Incense Correspondences

Blue Berry - Burn to keep unwanted influences away from your home and property


Blue Roses- Specially crafted to honor the Goddess in all her aspects


Carnations - A sweet floral scent traditionally used for healing


Cherry - Sacred to Venus, this blend will attract and stimulate love


Cinnamon - Use to gain wealth and success


Coconut - Burn for protection and purification


Copal - Sacred to the Mayan and Aztecs, this blend is suitable for honoring the Gods


Frangipani- Burn to brighten your home with friendship and love


Frankincense - Draw upon the energy of the sun to create sacred space, consecrate objects, and stimulate positive vibrations


Honeysuckle - Burn for good health, luck, and psychic power


Jasmine - For luck in general, especially in matters relating to love


Lotus - For inner peace and outer harmony, to aid in meditation and open the mind's eye


Musk - Burn for courage and vitality, or to heighten sensual passion


Myrrh - An ancient incense for protection, healing, purification and spirituality


Passionflower - For peace of mind, this sweet scent will soothe troubles and aid in sleep


Patchouli - An earthy scent used in money and attraction spells


Pine - Burn for strength, and to reverse negative energies


Rose - For love magick, and to return calm energies to the home


Sandalwood - A delicious all purpose scent used to heal and protect, also for purification


Spice - A fiery scent to be charged for any magick


Spirit - Raise your personal vibration, attract spirit guides and honor your personal deity


Strawberry - For love, luck and friendship


Tangerine - A solar aroma used to attract prosperity

Temple - A devotional incense for the altar during ritual


Vanilla - Stimulate amorous appetites and enhance memory



African Violet: Burned for protection and to promote spirituality within the home.


Allspice: Burned to attract both good luck and money.


Aloes: Burned to attract good fortune, love, spiritual vibrations and strength.


Althea: Burned for protection and to stimulate the psychic powers.


Anise seeds: Burned as a meditation incense.


Basil: Burned to exorcise and protect against evil entities and to attract fidelity, love, good luck, sympathy, andwealth.


Bay: Burned to facilitate the psychic powers, and to induce prophetic dream visions.


Bayberry: Burned mainly to attract money.


Benzoin: Burned for purification and to attract prosperity.


Bistort: Burned with Frankincense to aid divination.


Bracken: Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain.


Cedar: Burned for purification, to stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, attract love, prevent nightmares.


Cinnamon: Burned for protection and to attract money, stimulate and strengthen the psychic powers and to aid in healing.


Citron: Burned in rituals to aid healing and also to strengthen psychic powers.


Clove: Burned to dispel negativity, purify sacred and magickal spaces, attract money, and stop or prevent the spread of gossip.


Coconut: Burned for protection.


Copal: Burned for purification and to attract love.


Damiana: Burned to facilitate psychic visions.


Dittany of Crete: Burned to conjure spirits and to aid in astral projection


Dragon's Blood: Burned to dispel negativity, exorcise evil supernatural entities, attract love, enhance psychic awareness, and restore male potency. Makes all other incenses stronger when added at the same time.


Elecampane: Burned to strengthen the clairvoyant powers and scrying abilities.


Fern: Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain. Also used to exorcise evil supernatural entities


Frankincense: Burned to dispel negativity, purify magickal spaces, protect against evil, aid meditation, induce psychic visions, attract good luck, and honor Pagan deities.


Fumitory: Burned to exorcise demons, poltergeists and other evil entities.


Galangal: Burned to break the curses cast by sorcerers.


Ginseng Root: Burned to keep wicked spirits at bay, and for protection against all forms of evil.


Gotu Kola: Burned to aid meditation.


Heather: Burned to conjure beneficial spirits, and to produce rain.


Hibiscus Flowers: Burned to attract love.


Horehound: Burned as an offertory incense to the ancient Egyptian god Horus


Jasmine: burned to attract love and money, and also to induce dreams of a prophetic nature

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Juniper: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers. and also to break the curses and hexes cast by evil sorcerers.


