Planetary Gemstones

Planetary Gemstones
Mercury: Agate Venus: Emerald, Jade Earth: Agate Mars: Ruby, Garnet, Bloodstone Jupiter: Amethyst, Sapphire Saturn: Sapphire, Onyx, Obsidian	Uranus: Aquamarine Neptune: Opal, Amethyst Pluto: Kunzite, Spinel Moon: Pearl, Moonstone Sun: Topaz, Ruby

Gems for the Hours of the Day

Gems for the Hours of the Day
12AM Onyx 1 AM Smoky Quartz 2 AM Hematite 3 AM Malachite 4 AM Lapiz-Lazuli 5 AM Turquoise 6 AM Tourmaline 7 AM Chrysolite 8 AM Amethyst 9 AM Kunzite 10AM Sapphire 11AM Garnet	12PM Diamond 1 PM Zircon 2 PM Emerald 3 PM Beryl 4 PM Topaz 5 PM Ruby 6 PM Opal 7 PM Sardonyx 8 PM Chalcedony 9 PM Jade 10PM Jasper 11PM Magnetite

Gems of the Weekdays

Gems of the Weekdays

Sunday: Topaz, Diamond
Monday: Pearl
Tuesday: Ruby, Emerald
Wednesday: Amethyst
Thursday: Sapphire, Carnelian
Friday: Emerald
Saturday: Turquoise

Gems of the Zodiac

Gems of the Zodiac

Aquarius – 20 Jan to 18 Feb.-Garnet
Pisces – 19 Feb. to 20 Mar -Amethyst
Aries – 21 Mar to 19 Apr -Ruby
Taurus – 20 Apr to 20 May -Emerald
Gemini – 21 May to 21 Jun -Opal
Cancer – 22 Jun to 22 Jul. -Moonstone
Leo – 23 Jul. to 22 Aug. -Topaz
Virgo – 23 Aug. to 22 Sept. -Agate
Libra – 23 Sept. to 22 Oct. -Jade
Scorpio – 23 Oct. to 21 Nov. – Red Garnet
Sagittarius – 22 Nov. to 21 Dec -Blue Sapphire
Capricorn – 22 Dec to 19 Jan -Black Diamond

The Powers of Stones

The Powers of Stones

For mental clarity: Amber, Fluorite, Lapis Lazuli,Moonstone, Silver Topaz, Smoky Quartz.

For productivity: Agate, Garnet, Opal, Rhodolite.

Building self esteem: Aventurine, Carnelian, Diamond, Emerald,Garnet, Spinel.

For feelings of happiness: Agate, Amethyst , Calcite, Diamond, Jade, Tsavorite.

For calmness and balance: Amethyst , Ametrine, Aquamarine, Citrine , Coral, Diamond, Jade, Malachite, Pink Tourmaline, Tanzanite, Zircon.

For feeling of strength and confidence: Agate, Amber, Aquamarine, Carnelian, Diamond, Garnet, Iolite, Malachite, Onyx, Opal, Ruby, Sapphire,
Topaz (blue).

For wisdom: Coral, Jade, Pearl, Sodalite.

For luck: Alexandrite, Amber, Aventurine, Opal, Pearl, Turquoise.

For love and friendship: Alexandrite, Amber, Amethyst , Emerald, Moonstone, Pink Tourmaline, Sapphire, Topaz.

For wealth: Aventurine, Calcite, Emerald, Jade, Opal, Pearl, Peridot, Ruby, Sapphire, Topaz, Tourmaline.

Basics of Meditation

All the recent hoorah about meditation is only the great discovery that if people slow down and spend time in a structured format, allowing their minds to drift, their lives smooth out and become more serene. Once this stage has been reached, the avenues are open to you. The first, exemplified by the oriental style, emphasizes concentrating the mind on a specific object (commonly called ‘mantra’) and then learning to control the body’s autonomous nervous system so that such things as blood pressure and the beeling of pain are controlled. The second system is exemplified by the western Celtic Wiccan practice of ‘outward’ meditation. In this system, the mind is allowed to drift free; no control is exercised over what happens. In this way you will safely experience contact with other beings and will even leave your body to travel in the time-space continuum in astral flight. In dreaming and meditation, as your awareness increases, so you will become aware of other dimensions of these omens and portents. You will find that not only can they help you this instant, but the can also reach out into the future to help you. They can plug into, let us say, the great Cosmic Consciousness and give you information that will make your future secure and serene.

You can gain from your subconscious mind those things that you have become aware of during your life, which are stored within you; moreover, you can reach outward and upward and gain information on problems to which you do not know the answe. A great deal of guidance can also be obtained from spirits on various levels in Side. You will most probably have one special spirit assigned to aid you in your work.

A witch very rarely waits passively by for anything, especially for some direction along life’s path. Vaguely hoping for a dream or a sign just isn’t a very satisfactory way to run your life.

To be initiated to the higher levels in our Order, you are required to have a spirit guided with whom we can consult as to your progress. If you never plan to work at more than the theory of the Craft, you do not absolutely have to meditate; however, everyone, even the most hurried and scurried housewife, should set aside fifteen to thirty minutes every day for her own time in which all pressures are off her, a period when she can relax and contact a spirit guide, an interval that will crate a smoother life for her.

Your Meditation Practice

We have trained without trouble well over 10,000 people in the art of what we call ‘outward’ meditation. We do not know whether or not our method is the most simple available, but we are completely sure that it is safe and effective. So do not skip steps.With all this in mind, then, begin work. This effort will require half an hour a day for the rest of your life. Some days it may take longer. You may lose sleep. But the rewards are infinite and eternal. Are you prepared to commit her and now to the first six months without expectations of demonstrable gain? We are contrasting a TV program with life everlasting and power beyond measure. There can be only one real answer. Now carefully follow the steps below-checking each step before proceeding to the next. By the time you have completed Lecture II, you should have had your first psychic experience.

Step 1
A. Find a comfortable chair. It must be of wood or of wood and canvas; there must be no iron or steel or materials of animal origin, and the very minimum of non-ferrous metal in it. Metals, especially ferrous Metals, become magnetized. We are dealing with minute electrical and magnetic impulses, and all outside interference must be reduced to a minimum. Make sure the chair supports you so that you can sit comfortably for fifteen minutes without moving. Sit in it and read a book, but don’t move your body; only your hands and head. Is the chair really comfortable? If not, find one that is.
B. Find a quiet-running mechanical timer. Nowadays most kitchens have such a timer. Check yours for running noise, because too loud a ticking has a hypnotic effect on some people.
C. Find a loose flowing robe, pure white, made preferably from cotton or linen. It should be free of animal fibers and of buttons and ties. A wrap- around front opening dressing gown is ideal. In climates where nudity is possible, this is preferable; but if cold distracts your mind, wear the robe.
D. Find a container of uniodized salt.

Step 2
Select a place. Somewhere in your home there is a spot suitable for meditation. The requirements are, in order of importance:
A. A solid wall running north and south.
B. An area along this wall that is not near heavy electric cabling or appliances.
C. An absolute minimum of clutter. Books and newspapers are particularly undesirable because of the busy though patterns they engender.
D. A location as close to the sky as possible while retaining a connection with the daily life of the house. In California this might be a patio; in colder climates perhaps it would be the master bedroom of the home.

Step 3
Establish a time and stick with it. The factors influencing the hour chosen vary from individual to individual, but here are some things that typically should be considered.
A. When will you be able to be uninterrupted?
B. Can you keep this appointment every day unless something unforeseen interferes?
C. Will your mind fe free of petty work and household problems during the selected time? That is, is it far enough removed from outside mental distractions to enable you to let your mind float?
D. Is the sun below the horizon at the time you have chosen?

Step 4
The trial run. Let us say you have selected dawn or 6 a.m. as your test period. Hopefully you will have slept with a partner and are well adjusted sexually. By morning most of life’s cares have been dropped and are not so oppressive that they intrude. For the trial run, get up about 5:45. Shower or bathe (men should also shave unless they habitually wear a beard); put on your clean robe, and go to our selected area. If your wall is not quite true north-south, arrange the chair so you directly face east or west. Subdue the light entering the room. Turn off and mechanical contrivances, and shut off the power from cables nearby. Use the salt to draw an unbroken circle around you clockwise on the floor. Set the timer for five minutes. Sit with your back to the wall, preferably facing east, though west is also acceptable. Have your legs uncrossed, you hands resting on your thighs with palms up. Tilt your head very slightly back. (If sitting in a chair feels unnatural, even after sincere trials, lie flat on your back on a soft pallet free of ferrous metal, with your head to the north.) When you are settled and comfortable, absolutely relax all muscles in your body.

You may find there are annoyances such as noises or areas of brightt light. If these come from sources beyond your control, you may have to change the time of meditation. Readjust the setting and reset the timer for another five minutes. Try again. Your area and equipment may or may not be satisfactory now, because your sensitivity is increasing as your eyes would adjust to a darkened room.

Continue these five-minute trials until you are satisfied that you have achieved the best conditions possible in your circumstances. This does not mean a setting like a dark rom at midnight. Your goal is relaxation. Be comfortable; that’s all. Don’t be afraid to change the location if you feel another spot in the home would be better. You won’t know until your try.

So far you have take no protective measures, so ignore messages or impressions that arrive spontaneously. If a persistentt though occurs or a persisten picture is seen, immediately protect yourself as describe below in “First Meditation,’ and start again. If the message is repeated, act on it. You are one of the lucky ones who receive immediately. This can occur when there has been a buildup of information intended for you: Messages are so accumulated that they take the first opportunity to come through. After a week or so, this initial burst will subside and real work can commence.

Now your preparations are complete, and you can proceed toward consistent communication. You are ready for your first genuine meditation.

First Meditation

All your faculties are resting and waiting. You are in a state of homeostasis, with all your cravings moderately satisfied. There is nothing pulling or tugging at you, either mentally or physically.Arrange the scene as you have experimentally determined it should be. Set the timer for fifteen minutes. With the salt shaker draw an unbroken circle of salt around you clockwise on the floor. Sit in your chair or lie on your pallet, and make sure you are comfortably settled. With eyes closed, say
aloud,
“Spirits of mischievous intent, spirits of lower entities, You cannot cross this sacred line.”

Make the sign of the Celtic cross in the air before you. Raise the right hand to eye level, palm down, fingers together and pointing away from the body. Sweep the hand straight down about one foot. With fingers together and pointing away from the body, move the hand to the right at chest level with the palm facing left. Sweep across the body from righ to left. These two motions are connected by a short sweep diagonally upward from the bottom of the first stroke of the beginning of the second as shown in Figure (oh well)
Say,
“May the Gods protect me.”

The omission of the salt circle and the protective affirmations can have dire results. Some patients in mental institutions, beyond the help of psychologists, are there because they have an extra spirit within them. They have inadvertently become possessed.

You have around you a permanent protective force field which resembles a white veil or halo of light. Mentally open this aura as you open your robe, laying aura and robe back simultaneously; say, “Please, Guides, I am naked in your sight. My body and my mind are unclothed. Protect them, and send to me what you wish.” In order to encourage the spirits, most of whom were reared as Christians, and to protect yourself further, it is well to say a modified verseion of the Lord’s Prayer, the modifications are minor, and the spirits feel comfortable in this environment.

“Our friends who are in Side, blessed be your names.
God’s kingdom come,
God’s will be done on earth as it is in Side.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our weaknesses as we forgive those who wrong us.
Help us endure our trials, and deliver us from negation.
So let it be.

Next, begin the first mental exercise: the raising of a cone of power. This is a simple operation. Mentally picture a tall thin come whose base rests on the salt circle you have drawn or on your shoulders, and whose point disappears into the universe. Concentrate on this concept a little while. You are putting out though waves which resemble electromagnetic transmissions; they are capable of passing through any substance. The cone of power serves to conduct messages and impressions to you.

Now wait, expecting to receive messages, yet not concentrating on anything. This is a difficult time for th beginner. Many different types of messages may be received. Most probably you will see messages visually–but don’t forget you may also hear, smell, feel, or taste it. If you now quickly think of a baseball park on a hot afternoon when someone just hit a home run: Did you see, hear, smell, taste, or feel the scene? This mental methodology usually (though not always) carries over into meditation.
To review:
All conditions are the best you can arrange.
You have protected yourself.
You have opened your aura.
You have raised a cone of power
If you require one, you have selected an aid.

Drift, waiting for the symbols and impressions which indicate you are tuned in and receiving. It may happen at any time: a sudden flash of light or an inspiration. A common first sight is an eye watching you, through whose iris you can see new vistas. A common first feeling is to be drawn up out of the body, floating free where new things are felt and inspirations occur. Whatever happens, don’t be startled. Let go. If a white flash occurs at the edge of your vision, don’t jerk your head around. the sudden movement of your earth plane shell will disturb reception, and you will lose the impression. “you are needed at such-and such a place; a woman is in trouble,” or similar messages occur. you must obey; otherwise the messages will stop. Many are mental excuses you make, but to continue stalling means problems. The lone- range telepathic cries for help cannot usually be answered in time, so the spirits who insist on your help for such cases must be made to understand that you do not have their freedom and that they must seek nearer aid for the sufferer. As you learn, you will begin to detect the differences between a ‘now’ telepathic message from another incarnate soul and the longer-range predictive and more tentative messages.

The bell of the timer sounds after a time that often seems too short, and you come back to the physical part of life. Common practice is the offering of a short healing prayer to use up the force built up within the cone of power and the salt ring. Say,
“I ask this great unseen healing force to remove all obstructions from my mind and body, and to restore me to perfect health. I ask this in all sincerity and honesty, and I will do my part.
” I ask this great unseen healing force to bless both present and absent ones who are in need of help, and to restore them to perfect health.”

During the first verse, imagine the cone of power dissolving into yourself and your companion (s). During the second vers, direct the remaining part of the cone to travel out to a specific person or persons in need. Close your robe and your aura, saying,
“I am surrounded by the pure white light of God. Nothing but good shall come to me; nothing but good shall go from me. I give thanks, Amen.”
Imagine the white veil once again surrounding you.

Aids to meditation

In the past wer have recommended the use of aids to focusing your mind in meditation. Over many years of teaching with thousands of neophytes, we have come to the conclusion that less is better. If you use incenses or soft music during your meditation, for instance, these become sensory keys and bias the mind in a certain direction. Not only that, but they may also cover up and obscure real messages that are trying to get through. We therefore have learned now to recommend that you use no aids in your first attempts at meditation.

Sun Goddess Daily Meditation

(1) When rising in the morning, look to the Sun and recite the following prayer to her:

“Hail to you, O Sun of the seasons,
As you traverse the lofty skies,
Your way is strong on the wings of the heavens,
You are the Glorious Mother of the stars.
You have your lying down in the destructive ocean,
Without harming, without fear,
You rise on the serene wave crest,
As a queen, a woman in bloom.”

Greet the Sun each morning with this prayer and let Her rays shine down on your head, blessing you and making you healthy and vigorous (and remember to have your head uncovered).

While reciting this prayer, remember that without the Sun, there would be no life on this planet. The Sun’s energy is the source of energy for all things. Feel the power of this energy as it blesses you and warms you.

(2) Solar Body of Light

Breath deeply and slowly as the Sun’s rays warm you. Draw this energy down into your heart (the area of the Middle Cauldron or the “Cauldron of Vocation/Motion”). With three or nine cycles of breath, visualise a ball of solar energy form in the area of the Middle Cauldron. Feel this energy warm you from within. Next, with three or nine cycles of breath, circulate some of this energy around your body. Let this energy fill your body until you are able to visualise yourself as a body of light with light emanating from the solar ball in your Middle Cauldron.

(3) Assuming Aine as a Solar Godform

Visualise Aine, the Sun, standing in front of you. See her glowing round face, forever young and unblemished. See her long golden-red hair flow around her head like rays of energy. She is dressed in a long multicoloured robe with golden embroidery. Look into her emerald eyes that sparkle with gold.

Visualise her stepping forward toward you and continue looking into her eyes. Let her step into your body, turn around with your body, and then look out through your own eyes.

While keeping hold of your own consciousness and uniqueness (actually, this is very easy to do — letting go and becoming one with the godform you have taken on is a lot harder for most people!), feel the additional power that is with you in this particular godform. Quiet your mind by quieting your breath. Listen to what Aine has to say to you. Feel her energy embodied within you.

Visualise her step forward and out of your body. See her turn and look at you. Close by giving the following sign:

Cup your right hand, palm facing up, held at the level of your Middle Cauldron (at your heart) and place your left hand under your right, cupping the right hand with the left.

Now let the visualisation of Aine fade.

Daily Meditation

I have broken down this exercise into three parts. You may want to start by learning the first part and working with it for a few weeks before adding in the second and third part.
(1) When rising in the morning, look to the Sun and recite the following prayer to her:

Greet the Sun each morning with this prayer and let Her rays shine down on your head, blessing you and making you healthy and vigorous (and remember to have your head uncovered).

(2) Solar Body of Light
Breath deeply and slowly as the Sun’s rays warm you. Draw this energy down into your heart (the area of the Middle Cauldron or the “Cauldron of Vocation/Motion”). With three or nine cycles of breath, visualise a ball of solar energy form in the area of the Middle Cauldron. Feel this energy warm you from within. Next, with three or nine cycles of breath, circulate some of this energy around your body. Let this energy fill your body until you are able to visualise yourself as a body of light with light emanating from the solar ball in your Middle Cauldron.

(3) Assuming Aine as a Solar Godform
Visualise Aine, the Sun, standing in front of you. See her glowing round face, forever young and unblemished. See her long golden-red hair flow around her head like rays of energy. She is dressed in a long multicoloured robe with golden embroidery. Look into her emerald eyes that sparkle with gold.

Visualise her stepping forward toward you and continue looking into her eyes. Let her step into your body, turn around with your body, and then look out through your own eyes.

Visualise her step forward and out of your body. See her turn and look at you. Close by giving the following sign:

Cup your right hand, palm facing up, held at the level of your Middle Cauldron (at your heart) and place your left hand under your right, cupping the right hand with the left.

Now let the visualisation of Aine fade.

Air Meditation

Relax and get comfortable.
Take three deep breaths.

You are standing on an open cliff, overlooking a prairie below. It is shortly before dawn and you have come here to do your magickal work.

The sky is muted, pale blue overhead fading into a gentle rose-pink near the eastern horizon where the sun will rise. Relax as you stand on the cliff, watching the sky. Whisps of clouds drift by, strings of gray stretching across the horizon. They are distant and lazy, and you know they will burn off by morning.

