Month: March 2017

Delving Into Divination – Tea Leaf Reading

In the Craft, there are many forms of divination. You have Palm Reading, Tarot Card Readings, Rune Readings, Scrying and the list goes on and on. Since our Elemental Witch Series will be concluding today, we decided to delve right into divination. The first form of divination is Tea Leaf Reading, yes, you heard right, Tea Leaf Divination. Did you know after you get through drinking that tasty cup of tea that those little leaves at the bottom could hold a very special meaning for you? They can answer looming questions and predict your future? Imagine all of that for just the cost of a cup of tea, how could you go wrong?

 

In this episode:

History of Tea Leaf Reading

Brewing the Perfect Cup

Symbolism of those little leaves left in the bottom of your cup.

 

Enjoy!

 

THE WOTC PODCAST

Featured Spell of the Day for March 21 – An Ink Wash Spell

Spell of the Day for Tuesday, March 21

An Ink Wash Spell

 

The main purpose of this spell is to cancel out harm caused by another individual. The spell is to be casted by the person who was the original victim of the spellcasted.

 

Items you will need:

One black candle 6 to 8 inches long

Matches

One bottle of purple water based ink

One fountain pen

One sheet of office paper

One bowl of water

One small glass tumbler

 

The only chant that is in this spell is as follows:

“All that is valuable, I keep

All that is harmful, I discard.”

 

Enjoy!

 

THE WOTC PODCAST

A Special Edition of Divination for Tuesday, March 21

Welcome to a special edition of Tuesday’s Divination. As you know, we normally do not put out a Divination podcast during the weekdays but unfortunately instead of computer problems, we had people problems today. No one could get their act together. So Lady A bravely took the mic and went to the air. We offer to you our usual divination, runes, tarot, horoscope and much, much more. Lady A has some very interesting tidbits she adds to the mix and what we thought was going to be a horrible day turns into a very beautiful one. We hope you enjoy today’s edition along with Lady A tales and hints.

 

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How To Hold an Ostara Ritual for Solitaries


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How To Hold an Ostara Ritual for Solitaries

By Patti Wigington, About.com Guide

 

Ostara is a time of balance. It is a time of equal parts light and dark. At Mabon, we have this same balance, but the light is leaving us. Today, six months later, it is returning. Spring has arrived, and with it comes hope and warmth. Deep within the cold earth, seeds are beginning to sprout. In the damp fields, the livestock are preparing to give birth. In the forest, under a canopy of newly sprouted leaves, the animals of the wild ready their dens for the arrival of their young. Spring is here.

Difficulty: Average
Time Required: Varied
Here’s How:

For this ritual, you’ll want to decorate your altar with symbols of the season. Think about all the colors you see in nature at this time of year — bright daffodils, crocuses, plump tulips, green shoots — and incorporate them into your altar. This is also a time of fertility in the natural world — the egg is the perfect representation of this aspect of the season. Symbols of young animals such as lambs, chicks, and calves are also great altar adornments for Ostara.

In addition, you’ll need the following:
Three candles — one yellow, one green, and one purple
A bowl of milk
A small bowl of honey or sugar
Perform this ritual outside if at all possible, in the early morning as the sun rises. It’s spring, so it may be a bit chilly, but it’s a good time to reconnect with the earth. If your tradition normally requires you to cast a circle, do so now.

Begin by taking a moment to focus on the air around you. Inhale deeply, and see if you can smell the change in the seasons. Depending on where you live, the air may have an earthy aroma, or a rainy one, or even smell like green grass. Sense the shift in energy as the Wheel of the Year has turned. Light the green candle, to symbolize the blossoming earth. As you light it, say:

The Wheel of the Year turns once more,
and the vernal equinox arrives.
Light and dark are equal,
and the soil begins to change.
The earth awakes from its slumber,
and new life springs forth once more.

Next, light the yellow candle, representing the sun. As you do so, say:The sun draws ever closer to us,
greeting the earth with its welcoming rays.
Light and dark are equal,
and the sky fills with light and warmth.
The sun warms the land beneath our feet,
and gives life to all in its path.

