Day: March 24, 2019

Sunday’s Witchery

Sunday’s Witchery

Those ambitious, successful spells and charms will be heightened by working on the day of the week that has the planetary influence of the sun. So light those sunny candles, wear some luminous colors, and break out the gold jewelry! Bake up some cinnamon rolls or low-fat cinnamon muffins for an enchanting family breakfast. Take an orange with you to eat at lunch today. Try using a little magickal aromatherapy and burn some cinnamon-scented incense to encourage success and wealth today. Make the talisman to keep your solar magick with you. Sprinkle some dried marigold petals around your house-or across the threshold-to pull triumph and protection toward you and your family.

Get outside and tip up your face to the sun. Take a walk outside, and soak up some sunshine! Acknowledge the power of Sunna or Helios as they blaze across the sky and bring courage and motivation into your life. Sit outside at sunrise on a Sunday morning and bask in its warm, rosy-golden glow Acknowledge Brigid as the inner, creative spark of imagination and inspiration. She can help these gifts burn brightly within your own soul. Use your imagination and create your own brand of witchery and magick. Here comes the sun, and it’s your turn to shine!

—–Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

Sunday’s Conjuring

Sunday’s Conjuring

Sunday – is associated with the Sun

Candle colors – Red, Gold, and Orange

This is a Leo’s power day

Conjuring Work Excellent for Sundays: Power, Health, Success, Personal Finances, Prosperity, Home life, Control, Hotfoot work, Shut your mouth conjure, Sunday is good for all hot work.

 

—Old Style Conjure Wisdoms, Workings and Remedies
Starr Casas

On Sunday, March 24, We Celebrate…

On Sunday, March 24, We Celebrate…

Crane Watch (Nebraska)
TAMRA

Themes: Air; Earth; Nature; Health; Longevity; Devotion; Wishes; Relationships

Symbols: Feathers; Birdseed

About Tamra: In Hindu tradition, this goddess was the ancestor of all birds. As such, she can teach us their special language, which often bears communications from the divine. As the consort of the turtle god, Kashyapa, she also represents a potent union between earth and air elements.

To Do Today: People in Nebraska spend six weeks watching the cranes who rest and feed here during the migratory season. This region of the United States boasts the largest group of sandhill cranes, about fifty thousand birds. Magically speaking, these creatures represent health, longevity, and devotion. Visualize a crane residing in your heart chakra anytime you feel your eyes straying from the one you love, or whenever you need improved well-being.

Birds offer numerous magical applications. For warmth in a relationship, scatter feathers to the winds with your wish. The birds will use the feathers in their nests, symbolically keeping your nest intact and affectionate. Or, disperse birdseed while thinking of a question. As the birds fly away, watch their movement. Flight to the right indicates a positive response; to the left is negative. If the birds scatter, things are iffy. If they fly straight up overhead, a heartfelt wish is being taken to Tamra.

 

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

The Wicca Book of Days for Sunday, March 24 – Day of Blood

The Wicca Book of Days for Sunday, March 24 – Day of Blood

In ancient Rome this was a time of deep mourning. It was an annual religious custom on this day for people to lacerate themselves with knives and for new priests to castrate themselves and spill their blood on the altar in the temple of the Mother-Goddess Cybele.

 

The Wicca Book of Days
Gerina Dunwich

The Goddess Book of Days for Sunday, March 23

The Goddess Book of Days for Sunday, March 23

Purim (Hebrew calendar), the Fast and Feast of Esther to save the Jews of Persia. She is also Eostre, Ostara, Freya, Astarte, Ishtar, Inares, Cybele, Ata Bey, Erzulie, Ashtoreth, Venus, Inanna, and Aphrodite. Her name and story are derived from Ishtar and Marduk (Mordecai).

 

Goddesses Associated With Sunday

Sunne, Sol, Frau Sonne, Aditi, Igaehindvo, Amaterasu, Arinna, Izanami, Ochumare

 

–The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

Today is Sunday, March 24

Today is Sunday, March 24

Traditionally, Sunday is the first day of the week. It is also known as the Lord’s Day from it original association with the Lord, that is, the Sun God, personified as Helios, Apollo, Ogmios, Mithras, and St. Elia. But in the Northern Tradition, the sun is seen as feminine, personified as the goddess known as Phoebe in East Anglia and Saule in eastern Europe. The sun rules the conscious element of the human being, the ego, the real self, and Sunday is the day on which this conscious power is at its most effective.

