heart’s tissues. Preparations made from the plant also strengthen the beating of the heart and lower the blood pressure, and taken daily as a tea will protect the heart and circulation.

Birch was one of the first trees to colonize Britain as the ice sheets melted. It is associated in Druidry with cleansing, birth, and new beginnings. Birch switches were used on miscreants – and in Scandinavia on willing sauna participants – to drive out impurities. Cradles were also traditionally made of Birch. The cleansing effect of this eye-catching tree is now known to occur physiologically, too, and the leaves, sap and oil extracted from the bark are all used medicinally. The sap, as well as making a good wine, can be used as a tonic in the Spring and Autumn – particularly to improve protein metabolism and the excretion of waste products from the liver and kidneys. For this reason, the old herbalists prescribed Birch for rheumatism and kidney stones, and it now seems that Birch compounds may be effective in treating cancers and HIV. The leaves and bark may also exert a life-prolonging effect if taken regularly as a tea.



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Deck: Dark Goddess Tarot
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Wed Sep 18 04:39:17 EDT 2019


Today's Card
XVII Stars ~ Spider Woman (Reversed)

Hopi Goddess of Thought and Creation

Small things hold the Earth to Heaven.

In the high desert of the American Southwest, Spider Woman is revered as the creator of the world and benefactor of her people. In the mesas of the Hopi, her name is Kokyangwuti (pronounced similar to koh-kyang-woo-tee). For the Pueblo, she is S’ts’tsi’naku (tse-che-nako). She is called Thinking Woman, Old Spider Woman, and Grandmother Spider. Although she is ancient, her power of renewal is shown through her hair, dressed in the whorls of the squash blossom, the symbol of fertility. She draws light and life from darkness.

Spider Woman creates through her thought, through her vision, through the powers of clarity and consciousness, through the powers of a universe that sings inside her. She creates the stars by spinning a web, lacing it with the precious dew, and tossing it into the sky. She creates the stars to shine upon her people in the darkest night. She arranges the constellations to show her people there is meaning in creation. A single star in the sky may appear a small thing, but be significant in its relation to another, through the patterns they make together, and in the feelings the expanse of a starry night evokes.

In the darkness in the beginning of time, Spider Woman is told she is too small and weak to help, yet through intelligence, persistence, and belief, she travels to and returns safely from the Lake of Fire. She succeeds in bringing light and warmth into the world where more imposing animals try and fail. In another tale, she keeps the rising sky from leaving the world entirely by spinning web lines day and night to tie heaven to earth and preserve her creation. Spider Woman saves her people yet again after the destruction of the Third World, when she opens a path through the dome of heaven and leads her people into the Fourth World, the present earth, providing hope and direction through an inner light that shines even in utter darkness.

When Spider Woman appears:

The more you reach for what inspires you, the more your purpose becomes apparent. Saving grace is at hand.

Act in alignment with your beliefs. Believe in what you want to be. Even without a clear sense of direction or a specific goal, doing small good things will illuminate your next steps.

This is not the time to tackle a large problem head on. Use subtlety, humility, and thoughtfulness in your approach. Sense the pattern that exists behind the scenes.

You are part of a network, a luminous, radiant web that connects every living being. Feel your connections, to the ones you love and to your special places on the earth. See these connections shine with clear and flowing light, light that flows through and fills you. Invoke this web in your meditations to send healing lights and energies to those in need.



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Today, September 23th, is the second Equinox of the Year. When the duration of the day and night are roughly the same, with the sun right over Earth's equator.

For those that live in the Southern Hemisphere, it's the Spring Equinox, for those that live in the North, it's the Fall Equinox.

A GOES-EAST image showing both hemispheres almost equally iluminated.