You are a determined, independent, and possibly quite stubborn person. You possess common sense and great wit, and you come across in a straightforward way. As practical and logical as you can be, you are also very intuitive and attuned to the world of beauty and creativity. A strong desire to achieve security drives you. Famous people born today: Ian Fleming, Kylie Minogue, Gladys Knight, Rudolph Giuliani.
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Aries
There should be nice energy with you today for conversations, learning, communicating, and studying, Aries. There is a bigger focus on others, your relationships, and negotiating or accommodating people in your life, and quite a bit of pleasure in so doing, as you tend to want to spend time in others’ company. Later today, you can be a little more sensitive to imbalances in your environment, including situations that are too messy and hectic, and to what others are saying. There may be some second-guessing of plans, as small weaknesses seem to reveal themselves. A conversation or news received now can be misleading. Let time tell.
Taurus
This can be an easy day for work-related matters, dear Taurus, as you seem to naturally fall into a productive rhythm and have a nice feeling of being in synch with the people around you. This is a good week for looking at your finances and work or security matters in a new or different light, and coming up with solutions. However, there may be a bit of confusion in these areas to get past first. Later today is not the best time for clarity, particularly when it comes to finances, but also personal boundaries, possibly with a friend. There might even be some sneaky behavior going on around you. Whether it’s about bluffing or withholding information, it’s best to postpone big decisions or complicated topics.
Gemini
Much of the day, you can feel quite supported and rather free, dear Gemini, so that letting loose your more expressive, playful, or creative side is natural and easy. There is a sense that you can get pretty much anything done. Your head and your heart are working in harmony now, and this means you can make connections you wouldn’t normally make. Later today, your imagination can grow, possibly to a point of excess, with your ruler, Mercury, challenged by illusive Neptune. It’s important to avoid making too much or too little of a person or situation under this influence. Use this time for imagining possibilities without jumping to conclusions. Let time tell the truth of a matter.
Cancer
Your need for security and comfort is more pronounced today, dear Cancer, and you’re likely to seek out either the company of familiar people or privacy and solitude today, as you’re in need of a bit of a retreat or respite. It can be a wonderful time for emotional renewal, as well as moments spent with important memories. Look within and to your support system for what you need today. Not all communications are likely to get through exactly as intended later today, but if you let go of expectations and simply allow your mind some free rein, it’s a good night for creative visualization and pursuits.
Leo
You can be feeling especially eager and confident today, dear Leo, particularly when it comes to communications projects, learning, studies, friendships, and team work. There can be a good feeling of emotional rapport with others, as well as enthusiasm for future projects and activities. As the day winds down, emotions and imagination tend to strongly color your perceptions. This week is strong for generating ideas that can significantly impact your life, particularly related to long-term happiness goals, group associations, and friendships. First, you may need to rethink a few details, and tonight, there can be a confusing attachment or a crossing of boundaries that is hard to interpret.
Virgo
Emotionally, you’re more sure-footed today, dear Virgo, with the Moon now out of your sign. Focus is on what can be done, as well as activities that build and support rather than satisfy in the moment. Much of the day seems supportive of your efforts to make a mark on practical levels, and you feel rather enthusiastic about recent projects and ideas. As the day winds down, let your mind go and entertain more out of this world ideas and thoughts, as your ruler, Mercury, is coming to a hard angle with Neptune, reminding you to soften some of the hard edges of your mind and to entertain less obvious possibilities. With this influence, avoid solid commitments, as it’s not the time for clarity.
Libra
The Moon is in your sign all day, Libra, and is communicating well with planets transiting your adventure sector. This stimulates a pleasant, fresh outlook and sense of general support, airy lightness, and positivity. You are a little braver than usual, particularly for entertaining new concepts and ideas, for expressing your feelings or opinions, and for believing in someone or something. You can more fully appreciate the cooperative elements of your life. Personal enjoyment should be easy, but later today it’s vital that you avoid expecting things to transpire exactly as expected, and to avoid taking things at face value only, as there is a rather dreamy but confusing and possibly disorienting aspect between Mercury and Neptune active later today and early tomorrow. Watch for forgetfulness.