~~Long pause~~

The air currents are still as you breathe deep in the chill, yet soon-to-warm, morning and your breath steams out, hovering in front of you. For just a moment before its gone. Now, step to the edge of the cliff and stretch your hands out to the sky. In a voice that echoes across the valley call out:

“Eurus, Wind of the East! Dazzling and Bright! Aid me in my magickal journey!”

As the last echo fades away, you see a huge bird winging towards you. It is a giant red-tailed hawk and it soars in to land on the cliff next to you.

“Climb aboard my back. I will take you to Eurus, ” she says and you straddle her behind her wings and hold on to the lavender straps that will give you balance. She crouches, then takes to the air. Your weight seems to present no problems and you find yourself flying far overhead the cliff and the valley below.

~~Long Pause~~

The hawk climbs higher and higher, and you soon lose track of the ground altogether. After a while the hawk heads for a could formation, soft strings drifting across the sky, which is the color of a robin’s egg. Finally she lands on the edge of one. “Here is where you get off,” she says. “Don’t
worry, the clouds will hold your weight.”

You climb off the hawk’s back and find the clouds soft but substantial beneath your feet. The hawk flies away and, in another moment she is a small speck in the sky.

You hear laughter in the distance, growing closer. A being of air sweeps up. The cool, crisp breezes of morning accompany him and he laughs again, and each breath washes you clean of cobwebs and stagnation.

~~Long Pause~~

“I am Eurus, Master of the Eastern Wind, “he says. “Touch me and know my powers.” You reach out and touch his hand.

As your fingers enter the wind-stream around Eurus, you find your mind growing alert, aware. You feel clear-headed and your thoughts come rapidly and coherently. Everything seems brighter, smells cleaner and now you see the breeze rush through your aura, cleaning away the stagnant energy that has accumulated there. A rush of exhilaration snaps you to attention.

~~Long Pause~~

“You see,” he says, “My winds have the power to purify you, to free you from old habits. I am the wind of new beginnings. I am quicksilver, the wind of thought and communication. In my presence you will never be at a loss for words.” And then, Eurus gives you a feather. It is from the hawk. “Whenever you have need of my powers, use this feather to call them forth. Or call on the hawk to bring the east winds. “And now, “he says, “the next step of your journey awaits.” With a rush, Eurus departs.

~~Long Pause~~

You tuck the feather away and turn to the edge of the cloud. You raise your hands to your mouth and call out into the clear blue sky. “Notus, Wind of the South! Firey and radiant! Aid me in my magickal journey!” As you wait you see a winged creature approaching. It is not the hawk, but a gigantic bird covered in flames, golden and orange and brilliant red. A phoenix… and it lands beside you.

“Climb on my back, and I will take you to Notus,” She says. You approach her, expecting to feel an intense heat radiating from her body, but instead a gentle warmth seeps through.. You are protected from her fire by the Gods who sent her. Climb aboard her back and take hold of the golden straps to hold you tight.

~~Long Pause~~

She takes flight and you soar through the air, rising toward another cloud. This cloud is huge, white…puffed cotton gone wild. The phoenix lands carefully on the edge and allows you to dismount, then flies off again, a brilliant fireball in the sky.

You stand but a moment when you hear a laughter like thunder, a huge bellowing chuckle. The being that approaches comes in a hot cackling wind and you feel the hairs on your arm rise, caught in static electricity.

~~Long Pause~~

“Welcome to the home of Notus, ” he says, and his voice echoes across the plain. “Feel my power and understand my radiance!”

You reach out to touch the energy of the Master of the South Wind. As your fingers meet his, the wind sweeps down around you and crackles, electricity at its strongest. You feel your mind lead with passion, the passion to act and to create. Stories, poems…pictures, they all grounded here. You feel the words swirling around you, they are just waiting for you to call them in. Your body shivers, this wind is sensuous and plays gently, caressing and teasing you, like hundreds of fingers tracing out patterns on your skin.

~~Long Pause~~

“You see, ” says Notus, “I am the wind of creativity, the wind that brings you the scent of new-mown hay where you lie down in passion with your love. I am the wind that precedes lightning.” And then, he gives you a feather from the phoenix. “Whenever you have need of my powers, use this feather to call me forth, or call on the phoenix to bring the southern winds. Now, the next step of your journey awaits!” And with a rush, Notus departs.

~~Long Pause~~

You go to the edge of the cloud and call out, “Zephyrus, Wind of the West! Gentle and Buoyant! Aid me in my magickal journey!” Watching, you see a winged creature approach. It is a giant blue heron, and it lands beside you.

“I will take you to Zephyrus, ” She says softly, and you climb aboard and grab hold of the blue straps and find yourself once more aloft.

~~Long Pause~~

The heron brings you to a cloud that is darker than the others. It rolls across the sky at twilight, hinting of rain, black and full of moisture. As it lands, you climb off and the heron flies away, leaving you alone.

You do not have to wait long. Soon another wind spirit rumbles up to meet you. His face is somwhat mournful. He does not laugh, but remains melancholy, yet you fee that he is at peace with the world and himself.

~~Long Pause~~

“I am Zephyrus,” he says, “Master of the West Winds. I bid you feel of my powers and stay as long as you need.”

You reach out and are swept into the storm. The rain pounds around you, this wind is full of moisture and blows cool against your skin. It whispers of peace in thought and action, of turning inward to look at yourself. It blows through your life and cleanses you of old wounds. It brings the rains of autumn to clear the air and make way for the frost.

~~Long Pause~~

“Behold,” he says, “I am Zephyrus, and I bring you to the joys and sadness of the heart. I blow into your life when the mists are needed to cushion you, and I bring the fog to protect you from sight. I am the wind of autumn, and of the beautiful sunset when the air is cool, when birds wing gently home. I bring fertility and respite.”

He hands you a feather from the heron. “Use this when you have need of my powers, or call on the heron to bring you the west winds. Now, the next step of your journey awaits you.” He drifts off , leaving you alone.

~~Long Pause~~

Once again you stand on the edge of the cloud and raise your hands to your mouth again. “Boreas, Wind of the North! Rushing and Mightly! Aid me in my magickal journey!”

And then, as your call goes ringing out, you see a bird gliding towards you. It is a giant eagle, and she lands and waits for you to climb on her back. The straps you take hold of are black. She rises silently and you know she is taking you to the realm of Boreas, Master of the North Wind.

This sky is grey, sparkling with frost, and you land silently, muffled, and the eagle rises and leaves you with no words. A bitter chill sweeps down and you hear the wind whirl up around you, swirling with snowflakes, and Boreas, Master of the North Winds, stands gravely before you.

~~Long Pause~~

“I am Boreas, and I bring with me sleep, the winds that clear the trees of their leaves, the wind that cries out, destroying old patterns and habits that lie in my path. I clear depression and anxiety and envy from your heart, leaving a void to be filled by the east wind. Know that without me, there would be no beginning, for there must be an end to all things before new life can take hold. I guard the road of the dead, and ghosts live in my cry, and old memories…. leave them to me, free yourself of your chains, I will sweep them up.

~~Long Pause~~

“And now,” he says, handing you an eagle feather, “you must attend the last stage of your journey.”

“Use this feather to call me, or bid the eagle to bring you the north wind. But be aware, I will most surely come.” Sparkling with frost, Boreas glides off in the muffled night

~~Long Pause~~

You stand on the edge of the cloud and realize you have made the circuit. All but the center. As you watch, a winged horse comes flying up and you climb aboard Pegasus’ back. It carries you aloft, far higher than you have ever been. You are dizzy with the flight, spinning and whirling in the air.

~~Long Pause~~

You find yourself on the edge of a rainbow, and Pegasus bids you dismount. As you do so, you hear a sweet singing, chimes in the wind and you turn to see a woman dressed in hues of pale blue and lavendar, with golden threads woven through the sliken veils. She wears a necklace of diamonds and her hair is pulled back in a tight chignon covered with a net of spiders web to keep it neat.

~~Long Pause~~

“Welcome,” She says, and her voice is the echo of spring, the call of early morning. “Welcome to the realm of the Queen of Air.”

She invites you to sit on the rainbow bridge and sits beside you, bouquet of white daisies in her hand. “You have journeyed far to learn of my element and so I will tell you of the nature of air, element of the East. Know this: that without air there is no life. Without my breath you cease to exist. Without me, this world would be but a lifeless orb floating in space. I am essential, as are all elements for survival.”

“I am mist and fog, vapors trailing the wind. I am the wind, and the breeze, the still currents of air on a got summer’s night. Without me, fire would not exist, and earth would bear no life, and the water could support no fish.”

~~Long Pause~~

And then, the Queen of Air looks at you and says, “What would you ask of me? What do you need from me?”

Think carefully, then ask of her and listen to her reply.

~~Long Pause~~

When she has spoken, she reaches out and helps you to your feet and you feel the cool promise of morning, beckoning you to rise from the bed, for a new day awaits. ” Slide down the rainbow,” she says. “It will take you home.

And then she is gone.

You look at the rainbow. It is steep but very wide, and when you sit down on it, you find there is no way to fall off. You push off with your hands and find yourself speeding down the arc, watching the sky curve as you descend.

~~Long Pause~~

You breathe deeply, calming yourself, for you are traveling faster than you thought. And you count down from 10 to 1, each beat bringing you closer to the earth below.

Fire Meditation

Relax and get comfortable
Close your eyes and take three deep breaths

You have traveled far, through land and air, to search for the realm of fire. Now you find yourself standing on a dusty road and you see, up ahead, a copse of trees, tall and dark. It is near midnight and there is little light from the waning moon overhead.

The path leads to the grove. The night is warm and the gentle breeze carries the lingering heat of the day.

The trees are mingled oak and cedar and alder. Here and there a rowan hangs heavy with berries and holly peeks out of the corners. As you enter the forest, a strange tingle runs up and down your arms and you feel suddenly drowsy, all of your senses are alert, yet it feels as if something’s taken hold of your conscious mind and it is lulling you into a hazy, drifting fog. But you feel no sense of fear, no sense of danger, only a sense of a great power watching you.

~~Long Pause~~

You pass through the wood, quietly now, drifting along the path. Every sound seems heightened, every movement catches your attention. It is as if you are supersensitive and you realize you could pass through this wood blindfolded now, if you had to.

As you continue, you see a deer flit into the undergrowth, and an owl swoops down and passes you overhead. And then, you feel someone following you and you stop and turn around. Behind you, you see a ball of light, glowing with green energy the color of peridot, floating gently in mid-air.

~~Long Pause~~

“I am to be your guide in this part of the realm of fire.” The voice echoes inside your head and you know it’s from the globe of light. “I am a will-o- the-wisp, and I belong to the realm of faerie fire, through which you must first pass. Follow me then, to the grotto ahead, and do not tarry, for the realm of faerie is quick to catch the unwary and the foolish in its snares and weavings.”

You follow the will-o-the-wisp as it leads the way through the forest.

~~Long Pause~~

Now you begin to notice a shimmering on the trees, their auras glowing and sparkling bright. “This has always been, you can only now perceive it, ” says the globe. “Your first stop is over to your left.”

Just up ahead, to your left, you see a darkened patch in the foliage. As you near it, a shiver runs through your body and your mind quakes, for there is a stirring of power around you and you know something very ancient, very primal, is there. You creep forward and turn to gaze in the dark space between the trees.

~~Long pause~~

The blackness is so dark you know it must be supernatural, for it’s the dark of the void and the abyss that you are gazing into, and it holds you hypnotically. Then, just as you think you can’t stand gazing into the emptiness any longer, you begin to see a swirl of sparkling color, a spiral, and the spiral forms itself into two glowing red eyes that pierce the abyss far better than any lantern or torch.

The gaze of the red eyes strip away your outer facades and masks, delving into the inner self you keep hidden away. It is not malevolent, but strong and male and watchful.

~~Long Pause~~

“The red eyes in the forest at midnight,” whispers the globe of light. “The Hunter, the Heart of the Forest, and He exists in the realm of faerie fire. Watch your step and mind your actions when crossing the woods at night, for He will be there watching you. ”

Quietly, you may ask the Hunter what He has to teach you about fire, and listen well for his reply.

~~Long Pause~~

“Now, follow me, ” says the will-o-the-wisp, and you pass through the forest, listening to the calls of the birds. You come to a place where the path diverges to the right. The will-o-the-wisp floats down that fork and you follow. The ground slopes steeply, and you see that it leads to a beach down below. When you hasve walked and slid your way down to the sand, you see a small bay that kisses the shore. The water is shimmering with lights, green and blue and pink and yellow.

You are overcome with a rush of joy and you dash forward, drawn in by the glittering lights. With every step sparks fly from the sand and you stop to press your hands on the ground. When you lift them, they are covered with sparkles. Suddenly light hearted, laughing and unable to speak, for the joy in your heart is overwhelming any words you might have to say, you dance on the sand and watch the sparks fly. If you like, you can wade into the water, and it seems like your wading among the stars.

~~long pause~~

Finally the will-o-the-wisp speaks and it says, “You see, faerie fire is an uneplainable feeling. There are few words for this happiness, this intoxication, but it exists and is real. Now come, back to the path, for I have one more stop to show you and then you will go forward without me.”

As you return to the path, you find your clothes are dry but the phosphorescent sparkles of faerie fire still exist within your heart and memory. The will-o-the-wisp guides you along the path until, up ahead, you see a purple fire dancing across the road. You must pass through it to continue your journey.

“Go now,” the globe says, “and when you pass through the fire of the phoenix, you will find a fine layer of ash covering your body. The wind will blow it away, and with it will go pain and anger and old bonds that chain you. The purple rays of the phoenix are hotter than flame, hotter than fire, and they will burn through to the core and leave you purified and new, ready for the next stage of your journey. After you have passed through it, you will find yourself at the end of the forest, and a green fire covers that part of the road. It is the purest essence of faerie fire and you will pass through it
and out to the next leg of the journey. Good luck and good-bye.” And the will-o-the-wisp fades into the forest.

You approach the flickering purple flame and the heat is so strong that you can only feel it as waves, not as actual warmth. Take a moment, think of what you would have burned away from you, what you are tired of carrying around, and then pass through the flame, bathe in it, and come out the other side.

~~Long Pause~~

When you emerge from the phoenix flame, you fine that, indeed, a fine layer of ash covers your body. The breeze sweeps up and blows it away. Underneath, your skin is new and clear, and your heart is lighter.

The forest comes to an end up ahead, and there you see the green flame waiting. You take one last look behind you and then pass into the flame of the faerie fire, the green fire in the forest at midnight, the green fire of Midsummers’s Eve.

It crackles around you, sparkling and magnetic. It resonates within you and you feel your aura shift and change. You body moves with more grace in the fire, and you feel it slide up your arms and legs, seep into your belly…sensuous, it leaves you breathless and waiting.

~~Long Pause~~

And then…you find you can shape your aura, you can change and alter it to your liking. Do you want to appear taller? Thinner? More voluptuous? Do you want to radiate confidence and strength? All you have to do is use the faerie fire to shape your will. When you have thought and done your working, step through to the other side and look at yourself again to see what changes you have made in your energy.

~~Long pause~~

Now you have stepped out of the forest. Look around you. You find you are in an open plain. The grass is thick here, but grows sparser up ahead and you see the light of dawn rising to the East. There are no trees after then line of the forest, and the path leads a gentle graded slope upwards. Follow the path and continue your journey as the morning light grows and the stars fade from the sky.

It looks like the morning is going to be hot. There are no clouds in the sky and the forest has become a distant memory. You walk along the path, and up ahead you see a well. There is a sign on it that says, “Last water for many miles.” There are many canteens here, and you might want to fill one, for the journey is sure to be hot and thirsty.

~~Long Pause~~

The grass is sparse now, the dirt faded and compacted. You start to see cracks in the ground as you go along; no rain has fallen here for a long time. The sun has now risen above the horizon and you are already starting to sweat.

You wipe your forehead and look around. To all directions, it seems there is only the desert, with occasional outcroppings of stone. As you continue your journey, your feet become hot and weary. You sit on a rock to rest. While you are sitting there, you hear a rustle and look down to the side of the rock.

A large lizard is sitting there, patiently watching you.

~~Long Pause~~

It is red, with stripes of orange, and golden eyes stare up at you. Its long tongue forks out and it says in a wheezing, whistling voice, “I’m your guide for this part of the journey. I am the Salamander Flametongue. I will guide you to your destination in this part of the realm of fire. You will need a walking stick. Look under that rock over there.” It waves its tongue towards a low, long rock near you and you find a walking stick that’s just the right height for you underneath it.

~~Long Pause~~

“Well, then, ” flametongue says, “it’s time we were off. Come now, follow me.” The salamander leads you along the path, which is now a steeper grade. You pass through the barren land, and when you reach the top, you see a mountain ahead. It is dark, with streaks of rust-colored rocks trailing down its side, flowing over blackened lava that covered the land long ago.

The black lava lies in waves, pillows of rock, thick and glistening with volcanic glass. Strange configurations, some look almost human, stand frozen over the land, and the flow goes on for miles and miles, so vast and immense you can only imagine what it must have looked like when it first covered the land.

~~Long pause~~

As you start forward you find the path no longer exists. You must cross the hardened lava, and so, using your walking stick to steady yourself you forge ahead, slowly working your way around the twisted rock. You must be careful here, for the lava is sharp and full of rough edges. IF you fall, you could hurt yourself.

Flametongue leads you along the surface of the jagged rock. Your feet slide along the smooth obsidian rock. It is difficult to keep your balance here. At one point, your stick breaks through the lava and you see the end of it smoke as it touches still cooling rock. You pull it out quickly, and beat out the flicker of flames that starts on its tip.

~~Long Pause~~

The salamander leads you a wide berth around that area and you find yourself having to really concentrate to keep your footing as you realize how dangerous this realm can be.

Now the grade is rough, and you are breathing heavily. The taste of sulfur fills your mouth and you must stop and pour a little water on your handkerchief and tie it around your face so the bitter, acidic fumes don’t overwhelm you.

You are climbing higher and higher up the side of the mountain, and you see stream rising from cracks in the lava around you. Flametounge turns and says, “This is a place of massive destruction. But out of that destruction, new land is born, nutrients will weather down and feed the soil and plants will grow again.”

You curve around the side of the mountain and when you look over the edge of the roughly worn path, you see a long drop, two hundred feet down, into a lake of lava. It boils and turns, twisting red tongues of flame dance on its surface. At once terrifying and mesmerizing, it churns constantly as you watch.

