The Chariot is the representation of Victory and the personality traits required to attain victory. The Chariot indicates self-awareness and control. Courage—the ability to overcome fear and confront the unknown head on–is a primary ingredient of any victorious campaign and is denoted by the Chariot. So too is force of will. Often success is as much the product of will power and a refusal to surrender as it is anything else. The Chariot also represents the healthy personality of someone who believes in themselves; someone who can take control of the situation and bring events to a positive end. His successes come in competition with others.
The outward expression of our feelings is more important than our inner process once the Moon boldly bounces into lively Leo at 2:47 am EDT. Rather than sinking further into our emotions, we want to be seen. However, we must be sure our performance has integrity and is connected to our hearts. Just reciting lines without an emotional connection to them seems shallow or even empty. Nevertheless, words have healing power when their aim is true.
Aries Horoscope Mar 21 – Apr 19
Although you may be a bit disconnected from your feelings this morning, the flame of enthusiasm is burning brightly in your heart. Your spirit quickly gains altitude and soars over the mundane annoyances that could bring you down if you let them. But you’re so eager to get started that you might initiate action before you have everything in order. You will still arrive at your destination even if you delay your first step. Just don’t take your eye off the prize until you achieve your goal.
Taurus Horoscope Apr 20 – May 20
Someone’s criticism could raise issues of self-doubt today, but you’re determined to overcome them. Rather than speaking up right away, you might withdraw into your own internal world at the first blush of insecurity. Looking within for spiritual strength is a great idea as long as you express your feelings once your feet are back on solid ground. Nearly anything is possible now if you’re willing to believe in its existence with every fiber of your being.
Gemini Horoscope May 21 – Jun 20
You’re acutely aware of the strong emotional bonds between you and your friends today, challenging you to remain objective in your interactions. Unfortunately, basing your decisions on your attractions and desires is not nearly as stable as sticking to logic. No matter what you choose, observe how your perspective shifts throughout the day. Your feelings continue to change, but the facts do not.
Cancer Horoscope Jun 21 – Jul 22
Your personal possessions give you a sense of security today and you relish in the certainty of their accessibility. But holding on to an abundance of mementos is like carrying extra weight and only slows your growth. Hoarding tools you no longer use makes it more difficult to find the ones necessary to complete a task. But don’t get rid of anything just to please someone else now. When you act from the core of your beliefs, others are more likely to stick with you through thick and thin.
Leo Horoscope Jul 23 – Aug 22
Nearly everything you say and do becomes a scene in your movie today with you shining in the leading role. Your impassioned receptivity enables you to intuitively connect with your audience. But you can be so focused on others now that the generous Leo Moon allows your inner voice to be drowned out by everyone else’s. Nevertheless, you still crave your time in the spotlight. In the final analysis, you agree with Shakespeare when he wrote, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
Virgo Horoscope Aug 23 – Sep 22
You believe you’re open to changing your plans today as long as you remain in control of the agenda. But you might not see what’s coming around the bend because you’re concentrating on completing a current task. Rather than practicing flexibility, your immediate reaction is to contract so you’re not pulled off center. Unfortunately, this defensive tactic won’t work. Instead of responding like a boxer by blocking and parrying, think like an aikido master who receives an incoming attack as an opportunity to work with the energy. Don’t deflect the unknown; engage it.
Libra Horoscope Sep 23 – Oct 22
Your natural ability to gracefully interact with others serves you well today as you work to strengthen your network of supporters. Thankfully, your friends and associates are quite receptive to your overtures now and are more than willing to work or play with you. But don’t take anyone’s participation for granted, for you might not be the main attraction in everyone else’s life. Nevertheless, you can make a real difference in the world if you step beyond your regular limits and try.
Scorpio Horoscope Oct 23 – Nov 21
You respond quite favorably to people who are nurturing toward you today. Rather than putting up walls and acting in a defensive manner, you’re reminded of how nice it is when you feel loved and cherished. However, you might be so eager to show your appreciation that you shift your priorities to meet someone else’s expectations. Nevertheless, you will be more successful in the long run if you stay true to your nature. Opening your heart is the best gift you can give in return.
