March 2018 Energy Report

a message from Jennifer Hoffman

To read more of Jennifer’s insight, please visit her website, The Enlightening Life

A new month is upon us as we continue to speed down the ascension highway. It has been quite a wild ride so far and in the month whose name is the same word as that which describes forward movement, we’re going to see action this month, even though Mercury goes retrograde on the 22^nd. We have the Equinox, the new astro year, lots of Pisces/Chiron action (soul wounds coming up for healing), new beginnings with the start of a new astro year in Aries, and two full moons. But with all of this focus on movement March’s theme is action taken from a healed, whole, and congruent perspective, cutting off the loose ends before we forge ahead in new directions. Whew, hold onto your hats, we may be taking a few corners on two wheels this month.

March opens with a big full moon we have all looked forward to after February’s constant shifts and changes because there were no full moons in February. This means that endings (full moons are ending/closing cycles) may have been delayed so we could have total clarity on what needed to wind down, release, and get complete with, all to clear the space for the new beginnings we can have this month. See my article on Completion and closure  at this link

But before we get closure March has a few gifts for us, including the movement of Venus and Mercury into Aries, inspiring us to take action, balanced with heavy Chiron activity in the first part of the month, and a new moon that exactly conjuncts Chiron on the 17^th. Chiron represents the wounds that never heal, those energetic aspects that create areas of intense concentration in our energy fields, emotional black holes that are trigger points and strong energy drains.

We’ll see those come up this month too and I noticed that the new moon of the 17^th, which sits on Chiron, occurs on St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick is celebrated for driving all of the witches out of Ireland, a dark time when millions of people who practiced the ancient pagan traditions were murdered or banished from Ireland and from many parts of Europe. It is estimated that the catholic church killed over 12 million people, mostly women, during the ‘burning times’.

Is this a healing opportunity for all of those who still bear the soul trauma of the persecution and worse, for being seers, healers, and wise women (wyrd women) in ancient times? This is one of the major barriers to the acceptance of our intuition and spiritual talents, the fear of being judged and persecuted for them. Is the March 17^thnew moon on Chiron going to free us from this trauma and fear so we can confidently continue with our spiritual/material integration of the 3D/5D ascension paradigm? I think so, and I hope there is a lot of healing and clearing in this area.

March is the beginning of the astrological new year with the Sun moving into Aries on the 21^st, just as Mercury goes retrograde in Aries on the 22^nd. Does this mean we’re going backwards? No, but it does mean, together with the new moon on the 17^th, that rather than rushing out of the gate, our forward movement may be  more considered, deliberate, and planned. Mercury in Aries can be a little spastic and this retro starting at the astro new year, together with the action orientation of March, is simply a reminder that our speed racers do have brakes to slow us down a little bit and there is reason for that.

I believe all of March’s movement is encouraging us to move in a multi-directional way – not forward and backward, but forward and outward, so we move forward and expand multi-dimensionally rather than simply moving forward in a straight line without also expanding our energy into new potentials. Our movement cannot be linear now, it has to be 360 and beyond, in an ever widening arc of spreading our light, energy, and truth into many areas of our life. Sometimes when we feel we can move forward we do so in a very linear way, we rush forward and try to cover as much ground as possible to make up for ‘lost time’ and ‘missed opportunities’.

It is tempting to want to get away from our limitations as soon as we feel that the shackles have come off but our forward movement is being channeled into new avenues starting this month. In addition to being aligned with our individual intentions, our movement must also be aligned with supporting the collective energy expansion. We don’t lose ground or opportunities; instead, we are encouraged to spread the energy around, to explore new avenues of potential, consider other alternatives we have not considered before.

This month we can move forward but we need to remember two things:

1. We choose when we stop healing and start acting and we decide when we will no longer continue on the endless healing cycles that keep us stuck in old drama, trauma, pain, and suffering. So often we look at others’ progress to determine when our healing is complete but we have no control over what others do. The best question to ask now is ‘What new things am I ready for?’ and not ‘Are they healed yet and am I finished with that process?’
2. We have a double mission, to be in our own light and energy and to shine that light and energy for others to see and to be inspired by. We have graduated from Light Workers to Light Beacons, and are moving out of the New Age into the Light Age. The speed of light is 186,000 miles/second – are we ready to move forward at that speed? We have the knowledge, tools, and awareness to embrace our light body and integrate it into our human body. So the answer is yes but we must do so intentionally, deliberately, and with full awareness of the destination or outcome we want to achieve.

