In our Challenge for the Liturgy of the Hours, we are offering two more occasions where a quick prayer as part of your daily practice might come in handy. Today’s offerings are To Quickly Rebalance Yourself and Synchronicity Recognition. The Crone and Sage talk about these two occasions, especially about a definition of a Synchronicity. As always, these prayers can be found on our website YoungCronesCafe.com.

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The Crone and Sage begin by talking about finishing up the Times of Beltane Activities because the Times of Loafmas will be starting shortly. We will say farewell to working most closely with the Element of Earth and reestablishing our practice foundations. It’s a Full Moon today and it’s the Heat Moon where we work and practice. We have been experiencing extremely high temperatures and humidity over the last couple of weeks which makes the name even more of a match than usual. Our Liturgy Reading features a Psalm of Joy and yes, we define Psalms as praise poems of some sort. The two of us are up to many daily practices as part of our Ritualization of the Everyday and it is amazing how many of them we have, often without even realizing what we are doing. Finally, our Sage finishes the episode with his usual Witchstones Reading about potential upcoming energies for us to be aware of.

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We have moved beyond the prayers at specific times of day (which we continue to use) and are focusing now on different Occasions or “Moments” that may (or may not) occur during a day which can give us another way to acknowledge our spirituality. The Crone & Sage discuss two occasions: To Express Gratitude and When Feeling Uneasy. They begin today’s conversation talking about the negative reactions of some people to the word “Liturgy” itself and we hope it allows people who may be put off by this a chance to understand why we picked this loaded word not only for our book title but this particular section of it also.

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The Crone & Sage start out talking about some of the available Beltane Activities to deepen our connections with not only the foundations of our practices but with the energy of the Element of Earth. The Moon is Waxing Gibbous and is in Leo at the moment so using our willpower today to create a small spell to encourage working on one of our ongoing personal projects. The Liturgy reading is a Ceremonial Piece celebrating the Dark Nights of the Moon. Our Ritualization of the Everyday focused on what changes we are transitioning through at the moment. As always, Dave our Sage, finishes with a Witchstones Reading about potential energies that may impact our Sacred Three of Body, Mind, and Spirit over the next few days.

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After going through the Liturgy of the Hours Prayers relating to specific times of the day, the Crone and Sage now turn their attention to what we call Occasions prayers, those small moments that can happen throughout our day or sometimes which we can use when we have the time to focus on being Witchy for just a moment or two. The first three are When Crossing a Threshold, Before Eating, and Before Drinking. Hope you enjoy trying these as part of your personal Liturgy practice.

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Due to the Sage being under the weather, the Crone is sharing some brief thoughts about the upcoming Summer Solstice and a Liturgy reading of a Ceremonial Piece about the Solstice. The two of them plan to continue on with their Challenges segment next week and return with a regular episode the week after. Happy Summer Solstice from the two of us!

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Congratulations! If you have been trying out the Liturgy of the Hours, you now have 7 times during the day where you can pause briefly, reset if you need to, and take a few moments to practice your spirituality throughout the day. Going forward, the Crone & Sage will be discussing pieces of the Liturgy that you can use for Occasions in your life that don’t have a specific time of day attached to them. However, in this episode we are offering a prayer that fits both types, specific and occasional, so it’s kind of a bridge between the two. It’s a prayer for when you awaken in the Middle of the Night and can’t easily get back to sleep. It focus on the fact that the world around you is fine, that you don’t have to lie there worrying about tomorrow, and that you can and deserve to return to your rest. Enjoy! And the Crone & Sage both hope you don’t have to use this prayer very often.

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The Crone & Sage start talking about their Beltane Activities dealing with the Foundations of their spiritual practices and Summer Solstice is looming sooner than one thinks. The Moon is a Waxing Crescent moving from Cancer to Leo and it’s a great time for magickal workings to increase or draw things to you. The Liturgy Reading shared by the Crone is a chant entitled As Above So Below which is great for raising energy for ritual and magick. Our Ritualization of the Everyday discussion turned into reminders of how much we ritualize the mundane as well as the magickal as human beings. Finally, the Sage finishes off with our usual Witchstones Reading. 

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As part of the Liturgy of the Hours, we have reached the time of day when we are going to bed, not getting ready for the next day, watching the nightly news, or whatever we have been doing as part of our nightly routine. This is a deliberate moment where we turn everything off and prepare to get into bed to get a good night’s sleep. This prayer is deliberately designed to help with that process.

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The Crone and Sage begin by talking about the seasonal changes in Solar Energy we are experiencing where the desire to get up and be out and about and doing is growing stronger. They also discussed what they are doing to enhance their work with the Energy of Earth during the Beltane season. The Moon is beginning to wane but we are still full of the Green Moon’s energy when it was full a couple of days ago. There seems to be a window of just before and just after the 3 days of the Full Moon where the energy is still pulling at us. The Crone reads an Ode to Earth from our Liturgy of The Path A Book of Prayer for Witches to celebrate the start of the Times of Beltane and work on our foundations will soon begin in earnest. During our Ritualization of the Everyday segment, the Sage brought up the importance of finding mirth in humanity and learning to laugh at ourselves, not making fun of individuals, but humanity as a species and some of our choices. Finally, the Sage close this episode with another wonderful Witchstone Reading;

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