October 22, 2021 – Witches Of The Craft®

So, I got a refurbished laptop and within a month it had a major problem. It went into sleep mode and would not come out of it. Yesterday WISH online shopping finally sent me the label to send it back. I went last evening and got it started on it way back to WISH. Which left me with either my desktop computer, which I can only sit at for about an hour until my back pain is so bad I have to lay down, or my Kindle tablet which takes me twice as long to post through. My wonderful fiancée took me to Rent-A-Center where he had coupons for a nice reduction in price for a brand new laptop, which I am using now. When we got home with it last evening I could not get on to use it. So, I put it aside very frustrated but I must have done something right because I did not have to take it back to the store to be able to use my own account on it. But as I was having a horrible morning I did not pick this laptop up to try to get on to it again until about 15 minutes ago and now here we are.

Now I have to take this one back because the Delete key doesn’t work. I give up for today. Looks like I will only be doing the daily and birthday horoscopes later today.

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

Today 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 an illumination of 50%. The average Moon rise for this phase is between 9pm 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.

Visit the October 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on October 22 has an illumination of 97%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On October 22 the Moon is 16.47 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 97%
Moon Age: 16.47 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 404,018.02 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 148,840,715.45 km

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

For Your Local Time and Date

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

22 October 2021
05:00 am GMT 4:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:29 Libra 01
Moon:16 Taurus 38
Mercury:11 Libra 15
Venus:15 Sagittarius 46
Mars:24 Libra 24
Jupiter:22 Aquarius 21
Saturn:06 Aquarius 59
Uranus:13 Taurus 21 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 50 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 22
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 55 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:03 Gemini 17 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):10 Gemini 37
Chiron:09 Aries 50 Rx
Ceres:11 Gemini 35 Rx
Pallas:09 Pisces 59 Rx
Juno:22 Sagittarius 22
Vesta:16 Scorpio 25
Eris:24 Aries 11 Rx

Fire:4
Earth:3
Air:9
Water:3

Cardinal:6
Fixed:5
Mutable:8

Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

22 October 2021
07:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:29 Libra 36
Moon:23 Taurus 36
Mercury:11 Libra 38
Venus:16 Sagittarius 23
Mars:24 Libra 47
Jupiter:22 Aquarius 22
Saturn:07 Aquarius 00
Uranus:13 Taurus 19 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 49 Rx
Pluto:24 Capricorn 23
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 54 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:03 Gemini 15 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):10 Gemini 41
Chiron:09 Aries 49 Rx
Ceres:11 Gemini 32 Rx
Pallas:09 Pisces 55 Rx
Juno:22 Sagittarius 33
Vesta:16 Scorpio 43
Eris:24 Aries 11 Rx