Many Witches believe that turning or stirring things clockwise (Deasil) will bring positivity, luck, and success. Using the counterclockwise (Widdershins) motion, however, can bring chaos and misfortune. These two are often reversed when practicing in the Southern Hemisphere.
Witch Tips : The Essential Guide to Contemporary Witchcraft
A. Rayne
Sunshine Follows Me
Gray skies and rain, stay away.
Bring me sunshine, don’t delay.
Always near and never far,
Brighten my day oh burning star.
*You don’t need a rainy day for this spell. The “sunshine” can be metaphorical as well.
–The Power of Positive Witchcraft: Daily Incantations & Enchantments: A Spell a Day for 30 Days
Garden Summerland
“In this greatest of all adventures, you cannot ever be less than you really are: limitless, forever, and totally awesome. But you can think that you are less than you really are. Don’t!”
“There are very, very, very few don’ts in this kingdom of thoughts. But seeing yourself as less than you really are should be one of those don’ts. Actually there are just a few should bes in this kingdom, too. Let’s keep it that way!”
“What if you were born a healthy, wealthy, and wise as you now dream of becoming? Or, what if you didn’t have any of the challenges you now face? If this were the case, you wouldn’t be a fraction of the person that you already are today. There’s a reason to the madness, a reason you sometimes feel trapped, stuck, fallen, and bruised. And it has everything to do with the enlightenment you sought and the triumphs that are only now possible. You wanted more –more than having everything handed to you on a silver platter — and you got it. And this makes all the difference. Angels sing your name.”
Today’s special message is from Mike Dooley’s book entitled Choose Them Wisely, Thoughts Become Things!
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On Saturday work for protection, boundaries, and house rules
Planetary Influence: Saturn
Household Symbols: A gate, a fence, a sprig of ivy from a houseplant
Colors: Black or deep purple
Kitchen spices: Traditionally there are not many herbs associated with Saturn that are not poisonous. However, for banishing and the removal of negative situations, try a clove of garlic or dried minced onion.
Cottage Witchery, Natural Magick for Hearth and Home
Ellen Dugan
Clear away any clutter that’s collected on floors or surfaces. Recycle those stacks of newspapers, throw away those old bills, and send out that dirty laundry.
Using an old cloth or your broom, dust the corners of your ceilings for cobwebs. Dust the tops of your curtains and windowsills as well.
Starting at the doorway of your house, sweep the floors in a generally clockwise direction. Sweeping is an excellent example of practical magic, cleansing on both a physical and spiritual level.
Be sure to take the dustcan with you as you sweep. As my mother used to say “bring the garbage to the dustpile, not the dustpile to the garbage.”
Once you’ve finished sweeping, fill the bucket about halfway with hot water and floor cleaner. I recommend Murphy’s wood oil soap, or a pine-scented cleaner.
Add a few drops of the pine oil and eucalyptus oil to the bucket of water. Crumble up a leaf or two of sage and add that as well. Drop the pennies in.
Say a little prayer over the water to the God of your own understanding. Ask that your house be blessed, peaceful, and harmonious.
Starting again at the door of your house, mop the floors in a generally clockwise direction. Envision the charmed water clearing away old, muddy energy and leaving your house sparkling and new.
When you discard the old mop water, be sure to save the pennies from the bottom of the bucket. Wash them under warm tap water and say a blessing over them.
Now, place the pennies in the outer four corners of your house, beginning in the north and moving clockwise. Ask the spirits of the four directions to make your home safe, secure, and prosperous.
Using the lemon-scented polish, lovingly polish any wooden furniture in your house. Once again, envision old vibrations being cleared away.
Light your sage or sweetgrass and smudge the outer corners of each room, moving once again in a clockwise direction.
If this feels comfortable, use either your athame or the index finger of the hand you write with to sketch a pentacle in the air over each door and window of your house, envisioning the opening sealed against unwanted energies.
Pagans believe that moving clockwise (“deosil”) invokes and that moving counterclockwise (“widdershins”) banishes.
If you have wall-to-wall carpeting or are very allergic to dust, you can perform this ritual with a vaccuum cleaner instead of a broom. Simply sprinkle a small amount of the charmed water (minus floor cleaner!) on the carpet.
