Signs That Your Child Might Be A Witch

1. Your child asks to use the broom to cleanse, I mean clean, their room.
2. There is always a steak knife missing.
3. Your smallest pan keeps disappearing and reappearing, and always smells like ashes and potpourri.
4. All your candle holders are missing.
5. They now enjoy going to the fabric store with you and they want thread, ribbon and cloth of every color of the rainbow.
6. Their Christmas and Birthday wish lists consist of: a white or black full length bathrobe, blank journal books, window box herb gardens and a box of candles in assorted colors.
7. You just figured out that every full or new moon your child asks to have 3 friends spend the night; & strangely they are very quiet all night.
8. Your child now says “Merry Meet Again” every morning to you & whenever they leave they say “Merry Part”.
9. Your recipe cards are disappearing & when you do find them you can’t make sense of the recipe since it doesn’t require any actual cooking.
10. Your child has a new ID bracelet that reads something like “RavenMoon” “StarWolf” or “SunDragon”.
11. Your child asks you one day for a compass, four pails of paint; blue, green, red, & yellow, so that they can paint their room correctly.
12. They insist that their first car be the color brown and have a license plate that says BROOM.
13. Their pillows are now filled with all your potpourri.
14. You ask your child to rake up the autumn leaves in the yard, and they come back with a small stick and a large stick; which you later find to have shiny objects on them and unidentifiable etchings.
15. Once a jar gets emptied in your house it ends up in your child’s room filled with various objects like pins, needles, hair, honey, paper, and soil.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2016 January 27

An Airglow Fan from Lake to Sky
Image Credit & Copyright: Dave Lane; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt

Explanation: Why would the sky look like a giant fan? Airglow. The featured intermittent green glow appeared to rise from a lake through the arch of our Milky Way Galaxy, as captured last summer next to Bryce Canyon in Utah, USA. The unusual pattern was created by atmospheric gravity waves, ripples of alternating air pressure that can grow with height as the air thins, in this case about 90 kilometers up. Unlike auroras powered by collisions with energetic charged particles and seen at high latitudes, airglow is due to chemiluminescence, the production of light in a chemical reaction. More typically seen near the horizon, airglow keeps the night sky from ever being completely dark.

Earth Sky News for Jan. 27th: Moon and Jupiter closest January 27

Tonight – January 27, 2016 – as seen from around the world, the waning gibbous moon will shine closer to the giant planet Jupiter that it did last night. Watch these two bright beauties climb over the eastern horizon a few to several hours after sunset!

Once the moon and Jupiter rise, they’ll be out for rest of the night. You can’t miss them. Jupiter is the brightest starlike object up there until Venus, the sky’s brightest planet, makes her appearance in the eastern sky during the predawn hours.

In fact, you can view all five visible planets in the predawn/dawn sky from now until about February 20, 2016! The moon will be sweeping past all of these planets in the days ahead. Let the moon lead you to sure identifications of the planets.

Jupiter appears starlike to the eye, and the moon looks bigger than Jupiter. But, of course, Jupiter is much larger than the moon and only appears star-like to our eyes because it is so much farther away – over 1,700 times farther away than tonight’s moon. The moon lies about 1.35 light-seconds from Earth at present. In stark contrast, Jupiter looms about 39 light-minutes away.

If the giant planet Jupiter were at the same distance from us as our moon, it’d take about 40 moons lined up side by side to equal the diameter of Jupiter. More amazing, perhaps, Jupiter’s disk would exceed the lunar disk by some 1,600 times.

It’s with good reason that Jupiter enjoys the king planet status. Watch the moon and Jupiter shine together from early-to-mid evening until dawn!

By the way, if you’re interested, look back at our January 26 post to know why the moon and Jupiter are pairing up more closely tonight than they were last night.

