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This is it, the final days of 2015.  I have a to-do list that isn’t finished, I have that extra 20(ish) pounds I didn’t loose, there are unfinished projects all around my office and house......   and I don’t care.     This year was amazing!  There is so much I did and so much I didn’t do, but ya know what?  That didn’t do was awesome too.  I let myself be human this year, I started breaking the habit of busy-ness and decided to mindfully spend my time and energy. I took time to heal this year and I allowed myself to be vulnerable and cry and be ugly about it when I needed to be, and within that I found myself.   My friends, healing isn’t about finding perfection.  It is about finding your flaws and making friends with them until they are no longer flaws.   

Oh the possibilities that a new year brings.  Oh the promises (and the lies) that a fresh, untainted year brings.   The energy is palpable, it calls and beckons you to make grand promises to yourself.  All the energy of the year lays at your feet...   Careful how you spend it. Like luck, the year will be what you make it.  How do you make luck?  By listening to your intuition and being aware of every opportunity that comes your way and using your inner voice to guide you to the best one for you.    Set your course for the year and tap into your inner luck to guide you, gently along the way.

Merry Christmas   May your hearts be warmed by the love that abounds.   No matter where you are, know that Coventry is sending holiday wishes your way and we believe in your innate magic.  Now... go make some.   Love from the Coventry Staff

Have you ever met an angel?   I have.  I have met several and you probably have too.  You see, angels are not just the winged supernatural beings that fill our fantasies, they are too conspicuous that way.  The tabloids would go wild and their divine work would be lost in all the sensation.   You see, angels work much quieter.   They work with you on the spiritual, emotional and mental levels, certainly.  You can call to them in your meditations and psychic journeys and they will come.  The sensations they bring when one is around you is humbling at the least.   They also work with you on the physical level  - very often - and they do in a stealth like manner. Angels are masters of disguise and their favorite one is as a human.   They come to you with just the right answer, they come to you with a moment...

Happy Yule In our darkest moments we have the opportunity to find our deepest pain.  As the light returns we find that we can heal and repair our souls from the core on out.    May your Solstice be filled with an empowered and courageous spirit.

A well lived lived life is rarely tidy.  A well loved life is messy and filled with bits and chunks of un-nameable fun.   Bless your mess and bless your home, because this is where you feed your soul, love your family and relax your shields.   Take a moment today and bless your mess, your socks on the floor, your dishes in the sink your un-made-up mind, your leaky emotions, and your intrusive passion.   Bless this mess of trial and error, of unrealized dreams, ideas that went awry and stacks of books out of order.   You are the creator and creation of all these things and some days you have to revel in the absurdity of the mess you create while in the mode of creation.   When you accept your mess, for better and for worse, own its reason and purpose in life and possibly even make friends with it,...

Grief is a loss of your dreams, your future.   Grief is your heart losing a part of what filled it and having to heal one tiny moment at a time.   We all grieve for many types of losses; death, divorce, job loss, failure, friend loss, loneliness.  We are filled with the memories of what used to be and could have been and those memories have become charged with pain.  Pain is good, it’s healthy and it is what cleanses you, but only if you let it.  Only if you feel it, bring it to the surface, make friends with it and then let it go.   Letting go is the hard part and that is why we created something to help you in the process. The Grief Affirmation is made with a careful blend of Frankincense, Cedar and Rosemary to help you elevate those painful emotions, hold on to the memories...

Opps!  you got it and now what do you do with it?  Worse yet, you got the love interest you have been reaching for and now what do you do?     You go with it.   Nothing is going to be perfect and it’s time to step out of the fantasy of “what if” and into the reality of “now what?”   Love is not the end game, it is the game, the journey the action you take to ensure your future.    Love is returned as it is given, love is the example we set for our future selves to continue to act within.   A soul mate is not the one who will bend to your every whim and worship the ground that you walk on.  A true soul mate will push you to grow with them. They will disagree and then find common ground.  They will worship with you, the...

