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.

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

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.

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Patti Wigington, Paganism/Wicca Expert
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Friday’s Conjuring

Friday – is associated with Venus

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

Spellcrafting Associations: Love, Marriage, Money, Attraction, Luck, Healing, Prosperity, Change, Road Opening work, Bring Peace, Relationships.

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Old Style Conjure Wisdoms, Workings and Remedies
Starr Casas

Friday’s Magick

Magickal Intent:
Lust
Romance
Happiness
Travel
Friends
Beauty
Sexuality
Harmony
Growth

Planet: Venus

Colors: Pink, Aqua, Seafoam

Crystals: Coral, Emerald, Rose Quartz

In the country of China, the kitchen-god Zao Jun is honored with prayers and offerings of sweet rice cakes each year on this night, which marks the end of the Chinese year. For luck, paper images of the god are burned and dried beans are thrown onto the roofs of houses.

–The Wicca Book of Days
Gerina Dunwich

The Goddess Book of Days for Friday, January 18th

Sûrya in India for Sun God and Goddess Sûrya and Sûryâ. They are also Apollo and Artemis, Mercury and Diana, Izanagi and lzanami. In Rome, the Theogamia of Hera, women’s festival for Hera (Juno, Hathor, Mawu, Gaia, Rhiannon, Cybele, Isis, Mary, Freya, Ishtar,Astarte, Coatlique, and Ashtoreth).

Goddesses Associated with Friday

Friday For Freya: Astarte, Aphrodite, Erzulie, Aida Wooo, Eve, Venus, Diana, Isis, the Witch of Gaeta, Chalchiuhtlique

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The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

Today is Friday, January 18th

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)

The Celtic Tree Month of Beth (Birch) (December 24 – January 20)

The Runic Half Month Peorth (January 13 – January 27

Goddess of the Month for January:  Freya

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The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

The Lunar Almanac for Friday, January 18th

Moon Direction: 18.32° NNE↑
Moon Altitude: -31.27°
Moon Distance: 227667 mi
Next Full Moon: Jan 20, 201911:16 pm
Next New Moon: Feb 4, 20193:03 pm
Next Moonrise: Today2:38 pm
Moon Direction: 18.32° NNE↑
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 91.0%

–timeanddate.com

Going Moon-Mad

People once believed that moonlight had a powerful effect on human behavior. Those who acted strangely were said to be “moonstruck,” and lunacy, a term for madness, comes from Luna, the Latin name for the moon goddess. The Japanese believed that the moon was a god with powers to foretell the future. Priests would study the moon’s reflection in a mirror, believing that if they gazed directly at the moon, it might drive them mad. Superstitions about the moon’s evil influence made some people refuse to sleep in a place where moonbeams could touch them. In the 1200s, the English philosopher Roger Bacon wrote, “Many have died from not protecting themselves from the rays of the moon.”

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The Solar Almanac for Friday, January 18th

Sun Direction: 156.47° SSE↑
Sun Altitude: 28.84°
Sun Distance: 91.450 million mi
Next Equinox: Mar 20, 2019 4:58 pm (Vernal)
Sunrise Today: 7:05 am↑ 115° Southeast
Sunset Today: 5:04 pm↑ 245° Southwest
Length of Daylight: 14 hours, 14 minutes

–timeanddate.com

Super Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse of January 2019: Complete Guide

By Doris Elin Salazar, Space.com Contributor 

Here, learn more about what makes lunar eclipses so special. [Rare Super Blue Blood Moon Thrills Millions Around the World]

Total Lunar Eclipse

During a lunar eclipse, a full moon’s bright facade will change. As the moon enters Earth’s shadow, all of the moon (or a section of it in the case of a partial eclipse) will turn a rusty color. Sunlight scatters to produce the red colors of sunset and sunrise when it enters Earth’s atmosphere at a particular angle.

What a lunar eclipse displays is the color of all of Earth’s sunrises and sunsets reaching the moon, NASA scientist Noah Petro told Space.com. If someone stood on the moon during a total lunar eclipse, Earth would appear to have a reddish ring all around it, as the person would gaze at the 360-degree sunrise and sunset they’d perceive at that particular intersection of Earth and lunar orbits.

When the lunar eclipse begins, the bright moon dims as it enters the outer part of Earth’s shadow, called the penumbra. The deep tint of a full lunar eclipse is visible once the moon enters the deepest part of Earth’s shadow, or umbra. The bright-red color appears once the moon is fully engulfed in the shadows, and it’s the reason “blood” moon is a popular moniker for lunar eclipses.