Scorpio
This can be a great day for looking back on recent events and discovering different ways to approach areas of your life that have grown a little dull, dear Scorpio. Today and this week are strong for coming up with ideas that can have significance in your future, particularly related to self-improvement programs, your intimate life, and financial support or shared resources. To get there, however, you may need to deal with a bit of confusion in these areas. Imagination is powerful later today, possibly to the point of self-deception, but if harnessed and channeled in the right direction, you can be highly creative right now.
Sagittarius
Much of the day is good for spending with a partner or friends, Sagittarius. Sharing ideas, enjoying activities with others, networking, and negotiating can be in focus now, and quite favored. It’s only towards the end of the day that there can be some lack of clarity. It’s a good time for dreaming up new ideas, but less ideal for discovering concrete answers or commitments. The best way to handle this energy is to resolve to let go of expectations and simply enjoy the moment. A partner could be giving off mixed signals. Look for new ways to approach the people in your life if you feel a little distant. With Mercury retrograde, this is a strong time for rethinking problem areas, particularly relationship-related.
Capricorn
Most of the day is strong for exchanging ideas, making plans and lists, devising strategies, and considering different sides to a problem, Capricorn. You may be anxious to share some of your recent ideas and enthusiasm with others, or to build upon them on your own. Later today, as Mercury and Neptune move towards a square, engage your creative and imaginative side rather than focus too heavily on facts and figures. Sometimes when these two planets meet, we can get carried away with impractical ideas, but if you stay grounded and simply entertain possibilities, this shouldn’t be a problem.
Aquarius
You get nice support from a group of planets in fellow Air signs today, dear Aquarius, and this gives you a feeling of general ease and lightness. You can in fact feel quite buoyant now. Certainly, your more creative and playful sides are easier to access and express. You can be excited about recent new ideas and might be playing around with how you might turn them into something solid. Towards the end of the day, clarity isn’t as easy to come by. Mercury and Neptune are moving towards a square, and this tends to cast a temporary layer of fog over your thinking. Use this energy to entertain fantasies, but wait before making big decisions, particularly related to matters of the heart and financial affairs.
Pisces
This can be a good day for keeping your mind and body busy, Pisces, even with a rather retiring quality to your nature right now. You could be very busy with your memories, and with reviewing recent events and conversations. Keep a healthy flow of communication going with family and those close to you. Consider ways to improve the ways you communicate, as this is a strong period with Mercury retrograde to look at the ways you connect with others in new ways. This week is strong for seeing where improvements can be made. Later today, there can be some confusion or lack of clarity that crops up with family or concerning domestic affairs, however. It’s a chance to look for inconsistencies in plans.
GEMINI STRONG
Agile, versatile, inquisitive, flowing, conversational, airy, many ideas. Can be volatile, superficial, changeable, restless and inconsistent.
LIBRA STRONG
Even-handed, harmonious, artistic, diplomatic, balancing, strong sense of fairness. Can be over- compromising, appeasing, judgmental.
EARTH WEAK
There can be a lack of desire, interest, or skills regarding practical affairs. We may not be very much in touch with reality. Difficulties concentrating, grounding ourselves.
AIR STRONG
We tend to favor rational, objective thought over emotions, impulses, and feelings at this time. We are more intellectual, fair-minded, and logical in our approach, Ideas flow easily and quickly, we are more communicative and guided by principles, and also somewhat dispassionate or impersonal.
FIXED WEAK
We may be open to change but may not have much follow-through.
MUTABLE STRONG
We are flexible, adaptable, willing, open to change, and possibly flighty or nervous.
There can be a nice flow of ideas today, and useful connections can be made. Later today, retrograde Mercury and Neptune close in on a square, pointing to some confusion or misreading of signals.
The Moon is in Libra all day (until Saturday, May 30th, at 5:33 AM).
The Moon is waxing and in its First Quarter phase.
Mercury is retrograde. (Mercury is retrograde from May 18 to June 11 in the sign of Gemini).
The Moon today is in a Waxing Gibbous phase. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts round 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon. During a Waxing Gibbous the moon will rise in the east in mid-afternoon and will be high in the eastern sky at sunset. The moon is then visible though most of the night sky setting a few hour before sunrise. The word Gibbous first appeared in the 14th century and has it’s roots in the Latin word “gibbosus” meaning humpbacked.
