Everyday Sun Magic: Spells & Rituals for Radiant Living (Dorothy Morrison's Everyday Magic, 3) - Softcover

Morrison, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738704687 ISBN 13: 9780738704685

Publisher: Llewellyn Publications, 2005

Synopsis

The Sun impacts our lives like no other force in the universe. In addition to sustaining life on Earth, the potent energy of this mighty star can lend a powerful spark to daily magic.

Taking readers on a magical exploration of the Sun, Dorothy Morrison teaches how the Sun can be used as a viable magical tool. She gives in-depth information on the Sun's cultural and religious history, its phases and energies (rainbows, solar eclipses, Sun storms, and so on) as they apply to magic, and astrological implications. Everyday Sun Magic is also packed with over 140 spells, chants, affirmations, and rituals spanning 89 categories, such as health, employment, friendship, romance, weather, gardening, prosperity, marriage, legal matters, travel, addiction, and dieting.

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About the Author

Dorothy Morrison (Louisiana) is a third-degree Wiccan High Priestess of the Georgian Tradition, and she has been an avid practitioner of the Craft for more than fifty years. She founded the Coven of the Crystal Garden in 1986, and she spent many years teaching Wicca to students both in the United States and in Australia.

Dorothy's work has been published in many journals and magazines, including Circle Network News, SageWoman, and Crone Chronicles. She is the author of the acclaimed Everyday Magic, Everyday Moon Magic, Everyday Sun Magic, and Yule.

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Embracing the Sun

He ends the night and heralds the day He wakes us up for work and play He stirs the seed deep in the Earth And sends it sprouting through Her girth He rules our months, our seasons, and days And with His Fire, He lights our way He brings us joy and warms our hearts He promises a brand new start He doles out doses of Vitamin D To increase our calcium absorbency He brings us air and stirs the tides And all the while, through the sky He rides Without a cross word or a single objection Do you know who He is? Have you made the connection? He is none other than the glorious Sun Who only finds rest when our day is done -Dorothy Morrison

The Sun is perhaps the most important influence in our lives. He heralds the coming of each new day, and lets us know that it's time to get up and get going. But more importantly, His appearance actually makes us feel like getting something done. In His light, we're motivated to move about, grab our to-do lists, and become productive members of humankind-something crucial in today's busy world. No one I know can afford to waste a perfectly good day.

But the very sight of Him does much more for us than that. It just can't help but make us smile. And that even goes for folks like me who aren't morning people at all. There's just something downright joyous about seeing the Sun light the world around us. The Sun lightens our moods, quickens our steps, warms our hearts, and just generally makes us happier people.

Those aren't the only things the Sun does for us, though. He also contributes largely to our good health. How? By supplying our recommended daily dosage of Vitamin D, the very substance that helps the body to absorb calcium.1 And not only does the Sun manage this without effort on His part, He manages it without effort on ours. Only about ten minutes of sunshine per day does the trick-and we're well on our way to having healthy bones and stronger bodies.

The Sun's list of responsibilities goes on and on. He rules our calendar, starts each week by holding dominion over Sunday, and marks the comings and goings of the seasons in the cycles of His journey. His position in the sky at the time of our births is responsible for our natal signs, and thus He is largely responsible for how the rest of the world views us. He's responsible for the blowing of the winds, the growth of the plants, flowers, and trees that populate the Earth, and for the oxygen we breathe. And even with all this stuff on His plate, He still finds time to entertain us with sunbeams, rainbows, sundogs, and the like. I'd say that He's a very busy star, indeed.

Taking all this into consideration, it's little wonder that the Sun has managed to infiltrate our lives as a household word. We say that happy people have a sunny disposition, and refer to those with freckled faces as being sun-kissed. Florida is known as The Sunshine State, and Japan and Scandinavia are known as the lands of the rising sun and midnight sun, respectively. We don sunglasses and sun hats, then head for the beach to sunbathe (but not before applying our sunblock; otherwise, we might wind up with a sunburn). We add sun porches to our homes, and have sunroofs installed in our vehicles. But it doesn't stop there. We also brew sun tea, order our eggs sunny-side up, and purchase Sunny Delight at the grocery store.

Even the realm of musical entertainment isn't immune to the influences of that big, blazing, gaseous mass that warms our backs and lights our way. Remember that fun and campy little song you probably sang in kindergarten called You Are My Sunshine? Or maybe you remember Good Morning, Sunshine, Sunny, and Here Comes the Sun if you're from my generation. And what about the film and television industries? A Place in the Sun, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, is a classic, as is A Raisin in the Sun, with Sidney Poitier. And no one could forget John Lithgow's hilarious sitcom Third Rock from the Sun.

The Sun influences our lives in other ways, too. If it weren't for the Sun, in fact, life as we know it would simply cease to exist. Without His warming presence, plant life would be nearly nonexistent. Vegetables would be limited to root crops like potatoes and carrots. And flowers? Well, they'd be a thing of the past as well, since even those that bloom at night need His light and warmth to bring them to bud.

But even if we could do without all those amenities, other problems would surface. Without sunlight, electric bills would skyrocket, and without warmth, so would heating bills. And there's no way we could just go back to the basics of firewood and candlelight. Why? Because without the warming rays of the Sun, trees would be in short supply. And using them for heating, cooking, and melting wax would not only drive them to extinction, but would present a much larger problem: a total lack of oxygen to our planet. The Earth would become a cold, dark, dank place. For all practical purposes, it would be virtually uninhabitable.

And yet we tend to take the Sun for granted. We simply expect it to rise each day and light the Earth. Maybe it's not our fault, though. Since we live in such a modernized world, the magic of the Sun seems nothing...(Continues)

Edition details

• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738704687
• ISBN 13: 9780738704685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336