~~Long Pause~~

“Come,” says the salamander, “we shouldn’t linger here. The Queen of Fire awaits you and she’s not one to be made angry.”

The path twists away from the lake of magma and back around the blackened mountain. You pass into what once was a forest. The trees are now black; hardened charcoal and ash cover the land. The salamander leads you off the dark lava and you are sifting through the ash, into the desolate forest, where you hear ghostly voices traveling on the hot wind.

“The flame consumes, ” says flametongue. “It can burn brightly and drive you onward, or it can consume and destroy, leaving only the ash behind.”

Now you find your throat parched and dry, and you stop to take another drink from your canteen. Your skin is cracking from the heat and you desperately wish for a cool bath, somewhere far away.

~~Long pause~~

“We are almost there” says the salamander. “You are nearing the home of the Queen of Fire.”

Ahead you see it. A great fountain made from blocks of frozen lava, sitting in a clearing full of ash. It’s a fountain of flame, and in the center of the flame, you see a woman bathing. She is crimson and vermillion, and her eyes are the brightness of the so that you cannot look directly at them. She motions you near.

~~Long Pause~~

As you approach, the heat intensifies until it feels like your skin is just about to burn. She holds up her hand for you and in a voice low and crackling, throaty with passion, she says, “Come no farther or you will hurt yourself. I am the Queen of Fire. Welcome to my realm.”

She is sensuous, her body ever shifting shapes in the flames, and you feel the passion that throbs just below the surface of the energy here. She speaks again. “Hold out your hand, so that you may feel my power. ” You hold out your hand.

At first you feel a warm glow, the warmth of spring mornings, the warmth of a breezy day when you’re in the garden. Then, the warmth increases, and it’s the heat of the woodstove, warming you on crisp autumn evenings…and then the heat changes again, and its the crackle of bonfires and the smell of burning wood…then once again, and the heat is the sweltering heat of noon on a summer’s day, and sweat pours down your face.

~~Long pause~~

She speaks again. “I am the drive of passion, and I am the creative force that refuses to be squelched. Try to repress me and I will rise up and burn you to ashes. Embrace me, use me with foresight and I am an ally you cannot afford to lose. I heal with my golden rays and I destroy to make way for new creation with the rivers of molten rock that pour from within the earth. Now, what would you have me do for you? What do you wish to create? Tell me, and then listen and I will give you advice.”

Think now for a moment, then answer and listen for her to reply.

~~Long Pause~~

When she has spoken, the Queen of Fire bids you leave. “This is not a place where mortals may stay for long. The heat will burn you ragged. Go now, there is a path beyond this fountain. Follow it and it will lead you home.”

You follow the path and it leads you down a slope. The sun is now a bit lower in the sky and the salamander waves good-bye. The walking becomes a little easier, the ash thins out as you go and you see less and less of the stunted trees.

As you proceed down the hill, you begin to see wips of grass, growing through the soil now free from ash. You follow the open path by a low cliff, and looking over, you see the path leads to the shore below.

~~Long pause~~

You twist and turn, going down, and find the walking easy and pleasant after you sojourn in the realm of fire. When you reach the shoreline, there is a horse waiting and saddled.

You climb on its back, exhausted, and as it moves out, following its sense of internal direction, you find you can rest. The spray from the water cools your dry skin and there is a fresh canteen hanging from the saddle.

You ride for what seems like hours, and the horse takes a fork that leads away from the water and you find yourself traveling through late evening on a path that is gradually going uphill. At the top of the slope, just before twilight, the horse stops and you climb off. You see, ten steps in front of you, the place where you started your journey. The horse has brought you back.

~~Long Pause~~

Now, take those ten steps and each one will bring you closer towards waking consciousness…… Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two one.

Crystal Chakra Meditation

Crystal Chakra Meditation

I AM A CRYSTAL HIDDEN UNDER THE EARTH…
(this would be the Crown Chakra Top of
Head)

I AM THE PURPLE DEPTHS OF THE SEA…
(this would be the Third Eye in between the eybrows in middle of forehead)

I AM A BLUE CRESTED WAVE UNDER THE MOON….
(this would be the Throat Chakra)

I AM AN ANCIENT EMERALD FOREST…
(this would be your Heart Chakra)

I AM A YELLOW TEAR OF THE SUN…
(this would be in the Solar Plexus-Tummy area)

I AM A ORANGE PUMPKIN IN A FIELD…
(this would be in the area between hips-sorta/kinda)

I AM A FLAMING DOOR…
(this would be the Root Chakra-for grounding-near or at Tail bone)

Say this forwards and backwards at least three times a day for personal

empowerment. Thinking of the chakras as you do.It is very POWERFUL!

Achieving Inner Balance Meditation

ACHIEVING INNER BALANCE
DAY ONE – BREATHING LESSONS
Your goal today; mastering a technique known as belly breathing, which should be highly effective in helping you realx. The belly breathing exercise below, adapted from Hendricks, will Maximze the flow of oxygen into your body by teaching you to breathe deep down in your diaphragm instead of high in your chest. To begin, either sit upright or lie down with your spine straight; this allows the greatest respiratory flow. Now relax a moment.

Place your hands an inch or two above your waist, your fingers extending across your abdomen below your rib cage. In hale and exhale several times, feeling the abdominal muscles tense and release around and behind your navel. Now consciously slow your breathing, taking five seconds to tense the muscles and five to relax them. Repeat this a number of times. then rest about 30 seconds.Now close your eyes and feel your abdomen with your hands. Breathe in deeply, feeling your belly expand. Then breathe out, feeling it fall and relax. Inhalation and exhalation should be connected in a smooth, circular pattern. Keep breathing in and out slowly and deeply for several minutes, feeling the rise and fall of your abdomen with your hands. when you’ve had enough, rest quietly for a few moments.

Practice belly breathing once or twice a day during the program. then use the technique whenever you want to decrease stress and increase relaxation.

DAY TWO – EMPTYING
For big gains in centering, you must enter a meditative state in which you can patiently focus on your inner self. Toward that end, you will now master the technique of “emptying”, in which you clear your mind of distracting thoughts and emotions. Once your mind is empty, you wil be able to seek the guidance of your spontaneous, intuitive self.

Before you begin, take a shower, or at least wash your face, hands, and feet. then put on freshly laundered, light-weight, loose-fitting clothes.

Now practice the belly breathing excercise from Day One. when you are completely relaxed, sit with your spinal cord erect and continue to focus on your breath. Feel its continuous presence as it rises and falls against your abdominal wall and moves millimeter by millimeter through your system.

Breathe in as quietly and slowly as possible, so that if somebody placed a tiny thread in from of your nose, it wouldn’t budge. Exhale even more slowly. Leave a tiny pause (or even hold your breath a moment) between each exhalation and inhalation. This fixation on your breath will stop
intrusive thoughts. Inevitably some feelings, impressions, or physical sensations will invade, but let them float away int he movement and rhythm of your breath. Eventually your thoughts will slow to a few per minute.

Now close your eyes and focus on the sensation of purity and emptiness. If you would like a visual mape to help you capture the sensation of emptiness, you may envision an unblemished field of snow or an endless screen of soft white light. Let the emptiness wash over you completely for several minutes, draining your mind.

DAY THREE: BALANCING ACT
Mastering breathing and emptying will give you the peace and silence you need for the bone marrow work of centering-balancing your body and mind. To help you achieve this goal.

Day Three taps an aikido-based guided imagery exercise adapted from George Leonard’s “Inner Enery Workout”.

An hour or so before you begin your session for Day Three, please have the instructions below recorded on a cassette tape. (You may record the instructions yourself or have them recorded on a tape by a close friend) Remember to have the reader pause where indicated:

TO GO ON CASSETTE:
Stand up and spread your feet at about shoulder width, settling into a strong and comfortable stance. With your left palm touch your abdomen an inch or two below your navel-the physical center of your body. Run your hand gently over this area for about a minute. Focus on it and feel at home with it.

(PAUSE FOR ABOUT THIRTY SECONDS)
Now you will release tension by shaking your hands hard in front of your, your wrists relaxed, until your whole body vibrates. As you exhale, make an extended vowel sound such as “ahhhhhhh” so you hear the vibration in your voice and feel it resonating in your chest. Now drop your hands limp in front of your, then let them float up as if in warm salt water. As your hands rise, bend your knees slightly, lowering yourself into the warmth of the salt sea. Feel your buoyancy. Form a beach ball with your hands and give it a gentle push across the water’s surface.

Now stand up straight again. Shake out your hands once more and let them drop limp to your sides. Close your eyes. Make sure your weight is evenly distributed between the heels and balls of your feet; shift your weight slightly forward and back and side to side, balancing, as if fine-tuning a distant radio station. Your knees should be neither locked nor bent, you’re acat relaxed yet poised to spring. Now make sure your head is balanced. Let your jaw hang open. Release the tension in your tongue, eyelids, forehead, temple, scalp, and back of your neck.

(PAUSE BRIEFLY)
Breathe sharply in as your raise and tighten your shoulders. Exhale and let them down like soft, warm chocolate. Feel the chocolate slowly melting down your back, shoulder blades, arms, and hands. Feel it moving down your rib cage to your diaphragm, melting your internal organs and pelvic region. Feel the chocolate melting down your legs, past your knees, to your feet, warming the surface beneath them, melting them into the ground. Feel the embrace of gravity holding you to the
earth and the earth to you.

Relax………

(END TAPE)
A few hours after the recording has been made, retire to your room and go through the belly breathing and emptying techniques. After completing these warm-ups, play your tape.

DAY FOUR – THE INNER CIRCLE
The circular drawings call mandalas (check your local library if you are not familiar with the mandalas) have long facilitated self-discovery. In Tibetan Buddhism, people focus on mandalas as an aid in mediation and concentration. Carl Jung had his patients draw mandalas so they could see their problems from a broader perspective by projecting them onto a universal form.

Many experts believe that the empty field of the mandala resembles a movie screen upon which your unconscious projects your inner live. As you express your inner self through the mandala, a new sense of balance can emerge.

Before you begin this exercise, retire to your special room and go through the belly breathing and emptying techniques. Then take a piece of white paper, 12 inches by 18 inches or larger so you won’t feel constrained. Lay a plate or a pot lid atop the paper. Outline the plate with a crayon, colored pencil, paintbrush, or any colorful drawing tool. Then take out the rest of your crayons, paints, or pastels, pick a color, and draw something inside the circle. Spontaneously create anything you want. Immediately do two more mandalas.

Afterward, gaze at the patterns while thinking nothing. Don’t try to figure out what they mean. The process of creation helps you down the path to the unknown self.

DAY FIVE – SEEK THE INTUITIVE SELF
Once you’re feeling balanced, your search can advance inward toward the self. On Day Five you will learn to tap your intuitive powers through an exercise adapted from intuition expert Helen Palmer. As you learn to focus your concentration and awareness inward, Palmer says, true intuition will replace your erroneous impressions of the world.

To start your session for Day Five, go to your special room and practice belly breathing and emptying techniques. Then select a single situation, person, or event that you want to focus on. Choose an image or impression to represent your choice and focus on it fully. Just be alone with the impression, forming as deep and relaxed a relationship with it as you can for several minutes. Become one with the image and with whatever it represents. As you repeat this process, you’ll become much more attuned on a deep intuitive level to people, places and things.

Good Saturday Morning To Y’all! Hee, Hee, Hee, This is a No-Nonsense Day for Us!

How y’all doing today? I hope better than us. It is in the 60’s and pouring down rain. Gee, I have been so sleepy, I have had to prop my eyes open with toothpicks, lol! Well it’s not that bad but it is gloomy and rainy and on days like these, we all have a tendency to fall asleep on the job. Half of us are at home and the other half are at work. We decided that we have done enough, long daily digest for at least one day. Truthfully, I don’t like those long digest pieces we do but we have picked up enough new members that they don’t like the individual posts we use to do. I had to open up Mystie’s email account and clean it out and close it. My first reaction was “damn” we use to put out those many emails a day? Then I understood why no one liked our individual posts. I believe her account had about 6000 emails and they were all from us. That is ridiculous. So we will stick to the daily digest.

We do have members that are new to the Craft and due to this fact, we occasionally need to take a day and add new info to the site. We decided that we would do that today and only today. I know you can skim through everything here and then you are looking for more. So we have to add new material occasionally to the site. We are going to add some new spells, new Craft info, some printable spells for your BOS and my favorite, “The Witch Said What?”

So have patience with us please. Any thriving site has to add new material to keep it up to date and interesting. We haven’t done this in a while and probably won’t do it again for another six months. We hope you enjoy the new posts and we will see you tomorrow. Till then….

Love ya,

Lady A

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The Witches Digest for Friday, November 17th (Daily Horoscopes & Divination)

The Witches Digest for Friday, November 17th

(Daily Horoscopes & Divination)

New Moon Breakthrough

a message from Selacia

To read more of Selacia’s insight, please visit her website, Selacia and the Council of 12

This week with its New Moon is an opportunity for a significant personal breakthrough. Consider now specifically what you would like to shift and what your ideal outcome looks like. Continue reading for suggestions of how to tap into the energies for beneficial breakthroughs and how to focus your mind for optimal results.

With so much going on in your external world, it’s easy to lose sight of your personal goals and your larger soul mission for being alive now. It’s essential, however, to regularly come back to yourself and refocus your energies.

New Moon Opportunity

This is especially true now during the New Moon opportunity window. What’s needed is to be present to the opportunity for breakthroughs, and focus on what you want to create on a very personal level. As mentioned, do this with specifics in mind – rather than intending you have a great job or happy relationship, intend the specifics of what it looks like and feels like. And, of course, visualize yourself in the picture.

Intend now that you will rise above the tendency to get so caught up in outer world dramas and the annual holiday rush that you neglect your inner self and personal path.

You are not meant to be living on automatic, simply going from one experience to the next. Even though it’s in your conditioning to live on the surface – letting circumstances carry you to the next situation – this is not your authentic way of relating to this life experience. To be authentic, you must strive to be present to each moment and situation. This means being consciously at choice and considering the ramifications of choices before making them.

The more that you can do this, the greater your abundance and the happier you will be.

Mercury Retrograde Shadow

Since we now sit in the beginning of the Mercury Retrograde shadow phase, factor into your plans the need to take care of things like technology backups and contract signing ahead of the actual retrograde. Travel plans you make now may go more smoothly than if you wait to book during the Mercury Retrograde December 2/3-22.

Letting Go to Be Free

This Scorpio New Moon is a perfect time for renewal, reflection, regeneration, and revitalization. The energies also support being able to put a magnifying glass on thorny issues that you haven’t been able to resolve. This can help you to see what you didn’t see before. Also, importantly, it can help you in accessing buried feelings that need to come to the surface before breakthroughs occur. As you let go of these old energies and feelings, you can be free.

During internal process on your own and with others you trust to work with you on the deeper levels, you can take a very big leap in these moments.

DNA Akashic Records

Keep in mind that many of the seemingly immovable obstacles have roots in the past. These could be ancestral, your early life, or even past lives. These can be accessed and addressed within your DNA akashic records. A general energy guideline for accessing the deep buried roots is this: you must have on some level invited the deeper look, you are ready, and the timing is right.

Another part of the New Moon energy opportunity is having flashes of helpful insight about your current life and path ahead. You also may discover that a doorway opens for meeting new people, creating new business partnerships, and having closure with a loved one on the other side. I mention this here because already this month in my 1-1 DNA sessions, clients are receiving messages from departed loved ones – helping with understanding and an ability to let go of hurts and misunderstandings. This alone can be one of the most powerful breakthroughs right now.

Wherever you are in your process now, give yourself the gift of space and presence during this New Moon gateway. Invite a knowing of how you can utilize it in the highest way. Ask your Higher Self to give you clues and also help you in the dream state over the next few days – bringing to your conscious awareness what you need to know.

Trust that in the truest sense, you are never really stuck or blocked. It can feel like that with some issues, yet that’s because you haven’t yet accessed the deepest roots that need to come to light. Know that this is a process, and in the divine orchestration of things, you will see what’s hidden so you can address it and be free.

New Moon in Scorpio: Claim Your Power

Read your sign’s horoscope for the New Moon in Scorpio now

The New Moon in smoldering Scorpio on November 18 sets a dramatic stage for an epic battle between resistance and metamorphosis. The struggle is real, as co-stars (and co-ruling planets of Scorpio) Mars and Pluto square off at the start of this new lunar cycle, intensifying feelings, provoking battles, and triggering ultimatums on global and personal fronts. Mystery and magic hang intoxicatingly heavy in the air at this New Moon, but suspicion, jealousy, and revenge are lurking in the shadows.

Four planets conspiring in the watery realms of Scorpio leave little solid ground to stand on now, prompting the fainthearted to run for the hills. But thanks to a trine from intuitive Chiron in Pisces, this transformational lunation offers limitless potential for healing and growth. The trick is to stop resisting change and instead consciously choose to evolve. The process isn’t pretty, but the possibilities are endless if compassion wins out over fear: painful secrets acknowledged, hearts softened, relationships repaired, trust rebuilt, and faith in humanity restored.

Resist at your own risk

The current planetary intensity can be both empowering and overwhelming — and it’s only human to consider hiding or escaping as a viable option if you hope to avoid drama or sidestep emotional displays. The problem is you can only run for so long, and feelings have a way of catching up with you when you least expect it. Your heart is traveling the seas of seduction and subjectivity now, and you can either decide to go with the flow or you can refuse to swim. But one thing is certain: denial and repression only amplify the power of your buried truth. Whatever is hidden may remain hidden, but secrecy comes with a cost. Isolation keeps you safe but not satisfied. Walls do not let love in.

The call of the phoenix

Shining the light of truth into the dark corners of your subconscious can act as a cathartic emotional detoxification, especially if you acquire awareness and forgiveness on this journey into your soul. Go deep-diving in uncharted waters, exploring all the caves and crevices; face the monsters and angels you encounter with courage and curiosity. Embrace your frailties, fears, and frustrations as you let your feelings wash over you, and give yourself permission and the privacy to cry or scream until you run dry. Confronting your pain opens the doorway to true healing. At the risk of mixing elemental metaphors, you can’t rise from the ashes without a fire.

Remember to be kind to yourself and others, especially when experiencing emotional extremes. Moods are temporary, but your actions and words are permanent. Keep your lifejacket on near this New Moon as a tidal wave of self-analysis can send you down a detour of obsession or self-pity if you forget that your desired destination is personal evolution. The secret is knowing when it’s time to return to the rational realms. Spiritual exploration can be life-altering, but only if you utilize what you learn. Here is a list of potential ideas to get you started on your Scorpio New Moon transformation. Pick one or more to use for your meditation focus or daily affirmation. Make your own list as an exercise to discover what you want to change in your world. Manifestation begins in the mind.