Don’t believe the hype from the beauty industry.  There is no standard of beauty.  Don’t think that you have to fit into a mold because there is no standard for us to measure by.   Over the generations the definition of outward beauty has morphed from one trend to another.   Country to country what is considered beautiful varies.   True beauty comes from within, from confidence, self love, personal power, care of other.   When you think of the most beautiful person in your world, bets are that you think of a loved one who would never grace the cover of Cosmo.   I bet the person you are thinking of right now is someone who has touched your life in a loving and profound way.   You are that kind of beautiful to someone in your life.  What if that is what you saw in the mirror every day?  What if that is...

There are so many ways we make magic in our lives, from focused ritual to being inspired by a new acquaintance and all are bursts of energy that create amazing potentials for change.  It’s after that initial charge that the work begins.      Intentional magic is great - it helps reprogram your emotions and thoughts, finds the holes in your spirit and fills them up and helps heal the root of the issue.   No magic that you cast or inspire is able to overcome your negative habits if you continue doing those negative habits.   Your free will just yanks that burst of energy out of the universe and consumes it with your bad habits.   You have to change what you do and follow through on the magic to make it really work.   Help yourself change, and grow with the magic you generated.  Light the Success Affirmation candle and help...

When you are in a negative mood, the last thing you want to do is put in your rose colored glasses and play Pollyanna to some fake feeling words.   But that is exactly the remedy that will help you transition from a place of self-defeat into a place of balance and connection.   It’s hard to do.   Right now as I write this blog, it’s hard for me to do as I am in that exact space.   But I know that as I do my affirmations I am lifting myself up in tiny increments and allowing the light back into my soul.   That is what affirmations do, they create an invitation to the Divine to settle more fully into your heart and heal what is bringing disconnection and pain.   Affirmations put you back in control of your emotions and reactions to outside events.   So often the pain caused by actions...

When money issues show up, they show with a dramatic urgency.  Rent, light bill, filling your gas tank, tuition, loan payments, they all share a life changing urgency if they don’t get paid.   When you are perpetually in survival mode, it’s hard to get spiritual and heal the deeper issue that keeps you in that state of financial lack.   When you are drowning in bills, the last thing you want to do is cast an abundance spell for fear that you will become more abundant in bills!   You need a Cash, Money, Now! spell to get through the crisis and get a moment to de-stress before the next round of bills show up.  The Financial Growth Blessing Kit is perfect for these moments, especially when you add it to the Cosmic Check Spell.   This spell is simple and fast and can be done any time of the month....

By Britany Crenshaw I think we can all admit it family time isn’t always peachy.  With the holiday season right under our noses, we are prone to rising stress levels.  We all step into family gatherings with a preconceived notion (or ideal) of how things will play out.   Yet we forget that everyone is walking in with a similar emotional charge so the gathering can go either way - Better or worse than you expected. If you’re anything like me, you’re hosting Thanksgiving and Christmas at your house.  Hosting is another ball game all in itself. If it isn’t potluck you have to worry about cooking in addition to making sure everyone is fed, and your area has to be squeaky clean. By the time family and friends come over, you’re trying your hardest to create a genuine smile and start and keep good conversation. Some holidays seem to be surrounded...

“Often, we know the truth but do not want to see it.”   ~ Coventry Creations Blessing Kit Truth is a very sticky subject, because it is so subjective.  There is your truth, their truth and the universal truth, which is just the facts.    My truth and your truth rely on our personal filters; our perception of the situation, our experiences, our fears and emotional filters.   What is helpful to one person is interfering to another.  What is the truth when definitions differ?  What is the truth when you don’t want to know what the other perspectives are? When the truth may be painful, we can hide from it.  When the truth means that we may have to face an old fear or a scary reality we have the super power to deny it.   We have this amazing defense mechanism to hide from us what is too painful to bear, but...

