Day: January 21, 2022

Flashback 2004 Lammas

(This is written for the Northern Hemisphere in 2004. The date of August 7th is wrong for 2022 the Southern or Northern Hemisphere)

Lammas

Lammas is the first of the harvest festivals, a celebration of ripening grains and grapes. If you celebrate traditionally on the second, the planetary energies offer a for great creative energy, drama, and joy. If you celebrate on the astrologically on August 7 at 15 degrees of Leo, the Moon will aid a ceremony with great magic and mystery.

The Sun is wanning, but still holding sway in the sky. A day of circle dances and foot races will honor the Sun; be certain the music encourages exuberant joy. If you planted wheat in a pot or plot, this is the day to ritually harvest it. Use some to make a Brigid’s cross; save a few stalks to return to the earth as compost next spring and lend continuity from harvest to sowing to harvest.

If corn is your grain of choice, bring ripe ears to the altar and use the husks to make corn dollies for use at Imbolc. Indian corn can be dried, ground, and used in corn bread. Make a fiery incense with dragon’s blood and hot herbs like ginger or galangal. Do a ritual at a sacred spot — a well or tree or sacred hill. Use the colors of green and gold and orange for your altar, and encourage everyone to wear them. The harvest has just begun.

Copyright By K. D. Spitzer in Llewellyn’s Witches’ Datebook 2004 Page 89

Flashback 2004 Imbolc

 Imbolc

Celebrate this festival by draping the altar in white and silver. Kepp the entire altar white — white candlesticks, white incense bowls, etc. Represent the Goddess with a figure of a horned cow. If you wear robes in ritual, honor Brigid in her guise as the goddess of the dairy by wearing white. With Neptune lending the glamour to your robes to the Sun this time, as glitter to your robes with sliver and “diamonds.” Let your imagination run wild.

Save snow from the last storm, or use crushed ice, and put it out in bowls on the altar. Scrub clean an old milke bottle or cream jar and fill it with fresh milk; freshly made mozzarella cheese will round out your cakes and ale. Nestle all bowls in the snow.

The planetary energies are particularly favorable this sabbat for working magic for world peace. Place all the candles you’ll be using this year on the altar and start this ritual in the dark — this is, without lights. Add your magic to the returning Sun. Dedicate and consecrate all your candles during this festival of lights, and consecrate your agricultural tools for use in the coming cycle of growth. This is the festival of new beginnings.

Copyright By K. D. Spitzer in Llewellyn’s Witches’ Datebook 2004 Page 39

January 21, 2022 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Northern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

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 and tonight 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 January 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on January 21 has an illumination of 88%. 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 January 21 the Moon is 18.06 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.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 88%
Moon Age: 18.06 days
Moon Angle: 0.51
Moon Distance: 386,941.06 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,227,433.58 km

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

Northwestern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Los Angeles, California, USA

January 21, 2022
03:00 pm GMT 7:00 AM PST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:01 Aquarius 32
Moon:13 Virgo 15
Mercury:05 Aquarius 39 Rx
Venus:12 Capricorn 19 Rx
Mars:27 Sagittarius 53
Jupiter:04 Pisces 52
Saturn:14 Aquarius 15
Uranus:10 Taurus 49
Neptune:21 Pisces 08
Pluto:26 Capricorn 37
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 29 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 26 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):20 Gemini 45
Chiron:08 Aries 56
Ceres:28 Taurus 07
Pallas:22 Pisces 12
Juno:25 Capricorn 29
Vesta:05 Capricorn 31
Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:3
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6

Northern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Chicago, Illinois, USA

January 21, 2022
01:00 pm GMT 7:00 AM CST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:01 Aquarius 27
Moon:12 Virgo 10
Mercury:05 Aquarius 44 Rx
Venus:12 Capricorn 21 Rx
Mars:27 Sagittarius 50
Jupiter:04 Pisces 51
Saturn:14 Aquarius 14
Uranus:10 Taurus 49
Neptune:21 Pisces 08
Pluto:26 Capricorn 37
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 29 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 27 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):20 Gemini 44
Chiron:08 Aries 55
Ceres:28 Taurus 07
Pallas:22 Pisces 11
Juno:25 Capricorn 27
Vesta:05 Capricorn 29
Eris:23 Aries 42

