November begins with a beautiful aspect, a conjunction in Virgo between Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. This is the third Venus/Mars conjunction this year and with Jupiter it packs a powerful punch. It’s also opposite Chiron, the wounded healer, so the wounds will be more obvious, but so will the healing they require, if we have the courage to apply it. One of November’s lessons will be to have the courage to move to the next level of transformation, to release the energetic bonds of our healing journey and replace them with the wings of freedom and wholeness. It’s a month for creative convergence, where all of the pieces come together so we can create our new life pathways. We don’t need to know where we are going, we just need to have the desire to start moving forward.
We’ve been on the healing path for so many lifetimes that being scattered, disconnected, and acting as the Martyred Healer has become our way of being. We are so familiar with the pain that it has become an accepted, expected, and anticipated life burden. As Lightworkers we dug the trenches for those we worked with, and then kept them company in their misery. As Light Beacons we light the way but first we have to be ready to put down our crosses, swords, and shields, so we can figure out how fun fits into our journey. When was the last time you had fun?
There is a lot of spiritual energy this month, but before you think this is the sweetness and light spirituality, guess again. This is more like ‘Joan of Arc’, fearlessly leading the troops to victory. The ‘Virgo virgin’ is the sign of mind over matter, of material alchemy using spiritual energy. We can now turn lead into gold. This is pure creative power that can manifest energy into form through the power of its intention. Do you have intentions for your life? This is a good month to start setting them.
The Virgo focus intensifies on the 12th, when the moon’s node moves into Virgo. The nodes follow a 19 year cycle and they were in Virgo in January 1997, July 1978, and December 1959. Were those significant years for you? They were for me and for the world too, Princess Diana was killed August 31, 1997, when we also had a powerful eclipse in Virgo. If you look at the planetary positions on that day and those that followed it, many are at the same degree but in different signs. Virgo is also the sign of pure truth, knowledge, awareness, transparency, and clarity. Be ready for secrets to be revealed, there are no more hiding places when the light of truth shines this brightly.
This is spiritual energy on steroids, as we also have Jupiter in Virgo, always the sign of a spiritual awakening, and Neptune in Pisces, its home sign, along with Chiron. They shine light on each other this month, a spiritual tug of war that raises the bar for all of us. How much spirituality and energy can we handle? Once we absorb all we can at the 3D level, we have to raise our vibes, frequency, and awareness to be able to handle more. We have expanded our 3D awareness as much as we can, and in November we can start exploring new dimensions to expand into.
Are you ready for multi-dimensional multi-tasking? This is not a time to abandon the physical world for the spiritual, or vice versa. We need to have our feet firmly grounded in all of our dimensional realities to be ready to hit the ground running in 2016 and we get to start practicing this month. Marathon runners train for months before they race, they don’t step up to the starting line and start running. We can’t either and our training begins now.
If you’re tired of dealing with the repeats of last summer’s retrogrades, which are finally over now (except Pluto and Neptune), that also shifts in November. All of the personal planets cover a lot of ground, expect lessons to move quickly, some may finish before you realize that an ending was happening. Mars and Venus stay fairly close, reminding us of the power we embrace when we remember our integrated duality — feminine and masculine, human and divine, material and spiritual. Polarity represents rejection; duality represents integration. Neptune goes direct after the 15th, removing the final veil of disillusion from our path. Wherever we have been ignoring the truth, it will be more than obvious.
The message for this month is that we need to be integrated to converge our power into a single point of expression. Aren’t we more powerful when we are laser focused, rather than being scattered in many different directions? This is not a time for resurrection or rising from the dead (we aren’t dead even though it has felt that way), this is ignition and liftoff, blasting off into new potentials, possibilities, and directions. We aren’t re-purposing our old ways or paths, we are creating something new now. The old has served its purpose, it is time to let bygones go on by.
One important note for this month, though, as much as you may be anxious and impatient for things to change, let yourself flow with the energy. It’s time to try out new things and see how they fit, to experiment with your intentions and practice your manifestation skills. We don’t have to rush and there is no need to try to hurry things along — divine timing is still in effect and we are the driver, not the passenger. Take some time to enjoy your journey, and to change your mind when your outcomes don’t meet your expectations. And remember to put yourself first. Meeting your needs makes you self-ish, not selfish. Read my article on How to be Self-Ish without being Selfish here.