11 New Moon transformations:

– Transform apathy into empathy
– Transform ignorance into knowledge
– Transform anger into ambition
– Transform fear into curiosity
– Transform greed into generosity
– Transform vulnerability into strength
– Transform hate into love
– Transform pain into compassion
– Transform sadness into gratitude
– Transform regret into forgiveness
– Transform dreams into action

New Moon Tools

Tarot card for this New Moon:

Ace of Cups

New beginnings, emotional realization, & spiritual opportunity

Crystals for this New Moon:

Aquarmarine (pictured): aids in emotional exploration and encourages spiritual awareness, compassion, and speaking from the heart

Covellite: offers courage and intuition while exploring the shadows of personal mysteries and healing old wounds

Moldavite: a tektite that facilitates transformation and growth

Your New Moon in Scorpio Horoscopes

By Tarot.com Staff

This passionate Scorpio New Moon offers a not-so-gentle push toward self-examination and personal regeneration. Plant your seeds of intention provided below and then commit every cell of your being to the process of change. Read your sign’s horoscope now:

Aries Horoscope (March 21 – April 19)

The pull of freedom tugs at you like a kite in the wind at this New Moon, but your heart can’t deny the importance of relationships to your current happiness. You might use anger as a weapon to keep others at a distance, and perhaps it is safer to stay out of the path of your wrath now. Unfortunately, breathing fire at anyone who cares enough to stick around to see if they can help is a self-sabotaging strategy. Stop allowing your fear of intimacy and all its perceived trappings to stand in the way of more meaningful connections. Revealing a secret or a dream enables you to test the emotional waters without getting too wet. Your seeds to plant: vulnerability and compassion

Taurus Horoscope (April 20 – May 20)

It may seem as if the feelings of others are hijacking your plans for the future, but the truth is someone is likely acting as a reflection of you now. You are the first to admit you are not a big fan of swimming in the emotional deep end, especially when a crowd is watching. At this New Moon in Scorpio, drop your stoicism and ask for help if you need it. You don’t have to do anything scary on your own when you have a solid support system in place. Resistance is a waste of energy when there is so much positive change waiting for your embrace. Your seeds to plant: trust and faith

Gemini Horoscope (May 21 – June 20)

Asking a simple question seems like a harrowing challenge around this New Moon as drama simmers just below the surface. You want nothing more than to dance around the tension and keep everyone laughing, but someone may push you over the edge if you remain unwilling to examine your feelings. Reassess your current rituals, routines, and risks to discover where improvements need to be made. Your work is your saving grace as it brings stability and structure to your world. Your seed to plant: healthy patterns

Cancer Horoscope (June 21 – July 22)

You are the most content when you can wear your heart on your sleeve without any hesitation. Demonstrating your affection in a myriad of ways brings you oodles of personal joy at this New Moon in Scorpio. Serenade a lover, paint your feelings, or write a poem for a friend. Expressing your feelings is so much fun you might not notice if you cross the line dividing reality and illusion. Your willingness to show up for others is beautiful, but make sure you feed your insatiable craving for spontaneity and adventure too. Your seed to plant: creative courage

Leo Horoscope (July 23 – Aug. 22)

No one performs better than you in front of an audience, leaving the crowd chanting for more. But your star power feels disappointingly too weak to engage in the complex emotional drama of this New Moon, and you need to return to your roots for a regenerative boost. Set aside your infamous pride and dig deep to uncover your true feelings. Opening old wounds is easier to do in the company of someone who knows you well. Reveal what is hidden to find the prescription to your future happiness. Your seed to plant: emotional authenticity

Virgo Horoscope (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22)

You feel slightly trapped by everyone’s incessant need to talk about their feelings around this New Moon. You’re clearly unhappy with the emotional noise infiltrating your bandwidth and postponing your productivity. You can run from the intensity, but you can’t hide from your own heart. If you delay that relationship conversation now, you might sadly regret it later. Stop complaining about the irrational logistics of love and listen carefully when others speak their truth. Mastering the fine art of negotiation and compromise is key to creating partnerships that last. Your seed to plant: consistent communication

Libra Horoscope (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22)

Your natural admiration for aesthetics often crosses over into the beauty you see in others. Your affinity for peace leaves you feeling overwhelmed in times of change, and you tend to be uncomfortable with any emotional messiness, especially if it involves you. You may try to deflect the painful issues by focusing on material possessions or financial gains, but money can’t buy you love or heal your heart. Look in the mirror of your relationships to see where you lost your way. Your confidence rebounds when you align your actions with your intentions. Your seed to plant: own your feelings

Scorpio Horoscope (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21)

You are tapping into a vast pool of emotional energy at this New Moon in your sign, inspiring you to dance with all the colors in a wide spectrum of possibilities. Your intuition is plugged into a cosmic connection and your insights are otherworldly as you strive to create a personal masterpiece. A complete metamorphosis is occurring, but you must keep learning and growing during the process. Resisting change is natural with your Fixed nature but you will only impede your destiny. This kind of rebirthing takes time, but the beautiful butterfly you will become requires trusting the process. Your seed to plant: personal evolution

Sagittarius Horoscope (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21)

You might try to convince anyone who will listen that emotions are overrated and it’s actions that really count. Your strategy is to brush off any pain or regret with laughter and a philosophical shrug. But burying your feelings or cavalierly tossing your hopes aside will only cause wounds to fester below the surface now. Explore your personal history and search your dreams for clues to your pain. Reflective solitude is key to learning the lessons of your past, but practicing compassion opens the doorway to healing your heart. Your seeds to plant: kindness and forgiveness

Capricorn Horoscope (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19)

Your spiritual foundation is a source of strength near this New Moon as you re-examine your place in the community. There is a practical purpose to your soul-searching as you ask yourself some difficult questions. What compensation do you receive from others versus the goods you supply in return? Does it feel like an energetically fair and equitable exchange? Whether you end up renegotiating an arrangement or renewing it without any fuss can only be answered with honest dialogue and serious consideration. Power struggles are unnecessary when everyone agrees to play by the same rules. Your seeds to plant: integrity and awareness

Aquarius Horoscope (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18)

Your professional ambitions are pushing you to excel at every endeavor you undertake, casting you in a favorable light in the public eye. Destiny is calling at this New Moon in Scorpio, and it’s your turn to step into a leadership role. Letting go of any conflicting illusions and preconceived assumptions regarding personal prosperity enables you to make money doing what your heart loves. You don’t have to suffer to follow your dreams, but you do need to passionately believe in the intrinsic value of your work. Your seed to plant: unwavering confidence

Pisces Horoscope (Feb. 19 – March 20)

More, more, more is the song playing on your intergalactic radio at this New Moon, and you can’t help but turn up the volume as you hum along. You are passionate to the nth degree as you envision all the potential places you wish to explore and all the knowledge you hope to acquire. Your outrageously amazing ideas are overwhelming to everyone except you now, as you work on manifesting your dreams in your future reality. Wandering off on an emotional journey could take you down an unexpected path of healing, so there’s no need to worry if you forget your map. Your seed to plant: infinite possibilities

Content written by Morgan Friday

This Weekend’s Love Horoscope: It’s Complicated

Your love horoscope for the weekend of November 17-19

Your head and heart are buzzing this weekend! On Friday Mercury will be at a positive angle to Mars, which is currently in Libra, the sign of relationships. You can see possibilities for your love life now that you may have been unable to see before. With a little hope and self-reflection, you have an opportunity to overcome old patterns or and find new hope for the future of your love life.

The power to make changes gets even stronger on Saturday, when the New Moon happens in Scorpio, the sign of deep reflection, intimacy, and transformation. This is an incredible time to delve into your own feelings about love and what you give to and receive from others. The New Moon represents the beginning of a fresh cycle, and gives you the chance to see yourself and your love life from a new perspective. Just don’t let the Moon’s irritating run-in with Uranus take over your feelings! Allow the fierce and calculating energy of Scorpio to flow through you and keep you focused.

On Sunday, Mars butts heads with Pluto, the planet of power and control. You may get roped into a power struggle or stalemate with your lover that makes you feel frustrated or stuck. You may even feel that the positive changes you have just been inspired to make hit an immediate wall. The best way to overcome conflict is to be open and communicate the changes you want to see happen in your relationships. The Moon has moved into Sagittarius by Sunday, and if you embrace the optimism and hope of this sign, you can drive away from problems and toward solutions.

Scorpio Love Compatibility: Intense, Jealous, and Magnetic

Calculate the romantic potential of each zodiac sign with Scorpio

As a deeply emotional and passionate sign, your ideal partnership is with a fellow Water sign who can match your intense levels of intimacy. Sensitive Water signs like Pisces has the depth to nurture your soul, while frustrating Fire types like Leo will make you feel out of control.

Scorpio and Aries

With such passion in each of your signs, it seems like Aries and Scorpio would make a good match. You both have a great deal of willpower and courage, but there are differences. You deal with powerful emotions by holding them in. Rams, on the other hand, have a shorter fuse and are prone to big explosions and fits of impatience. Aries’ short temper and your resentful and sometimes unforgiving personality can mix like oil and water. The good news? All of that intensity you both feel will make for red-hot desire … when you’re not fighting.

Scorpio and Taurus

Taurus is secure and dependable, and you’ll be happy to have someone who is so trustworthy. Bulls are your exact opposite zodiac sign, and in this case, opposites really do attract. While some signs are scared off by your intense emotions, this sign loves to be on the receiving end of them. The two of you spoil each other and enjoy it. All is not hearts and rainbows between you two, though. You both want the upper hand in the relationship. When power struggles inevitably happen, you both make worthy adversaries, and the resulting emotional meltdown will not be pretty.

Scorpio and Gemini

While Gemini is fascinated by a trail of hot, bubbling lava, you want to know what’s fueling the volcano. Brainy Geminis appreciate your thirst for knowledge, and they’ll enjoy sharing ideas and debating issues with you … until they realize they’ll never win. It’s not that you’re smarter, it’s that they’re no match for your intensity. In fact, you just may scare the heck out of them. You just may be too serious for a flighty Gemini, and they might be too flirtatious for a jealous Scorpio. Making this relationship work won’t be easy.

Scorpio and Cancer

Scorpio and Cancer are both emotional Water signs, but you tend to hold in your feelings for different reasons. You know that your emotions are powerful and intense, and you consciously tone them down so you won’t scare people. Cancers, on the other hand, keep their feelings to themselves because they’re afraid others won’t love them if they know too much. If you can gain a Crab’s trust, they’ll feel more comfortable opening up. One thing is certain: This won’t be a short-lived affair.

Scorpio and Leo

Leos are outgoing and flashy, often grabbing the limelight away from less showy signs. You want to be respected and recognized for your accomplishments, and if your Leo steals attention away from you, you’ll find it unbearable. Scorpio and Leo are both Fixed signs, which means you can both be stubborn when you want to be — and you often do. This isn’t an impossible relationship, but it will require a lot of compromise and acceptance on both sides. If you can pull it off, you’ll both be rewarded with a loving, loyal partner who is in it for the long haul.

Scorpio and Virgo

Virgos are more analytical and practical, and you tend to be more emotional and raw. If you can both learn to accept the qualities that make you different, you will have a deep respect for each other. You can bring your Virgo into a world of increased feeling and passion, and you might learn how to be more logical and rational from them. Romantically, you’re both too hot for many people to handle. Although Virgos seem cool and detached, they can focus passion like a laser. If they shine that light of love in your direction, you two can have a long-lasting, happy relationship.

Scorpio and Libra

A Libra can teach Scorpio how to find the perfect balance between head and heart — if you can get past your differences. Libras approach life intellectually, while you see everything through the filter of your emotions. While Libra uses language and actions, you feel things intensely without finding it necessary to verbalize them. Together you can share a deep and abiding trust for each other. If you allow your partner to instruct you on the finer things in life, you’ll be rewarded with a greater appreciation for beauty. Your Libra, on the other hand, will be rewarded with a sincere and lasting love.

Scorpio and Scorpio

When you meet another Scorpio, you may not like each other at first. In fact, you’ll probably dislike each other. You can be mirrors to each other, and you may not like seeing yourself so closely. You’ll be deeply attracted to each other — not that either of you know any other way to be attracted. You may be astounded by how intense you are when seen through another Scorpio’s eyes. At times, the emotions will be so extreme that you’ll both need to step away from the relationship, getting some fresh air from new people or experiences.

Scorpio and Sagittarius

You’re easily attracted to, and inspired by, a Sagittarian’s confidence and love of adventure. Chemistry may not be enough to make up for your fundamental differences, though. You follow your gut, while your Archer just shoots from the hip. You instinctively know if a plan is going to work or not, and your partner is likely to ignore your objections to follow an idea he or she is excited about. Sagittarius also avoids dealing with anything negative at all costs, which might be a problem for someone who needs to process every emotion — good or bad.

Scorpio and Capricorn

Like you, Capricorns tend to be reserved. For you, it’s a trust issue. For a Goat, it’s about doing what’s right. You see, Capricorns feel that sharing feelings is inappropriate a lot of the time. Because you have a similar demeanor, you have great respect for each other’s personal space, giving each other room to process things on your own terms. Don’t let your Goat’s cool exterior fool you, though. Once your partner learns the steps, he or she will dance with wild abandon. And the best part? Your Capricorn will always let you lead.

Scorpio and Aquarius

Scorpios value privacy, and would rather enjoy the comfort of home than venture out into uncharted territory. Aquarians, on the other hand, need to be out and around people. This difference alone may stop this relationship in its tracks before it even leaves the station. To add insult to injury, you’re both stubborn Fixed signs, and your possessive and jealous nature can make Aquarius feel smothered. So why even bother? Because if you can give each other the space to be who you are without judgment, it will totally be worth it, that’s why.

Scorpio and Pisces

Pisces and Scorpio are both water signs, which means you’re both intensely emotional. While you tend to spend a lot of time processing your emotions, Fishes are more interested in other people’s feelings. Your Pisces is sensitive and compassionate, and can sooth your outbursts with their kind heart. If those outbursts are directed at him or her, however, they can be easily wounded. If you can be more sensitive to your partner’s feelings, and if they can toughen up just a little bit, this can be a match that makes both of your dreams come true.

Your Daily Horoscopes for Friday, November 17th

Aries

The first half of the day stirs up productive mental energy, dear Aries. You are motivated to pursue a learning endeavor or further a mental interest. Conversations with a partner or special friend can be super helpful, encouraging, and motivating. You are attracting strong, competent, and loyal friends to you now. This is a time for putting ideas into action, sharing thoughts and beliefs, and strengthening alliances through communication. Tend to important errands and demands that are likely to arise today so that you can free yourself up for more adventurous and fulfilling activities. However, save brand new beginnings for another time since today’s Moon is Balsamic and tomorrow’s New Moon may reveal further information or interests. As well, watch for some tendencies for impatient decisions or actions. Someone may make you feel a little claustrophobic.

Taurus

The day is good for supporting others through practical help, or for being on the receiving end of such help, dear Taurus. It’s also a strong time for work and research, as you can feel more motivated than usual to get answers! You might become more aware of the need to take charge of health and fitness matters. Even so, there can be some hesitation experienced now if you feel caged in. Aim to recognize a need for change. There is a New Moon occurring tomorrow morning that marks the beginning of a cycle, making it appropriate to wind down today as you end the previous cycle. It can be a good time for tying up loose ends with work for many of you.

Gemini

This morning is good for tackling difficult problems or taking on a mental challenge, dear Gemini. You are very willing to act on your ideas, and although you’re self-motivated now, a partner or special someone can be encouraging as well, and this is much appreciated! While there can be a somewhat jagged or hectic pace at times today, you’re seeing the bigger picture and are more able than usual to hone in on your priorities. You’re also quick to get to the point. In fact, you can be a little impatient with beating around the bush today. The Moon is Balsamic today, which means a lunar phase cycle is coming to an end. Tomorrow’s New Moon sets you on a new path, particularly related to work or health, and today, take things easy.

Cancer

You could feel quite driven to put an idea into action or to pursue a line of thought today, dear Cancer, especially if it’s related to family, home, health, and work. This can be a time of organizing or reorganizing. You find it easier to get through things quickly and efficiently, perhaps because you’re very decided and certain. Illuminating conversations can be had at your workplace or through people you deal with on a daily basis. The day can hold some surprises, however, largely work-related or related to responsibilities, but do your best to stay on track. A New Moon will occur tomorrow morning, and this means that today is better for working on in-progress projects rather than beginning brand new ventures.

Leo

Today, you can put a creative spin on whatever you’re doing, dear Leo, and decisions tend to be quick but practical as well. You’re inclined to say it like it is now, and for the most part, it’s going over well. It’s a great time to take care of business or get clarity on a matter. However, it’s best not to put brand new ideas into action since the Moon is Balsamic today. Interests and insights can change in a few days. A dilemma could have you torn between venturing out or getting the rest you need today. However, as the day advances today, it’s best to take it easy with a New Moon occurring tomorrow morning.

Virgo

Energy levels are good this morning, dear Virgo, and you are assertive in a healthy way, willing to take the lead to get things done, but also conscious of others’ input and needs. It’s a good time for solving problems at home or with business, especially. You’re likely to feel hopeful and optimistic feelings revolving around work matters and living conditions. This is a good time to work on a budget or to talk about finances and strategies. You’re quick to get to a point. However, if you’ve been doing too much, you’ll feel the resultant tension later today. Fortunately, it’s relatively easy to get back into a positive and determined frame of mind. As well, the Moon is Balsamic which means a cycle is ending, making way for the New Moon tomorrow that’s sure to stir up new interests and focus.

Libra

This is a good time for personal magnetism and influence, dear Libra. It may be something you say or do that magnetizes opportunities to you. It’s a good day for making a proposal or presenting an idea especially. You’re quick to put a plan into action and not inclined to mull things over very much at the moment, and this feels good. However, there may be some tension in your interactions, such as a temporary disruption that has to do with a need for change that you haven’t yet fully acknowledged. Recognizing this is the most critical step towards resolving problems now. Even with some surprise elements to the day, this is a beautiful period for resolving conflicts generally speaking, and particularly for putting something to rest. A Balsamic Moontoday favors looking back and winding down instead of working yourself up and starting something brand new.