Bottom line: Let the moon be your guide to Jupiter, the fifth planet outward from the sun and the king of the planets, on the night of January 27, 2016! Then watch in the early morning sky as the moon sweeps past the five planets now visible there

Earth Sky News for Jan. 26th:  Moon moving toward Jupiter January 26

Tonight – January 26, 2016 – the dazzling star-like object close to the moon is the giant planet Jupiter. No matter where you are on Earth, you’ll see Jupiter near the moon not just tonight, but for the next few late evenings and early mornings. After Jupiter … the moon will pass Mars, Saturn, Venus, Mercury! You can see all five of these bright worlds before dawn. It’s the first time we’ve seen them together since 2005.

The January 26 moon rises approximately 3 hours after sunset, and Jupiter follows the moon into the sky roughly an hour later. The exact rising times for the moon and Jupiter vary around the world, but you can’t miss this pair in clear skies by mid-evening tonight – that is, by about midway between your local sunset and midnight – no matter where you are on Earth.

Jupiter and the moon will be even closer together on January 27.

What motions of the moon and Jupiter cause them to come together this way in our sky? There are several motions to notice. First, the moon’s orbital motion carries it near Jupiter each month. Earth’s spin under the sky causes the moon and Jupiter to move westward in the course of a single night. And Jupiter is moving, too, in front of the stars.

Notice the moon’s orbital motion. It’s easy. Just look at the moon and Jupiter tonight (Tuesday night or Wednesday morning). Then notice them again tomorrow night (Wednesday night or Thursday morning). You’ll see that – from one evening to the next – the moon has moved closer to Jupiter on the sky’s dome. That change is due to a true motion of the moon itself, its motion through space in orbit around Earth.

Due to its orbital motion, the moon travels about 13^o eastward in front of the backdrop stars every day. For reference, the moon’s diameter equals one-half degree.

Notice Earth’s spin under the sky. Meanwhile, in course of a single night, the moon and Jupiter go westward across our sky. They do so for the same reason that the sun goes westward during the day … because the Earth rotates from west-to-east on its axis. Earth’s spin causes the sun, moon, planets and stars to appear to move from east to west on a daily basis.

So watch for Jupiter this evening or tomorrow evening. They will be in the east. Then, if you’re up early tomorrow morning (Wednesday) or the following morning (Thursday), look for the moon and Jupiter in the west before sunrise.

This motion in the course of one night is due to Earth’s spin

Jupiter is moving, too. Jupiter’s own motion in orbit around our local star, the sun, causes this world to change its position in front of the background stars as seen from Earth. In contrast to our nearby moon, Jupiter moves at a snail’s pace in front of the stars. Sometimes, it seems to move erratically, a fact that baffled the ancient stargazers.

It moves more slowly than our moon in front of the stars because it is much farther from us than the moon.

It moves erratically because we view Jupiter from the platform of a moving Earth. Our motion in orbit causes Jupiter to appear to move backwards (westward, or retrograde) in its orbit for about four months every year. Really, this backwards motion is an illusion. It happens because Earth moves faster than Jupiter in orbit. It’s like we’re in a fast car, passing a slower car on the highway. For a time, the slower car appears to move backwards in front of the distant landscape. That’s the case with Jupiter now. Jupiter has been moving in a retrograde fashion – westward in front of the stars – since January 8, 2016.

We’ll pass between the sun and Jupiter on March 8, 2016.

Jupiter will end its retrograde motion, and begin moving eastward in front of the stars again, on May 9, 2016.

Bottom line: The moon is edging toward Jupiter on January 26, 2016 and is even closer on January 27. No matter where you are on Earth, you’ll see Jupiter near the moon the next few mid-evenings to early mornings. After Jupiter … the moon will sweep past Mars, Saturn, Venus and Mercury! Use the moon to identify these planets.

Author

Bruce McClure

Bruce McClure is the chief writer for the popular EarthSky Tonight pages. Since joining EarthSky in 2004, he has written thousands of astronomy articles, enjoyed here by millions. He also writes, gives planetarium shows and hosts a wide assortment of public astronomy programs in and around his home in upstate New York. If you ask an astronomy question on our site, it’s likely to be Bruce that answers it. His love for the heavens has taken him to Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, and he has sailed the North Atlantic, earning his celestial navigation certificate through the School of Ocean Sailing and Navigation. Bruce is also a sundial aficionado. He says his number one passion – besides his wife Alice – is stargazing.

