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Happy 4th of July

Happy Birthday America

Happy Independence Day to all Americans everywhere!
Especially to our service men and women serving here and abroad!
To all those who support our military, in the past and in the present!
To all those who fight for our freedoms and our rights, in everyday life.
Thank you all for your service and all you do to keep our country great!

Many Blessings,
~ Springwolf 🐾

While you celebrate this weekend, remember all those who came before us and sacrificed so much. The men and women of our armed forces of course! But don’t forget those who put all they had on the line for you. The founding fathers, the families and the patriots who stand tall, who fight with their voice or their pen. It takes more than brute force to make freedom remain free. It takes a nation of people from sea to sea.

So make sure you exercise your freedoms each day. Not only on the 4th, but each time of the year when your voice can be heard. Many have died for your right to sing out. So show your respect, not in hollow words of thanks or waves of recognition. But where it counts most, in the town hall meetings, the city square and the voting booth. But do it with dignity, civility and respect. For those who came before you didn’t die to promote hate. They gave of themselves, their family and fate, so all could be free in the land of the brave!

Summer Break

Jun23

A Little Vacation

Everyone needs a break now and then. And we’re taking our summer break now that all the kids are out of school around here. So we’ll be floating in the water, sitting by the shore around the fire pit, roasting marshmallows and telling stories.

© 05/2010 Springwolf 🐾

Until then, we hope everyone has a wonderful June, Happy Independence Day for those of you here in the States and may you all find time to catch up on a little reading here on Springwolf’s Reflections.

Check out the A-Z Contents of some of our favorite posts over the past few years. Visit Spring’s Haven and read up on some of the Haven Articles we have there, and check out the Center’s Services we offer, for online, on the phone and even corporate or group gatherings! Or pick up a copy of my book Pagan Metaphysics 101. Continue reading →

Merry MidSummer & Winter Solstice Festivals

Jun20

Bonfire © Springwolf / Springwolf Reflections

Festivals of the North on 2014

Here in the Northern Hemisphere we’re observing the Summer Solstice.

June Solstice 2014 is at 6:51 AM (ET) on Saturday, June 21

Festivals of the South on 2014

In the Southern Hemisphere our friends are observing the Winter Solstice.

June solstice 2014: June 21, at 10:51 UTC. In Melbourne Australia the Solstice occurs at 8:51PM June 21.

Solstice Blessings To You and Yours
Where ever you are in the world, everyone at Spring’s Haven and here on Springwolf Reflections wish you all a very happy and blessed Solstice celebration.

May your bonfires burn brightly, may the warmth surround you and those you care for, may the blessings of your circle fill your days and nights with prosperity and abundance.

The Summer Solstice – Time For Faeries

Jun20

Wolves Peak by Julie Fain ©

Celebrating Faeries, Wishes and The Good Ole Summertime
By Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D. 🐾

The Summer Solstice rings in the waning year and begins the slow good-bye of the sun as the days become shorter and the darkness returns to the land. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we celebrate the Summer Solstice on June 21st or 22nd in the Southern Hemisphere it falls on December 21st or 22nd.

As the story goes, the Oak King has ruled over the Earth, bringing the Sun to warm the ground so fields could be planted for wheat, barley and gardens can grow. When the solstice arrives, the Holly King wakes from his slumber and challenges the Oak for supremacy in the sky.

Their battles rage through the summer as the Oak King fights to hold on to his love, Mother Earth. The clashes between these Kings are heard through the Thunder drums of summer storms as lightning crackles from the striking of their swords in bright explosions.

To watch over the land, the Faeries come out at night to protect the children of Mother Earth and their forest homes from the battles that rage on beyond the clouds above. The rabbits, squirrels, birds, trees and flowers are all cared for by the magikal Fae and even you are protected beneath their wings.

If you honor the work of the Fae on the special Summer Solstice night, they may return your kindness by helping to manifest a wish you asked during the Solstice festival. For this is the night the Fae dance by the bonfires and spread their magik across the land beneath the light of Grandmother Moon.
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Happy Father’s Day!

Jun15

For The Dads We Have & The Ones We’ve Lost

My partner and I have both lost our Dads. We both believe in life after death, talking to spirit and that our dads do visit us. This week we both have felt my Dad around and that makes this fathers day a little more meaningful.