Deity: Sol

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Planet: Sun

Tree: Birch

Herb: Snakeroot

Stone: Ruby

Animal: Lion

Element: Fire

Color: Gold

Rune: Sigel

 

Celtic Tree Month of Fearn (Alder) (March 18 – April 14)

The Runic Half Month of Beore (March 14 – March 29)

Goddess of the Month Columbina (March 20 – April 17)

—The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

Sunday: Do not get disappointed

Sunday: Do not get disappointed

Would you guess what planet is associated with this day? Easy, isn’t it? You can object that the Sun is not a planet. You are right. It is a star.

Do not get disappointed that you are not meeting any god. For ancient cultures, the Sun and its daily cycle were crucial because their lives depended on its light and warmth making it possible to grow plants and get rid of the fear of the nightly shadows. Every morning, they were afraid the great gold sphere would not rise up in the heavens again. So the Sun was mostly understood as an incarnation of their most important deity and they were begging it with their prayers to come back the other day.

In many Romance languages, Sunday is called the Lord’s Day (Domingo in Spanish, dimanche in French, domenica in Italian: based on the Latin expression Dies Dominica) since this was the day when the God started his one week creation feast.

Moon Phase Calendar for March 24

Moon Phase Calendar
Sunday – 24th March 2019

Current Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous

Moon is Currently In the Sign of Scorpio

Moon in Scorpio:
Moon in Scorpio creates the need to delve into your feelings as deep as possible. You desire meaningful emotional exchanges now more than at any other time even if it is not easy and you are forced to change many things. Shallow relationships do not satisfy you, because they are not purifying enough.

Organs influenced by Scorpio Moon Sign:

Organs: Genitals, rectum, anus, urethra, genital glands, ovaries, prostate, pubic bone, genes.

These organs are now more sensitive so provide them with extra care.

Surgical operations:
Surgical operations are recommended during the Waning Moon.
However, avoid surgeries of organs under the influence of the Moon Sign.

Current Moon Phase for Sunday, March 24

Current Moon Phase for Sunday, March 24

Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 85%

Tomorrow the Moon will be in a Waning Gibbous Phase. This is the first phase after the Full Moon occurs. It lasts roughly 7 days with the Moon’s illumination growing smaller each day until the Moon becomes a Last Quarter Moon with a illumination of 50%. The average Moon rise for this phase is between 9am and Midnight depending on the age of the phase. The moon rises later and later each night setting after sunrise in the morning. During this phase the Moon can also be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon

PHASE DETAILS FOR – SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2019
Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 85%
Moon Age: 18.55 days
Moon Angle: 0.52
Moon Distance: 380,676.43 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 149,165,426.17 km

Source
MoonGiant.com

A Closer Examination of the Planets for March 25 thru March 31

A Closer Examination of the Planets for March 25 thru March 31

Monday March 25
02:05 am – Moon enters Sagittarius

Tuesday March 26
03:43 pm – Venus enters Pisces until April 20.

Wednesday March 27
10:07 am – Moon enters Capricorn

12:45 pm – Venus sextile Uranus from Monday to Friday stimulates your need for fun and excitement in your social and love life. If all alone during this transit, entertainment or creativity will satisfy your increased desire for something new and shiny in your life. You can make original breakthroughs in artistic and creative work.

Thursday March 28
00:09 am – 3rd Quarter Moon 07  11 conjunct fixed star Kaus Borealis promotes mental stimuli, enterprise, a sense of justice, and idealistic and humane ideas. It conveys a sense of strength and flexibility.

09:58 am – Mercury Direct 16  05 conjunct fixed star Achernar gives success in public office, beneficence, and religion. Well placed, it promises happiness and success by giving good morals, faithful adherence to one’s religious beliefs, or a philosophical inclination.

Friday March 29
09:45 pm – Moon enters Aquarius

Sunday March 31
02:12 am – Mars enters Gemini until May 15.

Source
Astrology King

The Sky This Week from March 24 to 31

The Sky This Week from March 24 to 31

Evenings find Mars in the same binocular field as the Pleaides star cluster, while the morning sky features the Moon passing close to both Jupiter and Saturn.
By Richard Talcott

Sunday, March 24
Orion the Hunter stands out in the southwest as darkness falls this week. The conspicuous constellation appears slightly askew compared with its appearance in winter’s evening sky. Now, the three-star belt is aligned parallel to the horizon while blue-white Rigel hangs directly below the belt and ruddy Betelgeuse stands directly above.