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The Wisdom of Buddha

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Your Daily Influences
January 27th, 2016

Six of Swords Reversed
Life is at a standstill. Difficulties will probably remain as they are.

Perthro
Mysteries will become known to you. You should be able to see your life’s path clearly at this time. Pethro is often thought of as “Gambler’s Rune.” You are in a lucky period right now. Chance is your ally. Take advantage of it.

Scorpio the Scorpion
This aspect of your life will be strongly influenced by a person who is determined, forceful, emotional, intuitive, powerful, passionate, exciting and magnetic. This person is probably an acquaintance you made at work

Your Daily Influences represent events and challenges the current day will present for you. They may represent opportunities you should be ready to seize. Or they may forewarn you of problems you may be able to avoid or lessen. Generally it is best to use them as tips to help you manage your day and nothing more.

Your Ancient Symbol Card for Today

Love

Love indicates that love is either present in our life or a distinct possibility. Be open to all possibilities, remembering that true love is given freely, without condition, and does not have to be earned. This is the kind of love we want to welcome into our life and to give to others. Be open to new ideas, and beware of judging against someone in an unloving manner. When Love appears, return to the place where you can love yourself and then seek out the same love from others.

As a daily card, Love suggests that for those who are currently in a relationship the opportunity to deepen the bond is present. For those who are single, Love implies that the prospect for them to begin a romantic relationship is very strong at this time.

Your Crowley Thoth Tarot Card for Today

The Sun

Only The Universe card of the Crowley Tarot can match the blessings that come with The Sun. While it certainly doesn’t promise a life’s path without some bumps in the road, The Sun indicates all will be well. The Sun is our Cosmic Nurturer. Life flourishes under its radiant beams. It provides the illumination to find Truths and lights one’s path so they do not get lost. To stand in the rays of The Sun is to shine. To absorb its energy promotes growth, exceptional physical and mental health, and good fortune. The Sun is empowering, elevating and fills those who bask in it with confidence and sense of self-worth.

Get A Jump On Tomorrow,

Your Horoscopes for Thursday, January 28th

by Rick Levine

Tarot.com is a Daily Insight Group Site

If You Were Born Today, January 27

You possess creative and verbal style, an analytical mind, and a broad tolerance of others’ differences. Many of you are excellent at teaching, whether or not you do it for a living, as others readily respect you and follow your lead. As well, you are good at encouraging and motivating people. You are an especially trustworthy person. You value your personal freedom more than most and don’t easily accept restrictions. Your thinking is progressive and way ahead of your time.

Famous people born today: Wolfgang Mozart, Lewis Carroll, Bridget Fonda, Mordecai Richler, James Cromwell, Mimi Rogers.

Courtesy of Cafe Astrology

Your Daily Horoscopes for Wednesday, January 27th

Aries

There is a greater love of taking care of your daily routines and work these days, dear Aries, and this is a good thing. However, at times you can overdo your attention to the smaller tasks at the expense of the big picture and your needs to enjoy yourself elsewhere. Sometimes you need to relax and let go, which can be difficult to do today. The sheer number of things that need to get done – and that you truly want to do – can conflict with a drive to connect with others, enjoy yourself in good company, or go after a bigger dream today. Try not to pack everything into one day and instead look for better ways to balance your life. What you thought was a “sure thing” may not pan out right now, so focus your energies on realizable projects.

Taurus

You can be feeling a stronger desire to entertain, enjoy yourself, and let your hair down today, dear Taurus. You are generous with your feelings and affections, more than usual. If you’re feeling a little restless and not certain about the source of discontent today, a symptom can be a desire to do something in a big way. However, avoid overdoing and overstating, particularly in a romantic relationship and in your professional dealings. This is not a day for good timing, in general, as we’re inclined to overshoot and bank on things that are not very viable. The trick now is to think in terms of improvement rather than expansion. Bigger is not always better, and this is especially so today.