Sagittarius Horoscope Nov 22 – Dec 21
Your world view is strongly colored by your emotions today. You’ll jump on someone’s bandwagon if your passion is stirred by their opinions, whether they are based upon fact or not. Your attitude is of the utmost importance as you look ahead to your future. There is no time to entertain doubts when your destiny is calling; think big and do whatever it takes to reach your goals. If you believe in your dreams, others will do the same.
Capricorn Horoscope Dec 22 – Jan 19
You need to be able to compartmentalize your personal preferences today when making decisions that can affect someone else. In fact, you may be called upon to manage shared assets or even take responsibility for other people at home or in the community now. In any case, your behavior sets the tone as you lead by example. Rehearsal is over; your show is about to begin and everyone is anticipating your impressive performance with baited breath.
Aquarius Horoscope Jan 20 – Feb 18
Although you’re often uncomfortable with the messiness of human emotion, you’re oddly drawn to those who openly express their needs to you today. Perhaps, your uncharacteristic magnetism with demonstrative people fills the gap left by your intellectual approach. You’re eager to improve your understanding of your own subjective reactions, so observing the likes and dislikes of someone else becomes part of your research. But don’t use your current curiosity to avoid your true feelings. Life without passion is like peanut butter without jelly.
Pisces Horoscope Feb 19 – Mar 20
Sticking to a rigid schedule is nearly impossible today. You’re more likely to change your behavior based upon what you’re feeling in the moment. Once minute, you could be so excited about a current project that you’re ready to tackle any obstacle. But your productivity falters if you feel sad or dejected. Honestly, your life is too unpredictable now to live and die by the clock. Accordingly, it’s more important than ever to do what you love and keep looking up.
You have strong business instincts which can aid you in your worldly goals, but you also possess a distinct spiritual side which you share only with those very close to you. Some might call you lucky, but in truth, you make your own luck. You can be a tad stubborn and this quality can make relationships challenging, especially as you tend to attract the same quality in others.
Famous people born today: Paul Gauguin, Dean Martin, Jessica Tandy, Liam Neeson, Prince, Anna Kournikova.
Your Birthday Year Forecast:
Your birthday this year occurs shortly after a New Moon, suggesting a time of new beginnings and fresh energy. You are instinctively starting a new phase in your life. It’s time to give your life a makeover and to branch out into the untried.
This can be a year in which you experience important turning points, or you could begin new projects or goals that have a long-term impact on your life.
There are likely to be quite a few doors opening for you this year. Negotiations, marriage, and business partnerships benefit. Artistic talent is emphasized this year, and respected – you can truly shine. You are motivated by the desire to strike a balance in your relationships and in your personal environment. Smooth negotiations with others are sought. You are more diplomatic and gracious this year. This is a good period in your life for social affairs, pleasure, amusement, and romance.
There may be a project, idea, or person that demands much of your attention or occupies much of your thoughts. It’s a strong year for any project or studies that require concentrated effort. You are especially resourceful. You are willing to put in the effort and dedication to a mental interest or project. Business and promotional efforts can thrive. You can experience a strong desire to master a subject or deepen your knowledge and skillset.
However, watch for stress and tension this year. Good energy is with you for energetic mental work, but there can be an argumentative or easy on the trigger quality to you at times during this period that should be watched for. Be careful to avoid cutting words and aggressive driving, and watch for putting ideas into action too quickly.
When it comes to finances or romantic relationships, you may be faced with choices and the need to assess areas of your life that have been neglected or that have become wasteful. There may be some uncertainty in these areas of life at times, and the need to buckle down becomes clear. Spiritual, artistic, or musical endeavors can provide a welcome relief. Disappointments can lead to a stronger sense of reality and purpose.
