Day 28th

To Banish Negativity

Over and under, turn it loose
Negative feelings, cut the noose.
Banish now and never return
Gloom and despair will now adjourn.

The Power of Positive Witchcraft
Garden Summerland

June 12

Rice Festival

Still a popular event, the Korean Rice Festival ensures an abundant rice harvest. The custom of washing one’s hair in a stream on this day is believed to dispel bad luck and ward off evil. The traditional meal for this festival is one of fresh fish, steamed rice, and greens.

Daily Magickal Applications for Sunday, June 12

The Latin term for Sunday, our first day of the week, is Dies Solis (“sun’s day”). In ancient Greek, it was called Hemera Heliou. In the Old English language, it was known as Sunnandaeg; in Middle English, Sonenday. All of these titles mean the same thing: the day of the sun.

 

What do you think of when you feel the sun shine down on you? What sorts of enchantments and energies do you think would be complementary to a day named after our closest star? Sunday brings those bright solar energies into your life and has the magickal correspondences of success, promotion, leadership, pride, light, generosity, warmth, fitness, and personal growth. Astrologically, the sun symbolizes the conscious self and rules the zodiac sign of Leo.

 

The charms and spells that would complement this magickal day of the sun are ones for personal achievements of any kind-such as if you are seeking fame and wealth, working for that much-deserved promotion at work, or being acknowledged for a job well done. Health issues, increasing personal power, or simply sticking to your diet and being proud of what you have accomplished all fall under the sun’s golden influence.

 

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

Sunday Is Ruled By The Sun

Sunday corresponds to the sun, our closest star. This day is full of wonder and all sorts of magical potential for success, wealth, and fame. Sundays are for personal achievements of any kind such as working towards a promotion at your job, seeking fame and wealth, or being acknowledged for a job well done. All of these goals fall under the golden influence of the sun. Some suggestions for Sunday enchantments would include:

•Sitting outside at sunrise and calling on the goddess Brigid for illumination and inspiration

•Wearing gold jewelry or clothing that is gold or sunshine yellow to pull some color magic into your life

•Arranging a few sunflowers in a vase and empowering these “flowers of the sun” for fame and ambition

•Gathering up the common marigold flower and scattering it’s petals about to encourage prosperity

•Baking up a batch of cinnamon rolls for the family and enchanting them for health and success

•Snacking on a solar fruit, the orange, and enjoying the magical boost it brings to your life

The Witches Correspondences for Sunday

Magickal Intentions: Growth, Advancements, Enlightment, Rational Thought, Exorcism, Healing, Prosperity, Hope, Exorcism, Money

Incense: Lemon, Frankincense

Planet: Sun

Sign: Leo

Angel: Michael

Colors: Gold, Yellow, Orange and White

Herbs/Plants: Marigold, Heliotrope, Sunflower, Buttercup, Cedar, Beech, Oak

Stones: Carnelian, Citrine, Tiger’s Eye, Amber, Clear Quartz and Red Agate

Oil: (Sun) Cedar, Frankincense, Neroli, Rosemary

The first day of the week is ruled by the Sun. It is an excellent time to work efforts involving business partnerships, work promotions, business ventures, and professional success. Spells where friendships, mental or physical health, or bringing joy back into life are an issue work well on this day, too.

Moon in Libra

 

Keywords:

charming, social, diplomatic, easy-going, adaptable, artistic, graceful, clear thinking

the Shadow Side:

self-indulgent, dependent, indecisive, calculating, people-pleasing

Quality and Element:

Cardinal and Air

Famous People with Moon in Libra:

Alec Baldwin, Kate Winslet, Nicolas Cage, Geena Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Louis Armstrong, Walt Disney, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Springsteen, Sylvia Plath

Personality Profile:
Those with the Moon in Libra have a breezy elegance that makes them sought-after companions. Their aesthetic standards are high, and they can’t help but turn their homes into showplaces, since they have such an eye for decorative harmony. This often translates into a tranquil domestic life as well, since they also know how to create an atmosphere of peaceful balance.

There’s a light, airy quality to the Libra Moon nature that can be refreshing, especially in times when they’re forced to put their nimble diplomacy into action.