Finally, light the purple candle. This one represents the Divine in our lives — whether you call it a god or a goddess, whether you identify it by name or simply as a universal life force, this is the candle which stands for all the things we do not know, all those things we cannot understand, but that are the sacred in our daily lives. As you light this candle, focus on the Divine around and within you. Say:

Spring has come! For this, we are thankful!
The Divine is present all around,
in the cool fall of a rain storm,
in the tiny buds of a flower,
in the down of a newborn chick,
in the fertile fields waiting to be planted,
in the sky above us,
and in the earth below us.
We thank the universe* for all it has to offer us,
and are so blessed to be alive on this day.
Welcome, life! Welcome, light! Welcome, spring!

Take a moment and meditate on the three flames before you and what they symbolize. Consider your own place within these three things — the earth, the sun, and the Divine. How do you fit into the grand scheme of things? How do you find balance between light and dark in your own life?Finally, blend the milk and honey together, mixing gently. Pour it onto the ground around your altar space as an offering to the earth**. As you do, you may wish to say something like:

I make this offering to the earth,
As thanks for the many blessings I have received,
And those I shall some day receive.

Once you have made your offering, stand for a minute facing your altar. Feel the cool earth beneath your feet, and the sun on your face. Take in every sensation of this moment, and know that you are in a perfect place of balance between light and dark, winter and summer, warmth and cold — a time of polarity and harmony.When you are ready, end the ritual.
Tips:
* Instead of “the Universe”, feel free to insert the name of your patron deity or the gods of your tradition here.
** If you’re doing this rite indoors, take your bowl of milk and honey and pour it in your garden, or around your yard.

What You Need

Three candles – yellow, green and purple
A bowl of milk
A small bowl of honey or sugar
Seasonal decorations for your altar

 

Ostara Ritual (Eostre): A Ritual for Children


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Ostara Ritual (Eostre): A Ritual for Children

Performed at Pantheacon 2009

 

Cast circle as usual, emphasizing the growth of new life in the spring and what each element brings to this process:

East: (the wind that spreads the seeds)
South: (the heat of the sun that helps them grow)
West: (the water which feeds them)
North: (the earth from which they spring)

Call Persephone/Kore, Demeter, and Hekate as the Three Aspects of the Goddess

Call the Green Man, the Spirit of Growth [both these invocations can be noisy and fun, with lots of hand-clapping, shakers, and noisemakers of all kinds]

Introduction to the myth:
“Ostara is the celebration of Balance. The days and nights are of equal length but the Sun God is gaining more power over the darkness of Winter. This Sabbat is named after the Teutonic goddess Eostre, whose name is probably yet another variant of Ishtar, Astarte and Aset or Isis. This Sabbat overlaps many other observances at this time of year, such as Easter — a Christian celebration. In celebration of the return of Spring, many people have told stories of the return of the maiden Goddess to earth after the long cold winter. Here is the version which was told in ancient Greece.”

[Gather the children together to sit at the feet of Hekate as she tells the story]

The myth of Demeter & Kore

[personae: Demeter, Kore, Hades, Hekate, Helios, Zeus, Hermes (act out as Hekate sits and reads the story to the children)
props: flowers, a pomegranate (if possible) or other fruit. Cloak for Hades to hide Kore under]

The maiden Kore, daughter of Demeter, was gathering flowers when she suddenly noticed a flower of striking beauty. She ran to pick the flower, but as she bent down the earth opened and Hades appeared. He seized her and dragged her down into the depths of the earth. [Kore gathers flowers; Hades grabs her, covers her with cloak; she drops her flower; both run off to side and Kore remains hidden under cloak with Hades facing away from action]

Kore’s mother, Demeter, heard her daughter’s despairing cry for help, and for nine days looked all over the world. Finally, on Hekate’s advice, she went to see Helios, the sun, who saw the abduction from his chariot in the heavens. Helios told Demeter that the flower was planted by Zeus, so that she might become his brother Hades’ “flowering bride.”[Demeter looks everywhere, goes to Hekate, who points to Helios. Helios picks up flower and hands it to Demeter, who weeps]

In her grief Demeter left Olympus and took refuge among the cities of men. As she withdrew, so the earth dried up and withered, the sap of growth departed and the land lay dying. The gods, seeing that without crops the entire human race would perish and there would be no one to worship them, came to Demeter to entreat her to come out and restore the earth. But she would not permit the earth to bear fruit again until she saw her daughter. [Demeter sits with head in hands; other gods come to her, but she shakes head “no”]

