Day: January 26, 2022

A Thought for Today

I am not feeling any better than yesterday as it is still below 0F here and in the double digit below 0F with the wind chill factor. But I do not want to take off another day and you miss out on the daily posts I try to do every day. So even though all the extras’ posts are missing at least you are getting the regular everyday posts. It will probably be the same for the rest of this week. I hope you will bear with me while I am in this fibromyalgia super flare and the pain from arthritis and stick around until I can bring you extra posts about a wide range of pagan and some other topics.

Life in The Craft mini magazine will still be going out on January 30th, so you have the stuff it covers for Imbolc which falls on February 1st.

January 26, 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

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

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

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on January 26 has an illumination of 40%. 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 26 the Moon is 23.13 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 Crescent
Illumination: 40%
Moon Age: 23.13 days
Moon Angle: 0.54
Moon Distance: 366,295.06 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,305,907.80 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

Northwestern Hemisphere

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

January 26, 2022
12:00 am GMT 4:00 PM PST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:05 Aquarius 59
Moon:11 Scorpio 30
Mercury:00 Aquarius 09 Rx
Venus:11 Capricorn 19 Rx
Mars:01 Capricorn 04
Jupiter:05 Pisces 51
Saturn:14 Aquarius 46
Uranus:10 Taurus 51
Neptune:21 Pisces 15
Pluto:26 Capricorn 45
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 12
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 12 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):21 Gemini 14
Chiron:09 Aries 04
Ceres:28 Taurus 23
Pallas:23 Pisces 34
Juno:27 Capricorn 14
Vesta:07 Capricorn 50

Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:2
Earth:9
Air:4
Water:4
Cardinal:7
Fixed:8
Mutable:4

 

Northern Hemisphere

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

January 26, 2022
10:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:06 Aquarius 55
Moon:24 Scorpio 20
Mercury:29 Capricorn 05 Rx
Venus:11 Capricorn 12 Rx
Mars:01 Capricorn 44
Jupiter:06 Pisces 03
Saturn:14 Aquarius 53
Uranus:10 Taurus 51
Neptune:21 Pisces 17
Pluto:26 Capricorn 47
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 13
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 10 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):21 Gemini 20
Chiron:09 Aries 05
Ceres:28 Taurus 27
Pallas:23 Pisces 51
Juno:27 Capricorn 36
Vesta:08 Capricorn 19
Eris:23 Aries 42

Fire:2
Earth:10
Air:3
Water:4
Cardinal:8
Fixed:7
Mutable:4

Northeastern Hemisphere

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

26 January 2022
03:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:06 Aquarius 38
Moon:20 Scorpio 13
Mercury:29 Capricorn 25 Rx
Venus:11 Capricorn 14 Rx
Mars:01 Capricorn 31
Jupiter:05 Pisces 59
Saturn:14 Aquarius 51
Uranus:10 Taurus 51
Neptune:21 Pisces 16
Pluto:26 Capricorn 47
True Lunar Node:29 Taurus 12
Mean Lunar Node:28 Taurus 10 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):21 Gemini 18
Chiron:09 Aries 05
Ceres:28 Taurus 25
Pallas:23 Pisces 46
Juno:27 Capricorn 29
Vesta:08 Capricorn 09
Eris:23 Aries 42
Fire:2
Earth:10
Air:3
Water:4
Cardinal:8
Fixed:7
Mutable:4

Binding spell

Binding spells should be used as a last resort, when all else has failed.

Items that you will need in order to perform this spell:

1 picture of the victim or there name on a peace of paper
1 white ribbon

Time: Any

Ritual: Take the white ribbon and wrap it around the picture over and over tighter and tighter until its at its end. While you are wrapping the picture say the following

” I bind you ______ from doing harm against others and harm against yourself””

Say until you have completely wrapped the ribbon around the picture.

The Modern Day Spellbook: A Collection of Spells for the Modern Day Witch
R. Marten,

 

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 26

Stars, Dust, and Gas Near Antares

Image Credit & Copyright: Mario Cogo (Galax Lux)

Explanation: Why is the sky near Antares and Rho Ophiuchi so dusty yet colorful? The colors result from a mixture of objects and processes. Fine dust — illuminated from the front by starlight — produces blue reflection nebulae. Gaseous clouds whose atoms are excited by ultraviolet starlight produce reddish emission nebulae. Backlit dust clouds block starlight and so appear dark. Antares, a red supergiant and one of the brighter stars in the night sky, lights up the yellow-red clouds on the lower right of the featured image. The Rho Ophiuchi star system lies at the center of the blue reflection nebula on the top left. The distant globular cluster of stars M4 is visible above and to the right of Antares. These star clouds are even more colorful than humans can see, emitting light across the electromagnetic spectrum.