Month: April 2016
The Witches Correspondences for Monday, April 18th
The Witches Correspondences for Monday, April 18th
Day: Monday ( Moon-day)
Planet: Moon
Colors: Silver and White and Grey
Crystals: Moonstone, Pearl, Aquamarine, Silver, Selenite
Aroma: Jasmine, Lemon, Sandalwood, Moon Oil, African violet, Honeysuckle, Myrtle, Willow, and Wormwood
Herb: Moonwort
The sacred day of the Moon, personified by such goddesses as Selene, Luna, Diana, and Artemis. The Moon is ruler of flow affecting the changeable aspects of people. If a full moon falls on a Monday, its powers are at their most potent.
Magical aspects: peace, sleep, healing, compassion, friendships, psychic awareness, purification, and fertility
Monday is ruled by the moon – an ancient symbol of mystery and peace. Monday is a special day for mothers as the cycle of the moon has long been associated with the female menstrual cycle. Those wishing to conceive a baby would be wise to try on a Monday as the magic of motherhood is strong and pregnancy is in the air.
This is the proper day of the week to perform spells and rituals involving agriculture, animals, female fertility, messages, reconciliation’s, theft, voyages, dreams, emotions, clairvoyance, home, family, medicine, cooking, personality, merchandising, psychic work, Faerie magic, and Goddess rituals.
A Witch Child’s Prayer
WHEN THE MOON IS IN VIRGO
WHEN THE MOON IS IN VIRGO
Water Planet / Earth Sign
The Moon is the astrological metaphor which symbolizes an individual’s inner, feeling-based personality, his emotions, habits and instinctive reactions. The Moon travels through the entire Zodiac every month, changing signs roughly every two and a half days.
The Zodiac sign the Moon occupies at a given moment as it moves through the sky will reflect the “emotional tone” for the day. The aspects it forms … the angles it makes with other planets … show periods of cooperation and conflict between various needs and personal agendas.
Like members of a human family, the different planets in a horoscope have their times of support and agreement … and their times of conflict and trouble. These will be reflected in the moods and general climate of concerns in real life.
Virgo is an Earth Sign. Earth Signs supply, invest, build, and create the practical substance and support systems that nourish the inspirations and new beginnings launched by Fire Sign energy. A terrific ambition or worthy goal is a wonderful gift, but without the investment of money, materials, durable support and labor it … it’s going nowhere.
When there is Earth Sign energy in the sky or in a Natal Chart, these qualities and attitudes will be on open display. The Earth Signs are Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.
Virgo is also a Mutable Sign. Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces are the Mutable Signs. Mutable signs adjust, adapt, compromise and negotiate. They prefer to work around obstacles and find ways to get along with whatever troubles them. They are ingenious, adaptable, flexible and infinitely creative … inventing new ways to work with the world from old patterns and ideas they reshape to suit their needs.
Mother Earth Prayer
The Witches Almanac for Monday, April 18th
The Witches Almanac for Monday, April 18th
Monday (Moon): Peace, sleep, healing, compassion, friends, psychic awareness, purification, and fertility.
Flower Festival (Japanese)
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: Narcissus
Color: Lavender
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Llewellyn’s 2016 Magical Almanac: Practical Magic for Everyday Living
A Prayer for Strength
The Goddess Maia
The Goddess Maia
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Maia embodied the concept of growth, as her name was thought to be related to the comparative adjective maius, maior, “larger, greater.” Originally, she may have been a homonym independent of the Greek Maia, whose myths she absorbed through the Hellenization of Latin literature and culture.
In an archaic Roman prayer, Maia appears as an attribute of Vulcan, in an invocational list of male deities paired with female abstractions representing some aspect of their functionality. She was explicitly identified with Earth (Terra, the Roman counterpart of Gaia) and the Good Goddess (Bona Dea) in at least one tradition. Her identity became theologically intertwined also with the goddesses Fauna, Magna Mater (“Great Goddess”, referring to the Roman form of Cybele but also a cult title for Maia), Ops, Juno, and Carna, as discussed at some length by the late antiquarian writer Macrobius. This treatment was probably influenced by the 1st-century BC scholar Varro, who tended to resolve a great number of goddesses into one original “Terra.” The association with Juno, whose Etruscan counterpart was Uni, is suggested again by the inscription Uni Mae on the Piacenza Liver.