Fire:3
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6

Northeastern Hemisphere For 0700 CEST GMT 0600 Post 0000CT

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

21 January 2022
06:00 am GMT 7:00 AM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:01 Aquarius 10
Moon:08 Virgo 27
Mercury:06 Aquarius 05 Rx
Venus:12 Capricorn 26 Rx
Mars:27 Sagittarius 37
Jupiter:04 Pisces 47
Saturn:14 Aquarius 12
Uranus:10 Taurus 49
Neptune:21 Pisces 07
Pluto:26 Capricorn 36
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 32 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 28 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):20 Gemini 42
Chiron:08 Aries 55
Ceres:28 Taurus 06
Pallas:22 Pisces 05
Juno:25 Capricorn 20
Vesta:05 Capricorn 20
Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:3
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6

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January 21 Today In History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1525 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz’s mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union

1789 1st American novel, WH Brown’s “Power of Sympathy” is published

1793 Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for “high treason” by the newly created French Parliament (Convention nationale), during the French Revolution

1952 Jawaharlal Nehru‘s Congress party wins general election in India

1968 The Battle of Khe Sanh – one of the most publicized and controversial battles of the Vietnam War – begins at the Khe Sanh Air Base

2008 Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2022 January 21

Young Star Jet MHO 2147

Image Credit & License: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA Acknowledgments: L. Ferrero (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
Explanation: Laser guide stars and adaptive optics sharpened this stunning ground-based image of stellar jets from the Gemini South Observatory, Chilean Andes, planet Earth. These twin outflows of MHO 2147 are from a young star in formation. It lies toward the central Milky Way and the boundary of the constellations Sagittarius and Ophiuchus at an estimated distance of some 10,000 light-years. At center, the star itself is obscured by a dense region of cold dust. But the infrared image still traces the sinuous jets across a frame that would span about 5 light-years at the system’s estimated distance. Driven outward by the young rotating star, the apparent wandering direction of the jets is likely due to precession. Part of a multiple star system, the young star’s rotational axis would slowly precess or wobble like a top under the gravitation influence of its nearby companions.

21January 2022 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Southern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

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 and tonight 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 January 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on January 21 has an illumination of 88%. 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 January 21 the Moon is 18.06 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.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 88%
Moon Age: 18.06 days
Moon Angle: 0.51
Moon Distance: 386,941.06 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,227,433.58 km

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

21 January 2022
08:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:01 Aquarius 45
Moon:15 Virgo 55
Mercury:05 Aquarius 24 Rx
Venus:12 Capricorn 15 Rx
Mars:28 Sagittarius 02
Jupiter:04 Pisces 55
Saturn:14 Aquarius 16
Uranus:10 Taurus 49
Neptune:21 Pisces 08
Pluto:26 Capricorn 37
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 27 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 26 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):20 Gemini 46
Chiron:08 Aries 56
Ceres:28 Taurus 08
Pallas:22 Pisces 16
Juno:25 Capricorn 34
Vesta:05 Capricorn 38
Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:3
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6

Southern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa

21 January 2022
03:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:01 Aquarius 32
Moon:13 Virgo 15
Mercury:05 Aquarius 39 Rx
Venus:12 Capricorn 19 Rx
Mars:27 Sagittarius 53
Jupiter:04 Pisces 52
Saturn:14 Aquarius 15
Uranus:10 Taurus 49
Neptune:21 Pisces 08
Pluto:26 Capricorn 37
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 29 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 26 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):20 Gemini 45
Chiron:08 Aries 56
Ceres:28 Taurus 07
Pallas:22 Pisces 12
Juno:25 Capricorn 29
Vesta:05 Capricorn 31
Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:3
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6
Obliquity of the Nine Planets

Southwestern Hemisphere

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

21 January 2022
06:00 am GMT 5:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:01 Aquarius 10
Moon:08 Virgo 27
Mercury:06 Aquarius 05 Rx
Venus:12 Capricorn 26 Rx
Mars:27 Sagittarius 37
Jupiter:04 Pisces 47
Saturn:14 Aquarius 12
Uranus:10 Taurus 49
Neptune:21 Pisces 07
Pluto:26 Capricorn 36
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 32 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 28 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):20 Gemini 42
Chiron:08 Aries 55
Ceres:28 Taurus 06
Pallas:22 Pisces 05
Juno:25 Capricorn 20
Vesta:05 Capricorn 20
Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:3
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:7
Mutable:6