Your unique manner of expressing and asserting yourself is in focus and appreciated this year. Suppressed anger is more effectively released in creative ways. Physical healing can help inner healing, and vice versa.
Saturn forms an opposition to your Sun in November 2016. Saturn calls upon you to identify the weaker areas of your life, and to fix or strengthen them. Take the time to sort out your life, improve your work, and to become more efficient. Taking a slow and steady approach to life is necessary now. Pushing too hard will likely lead to frustration and setbacks. Take it easy and work on self-improvement. Results are not immediate, but will eventually come and bring healthy rewards.
The year ahead is one of fresh new beginnings. Relationships are in strong focus this year, and harmonizing with others especially important to you. Your charm and attractiveness can be in the spotlight, and artistic tendencies come to the fore. It is easier than ever to express your individuality in a manner that is true to you. This can be a strong period for business endeavors, gaining new insights, strategy, and powers of persuasion. Communications projects move forward. Love and social matters can be up and down at times and the need to buckle down with finances and schedules becomes clear.
2016 is a Number Four year for you. Ruled by Uranus. This is a year of work and development. It’s “nose to the grindstone” time. It’s a time to deal with practical matters, and it’s not a time to be lazy or especially gregarious. Sometimes, it can be a year that feels hard, monotonous and routine, and/or lonely. Advice – get yourself organized, work to build your resources, keep busy.
2017 will be a Number Five year for you. Ruled by Mercury. This is a year of exploration and freedom. It’s a time when exploration and reaching out to others brings opportunities. It’s a good time to advertise and sell. Surprises are in store, and the routine is broken. This is a year when exciting relationships can be formed, or, if you are already in a partnership, new life is breathed into the relationship. Advice – explore, look for adventure, keep your eyes open for opportunities, mingle.
You are a little more open when it comes to expressing your normally private thoughts today, dear Aries, even though there remains a retiring quality to your personality right now. Thoughts and affections can be deliciously private. Love can bring pleasant, private surprises today, even if it’s only about entertaining unusual feelings that take you off guard. You can dream up very useful and creative ideas today, particularly related to making money or doing something fabulous with a talent or hobby.
Taurus
Taurus
While there are likely to be pleasant outlets for expressing yourself today, dear Taurus, you are unlikely to commit to any one feeling – today is more about experimenting and exploring on an emotional level. While getting rid of something you no longer need can feel slightly uncomfortable, it is likely to feel unusually liberating as well, and especially so if it’s related to communications that simply are too much and interfering with your progress or productivity. This is a good day for helping out a friend with good ideas or creative advice.
Gemini
Gemini
Emotions tend to settle in today, and you seek some form of emotional balance, dear Gemini. Physical pleasures and comfort are especially appealing and appropriate now. Today is about enjoying the moment! Your instincts for money are strong right now. When it comes to your relationships, you find happiness in the little or simple things. Put more faith into the people you love, and see it returned. Business ideas are creative today.
Cancer
Cancer
There is good energy for getting places in your conversations with others today and tomorrow, dear Cancer. Consider creative ways to connect, network, or simply share ideas. It’s a good time for reaching out, but it’s also important to take extra care of your own personal needs. The Moon in your sign all day gives you this license – it’s the time of the lunar month to pay a little more attention to yourself, and perhaps to do some self-pampering. The Moon reaches out to Mars in your creative sector, making it a strong time to release and express your feelings through creative or expressive physical activities.
Leo
Leo
This can be a fine day for behind the scenes or restful, healing activities, dear Leo. For the most part, you are able to find ways to escape some of the elements of your usual routine. Even when among others you tend to have a rather retiring quality to you today, and it’s good for you – it’s a natural phase in the monthly lunar cycle. Early on the 8th, the Moon will enter your sign and you’ll be “out there”. For now, take things easy and focus on getting extra rest and time to think, process, and digest. Even so, today holds good energy for creative thinking along business or life path lines. A conversation about goals and the future can be warming.
