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Finished the brandy, keeping the bottle because it has a swallow embossed on it - the Minoan Sun Goddess Therasia's sacred bird. I think I'll use the bottle to make some saffron-infused wine, since saffron is also sacred to Therasia.

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Blessings of the season to you all!

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https://witchesandpagans.com/pagan-paths-blogs/the-minoan-path/the-blessed-day-of-rebirth.html

First Crescent Moon through the trees last night. In Ariadne's Tribe, this is a night for divination. Favorite method? Scrying in a cup of wine! In the Tribe, we call this manifestation of the Moon Diktynna's Bow, a reference to the goddess Britomartis, whose epithet is Diktynna, connecting her not with fishing nets (that's a later, classical-era interpretation) but with Mt. Dikte, the mountain on Crete that's sacred to our Earth Mother Goddess Rhea.

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Today's Minoan Tarot cards:

Lady of Labryses: The creative thinker. As you puzzle out the solutions to your problems, allow yourself to think outside the box. Yes, some of the ideas you come up with will be impractical and you'll have to set them aside. But the workable solutions that you do find will put you much farther ahead than any amount of conventional thinking ever could.

Lady of Horns: Patience and care. Stay grounded. Take the time to examine every angle of the situation and then move forward with slow deliberation, using delicacy and tact. Don't let anyone else push you to move quickly. Take your time, and your patience will be rewarded.

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Ariadne's Tribe: Inclusive Minoan Spirituality

In this newly revised and updated second edition of Labrys and Horns, you’ll find the pantheon, rituals, symbols and practices of Ariadne's Tribe, an inclusive revivalist tradition that connects the deities of ancient Crete with modern Pagans in a living spiritual practice. With a pantheon headed by a triplicity of mother goddesses who embody the three sacred realms of land, sky, and sea, Minoan spirituality calls us to remember a time when women were valued as equals to men, when the Great Mothers took care of all their children, and when the sacred touched every person every day of their lives.

Minoan spirituality is so relevant to our times, when we’re doing our best to move forward and away from inequality and oppression.

This book can help you build relationships with the Minoan deities and bring their blessings into your life, and from there, into the larger world.

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https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/labrys-and-horns

Just like us, the deities have specialties. And they're happy to help out humans whose interests coincide with theirs.

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https://witchesandpagans.com/pagan-paths-blogs/the-minoan-path/minoan-deities-as-benefactors.html

Sunshine through the window on the Minoan altar. Though the Serpent Mother is an obvious "resident" on this altar, many other members of the Minoan pantheon are also represented.

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We need our rites of passage! I've included rites of passage for the usual stuff (birth, coming of age, marriage, etc.) in my books. But how about a general purpose rite of passage, for those changes in life that don't fall under the rubric of Official Big Events? Here's a meditation that you can use for those occasions, and even for those times months or years ago when you wish you'd had some way to acknowledge the momentous transformation in your life.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry4gV-4u-YY

The baetyl ritual is one of the more enigmatic spiritual activities depicted in Minoan art. What can we figure out about it from the evidence and from listening to the deities?

https://witchesandpagans.com/pagan-paths-blogs/the-minoan-path/rockin-religion-the-minoan-baetyl-ritual.html

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Snake Goddess keeping watch over my Minoan altar.

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Today's Minoan Path blog post is about the kinds of incense ingredients and incense burners the Minoans had.

Smoke 'em if you've got 'em!

https://witchesandpagans.com/pagan-paths-blogs/the-minoan-path/sacred-smoke-minoan-incense.html

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