Finally Zeus commanded Hermes to descend into the underworld and tell Hades that he must return Kore, who since her arrival in the underworld had taken the name Persephone, to her mother. Before returning, Persephone, yielding to Hades’ temptation, ate a few pomegranate seeds. Having tasted the fruit, Persephone must henceforth spend a third of each year with him, but when she comes back to earth at springtime, she and her mother are so happy that all the flowers bloom again.
[Zeus points Hermes to Hades, who turns around and unveils Persephone. Hades hands Persephone a fruit, and she takes a bite. Hermes takes Persephone by the hand and leads her to Demeter, who stands and embraces her. All gods gather together and show flowers, handing them to children]

All sing “The Lady’s Bransle”:

For she will bring the buds in the spring
And laugh among the flowers,
In summer’s heat her kisses are sweet,
She sings in leafy bowers;
She cuts the cane and gathers the grain
When fruits of fall surround her;
Her bones grow old in wintry cold,
She wraps her cloak around her.
But she will bring the buds in the spring…

[about three times through should be sufficient–perhaps do this as a circle dance. at very least get the kids to clapping]

The Egg-Hunt: Take a [real] hardboiled egg, show it to the kids and say: “During the winter, the world is all cold and icy.”
Crack the shell, saying “but in the spring, the ice cracks.”
Peel the shell and dispose of it in a bowl, then take off bits of the white for the kids to eat (if they want), saying: “and the snow melts.”
Then show them the yolk and say “And the sun returns! …and that’s why we hunt for eggs!”

[Egg hunt follows]

Cakes and wine (cake and milk) and general feasting to follow.

Devoke and farewells.

 

General Preparations


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General Preparations

Ostara, Vernal Equinox, Spring, Rebirth, Easter, March 21st

 

1. I begin to read and research the subject of Spring Celebrations starting in early February. I am fond of Goddess lore and rituals, Neopagan topics, and Daoism, so you might see something about those topics in my seasonal celebrations webpages.

2. Spring cleaning indoors is a common preparatory activity during this time of the year. Completing some of the chores listed on your garden chores list for February and March is also a good idea. Make reasonable adjustments for inclement weather.

3. Starting seeds indoors in February is a good task. All potted plants should be put into the ground and watered as planned. Removing any dead trees, branches or shrubs should be continued as weather permits.

4. Clean your indoor altar. Dust all ritual and art objects. Put out offerings. Use your “Prayer Books.”

Foods for an Ostara Feast


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Foods for an Ostara Feast

Easter cupcakesThese aren’t traditional so much as intuitive, but they work, and seem to please her.

-Deviled Eggs, especially if you can create a sun motif, or garnish with greens

-Vegetable Quiche

-Custard

-Angel Food Cake

-Carrot Cake

-Cooked Carrots

-Cooked greens, or fresh in a salad

-Fiddlehead ferns in lemon sauce

-Edible spring flowers, if you can find them – especially violets

-Lamb

-Rabbit Stew

-Cookies shaped like baby animals or flowers

-Small fried fish

 

Ostara Oil & Incense


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Ostara Oil & Incense

Ostara Oil

Put in soap or annoint candles
5 drops lavender
5 drops jasmine
5 drops patchouli
5 drops rose

Add a lavender bud and small lapis lazuli, rose, and clear quartz crystals. This has the gently smell of spring beginning to blossom. Very lovely!

Ostara Incense

Recipe by Scott Cunningham
2 parts Frankincense
1 part Benzoin
1 part Dragon’s Blood
1/2 part Nutmeg
1/2 part Violet flowers (or a few drops Violet oil)
1/2 part Orange peel
1/2 part Rose petals

Burn during Wiccan rituals on Ostara, or to welcome the spring and refresh your life.

(The above recipe for “Ostara Incense” is directly quoted from Scott Cunningham’s book: “The Complete Book of Incense, Oils & Brews”, page 83, Llewellyn Publications, 1992.)

Astronomy Picture of the Day – The Aurora Tree

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.