They know that there are two sides to every story, and they’re experts at finding a workable compromise. People often sense their innate fairness, and this leads them to win the trust of many.

It’s natural for the Libra Moon to share, whether in a business relationship or in romance. They are happiest when part of a twosome, but sometimes this leads to a stifling dependence. If faced with a separation of any kind, they could act as if they’re very existence is threatened. That’s because more than any other Moon sign, their emotional identity is shaped by their relationships with others.

The Libra Moon can claim to be a true “people person” because they often use the mirror of others to understand their own natures. But Libra is an air sign, and inhabiting the Moon, it often leads with the head, rather than the heart.

To hear them talk about a potential mate might sound like they’re interviewing for a job. But a focus on the lifestyle, appearance and manner of a person ranks high for someone looking for a pleasing overall package. They’re searching for someone they can glide with through life in glorious tandem while looking as polished and put-together as they are – in a word, perfection both inside and out.

Source

Molly Hall, Astrology Expert
Article published on & owned by About.com

Libra’s Correspondences

Attributes: Balanced, committed, lazy, luxurious, indecisive

Herbs: Violet, hyacinth, pansy, orris, mint, burdock

Stones: Opal, peridot, lapis, tourmaline

Element: Air

Day: Friday

Colors: Deep blue, green

Planet: Venus
 

Source

A Spell Crafter’s Compendium
Terri Paajanen

The Witches Almanac for Sunday, June 12th

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

Shauvot

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 4:10 am

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

Moon enters Libra 8:33 pm
Libra: Favors cooperation, social activities, beautification of surroundings, balance, and partnership.

Incense: Almond

Color: Orange

Magical Days of the Week – Sunday

Sunday is associated with the colors yellow and gold, which shouldn’t be surprising – it’s the day of the sun, right? Because of this planetary association, this is a day that’s also connected to solar deities like Helios and Ra. Interestingly, in some Celtic traditions, Brighid’s day is Sunday as well.

 

When it comes to crystal use, Sunday is related to quartz crystals and diamonds, as well as the yellowish hues of carnelian and amber. For herbs and plants in magical workings, use marigolds, sunflowers or cinnamon.

 

What kind of magic is best performed on Sunday? Well, it’s a day that generally has a number of associations – agriculture, beauty, hope, victory, self-expression and creativity are all connected to this particular day. Plant or harvest something new (not just material crops, but metaphysical ones as well), create something from nothing, and prepare to win at everything.

Source

Patti Wigington, Paganism/Wicca Expert

Article published on & owned by About.com

Sunday’s Witchery

Those ambitious, successful spells and charms will be heightened by working on the day of the week that has the planetary influence of the sun. So light those sunny candles, wear some luminous colors, and break out the gold jewelry! Bake up some cinnamon rolls or low-fat cinnamon muffins for an enchanting family breakfast. Take an orange with you to eat at lunch today. Try using a little magickal aromatherapy and burn some cinnamon-scented incense to encourage success and wealth today. Make the talisman to keep your solar magick with you. Sprinkle some dried marigold petals around your house-or across the threshold-to pull triumph and protection toward you and your family.

 

Get outside and tip up your face to the sun. Take a walk outside, and soak up some sunshine! Acknowledge the power of Sunna or Helios as they blaze across the sky and bring courage and motivation into your life. Sit outside at sunrise on a Sunday morning and bask in its warm, rosy-golden glow Acknowledge Brigid as the inner, creative spark of imagination and inspiration. She can help these gifts burn brightly within your own soul. Use your imagination and create your own brand of witchery and magick. Here comes the sun, and it’s your turn to shine!

 

Source

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

Sunday

Ruler: Sun

Colors: Gold or yellow

Power Hours: Sunrise and sunset.

Key Words: Love, happiness, health, wealth

It is easy to spot the ruler of this day by its name. Sunday is the day of the sun. Community work, volunteer services, exercise, outdoor sports, buying, selling, speculating, meeting people, anything involving groups, running fairs and raffles, growing crops and taking care of all health matters fall under the influence of the Sun. With all this activity and the brightness of the sun, it’s easy to see why the child that is born on the Sabbath day is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

Michael is the primary angel of Sunday but each hour of this day also has it’s secondary angel. These angels are Michael (first hour), Anael (second hour), Raphael (third hour), Gabril (fourth hour), Cassiel (fifth hour), Sachiel (sixth hour), Samael (seventh hour), Michael (eighth hour), Anael (ninth hour), Raphael (tenth hour), Gabriel (eleventh hour), and Cassiel twelfth hour). Notice some of the angels do double duty this day.

