Day: July 19, 2023

Some Humor for Your Day

And that’s why I never argue with my wife.

Wife : Don’t forget to pick up kids from school.
Me : It’s Saturday, they’re both upstairs.
Wife : It’s Wednesday and we’ve three kids.

Happy Wednesday! I hope the rest of your week goes well!

July 19, 2023 Moon’s Current Phase, Northern and Southern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

Moon’s Current Phase

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 Waxing Crescent Phase. Best seen in the west after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. This is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. The moon is close to the sun in the sky and mostly dark except for the right edge of the moon which becomes brighter as the days get closer to the next phase which is a First Quarter with a 50% illumination.

Visit the July 2023 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Crescent Phase

The Waxing Crescent on July 19 has an illumination of 3%. 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 July 19 the Moon is 1.56 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: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 3%
Moon Age: 1.56 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 405,371.49 km
Sun Angle: 0.52
Sun Distance: 152,023,055.62 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

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.

If you need to calculate the planetary positions in either hemisphere you can use this for a specific use and time in your local time zone, 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 

Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

Northwestern Hemisphere

This local time is in Los Angeles, California, USA

July 09, 2023
11:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:17 Cancer 29
Moon:16 Aries 00
Mercury:27 Cancer 35
Venus:25 Leo 36
Mars:29 Leo 41
Jupiter:10 Taurus 46
Saturn:06 Pisces 49 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 04
Neptune:27 Pisces 40 Rx
Pluto:29 Capricorn 25 Rx

True Lunar Node:00 Taurus 48 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:00 Taurus 09 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):20 Leo 26

Chiron:19 Aries 53
Ceres:05 Libra 07
Pallas:29 Leo 51
Juno:09 Cancer 56
Vesta:07 Gemini 04

Eris:25 Aries 15

Fire:7
Earth:5
Air:2
Water:5
Cardinal:8
Fixed:8
Mutable:3

Northern Hemisphere

This local time is in Chicago, Illinois, USA

July 19, 2023
09:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Cancer 57
Moon:20 Leo 02
Mercury:15 Leo 57
Venus:28 Leo 25
Mars:05 Virgo 44
Jupiter:12 Taurus 13
Saturn:06 Pisces 24 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 25
Neptune:27 Pisces 35 Rx
Pluto:29 Capricorn 11 Rx

True Lunar Node:29 Aries 33 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Aries 37 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):21 Leo 33

Chiron:19 Aries 57
Ceres:08 Libra 16
Pallas:04 Virgo 23
Juno:15 Cancer 27
Vesta:11 Gemini 00

Eris:25 Aries 16

Fire:8
Earth:5
Air:2
Water:4
Cardinal:8
Fixed:6
Mutable:5

Northeastern Hemisphere

This local time is in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

19 July 2023
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Cancer 40
Moon:16 Leo 34
Mercury:15 Leo 27
Venus:28 Leo 22
Mars:05 Virgo 34
Jupiter:12 Taurus 11
Saturn:06 Pisces 24 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 24
Neptune:27 Pisces 36 Rx
Pluto:29 Capricorn 11 Rx

True Lunar Node:29 Aries 36 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Aries 38 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):21 Leo 31

Chiron:19 Aries 57
Ceres:08 Libra 11
Pallas:04 Virgo 15
Juno:15 Cancer 18
Vesta:10 Gemini 53

Eris:25 Aries 16

Fire:8
Earth:5
Air:2
Water:4
Cardinal:8
Fixed:6
Mutable:5

Southern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

Southeastern Hemisphere

This local time is in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

19 July 2023
07:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Cancer 52
Moon:19 Leo 02
Mercury:15 Leo 49
Venus:28 Leo 24
Mars:05 Virgo 41
Jupiter:12 Taurus 12
Saturn:06 Pisces 24 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 25
Neptune:27 Pisces 35 Rx
Pluto:29 Capricorn 11 Rx

True Lunar Node:29 Aries 34 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Aries 37 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):21 Leo 32

Chiron:19 Aries 57
Ceres:08 Libra 15
Pallas:04 Virgo 20
Juno:15 Cancer 25
Vesta:10 Gemini 58

Eris:25 Aries 16

Fire:8
Earth:5
Air:2
Water:4
Cardinal:8
Fixed:6
Mutable:5

Southern Hemisphere

This local time is in Cape Town, South Africa

19 July 2023
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Cancer 40
Moon:16 Leo 34
Mercury:15 Leo 27
Venus:28 Leo 22
Mars:05 Virgo 34
Jupiter:12 Taurus 11
Saturn:06 Pisces 24 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 24
Neptune:27 Pisces 36 Rx
Pluto:29 Capricorn 11 Rx

True Lunar Node:29 Aries 36 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Aries 38 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):21 Leo 31

Chiron:19 Aries 57
Ceres:08 Libra 11
Pallas:04 Virgo 15
Juno:15 Cancer 18
Vesta:10 Gemini 53

Eris:25 Aries 16

Fire:8
Earth:5
Air:2
Water:4
Cardinal:8
Fixed:6
Mutable:5

Southwestern Hemisphere

This local time is in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

19 July 2023
06:00 am GMT 4:00 PM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Cancer 21
Moon:12 Leo 36
Mercury:14 Leo 53
Venus:28 Leo 20
Mars:05 Virgo 21
Jupiter:12 Taurus 08
Saturn:06 Pisces 25 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 24
Neptune:27 Pisces 36 Rx
Pluto:29 Capricorn 12 Rx

True Lunar Node:29 Aries 41 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Aries 39 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):21 Leo 28

Chiron:19 Aries 57
Ceres:08 Libra 04
Pallas:04 Virgo 05
Juno:15 Cancer 07
Vesta:10 Gemini 45

Eris:25 Aries 16

Fire:8
Earth:5
Air:2
Water:4
Cardinal:8
Fixed:6
Mutable:5

How Witchcraft Works c. 2014

How Witchcraft Works

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Maybe you’ve read all of the Harry Potter books and watched every episode of Charmed or Bewitched, so you think you know what witches are all about. Modern witches don’t exactly fit most of the TV and movie characters you’ve seen, however.

Are they good? Are they evil? Do they cast spells to cause bad things to happen?

The true definition of a witch, as well as the history of witches in general, is widely debated. Many texts describe witchcraft as pacts with the Devil in exchange for powers to do evil and harm others. While this may have some truth in certain sects, for most modern-day witches it is quite far from their actual beliefs and practices.

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In this article, we’ll delve into the mysterious and hidden world of the modern witch, muddle through some of the witch’s disputed history, find out why Halloween is a big night for them and take a peek into some of their rituals.

Belief in magic and witchcraft has been around since the beginning of time. Early man paid tribute to the gods and goddesses that ruled his world and brought healthy crops and mild winters. The idea of magic came about when things weren’t so good: It grew from the chaos that accompanied bad weather, sickness and shortages of food. When times were bad, shamans, medicine people, witches and other types of sorcerers would cast spells and perform rituals to harness the power of the gods. Harnessing this power had mixed results: Witches, who were primarily women, were originally seen as wise healers who could both nurture and destroy; this belief in their power, however, eventually led to fear, and this often forced witches to live as outcasts. In the next section, we’ll learn about the persecution of witches.

Official Witchcraft

Roman law distinguished between good magic and bad magic. While bad magic (with the exception of murder) was punished with a fine, jail or banishment, good magic (which was healing and divination) was officially sanctioned by Roman law.

Source: howstuffworks

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