Day: February 13, 2011

Seasons of the Witch

Seasons of the Witch 

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Borrowed Days begin (Scottish Highlands)
Burgsonndeg (Luxembourg)
Burma Union Day
Choes Day (Day of the Cups; Ancient Greece)
Feast of Diana/Artemis (Goddess of the Hunt)
Festival of Pitooyage (God of gaming & chance; Oaxaca, Mexico)
Georgia Day
Great American Chocolate Festival begins (@)
National Plum Pudding Day
Oglethorpe Day (Georgia)
Runic half-month of Sigel (sun) begins
St. Julian the Hospitaler (patron of travelers, innkeepers, boatmen, circus performers)
St. Meletius’ Day
World Marriage Day
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Remember the ancient ways and keep them sacred

Lunar Lore

Lunar Lore

The south-wind strengthens to a gale,
Across the moon the clouds fly fast,
The house is smitten as with a flail,
The chimney shudders to the blast.
– Robert Bridges, “Low Barometer.”

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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
  Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
  Become the touches of sweet harmony.
  – Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice,” V, i.

Today Is: Sun Day

Today Is: Sun Day – Energy: Male Ruler:  The Sun – Rules health, prosperity, leadership, joy, and protection – Use for magick involving happiness, prosperity, joy, healing, protection, power, leadership, ego, authority figures, fathers, husbands

  •  Today’s Goddesses: Sunne, Frau Sonne, Aditi, Igaehindvo, Amaterasu, Arinna, Izanami, Ochumare

  • Today’s Magickal Influences: Health, Healing, Confidence And Hope, Prosperity

  • Incense: Mastic, Palaginia

  • Perfumes: Heliotrope, Orange Blossom, Cloves, Frankincense, Ambergris, Musk, Myrrh

  • Color of The Day:   Orange, Gold

  • Colors for Tomorrow: Silver, Gray, White

  • Lucky Sign: Sunday Is The Lucky Day For Leo

  • Candle: Yellow .

    Sunday is YANG or male energy ruled by the SUN, its colors are Oranges, yellows, golds, white and this day has the energies of health, leadership, healing, prosperity, self-knowledge, happiness, ego, hope, joy, strength, individuality, authority figures, fathers, husbands, protection, power and spirituality, promotions, power and fortune. The tree is the BIRCH

     From Illuminations by Carol

    Daily Crystal: Andalusite

    THE MINERAL ANDALUSITE

    • Chemistry: Al2 SiO5, Aluminum Silicate
    • Class: Silicates
    • Subclass: Nesosilicates
    • Uses: in the manufacture of spark plugs etc, as a gemstone and as mineral specimens.
    • Specimens

    Andalusite is named for its type locality of Andalusia, Spain. It is a polymorph with two other minerals: kyanite and sillimanite. A polymorph is a mineral that shares the same chemistry but a different crystal structure with other minerals.

    A unique variety of andalusite is called “chiastolite”. It contains black or brown clay and/or carbonaceous material (often graphite) inclusions in the crystal. These inclusions are arranged in regular symmetrical shapes – especially prized when they are in the form of a cross or X.

    PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:

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    • Color is white, red, brown, orange and green.
    • Luster is vitreous.
    • Transparency crystals are transparent to translucent.
    • Crystal System is Orthorhombic; 2/m2/m2/m
    • Crystal Habits include prismatic crystals with a square cross section terminated by a pinacoid. also massive and granular.
    • Cleavage is good in two directions.
    • Fracture is splintery to subconchoidal.
    • Hardness is 7.5
    • Specific Gravity is approximately 3.15+ (above average)
    • Streak is white.
    • Associated Minerals are cordierite, biotite, feldspars, quartz, kyanite and sillimanite.
    • Other Characteristics: dark inclusions produce cruciform shapes in the variety chiastolite. Index of refraction is 1.632-1.638.
    • Notable Occurrences include Andalusia, Spain; Austria; California, USA and China.
    • Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, color, inclusions (if present) and hardness.

    Runecast for Sunday February 13

    For today we have Dagaz of Tyr’s Aett Dagaz pronounced “thaw-gauze” (D: Day or dawn) Breakthrough, awakening, awareness. Daylight clarity as opposed to nighttime uncertainty. A time to plan or embark upon an enterprise. The power of change directed by your own will, transformation. Hope/happiness, the ideal. Security and certainty. Growth and release. Balance point, the place where opposites meet

    Clouds are dispersing and the Sun shines brightly. Light and clarity. Leave your darkness behind. Changes shown by this rune are so significant, they can absolutely change your life. Something important has happened which may not be obvious to you yet. This rune signifies that growth and improvement are already happening and the only thing needed now is a positive attitude to everything happening around you. Recognize the favorable moment and catch it, and don’t miss it because you are blinded and can only see obstacles and annoyances. The day has already come and if you’re still asleep, by just opening your eyes you can be free of the bad dreams of the past.

