Month: August 2016

Attract the Perfect Lover Spell

Attract the Perfect Lover Spell

Timing: Perform on a Friday during the waxing moon.

Supplies:

6 rose petals
1 teaspoon of lavender
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
a rose quartz
6-inch square of pink cloth
green ribbon (floss or yarn will do)
an inch of red ribbon
needle and thread
a penny

Place the petals, rose quartz, lavender, cinnamon, red ribbon, and penny in the center of the cloth square. Gather the edges of the fabric together and hold the pouch close to your heart. Then say:

“Venus, Queen of love, divine
Bring the love to me that’s mine.
Perfect, he (she) and perfect, me
Together we are meant to be.
Venus, Queen of love, so warm
Bring my love to me, without harm.
Let nothing keep us now apart,
Bring perfect love to fill my heart.”

Still holding the pouch against your heart, fill it with loving energy. Secure the pouch with the green ribbon to seal the spell. Carry it on your person and sleep with it under your pillow. When the lover comes to you, bury the pouch under a tree.

Adoration Candle Magick Love Spell

Adoration Candle Magick Love Spell

On your altar, place two red candles at either end. Before doing this, rub the two candles with rose essential oil.

Again, on Friday, the day of the week devoted to the Goddess Aphrodite, perform this task to attract your beloved.

Write your name on one candle, and your beloved’s on the other. If you do not know his or her name, simply write “my beloved” or “my true love”.

Again try to use language that will ensure positive magic. If you simply write “handsome” you may well end up with someone gorgeous, but who is harmful for you in some other way.

Each evening at seven, light the candles and move them slightly closer together.

Carve into your candle a word of special significance to you, perhaps taken from your insights when you performed the wishful thinking task. Perhaps the word “devoted” should be carved into your beloved’s candle.

On your own, write the same. Meditate on this quality for several minutes, then snuff out the candles. Repeat this for seven nights, using a different quality each time, until on the seventh, the following Friday, both candles are finally standing as close together as possible.

Light them and let them burn down and out. If any wax remains, scatter it before you as you walk through a beautiful place, wishing it to bring good fortune to others hoping for love.

A Ribbon Attraction Spell

A Ribbon Attraction Spell

You will need a pink ribbon, a mirror, some honey, pen, paper, and a candle.
Burn some sweet smelling incense…heather or violet is perfect for this. Pass the ribbon through the smoke three times saying:

“Ribbon be thou the bearer of love. Ribbon be thou the bearer of happiness.”

Now put a dab of honey on the ribbon and then on your tongue. As you taste the honey, say:

“Honey, bring me the sweetness of love.”

Repeat three times. Now hold up the mirror and look into it. See yourself reflected there. Now say this three times:

“I am Goddess and Goddess is me. She is beautiful. So Mote It Be.”

Now dab a bit of honey on the candle and wrap the ribbon around it. Hold it between your hands as you say (again three times)

“From ribbon to candle
The magic shall go
From candle to astral
The flame makes it so.”

Remove the ribbon and light the candle. Let the candle burn down. While it is burning you will be writing what you want in a partner on a piece of paper. Be specific…say “likes kittens but hates frogs” if that is what you want. Don’t specify any person. It will backfire badly.


When you have finished your list (and you can make mistakes and scratch out or start over), fold the list three times. Tie it up with the pink ribbon. Snuff out the candle if it is still burning. Put the list between your mattress and your box springs.


Each night for the next week you must look at yourself in the mirror and repeat the mirror charm.

“I am Goddess and Goddess is me. She is beautiful. So Mote It Be.”

At the end of the week, you can stop the mirror charm or continue it. That is your choice. Your spell will bring you love within 7 weeks.

A Love Bell Spell

A Love Bell Spell

Hang up a bell with a pleasant ring in a window which remains open for a good part of each day, and through which the wind blows (preferable the West wind).

As you do so, speak these words:

“Little bell of love,
I hang you to whisper my need for love on the breezes and winds.
Little bell of love,
Speak of my need for love to your brothers and sisters.
Little bell of love,
I ask you to speak softly and draw to me someone who listens.”

Every time the bell rings, it is “whispering” of your need for love. 

