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Midsummer Meditation: The Summer Solstice or Litha is the longest day of the year. The Anglo-Saxon name for June and July is Litha, and the name is now commonly used for midsummer festivities. This beautiful day brings abundance, joy, warmth, and celebrations! We invite you to enjoy this Midsummer meditation as you journey through a magical garden of light and blooming life. |
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Celtic Inspiration: Fresh Salad is perfect for the season and eating locally grown vegtables and plants helps us to connect with the energies of the land where we live. Combine lettuce, baby spinach, thinly sliced radishes and sprouted beans of alfalfa, and try adding delicious and attractive edible flowers to really delight in the beauty of summer. Suitable flowers include nasturtiums, violets, carnations, hyssop flowers and marigolds (calendula). Summer berries can also be added , as can a small dash of rasberry vinegar. (Danu Forest) |
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A Message from the Goddess Litha: Unlike standard plastic foam sponges, 100% Cellulose sponges by brands such as Memo or Sodasan can be put in your compost bin at the end of their life. You can also get wooden washing-up brushes with replacable heads and plant based bristles that are fully compostable, as are coconut scouring pads by Safix.co.uk |
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Team Profile: Sergio StrusiSergio is our Italian web developer extraordináre. Professionally he is a web designer and front-end developer who loves working with Graphics and animations. Sergio is fluent in Photoshop, Swishmax, Animation, Software Support, HTML 5, CSS, Sketch and Illustrator.
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Recommended App: Kilma: Making Climate Action simple for everyone. With Klima, a carbon neutral life has never been simpler. Calculate your carbon footprint and neutralize 100% of your CO2 emissions in just three minutes. How? By funding science-based climate projects that capture or prevent the same emissions elsewhere. Then learn how to shrink your own footprint sustainably and watch your positive impact grow. |
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Recommended Book: Sacred Actions by Dana O'Driscoll A challenge that many Earth-based spiritual practitioners face is how to integrate sustainable living with our everyday lives. By offering a vision of "sacred actions," we learn how to combine the three ethics of: people care, earth care, and fair share, to execute comprehensive sustainable living through the lens of paganism. Find a wide variety of accessible sustainable-living activities, rituals, stories, and tools framed through the eightfold Wheel of the Year. Consider this your manual of personal empowerment through sustainability as a spiritual practice. |
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| | Recommended Movie: An Invonvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: This 2017 American documentary film, directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, is about former Vice President Albert Gore's continuing mission to battle climate change. The film follows efforts made to persuade governmental leaders to invest in renewable energy, culminating in the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016, as well as attempting to de-bunk the de-bunkers of Gore, his film and global warming in general. The film grossed over $5 million worldwide and received a nomination for Best Documentary at the 71st British Academy Film Awards. |
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Celtic Living for the 21st Century: Drinking Straws are used once and remain in landfill sites for hundreds of years. Don't buy them and use consumer power to ask restaurants and shops to stock more environmentally friendly, biodegradable cardboard straws instead. Every voice matters so make yours heard. After a short consumer campaign in Ireland KFC stopped stocking plastic straws that were individually wrapped in plastic. |
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Celtic Whispers Shop: If you like the artwork and style of Celtic Whisper’s we also offer our designs on physical products as well. We invite you to visit our shop and see if any of our Celtic Designs would look good on a t-shirt, mug or sticker. |
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Beannacht : Whatever the season of Litha holds; be Calm and Mindful of your duty as a Celt to protect your family and your tribe, to honour the Elders and our home the Earth. Slán agus Beannacht! |
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