You may wish to chant softly to yourself while cleaning. Any simple, rhyming chant will do. Here’s one example: “Gunk away, good stuff stay.”
When I smudge, I like to chant the names of the Goddess to myself: “Isis Astarte Diana, Hecate Demeter Kali, Innaana.”
Feel free to experiment with what you place in your mop water. I also like to use rose oil (love) and patchouly oil (prosperity).
Saturn doesn’t make things easy. That’s the role of the taskmaster of the zodiac. Saturn commands us to get to work and to work hard. Discipline and responsibility are important to this planet, yet if we’re eager to conquer the world, that’s okay, too.
Much like Father Time, Saturn implores us to look at the clock (its glyph, after all, is the sickle of Chronos, the God of Time). Is there time for everything we want to do, or are there limits? Those limitations are important to Saturn, and we must learn to manage them. Restrictions are the province of this planet, as is any form of discipline or delay.
In keeping with the passage of time, Saturn governs old age along with the lessons it teaches us. Learning life’s lessons is key to this planet, in keeping with its role as teacher. The majesty of older age also brings with it a certain sense of tradition, conventionality (our learned patterns of behavior) and wisdom, and Saturn is mindful of these characteristics. This planet applauds our perseverance and the fact that we’ve withstood the test of time (yes, time comes up once again). This senior status further brings with it a measure of authority, and Saturn lords over that as well.
Structure, order and the way in which we conduct our affairs are all ruled by this ringed planet. Contraction and the reining in of assets are also important here. Lastly, Saturn, again in its role as teacher, concerns itself with karma and the lessons which past experiences might bring.
It takes Saturn 28-30 years to complete its orbit of the zodiac. It is masculine energy and rules both Capricorn and Aquarius, and the Tenth and Eleventh Houses.
Waning Moon
Moon phase: Third Quarter
Moon Sign: Scorpio
Sun enters Taurus 4:55 am
Incense: Pine Color: Brown
–Llewellyn’s 2019 Magical Almanac
Charlie Rainbow Wolf
Saturday is a day filled with opportunities to clean up and clear out. So if you are wondering why Hecate is assigned to this day, take another look at what she symbolizes and the magick that is associated with her. That should answer the question.
Hecate was the oldest form of the Greek Triple Goddess, as she presided over heaven, the underworld, and earth. Crossroads where three roads met were especially sacred to Hecate, earning her the title of Hekate of the Three Ways. It’s interesting to note that even after the worship of other goddesses waned, ancient people still worshiped Hecate as the Queen of the Underworld and the Guardian of the Three-Way Crossroad. It was also believed that if you left her an offering of food there, she would grant you her favors. As Hecate Trivia, her triple images were often displayed at these crossroads, where she was petitioned on the full moon for positive magick and on the dark of the moon for cursing and dark magick.
While this last bit of information sounds a little ominous, keep in mind that Hecate/Hekate was known by many titles and is a shapeshifter. Her appearance could and did change often. As a dark moon goddess, her faces are many. To some she may appear as a old crone, hunched over a smoking cauldron and draped in a midnight cape. To others she may appear as a dark beautiful, mysterious, and mature woman wearing a shimmering crown. To some she may be perceived as a maiden priestess. She was called the “most lovely one,” the Great Goddess of Nature, and the Queen of the World of Spirits. This dark goddess knows her way around the earth and the underworld. All the powers of nature, life, and death are at her command.
–Book of Witchery, Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan
Planet: Saturn
Perfumes: Hyacinth, Pansy
Incense: Pepperwort, Assodilious, Black Poppy Seeds, Henbane, Lodestone, Myrrh
Wood: Oak
Color: Black
Influences: Duties, Responsibilities, Finding Families, Works of Magic, Buildings, Meditation, Life, Doctrines.
A Book of Pagan Rituals
Herman Slater
Astrological beginning of Taurus, the horned cow, dedicated to Hathor/ Isis. Other Horned Goddesses are Moon Goddesses, Io, Hera, Selene, Luna, and Diana. The twentieth day of the Moon/month is Selene’s.