WAXING MOON ABUNDANCE PRAYERGo outdoors when the moon rises. Merge with the divine, look up to the moon, and say this prayer for abundance:
Bright magnificent lady of the night
Thank you for your all providing light
Please bless my life with divine abundance
And share your bright love, riches, and joy
May I have faith that you will guide me
And help me to thrive, grow, and prosper
Bright powerful goddess of the night
Thank you for your all providing light
In the Lady’s name, blessed be!
Each time you see the moon for a few nights, weeks, or even months, look up and say to her:
Thank you bright lady for your all providing light.
Wiccan Spell A Night: Spells, Charms, And Potions For The Whole Year
Sirona Knight
CHARGING AND EMPOWERING COMPONENTSThere are a few basic steps you can take in order to ensure quality, and to fine-tune how you handle the energy of your components. Whatever ingredients or components you use in a spell, make sure to cleanse or clear them of any previous influence or energy hanging around, then empower them with your desire or purpose. It is called empowering or charging. If you don’t do this, you’re not energizing the components to act in accordance with your spell; it’s like a badly plugged-in electrical cord. You’re not being energy-efficient, and your spell won’t be using the power as well as it could.
There are several different methods to empower or activate the energy of your ingredients. Words used in spellbooks include enchant, empower, program, bless, charge, and consecrate. Different practitioners have different techniques to empower components, but it can be quite simple. Here are two methods by which you can charge spell ingredients.
Charging Technique #1
Hold the ingredient in your hand, or hold your hands over the ingredient. Close your eyes and take three deep breaths, releasing tension or stress with each exhalation. Reach deep inside yourself to the core of your heart and feel your need or desire. Allow your emotion concerning this desire to flow up from your heart and down your arms to your hands, and from there into the ingredient. Continue until you feel that the energy of the ingredient resonates with your desire.
Charging Technique #2
This technique clears any previous energy hanging around your components which might interfere with your new purpose. Hold your hands over your ingredients. Take three deep breaths, releasing tension and stress with each exhalation. Say:
I ask the great love of the cosmos,
The light of the universe,
To cleanse and charge these components
That they may be prepared and consecrated
To ensure my success.
Bless these ingredients, and bless my goal.
These are my words, this is my will.
By empowering your components, you are programming them to act in accord with your intent and goal.
When you charge an ingredient, use only as much as you need in the spell. If the component is an herb, this is likely to be a pinch or a spoonful, no more. Empowering your entire jar of mint for prosperity means that you can’t use it for healing later on. In other words, it’s a waste. Take only as much out as you intend to use, and keep the rest in an airtight jar. The only components you can really cleanse and reuse are objects such as stones, statues, boxes, and so forth, and even then it depends on your chosen method of spell disposal once your goal has been met. Sometimes it’s more appropriate to bury the object, or burn it, or some similar action.
Power Spellcraft For Life: The Art Of Crafting And Casting For Positive Change
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
The Components of MagickA spell can technically be cast with three things: a goal, stemming from a need or desire; focus and visualization; and a gathering and release of energy toward that goal. However, just as the use of props facilitates drama and theater, spellcasting benefits from the addition of energy-rich ingredients to enhance the effects and results. These ingredients are also called components, and they possess specific corresponding energies that you can use to help achieve your goal. The system of correspondences is a classification of objects, entities, and energies, which affect one another or evoke certain outcomes.
The system of correspondences arises from a sympathetic association: by using components or ingredients that demonstrate a certain kind of energy, you can attract more of the same energy, thus illustrating the “like attracts like” principle.
Conversely, by using components possessing one kind of energy, you can push away the antithetical energy, like using a magnet to repel another magnet with the same polarity, for example. (For more examinations of magical methods. A correspondence is an identification of what an object’s energy represents: for example, a correspondence for sandalwood is purification. Thus, if you were creating an incense to help power a purification spell, you might choose to use sandalwood in it. Using sandalwood enables you to draw on the energy of the wood to help power your spell; since sandalwood is associated with purification, it also employs the sympathetic magic principle and draws your goal closer to you.
Components are the elements you use in the act of spellcasting to help gather energies associated with your goal. Looking through other spellbooks, you’ve likely noticed spells calling for a variety of components such as herbs, flowers, stones, incense, oils, candles, dolls (also called poppets), cords, and other objects. Some spells have elaborate lists of ingredients. However, a perfectly good, powerful spell can be performed with a comparatively short list of components. More components are not necessarily better. Remember, it’s how you use the energy of your correspondences that increases the power of your spellcasting, not how many correspondences and associated energies you can plug into it. It’s definitely an issue of quality over quantity.
