Aspects of the Moon in Virgo

After the progressed Moon in Leo has passed, and the individual is convinced they are royalty and cannot do any wrong – the progressed moon moves into Virgo, and we don’t feel like we’re all that, anymore. Truly, this is a humbling tough lesson. The needs change abruptly. It would be like the king surveying his kingdom and not having a housekeeper for those 2 1/2 years and looking around and say, ”Oh dear, I guess I better clean up the place.” And not just cleaning up the physical space, but the inner space, as well. This could be a time of awareness of one’s personal health issues and get him one and start taking care of them. The real work here is about self-improvement – not self-abnegation or being self-critical, although that can be a part of it – but self constructive work. This is truly an opportunity for self-examination in minute detail. Bottom line – and “getting it right” within one’s self.

 

Author

Eileen Grimes
Article originally published & owned by About.com

 

The Witches Almanac for Friday, March 10th

Friday (Venus): Love, friendship, reconciliation, and beauty.

Tibet Uprising Day

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

Moon Sign: Leo
Leo: Draws emphasis to the self, central ideas, or institutions, away from connections with others and other emotional needs. People tend to be melodramatic.

Moon enters Virgo 5: 07 pm
Virgo: Favors accomplishment of details and commands from higher up. Focuses on health, hygiene, and daily schedules.

Incense: Vanilla

Color: Rose

Witchery for Your Fridays

 

Love magick is a perennial popular topic. However, there is more to this topic than meets the eye. There are many enchanting layers here for us to explore on this day of the week. What about creating a loving home, or producing a loving and nurturing family? What about keeping your intimate relationships vital and on track? How about promoting happy, healthy, and enduring friendships? See, there is more to be considered than just the “You shall be mine…” type of fictional love spell.

Don’t forget that many of the deities associated with Fridays are also parents. So, yes, while this is the day to work on romance, sex, and love spells, there is additional magick to be considered here, which makes Fridays a more well-rounded and bigger opportunity for witchery than many folks ever truly realize. The truest, strongest magick always comes from the heart.

 

Source

 

Book of Witchery – Spells, Charms & Correspondences For Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

 

The Witches Guide to Fridays

 

Ruler: Freya, Venus

Colors: Emerald green or pink

Power Hours: Sunrise and the 8th, 16th, and 24th hours following.

Key Words: Love, money, health

It is easy to spot the ruler of this day by its name. In the word Friday, we see the roots of the name of the Norse goddess Freya, a goddess of love and fertility, and the most beautiful and propitious of the goddesses thus the verse “Friday’s child is loving and giving.”

In Spanish this day of the week is called Viernes and is derived from the goddess Venus. Matters of love, human interaction, the fluidity of communication, sewing and the creation of artistic garments, household improvement, shopping, and party planning all fall under the aspects of Friday and its ruling planet, Venus.

Friday’s angels are Ariel/Uriel, Rachiel, and Sachiel. Rachiel also concerns himself with human sexuality and is a presiding spirit of the planet Venus.

On Fridays, the hour of sunrise and every eight hours after that are also ruled by Venus, and that makes these times of the day doubly blessed. These four hours are the strongest four hours for conducting ritual.

Check the local newspaper, astrological calendar, or almanac to determine your local sunrise.

 

Source

Gypsy Magic

 

About The Magickal Day of Friday

 

Friday falls at the end of the work week for many of us, and that means we get a chance to relax for a little bit! Mark your Fridays with colors like pink and aqua, and metals such as copper. This is a day ruled by the planet Venus, so it should be no surprise that Venus and Aphrodite – goddesses of love and beauty – are associated with Fridays. This is a day named for the Norse goddess Freyja, so be sure to take a moment to honor her as well.

Gemstones associated with Friday include coral, emerald and rose quartz, and plants like strawberries, apple blossoms and feverfew are also related. This is a good day to do spellwork associated with family life and fertility, sexuality, harmony, friendship, growth. Take advantage of Friday’s correspondences and plant a seed, make something grow, and enjoy your blessings

*Note: There are a lot of disputes as to the origins of the word Friday, because there is still a great deal of discussion as to whether it was named for Freyja or Frigga, and whether they were the same deity or two separate ones. Some scholars believe that while they may have eventually become two distinctly different goddesses, they could have had their origins in a single, common Proto-Germanic deity.

 

Author

Patti Wigington, Paganism/Wicca Expert
Article published on & owned by About.com

 

The Goddess Book of Days for Friday, March 10th

Feast of the Year Goddess, Anna Perenna, Rome. Other sources date March 15 or January 1. Other Year and Fate Goddesses are: Ana, Danu, Don, Aine, Aida Wedo, Cat Anna, the Morrigan and the Fates, Fortuna. Also day of Ishtar (Sumer): Astarte, Aphrodite, Venus, Erzulie, Oshun, Venus, Mawu.