Gemini

This is another day that emphasizes emotions, personal matters, family, home, and familiar places, dear Gemini. While there can be a lot to enjoy with family, there can also be some impatience on the homefront later today, not necessarily with people but with the process of routine. However, keep in mind that you could be overlooking important details. As much as you may not feel like it, go over important emails or documents before sending or signing. Revision may be necessary. Alternatively, something may be pushed upon you seemingly from out of the blue that needs doing quickly. Keep your wits about you. Find ways to improve your home life, while also reaching out to others or varying your routine to keep things fresh.

Cancer

The Moon once again emphasizes reaching out, keeping your mind stimulated, and learning and sharing today, dear Cancer. Ideally, the busy feeling is just enough to keep you happily stimulated, which can happen if you consciously avoid overdoing, which is a real tendency today. Try not to overstate and overact now for best results, even if Jupiter in your third house can sometimes stimulate a desire to exaggerate and procrastinate. Promising too much can be a bandaid fix that makes life a little easier for now, but unnecessarily difficult later.

Leo

With the Moon in your solar second house aligning with Jupiter today, dear Leo, this is a day when your appetite for pleasure, beauty, and comfort is stronger than usual. You can be feeling generous and in the mood to spoil someone or yourself. Jupiter is clashing with your ruler, the Sun, so that this desire may interfere with other plans and goals now. Your mood might stir up a tendency to go for things that are beyond your means. A partner may be dramatic, take issue with your desire to stay rooted, or could exaggerate an issue today.

Virgo

This can be a day in which your appetite for pleasure is great, dear Virgo, with a tendency to go overboard, however. Whatever feelings you’re experiencing – easy or challenging – they are felt in big ways. You may be overdoing things as well, particularly related to self-pampering, which can be exactly what you need in reasonable doses. However, you are also required to perform and get work done, and this is a personal need in addition to a responsibility, and this can be a bit of a conundrum with the Sun in your work and health sector pushing you to take charge of your routines and Jupiter in your own sign, encouraging you to chase your personal dreams. Finding a balance may not come easily, but is the key to happiness today.

Libra

There is a distinct tendency to pull yourself out of overly demanding or stressful situations today, dear Libra, with the Moon’s presence in your privacy sector all day. With Jupiter here as well, you’re inclined to really enjoy some time to yourself, and perhaps thinking about the past. This is all fine and good, but the tendency today is to overdo this. In fact, the Sun and Jupiter are in disagreement – one part of you is procrastinating and avoiding, and the other part wants to share yourself with others. There can be a real feeling of restlessness stimulated as a result, as the ordinary doesn’t seem to appeal. However, even if it’s not easy to see right now, there is a way to find a balance without having to overdo one thing or the other.

Scorpio

Your inner energies and outside circumstances may not be in synch, and this certainly happens from time to time, dear Scorpio. The trick may be to find a balance rather than feeling that it must be one or the other. A good part of you wants to socialize or spend time with like-minded people, and another part simply wants to cocoon or domestic responsibilities need attention. There is some tendency for going overboard one way or the other, perhaps to compensate, and especially with friends and family. Promises may not be fulfilled, so keep this in mind and avoid overextending yourself.

Sagittarius

You could be feeling that two enjoyable areas of life are competing with each other today, dear Sagittarius. While you have a strong desire to expand your horizons when it comes to your career or public life, personal interests call and you don’t have time to be gung-ho about both. Try to avoid overdoing something in order to compensate. However, with Mercury pulling out of its station, you are certainly going to be seeing roadblocks lift in business and money matters, so if you’re going to tip the scales in one direction, work might be a better choice – just keep things moderate in order to avoid problems today.

Capricorn

There is feel-good energy with you today, dear Capricorn, although it may be a little too easy to push a good thing and go too far. Watch for overindulgence today – you can too easily blow your money on impulse buys or indulge your sweet tooth with regrets soon following. The desire to expand your horizons can compete with a need to stick with familiar things and people. However, there is nothing wrong with thinking in especially big terms, and it’s good to do so now. Just keep actions moderate for the time being. Enjoy optimistic feelings, and possibly a sense that blocks are clearing as well with Mercury moving out of its station.