Lavender: Burned to induce rest and sleep, and to attract love


Lilac: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers and to attract harmony into one's life.


Mace: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers.


Mastic: Burned to conjure beneficial spirits, stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and intensify sexual desires. The magickal powers of other incenses are greatly increased when a bit of mastic is added.

Mesquite: The magickal powers of all healing incenses are greatly enhanced by mesquite.


Mint: Burned to increase sexual desire, exorcise evil supernatural entities, conjure beneficial spirits, and attract money.


Myrrh: Burned (most commonly with Frankincense) for purification, consecration, healing, exorcism, and banishing evil.


Nutmeg: Burned to aid meditation, stimulate or increase the psychic powers and attract prosperity.


Patchouli: Burned to attract money and love, and also to promote fertility.


Pine: Burned for purification and to banish negative energies, exorcise evil supernatural entities and attract money.


Poppy Seeds: Burned to promote female fertility, and to attract love, good luck, and money.


Rose: Burned to increase courage, induce prophetic dreams, and attract love. Rose incense is used in all forms of love enchantment and possesses the strongest love vibration of any magickal incense.


Rosemary: Burned to purify, aid in healing, prevent nightmares, preserve youthfulness, dispel depression, attract fairyfolk, and promote restful sleep and pleasant dreams.


Rue: Burned to help restore health

a day in the life

So often we wake, go through the day and got to sleep in a funk. No reason just not a meaningful day for one reason or another. For me these past months have been that time. I run around doing the things that are expected like visiting facebook and the JAP site which are uppers for me, well not Facebook, hate that one but my family is on and quite frankly It is the only info on my kids I get. I write as I feel an inspiration, and I play with Raptor.

As we age, people seam to forget us, maybe not intentionally but they do just the same. Our kids grow and expand their horizons and fall in love pick friends and share the drudgery's of life. When I was in my 20's my parents were not on my mind. When I was in my 30's I would come up and visit them sometimes on weekends. In my 40's my parents lived only 35 minutes away, did I visit? well about every 2-3 weeks. My parents died soon after that my father first and then I moved out to Colorado, then my mother the day after Halloween when the veils are the thinnest.  I miss them so. My greatest fear is that my kids will not even notice I died.

Now I am in my 50's and I swear I am still interesting, fun to be with, still a great cook, still loving and helpful. I want only to share with my family and have a family get together. But no one seams to have time for me, why is that?

Maybe that is part of my funk, the rest is being promised something and that person just not caring enough to follow through. My hubby promised to proof read my newest book and he did 1 chapter and poof he was gone. it was promised 2 chapters a week until he was caught up to me. he did one, I am on seven. I can see why Jackie gave up and started just watching TV all day.

A writers journey with her first book

If you haven't heard I wrote a book. It went into circulation on may 18th. The title is "A Spiders Web" It can be found at amazon, barns and noble and xilibris where I created it.  Not so sure I would recomment that site to others. They are fast at first but the deeper you get into the process the slower they are. I still have unresolved issues and faulty links. If you make a mistake it costs you $25 a word to change. And Apparantly I made lots. sentence structure and grammer. Okay so it was my first and a learning experience. The link is http://www.amazon.com/Spiders-Web-Stormy-Stewart/dp/1477110275/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341509162&sr=1-1&keywords=a+spiders+web+by+stormy+stewart
I thought I would share any posts about people oppinions here so others could follow a just starting out writers journey.