    Dagaz Merkstave (Dagaz cannot be reversed, but may lie in opposition): A completion, ending, limit, coming full circle. Blindness, hopelessness. (Note: the reversed or merkstave definitions are included only for reference as they apply to a multi-rune cast and not to a single rune that’s drawn blind from the pouch)

    As with all, take only what feels right to you and disregard the rest.

    **a portion of today’s rune meaning/description was kindly provided by Ingrid Halvorsen at sunnyway.com and used here with her gracious permission**

    In the Light…

    Tom

    SoulDiscoveryThruReiki
    “Music is a release from the tyranny of conscious thought”
    — Kevin Burke
    Insanity is inherited, you get it from your kids…

    The Journey toward Soulmate Reunion

    The Journey toward Soulmate Reunion by DL Zeta

    There are many in the world who live alone inside their hearts, longing for “the other” they believe will end their loneliness and transform their world to a place of love and fulfillment. This is the search for the soulmate. Much is written about this search for the beloved, but much of what is said about soulmates is in reverse.

    To seek one’s soulmate in the outer world is to misunderstand this urge for communion that flickers inside every heart. Each being is the sum of two halves, the first being the conscious, physical manifestation, and the second, the unseen, spiritual aspect. When these two halves unite within consciousness, they constitute a whole being. “As above, so below” is a basic truth that helps decode many situations. It is true as well with soulmates. The conscious and subconscious minds are the true soulmates. When a person unites these, they are united in physical reality with one who is a reflection of their inner soulmate.

    The Un-unified Consciousness

    The person who has not yet united these two aspects of their own consciousness will draw into their lives others who have not yet unified their own consciousness. Instead of sharing a sense of wholeness, these two beings will have in common a sense of lack and longing that no one can ever fill. Such relationships are created at the soul level as a learning experience. Often this experience inspires them to search for answers. If you are in relationship and you feel lonely, this is an indication you have not yet come into a clear understanding of soulmates. A relationship with another is merely a reflection of the inner soulmate reunion; it is not the soulmate reunion itself.

    This outer quest for the soulmate will continue until one learns to transform their outer quest to an inner quest. The inner quest will in time unite the physical and spiritual aspects of their being. It’s when we reach a state of inner unification we cease longing for another to transform our life.

    This is paradoxically when a person appears as a reflection of one’s unified self. In this way, everyone in your life is reflecting to you some aspect of your self.

    Harmonizing the Conscious and Subconscious

    So how, you may ask, does one go about harmonizing these two aspects of their being? This is done by setting one’s intention to do so, and asking one’s intuitive guidance to bring awareness to the many opportunities for direct communion each day. One of the ways your subconscious speaks to you is in your dreams. Remember, write down and work with your dreams to begin receiving these important transmissions. Spend time each day meditating in silent communion with your spiritual self. Spend time in nature listening to the still, small voice within, for this is the voice of your spiritual self. A busy mind over-invested in the physical world will never find time to unite with its spiritual self.

    Once the intention to unify your “selves” is in place, you begin to create an energetic field that grows and expands with every step you take towards inner harmony. When you unite with your spirit, you begin to harmonize with all your selves across time. Since all-time exists simultaneously, your selves are manifested in different timeframe dimensions at once.

    As you harmonize with these other “selves,” you also harmonize with the souls who have played the role of your soulmate throughout time. The “other” who comes into your life to reflect the union of your physical and spiritual selves can be one of a number of souls along an energetic spectrum.

    Excerpt from Manifesting Your Inner Soulmate in Physical Reality By DL Zeta
    http://www.celestialvision.org/manifesting-your-inner-soulmat/
    & Meeting a Soulmate in Consciousness: a Guided Meditation
    http://www.celestialvision.org/-celestial-vision-audio-series/
    For more information, visit http://www.celestialvision.com/

    Today’s I Ching Hexagram for 2/13

    Today’s I Ching Hexagram for Everyone:

    48: The Well

    Sunday, February 13th, 2011

    Hexagram 48
    General Meaning: Throughout various cultures and political systems of the world, the well has served as a universal symbol for that which sustains life and provides a constant, inexhaustible source of life-giving nourishment for mankind.

    Like the well, human nature is the same around the world. The passage of time does not change its essential dimensions, nor take anything away. Still, just as a well can be deepened to produce clearer, cleaner water, so can we enrich our lives by delving deeply within — into our natural selves, or souls.

