Day: March 31, 2022

March 31, 2022 Daily Horoscopes Digest

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Moon Alert

After 5:45 AM EDT today (2:45 AM PDT) there are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The New Moon is in Aries at 11:24 PM PDT.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

This New Moon is in Aries, which makes this the best time of year for you to take a realistic look in the mirror, and ask yourself how you can improve the impression you create on your world. How can you improve your appearance? Ideas?

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

The New Moon today is in a hidden part of your chart, which means you will have a heightened interest in the hidden meaning of things and mysterious, subjects like the occult, paranormal activity, spiritual explorations and things that go bump in the night.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Each New Moon is a chance to make resolutions. This New Moon is all about friendships for your sign. Are you a good friend to others? Would you want to have you as a friend? If you want more friends – be friendly! Hang out with quality people because your friends will influence your future.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

Once a year, the New Moon takes place at the top of your chart. That time has arrived! It’s the perfect opportunity to give serious thought to your long-term direction in life. Are you headed where you want to go? Do you want to go somewhere different?

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

This New Moon is your perfect opportunity to think about what further education you can get to boost your chances in your job or your life enjoyment. Also consider how you might travel and explore more of the world to enrich your life.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

This current New Moon is a great chance to clean up loose details and paperwork regarding taxes, debt, inheritances and insurance issues. You might negotiate a new arrangement about shared property or how to deal with your responsibilities for someone else.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

This is the only New Moon all year opposite your sign, which means it’s the best time to think how to improve your relations with spouses, business partners or close friends. For your own benefit, you must be as good for your partner as he or she is for you.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

This New Moon is a great chance to think how you can get better organized and be more efficient in everything you do – your work, your job, your hobbies, your home and your pursuit of knowledge. Crank it up a notch!

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Once a year the New Moon is in a playful part of your chart urging you to create a healthy balance between work and play in your life. We are a work-oriented society. Some countries enjoy two-hour lunches with a siesta! Explore your creative talents.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Each New Moon is an opportunity to make resolutions. This New Moon is your chance to think how you can improve your home and where you live, as well as how you can improve your family relationships. These things matter.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

This is the perfect day to explore how you can improve your everyday communications with others. This is the opportunity the New Moon brings you. Are you a clear communicator? Do you listen to others? Or are you simply waiting for your turn to speak?

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

Today’s New Moon is a wonderful chance to think about your values and what really matters to you in life. It’s important to know this so that you don’t put your money on the wrong horse. You have to know what is important to you.

If Your Birthday Is Today

Film director Chloe Zhao (1982) shares your birthday today. You have a quirky humour that makes you likable. You have a fine, discriminating mind plus major creative talent. You are always genuine and down to earth. This year is the last year for you of a nine-year cycle, which means it is appropriate to downsize and let go of what is no longer relevant in your life.

March 31, 2022 Current Moon Phase Digest

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

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on March 31 has an illumination of 1%. 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 March 31 the Moon is 28.75 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: 1%
Moon Age: 28.75 days
Moon Angle: 0.52
Moon Distance: 384,201.05 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 149,476,792.88 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

March 31, 2022 Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions Digest

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

Currentplanetarypositions.com

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

For Your Local Time and Date

Northwestern Hemisphere

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

March 31, 2022
11:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:11 Aries 12
Moon:07 Aries 27
Mercury:09 Aries 07
Venus:25 Aquarius 02
Mars:19 Aquarius 18
Jupiter:21 Pisces 17
Saturn:22 Aquarius 02
Uranus:12 Taurus 53
Neptune:23 Pisces 34
Pluto:28 Capricorn 24
True Lunar Node:23 Taurus 07 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:24 Taurus 46 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):28 Gemini 27
Chiron:12 Aries 17
Ceres:13 Gemini 14
Pallas:17 Aries 33
Juno:22 Aquarius 46
Vesta:09 Aquarius 52
Eris:24 Aries 12
Fire:6
Earth:4
Air:7
Water:2
Cardinal:7
Fixed:8
Mutable:4

 

Northern Hemisphere

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

March 31, 2022
09:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:11 Aries 07
Moon:06 Aries 21
Mercury:08 Aries 57
Venus:24 Aquarius 57
Mars:19 Aquarius 14
Jupiter:21 Pisces 16
Saturn:22 Aquarius 02
Uranus:12 Taurus 53
Neptune:23 Pisces 34
Pluto:28 Capricorn 24
True Lunar Node:23 Taurus 07 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:24 Taurus 46 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):28 Gemini 26
Chiron:12 Aries 17
Ceres:13 Gemini 12
Pallas:17 Aries 31
Juno:22 Aquarius 44
Vesta:09 Aquarius 50
Eris:24 Aries 11
Fire:6
Earth:4
Air:7
Water:2
Cardinal:7
Fixed:8
Mutable:4

Northeastern Hemisphere

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

31 March 2022
03:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:10 Aries 53
Moon:03 Aries 03
Mercury:08 Aries 27
Venus:24 Aquarius 41
Mars:19 Aquarius 03
Jupiter:21 Pisces 13
Saturn:22 Aquarius 00
Uranus:12 Taurus 52
Neptune:23 Pisces 33
Pluto:28 Capricorn 24
True Lunar Node:23 Taurus 09 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:24 Taurus 47 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):28 Gemini 25
Chiron:12 Aries 16
Ceres:13 Gemini 07
Pallas:17 Aries 25
Juno:22 Aquarius 38
Vesta:09 Aquarius 43
Eris:24 Aries 11
Fire:6
Earth:4
Air:7
Water:2
Cardinal:7
Fixed:8
Mutable:4

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Wheel of the Year

 

The Wheel of the Year is a symbol of the eight Sabbats (religious festivals) of Neo-Paganism and the Wicca movement which includes four solar festivals (Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Fall Equinox) and four seasonal festivals (celebrating or marking a significant seasonal change). Contrary to modern-day Wiccan claims, there is no evidence of an ancient Wheel of the Year in its present form but it is clear that the Celts of thousands of years ago celebrated the festivals the wheel highlights, even if these celebrations were known by another name now long lost.

In the ancient Celtic culture, as in many of the past, time was seen as cyclical. The seasons changed, people died, but nothing was ever finally lost because everything returned again – in one way or another – in a repeating natural cycle. Although time in the modern world is usually regarded as linear, the cyclical nature of life continues to be recognized.

The modern-day Wheel of the Year was first suggested by the scholar and mythologist Jacob Grimm (1785-1863 CE) in his 1835 CE work, Teutonic Mythology, and fixed in its present form in the 1950s and early ’60s CE by the Wicca movement. The wheel includes the following holy days (most dates flexible year-to-year): …

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Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic today

Most perfume ads suggest that the right scent can make you sexy, alluring and successful. A blend by Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs, meanwhile, offers to make you smell like Hecate, the three-faced Greek goddess of witchcraft.

As a classics scholar who studies both magic and the senses in the ancient world, this idea of a witch-inspired perfume fascinates me – and “Hecate” is just one of many magic-inspired fragrances available today.

What does a witch smell like, and why would you deliberately perfume yourself like one?

Smells are impossible to see or touch, yet they affect us emotionally and even physically. That’s similar to how many people think of magic, and cultures around the world have connected the two. My current research is focused on how magic and scent were linked in ancient Rome and Greece, ideas that continue to shape views of witches in the West today.

Greeks and Romans of all walks of life believed in magic and used spells ranging from curses to healing magic and garden charms. Magical handbooks from the time show that Greco-Egyptian magicians used fragrance extensively in their rituals, even scented inks, and …

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