The summer solstice and Midsummer are magical date on which Nature gives us his magic. Take advantage of these parties to make a wish, improve your income, cure ailments and even increase your psychic powers or attract true love. Here are some rituals in which plants, whose power increased during these days, play a role.
The Night of San Juan has happened to our calendar as a Catholic festival, but has its roots in pagan rituals that were held during the summer solstice and the zenith of the sun. In the Northern Hemisphere, at noon on June 21, the Sun reaches the highest point in the sky, and the journey becomes the longest of the year. Since then the days get shorter. Our ancestors feared that the sun is hiding out gradually and did not recover its full splendor. And to ensure its return, and to promote soil fertility and abundant harvests, carried out ceremonies where the fire was the star as a solar symbol.
These festivals ranging from 20 to 24 June, and for them took place all kinds magical rituals. Celtic Druids, for example, large lighted bonfires which were passed to protect from livestock epidemics. It was believed that in those days fairies and elves of Nature went loose in the fields, so that they are engaged in offering a reward for his help. Fires were made before the doors of the houses in the village squares, on the summits of hills and mountains or the sea, in which burned wooden wheels that were missing at roll down the slopes and organized processions with torches. But the most widespread protection ritual was dancing and jumping around the fire. In the morning the fires were extinguished as a renewal.
Similar backgrounds can be found in the festivals of Beltaine (May 1) of the Druids, whose name means fire beautiful. Also in Greek mythology the solstices were considered as the gates of the year and were dedicated to the god Janus, the god of two faces. It was said that the winter solstice door opened into the realm of the gods and the summer solstice to the realm of men.
not hard to see the similarity between Janus and John, and assume that the Christian religion inserted the Feast of St. John the Evangelist (December 27) and San Juan Bautista (June 24) in the vicinity of the two solstices to give continuity to the pagan rites overlapping. These could well continue to be held without being suspected of witchcraft. And as a result we have reached many rituals to enhance the protection of nature and its beings and to make wishes come true. Here we collect some of them, mainly based on the magical powers attributed to the legend associated plants tonight.
make a wish on June 23 evening put under your pillow, a branch of common ivy and a white paper on which you wrote that you would like to improve your life. Make sure that your desire to fit a real need, not be as fancy or ambitious it impossible to obtain. And also note that compliance with respect to others. You can not ask something that causes the evil alien. Before going to sleep, light a white candle, let it consume and then introduced along the paper and wax ivy that are left. Lie asking the universe that meets your prayer and give thanks for what you already have. The next day the paper burn and bury all the items in your garden in a pot in your home or in the field to make it fruitful land your hopes.
Vicente Ferrer, founder of the Foundation that bears his name, died yesterday in Anantapur (India) at 89 years of age.
"Wait a miracle "put on a poster hanging on a wall of his ramshackle house in Anantapur in 1969, and the miracle came in the same building transformed into the headquarters of an NGO in the XXI century and covers 2,278 villages in the state of Andra Pradesh and benefits more than 2.5 million people.
But to build this humanitarian space and to promote an ideological shift dignified people Dalits or untouchables, in a rural region burdened by poverty and discrimination, Ferrer made gala over decades of an indomitable spirit and never gave his arm twisted.
The endless array of programs undertaken by NGOs (housing, education, sexual abuse brake, instruction Samaritans "Dalits") is so overwhelming that it has won recognition from the authorities.
The English Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, handed in India last January, the Grand Cross of Civil Merit to the winner Ferrer, also Prince of Asturias Award for Concord 1998.
years now we have a relationship with the Vicente Ferrer Foundation as our goddaughter Rupamma is one of the girls who are educated and live with a slightly less inhumane conditions thanks to the work that these professionals work.
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I sent him a friend saying that belongs to the Celtic astrology and that each person, depending on the day of his birth, it is up a tree. Here you
dates and explanation below on each of the trees and how they influence personality.
In my birthday I am a maple, you know that these things are always very general, but reading them all, as if they most identified with me I can feel.
discover your tree, please comment if you are or not according to what I said, ok?
Donald Duck is 75 years old, and to celebrate leave here a video for the niece, who I know love.
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Today marks 20 years of protests from the Tian'anmen Square, also known as the slaughter of Tiananmen, Tiananmen revolt or June 4 incident.
They consisted of a series of demonstrations led by students in the People's Republic of China, which occurred between April 15 and June 4, 1989. The protest is named after the place where the People's Army Liberation abolished mobilization: the Tian'anmen Square in Beijing. The protesters came from different groups, ranging from intellectuals who believed that the Communist Party government was too repressive and corrupt of the city workers who believed that China's economic reforms had gone too far and that inflation and unemployment were threatening their lifestyles. The event that began the protests was the death of the leader Hu Yaobang and the slow response of the Government of China to honor his memory.
After protests and calls the Government requesting its dissolution occurred within the Communist Party a division of opinion about how to respond to the protesters. The decision was to suppress the protests by force, instead of acceding to their demands. On 20 May, the government declared martial law on the night of June 3, sent tanks and infantry of the army to Tiananmen Square to break up the protest. Estimates of civilian deaths vary: 400-800 (CIA), 2600 (according to unnamed sources from the China Red Cross). The number of injured is estimated at between 7,000 and 10,000. After the violence, the government undertook a large number of arrests to suppress the instigators of the movement, expelled the foreign press and strictly controlled coverage of events in the Chinese press. The cruel repression of the protest in Tiananmen Square led to international condemnation of the actions of the government of the People's Republic of China.
In one of the last days of the protests was taken the photo that won the World Press Photo 1989, which shows a young opponent standing in the middle of a street holding a column of tanks circulated by it.
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I think you can say stronger but not better.
I hope you enjoy as I enjoyed myself. Ahhh
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