2017 March 20

The Aurora Tree
Image Credit & Copyright: Alyn Wallace Photography

 

Explanation: Yes, but can your tree do this? Pictured is a visual coincidence between the dark branches of a nearby tree and bright glow of a distant aurora. The beauty of the aurora — combined with how it seemed to mimic a tree right nearby — mesmerized the photographer to such a degree that he momentarily forgot to take pictures. When viewed at the right angle, it seemed that this tree had aurora for leaves! Fortunately, before the aurora morphed into a different overall shape, he came to his senses and capture the awe-inspiring momentary coincidence. Typically triggered by solar explosions, aurora are caused by high energy electrons impacting the Earth’s atmosphere around 150 kilometers up. The unusual Earth-sky collaboration was witnessed earlier this month in Iceland.

March equinox! Happy spring or fall

March equinox! Happy spring or fall

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The 2017 vernal or spring (or fall) equinox occurred on March 20 at 10:29 UTC. Spring for the north – fall for the south – of Earth’s globe.
Although there’s nothing official about it, it’s traditional to say the March or vernal equinox signals the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. This equinox does provide a hallmark for the sun’s motion in our sky, marking that special moment when the sun crosses the celestial equator going from south to north. The 2017 vernal equinox arrived on March 20 at 10:29 UTC. In the Northern Hemisphere, we’re enjoying earlier sunrises, later sunsets, softer winds, sprouting plants. Meanwhile, the opposite season – later sunrises, earlier sunset, chillier winds, dry and falling leaves – south of the equator.

What is an equinox? Each equinox and solstice is an astronomical event, caused by Earth’s tilt on its axis and ceaseless motion in orbit. The equinox is also an event you can think about as happening on the imaginary dome of our sky.

The Earth-centered view is that the celestial equator is a great circle dividing Earth’s sky into Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The celestial equator wraps the sky directly above Earth’s equator. At the equinox, the sun crosses the celestial equator, to enter the sky’s Northern Hemisphere.

The Earth-in-space view is that, because Earth doesn’t orbit upright, but is instead tilted on its axis by 23-and-a-half degrees, Earth’s Northern and Southern hemispheres trade places in receiving the sun’s light and warmth most directly, as Earth orbits the sun. We have an equinox twice a year – spring and fall – when the tilt of the Earth’s axis and Earth’s orbit around the sun combine in such a way that the axis is inclined neither away from nor toward the sun.

At the equinox, Earth’s two hemispheres are receiving the sun’s rays equally. Night and day are approximately equal in length. The word equinox comes from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night).

But, since Earth never stops moving around the sun, these days of equal sunlight and night will change quickly.

The video below was the Astronomy Picture of the Day for March 19, 2014. APOD explained:

At an equinox, the Earth’s terminator – the dividing line between day and night – becomes vertical and connects the north and south poles. The time-lapse video [below] demonstrates this by displaying an entire year on planet Earth in 12 seconds. From geosynchronous orbit, the Meteosat satellite recorded these infrared images of the Earth every day at the same local time. The video started at the September 2010 equinox with the terminator line being vertical. As the Earth revolved around the sun, the terminator was seen to tilt in a way that provides less daily sunlight to the northern hemisphere, causing winter in the north. As the year progressed, the March 2011 equinox arrived halfway through the video, followed by the terminator tilting the other way, causing winter in the southern hemisphere — and summer in the north. The captured year ends again with the September equinox, concluding another of billions of trips the Earth has taken — and will take — around the sun.

Where should I look to see signs of the equinox in nature? Forget about the weather for a moment, and think only about the daylight. In terms of daylight, the knowledge that spring is here – and summer is coming – is everywhere now, on the northern half of Earth’s globe.

If you live in Earth’s Northern Hemisphere, you’ve likely been noticing the earlier dawns and later sunsets for some weeks now.

Also notice the arc of the sun across the sky each day. You’ll find it’s shifting toward the north. Responding to the change in daylight, birds and butterflies are migrating back northward, too, along with the path of the sun.

The longer days do bring with them warmer weather. People are leaving their winter coats at home. Trees are budding, and plants are beginning a new cycle of growth. In many places, spring flowers are beginning to bloom.

Meanwhile, in the Southern Hemisphere, the days are getting shorter and nights longer. A chill is in the air. Fall is here, and winter is coming!

Does the sun rise due east and set due west at the equinox? Yes, it does. And that’s true no matter where you live on Earth, because we all see the same sky.

No matter where you are on Earth, you have a due east and due west point on your horizon. That point marks the intersection of your horizon with the celestial equator – the imaginary line above the true equator of the Earth.