My first was from May 31, 2012 from Carol Glushwyn

She wrote

It kept my interest I didn't want to put it down, wanted to keep reading to see what happened next. Wow! What a story. It has twists, turns,surprises, deceptions, romance, sex, murder, terror, and a surprise ending. I love the names Tommy Two-Trees, Decoda, Summer and Katie (a cute name that fits her) At first shy- but eventually strong. I liked the Ice Cream part and description of both the grandfathers farm and especially the lodge. So many surprises. So hard to put down but had to to do chores. Also to even put Sarah the waitress in the book. Everyone described so well. I felt I knew them immediately and they were real people. The land around the farm, even the barn. You added wild Summer. Suspense. Not knowing what happen next plus the fear Katie lived with through the whole book. You felt like you lived it with her. Then the amazing twist at the end of the book how Katie had changed. And all the money Tommy/Tyler had. It was wonder and  amazing ideas and even the dead relatives which I know passed on, ancesters guide the living w/american Indians. You brought a lot of thought into the book. I was never bored. It was not too long or too short, got to the point. Not a lot of empty pages to make the book longer. I really enjoyed reading it, thank you.

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The next was from Ali Bresnahan dated July 3rd, 2012

OK, Stormy, thanks for sending me the link to "A Spider's Web." I was able to download the kindle and have started reading your story. The story sounds very interesting, as do the characters.

I haven't gotten very far, and I need to say something before i go any further...and I must be honest with you. From the very beginning of the book there are a number of errors in punctuation, grammar, spelling, verb tense, and inconsistent capitalization of words. Sound like a lot of mistakes? Yep. As I am a pretty good proof reader, it is difficult for me to continue reading without making constant corrections in my mind, which is too distracting and spoils the story for me.

I'm not sure if you have an editor, but you really need someone to proofread the copy before you can consider it suitable. I'm sorry if this makes you feel bad, but honesty is truly the best policy, and I'd love for your book to be successful.

If there is any way I can help you, please let me know.

Aloha, ali

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The next was from Ginger Skaggs
She writes
My friend was looking for a new book to download on her kindle. I suggested she look at your book. She did. I read the intro with her and it sounds fantastic. It has been 6 hours and she hasn't put her kindle down. I can hardly wait to read it after her!

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ginger skaggs

I finished reading your book. It does have many twists and turns in it. I never expected Katie to kill Decoda. A good read for a first book. Keep it up.
My only suggestion is to find a better proofreader. Some of the grammer and syntax took away from the plot. Still a good first book. You have accomplished something which some people never will.
I will be waiting for your next read.

Diets

Everyone hates diets. The best one is not to need one. Well lately I have come to the sad discovery that I am fat. So I buckled down and an already starting to loose weight. I eat what I want, just in the right combinations. Here are some helpful hints for other just starting a new diet.

Diet essentials

Knowing your body:

This is how it was explained to me. Think of your body as a factory worker who is under paid and over worked. Now add a boss who yells when you do not meet your quota. So you are working as fast as you can, and the boss fires three of you friends. Everyone is expected to pick up the slack. But you are already over worked. Your shift is 8 hours and in that time you have to be done or you are fired. What do you do? When the boss isn't looking you put a few behind the couch in the lounge, next time you hide a little under the chair, or behind the assembly line. Well that is your body does with food it can't process fast enough it hides it as fat.

Things to help when you pick what you eat

Presentation- colorful, interesting design, creative use of ingredients.

Use lower calorie subs not diet alternatives – most of them have chemicals designed to make you crave them or sugar so you continue to buy their product.

Stay away from GMO

Choose a diet you can stick with. - Choosing a diet can be as simple as deciding which group you could give up easier. ….. Meat lovers should one with lots of protein, carb lovers choose one with mostly carbs, sugar lovers choose one by calories. If you can't give up anything then choose a diet that combines foods so they assimilate in your body easier so your body doesn't have to hide the calories on your body.

Easy diet fixes:

Sugar - substitute honey or granulated honey, molasses, cinnamon, almond extract.

Sour cream – Low far cottage blended makes a product that if served in a sour cream container will never raise an eye brow. Tastes and smells exactly like sour cream.

Salad dressings – herbs, lemon juice, vinegar and herbs with a touch of honey makes a good Italian dressing. My favorites are instead of any dressing use left over already made tuna salad or cottage cheese. Just put a plop on top and eat as usual.