    Beware of shallow thinking. Like a little learning, it can be dangerous. The image of the well suggests that along with depth comes clarity. Be patient, and penetrate both your problems and your own nature to the core. If you do not lower your bucket to the depths, you’re very likely to come up empty. When greater depth is desired, a lessening of speed is often required.

    Today’s Tarot Card for 2/13

    Today’s Tarot Card for Everyone:

    The Empress

    This Tarot Deck: Tarot of the Spirit

    General Meaning: Traditionally entitled “Empress,” this major arcana or “trump” card portrays the energy of the Great Mother. She is Nature, around us but also within us, the ever-unfolding Source of life-giving power. She is often pictured as a pre-Christian Goddess, as the one whom the High Priestess is channeling down to earth for the rest of us.

    In medieval Europe, the Empress card was painted to represent whatever Queen currently ruled the land, probably to satisfy the Inquisitors. But the scholars of the Renaissance and beyond had no doubt of her true identity, although she could not be fully revealed on Tarot cards as the “woman clothed with the sun” until after the French Revolution.

    This supreme archetype of femininity also symbolizes fertility. It is She who provides us nourishment and security. She is also sometimes seen as delighting us with flowers and fruit. A potentially terrifying aspect of this archetype manifests itself whenever karmic mood swings wipe out our plans, like a storm that has come upon us. Whatever happens, the Empress is the Source of our Embodiment and of Natural Law. She might even be called “the Great Recycler.”

    Daily Horoscopes for 2/13

     

    General Daily Horoscope

     

    Things run smoother today because the breezy Gemini Moon is relatively free from tense aspects. Our thoughts unfold without too much resistance since the Moon forms a superconductive Grand Trine with five planets in the intellectual Air signs of Aquarius and Libra. But the easy communication doesn’t last forever, for the Moon’s square to erratic Uranus later this evening can increase our restlessness and even reveal a previously hidden conflict.

     

    Aries Horoscope
    Aries Horoscope (Mar 21 – Apr 19)

    You are prone to say things now before you consider the consequences of your words. This impulsiveness can create problems because you don’t seem willing to even try to control the flow of your thoughts. It can be tricky to distinguish between a sensible idea and one that’s off the wall. Take time for contemplation before opening your mouth; otherwise you might wish that you remained silent.

     

    Taurus Horoscope
    Taurus Horoscope (Apr 20 – May 20)

    A busy weekend is quickly coming to an end and you may feel challenged to keep up with all that’s happening. Nevertheless, you’re wise to just grit your teeth and do what’s expected of you now without stirring up too much trouble. If you don’t waste energy resisting, you could actually accomplish a lot. Think about what you want to achieve in the days ahead and make a sensible plan to get what you want.

     

    Gemini Horoscope
    Gemini Horoscope (May 21 – Jun 20)

    You may feel like a soaring eagle today, eager to catch the wind. Luckily, the right breeze can take you as far and wide as you’ll let it. However, this isn’t a free ride because you have to pay careful attention to anything that would upset the delicate balance. You have plenty to say, but the current circumstances require you to be smart about how you deliver your message. Don’t try to exert control over everything that’s happening or you could lose your momentum.

     

    Cancer Horoscope
    Cancer Horoscope (June 21 – Jul 22)

    Your friends might not understand how fast your inner wheels are turning today, but you’re expending a lot of mental energy just to keep up with what’s happening. It’s hard work to make it look like you have things under control now. You are tempted to escape into your dreams and coast a bit, but it’s crucial to remain focused on the events of the present moment, even if your thoughts try to take you somewhere else.

     

    Leo Horoscope
    Leo Horoscope (Jul 23 – Aug 22)

    Your actions usually carry your message quite effectively, but today it’s probably wiser to tell someone what you feel instead of trying to demonstrate it. You should be careful because your confidence allows you to overlook an important piece of information. It may be tough to regain lost ground if you say something that shows your lack of understanding, so proceed with caution and cover all your bases.

     

    Virgo Horoscope
    Virgo Horoscope (Aug 23 – Sep 22)

    You may be trying to get important information from your radio today, but several stations are coming in simultaneously. You must find a way to filter out some of the noise, but it’s difficult when you cannot tell which signal is the one you need to hear. Even if you prefer using analysis as your primary tool of deduction, it’s smarter now to temporarily turn off the incoming data stream and just trust your intuition.

     

    Libra Horoscope
    Libra Horoscope (Sep 23 – Oct 22)

    You might feel as if someone is barking orders at you now, but you don’t want to blindly follow them. Take your time before responding, for it doesn’t make sense to react before you fully understand what’s happening. Although it seems as if everything is out in the open, you still think there is something more to learn. Don’t allow anyone to coerce you into agreement until you reach your own independent conclusion.