Monday, March 25
Jupiter continues to grow more prominent before dawn. The giant planet rises before 2 a.m. local daylight time and climbs 30° high in the south an hour before sunup. It also shines at magnitude –2.2, making it the brightest point of light in the morning sky until Venus rises around 5:30 a.m. A telescope reveals at least two conspicuous cloud belts on Jupiter’s 39″-diameter disk. And this morning, North American observers have a great opportunity to watch the shadows of two moons cross the planet’s bright cloud tops. At 3:56 a.m. EDT, Ganymede’s shadow first touches the jovian atmosphere; Europa’s shadow joins it at 4:06 a.m. The black dot cast by Ganymede lifts back into space at 6:04 a.m. followed by Europa’s at 6:27 a.m. Any telescope will provide excellent views of these shadow transits.

Tuesday, March 26
One of the spring sky’s finest deep-sky objects, the Beehive star cluster (M44) in the constellation Cancer the Crab, lies high in the south after darkness falls. With the naked eye from under a dark sky, you should be able to spot this star group as a fuzzy cloud. But the Beehive explodes into dozens of stars when viewed through binoculars or a telescope.

Wednesday, March 27
Less than 10 minutes after Jupiter pokes above the southeastern horizon this morning, the waning gibbous Moon rises to the planet’s lower left. The two objects remain neighbors as they ascend in the predawn sky.

Thursday, March 28
Last Quarter Moon arrives at 12:10 a.m. EDT (9:10 p.m. PDT yesterday evening). It rises around 2:30 a.m. local daylight time and climbs higher in the southeast as dawn approaches. During this period, our half-lit satellite lies among the background stars of Sagittarius the Archer, north of the conspicuous Teapot asterism.

Friday, March 29
The Moon moves eastward relative to the background stars an average of 13° every day, and this morning it has traveled to the vicinity of Saturn. The ringed planet rises around 3:15 a.m. local daylight time and the Moon, which now appears as a waning crescent, follows about 10 minutes later. The two remain within 3° of each other throughout the morning hours. Magnitude 0.6 Saturn remains a fixture in northeastern Sagittarius all week. If you target the gas giant through a telescope, you’ll see its 16″-diameter disk surrounding by a stunning ring system that spans 37″ and tilts 24° to our line of sight.

Mars appears 3° south of the Pleiades star cluster both this evening and tomorrow night, making a dramatic sight through binoculars. The ruddy hue of the planet provides a nice contrast to the cluster’s blue-white stars.

Saturday, March 30
This is a good week to look for Sirius in the evening sky. The night sky’s brightest star (at magnitude –1.5) appears in the southwestern sky after twilight ends. It then lies about one-third of the way from the horizon to the zenith from mid-northern latitudes. (The farther south you live, the higher it appears.) If you point binoculars at Sirius, look for the pretty star cluster M41 in the same field of view, just 4° south of the star.

Sunday, March 31
Just as morning twilight starts to paint the sky, Venus pokes above the eastern horizon. The brilliant planet dominates the predawn sky for the next hour as the rosy glow heralding the Sun’s arrival grows brighter. Venus shines at magnitude –3.9, nearly two magnitudes brighter than the second-brightest planet, Jupiter. When viewed through a telescope, the inner world shows a disk that spans 13″ and appears about 80 percent lit.

The Moon reaches apogee, the farthest point in its orbit around Earth, at 8:14 p.m. EDT. It then lies 252,014 miles (405,577 kilometers) from Earth’s center.

Source
Astronomy Magazine

The Lunar Almanac for Sunday, March 24

The Lunar Almanac for Sunday, March 24

The Moon
Moon Direction: 102.45° ESE↑
Moon Altitude: -3.81°
Moon Distance: 232512 mi
Next New Moon: Apr 5, 20193:50 am
Next Full Moon: Apr 19, 20196:12 am
Next Moonrise: Today10:21 pm
Current Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 87.6%

 

Moon Lore

Back to the earliest periods of civilization and the moon features prominently as a force of malice. During the ancient Greek period, Hippocrates, widely considered the founding father of modern medicine, tied the power of the moon to human madness. He wrote, “One who is seized with terror, fright and madness during the night is being visited by the goddess of the moon.” This was something the Romans also invested a lot of faith in. The goddess Luna, was believed to have driven her chariot across the night sky each night, hence the lunar cycles. The influence of Luna was said to inspire madness in non-believers. Her name is where we get the word “lunatic” from. Other Greek and Roman goddesses like Artemis and Selene had ties to the moon and were worshipped as such. They were also prominent goddesses of childbirth, so that connection is partly why you continue to hear legends about full moon-induced labor.