Remember head lettuce is empty calories and little nutritional value. Choose spinach or leafy greens instead

Oatmeal sweeteners or lack there of – Oatmeal is a great one to experiment with. I use either almond extract (if you want very sweet) or vanilla if a little sweetness is desired.

Also add nuts or seeds for crunch. Good ones are: sunflower seeds add great crunch, sesame seeds make it taste nutty , Poppy seeds with lemon flavoring is like eating a lemon poppy seed muffin.

If you stray: smile and resume the next meal. Your body will love you for two reasons.

1. You confuse it so it doesn't feel cheated and it will just process it as usual.
2. You feeling guilty will cause you more strife and maybe your diet as well.
   So indulge when you really want something. Enjoy the moment. Your diet will wait for you. Just don't be crazy about it

Happy dieting!

learning to realize stress in others

The last few days have been “trying” to say the least. My daughter having so much trouble with wedding arrangements (in law over powering). Then my own anniversary and the nightmare that ensued. All that started me thinking about people and situations.

Did you ever just sit and watch the people around you. As a security guard or an officer it is an important to “Behavior watch”. Then look for the reasons behind what they do in order to calculate what they are going to do or are even capable of doing.

Practicing always lends an extra sensitivity to your ability. Next time you are in a restaurant watch a couple. Doesn't mater which one. Notice who touches who and how it is done. Watch mannerisms, and facial expressions.

Ask these questions.

Are each of them happy?

Who touches who? And in what context? Loving, or motherly, or as a way to restrict movement?

Are they in love? Have they cheated? Was their marriage a mistake?

Are they in a crisis? A celebration? Just another day?

Who decides on the family decisions?

Are each quiet, shy, flamboyant, sensitive, a bully, pushy, easy going?

Make a person profile on each. Check out your thoughts. This detective work is the first step in profiling thieves and murders, but it also will help in relationships. It adds reason for actions.

It may not prevent a fight but it will help you understand the reasons behind it.

Exercises:

1. A man and woman in their 40's sitting next to each other in a restaurant. He isn't saying much, just staring. She has her hand on his leg while she speaks softly, then grazes his face. He pulls back ever so slightly. What is it that is going on between them? (She is being loving while he doesn't want to allow her closeness, most likely a fight or maybe even a loss in the family)
2. five friends are talking while standing together. Everyone seams happy. So who likes who? Is there a riff anywhere? Where are they standing, who is next to or just behind who? Standing close denotes friendship, standing within another personal space denotes close relationship, standing just behind someone denote a wanting of a relationship.)
3. A couple walks into a restaurant, they are both sad and reserved, barely a word is spoken, there is tears in her eyes which she wipes to hide, and he hangs his head low and apologizes way to much. (This was us the other day. We almost split up. We had fought the stopped but couldn't find out way back.)

So many times we get into fights because one of the people involved are fighting past demons or another personal problem. So please take the time to at least think before throwing a relationship down the toilet.

There comes a time in girls life when

You have no choice but to work with fondant. In two day's I have to have tow wedding cakes done and I have never worked with fondant This is the drawing I have to work with. Wish me luck.

These are the completed cakes

It is official I am an Author.

My first book just came out this month .

Like a spider's web, one lie is woven over another creating the perfect deception

A mothers vision of her son’s future!

A child’s recurring nightmare!

A woman set on revenge!

A young girls dream of the prefect wedding!

And Childhood friends who will stop at nothing!

The purity of a teens love is tested when she finds the mysterious man she married isn’t who she thought he was. Who is this man and what ties him to her past? And just how far will each person go in this life and death struggle for survival.

Here are the three links to getting it or you can order at a barnes and noble, or amazon

http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0113434049/A-Spiders-Web.aspx

http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0113434050/A-Spiders-Web.aspx

http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0113434003/A-Spiders-Web.aspx

On these links it also gives the ISBN number to order it through the other companies.