Scorpio

This morning is strong for healing activities, dear Scorpio, as you are drawn to activities that are regenerative in nature. It’s a good time for gaining new information through study and observation. You can more easily focus your mind and prioritize. You’re ready to take on intellectual challenges and your problem-solving skills are above par, especially related to money, talents, and emotions. Tricky issues or ideas can be tackled now with greater ease. Communications with others are energetic and forward-looking. You may be dealing with some uncertainty, change, or chaos related to schedules, work, or health, but you’re likely to get back on track quickly.The Moon is Balsamic which points to the need to wind down as the day advances. Do so, if possible! A New Moon will occur in your sign tomorrow morning, and a new energetic cycle that’s all about you will begin. Brand new beginnings should be saved for later since the New Moon can act as a “reset” button on some levels.

Sagittarius

You’ll find it quite pleasantly straightforward to make a friend or to enjoy a current friendship today, dear Sagittarius. Express yourself and stay flexible — be spontaneous if you feel right about something in your heart. This can be a time for lending someone a hand or acting upon an idea with much satisfaction. A hurried pace may threaten to disrupt the flow, but you’re resilient now and quick to bounce back. As the day advances, aim to slow right down for best results. A New Moon will occur tomorrow morning, motivating you to begin clearing the decks to make room for new growth and developments. Look for ways to simplify your life now, mainly by bringing habits and attitudes that are no longer serving you well to an end.

Capricorn

You’re optimistic and ready to put ideas into motion today, dear Capricorn. Still, this is a better time to let go than take on, to sell than buy, not just with money! A Balsamic Moon points to the end of a lunar cycle, such that winding things down makes sense. Even so, you’re poised to get a lot done now, and that’s great. You are motivated to fulfill your duties, and then some, and the positive feedback only serves to encourage you further. You may effectively read between the lines, draw upon past experience, or uncover information now that helps you advance. As quickly as the day may demand your attention, taking time to center yourself will be appropriate. There may be a minor conflict between the need to attend to family or personal matters and the desire to keep other connections and relationships alive. Even so, it’s relatively easy to focus your mind and get back on track.

Aquarius

This is a time for expressing yourself with confidence and verve, dear Aquarius. You can be a little more assertive than usual in effective rather than aggressive ways. Grab any opportunity that arises now that pulls you out of your usual routine and adds a dash of adventure to your life. Problem-solving or active involvement with a friend or group can figure strongly. The desire to talk, share your experiences, and open up to others is strong. Watch, however, for impatience now. The Moon is Balsamictoday. A New Moon tomorrow morning will serve as a reset button on some level, with new beginnings possible along career and long-term goal lines. Today is more appropriate for winding down than starting fresh.

Pisces

You have the stamina and energy to accomplish a lot this morning, dear Pisces, although later today, it’s best to tone things down. There is a focus on treating one another fairly and on straightforward communication. Your x-ray vision is high this morning, which is useful for business moves or strategies for general life direction and next steps. You don’t want to waste time on roundabout conversations. It’s rather easy to drum up support for what you’re doing and saying today. Later today, you may want to settle in and take extra time for your intuition to kick in with a New Moon occurring tomorrow that marks the beginning of a new cycle.

If You Were Born on Friday, November 17

staying on track and meeting your responsibilities as well. Useful contacts can be made during this period. Your love or social life comes alive this year.

If You Were Born Today, November 17

Although you have a talent for communicating, you are not an open book. Your personality is vibrant, and others notice you wherever you go. As emotional as you are, you prefer to present the strong side of your personality to others. You may readily discuss your personal past, but you are not one to whine about your life. You do have an interesting life story, no doubt about it, as you tend to attract change and even crisis into your life with your controlled yet powerful emotions. Your life is far from static, likely because your personality is very dynamic. Famous people born today: Danny DeVito, Grace Abbott, Martin Scorsese, Lauren Hutton, Gordon Lightfoot, Rock Hudson, Lorne Michaels.

Get a Jump On Tomorrow……

Your Daily Horoscopes for Saturday, November 18th

Aries

The New Moon that occurs today increases your awareness of the preciousness of life now, and this can lead to a new resolution to reach out more often to others and to take better care of yourself going forward. Quitting bad habits is best done in the days before a New Moon, and starting new long-term programs is best attempted in the week following a New Moon. Now that you’re beginning a new cycle, it’s a good idea to set a plan in motion that focuses on improving emotional health and wellness. You might decide to start a counseling program, pay particular attention to an important person or project in your life, or work on gaining new independence from debilitating debts. This is a time when forgiving others for slights can serve you well. Even so, as the day moves forward, there can be a tendency to lock heads with others, to instigate, or to attempt to force a matter with Mars and Pluto nearing a square aspect. Resentments might surface, but this also gives you the chance to see what anger or hurt you’re holding onto.

Taurus

The New Moon occurring this morning favors a fresh start in a relationship over the coming weeks, dear Taurus, and supports your social life in general. You’re in particularly good form in negotiations, counseling, marriage, or business partnerships. A new agreement or understanding, whether explicit or not, with a partner or friend can boost your spirits tremendously now. You’re in a strong position for making, renewing, or improving relationships. However, later today, obsessive behavior is something to be on the lookout for. There is a tendency to dwell on a negative emotion or difficult topics or to dig in your heels on an issue that gets you into a state of frustration with someone close to you. This can be especially true for those who are working today, but the dilemma or stand-off might also revolve around a routine or work matter.

Gemini

The New Moon occurring this morning brings the potential for a new beginning, dear Gemini, particularly in the areas of work, health, diet, fitness, and habits. It’s a great time for making improvements to these areas with a take-charge, fresh, and focused attitude. The Sun and Venus have been turning your attention to your working life and routines recently, and now the New Moon pulls it all together and motivates you to put everything into order. The weeks ahead are favorable for beginning new health regimes and routines and for paying particular attention to your work. However, as the day moves forward, you may be dwelling on something if it’s not going exactly your way, and power plays are possible, particularly likely with a child, love interest, or intimate partner. If you face resistance, it might be best to adjust expectations or let go of something even temporarily. Certainly, this is a time for seeing areas of your life where you’re too attached for your own good.

Cancer

The New Moon occurring this morning is particularly favorable for you, dear Cancer, bringing powerful yet easy energy for self-expression, fun dalliances, creative pursuits, and romantic matters in the coming weeks. There can be improvements to your romantic life and possibly a new beginning. You can focus on injecting a spirit of whimsy into your life and more confidence into your creative pursuits and hobbies. You are more aware of your need to entertain, be entertained, celebrate, enjoy, and share yourself with others. You are likely to attract positive attention from others now. As the day advances, tensions can mount, especially if others seem to be resisting or standing in your way. People may be seen as especially demanding, or you might be expecting a lot from others. People shouldn’t have to follow another person’s script, so watch for this. Also, try to let go a little if you’re holding onto a rigid idea of what you want.

Leo

This morning’s New Moon gives you an extra charge of energy, dear Leo, and changes and improvements may be necessary as you reorganize your personal life, or shuffle around your priorities. Family and home-related activities can thrive now. There could be a previously neglected area of your life that now seems essential to revisit. New or improved living conditions, the beginning of a new project on or in the home, or a renewed family connection can be expressions of this energy. With Mars in your communications sector since October 22nd, you’re more passionate about your ideas and personal interests, as well as with your communications. However, at times this passion can border on obsession, and later today as Mars and Pluto form a square, this is an even stronger possibility. Watch that you’re not holding on so tightly to a specific belief or point of view that it begins to cause you troubles and frustration.

Virgo

There has been increased emphasis on busy work, errands, connecting, and learning these days, dear Virgo, and this morning’s New Moon brings all of this together. You’re excited about projects or news now. You might have a major project to work on, a new line of study you’re interested in, or a new goal for connecting with people around you, and this New Moon helps you to focus on achieving what you want and need to do. Mars in your solar second house for weeks now has increased your desire to better yourself or your life, as well as your confidence to do so. Mars’ square to Pluto can stimulate the shadow side of Mars tonight and tomorrow, however, leading to impatience, brusqueness, and unnecessary conflict or tension. As the day progresses, you can experience some frustration over personal finances, values, and ideas that seem to conflict with those of someone in your life, or that stimulate fears. This is a time for seeing unhealthy attachments.

Libra

This morning’s New Moon has a way of reminding you of your practical priorities, dear Libra. In the coming weeks, you’re in a superior position for taking charge of your finances, business, and sense of security. Stability, safety, respect, and physical comforts are in focus. There can be essential discoveries about your earning potential and your attachment to material things. Also today, a Mars-Pluto square is brewing. While it’s exact tomorrow morning, it’s in influence today as well. Mars in your sign since October 22nd has boosted your confidence and inspired you to take charge of your life as well as to take action on pursuing your personal goals and plans. This can work wonderfully well for you at times, but with Mars under duress today, you might struggle with how to manage excess energy efficiently, and experience some impatience, pride, and misdirected anger. Make it your goal not to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Scorpio

The New Moon occurring this morning is in your sign, dear Scorpio, and it offers exceptional opportunities to make positive changes in your life now and in the coming weeks. You are especially noticed and respected during this period. It’s time to reinvent yourself in some personal way, such as with a new look or manner of expressing and presenting yourself. Commitments to improvements related to mind, body, and spirit are in focus now. You are independent, feel freer, and more authentic to your nature in your self-expression. Discover what it is you truly want for yourself and then go for it! Keep in mind, however, that a Mars-Pluto square is influencing the day and the New Moon, and while it can be a powerful driving force, it requires sensitive handling. Something can get you all riled up, and if this is the case, use frustration or anger to motivate you to improve something in your life that’s truly helpful for you rather than waste time on resentment.

Sagittarius

The New Moon this morning inspires a strong need for rest and replenishment, dear Sagittarius. Now and in the coming weeks, you’ll be doing some soul-searching or taking care of spiritual needs and mental health more attentively. Your private life and inner world assume more importance in the weeks ahead. As the day advances, you could run into some difficulties as you meet stubbornness and rigidity of thought. For some of you, there may be an issue surrounding values, money, or questions of ownership and boundaries that can easily cross the line and turn into power games or other forms of manipulation. Try not to hold on so tightly to your methods or approach that you push others away or make them feel crossed over. Ultimately, any anger or frustration that emerges today can point you in the right direction as to what needs healing and resolution.

Capricorn

The New Moon this morning serves to reinvigorate your social life, dear Capricorn, or your feeling of connectedness with others and hopes for the future. The chance to begin anew is with you in the coming weeks regarding making contacts, networking, formulating long-term goals, and connecting with your community. It’s a fabulous time to strengthen ties with friends or a group or for taking on a project in collaboration with others. There might even be some drama in your social life that shakes things up and leads to changes. As the day progresses, there is a tendency to become so focused on a matter that you fail to see other options. This works out fine if you use it to push forward a productive goal, or if you pour your passion into something that truly needs undivided attention, but if you’re dwelling on a matter that is not yet ready to push forward, then problems can ensue. Try to let go of issues that truly aren’t progressing today, and wait for a better time to pour your energy into these things.

Aquarius

The New Moon this morning can push long-term goals and performance to the top of your priority list for the coming weeks, dear Aquarius. You have the power to reshape your reputation and professional goals in beneficial ways now. New or renewed business plans and objectives take form going forward. You can be feeling reinvigorated and excited about where you’re headed now. There can be substantial changes in your life when it comes to your own influence or authority, or with authority figures in your life, as well as status or reputation. As today progresses, a Mars-Pluto aspect comes more strongly into influence, and there is a tendency to fixate or dwell on a topic even if it’s not working for you, and perhaps even if it’s frustrating you immensely! Aim to let something go long enough to gain perspective. Alternatively, you may need a push or a rush of frustration to motivate you to make a significant change, but do keep in mind that there is a real tendency to blow things out of proportion today.

Pisces

The New Moon this morning works in harmony with your sign, dear Pisces. This lunation offers you opportunities to move outside of your routine — and to feel reenergized and motivated as a result — in the coming weeks. This is a time for feeding your mind and spirit. There may be opportunities to broaden your horizons through travel, education, or other forms of adventure and life experience. New avenues for getting out and about may open to you. As today progresses, we get closer to a Mars-Pluto square that tends to bring up buried frustration or anger, however. One of the problems with this aspect is that you not only see problems you dwell on them far too long. What starts as a passionate feeling about something or someone could quickly turn into an obsession or a power struggle. Treat this as an opportunity to understand where you’re overly attached and try to keep a healthy sense of proportion.

Your Personal Daily Tarot Card

The Chariot

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.

Your Crowley Thoth Tarot Card for Today

Fortune

Fortune represents that aspect of life that is directed by forces and events we may not understand or even be aware of. In short, Fortune deals with chance—those occurrences that manage to alter even the most structured of lives, usurp man’s “best laid plans.” While the effects of Fortune are unpredictable, the outcome is always change; sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Our path through life is never a ride down a perfectly straight highway. Sometimes we may even experience hairpin turns or complete reversals of direction. Fortune is strong reminder that despite our plans, the Universe has its own agenda from which we cannot escape participation.

Your Daily Rune for Friday, November 17th

Your Rune For Today
Dagaz

Dagaz represents the fresh light of a new day. You are close to making a breakthrough. You have the will to change whatever you deem necessary. You may see the world with absolute clarity at this time.

Your Daily MahJong Tile
November 17, 2017

Wan 2
Symbol: Sword
The Sword tile indicates a decision must be made before attainment of your goals can be reached

Your Charm for November 18th

The Frog

The frog represents good health, physically and emotionally. This aspect shall remain in a good light as long as you maintain good health.

General Description:
This is an old Roman Amulet but the charm dates from prehistoric times. The Frog was the emblem of He gt, the Egyptian goddess of abundance fruitfulness, fertility and plenty. From Egypt these myths spread and similar goddesses were worshiped under different names — Ishtar in Assyria, Belita in Babylonia, Al-ital in Arabia, Aphrodite in Greece, Venus in Rome. The Frog, cut in amber, is a popular talisman. In Italy Greece and Turkey, it is still worn to bring good health, prosperity, and abundance of all the good things of this earth.

Crack the Cookie

The Wisdom of Buddha

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

A Little Humor for Your Day

12 Exercises Nobody Needs

Jumping to conclusions

Running around in circles

Wading through paperwork

Pushing your luck

Passing the buck

Throwing your weight around

Jumping on the bandwagon

Spinning your wheels

Dragging your heels

Adding fuel to the fire

Climbing the walls

Grasping at straws

THE AUTARCHIC CREED

We of the Old Religion have our own particular compact with our deities that charges simply, “An it harm none, do as ye will.”

And our gods do not despise us for being human but delight in our celebrations of life and love. We are ageless souls, only for awhile within bodies – merely visitors upon this plane.

We are brothers to the gods and only temporarily cousins to the ape, and our lives belong to us, not to this world nor to its earthly governors.

We are not doomed to shame and decay; not lost; not indentured to perish with earthly manifestations; not disposed to eternal misery for any past or present lapses of courage or wisdom.

We are as children in the school of life who must learn our lessons, on life at a time, before we graduate.

Our lives span the march of time, striving upward, subordinate only to our individual probity and growth.

But in this mortal life, greedy, trivial hierophants and mundane rulers have perpetrated a fraud upon humanity.

They have purloined for profit and temporal power, our legitimate heritage, and that of all society, and have substituted for it shame, despair, and fear,inventing evil deities to terrify and to constrain mankind from the exercise of his own native conscience.

Still we take our uncertain portion time and again, joining with the species on this plane, only to meet with earthly disunity and distress;bonly to be told by bogus, uncelestial shepherds that we are deficientvand fundamentally iniquitous; constantly rebuked that our natural birthright is insubstantial or even sinful, and that we must cleave to the pious injunctions of reigning mortals, no matter how oppressive or suffer beyond measurable time, yearning for some mythical golden glory just out of reach, but somehow never quite worthy of it.

That is the apocryphal hell and the fabled satan; they are of mortal creation; they are now, not in some remote bye-and-bye; and those who choose to believe in them perpetuate them in this earth. But nevertheless, by sublime design, despite narrowness, folly or fear, we all, each and every one, possess this wondrous legacy:

that each of us sustains a singular covenant with the cosmic, in that the soul is and ever was, one with the universe, conducting itself in concordance with the absolute. And whatever paths it may walk, or whichever faith it may follow, on sojourn at a time, each shall as a consequence of that oneness, and attuning with its destiny, eventually return on its own to its source to again be part of that totality, atoned, aware and unshackled.

“JUSTIFICUS”

The Witches Digest for Friday, November 17th (The Witches Guide to Fridays)

The Witches Digest for Friday, November 17th

(The Witches Guide to Fridays)

Today is Friday, November 17th

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 Ngetal(Reed) – October 28 – November 24

Runic Half-Month of Nyd – November 13 – November 27

Goddess of the Month of Cailleach/Samhain – October 31 – November 27

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

Friday–The Day of Freya

In the stories of the gods and goddesses of the Angles and Saxons we find two goddesses, Frigga, the wife of Odin and queen of the gods, and Freya, the Goddess of Love. Some people think that Friday was named after Frigga, and others that it was Freya’s day. Since very similar stories are told of each of them, it is quite probable that they were really the same person. The Roman name for the day was Dies Veneris, the day of Venus, who, it will be remembered, was the Goddess of Love, and so corresponded to Freya. The modern French name is taken from the Latin and is vendredi.

Frigga was the Goddess of the Clouds, and, when she was not with her husband Odin, spent her time in spinning clouds. Her spinning-wheel was studded with jewels, and at night could be seen in the sky as the constellation to which the Romans gave the name of Orion’s Belt, as we have seen in the story of Orion.

Frigga was also the Goddess of Spring, and as such was known as Eastre, whom we have already mentioned as giving us the word Easter.

Freya, the Goddess of Love and Beauty, like the Venus of the Romans, received a great welcome when she came to the home of the gods, and was given a special kingdom called Folk Meadow, where was a vast hall known as the Hall of Many Seats. Here she received half of those slain in battle, the other half being entertained by Odin, as we have seen.

Freya is depicted as having blue eyes and golden hair, and often as wearing a robe of feathers, which enabled her to fly through the air like a bird.

The goddess is said to have married Odur, who was probably Odin under another name. Odur once had occasion to leave Freya and travel over the world, and the goddess was broken-hearted at his departure. Her tears fell among the rocks and were changed to gold, while some which fell into the sea were transformed into amber. All nature mourned with her: the trees shed their leaves, the grass withered, and the flowers drooped their heads. At last Freya in her distress set out to find her husband, and, passing through many lands, where her golden tears were afterwards found, came to the sunny south, and there overtook the wandering Odur. As the lovers returned, the fields and the flowers rejoiced with them. The frost and snow fled before them, and the earth became green again as they passed.

