The oil is poisonous, even in small doses. Pennyroyal oil is traditionally used to treat digestive problems, but it has been shown to damage the liver and can be fatal in large doses. This herb should never be used internally. It is also dangerous for your pets, as they lick their fur and ingest the Pennyroyal.
When light becomes dim, it may be wise to become invisible. The image is of fresh darkness, the period after the sun has gone down or the fire has gone out. There is still much activity left over from the light of day, while movements in the outer world become more dangerous. Even the smallest sound, the faintest glow of light, can attract unwanted attention.
When the darkness of stupidity reigns, it is best that your own brilliance stay ‘hidden under a bushel basket.’ That is, your thoughts and efforts should be quiet and self-contained, and protected, as much as possible, from disruptive influences.
Whatever you do, don’t let yourself be swept along on the current of conventional wisdom when dangerous uncertainties exist. Try not to become too depressed or anxious; this period will pass. Just endure it for now and inwardly preserve your self-confidence, while outwardly remaining cooperative and flexible. The time to assert yourself will come. Avoid looking too far ahead if you have not yet achieved your goals. That only feeds regret and longing, which can eat away at your inner resources.
Be cautious and reserved. Control yourself. Do not needlessly awaken dormant forces of opposition. During dark, unsettled periods, it is best to step gingerly around the sleeping dogs.
Your Rune For Today
Othala
Othala represents a solid, immovable home, prosperity and safety. Good fortune based on your heritage and character is yours to enjoy.
Hemlock is an extremely poisonous cousin of parsley. The juice from hemlock’s tiny white flowers was believed to be used to make men impotent. “The plant was an ingredient in many Witches’ Ointments…. According to German folk tradition, the hemlock was home to a toad, which lived beneath it and sucked up its poisons.
Traditionally, the card known as the Hanged Man usually indicates a lack of ability to help oneself through independent action. This energy is arrested and awaiting judgment. With this card, there is no avenue for the will to regain control until the situation has passed.
This represents a good time to be philosophical, to study and meditate upon the position you find yourself in, and form resolutions for the moment you become free again. Only those who possess wisdom, patience and optimism will be able to see through limitations, including possible humiliation, to grasp the inspiring lesson one can gain from such an experience.
This is an intense day that requires us to let go of the past. The data-hungry Gemini Full Moon Eclipse at 9:45 am EST encourages communication with a close friend or lover, but we may learn more than we bargain for now. Jealousy and possessiveness make conversations challenging as sensual Venus sextiles yesterday’s controlling Mars-Pluto conjunction. Thankfully, difficult discussions can resolve old issues if we’re willing to trust the process.
Aries Horoscope
(Mar 21 – Apr 19)
You might wish you could avoid the intensity today as the easygoing Gemini Full Moon is eclipsed in your 3rd House of Communication. Seeking comfort sounds like a good idea, as long as you can balance lighthearted pleasure with serious discussions. Unfortunately, moderation may be elusive now; everything feels like all or nothing. Before taking action, consider your emotions from the viewpoint of a few days ahead to help you gain a healthier perspective
Taurus Horoscope
(Apr 20 – May 20)
You may be attracted to experiences outside of your regular comfort zone as today’s curious Gemini Full Moon Eclipse highlights your 2nd House of Simple Pleasures. Resisting strong desires might be futile now, but relinquishing control is just as challenging. Keep your communication channels open. Be ready to learn something significant about yourself, even if it’s not what you were expecting to hear.
Gemini Horoscope
(May 21 – Jun 20)
The Full Moon Eclipse in your versatile sign raises the volume on your emotions, yet it may be difficult to act on what you feel. The biggest danger now is a loss of perspective, since it’s all too easy to blow something out of proportion today. Even if you’re sure of your newly chosen path, let your feelings settle for a day or two before making any major changes to your overall plans.
Cancer Horoscope
(Jun 21 – Jul 22)
Since you careful crustaceans are strongly influenced by the Moon, today’s Lunar Eclipse in your 12th House of Secrets makes you acutely aware of what you’re not sharing. However, the emotional high tides are strong now and the boundaries are changing between you and a close friend or sweetheart. Don’t try to control the flow of feelings. There is no need to hide; you are fine just the way you are.
Leo Horoscope
(Jul 23 – Aug 22)
You cannot find happiness by trying to be everything to everybody as today’s adaptable Gemini Full Moon Eclipse illuminates your 11th House of Friends. Although you’re feeling more lighthearted now, conversations may quickly take you into deep emotional waters. If you do find yourself in over your head, don’t wait; begin heading back to the safety of the shore right away. The sooner you take action the easier it will be to regain your footing on solid ground.
