The Witches Almanac for Monday, March 21

Monday (Moon): Peace, sleep, healing, compassion, friends, psychic awareness, purification, and fertility.

Juarez Day (Mexican)

Waxing Moon
The Waxing Moon (from the New Moon to the Full) is the ideal time for magic to draw things toward you.

 

Moon phase: Second Quarter

 

Moon Sign: Virgo
Virgo: Favors accomplishment of details and commands from higher up. Focuses on health, hygiene, and daily schedules.

 

Incense: Rosemary

 

Color: Silver

Monday Is A Day of Witchery, Magick and Enchantment

Think for a moment on all of the witchery, magick and enchantments that you have discovered. Don’t be afraid to adjust spells to suit your own specific needs. Any gentle, illusory, and dreamy charms and spells can be enhanced when you work on the day of the week that is dedicated to the moon. Mondays are a fantastic day to boost your psychic abilities and to tune in to your intuition and empathy. It also gives you the opportunity to work with a different lunar phase each and every Monday, which means in one month you could work four different types of moon magicks on Mondays. How’s that for adding to your repertoire? You are going to have mad skills in no time at all.

 
So light up those lunar scented candles and add a little mystique to your outfit by wearing an enchanting lunar color. Wear your sparkling silver jewelry and maybe add a pair of dangling silver earrings or a pendant shaped like a crescent moon. Create lunar potions and philters; make a dream catcher and give it as a gift to someone you love. Burn some sandalwood or jasmine-scented incense today to inspire the glamour and magick of the moon. Slice up a favorite variety of fruit that is in season for a snack or share it with your love and enjoy his or her lunar and romantic qualities. Brew up a cup of chamomile tea, enchant it with a little moon magick, and relax and get a good night’s sleep.

 
Most importantly, get outside tonight and watch the moon for a while. What phase is she in? What color was the moon as she rose? Why not start a journal and write down at what location the moon rises and sets for a few seasons? This is a great way to teach you to tune in and to become more aware of the moon and the influence that she pulls into our lives. Try calling on Selene for her magickal assistance, and call Thoth for wisdom and strength. Get to know the Norse Mani and the Latvian Meness. These gods of the moon have plenty to teach, and if you allow their influence to cycle through your life, you’ll receive many blessings. Be imaginative, and create your own personal lunar magick and witchery. Go on….the moonlight becomes you.

 

Source

Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

Monday, Monday…..

Monday Monday is ruled by the moon. Magical work planned for a Monday should involve aspects of the Goddess and any rites to honor her. In Wicca, the phases of the moon are revered as natural symbols of the different phases of womanhood. Spells and rituals invoking change are appropriate for a Monday. The moon rules the tides, so spells involving water are also appropriate for this time. Think of purification and cleansing work that you may need to do. Even consecrating your chalice would be an appropriate work for a Monday. Meditate on the aspects of the Greek maiden huntress, Artemis, twin sister of Apollo, or on her Roman counterpart, Diana of the silver bow. The lunar energy will bless your work if you acknowledge it correctly.

 

Source

A Witch’s Grimoire: Create Your Own Book of Shadows
Judy Ann Olsen

The Sky This Week for March 21 – 27

 

Monday, March 21
Would you like to hunt down a galaxy? With binoculars in hand, scan about one field of view east-southeast of 2nd-magnitude Phecda (Gamma [γ] Ursae Majoris), the star that forms the southeastern corner of the Big Dipper’s bowl. You should see a triangle of 5th- and 6th-magnitude stars. The spiral galaxy M106 lies 1.7° south of 3 Canum Venaticorum, the triangle’s southern tip. The galaxy will appear as an oval blur of light.

 

Tuesday, March 22
At midnight, as this day begins, Jupiter lies 2° north of the nearly Full Moon. Both objects rose in the eastern sky during last night’s evening twilight.

 

Wednesday, March 23
Full Moon arrives at 8:01 a.m. EDT. Our satellite rises in the east at sunset, lies due south and at its highest point at the middle of the night (1 a.m. local time for most of us), and sets as the Sun rises. Our satellite’s fully lit orb appears in the constellation Virgo, but its light will blot out all but the brightest stars in that pattern.
A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs this morning. The event starts at 5:39:28 a.m. EDT. Greatest eclipse is at 7:47:13 EDT. The entire event is visible from the Pacific Ocean, western North America, eastern Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Observers in eastern North America miss the late stages of the eclipse because they occur after moonset. At maximum, some 78 percent of the Moon (the southern portions) lie within the Earth’s penumbra, its fainter outer shadow.

 

Thursday, March 24
Comet Ikeya-Murakami (P/2010 V1) swings past the Sun every 5.4 years. Tonight you’ll find it in the constellation Leo the Lion near the spectacular spiral galaxy NGC 2903. In fact, tomorrow night the comet will lie only ¼° from the galaxy. Tonight, however, train a telescope on Ikeya-Murakami and you’ll see its tail as a slash of light as it turns edge-on to us.

 

Friday, March 25
The Moon reaches apogee, its farthest point from Earth in any orbit, at 12 p.m. EDT. At that time, our satellite will lie 252,354 miles (406,125 kilometers) from Earth.
Saturn reaches the point in its orbit where it appears stationary from here on Earth. From this date until August 14, Saturn will be moving westward through the stars as Earth, moving faster in its orbit, passes the ringed planet. Astronomers call this apparent (westward) movement retrograde motion. Saturn will resume its normal eastward motion through the stars in mid-August.

 

Saturday, March 26
One of the sky’s largest asterisms — a recognizable pattern of stars separate from a constellation’s form — occupies center stage after darkness falls on March evenings. To trace the so-called Winter Hexagon, start with southern Orion’s luminary, Rigel. From there, the hexagon makes a clockwise loop. The second stop is brilliant Sirius in Canis Major. Next, pick up Procyon in the faint constellation Canis Minor, then the twins Castor and Pollux in Gemini, followed by Capella in Auriga, Aldebaran in Taurus, and finally back to Rigel.

 

Sunday, March 27
The variable star Algol in the constellation Perseus reaches minimum brightness at 6:26 A.M. EDT, right around the time the Sun is rising in the east. Take a look for it just before dawn starts to brighten the sky. Algol then shines at magnitude 3.4 where it will remain for a couple of hours before starting to brighten again. If you spot it the following night, you will see it at its maximum — magnitude 2.1.

 

Source

Astronomy Magazine

Your Sun & Moon Data for Monday, March 21st

Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 127.83° SE
Sun Altitude: 39.82°
Sun Distance: 92.613 million mi
Next Solstice: Jun 20, 2016 5:34 PM (Summer)
Sunrise Today: 6:56 AM↑ 89° East
Sunset Today: 7:08 PM↑ 272° West
Length of Day: 12 hours, 11 minutes

 
Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 335.17° NNW
Moon Altitude: -43.98°
Moon Distance: 249257 mi
Next Full Moon: Mar 23, 20167:00 AM
Next New Moon: Apr 7, 20166:23 AM
Next Moonrise: Today5:41 PM
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 96.9%

 

Source

timeanddate.com