I love the number 3.  There is so much magic in it.  You can go back through time and see how often the number three represents holiness, balance, beginning, wisdom.   The triple goddess, the Holy Trinity, the fates, the three kings. It is a very uniting number: mother, father, child; past, present, future; birth, life, death; body, mind and spirit.   When we want to make a point, we use three proofs.   At three we can see a pattern.  At three we can triangulate a pin point. Three is the number where things begin to take shape, it is the force of creative power that takes an idea, through the initial action on the idea and into manifesting.   The perfect number for magic. We use three votives in our Blessing Kits just for that, to take your idea, wish or intent and bring it out of your head through your initial action...

By Britany Crenshaw November and December are months that are supposed to be surrounded by gratitude, family and peace. But, it isn’t always completely just that is it? Thanksgiving and Christmas are times to be grateful, eat good food, reminisce with family and friends and at least get a good laugh. Although my holiday festivities do eventually house all of these characteristics, I do bump into a great deal of chaos along the way and I know for a fact I am not the only one. I have a large family and communication is always easily lost through the grapevine.  Communication is the key to a smooth holiday in my family and for some reason, it’s the only factor that seems to get lost each and every year. Fortunately for my family, it doesn’t matter who didn’t bring what, who said what or who did what at the end of the...

By Britany Crenshaw I’m one of those pet owners who goes over and beyond for their pets. All four of my dogs get holiday stockings and gifts wrapped in doggy wrapping paper. I get the side eye from a handful of people because I truly treat my dogs like they’re my kids.  They’ve protected, served and have been my best friends since as early as 2005, and they deserve it!  Your pets think very highly of you. You feed them, love them, and talk to them and if you spoil your pets like I do, you clothe them too. That connection that is shared between humans and their pets is a connection that is unique. They rely on us to care for them and we rely on them for so much more. We look to them to be our judgmental free friends, our ear to listen and to add to this...

I love a good root word, and Karma does come through with a depth of meaning.    The Sanskrit root – Karman means, "to do, make, perform, accomplish, cause, effect, prepare, undertake". At it’s root, Karma’s definition is the executed action and the intent behind the action.   Some Indian scholarly schools of thought teach that Karma is the effect of your actions. Some schools of thought feel that karma is a much longer term than that and it takes more than one lifetime to experience the effect that your actions caused. The Buddhist teach that  the lesson of Karma is  always “volitional action”.  In a nutshell, the law of karma says that if you do good, you will experience good and if you do evil, you will experience evil.   Karma is not a judgement, as us Westerners think, it is simply an explanation of the cause and effect of our actions.   ...

“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Theresa “In my world, peace begins and ends with me.”  It’s the same in your world.  Go ahead, repeat that line aloud and see how it feels.   Does saying that phrase aloud inspire feelings of freedom?  Does it inspire fear?  Does it inspire peace or maybe it goes the opposite way and inspires judgement or righteousness.   If you were to live your life with peace as the center of it, what would it look like? I thought for years that if I had peace as my center then life would be boring.   I would lose my passion and would become complacent with my lot in life.   I was mistaken.   I equated peace with not caring.  I equated peace with being a victim. I equated peace with a lack of action.  Living your life in a place of peace does not mean any of...

The Peace candle from the World Magic Line will be back for a limited time starting in November.  We have only poured a few small batches for the holiday season.  The candle will have new new label, updated blessing but same wonderful formula.   What is the Peace candle for? Through this candle, your personal prayers for peace join with the collective prayers of humanity to form a web of peace around the globe. The sacred herbs and oils from the 4 corners of the Earth, bringing a global focus for our prayers and intentions to transform hatred into love, fear into peace and intolerance into empathy.   Included in the candle recipe are: Lavender from Europe Frankincense from Africa Jasmine from Asia Cedar and Vanilla from the Americas The Peace candle is sold on a first come, first serve basis.  We only make a limited amount of candles so don’t...