November’s theme is convergence, where the many parts come together to become the whole, so we can feel what it means to be expanded and expansive, by being tightly integrated with our energy and not scattered. It’s a new way of being for us, that can happen without trauma or drama now. We have worked hard for a long time, and now we can let the closure and completion happen as we enjoy the last few weeks of this year’s journey and get ready to move into the next.
Hello everybody and welcome to the Energy Forecast for November 2015.
We’re here today in the Arboretum at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, in the Japanese garden. If you’re in the San Francisco area, or you get to visit, do come here and check this place out. It’s extraordinary and there are so many incredible and peaceful nature spots—I thought it would be the perfect place to film this month’s forecast.
As usual, we will begin by breathing for a moment. So just join me in taking a breath and releasing it … and taking another breath and releasing that.
It’s very like life, breathing. We take things in all the time and we release them. And just as the breath flows in and out, we’re constantly changing as we go through life.
Two of the headlines for this month that came to me this morning while I was tuning in were: This is going to be both a month of connections and a month of upgrades.
To look at connections first, the energy conductivity in the world is getting stronger and stronger all of the time. So depending on where you are in your movement through awareness, and through integrated consciousness, you’ll be having different fluctuations.
Some of you might be tired. Some of you might need to power down a little bit. Some of you still might be experiencing the edges of conflict with other people in your life. We’re all at different points on the journey, but one of the overarching themes for this month that is going to show up for most of us in our life is that of connections.
In the last 2-3 months, this has started to appear for many of you—you’re making really deep, profound connections with other like-minded, like-hearted, like-feeling souls. And these connections are hugely important. Not only because by connecting with each other we become an even stronger team, an even stronger web of people, but there is a consolidation effect. Many of you have been yearning for closer friendships, better working partnerships, deeper intimate relationships, and this is a time when that energy is in the air.
So don’t be surprised if some of you are replaying old relationship heartbreaks in your dreams or in your daily thoughts. Disconnections with friends or with old lovers and partners are now rising to the surface for healing or clearing as we move into this era of greater connectivity.
Those of you who aren’t processing in that way might be finding that you’re beginning to meet to very like-minded people, very like-hearted people, and you’ll have strong feelings when you meet these people. There will be something in your body that will recognize them. You might put it down to a past life. You might just put it down to a feeling of a similar energy with them. Whatever the case may be, these are very activating connections that you’re walking into now.
Some of the people that you’re meeting in this period of time, in this coming month, will be key players for you—and in some cases, for the rest of your life. But it’s most important to understand that when you recognise and have those connections with people, you don’t need to know what the future relationship is going to be.
For example, you may have a very activating moment with someone where you think: “God, I just met this person, and I just love them! I have this amazing feeling about where we can go together…” Let that feeling about “where you can go” remain in feeling, and let go of the details. Because when you have these experiences—these connections with people—it takes time for the two of you to alchemically merge and to let the path of co-creation reveal itself between you … and you don’t want to rush that.
If you find yourself rushing in your mind, if you find yourself saying, “I just met this woman, and I think that she could be the person who I create that healing center with, which I’ve always wanted to do…” just notice that thought. Don’t block the excitement or the vision. But do take the time to get to know each other first before moving quickly to action, because these ARE powerful connections that many of us are coming into alignment with now. And so, as you meet these people, in order to be ready to move into a future together, it’s very important to heal the past relationships or friendships through your body, before the new actions start.
Some of you will find this a little overwhelming to your heart. Remember, we’ve talked a lot over the last few months about how strong the heart energy is becoming on Earth at this time. And so for people who are conscious and present most of the time, and who have been actively opening themselves, many heart-connected relationships will now be showing up in your life.
This is a big thing.
It’s not just a great celebration. It’s actually a very big thing in and for the body, as it takes strength and patience to let the effect of a real heart-connected relationship illuminate you from within.
It does tend to heal the past disconnections—the heartbreaks, betrayals, losses of trust. And that’s a very invisible process that may sometimes come into your mind, but a lot of the time it’s just taking place energetically.