Power Spellcraft For Life: The Art Of Crafting And Casting For Positive Change
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Home & Hearth Magick for Thursday, May 28thThursday increase prosperity on this day, work toward expansion and moving up in the world.
Planetary Influences: Jupiter
Household Symbols: A dollar bill, coins, a paycheck stub, a picture of your home.
Color: Green and royal blue
Kitchen Spices: Sage and nutmeg
Source:
Cottage Witchery
Natural Magick for Hearth and Home
Author Ellen Dugan
CUSTOM-MADE DAILY MAGICK FOR THURSDAYWell, let’s see … abundance, prosperity, and good health has been our focus for this day. Now how about a little more information and ideas for working practical magick with one of our fascinating featured deities of the day?
Juno was the Queen of Heaven. As the matriarch of the gods, she guarded over women in every aspect of their lives. Juno was thought to have renewed her virginity every year. Similar to other goddess stories, Juno was a triple goddess-a virgin who belonged to no one; a mother and woman in the prime of her life, sexual and mature; and also a crone, powerful, wise, and sometimes vengeful (as she made her husband’s many mistresses’ lives either fairly unhappy or short).
There are references to an early all-female triad of goddesses known as the Capitoline Triad. This triad consisted of Juventas, Juno, and Minerva. To the Greeks, they would have been known as Hebe, Hera, and Hecate. Ultimately the triad became Juno, Minerva, and the male Jupiter. Jupiter, another of Thursday’s gods, was Juno’s consort.
As mentioned earlier, Juno, in her aspect as Juno Moneta, was the patron and protector of the Roman mint. The coins produced at her temples were blessed by Juno and imbued with her powers of abundance and prosperity. In another of her aspects as Juno Augusta, Juno was the goddess of an abundant harvest.
In addition, another of Juno’s magickal correspondences is the semiprecious stone malachite. Malachite is a beautiful green-banded stone that was also called the “peacock stone” in Italy. The peacock was a sacred animal of Juno’s, and the magickal energies of malachite encourage health and prosperity.
Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan
The Witches Correspondences for Thursday, May 28thThursday (Thor’s day)
Planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Deep Blue
Crystals: Amethyst, Lepidolite, Sugilite, Tin
Aroma: Melissa, Clove, Oakmoss, Jupiter Oil, Cinnamon, Musk, Nutmeg, and Sage
Herb: Cinquefoil
Ruled by the planet Jupiter and dedicated to Thor, god of thunder and agricultural work. His parallels in various European Traditions include Zeus, Taranis, Perun, and Perkunas.
Magical aspects: controlled optimism, energetic growth, physical well-being, material success, expansion, money/wealth, prosperity, leadership, and generosity.
Thursday is the day of Jupiter, the largest of the planets and said to be the most powerful. Spellcasters would be wise to use this day for attempting wealth, success and prosperity spells.
Thursday is also associated (in Greek mythology) to Thor – Thor’s day – and some even say that Jupiter and Thor are one in the same. Both are strong and powerful, yet wise and just. Try a small prayer to Jupiter before commencing any ritual on Thursday as a sign of respect.
This is the proper day of the week to perform spells and rituals involving luck, happiness, health, legal matters, male fertility, treasure, wealth, honour, riches, clothing, money, desires, business, group pursuits, joy, laughter, and expansion
The Witches Almanac for Thursday, May 28thThursday (Jupiter): Expansion, money, prosperity, and generosity.
Waxing Moon
The Waxing Moon is the ideal time for magick to draw things toward you.
Moon phase: Second Quarter
Moon Sign: Libra
Libra: Favors cooperation, social activities, beautification of surroundings, balance, and partnership.
Incense: Carnation
Color: Green
Thursday’s Witchery
Today is the day for prosperity work of all kinds. It can also be used for healing work, whether that is a physical healing of an illness or an emotional healing. Also remember that you have to follow up your healing work and prosperity magick and physical action.