“And Freya next came nigh, with golden tears;
The loveliest Goddess she in Heaven, by all
Most honour’d after Frea, Odin’s wife.
Her long ago the wandering Odur took
To mate, but left her to roam distant lands;
Since then she seeks him, and weeps tears of gold.”
MATTHEW ARNOLD–Balder Dead.

This story, of course, reminds us of Ceres and Persephone, and is only another fanciful explanation of summer and winter.

Freya was the proud possessor of a dazzling necklace of gold, which had been made by the dwarfs, and which she wore night and day. On one occasion only did she lend the necklace, when Thor, disguised as Freya, went to the land of the giants to recover his hammer, which had been stolen by the Giant Thrym. Loki, by borrowing Freya’s robe of feathers and flying over the country of the giants, had discovered the thief, but had also found that Thrym would only return the hammer on condition that Freya would become his wife. When Freya heard of the giant’s presumption, she became greatly enraged, and vowed that she would never leave her beloved Odur and go to live in that dreary and desolate land of cold. Heimdall, the guardian of the bridge Bifrost, then suggested that Thor should go to Thrym disguised as Freya, in company with Loki disguised as Freya’s attendant. The gods at last allowed themselves to be persuaded, and Thor, having borrowed Freya’s clothes and necklace and wearing a thick veil, set out with Loki, who was dressed as a handmaiden. On reaching the giant’s palace, they were welcomed by Thrym, who was delighted at the success of his plan, and who led them to the banqueting hall, where a great feast was held. At the end of the feast, Thrym ordered the famous hammer to be brought in, and he himself laid it in his bride’s lap as a marriage gift. Thor’s hand immediately closed over the hammer, and in a few moments Thrym and all the guests invited to the wedding feast lay dead.

Freya was greatly relieved to have her necklace returned in safety, but the evil Loki, attracted by its wonderful beauty, determined to steal it. One night the god, by changing himself into a fly, succeeded in entering Freya’s palace. He then resumed his own shape, and, creeping stealthily to Freya’s bed, gently removed the necklace from the goddess’s neck. The watchful Heimdall, however, had heard Loki’s footsteps, and, looking in the direction of the Folk Meadow, became a witness of the theft. He at once set off in pursuit of Loki, and, overtaking him, drew his sword and was about to kill the thief, when Loki changed himself into a flame. Heimdall immediately changed himself into a cloud, and sent down a shower of rain to put out the fire. Loki then took the form of a bear, and opened his mouth to catch the water. Heimdall also took the form of a bear and attacked Loki, who, finding that he was being overpowered, changed himself yet again, into a seal. Heimdall followed suit, and fought again with Loki, and at length compelled him to give up the necklace, which was returned to Freya.

On another occasion Freya was sought by one of the giants, and it was only by the cunning of Loki and by an act of bad faith on the part of the gods that she was saved. The gods, ever anxious lest the giants should invade Asgard, decided to build a stronghold which would prove impregnable. They received an offer from a stranger, who was willing to undertake the work in return for the sun, the moon, and the goddess Freya. By Loki’s advice they accepted the offer on condition that he should complete the work in one winter, aided only by his horse. To the surprise of the gods the stranger agreed to these conditions, and with the help of his horse, which could haul the heaviest stone, set to work. The gods, who at first felt sure that their conditions had made the task impossible, were alarmed to find as time went on that the stranger was working so quickly that it seemed certain that he would be able to keep his promise. The gods on their side had no intention whatever of keeping their promise, since they could not possibly part with the sun and the moon and the Goddess of Love, and they angrily pointed out to Loki that since it was he who had got them into this difficulty, he must find some way out of it. Loki replied that the gods need have no fear, for with his usual cunning he had thought of a plan whereby the stranger might be made to forfeit his reward. On the last day, when only one stone remained to be dragged into position, Loki changed himself into a horse, and, trotting out from the forest, neighed loudly to attract the attention of the stranger’s horse. Tired of his continual labour and longing for freedom and rest, the horse broke free from its load and galloped after Loki. The stranger, after pursuing it vainly through the forest, at last made his way to Asgard, and, full of anger at the trick which had been played upon him, took on his real shape, for he was a frost-giant, and was about to attack the gods when Thor hurled his hammer at him and killed him.

Frey, the god mentioned in the story of Loki and Sif’s golden hair, was Freya’s brother. He was the God of the Fields, and sacrifices were made to him for the crops. In the early spring his wooden image was driven in a chariot through the countryside, in order that he might bless the fields and bring a fruitful harvest: Frey, as we have seen, became the possessor of a ship which could travel over land and sea, and though large enough to contain all the gods, yet could be folded up like a cloth, and he also possessed a boar with golden bristles. The god often rode on this boar, which was swifter than a horse, and was no doubt a symbol of the sun, which ripened the crops. We find the same idea of sunshine in Frey’s flashing sword, which fought of its own accord as soon as it was drawn from its sheath.

The month of the Angles and Saxons which begins just before our Christmas was sacred to both Frey and Thor, and it was customary at that time, as we have already mentioned, to bind a huge wooden wheel with straw, and, setting fire to it, to roll it down a hill. The wheel was a symbol of the sun, which at that time began to chase away the winter. At this time, too, was held a great feast to all the gods, and the chief meat eaten was a boar’s head, in honour of Frey. The missionaries who first brought Christianity to the Northmen, finding this feast was of great importance and was celebrated by all the people, did not try to do away with it. Instead, they changed it from a heathen to a Christian festival by putting Christ in the place of the Norse gods, and calling it the Feast or Mass of Christ. A similar change was made, it will be remembered, in the case of the Easter festival, held in honour of Eastre or Frigga, the wife of Odin.

Ritual Influences for Friday, November 17th

Friday Venus

Perfumes: Stephanotis, Apple Blossom, Musk, Ambergris

Incense: Saffron, Verbena

Wood: Myrtle

Color: Light Blue, Pale Green

Influences: All Love Matters, Friendships, Affection, Partnerships, Money, Sex

Reference

A Book of Pagan Rituals
Herman Slater

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 ThoughtCo.com

The Witches Guide to Friday

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

Friday’s Witchery

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 Almanac for Friday, November 17th

Queen Elizabeth’s Accession Day

Waning Moon

Moon Phase: Fourth Quarter

Moon Sign: Scorpio

Incense: Alder

Color: Purple

FRIDAY CORRESPONDENCES

Venus/Water/East/West/South/Dawn/Female/Libra/Taurus

Magickal Intentions: Love, Romance, Marriage, Sexual Matters, Physical Beauty, Friendship and Partnerships, Strangers, Heart

Color: aqua, blue, light blue, brown, green, pale green, magenta, peach, pink, rose, white, all pastels

Number: 5, 6

Metal: copper

Charm: green or white garments, scepter

Stone: alexandrite, amethyst, coral, diamond, emerald, jade, jet, black moonstone, peridot, smoky quartz, tiger’s-eye, pink tourmaline

Animal: camel, dove, elephant, goat, horse, pigeon, sparrow

Plant: apple, birch, cherry, clematis, clove, coriander, heather, hemlock, hibiscus, ivy, lotus, moss, myrtle, oats, pepperwort, peppermint, pinecone, quince, raspberry, rose, pink rose, red rose, rose hips, saffron, sage, savin, stephanotis, strawberry, thyme, vanilla, verbena, violet, water lily, yarrow, and all flowers

Incense: ambergris, camphor, mace, musk, myrrh, rose, saffron, sage, sandalwood, sweetgrass, vanilla, violet, all floral scents

Goddess: Aphrodite, Asherah, Baalith, Brigid, Erzulie, Freya (Passionate Queen), Frigg, Gefion, Harbor (Beautiful One), Hestia, Inanna, Ishtar (Lady of Passion and Desire), Lakshmi, Lilith, Mokosh, Nehalennia, Nerthus, Ostara, Pombagira, Sarasvati, Shakti, Shekinah, Sirtur, Al Uzza, Venus (Queen of Pleasure), Vesta

God: Allah, Bacchus, Bes, Cupid, the Dagda, Dionysus, El, Eros (God of Love), Freyr, Frit Ailek, Shukra

Evocation: Agrat Bat Mahalat, Anael, Hagiel, Mokosba, Rasbid, Sachiel, Uriel, Velas

Courtesy of Moonlight Musings

Friday Is Ruled By Venus

Friday belongs to Venus, both the planet and its namesake Roman goddess of love. This day is sacred to many other gods and goddesses of love such as Eros, Venus, Aphrodite, and the Norse goddess that gave the day its name, Freya. This day of the week is for magical topics such as love, birth, fertility, and romance. Colors for today include pink and aqua. Some suggestions for Friday enchantments would include:

Carrying a rose quartz with you today to send out some gentle and loving vibes to those crabby co-workers

Working a loving Tarot spell to charm a friend’s pregnancy with good health and safety

Working a little flower magic to enchant a single pink rose for friendship and inner beauty, and setting it on your desk. Or try empowering a red rose for passion and placing it in your bedroom.

Burning rose-scented candles to encourage the same effect. Call on Eros to “bring a passion for life” to your days.

Sharing a romantic snack with your partner. Feed each other ripe, red strawberries. Those strawberries are love-inducing food, and are sacred to many love goddesses, including today’s patroness, Freya.

The Energy of Venus

Weekday ruled by Venus: Friday

Stones:

Rose quartz
Moonstone
Pink tourmaline
Peridot
Emerald
Jade

Herbs and Plants:

Pink rose
Ivy
Birch
Heather
Clematis
Sage
Violet
Waterlily

Magickal intentions: Love, romance, marriage, sexual matters, physical beauty, friendship and partnerships, strangers and heart matters.

Magickal Applications for Fridays

Friday is named after the Norse goddesses of love, Freya and Frigga. There seems to be some debate as to whom the day is actually named after, so I thought I would share a little information so you can decide for yourself.

In Latin, this day is known as Dies Veneris, “Venus’s day.” In Greek, it’s Hermera Aphrodites, which translates to the “day of Aphrodite.” In Old English, this day is called Frige- daeg, or “Freya’s day.” This day has the Germanic title of Frije-dagaz, which, once again, could be Freya’s day or Frigga’s day.

Both Freya and Frigga were Norse goddesses of love and were the Teutonic equivalent of the Greco-Roman Venus/Aphrodite. However, Freya was one of the Vanir—the gods of fertility who supervised the land and sea—and she was the leader of the Valkyries. Frigga, Odin’s wife, was the goddess of the heavens and of married love. She was one of the Aesir—the gods associated with battle, magick and the sky. Freya and Frigga could be looked upon as different aspects of the same goddess. They both were called on to assist in childbirth and then in naming of the new baby. Frigga represented the faithful wife and loving mother, while Freya, who really captured the hearts and imagination of the Norse people, was the passionate mistress and lover.

Fridays classically are days for love, fertility, romance, and beauty magick, as well as working for happiness, harmony in the home, and friendship. So let’s take a look at some of the mythology involved with this loving, voluptuous, passionate, and luxurious day of the week, and see where it leads us.

Source

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

The Witches Magick for November 17th – The Witch Bottle Love Spell

The Witch Bottle Love Spell

Items needed:

A glass jar

Spring water

Drop of your own blood

Strand of your own hair

Vanilla extract

Rose quartz stone

Other items mentioned are optional

Witch bottles are popular in magic, and, though most often employed for protection, they can be effective talismans for drawing love into your life. In a clean glass jar place some or all of the following while visualizing love being drawn to your dwelling: spring water, a drop of your own blood, a strand of your own hair, vanilla extract, and a rose quartz stone. You may also use any from of coriander, cinnamon, hyacinth, licorice, yerba maté, rue, myrtle, jasmine, lemon, lavender, jasmine, mastic, rose, peppermint, thyme, or plum. Drawings or other love talismans representing your goal of romance can also be included. On a Friday or during a Full Moon, bury the sealed bottle near an entryway to your home. It will work for a year and a day.

Resource

Everything Under the Moon

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Your Daily Horoscopes & Other Daily Divination

A Very Blessed & Beautiful Friday To All Our Brothers & Sisters of the Craft! May The Goddess Bless You & Yours Today & Always!

The Witches Digest for Friday, November 17th, 2017

(Astronomy for the Day)

A Witch’s Tale

What is it like
To cast a spell?
To chant a charm?
To ring a bell?
To cast a circle?
To praise the moon?
To love the Earth?
To read the rune?
To love the Goddess?
To live her way?
To ebb and flow
Every day?
The trees,
the grass,
The clouds and hills;
All these things
Witchcraft fills.
Every laugh,
Every cry,
Need you ask
The reason why?
The power can be found
From deep within,
When you find it
You’re ready to begin.

–By The Light Of The Crystal Moon: A Book of Pagan Poetry and Short Stories
Elizabeth Gardiepy

Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Friday, November 17th

The Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 126.14° SE
Sun Altitude: 12.68°
Sun Distance: 91.901 million mi
Next Solstice: Dec 21, 2017 10:27 am (Winter)
Sunrise Today: 6:35 am↑ 114° Southeast
Sunset Today: 4:43 pm↑ 246° West
Length of Daylight: 10 hours, 7 minutes

The Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 127.92° SE
Moon Altitude: 23.27°
Moon Distance: 248511 mi
Next New Moon: Nov 18, 20175:42 am
Next Full Moon: Dec 3, 20179:46 am
Next Moonset: Today4:40 pm
Current Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
Moon Illumination: 1.0%

The Lunar Calendar
Moon Phase Tonight: New Moon
New Moon: Nov 18, 2017 at 5:42 am
(Next Phase)
Third Quarter: Nov 10, 2017 at 2:36 pm
(Previous Phase)

Source

timeanddate.com

Cosmic Calendar for November 17 & 18

Nov 17/18: Leonid Meteor Shower

In 2017, the Leonids will peak during the night of November 17 and the early morning of November 18.

The Leonids peak around mid-November.

We suggest you try your luck after midnight during the night between November 17 and 18.

The Leonid meteor shower is annually active in the month of November and it usually peaks around November 17 or 18. The shower is called Leonids because its radiant, or the point in the sky where the meteors seem to emerge from, lies in the constellation Leo.

The Leonids occur when the Earth passes through the debris left by the comet Tempel-Tuttle. The comet takes around 33 years to make one orbit around the Sun.

You can see about 20 meteors an hour when the the Leonids meteor shower reaches its peak of activity.

Where to View the Leonids
The Leonids can be seen by viewers from both hemispheres.
Look towards the constellation Leo.
While it is not necessary to look in any particular direction to enjoy a meteor shower, astronomers suggest lying down on the ground and looking at the sky between the East and the point right above you to view the Leonids.

When to View the Leonids
The best time to view the Leonids is after dark.

How to Watch Meteor Showers
Check the weather: Meteors, or shooting stars, are easy to spot. All you need is clear skies and a pair of eyes.
Get out of town: Find a place as far away as possible from artificial lights
Prepare to wait: Bring something to sit or lie down on. Star gazing is a waiting game, so get comfortable.

Source

timeanddate.com

Your Astronomy for Friday, November 17th

Mars-Uranus early today is progressive. A Last Quarter Moon occurs shortly before midday, and asks us to consider our spiritual needs.
The Moon is in Pisces all day (until Wednesday, June 10th, at 7:13 AM).
The Moon is void from 2:08 PM forward (until tomorrow at 7:13 AM).
The Moon is waning and in its Waning Gibbous phase until 11:41 AM/ Third Quarter phase from 11:41 AM forward.
The Third Quarter Moon occurs at 11:41 AM in Pisces.
Mercury is retrograde. (Mercury is retrograde from May 18 to June 11 in the sign of Gemini).

Moon in Scorpio

Intensity is what the Moon in Scorpio is all about. Whether it’s passion, elation, sorrow, or desire, emotions are felt on a deeply personal level. We are motivated by the desire to get to the bottom of things, and we instinctively read between the lines. Superficiality won’t work for us now. The Moon in Scorpio urges us to uncover our own power, and it’s an excellent time to rid ourselves of old fears and limiting habits. It can be an intimate and passionate time. Avoid manipulative tactics, brooding, and suspicion.

The Moon in Scorpio generally favors the following activities: Taxes, accounting, intimacy issues, psychological examinations, research, self-examination, getting rid of old things.

Overview of Your Daily Astronomy Calendar

Mercury favorably aspects Mars today, and we can be especially alert and observant, as well as extremely resourceful. Communications are energetic and enthusiasm for topics or projects runs high.

Even so, this is a better time for going over the past than for making solid plans for the future. For one, a quincunx between the Sun and Uranus is somewhat hesitant. Surprise elements make us feel out of control of our lives or the direction we would like to take. Disrupted plans or schedules may be part of the picture now, and they throw us off center a little more than usual. For another, the Moon spends the full day in Scorpio and is Balsamic, as a New Moon will occur tomorrow afternoon in the sign. This is a time for winding down, pruning, letting go, reducing, and reflecting rather than beginning anew. We are symbolically in the dark now.

The Sky This Week for November 17 to 19

The year’s second-brightest asteroid, a planetary conjunction, and the peak of the Leonid meteor shower, all in the sky this week.
By Richard Talcott

Friday, November 17

This morning marks the peak of the annual Leonid meteor shower. Astronomical conditions should be nearly perfect because the Moon remains out of the sky all night. (It reaches its New phase tomorrow morning.) An observer under a clear, dark sky can expect to see up to 10 “shooting stars” per hour. The meteors appear to radiate from a point in the Sickle asterism of Leo the Lion, a region that rises in late evening and climbs high in the southeast before dawn. Prime viewing occurs between approximately 3 a.m. local time and the start of twilight some two hours later.

Saturday, November 18

Look high in the south after darkness falls this week, and you should see autumn’s most conspicuous star group. The Great Square of Pegasus stands out in the evening sky at this time of year, reaching its peak around 8 p.m. local time. These four almost equally bright stars form the body of Pegasus the Winged Horse. The fainter stars that represent the rest of this constellation’s shape trail off to the square’s west.

New Moon occurs at 6:42 a.m. EST. At its New phase, the Moon crosses the sky with the Sun and so remains hidden in our star’s glare.

Sunday, November 19

The days of viewing Saturn in the evening sky are dwindling rapidly. Still, you can find the ringed world nearly 10° high in the southwest an hour after sunset. The planet shines at magnitude 0.5 and lies on the border between Ophiuchus and Sagittarius. (It crosses from the former constellation into the latter one today.) Although the best views of Saturn through a telescope came earlier in this apparition, it never hurts to take a final look. This week, the planet’s disk measures 15″ across while the ring system spans 35″ and tilts 27° to our line of sight.

