Contents
The Beginning
- To Begin
- Preparing a space
- The three-element altar
- A glass of water on the altar
- Words to open and to close
- Opening and closing in a few words
- The seven keys to a request
- Seven moves for creating a ritual
- The color of the day
- A novena for an intention
- Seven breaths before meditating
- Attention to the breath
- The flame of the heart
- Meditation with a word
- A personal morning prayer
- An affirmation for the day
- The first page of the notebook
- The notebook of meaningful moments
- A record for each practice
- Reviewing a page of the notebook
Life
- Protection and Boundaries
- The mantle of light at the start of the day
- Saint Michael in the six directions
- The shield for leaving home
- The circle of the home
- Salt on the threshold
- Sweeping toward the door
- A bunch of rosemary on the door
- Wishing someone well in a conflict
- Breaking a chain of thoughts
- A blessing for the road
- Looking for something you've misplaced
- A request for justice
- The five-pointed star
- Handing a problem over to the earth
- Love and Bonds
- Prosperity and Work
- The Home
Matter
- Plants
- Your bond with plants
- Garlic: firmness and protection
- A rue plant by the front door
- Basil: joy, affection and welcome
- Mugwort: cleansing and shelter
- Rice: sustenance and abundance
- Cactus: endurance and the ability to adapt
- Cumin: taking care of what comes
- Sunflower: being seen and recognized
- Corn: provision and continuity
- Honey: sweetness and the ability to receive
- Pine: permanence and home
- Rose: love, harmony and beauty
- Aloe vera: renewal and care
- Wheat: harvest and thanks for what sustains you
- Consecrating a plant on its day
- Bitter herbs and sweet herbs
- Baths
- Stones
- Incense and Scents
- Perfumes
Remedies
- Flower Essences and Other Essences
- Choosing your Bach flowers
- Bach flowers for fear
- Bach flowers for uncertainty
- Bach flowers for little interest in the present
- Bach flowers for loneliness
- Bach flowers for oversensitivity to influences and ideas
- Bach flowers for despondency or despair
- Bach flowers for too much concern for others
- Making up your bottle
- A glass with your flowers
- The five-flower combination
- Your flowers without taking them
- Making an essence by the sun method
- Flower essences of other lands
- A crystal essence by the indirect method
- An essence of the Moon, the sea or a place
- Homeopathy and Other Gentle Remedies
Time
- The Days and the Planets
- Choosing a planetary practice
- Wearing the planet's color
- The Sun: recognition and expression
- The Moon: home, care and receptivity
- Mercury: words, study and exchange
- Venus: affection, beauty and meeting
- Mars: will, discipline and courage
- Jupiter: expansion and the wide view
- Saturn: structure, limits and permanence
- The square of Saturn
- A candle for the planet of the day
- A week of qualities
- The planetary hours
- The Moon
- The Seven Rays
- The seven colors of the week
- Getting ready for the seven days
- Sunday: the blue ray
- Monday: the yellow or golden ray
- Tuesday: the pink ray
- Wednesday: the white ray
- Thursday: the green ray
- Friday: the ruby-gold ray
- Saturday: the violet ray
- Keeping the seven colors through the year
- A letter to an archangel
- A candle in the color of a ray
- September 29: the feast of the archangels
- The Year
- January 1: blessing of the four elements
- January 6: the gifts of the Three Kings
- Good Friday: welcoming a protective plant
- Spring: the four winds
- St. John's Eve: beginning again
- The St. John's Eve herb bundle
- Summer: aloe, knots, and a braid
- Fall: clearing out and letting go
- An ofrenda for your dead
- The Advent wreath
- Winter: the inner light
- The spirit of Christmas and the letter of wishes
- December 31: closing and welcoming
- New Year's Eve lentils
- The twelve grapes
- The wheel of where you live
- Your birthday as a personal new year
- The birthday letter and its nine days
- The first twenty-four hours
- The sweet birthday bath
Every Day
- Everyday Rituals
- The presence bell
- An altar that fits in an envelope
- The commitment pen
- The threshold seal
- The ribbon of three knots
- Still water
- The mirror of the kind word
- The bowl of specific thanks
- The coin of your craft
- The leaf of the living project
- The study table
- The first-draft lamp
- The thread of the true word
- Two places for listening
- The envelope of what I can let go
- The circle of boundaries
- The resource box
- Rosemary for remembrance
- The seed of patience
- The key to a new cycle
- The end-of-day cloth
- The guardian angel at bedtime
- Four spaces of order
- The circle of shared listening
- Giving back to the world
- A twenty-eight-day journey
- Tarot
- Dreams
- Symbols