Aquarius

This can be a strong day for digging deeper into a subject and making headway, dear Aquarius. There can be good energy for coming to new insights into the motivations of an important person in your life, or simply for feeling your deeper emotions more vividly. There can be a bit of an inner conflict experienced today, as there is a strong pull to be “present” in the world around you, but an equal tug at your need to observe rather than act and to retreat within yourself. Be careful not to promise more than you can deliver because even though you mean well, you can fall short of your promises.

Pisces

The Moon in your partnership sector puts a strong focus on partnerships again today, dear Pisces, and while this can be quite enjoyable, another part of you is very much in need of quiet time and that wants to retreat in your shell. The tendency now is to feel a little restless, and this can prompt you to take some impractical risks in an effort to make your life more exciting. Another thing to be cautious about is overstating your feelings to a person who might take you a little too seriously. However, if you focus on making improvements rather than grand gestures or big moves, you’ll more thoroughly enjoy your day and your relationships.

The Balance of the Signs & the Elements for January 27th

VIRGO STRONG
Meticulous, discriminating, pure, practical, health conscious, hard working. Can be hyper-critical, petty and perfectionistic.
CAPRICORN STRONG
Disciplined, responsible, reliable, industrious, conscientious, practical, achieving. Can be pessimistic, overly conventional, rigid, materialistic, callous.
AQUARIUS STRONG
Humanitarian, innovative, group conscious, progressive, serving others. Can be rebellious, eccentric, aloof, emotionally superficial, overly extroverted.

BALANCE OF ELEMENTS
FIRE WEAK
We are not very goal-oriented right now, or motivation to pursue our goals may be waning/lacking. Changes feel overwhelming. Enthusiasm may be low, we argue less, and we think more than we take action.
EARTH STRONG
We are especially in touch with the physical world. We consider what we’ve learned and experienced in the past in order to make the most of the present. We can be cautious, practical, and possibly unimaginative. We are deliberate and can pace ourselves well. We need hands-on experience and are not impressed with theory as much as we are with results. Routines are tolerable and comforting.

BALANCE OF MODES
The modes are balanced.

A Watershed Year for Relationships

a message from Selacia

To view more of Selacia’s insight, please visit her site, Selacia and the Council of Twelve

 

For divine changemakers 2016 can be a watershed year for relationships. In this article I describe what this means in general as well as how it may apply to key relationships in your life. I will show you how pretty much everything wonderful you want to manifest this year is contingent upon your mastery of relationships. In fact, I will describe how harmonizing even one key relationship could be significant in changing your whole life.

Personal Level – A Key Relationship

Let’s begin with the significance of a key relationship – a partner, family member, or other person who tends to push your buttons. Most likely one comes to mind immediately. Everyone has at least one.

I suggest for the purposes of this inquiry, focusing on the one key person who leaves you feeling the most exasperated.

Your feelings of irritation can come from just thinking about this person – even if you seldom see him or her. The “troublesome” person can even be long gone. It’s not uncommon to carry anger and grudges towards people for many years after they have passed, too – the mind is powerful and it can keep any battle going if you allow it.

For most people, the key button-pushing relationship at the core of all other discordant relationships is a family member. Not only that – this unresolved discordant relationship is often the underlying source of general unhappiness people experience.

Typically the family member involved is a parent, because of the foundational role that person plays in forming how you see the world. Whoever raised you will have a pivotal influence on your character and how you develop.

If you are a parent, the family member pushing your buttons could be a child – triggering very old issues within you, perhaps from your own childhood. Patterns tend to get handed down from generation to generation. Sometimes parents, having experienced family dysfunction growing up, may unknowingly overcompensate with their own children, trying to protect them. This can backfire and things will need to be put back in balance.