These are some of the reasons that I frequently encourage all of you to take space in your life. And I encourage myself to do the same on a daily basis. I have to remember this too—that there is so much moving right now on Planet Earth, and there is so much consciousness hitting these bodies of ours that we do need these moments each day to step back and let it all breathe through and absorb into our body.
So with these powerful new connections, just allow them to BE in your life. Allow the magic of the feeling of those relationships to move through you and trust that whatever your visionary mind is telling you about where this relationship can go or what it could do—be it a friendship, a work relationship, a love relationship—just let that play out. Let it take its place inside you and rearrange you. Because the beauty of when we connect with other people in such a powerful way is that our minds no longer need to do as much of the work.
Our minds are often leading us into safety or into areas where we hope we’re going to get our needs met. And when we genuinely have heartfelt, powerful connections with other people, we work as a tribe and we work as a hive, and then we’re no longer this individual entity that is solo having to make our life work. We enter this tapestry of love, this tapestry of connection, this tapestry of togetherness which, in and of itself, carries us forward. So that is why it’s a big thing, and that’s why it needs time.
If you’re listening to this and feeling some grief around what I’m talking about, you may be feeling loneliness, a sense of isolation, or sadness that this isn’t your story right now. If so, just write the following statement on a piece of paper:
I welcome loving, supportive, heartfelt friends and connections into my life.
I welcome loving, supportive, heartfelt friends and connections into my life.
Once you’ve written that down on a piece of paper, stick it on a wall in your house. It will not only rearrange the room for you, every time you see it, you will have an activation around what you are now bringing into your life. It’s a shockingly effective process, so do try that with anything you want to manifest.
This brings me to the next theme for November, which is upgrades. In important ways, “upgrades” links to connections and to resolving issues and old feelings that you have had about certain people in your life.
The concept of upgrades is something that I first came across several years ago. It is the idea of when you say “no” to one opportunity or offer, you leave the space for a “yes” to a better opportunity or a better person’s offer.
Now you might say, “Well, hang on! We’re all equal, everyone’s the same.” And that is true, but often what we’re trying to do is fit ourselves into opportunities or relationships that are either smaller than we are or that aren’t really in alignment. And this can happen in many different ways. For example, if your parent was an alcoholic or abusive to you, somebody who was incapable of seeing and loving you as a child, it’s quite likely that until you’ve dug into yourself and revealed to yourself what it was that you went through, you might keep choosing people who never fully see you, never fully love you, never fully support you—because that is what you were used to and what you’re trying to resolve. But when you learn to say no to the abusive relationship, you leave yourself open to the upgrade.
Some of the reasons we don’t say no:
The beauty of this is when you learn to say no and go through those feelings, you then leave yourself open to an upgraded opportunity to come into your world. There is so much power in learning to not being afraid of those feelings and just allowing. You can say to yourself, “Okay, as much as I wish I wasn’t feeling lonely, today I’m going to accept that I’m just going feel lonely.” And the power of this is when you admit to yourself you feel lonely, and you allow the loneliness to be in your body for as long as it needs to be, it leaves you a lot quicker than when you are avoiding it, denying it, or trying to distract yourself from it.
So, it is very powerful to remember that even if there is a little part of you that regrets saying no or has doubts, you ARE opening the space for a greater opportunity to come to you in the future.
With this month being a month of connections and upgrades, some of you will be practicing saying no more frequently—which will mean having to follow your instincts more closely. “I really don’t want to go to that party this weekend, even though all my friends are going? A part of me yearns for a party, but my instinct is that I don’t want to go to that party.” Follow that! Because you never know who you might meet elsewhere because you didn’t go to that party, or what epiphany you might have privately at home … because you have listened to yourself and taken that time. Trust yourself and your instincts.
This sensory way of being is what we’re all calibrating to now, and it takes time to fully land in it. But know and trust that the connections and upgrades you are inviting yourself into will be so supportive.
It’s one thing for us to conceptually understand the new way of being we want for ourselves, but it’s another thing to actually have people in our lives who we can practise and share that with.