Ops, Rhea, Tellus Mater, Gaia, Eartha, Ge, Tonantzin, Ashera, Anath, the Shekinah, the Matronit, Mary, Gula, Herodias, Oddudua, Demeter
–The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein
Mars is about to cede its position as predominant planet to Venus, which means that the astrological flavor of days on Earth is on the verge of switching from masculine to feminine, an from martial to pacific. This is not to say that all goddesses are gentle and peace-loving, however. Far from it for many female deities are more akin to Mars than to Venus in their relish of battle and bloodshed, such as the Norse Valkyries and the trio of Celtic sister goddesses, Nemain(Frenzy), Babd(Fury) and Morrigan(Specter), who were said to stalk around battlegrounds in the form of crows.
Take the time to study the major-arcana Tarot card of Judgment (or the Day of Judgment, XX). This card’s imagery is similar to that associated with the Christian day of reckoning, suggesting that a symbolic rebirth (and, perhaps, reward or punishment) may be looming.
Source
The Wicca Book of Days
Selena Eilidh Ash
Saturday is dedicated to the shadowy Anglo-Saxon God Saetere or Seater, equivalent to the God Saturn. It is a day also associated with the Norns, the Norse equivalent of Three Fates, and the trickster God Loki. It is connected generally with apprehension, austerity, caution, and excessive self-limitation.
Deity: Saetere
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Planet: Saturn
Tree: Alder
Herb: Daffodil
Stone: Amethyst
Animal: Eagle
Element: Earth
Color: Dark Blue
Number: 4
Rune: Dag(D)
Celtic Tree Month of Saille (Willow) (April 15 – May 12)
The Runic Half Month of Man (April 14 – April 28)
Goddess of the Month of Rhiannon
Source
The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick
Here we come to the only day of the English week which brings a Roman god to our heavenly party. The word Saturday is derived from Saturn, the god of harvest and agriculture. Buying all the food in supermarkets, we can hardly imagine how important this guy was for our distant ancestors.
In Latin, the word for Saturday is Sambata Dies, meaning the Day of Sabbath (sábado in Spanish, sabato in Italian, samedi in French). Sabbath is a Hebrew word for the Day of Rest. It was the last day of the all-in-one-week creation run. A day when the God finally had some relax, lying in the Garden of Eden and curiously waiting for what happens next.
This question of the day is totally, way out in left field and has nothing to do with Witchcraft. I have been wanting to ask it for sometime but……anyway, we have all read and heard about what I am getting ready to ask you in the News & newspapers. I know it might strike controversy but hey, I am always open for a good discussion. I know get on with the question, so here it is……
We have all read and heard about the statues in various part of the country being pulled down. Most of these statues involved Confederate soldiers, generals or someone who was associated with slavery at one time or another. My question to you, how does this make you feel? These people did play a part in forming our country. Is it right for these statues to be pulled down? Are they trying to re-write our history, as they have tried to do in our very own religion? Personally, I don’t see any harm in letting this statues remain. They are a part of our history, a dark part but yet our history. To destroy all the statues and erase all the memories of the by-gone era, are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? I know we would never allow slavery to become legal in our country by no means. But there is something very important in that era that we need to remember. It is a time when we all recognized each other as equal, no matter the color of our skin. It was a time when we gained a new respect for all life, again no matter the skin color. Perhaps the Civil War era and all that it is suppose to resent is not really that bad after all. We did learn a valuable lesson. To respect all human beings and live and peace and harmony together. Now should we just forgot that era, pull down the statues and pretend that it never even happened?
I am interested in hearing your comments. Want me to get down on my hands and knees and beg, lol!
Lady A
A witch is…
One who has power over her/his own life
One who makes his/her own rules, but can abide by the rules of Nature
One who refuses to submit to self-denial
One who recognizes no authority with greater esteem than her/his own, who is loyal to self
One who is untamed and tamed
One who transforms energy for the good of all
One who can be passionate about her/his ideals and values as they are changing
One who is explosive, whose intensity is like volcanoes, floods, winds, and fire
One who is disorderly and orderly
One who is ecstatic
One who alters reality
One who says, “I am a witch” aloud three times
“I am a witch”
“I am a witch”
“I am a witch”
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