A Little Humor for Your Day – Instructions For Life

Instructions For Life

  • Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
  • Memorize your favorite poem.
  • Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
  • When you say, “I love you”, mean it.
  • When you say, “I’m sorry”, look the person in the eye.
  • Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
  • Believe in love at first sight.
  • Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much.
  • Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.
  • In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
  • Don’t judge people by their relatives.
  • Talk slowly but think quickly.
  • When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?”
  • Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
  • Call your mom.
  • Say “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.
  • When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
  • Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.
  • Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
  • When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
  • Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
  • Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
  • Spend some time alone.
  • Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
  • Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
  • Read more books and watch less TV.
  • Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll get to enjoy it a second time.
  • Trust in Goddess but lock your car.
  • A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home.
  • In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
  • Read between the lines.
  • Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
  • Be gentle with the earth.
  • Pray. There’s immeasurable power in it.
  • Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
  • Mind your own business.
  • Don’t trust a man/woman who doesn’t close his/her eyes when you kiss.
  • Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
  • If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth’s greatest satisfaction.
  • Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
  • Learn the rules then break some.
  • Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.
  • Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
  • Remember that your character is your destiny.
  • Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

 

Author Unknown

Originally published on Pagan Library

Astronomy Picture of the Day – Perseid Fireball at Sunset Crater

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2016 August 19

Perseid Fireball at Sunset Crater
Image Credit & Copyright: Jeremy Perez

 

Explanation: On the night of August 12, this bright Perseid meteor flashed above volcanic Sunset Crater National Monument, Arizona, USA, planet Earth. Streaking along the summer Milky Way, its initial color is likely due to the shower meteor’s characteristically high speed. Entering at 60 kilometers per second, Perseid meteors are capable of exciting green emission from oxygen atoms while passing through the tenuous atmosphere at high altitudes. Also characteristic of bright meteors, this Perseid left a visibly glowing persistent train. Its evolution is seen over a three minute sequence (left to right) spanning the bottom of the frame. The camera ultimately captured a dramatic timelapse video of the twisting, drifting train.

Earth Sky News for August 19th: Quasi-conjunction of Mercury and Jupiter

Quasi-conjunction of Mercury and Jupiter

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Tonight – August 19, 2016 – although it won’t be easy from Earth’s Northern Hemisphere, look for the quasi-conjunction of the planets Mercury and Jupiter. They’ll be at their closest for the month on August 19 or 20, depending on where you are on the globe. Southern Hemisphere viewers see them best, but, for all of us, binoculars will come in handy. The two will be close enough together on the sky’s dome to fit within a single binocular field. So if you see Jupiter, but not Mercury, try reeling Mercury in with binoculars.

No matter where you live worldwide, Mercury and Jupiter will appear in your western sky after sunset throughout August 2016. Moreover, the sky’s brightest planet – Venus – also lights up the western sky, within a stone’s throw of Mercury and Jupiter.

Look westward, starting 45 minutes (or less) after sunset. Mercury and Venus will set less than one hour after sunset at mid-northern latitudes. Jupiter will set around 75 minutes after the sun. Use binoculars to help you out with your planet search, for these bright worlds sit in the glare of evening twilight at northerly latitudes.

If you live in the Southern Hemisphere or the northern tropics, the view of the three planets – Mercury, Venus and Jupiter – improves by leaps and bounds. At more southerly latitudes, the planetary threesome stands higher up in the sky at sunset, and what’s more, these worlds stay out after dark. The Southern Hemisphere has the great big advantage over the Northern Hemisphere for viewing August’s planetary threesome.

Here’s the Southern Hemisphere view …

At the Earth’s equator (0o latitude), Venus sets about 75 minutes after the sun, Mercury sets around 95 minutes after sunset and Jupiter sets over 100 minutes after the sun. Farther south, in the Southern Hemisphere, these planets set even later after sundown. Click here to find out the setting times of the planets in your sky.

Technically speaking, a conjunction of two planets only takes place whenever two planets lie due north and south of another on the sky’s dome. Although Mercury and Jupiter don’t have a conjunction in August 2016, these two worlds do appear less than 5o apart for the next few evenings, showcasing a quasi-conjunction of the planets Mercury and Jupiter.

Bottom line: Find an unobstructed western horizon, and look for the August 19, 2016 quasi-conjunction of Mercury and Jupiter. They’re in the west after sunset. Best of luck!

 

 

BRUCE MCCLURE

Bruce McClure has served as lead writer for EarthSky’s popular Tonight pages since 2004. He’s a sundial aficionado, whose love for the heavens has taken him to Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and sailing in the North Atlantic, where he earned his celestial navigation certificate through the School of Ocean Sailing and Navigation. He also writes and hosts public astronomy programs and planetarium programs in and around his home in upstate New York.

Article originally published on EarthSky