On Sundays, (unless you are invoking a specific angelic energy) the hour of sunrise will be the most powerful time to work, especially if you want to infuse energy into your work. Sunset is the second best time and is favored when you need to calm down a situation. Check the local newspaper, astrological calendar, or almanac to determine your local sunrise.

 

Source

Gypsy Magic

Magickal Work for Sunday

 Health
 Abundance
 Leadership
 Strength
 Ambition
 Individuality
 Authority
 Hope
 Joy
 Happiness
 Creativity

 

Source

A Spell Crafter’s Compendium
Terri Paajanen

Goddesses Associated With Sunday

Sunne, Sol, Frau Sonne, Aditi, Igaehindvo, Amaterasu, Arinna, Izanami, Ochumare

Source

The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

The Goddess Book of Days for the 12th of June

Shavuot, Hebrew grain festival dedicated to Ashtoreth, Eve, the Shekinah, Matronit, and Lilith. In Greece, the Scirophoria of Athena for fruitfulness. (Minerva, Sophia, Oya, Anath, Neith, Metis, Medusa, Maat.)

 

Source

The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

Sunday, June 12

Traditionally, Sunday is the first day of the week. It is also known as the Lord’s Day from it original association with the Lord, that is, the Sun God, personified as Helios, Apollo, Ogmios, Mithras, and St. Elia. But in the Northern Tradition, the sun is seen as feminine, personified as the goddess known as Phoebe in East Anglia and Saule in eastern Europe. The sun rules the conscious element of the human being, the ego, the real self, and Sunday is the day on which this conscious power is at its most effective.

Deity: Sol

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Planet: Sun

Tree: Birch

Herb: Snakeroot

Stone: Ruby

Animal: Lion

Element: Fire

Color: Gold

Rune: Sigel

Celtic Tree Month of Duir(Oak) – June 10 – July 7. Oak month is a time for protection and strength, fertility, money and success, and good fortune.

Runic Half-Month of Odal (home, possessions) – May 29 – June 13

Goddess of the Month of Hera – May 16 – June 12

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

The Sky This Week for June 12 to June 19

A virtual who’s-who of our planetary neighbors will be out in the sky this week for you to find

Sunday, June 12

• Mars remains near its peak all this week. The Red Planet reached opposition on May 22 and made its closest approach to Earth (at a distance of 46.8 million miles [75.3 million kilometers]) on the 30th. Mars appears in the southeastern sky as darkness falls and grows more prominent as the evening wears on and it climbs higher. By 11 p.m. local daylight time, it stands one-third of the way to the zenith in the south against the backdrop of southern Libra. The world shines at magnitude –1.8, just a hair dimmer than the brightest point of light in the sky, Jupiter. When viewed through a telescope, Mars’ orange-red disk spans 18″. Look for subtle dark markings along with a whitish north polar cap.

• For people who live near 35° north latitude, today marks the earliest sunrise of the year. Although the Northern Hemisphere’s longest day doesn’t occur until Earth’s summer solstice on June 20, earliest sunrise happens several days before and latest sunset several days after. The specific dates depend on your latitude, however. In general, earliest sunrise occurs closer to the solstice the farther north you live.

Monday, June 13

• Brilliant Jupiter appears high in the southwest as darkness falls and remains on display until 1 a.m. local daylight time. The giant planet shines at magnitude –2.0 — 0.2 magnitude brighter than Mars blazing in the southeast — against the backdrop of southern Leo the Lion. Jupiter appears equally dazzling through a telescope, which reveals a wealth of atmospheric features on a disk that spans 36″. Although such detail appears on every clear evening, a rare treat awaits observers tonight when two moons disappear within minutes of each other. Early this evening, Io and Ganymede both lurk near Jupiter’s western limb. Ganymede passes behind the limb at 12:35 a.m. EDT with Io following 10 minutes later.

