Your Daily Horoscopes for Sunday, May 1st

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Horoscopes for Sunday, May 1st

 

Aries

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Aries

Today is strong for most things private and behind the scenes, dear Aries. You may want to act on a deep desire or a dream, and you can be successful at taking action on a private matter. Helping others can be especially satisfying now. While taking action on money management or a business matter can be a desire, it’s better to focus on taking care of past matters or tying up loose ends. Because your intuition and imagination are in stronger focus, you might want to flesh out a project already in progress with more imaginative details. You might learn something interesting about your own feelings or the feelings of someone you care about. Patience might even be satisfying now, and you can feel quite dedicated to a particular project.

Taurus

Taurus

You can enjoy more patience and a sense of peace today, dear Taurus, but also a desire to act on your dreams and ideals, as you are building your faith in these things. With more faith comes more patience, as you have a sense that things will fall into place. People are drawn to your peaceful, wise manner right now. You are not feeling any real pressure to define goals too exactly, which tends to help you tap into intuition. There can be inspiration from a friend, network, or associate, and helping someone out can be very rewarding now. There may be a plan or project that really gets you going and you enjoy dedicating time and energy to it.

Gemini

Gemini

Your creativity may be on show in some manner today, dear Gemini, and others may be turning to you for your unique view or creative touch. This is something that is happening more frequently these days, with more of this kind of energy coming in the first half of May. You can be a creative leader of sorts. Your head for practical matters is strong, but you’re also drawing heavily on wisdom and intuition now. You might be looking to take action on a dream, private matter, or charitable feeling, and can be quite successful at making important changes. Self-improvement efforts can also fare particularly well.

Cancer

Cancer

You are in a great position with friends, goals, learning, and connecting today, dear Cancer. There is more faith in your friendships and it’s building, although you may be looking to the past and dealing with putting things behind you these days. It may be that you need to forgive or get over a hump and reconnect with someone before feeling that you can truly move forward. You might thoroughly enjoy sharing beliefs and ideas with friends and networks. Today can be very strong for adventure and play. If you want to make a good impression or to host a social event, it’s a great time for doing so. Creatively speaking, you are powerful. You might also feel especially attracted to a cause that means something to you.

Leo

Leo

Your imagination and faith are strongly stimulated today, dear Leo, and motivation can return to work on plans already set in motion. Research and development are highly favored right now. You tend to shine as a leader now, and you seem to have others’ backing for most if not all of your goals. You are considering the more imaginative or spiritual side to long-term goals and career projects or your career path in general. There can be much enjoyment of the feelings of dedication you experience now, and a stronger commitment to working through whatever difficulties may come your way. Your hunches are on the mark right now.

Virgo

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Virgo

You may feel renewed by a new perspective on your life today, dear Virgo, something philosophical or spiritual that you read or learn, or an adventure that takes you away from the mundane routines in your life. It’s a good time for exploring ideas with a partner or good friend. There can be devotion expressed towards a project or belief, and willingness to move past difficulties in order to reach your goals. You may be enjoying great flashes of insight now. Today, your compassion for others (and especially a partner) is even stronger than usual. You are also building your faith and motivation to better your situation in life and to attain a higher level of freedom and well-being, particularly on spiritual and emotional planes.

Libra

Libra Glyph-Symbol
Libra

This is a good day for dreaming up new and very creative ways to further your work or health programs, dear Libra. Putting a unique and imaginative spin on practical matters comes naturally right now. You might be especially effective at turning a responsibility or duty into something pleasurable today. You might find it rather easy to slip into the  role of supporting others today, and this can fill a need now. Your understanding of cycles and connections is strong right now, and this increases your patience. Some of you could gain more insight to your work, health, and possibly an intimate relationship. There can be a stronger desire to put your faith in a close relationship, but for some of you, self-improvement endeavors are the focus and you feel similarly devoted.

Scorpio

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Scorpio

There is powerful ability and willingness to negotiate and reach compromises today, dear Scorpio, and in some way much of the month ahead. There is greater success with others right now. Interchanges with friends and lovers can be inspiring now, and there can be a real sense of camaraderie and support derived from your interactions. You are likely to be in a giving mood, not necessarily with material things, but with your time and energy. You might desire to make something beautiful in your life and share it with others. You are sensitive to the needs of others, and have more compassion than usual. Reaching out and connecting can bring unexpected opportunities right now. Some of you can feel especially devoted and connected to a creative project or hobby.