So for all the Dads, whither they’re still here with us or they’re only with us in spirit, I offer these words. A poem I’ve always loved and says it all.

What Makes a Dad

The GreatSpirits took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun,
The calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature,
The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages,
The power of the eagle’s flight,
The joy of a morning in spring,
The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity,
The depth of a family need,
Then the GreatSpirits combined these qualities,
When there was nothing more to add,
And knew the masterpiece was complete,
And this was called … My Dad.

~ Author Unknown!

Sunday Homily: Theology vs. Metaphysics

Jun15

The Academic Perspectives

The Labels We Use

People today don’t use their words as carefully as they should, or in my view, as much as they used to. Words have specific meanings because we need a shared commonality of perspectives within our speech in order to properly communicate and understand each other.

Today people put their own twist on words to mean what “they” think it should mean and that can distort that common understanding. Wars have begun this way.

That concept is one of the main reasons I’m really big on academic definitions of words, especially when writing. But sometimes it’s not enough to know the dictionary definition, but also where and how the word was first used.

Words evolve over time and new “slang” meanings are created as a result. Understandable. But some words mean exactly and only what they are or were originally defined as.

This week a fellow Minister posted an interesting thread about being introduced as a Theologian instead of a Metaphysician. Which brought up a discussion of the meaning of these words. Continue reading →

Be Empowered

Jun14

Don’t follow me.
Don’t walk in my footsteps.
Journey beside me and
let us share in the wonderment
of the Universe together.

Our Best Day Ever

Jun14

Thank You

So yesterday Springwolf Reflections had its single Best Day ever! I don’t want that to go unnoticed or recognized by all of us here at Spring’s Haven. It’s an event worth celebrating and we couldn’t do it without all of YOU!

I can’t say thank you enough to everyone who came by our little home on the web and shared our Full Moon Friday the 13th posts and thoughts from this past week. I’m humbled by your kindness and willingness to share my words with the world.

It will be a very long time before we can break this single day record for sure! We had 6,081 visitors yesterday. The previous record was a meager 788 which occurred on another Friday the 13th.

Springwolf Reflection’s Best Day Ever: 2014-06-13
Click the image to see a larger view.

Yesterday really was a world-wide event. I’m flabbergasted by some of the locations our visitors came from. Continue reading →

How Rare Is “Full Moon Friday the 13th”?

Jun13

Merlin In The Moon

The Math Genius Is Working On That

Yesterday I asked the question “How rare is today’s event?” How often does the 13th fall on a Friday? How often does a Full Moon fall on a Friday? How often does a Full Moon fall on a Friday the 13th?

According to my Moon Phase Pro (yes there’s an app for that):
In the next 260 weeks: (approx. 5 years from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2019)
There are 11 Friday the 13ths.
There are 11 Full Moons that fall on a Friday.
There is 1 Full Moon that falls on Friday the 13th.

On Friday the 13th of January 2017 the full moon will be just past full, 98% full to be exact. Close, but not officially a full moon day which will be January 12th. So we can’t count that one.

The Next Full Moon Friday the 13th will be in August 2049. According to Space.com Continue reading →

Happy Full Moon Friday the 13th!

Jun13

May The Day Bring You Blessings

It is said that wishing on a Full Moon is very magikal. Like any grand parent, she wants to spoil her daughter’s children. While Mother Earth is asleep, Grand Mother Moon listens to our prayers and wishes to make our dreams come true.

And it is said that Friday the 13th is a day that brings good luck for transition and change. Breaking down barriers and overcoming struggle, it’s a day to let your magik shine.

Use the day, and especially the time after sunset to bring about Good Luck and positive energy that promotes the success for the change and transition you want most in your life.

Everyone here at Springwolf Reflections and Spring’s Haven wish you and yours many blessings on this special day that only comes around once in a very rare occasion. Enjoy the day and night with this full moon blessing: Continue reading →

"Believe In Yourself, Even When No One Else Does."
~ Harvey McKay ~
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“Take a chance on faith. Not religion, but faith.
Not hope, but faith.
I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.
Hope walks through the fire and Faith leaps over it.”
~ Jim Carrey ☆ 2014
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“I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less. And I am one of the seven billion human being. Basically we are the same… your emotion, my emotion, your mind, my mind.., same physical. So I always look [at it] that way. We are the same.”
~ Dalai Lama 2012 ~
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"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
~ Bruce Lee 1971