With this month’s intense focus on moving out of our karmic healing cycles and releasing our trauma-based soul wounds, we are preparing to shift our focus from powering our energy draining emotional black holes to expanding our energy multi-dimensionally. Being stuck in the dark density of our soul wound trauma blocks our awareness of any other paths that are possible.

Open your vision this month, ask yourself what else is possible – what is the path that allows you to experience the greatest joy, peace, love, abundance, and prosperity? Then create your March-ing orders and start taking steps in that direction.

Have a fantastic month.

Calendar of the Moon
6 Nion/Anthesterion

Rhea’s Day – Pre-Initiation for the Greater Mysteries

Color: Green
Element: Earth
Altar: Upon a green cloth set a sheaf of grain saved from the previous year’s harvest, laid in a winnowing basket, and a chalice of fresh-pressed fruit juice.
Offerings: Care for the Earth.
Daily Meal: Vegetarian

Rhea’s Invocation (to be spoken by a priestess who is invoking her)

I am the Earth before you walked on it.
I am the mountains before humans tracked them.
I am the fields before they were grazed
By any except the wild herds.
I am the trees before they were cut down,
When they grew so thick that no light
Could be seen between their branches.
I am the stones before they were dug.
I am the plants before they were bred
For your use, and then harvested.
I am the grandmother who saw you born.
I am the mentor who watched your first steps.
I am the Old One who watched you grow.
From my loins came my daughter Demeter
Who knew that you must eat more
Than my wilderness could give you,
And fed you from her bounty.
From her loins came my grandchild Persephone
Who gave herself to your Dead
That you might be nurtured both before and after.
I have watched you grow, my grandchildren,
But you were not my first children.
Tell me, then, what you will do for me?

(Each person comes forward and speaks an oath, saying how they will protect the earth for the elder children of Rhea, the plants and animals who were here before us. The juice is shared around, and the remainder poured as a libation for Her.)
Chant:
The Earth is our Mother, we must take care of her,
The Earth is our Mother, we must take care of her,
Hey and a ho and a ho na hey and a ho and a ho na na

[Pagan Book of Hours]

Calendar of the Sun
6 Hrethemonath

Day of the East Wind

Colors: White, ivory, and pale yellow
Element: Air
Altar: On cloth of shades between white and yellow, place four white and yellow candles, a vase of flags and banners in the colors of dawn, a bell with a clear tone, a knife, a glass of white wine, and apple blossom incense.
Offerings: Blowing curls of paper into the wind. Ringing bells or wind chimes. Study and learning, especially giving more depth to a field of knowledge you are already familiar with.
Daily Meal: Raw cold food.

Invocation to the East Wind

Breathe in!
Breathe in the wind of the East,
Piercing and clear,
Eye-opening breeze that comes
With the light of the rising sun,
Wind of voices that sing and chant,
Wind of voices that speak to our souls,
Talking wind that carries our words
To far corners of the world,
Wind of spring, wind that lifts the scent
Of the opening earth out of the chill snow,
Playful wind that teases the edge
Of our consciousness,
Sing to us!
Breathe in
And clear your mind.

Chant: 
Eurus Eurus Breath of the East
Clarity Clarity

Song: Wind’s Four Quarters

(Wind chimes and bells are rung. Wine is poured as a libation. All process outside and release messages on small curls of paper into the east wind.)

[Pagan Book of Hours]

The Witches Almanac for Tuesday, March 6th

Alamo Day (Texan)

Waning Moon

Moon phase: Third Quarter

Moon Sign: Scorpio

Incense: Geranium

Color: Scarlet

Tuesday–The Day of Tiu

Tuesday is the first day of the week which is named after a god of the Angles and Saxons–Tiu, the God of War. The Angles and Saxons, like the Greeks and Romans, worshiped many gods, and though these gods were in a great number of ways similar to those of the Greeks and Romans, we also find very great differences. These differences are due to the fact that the Angles and Saxons lived in a very different kind of country, led a very different kind of life, and consequently had different ideas. Their chief enemies were frost and cold, and they imagined the freezing winds to be caused by frost-giants who lived in a land of ice and waged continual warfare with the gods who befriended man and protected him as far as they could against the frost-giants and all the suffering which they caused. The chief of these gods was Woden or Odin, the All-father, of whom we read in the following chapter, and next to him in importance came Thor, the God of Thunder, the bitterest enemy of the giants. The god after whom Tuesday is named was known as Tiu among the Angles and Saxons, and as Tyr among the Norsemen. He was the God of War, and corresponds to Mars among the Romans, whose name for this day was Dies Martis, the day of Mars. The French have kept the Roman name in the form mardi.