So, there are action steps that we need to take to support allowing those connections to come to us:
First, as discussed above, write down what it is you want to bring into your life around relationships. What qualities and experiences? And then look at where you have to prune and weed your relationship garden.
That’s not offensive to anybody in our relationship garden; it’s not about making others bad or wrong in any way. It’s about recognizing and admitting that you aren’t experiencing your highest self or your highest possibility with a particular person. Therefore, if you leave yourself open to new possibilities with others, not only will you elevate within those new relationships, but your lit-up energy will infuse everyone around you in an even higher way.
I will just clarify something here: There are all kinds of relationships for us in our life. You know, there are the people who you might never be able to have an emotional conversation with, but you love and adore them and want to be around them, and so you are around them some of the time. But then you balance that by making sure that the people you can have an emotional conversation with, which is important to you, are also present in your life.
So it’s not necessarily about certain people being right or wrong, better or worse. It’s about looking at the whole tapestry of relationships in your life and asking: “Where do I need some adjustments to my tapestry? Where do I need to make some improvements?”
For some of you, recognize that the connection and upgrade energies might first come through you being with YOU. You might be thinking, “Ugh, Lee. But I’m exhausted. I’m sick of people. I just want to be on my own.” So maybe the focus this month for you is about giving yourself the gift of you.
With that, maybe November for you is about NOT making plans and committing to that. Your best action step could be to say no to plans with others. “I’m just going to give myself the space to be at home by myself and see what happens.”
You will find yourself again. And that will be your connection and upgrade.
And through finding yourself again, your ability to magnetize the right people and the right opportunities grows once more. Because you’re no longer corroded by relationships that are either no longer serving you or slowly chipping away at your energy on a daily basis.
This mastery thing—mastering our energies and emotions—is something that we all have to do completely by ourselves and in ourselves. We get amazing support, but ultimately, we have to learn how to listen to ourselves—and that’s a slow process sometimes. But if we keep remembering the importance of this process, we seriously upgrade not only our own lives but others as well. Through our genuine open-heartedness, we can become more benevolent toward other people than we were ever capable of being before now.
At this time, on this planet, that benevolence is what we need.
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As ever everybody, thank you for your love and support. Thank you to those of you who send in financial donations or donations of love and support through your words. It means the world.
Have a great month and lots of love.
x Lee
The Moon today is in a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this phase the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.
{Snow Moon}
The Peries are Persian Faeries born from fire. They only eat perfume and are known to protect people against harmful faeries. In this spell, you are invoking the energy of the Peries as a means of protection from dark energies and negative events.
You will need a green candle and three drops of jasmine-scented oil.
Begin by anointing the candle with the three drops of oil while saying:
“Blessed oil of jasmine sweet
Draw the magick of the Peries to me.”
Put the candle in its holder, and light it while dedicating it to the Peris:
“Born from the divine fire
Peries protect me from evil and darkness.
As I will, so shall it be!”
Let the candle burn safely down all the way. Put some perfume on a piece of cloth and leave it out for the Peries. Anytime you feel darkness and negativity trying to come into your space, light a candle and call in the Peries for protection.
Wiccan Spells Night, 365 Spells, Charms, and Potions for the Whole Year
Sirona Knight
As Witches, we often draw upon the mythology of many different lands to find the god and goddess figures that we identify with most strongly. And while this can vary greatly from Witch to Witch (like everything else we do-hey, at least we are not a bunch of boring conformists), many of us are drawn to the pantheons (from the Greek “temple of the gods,” meaning the officially recognized gods of a particular people) of the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Celtic cultures, with a few Norse and Hindu gods thrown in for good measure.
It is interesting to see how much the gods from one culture resemble the gods in another. It makes sense, I suppose, when you consider that most Pagan peoples had the same interests as we do today: love, protection, prosperity, the moon, growing things, etc.
In addition, it is historically possible in many cases to follow the path that a god took from one culture to another. For instance, many of the Roman gods and goddesses were taken more or less directly from the Greeks who preceded them.
It is fine to focus on one pantheon or culture, but it is also okay to mix and match. The gods that want you will find you, that much is for sure.
