In ancient Greece, an annual seaside festival (the Poseidea) was celebrated annually on this date to honor the sea-god Poseidon, consort of the Mother Goddess.


In Italy, the First Feast of Saint Lucia is held on this date each year. Before being Christianized into a Saint, she was originally worshiped as Lucina, a Pagan goddess of light who also presided over childbirth.

Walt Disney’s Birthday (United States)

Castalia

Themes: Art; Creativity; Joy; Children; Inspiration

Symbols: Cartoon Characters; Fountains

About Castalia: In Greek tradition, this goddess embodies the force of artistic inspiration. Her power is so profuse that art often depicts her simply as an ever-flowing fountain from which we can drink when our motivation wanes.


To Do Today: On this day in 1901, the legendary Walt Disney was born. During his life, Disney inspired millions of children with a Castalia-rich imagination and well-beloved cartoon characters. To remember this man and uplift Castalia’s childlike ability to awaken the artist within, watch a favorite Walt Disney film today, reveling in the wonder of it. Then get out and do something creative! Try drawing your own magical cartoon (this is just for you and the goddess, so don’t worry about a lack of skill - the keynote today is having fun with your fancy).


To quaff this goddess’s inspiration for any task you’re undertaking, find a water fountain and drink fully of it. Visualize the water filled with a color of light that, to you, represents creativity. Also fill a small container with a secure top with some of this water and keep it with you. Carry Castalia’s power into the situation in which you need inspiration. Pour a little out before your meeting, artistic effort, or speech to release her power. Or sip a bit of it to wet your whistle and renew the magic.


(c) 365 Goddess by Patricia Telesco - Copyright 1998

Spell of the Day  

December 5th  

HOT STUFF POTION  

 

This potion improves your circulation, helps ease shivering and warms your body on those cold winter days and nights.

 
You will need one cup of boiling water, a quarter-teaspoon of ground ginger and one teaspoon of honey.
 

First rub your hands briskly together several times to charge them up.
  Then stir the ginger and honey clockwise into the cup of boiling water, and chant:    

May the Goddess and god bless this potion with divine healing, warmth and goodness

Allow the potion to cool enough to sip.
  Before you take each sip, say:    

I am filled with divine healing warmth and goodness.
 

© 2003 Wiccan Spell a day by Sirona Night

Great Spirit . . . To the center of the
world you have taken me and showed
me the goodness and the beauty and
the strangeness of the greening earth . . .
you have shown me, and I have seen.
BLACK ELK,
OGLALA SIOUX, 1863-1950


Meditation With Native American Elders -December 5

“I’ve had a long regard for generational things:
pottery, cultural things, participation in dancing, extended family. Only in that way does culture
survive; only in that way is culture active.
Tessie Naranjo, SANTA CLARA PUEBLO
Culture teaches us how to live and it ensures that knowledge about life is handed down from
generation to generation. Culture gives us the feeling of belonging. It helps us raise our family
in a good way. It teaches us how to treat one another. Culture sets boundaries for societies. We
need to develop our culture. If we have left our culture, then we need to come back to it. Culture
leads us back to the Great Spirit. Sometimes in our lives, we leave what we know works and
experiment with something else. Then we get into trouble. So we need to come back home. Indian
people are lucky to have a culture to return to.
Creator, thank you for the culture. Let me live it today.

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A Cherokee Feast Of Days -December 5

Even with free choice, each of us has a tomorrow for which we are responsible. Never believe for a
moment that you are free to meander across the world at random without influencing anything and
anyone. No matter how misguided you may have been in the past, you have sensed there is something
greater that loves and tries to help. Do not cut yourself off from Spirit help. Emerson said
there is no knowledge that is not power. Know that you have power, not over others but over
yourself. If you believe you can overcome anything, you can overcome anything. Trust your-self and
trust the Spirit to help you do what you were meant to do.
No longer should the Indian be dehumanized.
CHIEF LUTHER STANDING DEAR, LAKOTA

Meditation with Native American Elders-Dec. 4

"In the end I tell my children, there's no way I can
tell you how to be an Acoma, how to be an Indian. You
have to experience it."
Stanley Paytiamo, ACOMA PUEBLO

Each person must make their own journey. It is like
every human is given a life canoe. The canoe has one
seat and one paddle. In order to get anything out of
life we must be in the canoe and we must paddle down
the river of life. Now, I can share with you how my
journey has been, but I cannot paddle your canoe. You
must paddle your own. Good luck!
Creator, I'm so glad I have You to guide my path.


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A Cherokee Feast Of Days -December 4

Smoke rises from the river bottom where pecan groves
have been cleared to make ready for the harvest.
Fragrant air moves up gently and hangs like a blue
curtain among the tallest trees. Huge bales of
gold-colored hay dot the meadows and suggest that one
or two hard workers have a harvest. But the harvest is
for everyone, ac-cording to what has been planted.
Seedtime and harvest also extend to what we have
planted in thought, word, and action. The sower plants
a words and it comes up in many different forms: hate,
love, peace, patience. So be careful what you sow,
because that is what you will reap.
The mocking bird said that it would take overnight to
give them different languages.
The mocking bird asked the chief if he would like to
speak some other different language, but the chief
said he would rather keep his own language.
Edmund Nequatewa, Hopi

On this date in ancient Rome, the goddess Minerva was honored with an annual festival. Minerva (the Roman counterpart of the Greek Athena) is a goddess of battle and also a patroness of the arts and wisdom.


In West Africa, this day is sacred to the Yoruban god Chango. He is a god of lightning bolts, and the son of the deities Yemaya and Orungan