Showing posts with label celebration. Show all posts
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Monday, 22 May 2017

Plan your Dee Day Do!


It's time to plan your Dee Day Do!

Firstly send out your invitations.
We have made a cut out and keep invite for you to cut out and keep.


Display a poster.
Here is one for you to print and display in your window, on your door or outside your hovel.


There follows a list of things you will need to get ready:
1. Your playlist - ensure that you have suitable tracks such as "Scrying" by Roy Orbison,"Scrying in the Rain" by A-ha or "Scry baby scry" by The Beatles. If you don't have time to make a playlist you could purchase "Now that's what I call Dee" which contains all the tracks you'll need...


2. Alchemy Cake - it is traditional to bake an Alchemy Crumble on Dee Day. For the recipe explore The Lost Book of Magickal Recipes by Dr Dee (there is an updated edition annotated by Fanny Craddock available online).
3. Put up Black Scrying bunting. (This is available from Morrisons) Be aware that scrying bunting is very effective and you may see spirits in every little triangular bunt.
4. Hang Crystal Balls on your hawthorn tree. The Dee Tree (as it is known) is a newly chopped hawthorn, brought into the centre of a house, adorned in little crystal balls. 

For more details on what to do at your Dee Day Do you can facetime John Dee via Scry.



Saturday, 20 May 2017

Dee Day is Coming... How will you celebrate?


Queen Elizabeth I's royal astrologer, geographer and mathematician was also a magician.

May 25th 1581 would have been a day like any other. He would sit and stare into the crystal ball on his desk and hope for a glimpse of the future, the past or some other world.
And every day the crystal ball would sit cold and unyielding.

But on this day...
On May 25th, 1581...
Something stirred.

The clear glass filled with fog and mist... from within this miasma of smoke and cloud spirits began to appear.

And Dee saw into the future.

What will you see on May 25th?
How will you celebrate Dee Day?

Tell us in comments below or on the Folk Horror Revival page...