Sagittarius

Sagittarius Glyph Symbol
Sagittarius

There is strong focus on work, health, and routines this month, dear Sagittarius, and today, you can be feeling quite inspired. You may be bringing more imagination, creativity, and generosity to the things you’re doing or the services you provide. Intuitive insights into health or recent work projects can be on mark. Your motivation to do something meaningful is very strong. Your dedication to others, family, a health program, or your work can feel especially strong and boost your spirits. Your personal or private life is rich. Projects already begun can be revived or furthered now.

Capricorn

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Capricorn

You are getting your message across creatively and quite well right now, dear Capricorn. Certainly, Mercury is retrograde, but you have a special edge now – an ability to express yourself in ways that don’t rely completely on the right words. Others are particularly interested in what you say, or they are fascinated with, and attracted to, your mind. This is a strong time for writing and bringing more imagination to your work or projects. You can feel creatively and emotionally inspired, and on some level, this is with you for the coming two weeks. Right now, you are more confident and courageous about expressing your imaginative side.

Aquarius

Aquarius

If you’re in need of some peace, dear Aquarius, today is a strong time for getting it. You’re tapping into a “what will be, will be” type of energy that helps you to stay relatively calm and patient even if life is a little scattered around you. This is a strong time for encouraging this kind of mood by creating the right atmosphere for it. It’s also a good time for activities that bring inner rewards – focusing on the inner rewards will in fact make you feel better than seeking out reinforcement from others right now. There is more compassion and imagination now. It’s also a fine time for tapping into your intuition in order to come to solutions that benefit finances, security, family, and home.

Pisces

Pisces

There is less ambition when it comes to the material or practical world today, dear Pisces, and more interest in the spiritual or emotional dimensions of your life. The world of your imagination, or of art or mystery, holds the most appeal. You may feel driven to share a vision or idea with someone you care about, or to write about your dreams and perceptions. Your finer qualities and inner strength seem to shine through for others to see today. Your warmth and compassion are highlighted, but there is some aloofness to your manner right now, perhaps because you’re often found lost in thought. This is a strong time for recommitting to studies or a project that you have left unfinished.

Your Weekly Astrology Report: May 2-8, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly Astrology: May 2-8, 2016

High spirits

This will be the kind of week where you feel you can manifest just about anything! And you can. Read about the support from the cosmos here…

Tuesday, May 3: Sun trine Jupiter

Optimism runs high on Tuesday when the Sun is trine Jupiter. A benevolent spirit allows you to give your all and receive kindness from others in return.

Friday, May 6: New Moon in Taurus

A New Moon in Taurus on Friday will be an ideal time to plant seeds around what you want to achieve in the physical world. If you have a new financial goal, now is the time to flesh it out.

You might also decide to literally plant your garden now. This is symbolic, but can also be literal. What do want to grow in your life’s garden? Plant accordingly.

Saturday, May 7: Sun trine Pluto

Finally on Saturday, the Sun will trine Pluto, supporting determination and will power to become the most vital and empowered person you can be. Get ready to move those mountains!

 

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Astrology of Today – May 1, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

Astrology of Today – May 1, 2016

Summary:

  • The Moon is in Aquarius until 10:33 AM.
  • The Moon is void until 10:33 AM (since yesterday at 10:55 PM).
  • The Moon is in Pisces from 10:33 AM forward (until Tuesday, May 3rd, at 1:04 PM).
  • The Moon is waning and in its Last Quarter phase.
  • A Last Quarter Moon occurred on the 29th, and a New Moon will occur on May 6th.
  • Mercury is retrograde (Mercury is retrograde from April 28-May 22).
  • Mars is retrograde (Mars is retrograde from April 17-June 29).

May 2016 Ascension Energies

May 2016 Ascension Energies

Jamye Price
a message from Jamye Price

To read more of Jayme’s insight, please visit her website, Jamye Price, Soul Progression for Ascension

April Review

April was about going within and working your foundation of beingness within the action-oriented physical world. It offered you some clarity between the external and its loudness, with your internal focus of peace and stability amidst change.

Patience is a great complement to peace and stability, though a calm feeling wasn’t as easy to access in April for many. That impatient Aries energy often wants to jump immediately! Though in April, your leap of faith was best served by building a bridge of connection between your heart and mind as you learn to perceive your opportunities with the grace of loving wisdom.

May Energies

April was the perfect storm leading into May. You were likely stirred into something—desiring more peace in the world, more satisfaction in your job and relationships, more creative control in your life, or less Trump in the news…

May has the energy of action.