Source

The Astronomy Magazine

The Current Moon Phase for Friday, November 17th

Waning Crescent
Illumination: 1%

Tomorrow the Moon will be in a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this phase the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

PHASE DETAILS FOR – FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 1%
Moon Age: 28.62 days
Moon Angle: 0.50
Moon Distance: 398,489.63 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,878,483.56 km

Source

MoonGiant.com

Moon Diary for Saturday, November 18th

by Jane Lyle
From The Astrology Room

Juggler’s Moon. New Moon at 26 degrees Scorpio

Adaptability is our keyword for the coming weeks. Our juggling skills will come in very handy.

November’s Scorpio new Moon rises at 26 degrees. There’s the promise of a fresh start with every new Moon – but this month adaptability and a willingness to compromise are needed if we want things to work out.

The new Moon makes an awkward link with rebellious Uranus in Aries – and this puts a focus on creating something new by working with what’s chaotic, unusual, or otherwise outside what’s thought of as conventional.

This theme could emerge in new ideas about parenting, sexuality, motherhood, technology, emotional well-being, and intuition. Flexibility, and an open mind can help to diffuse tension or calm down heated arguments now and particularly during the next two weeks.

The rulers of this new Moon are Mars and Pluto – we’re looking at power and desire, action and intensity. Currently, Mars in Libra and Pluto in Capricorn are squaring off – meaning that there’s conflict aplenty, and a particularly challenging atmosphere to deal with. This is the worst possible time to lash out against anyone, or seek revenge. It’s a time of hidden information and behind-the-scenes negotiations, consultations with lawyers, and financial juggling. But sooner or later, someone, somewhere, will drop the ball.

What does begin with this new Moon promises to be very interesting, probably provocative, edgy, or likely to evoke sudden changes in our beliefs and routines.

‘Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prize fighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.’

– Marlene Dietrich

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The Witches Guide to Fridays

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The Witches Digest Part 2 for Wednesday, November 15 (Horoscopes & Daily Divination)

The Witches Digest Part 2 for Wednesday, November 15

(Horoscopes & Daily Divination)

Your Astronomy for Wednesday, November 15th

The Moon is in Libra.
The Moon is void from 7:50 PM forward. (until 3:18 AM tomorrow).
The Moon is waning and in its Waning Crescent phase.
The Last Quarter Moon occurred on the 10th and the New Moon will occur on November 18th.
Mercury is in its pre-retrograde shadow (Mercury will retrograde from December 3-22).

Moon in Libra

Creating order is the focus, not necessarily through tidying or organizing as was the case while the Moon was in Virgo, but rather through pleasing interactions with others and aesthetics in our environment. We tend to solve problems through diplomacy, and we are more able to put aside our own emotions in order to achieve the peace we crave. The tendency now is to avoid direct confrontations. Decisions do not come easily. Seeing both sides to any given situation is the main reason for hesitation. Fear of losing others’ approval is another.

The Moon in Libra generally favors the following activities: Relationship and partnership issues, activities involving teamwork and cooperation, activities that involve self-examination, activities related to beauty.

Your Daily Horoscopes for Wednesday, November 15th

Aries

You have a lot to learn about yourself and your needs through your interactions with a significant other today, dear Aries. You may be going back and forth about whether you want to be close to someone or enjoy some independence now. As the day advances, allow your intuition to flow naturally and spontaneously so that you can arrive at a greater understanding of people and money, not through analysis but your intuition! Finances may improve through unusual, hidden, or unexpected channels today and tomorrow. Honesty with yourself and about your feelings can take you to a place of forgiveness. A cycle beginning today brings increased energy, effort, and patience for focus, concentration, and research. This cycle that lasts until the middle of January is also excellent for self-renewal through channeling your energies into worthwhile personal causes or for getting rid of bad habits and making lifestyle changes.

Taurus

You have a lot to do and much to draw your attention to work and duties now, Taurus, but you’re also in high need of a break! This can be a day of going back and forth between the two or finding a healthy compromise. The latter seems more satisfying. With Venus and Neptune on their way to a harmonious trine, you are very tuned in to your intuition. Your powers of attraction run high, as well. You are coming to a place of understanding about recent events, and especially surrounding your relationships. People tend to be on your side right now. You may not be wholly decided regarding your affections, but you’re getting there. A cycle that begins today and runs until the middle of January is excellent for developing partnerships or working relationships. Someone may be particularly helpful for getting things done or might motivate you to set important projects in motion. Alternatively, this is an excellent period for working very well in a partnership.

Gemini

You may feel a sudden need to pull yourself away from a project, relationship, or situation today simply because you need some air or space to breathe, dear Gemini, as fun or exciting as it is. Keep in mind, however, that abrupt actions can lead to frustration or confusion, so aim to divide your time without too much fanfare. Venus and Neptune are heading towards a harmonious trine, and this can draw the artist out of you. It’s excellent as well for arriving at solutions or ideas instinctively and not necessarily in logical ways, as well as applying your creativity to practical matters. There could be unusual circumstances connecting you with the right people, projects, and information now, particularly when it comes to work and health issues. A cycle beginning today and lasting until mid-January, in fact, is excellent for bringing more value and efficiency to your daily routines, work, or pursuit of health and wellness. This can be a pleasantly busy, dedicated period of your life.

Cancer

As much as you’re into your home life right now, you may need to pull back or take a break if you begin to feel a little smothered or out of the loop, dear Cancer. You shouldn’t have much of a problem finding outlets for expressing yourself today. Avoid abrupt actions for best results now. An inspiring influence helps soften the day’s energies, encouraging good feelings, forgiveness, and imagination. You are attracting who and what you want, although in many ways you’re doing so indirectly. Letting go of negative thoughts or expectations helps you enjoy and relax. Interestingly, you’re beginning a cycle, lasting until mid-January, in which you start taking your leisure time more seriously. From the outside looking in, entertainment and pleasures may resemble work! However, this is a period in which you enjoy applying yourself to projects and hobbies. A more dedicated, committed approach to creative projects, love relationships, children, and hobbies can benefit you greatly, and can even be healing now.

Leo

You’re inclined to enjoy your personal interests thoroughly and to take on many and varied activities today, Leo. Even so, you need a breather from this from time to time, if only to gain some perspective. Feeling confined can slow down production. It helps to shake up the routine a little so that you can refresh yourself mentally and emotionally. A Venus-Neptune aspect holding sway over the day easily pulls you into a compassionate, accepting frame of mind. This is a good time for strengthening relationships through appreciation of shared memories and familiarity. There can be more tenderness and gentleness in your interactions, and there may be a theme of service or support. Also today, you begin a cycle in which you pay particular attention to home and family matters until mid-January, and this can be quite satisfying and healing. Building your primary relationships and dedicating yourself to family or domestic concerns can help you feel more secure and confident.

Virgo

You’re excited about your work, business, or personal accomplishments right now, dear Virgo, and rightfully so, but today, you may need to take some breaks from the routine just to refresh yourself. Try not to fight this need for inspiration. A Venus-Neptune aspect comes into influence today as well, and also supports healthy escapism! This aspect encourages you to let go of tension and enjoy life’s beautiful moments. There is good energy for getting a warm message across. A helpful conversation or understanding with someone can figure strongly now. Also today, you begin a cycle, lasting until mid-January, in which you can be very dedicated to your personal interests and projects, sharing ideas, and connecting with others. People are drawn to your intelligence or unique viewpoint as well as your commitment to whatever you’re doing.

Libra

You can be so intent on your personal plans and endeavors today that you find yourself resistant to changes introduced by others, dear Libra. With the Moon in your sign, this is a time for some healthy self-focus, but it may be a good idea to give a little if sticking to your plans winds up making you feel stuck and uncomfortable. Fortunately, a Venus-Neptune trine comes into influence now, and you can feel increasingly more confident in your intuition as the day advances. There can be a soul connection made or a feeling that things are magically falling into place. A psychic rapport experienced with people around you is possible now, particularly in your working relationships. An air of mystery around you can be beneficial. Also today, a cycle begins that lasts until mid-January in which security and business or practical matters are a focus. You’ll find it easy to pour your energies into earthy, comforting, and natural activities that help you heal and cleanse, as well as hone and develop talents and boost your income.

Scorpio

A strong urge to hide yourself away or take a bit of time away from demanding situations can overcome you today, dear Scorpio, and you need this. However, you may have to do battle with a few things you’ve left undone, and coming to a compromise makes the most sense. Dividing your attention may have to do, and doing so without too much fanfare makes the day run a little more smoothly. A Venus-Neptune aspect influences the day, fortunately, and supports your efforts to relax and decompress. It holds the added benefit of framing you beautifully. On both social and spiritual levels, the day can be quite magical. Happiness in the present but also hopefulness about the future combine to your satisfaction. With Vesta entering your sign today and staying in Scorpio until mid-January, having a personal project or mission becomes you. Independent work may be in focus now, and taking extra time to concentrate on your work or pursuits can be rewarding.

Sagittarius

Commitments to a friend, network, or group are in focus today, dear Sagittarius, although they can clash just a little with more personal concerns. Giving a little by compromising may be your best bet. A Venus-Neptune trine influences the day (and tomorrow morning), and although relationships require some delicacy, they have a magical touch to them. This can be a good time for coming to a sense of peace about your private life or enjoying a revelation or secret. Supporting someone in your life can be very satisfying. You begin a cycle today, lasting until mid-January, in which you can get a whole lot done behind the scenes or doing background, unglamorous, or preparation work with Vesta in your privacy sector. Doing things on your own can be most effective, and you can be happily busy in the process. You also have a stronger need to regroup and recoup your energy, and perhaps more options to do so during this cycle.

Capricorn

You can find yourself quite engrossed in your work or responsibilities today, dear Capricorn, with the Moon, once again, spending the day at the top of your solar chart. However, distractions are likely, some of which have to do with your own inner unrest or restlessness, and you may need to divide your time. Helping you along is a Venus-Neptune aspect that comes into influence, promoting psychic rapport with others, expressions of compassion and forgiveness, and thoughtful gestures. Today and tomorrow are good for mending broken fences. In fact, you begin a cycle today, lasting until mid-January, in which working with others towards a common goal — or working towards a cherished dream independently — can be very beneficial, healing, and satisfying. You can find yourself pleasantly committed and dedicated to a friend or project now.

Aquarius

Again today, you have a particular interest in learning, sharing ideas, and personal interests, dear Aquarius, and these endeavors are in great shape, save for a few distractions! Differences in opinion may frustrate, but there are a couple of influences on you now that help you rise above it all. One especially supportive aspect is a Venus-Neptune trine that boosts your confidence in the idea of letting go and enjoying yourself leading to good things. It’s also good for business intuition and emotional intelligence. You’re notably winning and charming in a position of leadership or management right now, or simply getting a nice popularity boost. A cycle begins today that lasts until mid-January in which you feel pleasantly committed to your long-term goals, career, or reputation. Your increased patience for the effort involved in achieving your ambitions is notable now and leads to a more organized and fruitful approach.

Pisces

When it comes to money and valuables or business today, dear Pisces, you may experience conflicting drives — on the one hand to push forward and be progressive, and on the other to stick with what has worked in the past. You may be best off arriving at a compromise. A Venus-Neptune aspect comes into influence today, upping your confidence in your hunches or intuition, and possibly leading to a pleasant revelation. It’s easier than usual to express acceptance, compassion, and understanding today, and this is right up your alley. Also today, you begin a cycle in which you feel particularly committed to your beliefs, projects, or learning endeavors. This period lasts until mid-January and is excellent for developing your skills and arriving at a better understanding of your goals and beliefs.

If Today Is Your Birthday, November 15th

Although you are intense and sometimes quite stubborn, you are also quite versatile and somewhat restless. Your mind is so sharp and your talents many, that you may change your career path more than a few times in your life. Your relationships may be a little challenging. You tend to be attracted to unusual people or situations. You work largely on instinct, and you absorb and process information in your environment quickly. Your emotions are powerful, and you can usually use them to your advantage rather than letting them overwhelm you. People often turn to you for advice.

Famous people born today: Georgia O’Keefe, Marianne Moore, Ed Asner, Petula Clark, Beverly D’Angelo, Sam Waterston.

Your Birthday Year Forecast:

Jupiter transits conjunct your Sun this year, expanding your opportunities and boosting your confidence. This transit brings more awareness of moral issues and long-term goals, as well as a stronger than usual desire to improve and learn. This is a feel-good transit that boosts your popularity. Optimism is with you, and you are able to attract fortunate circumstances into your life as a result. Problems are easier to resolve this year. You are more sociable and might meet especially helpful people during this period. Travel opportunities are more likely. Your broader perspective on matters this year keeps you from getting lost in details or overly frustrated by everyday stresses and strains.

Pleasing circumstances surrounding your love life, finances, and creative pursuits are in store this year. You are more generous, and others return the favor. You might receive financial backing or special gifts in the period ahead. You seek a little more from your love life and you are likely to receive it. Some of you could fall in love this year, or existing relationships are enhanced. Adventure-seeking is a theme.

The year ahead is strong for energetic mental work. You may be involved in frequent lectures, debates, and discussions during the year. Your daily life is busier than usual and you convey your ideas more powerfully. You are quick to take the initiative and to put your thoughts into action. Do be aware that you are more inclined towards pie in the sky thinking. You could be led astray by others or by our own unrealistic expectations. Err on the side of caution if offers arrive that seem too good to be true. Some confusion or possibly deception could arise in communications this year, and you may be skipping important details without even realizing it.

There can be helpful interactions with superiors or with older or more experienced people during this period, and benefits can come as a result. There can be a choice to structure, limit, or simplify your life in a significant way that leads to major improvements in your life.

Developing existing businesses is highly favored this year. Long-term alliances can be made this year. This is a potentially excellent year for making prosperous connections.

This is an excellent period for enjoying new opportunities, experiences, and perspectives, as well as wonderful social or love opportunities. Your faith increases and you seek out more meaning from your life. You’re in good shape for staying on track and meeting your responsibilities as well. Useful contacts can be made during this period. Your love or social life comes alive this year.

2017 is a Number Nine year for you. Ruled by Mars. This is a year of completion and transition. It is a time when we need to let go of things that no longer serve their purpose, and hold on to things that have a future. It is a time of cleaning out dead wood, not necessarily for new beginnings. It can be a time when a burden has been taken off your shoulders, and it can be a year of giving of yourself. Advice – let go of things that are holding you back, give of yourself and express your sympathetic, compassionate side.

2018 will be a Number One year for you. Ruled by the Sun. This is a year of action. The seeds you plant now, you will reap later. Others might find you less sociable, as you are busier than ever and you focus on your activities and your needs. Still, you are outgoing and your initiative is stronger than ever. Advice – Stand alone, take action, start fresh, express independence.

Get A Jump on Tomorrow…..

Your Daily Horoscopes for Thursday, November 16th

Aries

You enjoy a strong desire to grow, build, and move forward today, dear Aries, but you’re not interested in cosmetic fixes only. Resolving conflicts is natural with a focus on reinforcement and reward. Relationships get a nice boost as you’re not afraid to show your commitment and compassion. You are displaying more patience than usual with the people in your life, and you may be seeing beauty in people, places, and situations that you hadn’t seen before. The Moon meets up with optimistic Jupiter in your intimacy sector later today. You’re in a particularly good frame of mind for focusing on the things you love doing, for increased self-acceptance and enjoyment, and for learning new things about yourself or someone important to you.

Taurus

Powerful aspects today can give your relationships a pleasant boost, Taurus. There is a willingness to learn and grow, which is priceless! Your imagination is working in your favor. This is a time for releasing a tendency to stubbornly hold on to the ways of the past and instead embracing new methods of relating that honestly work for you. You are at your most companionable right now. A spirit of acceptance and friendship improves your relationships. The Moon makes its monthly conjunction with Jupiter later today, and this can serve to expand your feelings about others in positive ways. Your closest relationships are especially crucial to your sense of emotional satisfaction now.

Gemini

The environment around you is conducive to learning, dear Gemini, and you can absorb a lot now, mainly related to your work and health. Humble confidence gets you everywhere with others, and there can be some recognition of your efforts and performance. More importantly, you enjoy helping people out. There can also be an opportunity to learn a new method or you could come across useful information that helps you get the job done more efficiently or more to your liking. Your ability to see the bigger picture is motivating and helps drive you through the less glamorous work. Business can benefit if you take into account any neglected spiritual or humanitarian goals. Later today, the Moon aligns with Jupiter, and you feel particularly fulfilled when you feel needed. Watch for a tendency to feel superhuman when it comes to your chores, fitness, or work efforts.

Cancer

You have a couple of feel-good transits with you today, dear Cancer. You are especially free to be yourself, to explore new ideas, and to share a bit of yourself with others. You are not afraid of being different, and not going out of your way to be, either, which makes you especially relatable. Your special kind of gentleness is more appealing to others than usual right now. You’re also very tuned in on a creative level. Interactions are focused on growth and healing, and people enjoy your unique vision or personal philosophy. Emotionally, you’re inclined to look for specialized attention later today with the Moon in your showy, expressive solar fifth house aligning with jovial Jupiter. Emotionally arousing activities satisfy you most.

Leo

With your ruler, the Sun, and Chiron in harmony today, dear Leo, you are particularly comfortable with and relatable to others. Your unique qualities are in the spotlight, and you feel at home wherever you are. You don’t have to push anything. In fact, some understatement can do the most for you right now. Supportive emotional and family relationships can figure strongly. A Venus-Neptune trine reinforces gentle acceptance and understanding. There can be useful discoveries on an emotional level or an opening of the heart that’s significant to you. Later today, the Moon meets up with positive Jupiter, drawing out the happy nester in you, and you can find it particularly easy to enjoy domestic, quiet, or indoor comforts. It’s a fine time for spoiling yourself and loved ones a little.

Virgo

People tend to respond well to your plans and ideas today, Virgo, and letting others know that you’re listening and understanding helps give relationships a boost. Projects flow well. Pay close attention to dreams and daydreams today, as you may very well come up with a solution to a long-standing problem. A partner or friend’s gentle touch or conversation can help you relax. Money instincts are also good today. The Moon joins with optimistic, generous Jupiter in your communications sector later today, sunnying your disposition. You benefit greatly from a liberal, warm approach to your life and to connecting and communicating with others. Teaching, advising, guiding, and learning are satisfying and in focus.