Reference:
timeanddate.com

The Solar Almanac for Sunday, March 24

The Solar Almanac for Sunday, March 24

The Sun
Sun Direction: 298.88° WNW↑
Sun Altitude: -30.81°
Sun Distance: 92.657 million mi
Next Solstice: Jun 21, 2019 10:54 am (Summer)
Sunrise Today: 6:53 am↑ 88° East
Sunset Today: 7:08 pm↑ 272° West
Length of Daylight: 12 hours, 14 minutes

 

Ancient Solar Folklore:

The Egyptians regarded the sun as a child when it was rising, and as an old man when it was setting in the evening. These ideas were also transferred to the annual motion of the sun. Macrobius states that the Egyptians compared the yearly course of the sun with the phases of human life; thus, a little child signified the winter solstice, a young man the spring equinox, a bearded man the summer solstice, and an old man the autumnal equinox. They also thought that Hercules had his seat in the sun, and that he travelled with it round the moon.

Reference:
timeanddate.com
SacredText.com

Song of the Witch

celtic blessings

Song of the Witch

 

Will you be of Wicca, tonight?
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
Then come with me to the Circle of Light.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.

Take up these herbs and brew up a tea.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
And drink it all down; the gods you shall see.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.

Take up the glass, and look at your face.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
Go into yourself and find a new place.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.

Go to the Woods, and find an Oak tree.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
And cling to it tight, and strong you shall be.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.

Go to the Mountains and call to the Wind.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
And fly through the Air with the Thoughts that you send.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.

Fly to the Sun, and touch its bright Flame.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
Open your Mind; now choose a new Name.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.

Go to the Sea, and call to the Moon.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
Raise up your arms, then sing out Her tune.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.

Now join your hands with Those who surround.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
Now share the Power that we send around.
Bend the Will; the Wish you shall find.

We shall part, but meet again soon.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tyme.
To dance, and sing, and Call Down the Moon.
Bend the Will, the Wish you shall find.

–Selena Fox
Published on Pagan Library

When The Cat is Away, The Mice Will Play….

... but know your limits!

And oh does that saying hold true for this bunch around here! Good Sunday morning, my dear brothers & sisters of the Craft! I hope everyone is having a very lovely & peaceful morning so far. As Eleanor announced Friday(I believe), I was suppose to be out of town till Monday, but the best laid plans of mice and men…..hmm, I do believe I have mice on the brains this morning.

As you can see, I am here, not out of town as planned. I received a panicky phone call from Eleanor. “The computers have crashed, the computers have crashed,” she has a very heavy New Orleans accents and you should hear that yelling at you. I told her to shut the darn things down and go home, I would fix the problem when I got back. As I continued to pack, something else came up. The last occurrence took about an hour or two and by that time, I said, “the hell with it, we are staying here.” You ever had one of those days, you plan something then everything in the book happens to get you out of the mood of doing what you had planned? Well that’s what happened to me anyway. I didn’t have anything spectacular planned for the boys and myself. We were just going back to the mountains for a bit. I just wanted to walked through the vast trails and get in touch with my roots again. It is refreshing to go back home but that will have to wait for a bit. Instead, I ended up at the Game Reserve, by myself, just enjoying nature and all the lovely creatures that the Goddess has blessed us with.

Today is a training day for Eleanor and Lynette. They are such lucky little rats, I mean mice. I want to see what they are doing that the computers keep crashing on them. I know Eleanor has mentioned a new part WordPress has added for posting now. I looked at it and frankly I don’t like it much myself either. But I did show her the part that said, “switch back to old version.” Somehow, she missed that, hmm! I was hoping that, just maybe, I could take a day off every once in a while but, I guess that will have to wait. I will just go outside and sit under my gumball tree and be happy. If you are familiar with gumball trees, you know about the little spiky balls they drop. So sitting under a gumball tree really isn’t all that of a pleasant experience if you happen upon one of them. I could go sit under my willow tree but it is about three foot tall now and has a stake beside it to keep it from breaking. As you know, I lost my big willow to a storm several years back. The one growing now is a cutting from the old one. I might look a little goofy trying to sit under it. But, of course, our neighbors are use to some of the goofiness that goes on around here, lol!

Anyway, mini-vacation spoiled, training day for Eleanor and Lynette and with that said, lets get this show on the road…..

Have a very blessed and relaxing Sunday, my sweets,

Lady of the Abyss

Forgot to mention, in case I do ever get to run off for a day or two and the computers crash again. You can always find the Daily Horoscopes, Get a Jump on Tomorrow, Daily Tarot Card and Daily Rune on the store. It takes about 5 minutes to do each morning, if that long. So I try to keep it up-dated each day. Now you know, when the mice start playing around here, you can go and get your horoscopes at Witches of the Craft’s Online Store.