When I sat to get the energies for April, I was (unusually so) also given the word “action” for May and “reset” for June. As I prepared for the May monthly energies video, I was also told, “relationships and family.” So essentially May is focused on action and interaction (relationship). The self, the inner world—interacting with Life. What a wonderful progression and April has stirred some courage to change.

A.C.T.I.O.N.—Allowing Creation To Inform Our Now

Areon, the Lyran Council of Time, often focuses on how your first action is internal. As you experience your life, information flows into you. You have emotional, mental, and even physical response. Your emotional and mental responses are subtle information that show you your authentic perceptions and beliefs about your experiences. As youallow that information into your awareness, you have the ability to make informed choice. What you choose is internal and subtle in that moment. It speaks directly to the quantum realms, informing form. Staying present, authentic, courageous, and peaceful are helpful to shifting or amplifying your future creations.

Observation and listening are powerful forms of meditation. They help you to receive information that may not be obvious, or even information that may be calling for your Love to form a new future.

For example, listening to one that is opposite of you may help you to understand something you were resisting. It may call you to focus your attention in a direction so that the future is effected by more Love and less greed, deception, and suppression. Your focused awareness, your Love flow, is important. We usually don’t get to see immediate results. Patience again.

Your first internal actions are shifting you into a detached compassion that is able to perceive beyond the obvious.

This is the peace that passes all understanding. With practice you will become less reactive, less afraid and more courageous, creative, and wise. Detached compassion is an open state that knows all is well. From this point of connection, you are able to touch new solution with your vibration. This will inspire physical action that is based in Love.

Relationship and Family

Your interactions are such a great motivator of movement! Every single experience is calling you to more empowerment, more Love. This creates more freedom from needing to control circumstances for a feeling of safety. Those that love you, like family, can not help but reflect your positives and negatives so that you can integrate into an empowered sovereign that connects boldly with Life.

This month, as May prompts you to spring into action, observe your authentic thoughts and feelings with your relationships. Seek to hold healthy boundaries that serve your growth and sharing. They may change over time, but honor your needs in the moment and continue to grow beyond them as appropriate. For example, at one time you may need to hold a boundary with someone and say no. At another time, you may be benefited by stretching yourself into interaction. Family is wonderful barometer of your peace and strength.

“If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family.” —Ram Dass

Family is often how we learn much of our perceptions and beliefs. When a child is young, the subconscious is highly programmable as they are most often in a receptive brain wave state. They also “speak” emotions rather than words, so they are highly susceptible to the emotions of their caregivers and family members.

As an adult, these unconscious programs are mixing with your logical decisions. This is why it is important to honor your authentic, immediate thoughts and feelings. It’s easy if you’re feeling good. Celebrate that! However, if you hate someone, let that just be information that is a vehicle of discovery for you. As you discover what and why you hate them, you will transform that emotion into the wisdom of understanding. You will discover you felt a boundary of power or safety being pushed. That discovery pulls unconscious (subconscious) information into the conscious and you can now progressively heal that fear. You then discover that you appreciate that person helping you grow.

Many suppress their challenging emotions because they don’t know that the emotions heal, they just know it hurts. They haven’t felt that freedom from fear, that freedom of knowing how strong they are, that freedom of being able to interact with Life, change, and create. Here we come full circle to the energies of May.

Your inner actions create beneficial interactions.

Your interactions have a ripple effect that create inspired actions.

Your actions speak volumes to your future.

Summary

In May, we are asked to make bold inner choices and interact with Life from empowered Love. With so many planets retrograde, the energy of action likely isn’t as much “full steam ahead,” as much as it is connect your head with your heart and interact from there. As you observe your interactions, look within and allow the reflection to inform your choices and then external actions. It is a perfect time to choose to Love yourself. From there, you grow into such a Love for Life that challenges become fuel for your creative flow. Yes, you may!

The Witches Moon Phase for May 1st, Beltane – Waning Crescent


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May 1
Waning Crescent
Illumination: 35%

 

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.

 

PHASE DETAILS FOR – SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2016

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 35%
Moon Age: 23.53 days
Moon Angle: 0.53
Moon Distance: 372,764.03 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 150,776,520.47 km

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Celebrating Legends, Folklore & Spirituality 365 Days A Year for May 1 – May Day


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May Day

Nature if often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.

—Sir Francis Bacon

Common in Europe and North America, May Day is celebrated ebrated by the crowning of the May Queen; dancing around the maypole; and mumming from house to house carrying blossoms and soliciting gifts of food. Most of the activities that take place on May Day symbolize Spring, relating human fertility to crop fertility and rebirth. In the past it was common for young people to pair up, often by lot, and then gather in the woods all May Eve night.