Virgo Horoscope
(Aug 23 – Sep 22)
Today’s scattered Gemini Full Moon Eclipse rattles your 10th House of Career, possibly bringing turmoil to your job. You wish the complexity of life’s circumstances would settle down. Although you may want your simpler life back, it won’t likely happen yet. Make the required mental adjustments to balance your goals with your reality. Ultimately, you don’t have to settle for less, but you might need to temporarily accept the current situation as is if you want to thrive.
Libra Horoscope
(Sep 23 – Oct 22)
Share your vision of the future with your closest friends and family today, and be receptive to their feedback. The restless Gemini Full Moon Eclipse stimulates your 9th House of Adventure, fixing your emotions on the wide variety of possibilities in front of you. Although this may not be the best time to make firm plans, explore the alternatives with a curious mind and an open heart.
Scorpio Horoscope
(Oct 23 – Nov 21)
Today’s inquisitive Gemini Full Moon Eclipse deepens your resolve to make the most of your current situation, even if it falls short of your ideals. Your mind is overactive as you run through every possible scenario. You understand what’s happening around you, but it’s still challenging to make practical changes now. Nevertheless, the magnetic Venus-Pluto sextile empowers you to hold on to your vision with fierce passion, even if it takes time to reach your goals.
Sagittarius Horoscope
(Nov 22 – Dec 21)
The interactive Gemini Full Moon Eclipse in your 7th House of Relationships is opposite your Sun sign today, and you may feel influenced by the changing feelings of those around you. A close friend or partner might be the source of an emotional conflict that distracts you from what you want to do. Nevertheless, don’t ignore the feelings that arise now because you have something important to learn from the differences of opinion.
Capricorn Horoscope
(Dec 22 – Jan 19)
You may not know how you got yourself into a complicated situation at work, but you can’t just walk away from it. Today’s noisy Gemini Full Moon Eclipse falls in your 6th House of Daily Routine, and there are lots of details that need your attention. Unfortunately, you could be pulled in too many directions, making it difficult to know where to start. Take a deep breath and then take a small step. Take another breath and another step. You’re already on the road to success.
Aquarius Horoscope
(Jan 20 – Feb 18)
You must reconsider your recent commitments because you just don’t have enough time for everything you want to do with the restless Gemini Moon occurring in your 5th House of Fun and Games. Unfortunately, you may have some apprehension since you know that today won’t unfold according to your vision. You might want to run away from your responsibilities now, but escape isn’t a good idea. Listen to your common sense since it will tell you which activities are just too important to ignore.
Pisces Horoscope
(Feb 19 – Mar 20)
Even if your professional life is moving along well now, your stress level is high as today’s unstable Gemini Full Moon Eclipse rattles your 4th House of Emotional Security. You may feel as if you must maintain control in the outer world, but you aren’t quite sure how to do it when you’re feeling so uncertain about so many things. Ironically, your anxiety could dissipate if you loosen your grip on reality. Ride the powerful waves of emotional change and see where the currents take you.
Many of the common names of this plant pertain to its toxic nature (Witches’ glove, Dead Man’s Bells, Bloody Fingers). Foxglove belongs to the Figwort family (Scrophulariaceae) and the whole plant is toxic. It contains various cardiac glycosides. Foxglove also went by the names Goblin’s Gloves (in Wales), Throttle-wort, Thimble Flower, Finger Flower, Ireland it was also known as Fairy Cap, Lunsmore, and the Great Herb. Foxglove was also considered dear to faeries. If a plant was harmed, the faeries would bring retribution
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Get ready to deal with information overload! The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in loquacious Gemini on November 28 opposes the Sun in opinionated Sagittarius, and all this outgoing energy is going to get noisy.
We can expect words, words and more words as expansive Jupiter in Gemini is joined with the Moon. Much of what we hear will be chatter that’s more distraction than useful data. And economic news could make headlines as valuable Venus joins stingy Saturn in Scorpio.
The key message of this Lunar Eclipse is to let go of old ideas and fears to come up with fresh, creative concepts for the future. Get more insight for planning ahead, see how this Full Moon Eclipse will affect your sign:
Less talk and more action are called for with this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in your 3rd House of Communication. Don’t get jumpy if you hear bad news or fall for any of your own fatalistic thinking. Cutting connections with worrisome people who keep pointing back to the past is a good step toward discovering a more desirable picture of the future. Fresh sources of information can be inspirational.