Source

The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

On Friday, March 10th, We Celebrate……

Daedala (Greece)
HERA

Themes: Love; Romance; Forgiveness; Humor

Symbols: Oak; Myrrh; Poppy

About Hera: Hera rules the earth, its people, and the hearts of those people. Using passion and creativity, Hera nudges star-crossed lovers together, chaperones trysts, and helps struggling marriages with a case of spring twitterpation!

Legend tells us that Hera refused to return to Zeus’s bed because of a quarrel. Zeus, however, had a plan. He humorously dressed up a wooden figure to look like a bride and declared he was going to marry. When Hera tore off the dummy’s clothes and discovered the ruse, she was so amused and impressed by Zeus’s ingenuity that she forgave him.

To Do Today: Ancient Greeks honored Hera and Zeus’s reconciliation today, often in the company of old oak trees. Small pieces of fallen wood are collected to symbolize the divinities, then burned on the ritual fire to keep love warm. To mirror this custom, find a fallen branch and burn a small part of it as an offering to Hera. Keep the rest to use as a goddess image year-round, burning a few slivers whenever love needs encouragement.

Present someone you love or admire with a poppy today to symbolically bestow Hera’s blessings on your relationship. If you have a loved one away from home, burn some myrrh incense in front of their picture so Hera can watch over them and keep that connection strong.
 

Source

365 Goddess: A Daily Guide To the Magic and Inspiration of the goddess
Patricia Telesco

 

Today Is Friday, March 10th

 

Friday is the day of Venus. It takes it name from Frigg, the Goddess of love and transformation. She rules the spiritual side of a person that manifests in the physical. Because of this, Friday is often thought of as dangerously unpredictable. This is expressed in an old East Anglian adage:

Friday’s day will have its trick
The fairest or foulest day of the week.

Deity: Frigg

Zodiac Sign: Taurus/Libra

Planet: Venus

Tree: Apple

Herb: Vervain

Stone: Sapphire/Chrsolite

Animal: Bull/Serpent

Element: Earth

Color: Yellow/Violet

Number: 7

Rune: Peorth(P)

 

Celtic Tree Month of Nuin (Ash) – (February 18 – March 17)

The Runic Half Month of Tyr (February 27 – March 13)

Goddess of the Month of Moura – (February 20 – March 19)

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

 

A Little Conjuring for Your Friday

Friday – is associated with Venus

Candle colors – Green, Red, Blue, White, Purple

Magickal intentions should be toward – Love, Marriage, Money, Attraction, Luck, Healing, Prosperity, Change, Road Opening work, Bring Peace, Relationships, Power and Success
 

—Old Style Conjure Wisdoms, Workings and Remedies
Starr Casas

 

The Sky This Week for March 10 to 12

A full Moon, the spring triangle, and other bright, beautiful things to look for in the sky this week.

By Michael E. Bakich

 

Friday, March 10

Around 6 p.m. EST, Leo the Lion’s brightest star, Regulus, lies only 0.8° north of the Moon. In fact, observers with clear skies located in southeast South America, South Georgia, Queen Maud Land, and the southern tip of South Africa will see the Moon pass in front of Regulus. Astronomers call such events occultations. By carefully observing many of them, researchers can more accurately map the variations (caused by mountains and valleys) at the lunar edge.

Saturday, March 11

Head out tonight sometime after 10 p.m. to see a naked-eye asterism called the Spring Triangle. This giant geometrical figure is visible in the spring all night long from any location in the Northern Hemisphere. Three dazzling stars mark this asterism. The brightest is Arcturus (Alpha Boötis), which shines at magnitude –0.04 near the bottom of Boötes the Herdsman. Orange Arcturus is the fourth-brightest nighttime star overall and the brightest north of the celestial equator. Next in brightness is Spica (Alpha Virginis), the luminary of Virgo the Maiden. Spica is the very definition of a 1st-magnitude star, but its brightness isn’t constant. Its apparent magnitude varies between 0.92 and 1.04 over a period of just more than 4 days. The third Spring Triangle star is Denebola (Beta Leonis), the star that marks the tail of Leo the Lion. And although Denebola, at magnitude 2.1, is the sky’s 59th-brightest star, it’s only 36 percent as bright as Spica, and it emits just 14 percent the light output of Arcturus.

Sunday, March 12

Daylight Saving Time begins this morning. Be sure to spring forward one hour.