Tuesday, June 14

• Neptune’s eastward motion against the background stars comes to a halt at 4 a.m. EDT. This so-called stationary point marks the beginning of the best period to observe an outer planet. Neptune rises around 1 a.m. local daylight time and appears nearly 30° high in the southeast as morning twilight commences. The magnitude 7.9 planet lies in Aquarius, some 0.5° southeast of 4th-magnitude Lambda (l) Aquarii, and doesn’t move noticeably all week. You’ll need binoculars to spy Neptune and a telescope to see its blue-gray disk, which spans 2.3″.

Wednesday, June 15

• Mercury shines brightly in morning twilight this week, standing 6° high in the east-northeast a half-hour before sunrise today. The inner planet shines at magnitude –0.3 and shows up easily through binoculars if you have an unobstructed horizon. When viewed through a telescope, Mercury appears 7″ across and slightly more than half-lit.

• The Moon reaches apogee, the farthest point in its orbit around Earth, at 8:00 a.m. EDT. It then lies 251,670 miles (405,024 kilometers) from Earth’s center.

Thursday, June 16

• The conspicuous Summer Triangle asterism dominates the eastern sky in late evening. Vega, the triangle’s brightest member, shines at magnitude 0.0 and stands highest of the three stars. To its lower left lies Deneb; at magnitude 1.3, it’s the faintest of the trio. Magnitude 0.8 Altair completes the bright asterism. Despite its name, the Summer Triangle appears prominent from late spring until the onset of winter.

Friday, June 17

• The waxing gibbous Moon forms the apex of a flat isosceles triangle with Mars and Saturn tonight. The Moon stands highest and about 10° from both planets; Mars and Saturn lie approximately 18° apart.

Saturday, June 18

• The Moon passes 3° due north of Saturn at 8 p.m. EDT. For observers in North America, the two appear between 3° and 5° apart throughout the night.

Sunday, June 19

• Full Moon officially arrives at 7:02 a.m. EDT tomorrow morning, but it looks completely illuminated throughout the night. It appears low in the southeast as the Sun sets and reaches its peak in the south around 1 a.m. local daylight time. For North American observers, the Full Moon crosses from Ophiuchus the Serpent-bearer into Sagittarius the Archer during the evening hours.

 

Source

Astronomy Magazine

Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Sunday, June 12

Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 91.93° E
Sun Altitude: 43.29°
Sun Distance: 94.403 million mi
Next Solstice: Jun 20, 2016 5:34 PM (Summer)
Sunrise Today: 5:34 AM↑ 60° Northeast
Sunset Today: 8:15 PM↑ 300° Northwest
Length of Daylight: 14 hours, 41 minutes

 

Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 45.80° NE
Moon Altitude: -40.13°
Moon Distance: 248616 mi
Next Full Moon: Jun 20, 20166:02 AM
Next New Moon: Jul 4, 20166:00 AM
Next Moonrise: Today1:12 PM
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 52.6%

 

Source

timeanddate.com

No journey is complete without return.
All trips are round-trips:
we always come back
to where we started.
Though it may be true
that you can never go home again
because every adventure
changes you, changes home,
nonetheless, we come from dust
we return to dust;
we rise from ashes
and fall to ashes again.
Like a phoenix, every birth is death
and every death is birth.

—-Poetry, Songs, and Enchantments: A Pagan Sourcebook
Gwenhwyfar Rhwwttchen

It is a very difficult day to get started.

Fifty people killed in Florida and the count will probably rise.

It makes you wonder what is wrong with our society,

Are we doing enough to prevent such tragedies or is it out of our hands.

I believe everything happens for a reason but when so many lives

have been taken what reason could there be for that.

Heartache, sorrow and the loss of precious loved ones.

There is no reason, just a madman got a gun and took

it upon his self to play God.

The end result the worst mass shooting in the history of

our great country.

 

I ask that you light a candle today and say a prayer for the

family and friends who lost their loved ones in this horrible event.

Ask the Goddess to grant them peace and comfort.

As hard it is to accept their loss,

let them be reassured their loved ones have moved

on to a much better place.

Ask the Goddess to remind them of her promise to us all,

one day we will all be reunited in the Summerlands.

 

Goddess, please the people of Florida

and our entire country as we now grief.

So Mote It Be.