Virgo
Virgo
You’re feeling especially positive today, dear Virgo. You’re better able to rise above small problems and not let them drag you down – such is one of the many benefits of Mercury’s transit through your adventure sector, as you have bigger things to think about. The Moon connects well to Mercury and Mars today, inspiring a sense that you can accomplish pretty much whatever you want to, as well as new ideas that you’re enthusiastic about. While there may be some confusion about the depth of a relationship now, you’re choosing to see things in a good light.
Libra
Libra
This is one of your more public days of the lunar month, dear Libra, when people tend to notice what you’re doing or look to you to take the lead. This is not always the most comfortable period for you, but today, you’re in a good position to enjoy a little more attention and visibility. In fact, you can learn of someone’s appreciation for all that you do. It’s a good time to rally up support for your cause, idea, or business direction/goal. If researching a topic further, you may seem to arrive at the right information at the right time today.
Scorpio
Scorpio
Venturing beyond your routine is attractive now, dear Scorpio, particularly as there may be some wild cards in your work or daily life to deal with and you’d rather be elsewhere, or at least thinking about it. You may be seeking a higher level of freedom and well-being, and with the Moon’s harmonious connections with Mercury and Mars today, this may very well be possible. Conversations today are likely to be rewarding and inspiring. Creative inspiration can come from a partner or close friend.
Sagittarius
Sagittarius
Deeper, hidden subjects and topics come to the surface today, dear Sagittarius. You can get into stronger touch with your inner needs and motives, and those of others as well. This is a better time, generally speaking, for observing and planning than jumping into quick action. This is largely due to strong activity in the sign opposite to yours, suggesting a need to accommodate rather than pursue personal goals, as well as an emphasis on your sectors of service. Most telling is Mars’ position in your privacy sector, which can have the effect of delaying or denying direct pursuit of goals temporarily, and rightfully so, as slowing down and observing will serve you best right now.
Capricorn
Capricorn
Impressions are especially strong through the emotions today, dear Capricorn, although you tend to be absorbing a lot from others’ as you tune in more intuitively to the needs and feelings of the people close to you. There is a stronger need for companionship now, and there is much to share and learn with a partner or close friend. You seek emotional understanding and true equality in your relationships today, and you have a good chance of achieving these things, particularly through playful, creative conversation.
Aquarius
Aquarius
This can be a good day for becoming absorbed in an exciting project or pursuit, dear Aquarius, or perhaps for enjoying tackling routine and getting things done. Ideas are especially good – even inspired – today, particularly related to money, resources, talents, and improved family and home life. It’s appropriate to focus on the details rather than the bigger picture today, making it a good time to refine and improve plans or projects. While you’re friendly, you’re also quite content to do things on your own for the time being.
Pisces
Pisces
This is a potentially strong day for connecting with others, dear Pisces, and for creative ideas. You can find that motivation levels are increasing now, and you’re becoming more and more enthused about what you’re doing and where you’re headed. This, in turn, can attract some positive attention, and partnerships can improve as well. You can feel psychically connected to friends now, perhaps sensing when and if they need help or advice, and rewards can come out of surprise or random events. This is not a great day for taking a risk with money, however. While people instincts are through the roof today, practicality is not your strong suit just for now.
Color: Purple Element: Air Altar: Upon a cloth of purple place a vase of the budded hawthorn twigs, a knife, incense of gardenia and marjoram, and a figure of the Goddess. Offerings: Contemplate something that is both beautiful and painful. Daily Meal: Serve fruit juice with the food.
Huath Invocation
Call: Now is the time of the flower’s blossoming.
Response: Now is the time when the hand reaches forth to pluck.
Call: Now is the time when we struggle with our instincts…
Response: To take beauty for ourselves, or to leave it in its place.
Call: Now is the time when we must remember that all plants are not ours.
Response: We did not plant the forest, and it does not belong to us.
Call: We were not the first beings on this earth.
Response: We have come young and late, and the trees look down upon us.
Call: They groan from the centuries of our meddling.