At the equinoxes, the sun appears overhead at noon as seen from Earth’s equator, as the illustration above shows. This illustration shows the sun’s location on the celestial equator, every hour, on the day of the equinox.

That’s why the sun rises due east and sets due west for all of us. The sun is on the celestial equator, and the celestial equator intersects all of our horizons at points due east and due west.

This fact makes the day of an equinox a good day for finding due east and due west from your yard or other favorite site for watching the sky. Just go outside around sunset or sunrise and notice the location of the sun on the horizon with respect to familiar landmarks.

If you do this, you’ll be able to use those landmarks to find those cardinal directions in the weeks and months ahead, long after Earth has moved on in its orbit around the sun, carrying the sunrise and sunset points northward.

So enjoy the 2017 spring equinox on March 20 – an event that happens on our sky’s dome – and a seasonal marker in Earth’s orbit around the sun!

The equinox is an event that takes place in Earth’s orbit around the sun.

Bottom line: In 2017, the vernal equinox came on March 20 at 10:29 UTC, or 5:29 a.m. Central Daylight Time for us in the central U.S. Translate to your time zone here.

 

Deborah Byrd

Deborah Byrd created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and EarthSky.org in 1994. Today, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of this website. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. “Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers,” she says.

Published on EarthSky

Your Weekly Influences for March 20th

Your Weekly Influences for March 20th

 

Tarot Influence

Knight of Cups Reversed

Scrutinize all ventures and deals carefully. Lies, laziness and underhandedness are possible

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Astrological Influence

Aquarius Reversed

This card signifies the closing of both heart and mind, which leads to stagnation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Element Influence

Earth

Earth is the card of everyday life. Earth makes riches of all kinds available to those who are in tune with her.

Your Weekly Tarot Card for March 20th is the Nine of Pentacles

Weekly Tarot Card Reading

A one-card reading gives you a glimpse at what’s coming

By Brigit Esselmont

Videos, Tarot-cards, Tarot

For the week of March 20, I chose the Nine of Pentacles, reversed!

The reversed Nine of Pentacles is all about self-worth. This week, you may find yourself reflecting on your own sense of self-worth and value.

On the one hand, you may question whether you are really “enough” — whether your skills are valued, whether you can charge higher prices or ask for a pay raise, or whether you can attract the right people into your life.

On the other hand, you may be focused on increasing your sense of self-worth. Invest in yourself: get a wardrobe makeover, learn a new skill to increase your career “value” or take a personal development course focused on self-love.

Remember, you ARE enough. You are more than enough. You are AMAZING! Ask yourself, “How can I reconnect with my self-worth?”

Get A Jump on Tomorrow, Your Daily Horoscopes for Tuesday, March 21st

Get A Jump on Tomorrow…..

Your Daily Horoscopes for Tuesday, March 21st

 

Aries

Aries Horoscope

You can successfully blend personal and professional goals or activities quite seamlessly today, dear Aries. The day’s energies inspire your more clever and creative side, and you can find yourself devising plans and enjoying the design element of whatever you’re doing. There can be an opportunity to take steps to make yourself or family more secure, and it’s an excellent time for working hard and enjoying the feeling of productivity. You can gain an edge now in your career or come to a stronger position or more robust plan for achieving your goals. Being generous and charitable with others and offering your services freely can be a big key to this.

Taurus

Taurus Horoscope

You seem to be able to satisfy both your needs to lay low and venture out into new situations, dear Taurus. This is a powerful day for entertaining new ideas and seeking out more meaning from your experiences. You can be thoroughly excited by and invested in a project, study, or venture today, and you can make tremendous progress with this kind of dedication and focus. There is a gentle ease or flow between you and friends, co-workers, and associates. Tolerance, charity, and generosity are themes now in your social life. Satisfaction comes from helping others out with information or advice.

Gemini

Gemini

You’re in a much stronger position for managing your relationships and emotions today than you were yesterday, dear Gemini. Part of you is craving more intimacy or depth in your connections, yet another part enjoys your freedom and a light approach to your relationships. This might normally pose a dilemma, but you seem to be able to find the right middle ground or blend today, leading to a real feeling of satisfaction. This is also a good time for developing your talents, working on a money-making venture, or putting effort into finding something lost or hidden. Business, career, and reputation get a boost today, and the key to this involves extending your help, services, advice, or expertise to someone in need.