To a certain extent, lunar eclipses reveal something about Earth, too. “Lunar eclipses … reflect our world,” astronomer and podcaster Pamela Gay told Space.com in an email. “A blood colored moon is created [by] ash from fires and volcanoes, … dust storms and pollution all filtering sunlight as it scatters around our world. A grey eclipse is clear skies.

“Our world can change the appearance of another world, and during an eclipse, the universe lets us see this color play,” she said.

The Jan. 20-21, 2019 total lunar eclipse will last 1 hour and 2 minutes, according to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center lunar eclipse projections.

The full experience, from the start of the partial eclipse to the end, will last 3 hours and 17 minutes.

The peak of the total lunar eclipse will happen shortly after day’s end on Sunday, Jan. 20, on the U.S. east coast, at 12:16 a.m. EST (0516 GMT) on Monday, Jan. 21. This peak is also known as the “greatest eclipse” and is defined as the moment when the moon comes closest to the axis of Earth’s shadow.

Below is a lunar eclipse timetable for several locations from which the celestial event is visible, based on information from timeanddate.com.

People in Hawaii and eastern Africa will catch the dramatic lunar eclipse as the moon rises and sets over the horizon, respectively. Those viewers will see a total eclipse, but not all of the partial eclipse that leads up to and ends the celestial event. All of North and South America, including the Caribbean nations, will see the entire event. People in countries in Europe such as Iceland, Ireland and Portugal will also get to view all of the eclipse. And although people in the Ukraine and Turkey won’t catch the whole eclipse, they’ll still wake up to an impressive lunar sight. [Total Lunar Eclipse Gets a Cloudy Halo in Cool Time-Lapse Video]

Lunar Phases and Eclipses

A new moon occurs roughly every month, when the moon’s far side is facing the sun and the moon’s near side is in darkness. Every time a viewer sees the moon, it’s always the same face, because the moon is tidally locked with Earth. So, when the moon is between the sun and Earth, a viewer doesn’t see the near side; it cannot be seen in the sky. New moons are the phases that produce the other major celestial-shadow event: solar eclipses.

A lunar eclipse occurs during the full-moon phase, the opposite phase to new moon. During lunar eclipses Earth sits in the middle, between the sun and the moon. That’s how the moon is able to pass through the planet’s shadow

Recent and Upcoming Total Lunar Eclipses

The last total lunar eclipse occurred on July 27, 2018, and was visible over Africa and countries in Central Asia such as India. Several months prior, on Jan. 31, another total lunar eclipse could be seen from Central Asia, the Pacific region and Alaska.

The first total lunar eclipse to follow Jan. 21’s event will occur on May 26, 2021, and will be visible over the Pacific Ocean, with viewing possibilities in North America, South America and east Asia.

Follow Doris Elin Salazar on Twitter@salazar_elin. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

Friday 18 January

• 11:49 am – Venus trine Mars from Monday to next Wednesday increases your desire for social contact and enjoyment. This is the best aspect this weekly horoscope for dating because your softer loving side balances out your raw sexual desire. Thus you can be direct without coming on too strong. You will genuinely be interested in friendship not just for sex but for companionship as well.
• 03:03 pm – Mercury conjunct Pluto at 21 ♑ 11 from Thursday to Saturday adds depth and intensity to your thinking and communications. This is a good time to get to the bottom of troubling issues. You can uncover secrets through study and research, or through probing and questioning others. You can more easily gain a thorough understanding of mysteries and occult subjects like astrology.
• 08:30 pm – Sun square Uranus from Wednesday to Sunday requires open-mindedness and flexibility as you enter a stage of uncertainty. You may start to feel an an uneasy and anxious feeling of impending change in the second half of your weekly horoscope. A buildup of nervous tension can result in unpredictable behavior on your part which can lead to abruptness, rapid changes in direction and even accidents.
• 10:43 pm – Moon enters Cancer

Sunday 20 January

• 3:59 am – Sun enters Aquarius
• 10:54 pm – Moon enters Leo
• 11:41 pm – Venus square Neptune from Saturday to Tuesday can lead to feelings of insecurity about yourself and how you look. It is possible that you will feel that others are looking at you oddly or think you are strange in some way. It is important to realize that any such impressions are distorted and do not match reality. A poor self-image at this time can lead to relationship difficulties. You can also experience disappointment in your love life by forming a distorted image of someone else.

–Astrology King