Everyday Witch A to Z: An Amusing, Inspiring & Informative Guide to the Wonderful World of Witchcraft
Deborah Blake
10. So they’ll go with any color of robe.
9. So you can cover up nicks and scratches with shoe polish.
8. It’s slimming. (Can’t have fat athames, can we?)
7. It doesn’t show dirt.
6. Because finding a dropped athame in an outdoor ritual in the dark is a test of loyalty to your faith.
5. It’s so much more dignified than chartreuse.
4. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
3. Someone spilled all the paints together, and that’s what ended up.
2. No, no! Black is for winter rituals-use white before Labor Day!
1. So that we’d have something to argue about other than how athame is pronounced!
Everyday Witch A to Z: An Amusing, Inspiring & Informative Guide to the Wonderful World of Witchcraft
Deborah Blake
*I should add Ms. Blake is one of my favorite authors and an excellent authority on Witchcraft. She has several books currently on sell on Amazon.com. Want a good read, pick up one of her books. Definitely worth taking a look at!*
Wednesdays are wild and wacky days. They are for communication, change, cunning, and the arts. This is a Mercury day, and just its patron god this day is full of contradictions, change, and excitement. Some suggestions for Wednesday enchantments would include:
Pulling a little Wednesday color magic into your life by wearing purples or orange
Carrying a multipurpose agate with you and tapping into its various charms
Working with magical plants such as the fern for protection. This plant will also boost the power of any other magical plants with which it is arranged.
Incorporating lavender into charms and spells for transformation
Using the charming scent of lily of the valley to improve your memory, or working with the aspen tree for communication
Calling on Athena, patron of arts and crafts, for inspiration for a new project
Fanning out a Tarot spell to increase you creativity
Calling on Hermes on a Wednesday night to bring movement and good luck into your life.
Mercury/Neptune/Air/North/West/Southwest/Female/Male/Gemini/Virgo
Magickal Intentions: Communication, Divination, Writing, Knowledge, Business Transactions, Debt, Fear, Loss, Travel, Money Matters
Color: black, light blue, brown, gray, green, magenta, orange, peach, purple, red, silver, turquoise, violet, white, yellow; orange is the primary color
Number: 3, 5
Metal: mercury
Charm: distaff, rod, runes, staff, iridescent garments
Stone: moss agate, amethyst, bloodstone, emerald, hematite, lapis lazuli, lodestone, pearl, ruby, sapphire, sodalite, all blue stones
Animal: bear, dog, fox, magpie, swan, weasel
Plant: almond, bayberry, chamomile, cherry, cinnamon, cinquefoil, clove, coltsfoot, ginger, hazel, hazelnut, jasmine, lavender, millet, oak, peppermint, periwinkle, rosemary, sage, St. John’s wort, sweet pea, tamarind, lemon verbena, violet
Incense: cassia, cedar, cinnamon, clove, frankincense, jasmine, lavender, mastic, mint, rosemary, sage, sandalwood, storax, dried and powdered citrus peel, and all incense made from aromatic bark, wood, and seeds
Goddess: Carmenta, Hecate (Queen of Crossroads), Hel, Ishtar, Ma’at, the Morrigan, Nike
God: Anubis, Bragi, Elath-Iahu. Enki, Garuda, Hermes, Maximon (Black Magician), Mercury, Nebo (Wise God of Wednesday), Odin, Shango, Ullr, Vishnu, Wayland, Woden
Evocation: Agrat Bat Mahalat, Michael, Miel, Raphael, Seraphiel, Tiriel
Courtesy of Moonlight Musings
Aspects of the Moon in Virgo
General: Organization, detail, health, reaping your just rewards, fitness, refining your diet, purification, acquiring or improving skills, ensuring a good ‘harvest’ from a project, analysis, logical choices, precision and solutions.
Watch out for criticism, arguments, control and lack of trust.
New Moon: Problem solving, information, choices, accuracy, inner work and finding mistakes.
Full Moon: Problem solving, intuition and divination.
Element: Earth.
Colours: Grey, green, black.
Incense: Lemongrass, caraway, fennel, bergamot, dill, mint, horehound, marjoram.