Cancer

Cancer

You can accomplish much more than usual today, dear Cancer, with increased motivation and dedication. You enjoy taking the initiative now, but you’re also in an excellent position to team up with or otherwise cooperate with others in order to get things done. You might find that you’re in the position of leader or manager now and you can be quite successful and efficient in this role. Attention to both your social life and your work can be much easier than usual to balance and perhaps even blend today. Giving a partner or friend the benefit of the doubt or a pass for something you may normally not let slip by can be in focus and can enhance your bond and make you feel quite proud of yourself to boot! While there can be some differences in your visions of where you’re heading or long-term goals, there can be great understanding and tolerance expressed now, and this carries you.

Leo

Leo Glyph Symbol Horoscope

While yesterday you may have had a difficult time blending your mundane affairs and your desire for more free-form, exploratory activities, dear Leo, today you can get there far more easily. In fact, it can be very satisfying tending to both your need to take care of business and expand your mind or experiences. With some creativity, you might even be able to combine the two. As well, there can be much to enjoy hiding yourself away for some of the day doing work behind the scenes or in relative solitude. You can quickly become absorbed in what you’re doing. There is a sweet air of acceptance and understanding present around you today, and you might thoroughly enjoy providing a service or devoting some time helping others out now.

Virgo

Virgo Symbol Horoscope

You have the ability to combine your desire for intensity and need for freedom today quite successfully, dear Virgo. It’s an excellent time for creative power or dedication to a creative or design project. You’re excited about drawing up plans. Relationships thrive today with both tolerance and passion. Intimate matters can improve, and feelings seem to be reciprocated. Connecting with others and making a concerted effort to understand where they are coming from, or to give others the benefit of the doubt, can be satisfying now. You feel good about yourself when you put your faith in people you care about today. This can be a good day for productivity with others or for combining your resources and efforts so that you can get something done. You often find it faster and more efficient to do things on your own, but today, teamwork is beneficial.

Libra

Libra

While you may have had some challenges balancing home and family with your social life or a partnership yesterday, dear Libra, today you not only find ways to blend these needs, you could find them supportive of one another. This may alternatively play out as your need for personal space and your need for companionship. Today, you can find ways to fill both needs and feel quite satisfied. It’s an excellent time for putting effort into your work or health and wellness activities. You could find that being of service to people you love in some manner can be satisfying as well – you might thoroughly enjoy helping someone out or simply expressing your faith in a person you care about. Work might benefit from offering something freely and gaining the trust of others in the process.

Scorpio

Scorpio Horoscope

While you may have found it difficult balancing your personal interests and social obligations with your duties and responsibilities yesterday, dear Scorpio, today you’re in a great position to not only balance them but possibly blend them as well. You are enjoying what you’re doing now, and it shows! You can make a lot of headway as a result. You’re also in an excellent position to convey what you mean and to communicate with impact. You can make a lot of progress by joining with a partner to get things done. This is an excellent day for expressing your faith in someone, extending help (particularly through words of advice or the relaying of information), and for finding new things to love about someone.

Sagittarius

Sagittarius Horoscope

There have been times recently when you’ve been torn with sticking with what’s safe or tried-and-true and going out on a limb and taking a personal risk, dear Sagittarius. Today, you find ways to combine the two creatively, and this feels right. You might feel particularly comfortable with a friend or lover now, or there is an opportunity to enhance a bond. There can be a nice bonus or a chance to splurge for some of you today. This is also an excellent time for work, research, and health or fitness pursuits. Motivation to improve and advance is with you, and this fuels you. You can accomplish far more than usual when you feel dedicated. There is excellent energy for forgiveness or acceptance in relationships, particularly with family, but this can extend to other relationships as well. It’s easier to overlook the small problems and see the value of your connections overall.

Capricorn

Capricorn HoroscopeBlending your personal goals and those of family or loved ones comes much more easily than usual today, dear Capricorn, partly because you are especially motivated to make everything work. This is an excellent time for personal appeal and self-improvement efforts. You might thoroughly enjoy helping others out, particularly by providing them with advice, information, words of wisdom, and inspiring words. You can talk yourself into or out of virtually anything today! You can gain an edge of sorts for doing so, and this can benefit your professional life or marketing efforts, but the greatest rewards today are personal ones. You are willing to put in extra effort or to express your dedication in your relationships.