Response: They grow thorns to protect themselves.
Call: Now is the time when the hawthorn goddess steps forward.
Response: Now is the time when the heartless lady lifts her hand.
Call: Now is the time of great beauty in the world.
Response: Now is the time when Nature protects her beauty.
Call: The hawthorn goddess stabs us to the heart with beauty.
Response: She reminds us of our place in the world.
Call: She reminds us that we do not own this green planet.
Response: She reminds us that our grasping fingers can still bleed.
Call: She makes the hedges that our animals cannot cross.
Response: She sets the boundaries that no man may cross.
Call: She makes our hearts beat faster or slower.
Response: Her berries are sweet, but she protects them.
Call: We must respect her as we respect the Earth….
Response: The Green Man falls before her, heedless and headless.
Call: She is the blade of all trees, and we shed our blood for her.
Response: She is the teeth of Nature, and we give way before her might.
Chant:
Cauldron of Changes
Blossom of Bone
Arc of Eternity
Hole in the Stone [Pagan Book of Hours]
Color: Red Element: Fire Altar: Today the altar is set up in the kitchen, in front of the stove or fireplace, at the point which is most “hearth”. Before setting it up, everyone pitches in to clean the kitchen thoroughly, and purify it. All halls leading into the kitchen are swept as well, and everyone enters barefoot with cleanly washed feet. Upon a red cloth set a bowl of water, one large red candle, bread baked the night before, and kitchen implements. Offerings: Promote domestic harmony. Daily Meal: Breads and baked goods.
Invocation to Vesta
Hail Vesta, Lady of the Central Fire,
Flame of the Hearth
Keeper of the Inner Circle
Faceless One
Eldest of the Olympians
Lady of the Pantry
Whose open hands dispense hospitality
Chimney and cooking fire
Lady of routine and dailiness
To miss your quiet strength
In the rush of our sudden lives
Would be as great a disservice
As forgetting the air we breathe.
Teach us to take our time, Lady.
Teach us of the holiness of step after step
Chore after chore, moving in small circles
Around the hearth of our own beings.
Chant (spoken, not sung):
I circle my hearth from without
And I focus the work of my hands;
I circle my hearth from within
And I focus the work of my heart;
Every work of my hands
Is a victory won;
Every thing that I do
Is another thing done.
(All share bread, and pitch in together to make more, which can be saved or given away.)
The Moon today is in a Waxing Crescent Phase. A Waxing Crescent is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the wester sky after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. The moon is close to the sun in the sky and mostly dark except for the right edge of the moon which becomes brighter as the days get closer to the next phase which is a First Quarter with a 50% illumination.
Phase Details for – Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 8%
Moon Age: 2.63 days
Moon Angle: 0.53
Moon Distance: 378,324.14 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,849,091.11 km
You will need:
A small table covered with white cloth
A statue or picture of Vesta
One large white pillar candle
Fresh violets
A dish of salt
A dish of flour
Place the statue or picture of Vesta near the center-back of the altar. The candle should go directly in front of the statue, and the violets are sprinkled around the candle. The two small dishes of salt and flour are placed center-front.
To begin, take several relaxing breaths and focus on the image of Vesta. Imagine how it might have been to one of her priestesses. When you feel the time is right, light the candle and speak her invocation:
Goddess of the hearth and home
Let your brilliance now be known
The flair of potential does abound
Well within your temple round.
Vestal Virgins dressed in white
Keep your fire burning bright.
As elements of salt and flour
Are offered in this ritual hour.
Let your powers bright and bold
Grace me now from times of old.
Your flame of love I did light
To bring me honor from this night.
I now give all honor to thee
For your blessings.
So Mote It Be
When you have completed the invocation, take some time to reflect on the Goddess. If you have prayers or petitions of your own, make them at this time. Leave the candle to burn for one hour. Daily lighting of the candle will bring Vesta’s blessings to your home and family.