Tiu was a great fighter and knew no fear, and was naturally always called upon in time of battle. He was usually represented as having no right hand, owing to a misfortune which befell him in the following way. From his lofty throne Odin, the chief of the gods, one day saw in the land of the giants three terrible monsters, which grew so rapidly that he was filled with fear lest they should invade the home of the gods. Accordingly he determined to get rid of them before they became any stronger. One Hel, an enormous giantess, he flung into the Underworld, where, as the Goddess of Death, she ruled over the kingdom of the dead. Another, Iormungandr, a serpent, he cast into the sea, where it grew so huge that it encircled the whole earth. The third was Fenrir, a wolf, whom Odin brought to Asgard, the home of the gods, hoping that he might eventually tame him. Fenrir, however, grew stronger and fiercer each day, until the gods, of whom Tiu alone was brave enough to go near him, decided at last to bind him in such a way that he could do no harm. A very strong chain was obtained, and the gods suggested to Fenrir, who often boasted of his great strength, that he should allow himself to be bound with it in order to prove whether he was really as strong as he claimed to be. Fenrir agreed, and then by merely stretching himself easily brohe his bonds. Again the gods put him to the test with a still stronger chain, but as before he succeeded in breaking it. Seeing that no ordinary chain would be strong enough to bind Fenrir, the gods sent one of their servants to the home of the dwarfs, a race of little people who lived underground, and who were very clever workers in metal. They also possessed great powers of magic, as we shall see in a later story. At the bidding of the gods, the dwarfs made a silken rope out of the voice of fishes, a woman’s beard, the roots of a mountain, and the footsteps of a cat, which was so strong that no power could break it! A third time the gods challenged Fenrir to show his strength by allowing himself to be bound with this new cord, but Fenrir became suspicious, and at last consented only on condition that one of the gods should put his hand in his mouth, and hold it there as a pledge that the gods were not deceiving him. This condition greatly alarmed the gods, who began to fear that their trick was not going to succeed, but the bold war-god Tiu stepped forward and, without any hesitation, placed his right hand in the wolf’s mouth. The gods at once bound Fenrir with the magic cord made by the dwarfs, and, in spite of all his struggles, the wolf was unable to free himself. Great was the delight of the gods at their success, a delight shared by all but Tiu, who had little cause to be pleased with the result of the trick, for Fenrir, finding he was trapped, immediately bit off the hand of the god. Thus Tiu was deprived of his sword hand, but so clever was he that he wielded his sword equally well with his left hand, and still remained invincible in battle.

On one occasion Tiu and Thor, the God of Thunder, set out for the land of the giants to obtain an enormous kettle, which the gods required for a feast. They came at last to the home of a giant, Hymir, who possessed a kettle a mile deep and a mile wide, and were hospitably received by the giant’s wife. When she learned the errand on which they had come, she warned them that her husband was very fierce and hot-tempered, and advised them to hide themselves when Hymir returned, lest he should kill them with a glance. No sooner had the gods taken refuge behind some kettles, which were kept on a beam at the end of the hall, than Hymir came in. When he heard that visitors had called, he flashed his eyes round the hall so fiercely that, as his glance lighted on the gods’ hiding-place, the beam split in two, the kettles came crashing to the ground, and Tiu and Thor were discovered. Hymir, however, was persuaded by his wife to receive the gods kindly; he prepared a meal of three oxen in their honour, but was astonished and dismayed to see Thor eat two of them himself. The next day the gods gave the giant many proofs of their great strength and skill, and Hymir consented to give them the kettle they were seeking. Tiu at once tried to lift it but failed; then Thor, after a mighty struggle, raised it from the ground, and, as he gave the final pull, his feet broke through the floor of the giant’s house. As soon as the gods had departed, Thor carrying the kettle on his head, Hymir called his brothers together, and pursued after them. Thor, however, attacked them with his famous hammer, and killed them one by one. Tiu and Thor then continued their journey, and brought the huge kettle safely to their own land.

There are few stories told of Tiu, yet he held a high place among the gods, as the name Tuesday shows. He is most famous for his share in the binding of Fenrir, whereby was put off the dreaded Ragnarok, the day of the final battle between the gods and the giants.