Some old ideas about money and property may keep you from fulfilling your potential. Cut financial losses now instead of holding on with unfounded hope that they will magically turn around. Sure, it’s hard to let go of investments, objects and values that have a strong hold on you, but economic times are a changing with this Lunar Eclipse in your 2nd House of Resources and Income.
This Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Gemini signals a need for simplicity. There may be too many ideas, connections, conversations and speculations going on in your mind to see clearly enough to make good decisions. Less information will serve you better than more, and fewer options produce sharp thinking. Reduce data and streamline systems to pull your head out of the clouds and put your feet on solid ground.
This Full Moon in chatty Gemini is a Lunar Eclipse in your 12th House of Unfinished Business. The demands, needs and questions of others can make it hard for you to stand up and take control of your life. It may be time to shut the door, turn off the phone and stop answering e-mails for a while. The answers you seek come from within and from spiritual guidance, but you need some peace and quiet to hear them.
Your obligations within groups and the distractions of friends and colleagues could be reaching a breaking point. This Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in your 11th House of Organizations suggests that you may be spreading yourself too thin. Making priorities regarding your needs and desires helps you to cut through the clutter and recognize what activities you can eliminate to streamline your life.
This Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in diverse Gemini lands in your 10th House of Career and Public Obligations, which could overload you with too many tasks. You don’t like losing focus and being unable to operate at your best, so this event is a reminder to consider resetting your priorities. Doing one job at the highest skill level possible will be more rewarding than spreading yourself too thin.
Travel plans and educational expectations could be complicated with this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in your 9th House of Higher Learning and Faraway Places. Simplifying your schedule is one way to reduce the chances of wearing yourself out or wasting opportunities. More is not better now, so don’t allow lesser activities to distract you from the ones reflect your higher aspirations.
It is decision time for you in emotional and financial partnerships. This Lunar Eclipse in your 8th House of Deep Sharing is a signal to get off the fence and make a tough choice or two. This usually isn’t your problem, but the options you face within current relationships or in pursuing new ones may be overwhelming. Focus on your basic needs and you’ll find a clearer path toward satisfaction.
Relationships may be shaken by this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in your 7th House of Partners. It occurs in the chatty sign of Gemini, which can distract you with ideas and words that sound good, but which may not take you where you want to go. This is a time to trust your gut instincts and act on them because a wrong turn of your own choice is more easily corrected than going along on someone else’s ride.
Work-related issues may come to a critical turning point with this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in your 6th House of Employment. You’re not the type to seek the easy way out, but you could be following a path of least resistance on the job that’s not taking you where you want to go. Adapting to others is necessary in life, but you may have given up too much ground and finally need to take a stand.
Cutting down on the variety of creative plans in your mind is a good way to turn at least one of them into reality. This Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in diverse Gemini falls in your 5th House of Self-Expression, where eliminating a collection of potential projects puts all of your eggs in one solid basket. Romance also benefits by setting priorities and concentrating your attention where your desire is strongest.
Family matters and home-related issues require some clarity and cleaning up with this Lunar Eclipse in your domestic 4th House of Home. This is also a Full Moon in jittery Gemini that can easily distract your attention from career and other public responsibilities. Actions speak louder than words when dealing with concerns in your household, so make a tough decision or two and get on with your life.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire! Before the Full Moon is a reality, the two largest celestial bodies (the Sun and Jupiter) form a dicey contra-parallel (4:04AM PST). This implies that titanic forces are struggling for domination, and that stress and strain are in-built into this monthly crescendo of the two stellar lights. You do want to utilize the times for the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse (6:34AM PST) and the Full Moon (6:47AM PST that activates 7 degrees of Sagittarius and Gemini) for sending out high-level, healing thoughts and prayers to humanity and the kingdoms of nature. Individual and group meditations are recommended. While the forces of enlightenment are definitely active, some turmoil can still be expected since Pallas squares Juno (7:34AM PST) while Venus forms a supportive, 60-degree rapport with underworld-ruling Pluto (8:03AM PST). Worlds may seem to be colliding metaphorically since many celestial bodies are at work, and the recent alignments that caused dissension in the ranks on Monday and Tuesday of this week are also still throwing their proverbial weight around. If there is a good luck charm in all this hooting and hollering, it is the monthly Moon-Jupiter union in Gemini (5:05PM PST) that always has the capacity to expand your mental horizons in many exciting, new directions. The problem here is that this aspect begins yet another long, void lunar cycle that lasts until Friday November 30 at 5:56AM PST. This 36+ hour void lunar whopper is longer than last weekend’s 35-hour extravaganza. Completing odd jobs and old projects is more sensible than promoting innovative enterprises that haven’t been reliably tested so far.