The month of May (Latin Maius) was supposedly named for Maia, though ancient etymologists also connected it to the maiores, “ancestors,” again from the adjective maius, maior, meaning those who are “greater” in terms of generational precedence. On the first day of May, the Lares Praestites were honored as protectors of the city, and the flamen of Vulcan sacrificed a pregnant sow to Maia, a customary offering to an earth goddess that reiterates the link between Vulcan and Maia in the archaic prayer formula. In Roman myth, Mercury (Hermes), the son of Maia, was the father of the twin Lares, a genealogy that sheds light on the collocation of ceremonies on the May Kalends. On May 15, the Ides, Mercury was honored as a patron of merchants and increaser of profit (through an etymological connection with merx, merces, “goods, merchandise”), another possible connection with Maia his mother as a goddess who promoted growth.
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Cleansing Prayer
Monday, April 18th
Monday, April 18th
Monday is the sacred by of the Moon, personified as the Goddesses Selene, Luna, and Mani. The moon is ruler of flow, affecting the changeable and impressionable aspects of people. If a Full Moon falls on a Monday, then the powers of the Moon are at their most potent.
Deity: Mani
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Planet: Moon
Tree: Willow
Herb: Chickweed
Stone: Agate
Animal: Crab
Element: Water
Color: Green
Number: 5
Rune: Lagu(L)
Celtic Tree Month of Saille (Willow) – April 15th to May 12th. Willow is a tree of healing and protection. It can help us to connect with our emotions and bring us inner strength.
Runic Half Month of Man (human being) – April 14th to April 28th
The Goddess Month of Maia starts April 18th and runs through May 15th
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The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick
Prayer for Sanctification
Monday Is A Day of Witchery, Magick and Enchantment
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.
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Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan
Prayer for Guidance
Monday
Monday
In the word Monday, we can see part of the word Moon. In the romance languages such as Italian or Spanish, this day of the week is called Lunes and clearly relates to the word lunar. On Mondays, a variety of magick may be worked. Because Monday centers on the energies of the Moon, things like dreams, feminine energy, health, success in spiritual pursuits, domestic matters, and things of family origin are especially important this day.
Mondays are best for love magick and anything concerning home or family, thus old saying, Mondays child is fair of face, which seems clearly to relate to the themes of love and health.
Angels of Monday are Gabriel, Arcan, Missabu, and Abuzaha. Arcan is known as the king of the angels of air and the “ruler” of Monday. Abuzaha (Abuzohar) serves Monday, and is very responsive to invocations and ritual magick. Missabu is a ministering angel of Arcan.
Check whether the moon is waning or waxing to determine what your spell will be. During waning moons, do spells to rid yourself of obstacles or for wisdom and protection. During waxing moons do magic for increase of any kind or to draw something into your life.
On Mondays, the best hour to work is moonrise. Get this information from your local newspaper, astrological calendar, or almanac.
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A Prayer for Inner Peace
A Prayer for Clarity
Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Monday, April 18th
Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Monday, April 18th
Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 99.62° E
Sun Altitude: 30.66°
Sun Distance: 93.353 million mi
Next Solstice: Jun 20, 2016 5:34 PM (Summer)
Sunrise Today: 6:15 AM↑ 75° East
Sunset Today: 7:32 PM↑ 285° West
Length of daylight:13 hours, 17 minutes
Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 327.80° NNW
Moon Altitude: -44.41°
Moon Distance: 250386 mi
Next Full Moon: Apr 22, 201612:23 AM
Next New Moon: May 6, 20162:29 PM
Next Moonrise: Today4:32 PM
Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination:88.6%
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A Prayer for Tranquility
May the Goddess Bless All Our Precious Brothers & Sisters of the Craft This Monday Morn’!
Song of the Witch
Will you be of Wicca, tonight?
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
Then come with me to the Circle of Light.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.
Take up these herbs and brew up a tea.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
And drink it all down; the gods you shall see.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.
Take up the glass, and look at your face.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
Go into yourself and find a new place.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.
Go to the Woods, and find an Oak tree.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
And cling to it tight, and strong you shall be.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.
Go to the Mountains and call to the Wind.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
And fly through the Air with the Thoughts that you send.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.
Fly to the Sun, and touch its bright Flame.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
Open your Mind; now choose a new Name.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.
Go to the Sea, and call to the Moon.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
Raise up your arms, then sing out Her tune.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.
Now join your hands with Those who surround.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
Now share the Power that we send around.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.
We shall part, but meet again soon.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
To dance, and sing, and Call Down the Moon.
Bend the Will, the Wish you shall find.
—-Selena Fox , Author
Published on Pagan Library
Till tomorrow, my sweets…..
Witches Of The Craft® 
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