Virgo Incense Blend: Equal parts of fennel, mint and marjoram with a few drops of bergamot essential oil.
Pagan Portals – Moon Magic
Rachel Patterson
Wednesday (Mercury): The conscious mind, study, travel, divination, and wisdom.
Waning Moon
The Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation, and little magickal work(except magick designed to banish harmful energies).
Moon phase: Fourth Quarter
Moon Sign: Leo
Leo: Draws emphasis to the self, central ideas, or institutions, away from connections with others and other emotional needs. People tend to be melodramatic.
Moon enters Virgo 9: 22 pm
Virgo: Favors accomplishment of details and commands from higher up. Focuses on health, hygiene, and daily schedules.
Incense: Lavender
Color: Brown
In northern England, “Mischief Night” is the traditional time for harmless pranks and tricks to be played by young people on their elders, who refrain from disciplining them for these misdeeds. This is a healthy celebration of the right to be different, or outside society’s mainstream, and of our tolerance of diversity of faith and belief. While the distinction between Mischief Night and Halloween has faded in most places, its origins on this night are still celebrated in some communities.
Queen Hyacinth
This is a good time to plant hyacinth bulbs, which can be used in love magick. Choose the color with your lover or intended lover, in mind, and plant the bulbs either in an indoor container or in a well-drained, sunny outdoor spot. When the fragrant hyacinth blooms in the Spring, you may use their petals in a spell.
The Wicca Book of Days
Observances, Traditions and Lore for Every Day of the Year
Selena Eilidth Ash
Be bold and daring today! Expand your knowledge of the Craft by working with the planetary energies of Mercury on this multifaceted day of the week. Consider the Greco-Roman gods Mercury and Hermes and all of the many lessons they have for you. Embrace change and movement, and work on your communication techniques. Conjure up a little good luck for yourself with that Mercury dime spell. Call on Athena to inspire you to try magickal arts and crafts and to be more creative in your own spellwork and witchery.
Meditate on Odin and see what you can discover about him. I wonder what sort of fabulous and fascinating magickal wisdom you will uncover? Odin is a shaman, after all; he may appear in many guises and faces. I guarantee that he will make you laugh at yourself before he is through with you, but you will learn. It’s up to you what you do with that knowledge. Will you let it shapeshift into wisdom?
Wednesday is the wild and wily day of the week, so try to go with the flow; don’t fight the quirky energies of the day. Most importantly, follow your heart, and always keep a good sense of humor, because of Wednesdays you will really need it.
Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan
Ruler: Wodin, Mercury
Colors: Orange, light blue, and gray
Power Hours: Sunrise and the 8th, 16th, and 24th hours following
Keywords: Success, creativity, communication
The word Wednesday is reminiscent of the Norse wind god Wodin, which is referenced in the popular rhyme verse “Wednesday’s child is full of woe.” This does not mean that those born on this day are full of sorrow or trouble. To be full of Wo (Wodin) means to be full of wind, to be spirited. Woden was such a powerful pagan god that the German church fathers changed the name of his day to Mittwoch, meaning midweek, in an attempt to exorcise his influence.
In the Spanish word for Wednesday, miercoles, we clearly see its connection to Mercury. Under the guidance of Mercury; Wednesday is a day of swift activity, communication, correspondence, and phone calls. This is a good day for journalists, writers, poets, bargaining, hiring employees, and visiting friends.
On Wednesdays, the hour of sunrise and every eight hours after that are also ruled by Mercury, making these times of the day doubly blessed. These are the strongest four hours for ritual work. Check your local newspaper, astrological calendar, or almanac to determine when sunrise occurs.
Source: Gypsy Magic
~* ~ The Gift ~* ~Bewildered and amazed,
I stand before thee;
Receiving thy wisdom
As thou cast thy light upon me.
The overwhelming knowledge given
Seems way too much to bear.
With thy blessings of inner strength
I find it easy, with others, to share!
I know my path in the incarnation,
To serve thee well and true;
I thank thee for thy gift thou hast given,
For this gift has given me life anew!
By The Light Of The Crystal Moon: A Book of Pagan Poetry and Short Stories
Elizabeth Gardiepy
Witches Of The Craft® 