Day: October 10, 2023

Some of the Witchcraft/Magickal Correspondence for Wendesday

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Wednesday Source: learningwitchcraft.com

Is associated with Mercury and the colours of Purple, Magenta and Silver.

Wednesday is the best time to deal with such matters as: Wisdom, Healing, Communication, Intelligence, Memory, Education, Correspondence, Phone Calls, Computers, Messages, Students, Merchants, Editing, Writing, Advertising, Signing Contracts, Siblings, Neighbours, Kin, Accounting, Clarks, Critics, Music, Editors, Journalists, Visual Arts, Hiring Employees, Learning Languages, Placing Ads, Visiting Friends, Legal Appointments and Astrology.

Wednesday Source: thewitchandwand.com

Wednesday aligns with the planet Mercury. This day is associated with intellectual pursuits, travel, communication, and memory.

Metal: Mercury

Colors: Orange, Yellow, Periwinkle

Gems and Stones: Aventurine, Moss Agate

Botanicals: Fern, Dill, Sweet Pea, Periwinkle, Eucalyptus, Aspen, Lily, Lavender

Spellwork: Communication, Divination, Luck, Travel, Knowledge, Memory

October 10, 2023 Current Moon Phase and Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

Current Moon 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 Waning Crescent phase. This phase is best viewed just before the sunrise in the western sky. 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. 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 October 2023 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on October 10 has an illumination of 16%. 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 10 the Moon is 25.66 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 Crescent
Illumination: 16%
Moon Age: 25.66 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 405,504.58 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 149,367,857.62 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.

Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

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

 

Northwestern Hemisphere

This local time is in Los Angeles, California, USA

October 10, 2023
11:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:17 Libra 23
Moon:05 Virgo 25
Mercury:10 Libra 32
Venus:01 Virgo 39
Mars:29 Libra 11
Jupiter:13 Taurus 28 Rx
Saturn:01 Pisces 01 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 21 Rx
Neptune:25 Pisces 42 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 54 Rx

True Lunar Node:24 Aries 55 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Aries 13 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):00 Virgo 50

Chiron:17 Aries 42 Rx
Ceres:10 Scorpio 37
Pallas:12 Libra 27
Juno:27 Leo 11
Vesta:05 Cancer 43

Eris:24 Aries 47 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:4
Water:4
Cardinal:10
Fixed:4
Mutable:5

Northern Hemisphere

This local time is in Chicago, Illinois, USA

October 10, 2023
09:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:17 Libra 18
Moon:04 Virgo 26
Mercury:10 Libra 23
Venus:01 Virgo 35
Mars:29 Libra 08
Jupiter:13 Taurus 28 Rx
Saturn:01 Pisces 01 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 21 Rx
Neptune:25 Pisces 42 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 54 Rx

True Lunar Node:24 Aries 55 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Aries 14 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):00 Virgo 49

Chiron:17 Aries 42 Rx
Ceres:10 Scorpio 35
Pallas:12 Libra 24
Juno:27 Leo 09
Vesta:05 Cancer 42

Eris:24 Aries 47 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:4
Water:4
Cardinal:10
Fixed:4
Mutable:5

Northeastern Hemisphere

This local time is in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

10 October 2023
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:17 Libra 00
Moon:00 Virgo 59
Mercury:09 Libra 52
Venus:01 Virgo 19
Mars:28 Libra 56
Jupiter:13 Taurus 30 Rx
Saturn:01 Pisces 02 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 22 Rx
Neptune:25 Pisces 42 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 54 Rx

True Lunar Node:24 Aries 55 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:25 Aries 14 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):00 Virgo 47

Chiron:17 Aries 43 Rx
Ceres:10 Scorpio 28
Pallas:12 Libra 17
Juno:27 Leo 01
Vesta:05 Cancer 40

Eris:24 Aries 47 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:6
Air:4
Water:4
Cardinal:10
Fixed:4
Mutable:5

Lunar Eclipses and Solar Eclipses

The Short Answer:

What is an eclipse?

An eclipse happens when a planet or a moon gets in the way of the Sun’s light. Here on Earth, we can experience two kinds of eclipses: solar eclipses and lunar eclipses.

What’s the difference between a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse?

Solar Eclipse

A solar eclipse happens when the Moon gets in the way of the Sun’s light and casts its shadow on Earth. That means during the day, the Moon moves over the Sun and it gets dark. Isn’t it strange that it gets dark in the middle of the day?

This total eclipse happens about every year and a half somewhere on Earth. A partial eclipse, when the Moon doesn’t completely cover the Sun, happens at least twice a year somewhere on Earth.

But not everyone experiences every solar eclipse. Getting a chance to see a total solar eclipse is rare. The Moon’s shadow on Earth isn’t very big, so only a small portion of places on Earth will see it. You have to be on the sunny side of the planet when it happens. You also have to be in the path of the Moon’s shadow.

On average, the same spot on Earth only gets to see a solar eclipse for a few minutes about every 375 years!

Lunar Eclipse

During a lunar eclipse, Earth gets in the way of the Sun’s light hitting the Moon. That means that during the night, a full moon fades away as Earth’s shadow covers it up.

The Moon can also look reddish because Earth’s atmosphere absorbs the other colors while it bends some sunlight toward the Moon. Sunlight bending through the atmosphere and absorbing other colors is also why sunsets are orange and red.

During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon is shining from all the sunrises and sunsets occurring on Earth!

Why don’t we have a lunar eclipse every month?

You might be wondering why we don’t have a lunar eclipse every month as the Moon orbits Earth. It’s true that the Moon goes around Earth every month, but it doesn’t always get in Earth’s shadow. The Moon’s path around Earth is tilted compared to Earth’s orbit around the Sun. The Moon can be behind Earth but still get hit by light from the Sun.

Because they don’t happen every month, a lunar eclipse is a special event. Unlike solar eclipses, lots of people get to see each lunar eclipse. If you live on the nighttime half of Earth when the eclipse happens, you’ll be able to see it.

Remembering the Difference

It’s easy to get these two types of eclipses mixed up. An easy way to remember the difference is in the name. The name tells you what gets darker when the eclipse happens. In a solar eclipse, the Sun gets darker. In a lunar eclipse, the Moon gets darker.

Source: spaceplace.nasa.gov

October 14, 2023 New York, New York, USA Annular Eclipse

Global Event: Annular Solar Eclipse
Local Type: Partial Solar Eclipse in New York, New York
Begins: Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 12:08 pm
Maximum: Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 1:22 pm 0.348 Magnitude
Ends: Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 2:36 pm
Duration: 2 hours, 27 minutes

All times shown on this page are local time.

October 14, 2023 Annular Eclipse Bogota, Colombia

Global Event: Annular Solar Eclipse
Local Type: Partial Solar Eclipse, in Bogota
Begins: Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 11:48 am
Maximum: Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 1:36 pm 0.926 Magnitude
Ends: Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 3:15 pm
Duration: 3 hours, 27 minutes

All times shown on this page are local time.

October 14, 2023 Annular Eclipse Johannesburg, South Africa

Global Event: Partial Lunar Eclipse
Local Type: Partial Lunar Eclipse, in Johannesburg
Begins: Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 8:01 pm
Maximum: Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 10:14 pm 0.122 Magnitude
Ends: Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 12:26 am
Duration: 4 hours, 25 minutes

All times shown on this page are local time.