In English folklore, May Day, Bringing in The May, and Going-a-Maying refers to the practice of going out into the countryside tryside to gather flowers and greenery, much of which was used to adorn the May Queen. Bringing in the May remained a staple tradition throughout most of the 16th century, before it was banned by the Protestant reform-fundamentalists who took moral outrage at the unchaperoned activities of the young people. May Day was banned, along with many other traditional customs in the Commonwealth period, but returned after the Restoration.

Today, many of the old customs still prevail, such as woodland land weddings and the gathering of morning dew for skin renewal. newal. Horse racing, parades, and dancing around the maypole have made a comeback, as have garland parties and mumming.

 

Beltane Incense, Oil & Ritual Potpourri


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Beltane Incense

3 parts Frankincense
2 parts Sandalwood
1 part Benzoin
1 part Cinnamon
a few drops Patchouli essential oil

 

Beltane Oil

5 drops rose oil,
2 drops Dragon’s blood,
3 drops coriander oil.
Use almond oil as a base here

Beltane Ritual Potpourri

Recipe by Gerina Dunwich

45 drops frankincense oil
1 cup oak moss
1 cup dried bluebells
1 cup dried lilac
1 cup dried marigold
1 cup dried meadowsweet
1 cup dried rosebuds and petals
1 cup dried yellow cowslips

Mix the frankincense oil with the oak moss and then add the remaining ingredients. Stir the potpourri well and store in a tightly covered ceramic or glass container.

(The above recipe for “Beltane Ritual Potpourri” is quoted directly from Gerina Dunwich’s book “The Wicca Spellbook: A Witch’s Collection of Wiccan Spells, Potions and Recipes”, page 162, A Citadel Press Book, Carol Publishing Group, 1994/1995)

Setting Up Your Beltane Altar


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Setting Up Your Beltane Altar

It’s Beltane, the Sabbat where many Pagans choose to celebrate the fertility of the earth. This Sabbat is about new life, fire, passion and rebirth, so there are all kinds of creative ways you can set up for the season. Depending on how much space you have, you can try some or even all of these ideas — obviously, someone using a bookshelf as an altar will have less flexibility than someone using a table, but use what calls to you most.

Colors of the Season
This is a time when the earth is lush and green as new grass and trees return to life after a winter of dormancy. Use lots of greens, as well as bright spring colors — the yellow of the daffodils, forsythia and dandelions; the purples of the lilac; the blue of a spring sky or a robin’s egg. Decorate your altar with any or all of these colors in your altar cloths, candles, or colored ribbons.

Fertility Symbols
The Beltane holiday is the time when, in some traditions, the male energy of the god is at its most potent. He is often portrayed with a large and erect phallus, and other symbols of his fertility include antlers, sticks, acorns, and seeds. You can include any of these on your altar. Consider adding a small Maypole centerpiece — there are few things more phallic than a pole sticking up out of the ground!

In addition to the lusty attributes of the god, the fertile womb of the goddess is honored at Beltane as well. She is the earth, warm and inviting, waiting for seeds to grow within her.

Add a goddess symbol, such as a statue, cauldron, cup, or other feminine items. Any circular item, such as a wreath or ring, can be used to represent the goddess as well.

Flowers and Faeries
Beltane is the time when the earth is greening once again — as new life returns, flowers are abundant everywhere. Add a collection of early spring flowers to your altar — daffodils, hyacinths, forsythia, daisies, tulips — or consider making a floral crown to wear yourself. You may even want to pot some flowers or herbs as part of your Sabbat ritual.

In some cultures, Beltane is sacred to the Fae. If you follow a tradition that honors the Faerie realm, leave offerings on your altar for your household helpers.

Fire Festival
Because Beltane is one of the four fire festivals in modern Pagan traditions, find a way to incorporate fire into your altar setup. Although one popular custom is to hold a bonfire outside, that may not be practical for everyone, so instead it can be in the form of candles (the more the better), or a table-top brazier of some sort. A small cast-iron cauldron placed on a heat-resistant tile makes a great place to build an indoor fire.

Other Symbols of Beltane
May baskets
Chalices
Honey, oats, milk
Antlers or horns
Fruit such as cherries, mangos, pomegranates, peaches
Swords, lances, arrows
 

Source

Patti Wigington
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Honor the Sacred Feminine at Beltane with a Goddess Ritual


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Honor the Sacred Feminine at Beltane with a Goddess Ritual

When Margaret Murray wrote her ground-breaking God of the Witches, in 1931, scholars quickly dismissed her theory of a universal, pre-Christian cult of witches who worshiped a singular mother goddess. However, Murray wasn’t completely off-base; a number of individual cults existed in pre-Christian Europe which honored mother goddesses of their own. In Rome, the cult of Cybele was huge, and the mystery traditions of Isis in Egypt soon took on a mother-goddess status.