Full Moon occurs at 10:54 a.m. EST. The glowing orb stands in the far-southern part of Leo the Lion, between the constellations Virgo to the east and Sextans to the west. This lunar phase is the least interesting to observers because sunlight falls straight down on the Moon from our perspective, which minimizes shadow detail. So this might be a good night to observe the Moon illusion — the Full Moon appears larger when it’s near the horizon than when it stands high in the sky. But its size doesn’t change, and you can prove it with a single sheet of paper. Go out just after sunset and find the Moon low in the east. Roll the paper into a tube and change the tube’s diameter until the Moon just fills the field of view when you look through it. Tape the tube so its size doesn’t change. Then, head indoors and go back outside a few hours later when the Moon is high. Look through the tube again. The fact that the Moon will be the same size still amazes even seasoned observers. The best explanation for this illusion seems to be that when the Moon lies near the horizon, our brain compares its size with foreground objects, which don’t appear near the Moon when it’s high in the sky.

Source

Astronomy Magazine

 

Newsletter Issue #67

USA & Canada Start DST on March 12

 

Most of the United States, Canada, and Mexico’s northern border cities will begin Daylight Saving Time (DST) on Sunday, March 12, 2017.

People in areas that observe DST will spring forward 1 hour from 02:00 (2 am) to 03:00 (3 am), local time.

Standard time will resume on Sunday, November 5, 2017.

 

Brighter Afternoons

In local time, sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour later than the day before resulting in more daylight in the afternoon.

Almost all of the United States observe DST. Hawaii and most of Arizona are the only 2 US states that do not change their clocks.

None of the US dependencies observe DST. This includes American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the US Minor Outlying Islands, and the US Virgin Islands

In Canada, DST begins at the same time as in the US.

Areas that don’t use DST include most of Saskatchewan, some locations in Québec east of 63° westerly longitude (e.g. Blanc-Sablon), Southampton Island, and some areas in British Columbia.

 

US Bills to Abolish DST

Bills to abolish the yearly time change permanently have been proposed in more than 10 US states this year.

From experience, these bills don’t normally make it all the way to the state Senate, and they are usually voted down at some point in the legislative process.
Mexico DST Divided

A few northern Mexican border towns, such as Tijuana and Juarez City (Ciudad Juárez), start DST on March 12 along with the US and Canada.

However, most of Mexico starts DST on Sunday, March 26, 2017 on the same day as DST starts in Europe. A few Mexican cities, like Hermosillo and Cancun, do not observe DST at all.

Other areas starting DST on March 12 are Cuba, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Thule Air Base in Greenland.

 

Set Clocks Back or Ahead?

To remember which way to set your watch, keep in mind one of these sayings: “spring forward, fall back” or “spring ahead, fall behind.” The clocks spring ahead (= losing 1 hour) in the spring when DST starts and fall behind 1 hour (= gaining 1 hour) when DST ends in the fall.

Source

timeanddate.com

 

Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Friday, March 10th

The Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 108.09° ESE
Sun Altitude: 16.41°
Sun Distance: 92.325 million mi
Next Equinox: Mar 20, 2017 5:28 am (Vernal)
Sunrise Today: 6:12 am↑ 94° East
Sunset Today: 5:57 pm↑ 266° West
Length of Daylight: 11 hours, 45 minutes

 

The Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 312.94° NW
Moon Altitude: -27.56°
Moon Distance: 237182 mi
Next Full Moon: Mar 12, 20179:53 am
Next New Moon: Mar 27, 20179:57 pm
Next Moonrise: Today4:13 pm
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 95.4%

 

Source

timeanddate.com

 

I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow and since we have missed so many days on the net, we have gave you something to occupy your time with……

A Second Treat for March 7 – A Severing Spell

The Witches Spell of the Day for March 8 – A Deity Assistance Spell

The WOTC Special Presentation on Elemental Witches – Tonight, The Water Witch(Part 1)

The WOTC Special Presentation on The Elemental Witches – Tonight, The Water Witch & Water Lore (Part 2)

The WOTC Special Presentation on Elemental Witches – The Water Witch (Conclusion)

And a spell for tomorrow which will be posted shortly.

I apologize for the time we have missed on the net, we will be back to normal on Friday. Till then….

Love ya,

Lady A

Witches of the Craft Podcast

We always lots ot requests and concerns about sending negative & evil intent back to its sender. Today, we offer you a spell that will send the evil and malicious deeds right back to the sender without you suffering any consequences in return. We hope you enjoy today’s spell and find it useful. It is the Bird’s Nest Spell….

 

The WOTC Podcast

This special edition of the WOTC’s podcast covers magickal timing for your spells and really you don’t need a clock to cast spells & rituals. Most witches automatically know when the time or hour of the day shifts. It is in their DNA. In this session, Lady of the Abyss discusses the timing of each phase of the day, the magickal correspondences for each day and the magick pertaining to it, the astrological associations within magick, the moon and last but not least the Esbats.

 

This is a very informative session with our dear Lady. Not only does she give you insightful advice in the correspondences and their relationship, she add some very informative “witchy” tips just for you. Enjoy!

 

The WOTC Podcast