Also known as deadly nightshade, Belladonna is a source of the poisonous drug atropine. In minute quantities, atropine, in the form of a sulfate, is used to dilate the pupils of the eye, to relieve pain, to diminish secretions, and to relieve spasms. In greater quantities, it was used to kill. Belladonna was believed to have been used in flying potions.
Reed Month
Color: Blue-green
Element: Water
Altar: Upon cloth of blue-green place a vase of reeds, a single blue-green candle, a great bowl of water floating with wetlands plant leaves, and a knife.
Offering: Recycle something useless into something useful.
Daily Meal: Vegetarian soup and sandwiches. Only water or herbal tea to drink.
Ngetal Invocation
Call: Now is the time of the bleak cold.
Response: Now the reeds whisper in the swamp.
Call: Now is the time when we see the growing dark.
Response: Now is the time when we begin to shiver.
Call: Now is the time of bare trees.
Response: Now is the time of rain and wind.
Call: Now the rain fills the wetlands to overflowing.
Response: Now the swamp overflows into our lives.
Call: We feel our feet dragged down into the cold waters.
Response: Yet the wetland is the source of greatest life!
Call: We feel ourselves pulled into the unfamiliar.
Response: Unfamiliar to us, but no less of value.
Call: The damp cold begins to reach our bones.
Response: We must welcome its touch.
Call: We must keep it far away with fire’s warmth!
Response: We must welcome its touch.
Call: Why should we not ban it from our lives?
Response: For this, too, is a Mystery of water.
Call: Not the deep mystery of the Ocean…
Response: Not the running flow of the river…
Call: Not the crystal of snow and ice…
Response: But the secrets of the still waters.
Call: From the still waters springs the greatest number of lives!
Response: And it is this that we must honor.
Call: Welcome into ourselves the song of the whispering reeds!
Response: Welcome into ourselves the oncoming winter.
Chant:
Cold as stone
Marshes heart
We will own
What is apart
28 Blutmonath
Sophia’s Day
Colors: Red and white
Element: Air
Altar: Upon a red cloth lay a white cloth, and upon that set a lit lantern, a glass chalice of clear water, incense of frankincense and lemongrass, and let each place upon the altar a book which they find to be great in wisdom.
Offerings: Promise to grow in wisdom, even when the path is difficult.
Daily Meal: Simple and communal.
Invocation to Sophia
Hail, Great Mother of Wisdom!
Consort of the One Whose Name May Not Be Spoken,
Lady whose still small voice
Echoes through every one of us,
Teach us to listen, Lady,
Teach us to pay attention
And to consider well our actions,
Lest we may come to regret them.
Teach us to walk each of our words
Through the door of truth,
Through the door of necessity,
And teach us to know when
We must walk them through
A door yet narrower than those,
The door of kindness to the hearer.
Let our words be heard
By ears who will listen,
And show us how to speak their language
That no misunderstanding
May mar what flows between us.
Lady of Wisdom, speak to us,
And we will strive to hear your voice.
(Each comes forward and takes the book from the altar, and speaks to what that book taught them, and how they are the wiser for it. Then each speaks to another lesson that taught them wisdom, a lesson that did not come from books but from life. Each person thanks Sophia for these lessons, and bows before her altar. Her lantern is carried from the room in procession, and set to hang, still lit, in the main room of the House, where it will remain lit for seven days.)
The purpose of this spell is to find an answer to any question that has been weighing on your mind. To divine the future.
Materials:
A full moon.
Casting:
During a full moon, make a circle using the thumb and index finger of the hand you use for casting a circle. Center the full moon within the circle.
Chant:
“Good moon, Round moon
Full moon near:
Let the Future
Now Appear.”
Concentrate on the moon and ask a question. The answer will come.
Magickal Intentions: Communication, Divination, Writing, Knowledge, Business Transactions, Debt, Fear, Loss, Travel and Money Matters
Incense: Jasmine, Lavender, Sweet Pea
Planet: Mercury
Sign: Virgo
Angel: Raphael
Colors: Orange, Light Blue, Grey, Yellow and Violet
Herbs/Plants: Fern, Lavender, Hazel, Cherry, Periwinkle
Stones: Aventurine, Bloodstone, Hematite, Moss Agate and Sodalite
Oil: (Mercury) Benzoin, Clary Sage, Eucalyptus, Lavender
This day is governed by Mercury. Wednesday’s vibration adds power to rituals involving inspiration, communications, writers, poets, the written and spoken word, and all matters of study, learning, and teaching. This day also provides a good time to begin efforts involving self-improvement or understanding.
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