Take advantage of the blooming of spring, and use this time to celebrate the archetype of the mother goddess, and honor your own female ancestors and friends.

This simple ritual can be performed by both men and women, and is designed to honor the feminine aspects of the universe as well as our female ancestors. If you have a particular deity you call upon, feel free to change names or attributes around where needed. Otherwise, you can use the all-encompassing name of “Goddess” in the rite.

Decorate your altar with symbols of femininity: cups, chalices, flowers, lunar objects, fish, and doves or swans. You’ll also need the following items for this ritual:

⦁ A white candle
⦁ An offering of something that is important to you
⦁ A bowl of water
⦁ A handful of small pebbles or stones.

If your tradition calls for you to cast a circle, do so now. Begin by standing in the goddess position, and saying:.

I am (your name), and I stand before you,
goddesses of the sky and earth and sea,
I honor you, for your blood runs through my veins,
one woman, standing on the edge of the universe.
Tonight, I make an offering in Your names,
As my thanks for all you have given me..

Light the candle, and place your offering before it on the altar. The offering may be something tangible, such as bread or wine or flowers. It can also be something symbolic, such as a gift of your time or dedication. Whatever it is, it should be something from your heart. You may want to read up on Offerings to the Gods for some ideas..

Once you have made your offering, it is time to call upon the goddesses by name. Say:.

I am (your name), and I stand before you,
Isis, Ishtar, Tiamat, Inanna, Shakti, Cybele.
Mothers of the ancient people,
guardians of those who walked the earth thousands of years ago,
I offer you this as a way of showing my gratitude.
Your strength has flowed within me,
your wisdom has given me knowledge,
your inspiration has given birth to harmony in my soul..

Now it is time to honor the women who have touched your life. For each one, place a pebble into the bowl of water. As you do so, say her name and how she has impacted you. You might say something like this:.

I am (your name), and I stand before you,
to honor the sacred feminine that has touched my heart.
I honor Susan, who gave birth to me and raised me to be strong;
I honor Maggie, my grandmother, whose strength took her to the hospitals of war-torn France;
I honor Cathleen, my aunt, who lost her courageous battle with cancer;
I honor Jennifer, my sister, who has raised three children alone…

Continue until you have placed a pebble in the water for each of these women. Reserve one pebble for yourself. Finish by saying:.

I am (your name), and I honor myself,
for my strength, my creativity, my knowledge, my inspiration,
and for all the other remarkable things that make me a woman..

Take a few minutes and reflect on the sacred feminine. What is it about being a woman that gives you joy? If you’re a man performing this ritual, what is it about the women in your life that makes you love them? Meditate on the feminine energy of the universe for a while, and when you are ready, end the ritual..

Tips:

⦁ This ritual can be adapted for a group easily; with a little planning it can become a beautiful ceremony for a number of people. Consider doing it as part of a womens’ circle, in which each member honors the others as part of the rite.
 

Source

Patti Wigington
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Beltane Ritual Tools, Symbols, and Decorations Altar Decorations


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Ritual Tools, Symbols, and Decorations Altar Decorations

Green altar cloth; green altar candles; vases filled with fresh flowers; small crown of fresh flowers; green pillar candle; wand tied with seven different-colored ribbons; chalice covered with green cloth; May wine ritual cakes.

Symbols:
May pole; wand; crown of flowers; candles tied with seven different-colored ribbons; baskets of fresh flowers tied with colored ribbon; branches of rowan tied with green ribbon; green candle in a cauldron; bonfires.
 

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Patti Wigington
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The Witches Almanac for Sunday, May 1st


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The Witches Almanac for Sunday, May 1st

Sunday (Sun): Healing, spirituality, success, strength, and protection.

Orthodox Easter • Beltane • May Day

 

Waning Moon
The Waning Moon (from the Full Moon to the New) is a time for study, meditation, and little magical work (except magic designed to banish harmful energies).

Moon phase: Fourth Quarter

Moon Sign: Aquarius
Aquarius: Rebellious energy. Time to break habits and make abrupt changes. Personal freedom and individuality is the focus.

Moon enters Pisces 10: 33 am
Pisces: The focus is on dreaming, nostalgia, intuition, and psychic impressions. A good time for spiritual or philanthropic activities.

Incense: Almond

Color: Gold