Libra

A couple of powerful aspects support your work, finances, and health matters today, Libra. Financial discoveries can be favorable now. These influences favor genuine, sincere efforts to connect with others. Solutions to problems today won’t come if forced or overanalyzed. In fact, you’ll be in great shape if you approach them holistically and do some overview thinking and feeling. This is a time for sensing trends, wants, and needs. You feel good from the inside out, and this helps motivate you towards your wellness and self-care goals. The Moon meets with Jupiter in your comfortable solar second house later today, putting you in the mood to settle in and do something special for yourself. Good energy is with you for honing a skill, developing a talent, and perhaps coming across some practical knowledge that you can put to good use.

Scorpio

Today’s Sun-Chiron and Venus-Neptune trines are wonderful, in general, but are particularly strong for you since the Sun and Venus are in your sign, dear Scorpio. Feedback is excellent and you manage to stand out from the crowd in a pleasant way. Even if admiration isn’t quite so explicit, you are energized and motivated now, and you’re giving off a nice buzz as you go about your business. The most charming and likable qualities of your personality are magnified these days, and today, configurations bring out the idealist, romantic, and dreamer in you. You might be a mentor of sorts right now, guiding someone to a better mental space. The Moon meets up with Jupiter in your sign later today, and you can feel very hopeful. People enjoy your company and tend to connect you with opportunities or offer you invites. Today is very much about your needs, feelings, and desires. Expressing yourself through spontaneous, engaging, and perhaps unusual activities can be especially rewarding. There is no room for worry about the past — you’re looking ahead now!

Sagittarius

The day can be quite useful for gaining a better understanding of your emotional life, family, and loved ones, dear Sagittarius. Your inner fantasy world is alive and well, and you quickly draw upon your stores of compassion. You might come to a new understanding of a complicated matter from the past. This is a good day for forgiving someone (or yourself) and for extending someone help. The Moon meets up with Jupiter in your privacy sector later today, and you see real benefits to working behind the scenes, preparing, building inner strength, and reflecting or enjoying more solitude. In the year ahead, you’re bound to grow more comfortable with your vulnerabilities or limitations, and self-acceptance is both a goal and reward.

Capricorn

You have unusually helpful influences with you today along social lines, Capricorn. There is pleasant openness as well as sincerity and warmth in your friendships and communications now. The thoughtfulness or understanding of a friend might lift your spirits, or you might come to someone’s aid, perhaps through kind words or gestures. The Moon meets up with Jupiter in your sector of groups, friends, dreams, and wishes later today. It’s an excellent time for activities with a friend, networking, connecting, and sharing. There can be lively exchanges that renew your spirit and confidence.

Pisces

Two strong influences today serve to highlight your unique and valuable traits, dear Pisces. You’re seen in a particularly favorable light, and your powers of observation run high. In fact, you may be in demand for your insight and perspective. It’s a good time to teach, guide, and learn, or simply share ideas and bond with others through them. The Moon meets up with optimistic Jupiter in your sector of spirit, higher learning, and adventure later today. This is a good time for instruction, guidance, advice, teaching, and sharing ideas. Your attitude is positive, and your resourcefulness comes to the fore.

Read Your Sign’s Fall Love Horoscope

Discover what the universe has in store for your love life this fall

This fall the potential for deeply intimate connections will surely intensify! This is mainly due to the planet Jupiter moving out of Libra and into Scorpio on October 10. Jupiter in Scorpio will expand our desire to merge deeply with another person, body and soul.

On November 13 Venus in Scorpio will embrace Jupiter, offering your heart a reward if it’s willing to sit in that complex and passionate place. A New Moon in partnership-oriented Libra on October 19 is opposite wildcard Uranus. This promises an unexpected twist in your love life, so buckle up!

Aries Horoscope (March 21 – April 19)

A seismic shift is likely to occur in your love life this fall. Starting October 10 it’s possible that you’ll begin to benefit more from your partner’s resources. He or she might receive a generous raise, bonus, or a windfall that is sure to put a smile on your face.

You’re ready to have the type of relationship that blends your need for love with your urge toward individuation. A New Moon on October 19 might challenge you to figure out how this can be balanced. While Mars is in your partnership sector from October 22-December 9, however, you’ll surely be motivated to try.

Taurus Horoscope (April 20 – May 20)

This fall you have officially won the jackpot in matters of the heart. On October 10 Jupiter, the planet of expansion and abundance, will move into your relationship sector for the first time in 12 years. Until November 8, 2018, you’ll have extraordinary cosmic support to make a commitment to someone you love.

If you’re single, the universe is about to grant you several opportunities to meet someone special. Venus will tour this same area of your chart from November 7-December 1, and Mars takes over from December 9-January 26. You’ll end this season knowing someone loves you, truly, madly, and deeply.

Gemini Horoscope (May 21 – June 20)

For most of this fall you might feel like you’re the star of a steamy romance film. If you’re single, expect major possibilities to open up in your love life starting October 19. In fact, from October 22-December 9, you might declare that you’re having the best sex you’ve had in years. If you are going into this season under a dry spell in the romance department, you’re sure to be out of it by winter. If you’re in a relationship, expect extra harmony between December 1-24. You might even become engaged or get married.

Cancer Horoscope (June 21 – July 22)

If you’ve surrendered to the single lifestyle after ages of trying to find the perfect mate, you might be surprised how much life changes for you this fall. On October 10 Jupiter, the planet of blessings, will move into your romance sector for the first time in 12 years. This is one of the most auspicious cosmic indicators for true love coming into your life. Jupiter will remain here until November 8, 2018, so don’t think these blessings are only for the fall. Making them sweeter this season, however, is the fact that love planet Venus will also join the same part of your chart from November 7-December 1. Venus and Jupiter embrace on November 13. Open your heart to love … it’s coming your way.

Leo Horoscope (July 23 – Aug. 22)

Communication between you and your sweetheart will certainly be lively this fall. Expect more heated discussions as well as vital decisions to happen in your love life from October 22-December 9, while Mars in relationship-oriented Libra tours your message sector.

If you’re single, the best time for romance this season will happen from December 1-24. This is when Venus moves through your true love sector, and you can easily meet someone with the power to capture your heart. If you’re already taken, expect romantic sparks to fly between you and your lover. You’ll surely feel those butterflies in your stomach!

Virgo Horoscope (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22)

The very best of your romantic potential happens early in the season. As fall begins you’ll be blessed to enjoy both Venus and Mars in your sign. These cosmic lovers are not only helping you look more radiant and sensual, but it also supports other people feeling a stronger pull toward you. Your magnetism reaches a peak on October 5 when Venus and Mars exchange a heated embrace. Expect an ultra-sexy day! There will be a domestic frustration near October 8, though, that threatens to ruin your romantic vibes. Don’t let it get you down.

Libra Horoscope (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22)

You have so much to look forward to this season in matters of the heart. Although expansive Jupiter will leave your sign on October 10, it doesn’t mean your blessings will end. Instead, they’ll begin to focus on your finances.

The reason relationships look so wonderful for you this season, however, is due to several celestial events. First, Venus moves through your sign from October 14-November 7, granting you extra magnetism and beauty. Then, a New Moon in your sign on October 19 supports new relationships if single, and a positive change if you’re taken. Mars travels through your sign from October 22-December 9, giving you the courage to go after who you’re attracted to.

Scorpio Horoscope (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21)

This fall you are truly coming into a golden period in your life — one that will surely extend to matters of the heart. It all begins on October 10 when Jupiter, the planet of luck and abundance, enters your sign for the first time in 12 years. Until November 8, 2018, you’ll be the cosmic favorite and will have remarkable support for love and relationships.

Venus will also move through Scorpio from November 7-December 1, adding confidence and beauty to your vibe. On November 13 you can expect an ultra-lucky day in life and love when Venus and Jupiter embrace. You are blessed!

Sagittarius Horoscope (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21)

Your social life will be hopping this fall. If your heart has been feeling lonely lately, all you need to do is accept more of the invites from friends to attend gatherings and other events. You might join a new group or organization after October 19 — one that exposes you to a potential love interest.

Between October 14-November 7 you are under extraordinary support to find love either through or with a friend. Don’t waste this remarkable time! Venus then moves through your sign from December 1-24 granting you more confidence and allure. Work it!

Capricorn Horoscope (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19)

You crave social connections that invite mystery, depth, and real substance. Fortunately for you, this season the universe is ready to bless you with this in a major way. Starting October 10 and lasting until November 8, 2018, Jupiter will move through your friendship sector, making sure that friends benefit you in a myriad of ways.

Venus moves through the same area of your chart from November 7-December 1, and on November 13, Venus and Jupiter will embrace in a super fortunate connection. You might find the love of your life on the internet or through a friend’s introduction. This could even happen at a party, meeting, or other social event.

Aquarius Horoscope (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19)

For most of this season your love life might resemble a snooze fest. But don’t despair — it’s not going to bring you down in the least bit. In fact, it appears you are completely focused on dazzling career opportunities that will begin to surface after October 10. You’ll be so busy climbing up the ladder of success that you’ll make peace with the fact that right now, romance simply must take a backseat. One notable exception to this will occur on October 5 when Venus and Mars make a steamy embrace in the most erotic zone of your chart. You can anticipate something extra sexy to happen at this time. Then, get back to work!

Pisces Horoscope (Feb. 19 – March 20)

You and your mate will start off the season with a bang! Venus and Mars, the cosmic lovers, will be moving through your relationship sector, bringing plenty of attention to sweet romance. In fact, you’ll enjoy an unforgettable day on October 5 when Venus and Mars embrace. Those first few days of fall will be quite memorable for you and your love, so don’t waste it!

You might find that your joint finances get a lovely boost from October 14-November 7. Your partner may receive a raise or other type of financial compensation that you benefit from as well.

Psychic Tip of the Day

November 15th, 2017

ALL THE WAY

Your partner will have more than romance on his or her mind. Enjoying some time together will be an all-consuming date. Can you forget about doing anything halfway?

Your Personal Daily Tarot Card

The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune represents that aspect of life that is directed by forces and events we may not understand or even be aware of. In short, The Wheel deals with chance—those occurrences that manage to alter even the most structured of lives, usurp man’s “best laid plans.” While the effects of The Wheel are unpredictable, the outcome is always change; sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Our path through life is never a ride down a perfectly straight highway. Sometimes we may even experience hairpin turns or complete reversals of direction. The Wheel of Fortune is strong reminder that despite our plans, the Universe has its own agenda from which we cannot escape participation.

Your Crowley Thoth Tarot Card for Today

The Emperor

The Emperor is blessed with the skills to successfully lead others. He can turn chaos into order and provide structure to that which is unbound. He is quick of mind and confident in his power and right to rule, and does so in a just manner. Although stern by nature, he truly is the ultimate father figure. He will provide as needed, teach those with unanswered questions, protect the vulnerable, set and maintain boundaries. His perfect world runs on schedule and is free of any disturbances. What the Emperor must be wary of is setting boundaries and rules where none are needed. If he isn’t careful not to over use his powers he may well become a tyrant.

Your Daily Rune for Wednesday, November 15

Tiwaz

Tiwaz is the Warrior Rune. It represents pure, masculine power and the ability to successfully fight to meet your goals. However, you must be careful that costs of attaining your goals overshadow their values.

Crack the Cookie

The Wisdom of Buddha

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

A Little Humor for your Day

A Daily Prayer

So far today, Goddess, I’ve done all right. I haven’t gossiped, haven’t lost my temper, haven’t been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish or overindulgent. I’m really glad about that.

But in a few minutes, I’m going to get out of bed, and from then on I’m probably going to need a lot more help!

The Adventure of Being Human

a message from Owen Waters

To read more of Owen’s insight, please visit his website, Spiritual Dynamics Academy

Thousands of years ago, humanity made a decision; a decision to live with a sense of inner separation.

At that time, spirits had become tired of incarnating as fully-aware spirits-in-physicality. They wanted more challenge in life. They wanted to turn life into a mystery; a true, stand-alone human experience, not just an extension of spirit into matter.

Bear in mind that, in the natural state of spiritual living, as free spirits in the mental realms, there are very few limitations. People can manifest anything they need, relocate instantly in space, shift to a different position in time, all at the speed of thought. In the mental realms, people can visit friends or go along with them, exploring the universe, all through the power of thought. That’s why they’re called the mental realms.

To be more specific, the mental realms exist in fifth density consciousness and are the domain of your soul or inner being. Between third-density physicality and the fifth-density realm of your inner being lies the fourth-density spirit or astral realm, populated by people in the early to main stages of the afterlife. In the late stages of the afterlife, people move into fifth density to consider their options for further experience.

Physical incarnation is always voluntary. Nothing compels your soul to incarnate into another physical life. It is always a decision at the personal and soul group level whether to come back into physical life on Earth.

Thousands of years ago, physical experience was a fully-conscious extension of spirit into matter. People knew who they were as spirits, connected to their inner selves and to the universe as a whole.

“What if,” they said, “we came into physical existence and didn’t know who we were? We could devote our whole lives to searching for the answer to the mystery. Imagine what a challenge it would be!”

Humankind then made the joint decision to immerse itself further into a denser, more focused reality. Their focus was directed upon the physical senses, along with a detachment from the superconscious and subconscious levels of thinking. By maintaining a tight focus upon the “outer” world of the senses, humans could even believe that they are fixed into one location in space and locked into a time continuum.

Imagine, physical life would become so intense, so real, so convincing. Now, most people love exhilarating rides, like the ones at amusement parks. And, if the ride seems scary, so much the better. Roller coaster rides are scary. The old Ghost Train rides at U.K. fairgrounds were scary. Disney’s Haunted Mansions at their theme parks in California, Florida, Paris and Tokyo are all very scary. So scary that, when the rides end, people say,

“That was great! Want to go round again?”

Life can be scary, too. A life spent without a constant, conscious connection to your true inner nature is always a challenge.

Today, the amusement park ride of inner separation is coming to an end. The Shift to the New Reality is happening today. We are becoming more and more aware of our inner nature. Those who grasp the idea of the New Reality will actively develop that inner connection, and not just wait for it to surprise them as it slowly unfolds.

And remember, this ride through intense physicality was always a choice. We may not remember as far back as when the choice was made, but, at a soul level, we’ve been willingly hopping on and off the theme park ride of physical life on Earth ever since.

We incarnate for the experience of physical life, and to help transform this reality towards its ultimate state; one which, today, is looming very near.

These are the days of transformation, the time of The Shift. The scary ride is coming to an end. As a culture, we are about to find ourselves and reconnect within.

Inspiration for the Week – Bringing Clarity to Chaos

a message from Archangel Gabriel channeled by Shanta Gabriel

To view more of Shanta’s insight, please visit her website,

The Gabriel Message Card for this Week:

A Disruption of Energy Serves to Bring More Clarity. Bless it.

Most of the time I have received this card with more irritation than gratitude. Usually, this message comes at a time when something I consider disturbing has occurred. When the card shows up, it almost always makes me smile.

I wish I could say that I welcome this card and gracefully begin to bless the situation around me that caused my upheaval. Often I may grumble a bit, even though the mere reading of the card has already caused me to surrender and shift from my position. It is just so TRUE. I cannot argue with the premise that certain situations can act as a wake-up call to spur me back into alignment with my most divine self.

There is a certain element of freedom in the awareness that my blessing the situation will cause it to vibrate at a higher frequency. To bless means to confer energy upon. When we bless something, it brings the Infinite Intelligence in Divine Light to the circumstance. It also gives us the opportunity to ask for a Creative Solution if it seems so dire that we can’t see our way through it. The Divine always offers a solution inherent in every problem, as long as we raise our frequency to match our desire.

Our prayers act as a beacon to call to the energy that we want to experience. Those who have had near-death experiences report seeing brilliant streamers of light shooting off the earth as people pray. They were even shown the angels waiting to fulfill those prayers. That is one of the jobs Angels were given to do by the Divine Presence. This is very reassuring information for me.

So when discordant situations arise in my life, I am committing to remember to bless the situation NOW, thus bringing some beautiful light into it. I also want to be grateful for the clarity that comes to me when I am shown what I do not want. It is abundantly clear that I become VERY aware during the disruption what I would prefer to experience. That is a gift.

My next step may be to write down my intentions for what I really want in my life and send blessing energy to this clear awareness. At that point I can invite the Universe to come and open the way to graceful and easy fulfillment of my prayer.

And it is very beneficial to remember to give thanks in advance, knowing that all my needs are being met as long as I am a vibrational match for what I truly desire in my life. I can trust this process because I have seen it work so often. Only now it is even more exciting, because the change that comes when I bless the uncomfortable situation is often amazingly quick. There must have been an angel just waiting for me to ask…

Divine Presence,

Thank you for bringing more clarity into my life. Please soothe my nervous system, healing any waves this wake-up call presented, with a flow of beautiful Golden Light through my being. Let my heart be filled with Compassion for myself and all others as we evolve together in expanded consciousness and anchor new frequencies of Love, Freedom and Harmony on the Earth. And so it is.

The Gabriel Messages Book #41

A disruption of energy serves to bring clarity — bless it.

Dear One,

Just as a storm can clear the air with its cleansing rain, a disruption of energy also serves to bring clarity.

This disruption is a blessing that may come disguised as that which you do not want in your world. Sometimes knowing what you don’t want is the quickest way to knowing what you do want for yourself in all situations. Clarity of mind is necessary in order to bring about that which you would like to see manifested in every area of your life.

Daily life is the cosmic educational system. Every disruption of energy has something to teach. You are here to learn and to grow from your experiences. It’s important to remember that it is possible to learn from Joy as well as pain. This is your choice.

A disruption of the status quo creates change. Though change is often uncomfortable, it is intended to bring you continually closer to God. This is your larger life goal, and it’s helpful to remember this “bigger picture” when changes occur. It is often the energy from a disruptive circumstance that can propel you to your greater good. Changes are upsetting because you do not know what is coming into your life and this may cause you to feel fearful. But please remember that whatever comes to you can be a significant opportunity for spiritual growth and that you have Angels to walk with you through these changing times.

You can ask for what you want. Claim the greater good that will come from the disruption that has occurred. Ask for the perfect outworking for all concerned in any situation. When you desire that which is for the highest good of all, you set in motion the forces of the universe to support you. All that you need is miraculously provided when you are in alignment with your inner being.

So when upsets happen, bless them. Write them down, place your hand over the writing and imagine brilliant, divine light, which is God’s healing energy, working through the situation. Claim Divine Order and know that God and the Angels are available to assist in a perfect outpouring for your highest good.

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Today is Friday, November 17th

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Dagaz

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