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May Special: Past Life Regression Session 50% off from Domino Truitt

SGC Admin: Have you ever wondered if you have experienced a life time (s) before this one? It’s an interesting thought and there is a way to find out… Check out Domino Truitt’s Special for this month… :)

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Please view the following from Domino’s website… 

Rowanwood Reiki & Hypnosis is owned and operated by Domino Truitt, MHt, RM/T and has been helping clients achieve lasting changes in Durham Region, since 2007.

Offering Hypnosis, Past Life Regression, Reiki Therapy, Reiki Certification Workshops, and Animal Reiki Workshops and Healing. 

She is an NGH-Certified Consulting Master Hypnotherapist, Regression Facilitator and Reiki Master/Teacher. 

Her certification in Hypnosis was received from the Ontario Hypnosis Centre School, accredited by Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) and governed by the standards and ethics of the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH).

As an NGH-Certified Consulting Master Hypnotherapist, she is bound by the standards and ethics established and set by NGH over 50 years ago.

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Happy Beltane… Happy May Day… Happy days ahead… :)

SGC Admin: From our inbox to you from From Patti Wigington, your Guide to Paganism / Wicca

Happy May Day Everyone from the SGC Staff… :) 

Please Click Here to find out more about Wicca with Patti…. :) 

Please Click Here to find out more about Beltane one of the 8 Wiccan celebrations

 

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Beltane is almost here! It falls on May 1 here in the northern hemisphere, and there are all kinds of ways to celebrate. From rites and rituals to crafts and feasts, this spring Sabbat celebrates the greening of the earth, fertility and fire, and the beginning of the planting season. Here are some great ways you and your family can celebrate Beltane this week.

Depending on your particular tradition, there are many different ways you can celebrate Beltane, but the focus is nearly always on fertility and the greening of the earth. It’s the time when the earth mother opens up to the fertility god, and their union brings about healthy livestock, strong crops, and new life all around.

As Beltane approaches, you can decorate your home (and keep your kids entertained) with a number of easy craft projects. Start celebrating a bit early with fun floral crowns and a Maypole altar centrepiece. Also, don’t forget the feast – no celebration is complete without a meal that celebrates the themes of the season!

Southern hemisphere readers, be sure to read up on crafts and recipes that focus on the season of Samhain!

For our southern hemisphere readers, Samhain is this week – it’s a time to honor the end of the harvest and the coming darkness of the year. 

Whichever you may be observing, I wish you and yours a happy and blessed Sabbat.

 

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Meditation/Healing with “When Friends Gather” Pam and Marylou April 14 and 28 2014

When Friends Gather

Meditation/Healing

with

MaryLou Westenhoefer (White Swan meditation) 

&

Pamela Scott  (Giraffe Techniques meditation ) 

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 Join Mary Lou and Pamela in meditation for an evening of relaxation and healing. 

  • Date(s): April 14 2014 and April 28  2014 (the 2nd and 4th Monday’s of April 2014)
  • Time: 7:30 pm:
  • Cost:  $15:00 per person each session. 
  • Location: Please contact Pamela or Mary Lou for exact location. 

Contact:

  • Pamela Scott: 905-668-3073:

  • MaryLou Westenhoefer: 905-668-6494

     

Please call Pamela or Marylou to secure your spot soon, as they fill up quickly… :) 


 

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Whitby: Garbage Pickup dates for Easter 2014.

April 2014

This coming weekend sees the Easter long weekend for 2014… 

Please view the revised garbage pick up schedule:

***Please Note*** there was an error in the Town’s printed waste collection calendar…

THERE WILL NO WASTE COLLECTION SERVICE ON FRIDAY APRIL 18 2014. 

 

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Area #     Organics (Green Bin)     Recycling (Blue Box)  Yard Waste    Garbage

9              Sat: Apr 19                            Sat: Apr 19                    No collection   No collection

10      Same as area 9                Same as area 9                       Sat: April 19     Sat: April 19

 

1         Tues: Apr 22                    Tues: Apr 22              Tues: Apr 22     Tues: Apr 22

2       Tues: Apr 22                      Tues: Apr 22                    None                    None

3        Wed: Apr 23                     Wed: Apr 23                 Wed: Apr 23        Wed: Apr 23     

4        Wed: Apr 23                Wed: Apr 23                     None                     None

5        Thurs: Apr 24                 Thurs: Apr 24              Thurs: Apr 24      Thurs: Apr 24   

6        Same as area 5            Same as area 5                      None                    None  

7        Fri: Apr 25                      Fri: Apr 25                     Fri: Apr 25          Fri: Apr 25   

8         Same as area 7           Same as area 7                    None                         None

9         Sat: Apr 26                      Sat: Apr 26                   Sat: Apr 26           Sat: Apr 26 

10      Same as area 9                Same as area 9               None                   None

If your normal collection day is:                            Holiday collection day will be:

  • Mon Apr 21                                                           Tues Apr 22
  • Tues Apr 22                                                          Wed Apr 23
  • Wed Apr 23                                                           Thurs Apr 24
  • Thurs Apr 24                                                        Fri Apr 25
  • Fri Apr 25                                                              Sat Apr 26

Area 9 and area 10 are listed twice… as they have a change this Friday April 18 also…

Please have all garbage out by the curb by 7 am: 

Please call 905 668 3437 or Click Here to visit the Town of Whitby website: 

Source: Whitby This Week: April 16 2014 Edition

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Happy Easter…. Good Friday April 18 2014: Easter Sunday April 20 2014

SGC Admin: Easter is a Christian celebration and observation.

Jesus Christ was crucified on Good Friday and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday…

Many people enjoy this celebration regardless of religious denomination as Easter is also a sign of spring.

Good Friday may be a statutory holiday in some countries, where business’s, banks, post office, and most stores are closed. 

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Our thanks to Wikipedia for the following information on this widely observed holiday. 

Easter[nb 1][nb 2] (also called the Pasch[1][2] or Pascha[nb 3][3]) is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament.[4][5] Easter is the culmination of the Passion of Christ, preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday (also known as Holy Thursday), commemorating the Last Supper and its preceding foot washing,[6][7] as well as Good Friday, commemorating thecrucifixion and death of Jesus.[8] Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertideor the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday.

Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the March equinox.[9] 

Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years), and the “Full Moon” is not necessarily the astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefore varies between 22 March and 25 April. 

Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on the Julian calendar whose 21 March corresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian calendar, in which the celebration of Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May.

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the calendar. In many languages, the words for “Easter” and “Passover” are etymologically related or homonymous.[10]

Easter customs vary across the Christian world, but attending sunrise services, exclaiming the Paschal greeting, clipping the church and decorating Easter eggs, a symbol of the empty tomb, are common motifs.[11][12][13]

Additional customs include egg hunting, the Easter Bunny, and Easter parades, which are observed by both Christians and some non-Christians

Source: Wikipedia

SGC Admin: Just wanted to add something new I found out regarding Easter Eggs, thanks to Tammy of Magical Dreams. It’s a legend/myth involving the Goddess Ostara (Eostre)

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A very long time ago Goddess Ostara/Eostre found an injured bird and wanted to heal it and the story goes in order to do so, the Goddess had to change the near-death bird into a Hare  … However, the Hare although healthy in all ways had once distinct difference from all the other Hares…  instead of having babies this special Hair laid beautiful colourful Eggs…. And since that time we celebrate Easter with bunnies and eggs… :) 

source: 1) Tammy: 2) Ostara Lore