I can’t tell you the number of times I have met new witches who complain to me that their prosperity spell or “I need a better job” spell did not work as they expected. They’ll ramble on and on about how much time and money they spent working their magick….but, alas, they had no glorious manifestion of wealth or fabulous job that suddenly dropped out of the sky and landed in their laps.
Then, when I gently ask them, “Did you enchant your resume or application when you filled it out? Did you do a little confidence-boosting spellwork when you went to apply for the job or went to the interview?” typically they give me a blank, confused stare.
Nine times out of ten, their response is, “You mean I have to go out and actually look for the job too?” Um, yes, my dear, you certainly do. Magick follows the path of least resistance, which means it’s going to manifest along the simplest, quickest route. Get out there and hit the pavement. See what you can find. Times are tough and competition for good jobs is fierce, so you need whatever edge you can get. For folks like us, we’re going to get the edge by using our magick and our spellcraft.
Thursdays have such a rich source of magick for us to draw upon that, honestly, the sky is the limit. This is the day associated with the gods of the sky and heavens, after all. Get to know these deities and add their wisdom and magick into your days
Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan
Thursday’s Must Dos
Try wearing some honeysuckle-scented perfume to encourage prosperity. Bewitch someone by wearing deep royal blue or brighten up a dreary day by wearing lucky, prosperity-drawing green. Brew up a pot of mint tea to help increase your cash flow. Try adding a pinch of nutmeg or cinnamon to an unscented candle to encourage some fast cash. Bake up a loaf of wheat bread for the family, and celebrate abundance and be thankful for all that you have.
Conjure up a witchy craft and create a philter or two for your magickal needs. Work with the deities and the magickal plants corresponding with Thursday.
How did the energies of the plants of Jupiter enhance your magick? What did you learn by working with Juno, Jove, or Zeus? The truth is that by adding these new techniques and information into your spellcasting repertoire, you will indeed advance your skills, thereby moving up in the ranks to become a more adept magickal practitioner
Just by believing in yourself and working toward creating abundance, health, and prosperity, you have already begun to transform your outlook on life. Put your game face on; think positively. Work with Thor for perseverance and courage, and apply those qualities to your own prosperity spells and healing witchery. Break out the tarot cards; How could you incorporate that symbolism into other spells of your own design?
Use your imagination, check Thursday’s correspondence list, and see what other bewitching things you can conjure up for prosperity magick all by yourself. Call on the gods and goddess of Thursday and bring some positive change, abundance, health, and prosperity into your life!
Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan
Thursday
Thursday: Is associated with Jupiter and the colors of – Blue and Metallic Colors
Thursday is the best time to deal with such matters as: Broadcasting, Business, Charity, College Education, Correspondence Courses, Doctors, Expansion, Forecasting, Foreign Interests, Gambling, Growth, Guardians, Horses, Logic, Long Distance Travel, Luck, Material Wealth, Merchants, Philosophy , Political Power, Psychologists, Publicity, Publishing, Reading, Religion, Researching, Self-improvement, Social Matters, Sports, Studying, and The Law
My Pagan Heart
My wicked self is always near,
The body that you sometimes fear,
It is a fact of life you know,
That Witches don’t convert, this is so –
We love what we do and won’t give it up, no matter what the situation,
We work our Magick and yell ‘head’s up!’
We wait and see how it will turn out,
When lust is in the air, and spirits move about.
Even though I know it scares you at times,
When all of my prayers are spoken in rhymes,
And when my love shoots a painful dart,
You will know that it’s me, and my Pagan heart.
Your smile is gentle, your words without care,
So you can imagine that I’m hurt by your stare,
When you look at me with fear in your eyes,
Clouded by the inaccurate lies,
That have been told since the ‘Burning Times’,
When we were evil with Satan in our lives.
So I struggle to tell you the truth,
It’s my very first job as a Witchcraft Sleuth,
Now let me love you, like I’ve wanted to from the start,
With nothing but me, and my Pagan heart.
I feel that I’ve known you since the beginning of time,
And loved you even before my crime,
Of letting you go, and turning you out,
But your safety is something I’ll always care about.
Now I hope I’ve explained all of my evil ways,
And your fear of the unknown has vanished, in the haze,
So you can begin to know the truth,
About my adventures as a Witchcraft Sleuth,
And you will understand, like I’ve wanted from the start,
That I am and always will be, a Pagan at heart.
Author: Carol
Website: Pagan Heart
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