, lasting, fulfilling relationship, someone to spend a long, happy, and meaningful life with. This ritual is going to help bring you and this person together!

The simplest way to do this ritual is to light two candles and move them closer together, symbolizing you moving towards each other and finding one another. That would work.

But what works better is adding layers!

How does that work? Download this ritual and you'll find several suggestions of layers to add together, both before and during your ritual – pick and choose which ones are most appealing to you.

Call in LOVE today

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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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The Practice of Coloring with Intention

12/1/2015

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An Interview with Michelle Radomski of One Voice Can Graphic Design

Tell us about your practice.

Coloring is all the rage these days. In fact, a search of “adult coloring books” on Amazon yielded 7,111 results! Coloring is awesome, but I believe that the real power comes when we color with intention. For me this means setting an intention, choosing a mandala that holds the energy of that intention, and then coloring with possibility, purpose and a heart wide open.

The best way to explain this is to share an example from my own life.

Mandala in Sanskrit means “container of sacred essence.” Think of the mandala as a beautiful vessel designed to hold the essence of whatever energy is poured into it.

"Hi, I’m Michelle. I believe that intentional graphic design and mandala art can change the world. I’m here to help individuals, non-profits and publishers remember and share the power of their voices so that they can make the impact (and income) they know they were born to make."

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A Blessing for a New Computer

11/20/2015

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by Deborah Globus

Blessing a new computer?? Yes. Definitely! Bless a new computer. Bless a trusty, old computer.

Think about how much time you spend on your computer. Ignore the technological frustrations for a moment, and consider how much good your computer allows you to do, probably on a daily basis.

Show that miraculous piece of technology a little love and respect, and offer it a blessing. And today is the perfect day for it since it's Name Your PC day (according to Mental Floss Magazine.)

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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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3 Ways to Navigate Your Growing Edges

10/20/2015

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by Deborah Globus

3 Ways to Navigate Your Growing Edges

It snuck up on me again. This growing thing. And the friction of being at my growing edge, like that damned oyster and her pearls. (I wonder if oysters complain as much as I do about pushing past my boundaries??)

What's a girl to do?

Here's a few ideas for you for when you come to your own growing edges:

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Can Doubt Be a Prayer?

6/22/2015

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by Deborah Globus

And death is at your doorstep
And it will steal your innocence
But it will not steal your substance

But you are not alone in this
And you are not alone in this

- Mumford & Son

Note: this is a repost of a piece I wrote in January of 2013. Of late, death is once again on the doorstep of too many people that I love. And the question still remains, what do you do with grief?

Last Thursday was the 24th anniversary of my friend's mother's death. Next year he'll be as old as she was when she died.

Another friend has lost so many of her beloveds this year that I've lost count. That doesn't include the funerals that I've gone to in the last two months or the ones I haven't, like the ones in Newtown, CT.

And I live on Long Island where evidence of storm damage sneaks up on you around every turn: a fallen tree here, an exposed root ball there and I'm suddenly reminded of all that my extended "neighbors" have been through since the October.

In the face of all this grief it's hard to believe that I can make a difference. Mine is just one small voice shouting out into the void, or so it feels.

Too many of us struggle with not feeling like we're enough. Especially when the griefs before us are so expansive, and felt so strongly by so very many. It can feel too big; and we feel too small. Thankfully, there are rituals that can support us, if we seek them out.

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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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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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