Vestalia is the spirit of ancient Rome, abided in a flame that was kept flickering in the temple of Vesta-the hearth (heart) of the city and the royal palace. The fire was tended by six priestesses, considered to be the “king’s daughters,” who were chosen as children for their nobility and physical perfection. The priestesses or bestial Virgins were held in high regard and lived a life of affluence. However, their high position demanded discipline and compromise; they were required to remain celibate for their 30 years of service.
The festival of Vesta began on June 7. When the temple was opened to women, men were forbidden to enter the temple. Because very little is known of the public or private Vestal rites, we can only speculate as to what took place. However, historians ans do know that at some point, the fire in the temple was ritually ally rekindled and that prayers and offerings were made. In addition to performing all of the sacred rites for the festival, tival, the Vestals undertook other ritual duties. For example, it was their responsibility to make the sacred salt cake (molasses) used in the Vestalia. This required them to fetch water from a sacred spring and bring it back without setting it down along the way. They were also in charge of ritually sweeping the temple clean before it was closed to outsiders on June 15.
Voodoo is the modern-day version of a Haitian religion called Vodou, which was developed under the mantle of French slavery by African-Caribbean slaves working on island plantations. However, it must not be overlooked that whether during its time in “Hispaniola” or after it entered America, it also picked up some Native-American practices and systems of belief within its folds. At its verby heart, that’s a fact of tremendous relevance—relevance— that Voodoo originated from a space where adopting Christianity as their religion was the only way to survive for tribes from Central and Western Africa who may have had diverse practices and rituals, but which originated from the same neighborhood of bodies of religious thought. When such people met other mystic spirituals, such as the Native Americans, growing communication within common spaces of living also led to the syncretic assimilation of their beliefs since many Native-American spiritual systems resonated with African spirituality.
Therefore, as Vodou developed into its current form, it encompassed the root essence of African spirituality and some measures of Native American belief systems as well as that of Roman Catholicism, since they needed to publicly espouse Christianity while inserting their own practices into Christian ways, which would allow their traditional beliefs to survive. However, although the root of Catholicism’s spiritual seed lay in indoctrination and the force of religious text over the lives of its followers, the same in African spirituality lay in the perception and devotion to the order of the universe, the healing of energies by overbalancing positive forces, and the nature of the spirit or soul which led to spirit possession.
Although Voodoo is a deeply personalized religion, given its esoteric and mystical origins spanning millennia, if one is to try and figure out the most important of its teachings to its practitioners, it’s this— there is a definite order through which the world functions, and knowing one’s place and respecting it within that order will bring immense positivity and wholesomeness, not only to the practitioner but to the system itself. Now, this shouldn’t be misunderstood as becoming a mindless zombie to the ssytem–system— another myth attributed to Vodouisant Bokors, or the closest thing the religion can have to chaotic or negative sorcerers at the very fringes of Voodoo society. Instead, perceiving and respecting the system is similar to having respect for the forces above you in the order of things, even if you may not see eye to eye and communicate as such.
Within daily life and practice as an example, Voodoo is in itself a complete way of life instead of just a practical religion, allowing elders to speak before your render your opinion on a topic on which they may have greater experience in life is a reflection of the essence of the religion. Again, don’t equate this to the simple “respect your elders” adage, but rather a deep binding sense of order within the way social interactions are constructed and viewed through Voodoo— the “elders” of “tribes”, even in modern day life, must speak before the younger ones on any matters under discussion because they’ve spent more time on this planet, and so have facets of knowledge or perspectives that youngsters lack. The same goes for the priestly order, with initiated higher ups having the first say than their lower counterparts. If the juniors disagree with their seniors they will get their chance to respectfully assert said opinion once the seniors have finished speaking. Therefore, understanding and respecting this order is part of Voodoo, whether it is your personal or professional life.
Source
VOODOO: A Beginner’s Guide to Voodoo ~ An Introduction to Voodoo Religion, Rituals, and Spells
Issendai Bechau
Witches Of The Craft® 
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