     

    Scorpio Horoscope
    Scorpio Horoscope (Oct 23 – Nov 21)

    You are able to say exactly what you mean today, yet you still can get yourself into trouble. You may be so determined to make someone see your point of view that you don’t know when to stop trying. It’s difficult to just walk away from a discussion until you have covered the same ground one too many times. Needless to say, this overpowering intensity can alienate a close friend in the process. End a conversation with the other person wanting more, not less.

     

    Sagittarius Horoscope
    Sagittarius Horoscope (Nov 22 – Dec 21)

    Although you seek meaning in your interactions with others, today you might be left with a lot of unsatisfying encounters. Don’t let others ramble on aimlessly; use your persuasive charm to bring them back into focus so they can finish making their points. However, you must be careful not to complete anyone else’s thoughts. Don’t assume you know what they’re trying to say. Instead, listen between the words and encourage your friends to express what’s in their hearts.

     

    Capricorn Horoscope
    Capricorn Horoscope (Dec 22 – Jan 19)

    It’s difficult to stay anchored to reality today because your thoughts are wandering around in the clouds. You may grow a bit anxious because you’re uncomfortable with your current lack of practicality. Unfortunately, you may not have the concentration that’s necessary to rein in your unconventional ideas now. Keeping both feet on the ground could cause you to lose the magic of a greater vision. Dream today; make it real tomorrow.

     

    Aquarius Horoscope
    Aquarius Horoscope (Jan 20 – Feb 18)

    It may be challenging to bring your thoughts down to earth today. You could notice unusual occurrences and synchronistic events that demonstrate the flimsiness of the boundaries between this world and others. But don’t go betting your future on something that’s happening in a parallel universe. It’s okay to watch the magic unfold as long as you don’t lose track of what’s important here and now.

     

    Pisces Horoscope
    Pisces Horoscope (Feb 19 – Mar 20)

    It’s like you are walking on a high wire today and can make a dangerous act seem perfectly safe to others. Your apparent courage might actually be linked to denial, but focusing on positive thoughts is a smart idea, nonetheless. Still, a little caution is advised, for unfettered imagination can also breed uncertainty now. Do your best to keep your thinking anchored to the mundane physical world, even while performing your own special kind of magic.

    Good News, I survived the day and ain’t in jail,lol!

    I am sorry about no posts this morning. It started out a good morning. I got up around 7:00, fixed coffee, laid down in the floor to watch TV till the coffee got ready. The next thing I knew it was 11:14. Oh, crap, I had to take a shower, put on my makeup, grab a bit to eat and get a cup of coffee. I have long, red, curly hair and to keep the fuzz down. I put in leave in conditioner and then let it air dry. Probably why I have been sick so much this winter. Then not to mention I still had to wrap the gifts and we had to leave an hour earlier than the party. Remember they live 90 miles away for us. Then after that here comes my biggest baby of all, my hubby. There are times, men make me sick (sorry fellas). I mean it takes me an hour or two to get ready. How long does it take him 30 minutes if that long. I had been running around like a chicken with her head chopped off. And he casually gets up, climbs in the shower, gets out, shaves and puts on his clothes and he is ready to go (if only I was that lucky 😦 ). Anyway we get on our way to the birthday party. It was at McDonald’s, I didn’t even know they had birthday parties. My son told me that his mother-in-law’s sister won it at a local telethon last fall. We pulled up and apparently we were running early or else everyone else was running late. It was a nice Birthday Party. McDonald’s gives them hats and they get free happy meals and they also provide a cake. I skipped the cake and went for a Strawberry Milkshake. Boy, are those things good and fatten I would imagine. Blows my exercising all to heck. But things went better than expected. Of course, his mother-in-law aren’t speaking, which she isn’t worth wasting the breath on. We got ready to leave, grandma on the other side of the family came over to give me a hug and grabbed my necklace and commented how pretty it was. I think she was looking for little witches on brooms or little horny devils on it. Fooled her, lol! But your own kids can embarrass you more than anything. My daughter wasn’t suppose to be there, she is on call the weekend. But she decided to show up. Which I was glad to see her and her husband. We all sit together and I had on this long, black, shimmery ring, It has a very gorgeous figree pattern on it. The first thing my daughter does is to tell me she wants it. I said ok. Well she just has to ask at the top of her voice, “Is it cursed.” Why would I be wearing something cursed. Well you know what I mean? She ended up giving me the ring back it hurt her finger. My mother-in-law use to say, “If she knew then what she knows now, she would have had puppies.” I am beginning to see her point of view. But all in all, it was a good day.  I came home and passed out in the floor. I wasn’t planning on doing that. I have found a book with some sensuous romantic spells. If they don’t get your blood boiling, then you aren’t human, my friend. Well I am off to do some posting. Thank you for understanding about this morning and I hope you enjoy the spells.