Aquarius

Aquarius

Part of you wants to get involved and engage with others now, dear Aquarius, but another strong urge is to lay low and keep to yourself. Somehow, however, you seem to be able to satisfy both needs, and quite creatively to boot! For some of you, this is a great time for connecting with others anonymously and resolving problems or for unloading problems through journaling or communicating on your own terms. You can be particularly generous with others, and they with you. You might also experience an intense drive to take care of home, family, and work. It’s a good time for concentration and dedicated focus – you can be very productive today.

Pisces

Pisces

There is radiant energy with you for charitable, supportive relationships with others, dear Pisces. You’re very willing to be of service in some way to people in your life, and this is good for the soul. You are compassionate and tolerant, and you take pleasure in putting your faith in others or giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Part of you would like nothing better than to stick with what you know is safe and secure today, but another part wants some freedom to explore. While this might lead to a predicament on another day, today you can satisfy both needs by finding a good compromise or middle point. Creativity soars today.

If You Were Born Today, March 20

 

If You Were Born Today, March 20

 

Extremely creative and enterprising, you are also very charismatic and warm. As much as you need stability and security, especially with close relationships, you crave variety in your daily life, balking at routine and needing to mix things up from time to time. You have an unmistakable innocent charm to your manner, and your optimism and friendliness help win you much success in life, both personally and professionally.Famous people born today: B.F. Skinner, Spike Lee, Carl Reiner, William Hurt, Fred Rogers, Brian Mulroney, Holly Hunter, David Thewlis.

Your Birthday Year Forecast:

Your birthday occurs around a Third Quarter Moon this year, and you are reaching an important turning point in terms of personal growth. You may be more emotional this year, and should watch for unnecessary conflicts and making hasty decisions as a result. Otherwise, this is a year of greater understanding and a strong desire to take care of business. This should be a busy, dynamic period in your life.

Relationships tend to be deeper than usual, or you may be focusing on particular ones more deeply this year. Relationships can be one of the biggest areas of growth for you during this period of your life. Creative impulses are also powerful. While you may struggle at times with motivation levels, you possess the endurance to further your goals.

You can be particularly prolific and creative with writing, speaking, or other communications fields this year – you have a strong sense of what your audience wants. You express yourself with more imagination and appeal.

You can experience a stronger desire to seek out meaning, wisdom, and mental stimulation in the year ahead. It’s a powerful period for unique, helpful ideas. You are willing to make changes, especially in your attitude, and conversations are two-way, mutually beneficial, healing, and inspiring. This is a potentially excellent year for putting dreams into motion and giving life to your ideas. You are capable of very hard work when you’re inspired, and you can produce some pretty fantastic things now.

In your relationships, you find it easier to express one another’s desires to each other. This can be a powerful year for shared activities.

You are willing to put in the effort for a mental interest or project, and you can feel pleasantly dedicated to your work or ideas. You are more able to focus on what you’re doing and communicating, and you are more inclined to notice and consider details.

You may be actively involved with teamwork and collaboration with others this year. For some, there can be the beginning of a significant new relationship or the intensification of an existing romance or an important passion project that reaches a turning point.

You’re able to bring both enthusiasm and practicality to your endeavors this year. It’s a potentially excellent year for making positive lifestyle changes and for dedication to your work or special projects. You are more patient than usual, having the follow-through to finish what you start. When you are motivated, you can accomplish great things, bringing new life to old goals. However, you may struggle at times with increased responsibilities.

 

2017 is a Number Six year for you. Ruled by Venus. This is a year of relative contentment. It is a time when love is the easiest to attract, and partnerships formed under this vibration have a better chance for longevity. You are able to attract others, and material things as well, this year. This is a good year for establishing harmony in the family and in the home. Advice – develop existing relationships, be positive and receptive because these kinds of energies help you to attract what you desire.

2018 will be a Number Seven year for you. Ruled by Neptune. This is a year of preparation, chance, and refinement. It is not a time of dramatic changes. Instead, it’s a year when reflection on the past is helpful, and when refinements to your life path should be made. It’s a good year to study and analyze. Unexpected twists to your life story and “chance” meetings are probable. Advice – take stock of your life in order to prepare for more exciting years to come, examine the past and plan for the future, get in touch with your deepest needs and uncover your personal power, don’t strain yourself or actively try to expand.