Tuesday’s Spellcrafting

ñ Strength
ñ Anger
ñ Independence
ñ Motivation
ñ Conquest
ñ Action
ñ Education
ñ Force
ñ Handling conflict

Source

A Spell Crafter’s Compendium
Terri Paajanen

Mars – Day – Tuesday

The Red Planet – named after the Roman God of War. It’s colour is due to the rusty iron oxide dust layer on it’s surface. Mars can be seen in the night sky (when it’s close enough) with the nakes eye glowing faintly red!

You can tap into the Mars energy when casting spells for protection, strength (mind and body), confidence and sexual encounters….

Source

The Path of Witchcraft

On Tuesday, March 6th, We Celebrate….

Whale Festival (California)
WHALE GODDESS

Themes: Nature; Meditation; Rebirth; Movement

Symbols: Water; Whale

About the Whale Goddess: In Arabic tradition, the Whale Goddess swallowed Jonah, neatly giving him time to consider his life and actions seriously before his figurative reibrth. Let’s hope she doesn’t have to go that far to get our attention this month (or anytime, for that matter).

In some stories, the earth rests on this goddess’s back and earthquakes result when she gets upset and shakes her tail. Symbolically, when your life seems on shaky ground, consider what this goddess is trying to tell you!

To Do Today: Around this time of year in Northern California, people examine the coastline with renewed interest and anticipation. They’re watching the annual whale migration—a breathtaking sight. Since many of us cannot experience this firsthand, consider the whale as a magickal symbol instead. The gods ride whales to carry messages to the mortal world. Witches ride them to bear their magick on the water. In both instances the whale carries something–either to your heart or toward a goal. Use this image in meditations for movement, and consider the symbolism if whales shows up in your dreams tonight

If possible, visit an aquarium and watch whales there. Or send a donation to an accredited facility to give something back to the Whale Goddess and her children.

Source

365 Goddess, A Daily Guide to the magic and Inspiration of the Goddess
Patricia Telesco

The Goddess Book of Days for Tuesday, March 6th

The Eve of Juno, the Junonalia in Rome, a celebration of matrons and girls. Ceremony of peace dedicated to Juno (Venus, Aphrodite, Hera, Concordia, Pax). The sixth day of the Moon/month belongs to Artemis (Diana, Selene, Anahit, Luna, Hathor, Isis, Erzulie, Hina, and Ata Bey).

Source

The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

The Pagan Book of Days for Tuesday, March 6th

Mars/St. Martian

On this day, the Roman household gods were honored.

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

Today Is Tuesday, March 6th

Tuesday is dedicated to the powers of the planet Mars, personified in Ares, Tiwaz, Tiw, Tuisco and Tyr. Tuesday rules controlled power, energy and endurance.

Deity: Tiwaz

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Planet: Mars

Tree: Holly

Herb: Plantain

Stone: Agate

Animal: Crab

Element: Fire

Color: White

Number: 2

Rune: Tyr (T)

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

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

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

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

The Month of March

As March blows into our lives bringing spring and new begginings, we look to the source of all life as our Goddess of the Month.

Over 6000 years ago, the known world had a different feel. There were no city fortresses, or war. Progress was centred around the development of art, crafts, and agriculture. Then, unlike today, the societies of the world were matriarchal. The sexes were equal but the role of mother and giver of life was unequalled by any task that men could do and so women were honoured and their societies flourished.

Later, around 3,500 BCE, marauding bands of men began destabilizing these societies and subjugating women. Few were able to withstand the superior strength of the invaders. The Amazons, for example, were among the few surviving cultures. In subsequent years the temples, statues, art work, and beauty of those civilizations were lost and buried but not gone from our deepest unconscious. Modern archeologists have found in certain places like Turkey, evidence of highly developed cultures. Unfortunately, an unbiased interpretation did not always find its way into history.

We are in essence a replication of each human that ever was born. Within ourselves we carry patterns and thoughts that connect us with the past. This term was called the collective unconscious by Carl Jung. While the mysteries of the Goddess have been buried, they have not died. The constant change of seasons and the rebirth of the land each spring tell us that our origin from a Great Mother is part of us all. Many myths tell of Her rise from Chaos to give birth to humanity.

There are many creation stories from cultures all around the world. The Goddesses will have different names that are familiar to each of us and so we celebrate not one but all of the women in history who represent the life force of the culture in which you belong. To honour Her, plant a seed and watch it grow. Tend it with loving care and watch its many faces throughout the year and remember the source of your life.

Some names of creation Goddesses; Mere Ama, Ishtar, Astarte, Demeter, Hera, Cybele, Gaia, Oya, Lillith, Sheila Na Gig, Cerridwen