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Free Enchanted Dreams Oracle Reading What is the most important thing the angels can help you with this winter? Through January 31nd, 2019 All Rights Reserved. Click Here © Tarot-n-Tea, Ritual Tea All images and articles are the property of Tarot-n- Tea unless indicated. All 1 other images/articles are Ritual Tea Magazine used with permission. December 2018 December 2018 “Connecting with Angels” Letter to the Editor by Mario Zeleny “What do I do with my box?” ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 3 In Your Box Your December Teas by Mario Zeleny ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 7 Tea and Water Part 2 How to by Mario Zeleny p. 9 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. In Your Box Crystals, Condiments and Teaware by Mario Zeleny ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 13 Connecting with Angels by Babbo Zelini ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 14 Tarot Forecast November-December by Babbo Zelini ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 24 In Your Box Candles, Tea Towel and Diffuser by Mario Zeleny ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 31 Angels Embrace Ritual Tea by Babbo Zelini ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 32 Tarot Forecast December – January by Babbo Zelini ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 41 In Your Box Cookies and Seasonal Gifts by Mario Zeleny ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 42 Angel Oracle Correspondences By Babbo Zelini ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 43 Tarot Forecast January-February by Babbo Zelini ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. p. 48 Calling all Seers! That means you…. Join our Facebook Group The Tarot-n-Tea Room • Get Additional Quarterly Theme Content • Enter Free Exclusive Custom Reading Giveaways • Explore Tarot • Learn about Tea and the Tea Ritual • Enter Exclusive Product Giveaways • Share your experiences • Participate in our Q&As • Private Group • Get Facebook Group Only Discounts Join the Tarot2-n- Tea Room https://www.facebook.com/Tarot.n. Ritual Tea Magazine Teas/ December 2018 This holiday bread is addictive and after your first taste you may not want to share it! Thankfully, it is super easy to make! Ingredients: • 1 cup cold black or oolong tea • 8 ounces mixed dried fruit • 8 ounces self-rising flour • 4 ounces superfine sugar • 1 large beaten egg • 2 tablespoons orange marmalade Directions: The day before: Brew extra strong tea. Using dried fruit (not candied fruit) of your choice, place the fruit in a small bowl and pour the cold tea over the top. Soak the fruit overnight if possible, or until the fruit swells. The day of baking: Grease a standard sized loaf tin. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl combine the flour, sugar, egg and marmalade. (If you do not have superfine sugar, you can process granulated sugar in the food processor.) Then, pour in the fruit and any tea left in the bowl. Stir thoroughly. Put into loaf tin and bake in the oven for 1 hour. Allow to cool slightly before removing from the tin. Optional Drizzle: Make concentrated tea by using the regular amount of tea with a small amount of hot water (enough to cover the tea). We are looking for a couple of tablespoons of yield. Strain the tea and add small amounts of powdered sugar until it reaches desired consistency of drizzle. Add the drizzle before serving to individual portions. 3 Ritual Tea Magazine December 2018 Letter to the Editor Season’s Greetings! Dear Mario and Babbo: I received your “Got Ghost’s?” box and I loved everything in it! There’s just one problem… I don’t know what to do with the contents. I know how to make tea and drink it, but beyond that I just don’t get it. What would you advise? Sincerely, Gabi L. Thank you for taking the time to write. We are really grateful you shared your experience. First, we are happy you liked the box and had a good unboxing experience. The fact that you are not sure what do with the rest of the box means that we didn’t do part of our job very well. Before I answer your question, I wanted to share that because you contacted us with your experience, we will be changing how we do things. First, we are going to make it clearer to subscribers that the information about the contents of the box can be found in the magazine. Next, by Spring 2019 we hope to add a permanent section to our magazine covering some basic questions about tea making and rituals. Beginning with this magazine edition, we are including rituals that you can do following the theme of the box. To answer your question: Just about anything that you do repeatedly is either a habit or a ritual. A habit is an absentminded performance of a ritual. It’s when you cannot remember the drive to work because you were actually thinking about something else… not the driving. We do this with lots of things like tying our shoe, turning the lights on and off, checking the door before we go to bed, taking a shower or raking leaves. 4 Ritual Tea Magazine December 2018 Letter to the Editor Habits are only bad when they have a negative impact on your life. A ritual is something we do in a prescribed way every time we do it except, only we are fully present while we are doing it. For the tea ritual, westerners typically rush to make tea often choosing any kind of water, tea and tea ware… and then drink it while they are doing other things. Is this bad? No, this is consumption. However, when an activity or object is approached in this manner all the time, then the activity and the object is devalued. We also miss out on a lot of benefits. It is no longer is anything special. It is just something we consume. There is no relationship; our role is only as a taker and we are just a consumer. When we slow down and become present to where we are at and what we are doing… when we devote our time and attention… this is where the magic happens inside and outside. The contents of your box not only facilitates this kind of relationship with tea but also enrich it with meaning and intention through the contents in your box and their themes. There is no right way or wrong way to use the box. And we hope that our suggestions are just a starting place for you to create your own unique experiences. We supply a number of different items in your box, so you can set up your tea ritual in a variety of ways. The symbols and colors used in the boxes empower an intention during your tea ritual. In the “Got Ghosts?” box, the aim was to connect with things that “haunt” you as well as connect to your ancestors. This could be as simple as laying out your tea towel, lighting a candle, setting up your tea ware and preparing your water so you can sit down and spend some time looking over your tarot reading, journaling your responses to the reading, or exploring what things haunt you. © Yasmeen Westwood, Printed with Permission It could also be as simple as drinking your tea while meditating on the meaning of the death card or how to get in touch with your own Queen of Cups energy. The tarot cards each have their own energy and symbolic meanings. If this is something you want more of in your life, then that tarot card becomes the symbol of that thing. Symbols hold power to change us and the world around us. Symbols remind us of things like who we are striving to be like, the goals we really want to see accomplished, or reminds us of things like accessing compassion when someone we love is really getting on our nerves. Symbols are a way of keeping the energy present when we need to focus on other things. 5 Ritual Tea Magazine December 2018 Letter to the Editor Symbols are reminders, inspiration, physical manifestation of intention and a representation of types of energy. Every one of us has a special shelf, table, or niche where we keep symbols that means something to us like a stuffed cow from when we were young, a special card our grandmother sent us, or our last picture with a beloved friend. To a mindless consumer, these things are just a stuffed animal, a picture and a card. To you these are symbols with powerful meanings that evokes something deep inside you when you look at them, touch them or spend time with them. Whether you spend 5 minutes or an hour, or you are using all the stuff in your box or just a few things… it doesn’t matter. What matters is you begin practicing, you begin spending moments in “down” time from daily life, and you are doing something that is meaningful to you. The things you use in this ritual that stimulate taste, smells, sight, sound, tactile, and your mind and heart through symbolic meanings all combine like a unique recipe to reinforce and associate the time you are spending and the intention you are creating in your mind, in your body, in your spirit and life. If you begin to do this ritual consistently, over time you and your world will begin to change in magical ways. Thank you again for writing and allowing us to share the magic of Tarot-n-Tea with you. All my Best, Mario 6 Ritual Tea Magazine December 2018 Happy New Year! Babbo would like to give you a gift as a thank you for being a part of Tarot-n-Tea and making our year so great! 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