It’s in Your DNA

DNA is involved, regardless of whether your key person is a birth parent or other guardian. Children soak up ideas and prejudices like a sponge – they internalize many things they experience and these become a part of their DNA. As a child, you picked up parental thoughts telepathically and you learned by simply observing how a parent navigated life. You were much more perceptive than your caretakers realized.

Adults will often say they are nothing like their parents. That’s a misconception. People will carry within themselves – at a DNA level – tendencies and beliefs that originated with family and the genetic lineage. Even memories from previous generations can be passed on to offspring through DNA.

To heal these old wounds, you must address the DNA-level patterns across the generations.

Common DNA-Level Patterns

DNA-level patterns humanity is in process of healing at a collective level are surfacing with increasing intensity during these times of radical planetary changes. Individuals and families carry the patterns, too. Common themes of patterns: trust, truth, justice, abandonment, separation, disconnection from spirit, boundaries, violation, control, and self-love.

Each time you heal even one part of an issue like those mentioned, you advance spiritually and you help the collective heal. You also help your family line, including those no longer living.

Spirit Orchestration of Birth Dynamics

Did you know that the circumstances of your birth are largely a spirit orchestration? This includes location and birth family, as well as your birth astrology with indications of life path and potentials. There really are no accidents. You are not a victim of a cruel joke or bad luck. That is nonsense.

As you evolve as a soul, you incarnate over time to grow spiritually and learn key things. The family you are born into is part of the package. Oftentimes, you will incarnate with the same people in various scenarios in order to develop mastery on this physical plane.

You are each other’s’ teachers and you tend to catalyze things unique to your shared situation. That’s why it’s said that you will often learn the most from your most challenging relationships. They are the perfect mirror.

2016 Opportunity

Use this mirror in 2016 to address and harmonize a key relationship. Decide now that you will do whatever it takes to heal old wounds. Your power comes from facing this directly, in the present and with an aware consciousness.

Refuse to get bogged down in the minutia of discord, ruminating about past hurts and blaming the other person. Focus on you and how you can respond differently – focus on what this person is here to teach you. Don’t make it about them. Consider how you can communicate in a different way.

Elevate Your Communications for Healing

To break an impasse in a relationship prone to communication difficulties, listening is more important than speaking. Engage your heart and stay present, your mind still, and actively listen to the other person – to the words, tone, nuances, and silence between words.

You don’t need to see eye-to-eye with someone to love them or to feel loved by them. Love is not about agreement, satisfying agendas, or settling scores. It is a pure healing energy that must come from within. No one agreeing with you can give you that. Remember: you are love already – it is naturally within you.

As you endeavor to come from love in a key relationship this year, something wondrous can occur. Your love can be instrumental in harmonizing things with this person, setting in motion a ripple of beneficial energies that change your life in many ways. It may at first seem at a personal or micro level, but then you will notice impacts on a much larger scale. Your increased happiness and higher frequency indeed will magnetize much different types of situations and people – a bit like someone turned on a light that wasn’t there before.

Big Picture – Big Interconnected World with Limitless Potentials

In the big picture, what matters is not how many relationships you have or whether you have a life partner. Virtually everything you do and manifest is in some sense dependent on your interconnections with the larger world – and how you manage those connections. Those connections all involve relationships and relating with the whole. Some people you will see but many will be invisible and off your radar.

Examples: (1) Your next creative project could be birthed from your own imagination after a trip to the store and hearing two people talking about something they enjoy. (2) A new home you have dreamed about could become your new residence after a frustrating drive in traffic, your slowing down enough to see a for rent sign out front. (3) A new friend you meet casually at a conference could become your business partner in a brand-new type of venture that neither of you had envisioned before meeting each other. (4) Your ability to stay up late when it’s quiet and write your novel is possible in part because of electricity others produce and you have remembered to pay your electric bill.

In each of these examples, the successful outcome results from you being present, heart-centered, and taking some kind of constructive action. This way, you are consciously managing your connections and creating opportunities. It’s like an energy exchange you are facilitating with the outside world – receiving and sending all the time! Trust that this year can be the time when you become more fully engaged with your vast potentials to be your best self.