Day: May 16, 2024
Dedication to the Goddess
Dedication to the Goddess
The Goddess brings us no more or less than we
are to her
She is the power for us to find ourselves
She is the light that guides our ways
She is the hand that extends when we are lost
She finds our heart and soul
For she knows what we hide
She bears all for us
For she is Mother and we are child
—A Witch’s Prayerbook
JoAnne Spiese
Spell For Thursday – Fig Potion for Prosperity and Success
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Fig Potion for Prosperity and Success
This potion is a delicious combination of spices and figs that has a rich purple color and an amazing cinnamon, cardamom scent mixed with the delicate tones of earthy, fresh figs.
You can use this potion drizzled on top of foods such as muffins, pancakes, berries, yogurt, and meats like ham and chicken. You can also add it to cocktails and mocktails for a light, spiced earthy drink with a vivid pink color.
I love making this potion in the fall, during the time of Mabon because figs are in season and it is a harvest festival of abundance.
ITEMS NEEDED
½ cup whole fresh figs
2 whole cloves
1 small cinnamon stick
½ cup sugar
½ cup water
¼ tsp cardamom ground
¼ tsp nutmeg
¼ tsp vanilla
STEPS
1. Slice the figs
2. Combine all the ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer for and simmer for 20 minutes, until the syrup has darkened and thickened.
3. Remove from heat and strain to remove the fig pieces and cinnamon stick
4. Let the syrup cool and use it drizzled on foods or in drinks. Recite the incantation below when you eat the syrup and focus on bringing in prosperity and success. (see below for a delicious cocktail using this fig syrup)
*Refrigerate the syrup to keep it for later. It will last about 1-2 weeks
Fig Cocktail Recipe:
Add ice to a glass and then add 1 part fig syrup, 1 part gin (or gingerale for a mocktail), top with club soda or tonic water, and add a squeeze of lemon
Some of the Witchcraft/Magickal Correspondence for Thursday
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Thursday Source: awithintime.weebly.com
Thursday- Ruled by Jupiter. Good luck, wealth, healing, male fertility, legal matters.
Day – Thursday
Planet – Jupiter
Sign – Sagittarius, Pisces
Angel – Sachiel
Color – Purple, Green, Royal Blue
Plant – Cinnamon, Beech, Buttercup, coltsfoot, oak
Stone – Sugilite, amethyst, turquoise, lapis lazuli, sapphire
Intention – Business, logic, gambling, social matters, political power, material wealth
Element – Fire, water
More Qualities – expansion, luck, success, higher education, the law, career, finances, wealth, publishing, college education, long distance travel, foreign interests, religion, philosophy, forecasting, broadcasting, publicity, expansion, luck, growth, sports, horses, the law, doctors, guardians, merchants, psychologists, charity, correspondences courses, self-improvement, researching, reading, studying
Thursday Source: thewitchandwand.com
Thursday is also known as “Thor’s Day” in honor of the god Thor. This is a day of prosperity, abundance, and good health.
Metal: Tin
Colors: Blue, Purple, Turquoise
Gems and Stones: Turquoise, Sapphire, Lapis Lazuli, Amethyst
Botanicals: Saffron, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Pine, Clove, Sage, Cinquefoil
Spellwork: Wealth, Health, Strength, Prosperity
May 16 and 17, 2024 Current Moon Phase for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
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.
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.
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
Source: MoonGiant.com
Northern Hemisphere
May 16, 2024
The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Gibbous phase. Visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon. This September Full Moon will be the forth and final supermoon of 2023.
During a Waxing Gibbous the moon rises in the east in mid-afternoon and is high in the eastern sky at sunset. The word Gibbous first appeared in the 14th century and has its roots in the Latin word “gibbosus” meaning humpbacked.
Visit the May 2024 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.
Today’s Waxing Gibbous Phase
The Waxing Gibbous on May 16 has an illumination of 59%. 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 May 16 the Moon is 8.28 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 Gibbous
Illumination: 59%
Moon Age: 8.28 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 404,361.13 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,297,924.39 km
Illumination: 59%
Moon Age: 8.28 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 404,361.13 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,297,924.39 km
Southern Hemisphere
17 May 2024
The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Gibbous phase. Visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon. This September Full Moon will be the forth and final supermoon of 2023.
During a Waxing Gibbous the moon rises in the east in mid-afternoon and is high in the eastern sky at sunset. The word Gibbous first appeared in the 14th century and has its roots in the Latin word “gibbosus” meaning humpbacked.
Visit the May 2024 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.
Today’s Waxing Gibbous Phase
The Waxing Gibbous on May 17 has an illumination of 69%. 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 May 17 the Moon is 9.17 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 Gibbous
Illumination: 69%
Moon Age: 9.17 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 405,370.96 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,328,884.92 km
Illumination: 69%
Moon Age: 9.17 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 405,370.96 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,328,884.92 km
Divination Journal
All topics drawn or picked by Lady Carla Beltane but information is from the website in the hyperlink.
Tarot Card
Source: TarotX
Four of Water
The explanation of Four of Water Osho Zen Tarot
The woman in Four of Water Osho Zen Tarot is showing a soft smile on her face. In fact, she was just observing what the mind was doing; not judging, not trying to stop nor analyzing them. She only saw them as passersby, like a ripple on the lake. And the antics of the mind are always hilarious, they keep jumping up and down, twisting in many ways, trying to attract attention and entice us into the game.
Being able to develop abilities in creating a distance from the mind is one of the great favors. Those are the things we do when we meditate, chant, or repeat an affirmation, but we only look at it, as if they belong to someone else’s mind. Right now, you are ready to create this distance, to watch the show without getting caught up in the drama. Let’s immerse yourself in the simple freedom of Turning In whenever possible and knack of meditation will develop and deepen in you.
The energy of Four of Water Osho Zen Tarot based on Osho’s teachings
Turning inwards is not a turning at all. Going inwards is not a going at all. Turning inwards simply means that you have been running after this desire and that, and you have been running and running and you have been coming again and again to frustration.
That each desire brings misery, that there is no fulfillment through desire. That you never reach anywhere, that contentment is impossible.
Seeing this truth, that running after desires takes you nowhere, you stop. Not that you make any effort to stop. If you make any effort to stop it is again running, in a subtle way. You are still desiring–maybe now it is desirelessness that you desire. If you are making an effort to go in, you are still going out. Any effort can only take you out, outwards.
All journeys are outward journeys, there is no inward journey. How can you journey inwards? You are already there, there is no point in going. When going stops, journeying disappears; when desiring is no more clouding your mind, you are in. This is called turning in. But it is not a turning at all, it is simply not going out.
Websites Source: Osho, This Very Body The Buddha, Chapter 9.
Animal Spirit Guide or Helper
Runes
Sourec: therunesite.com
Faihu/Fe
Sound: “f”
Stands for: Well being
Casting meaning: This is a rune of prosperity, well-being, and fruitfulness. It represents the Mother Goddess as preserver and nurturer as well as the mythical cow Audhumla. It symbolizes the abundance gained through power, as well as the power itself.
Witch’s Rune
Source: groveandgrotto.com
The Crossed Spears (Mabon)
Opposite viewpoints. Conflict, arguments, negativity. A stalemate or pause in action. In readings, “probably not.”
Druid Ogham
Source: druidogham.wordpress.com
Quiert
Delight, respite, celebration
Tree: Apple (Malus spp.)
Letter: Q
The apple is an ancient symbol of bounty, harmony, and completion. True to symbolism, Quiert indicates a time of well-deserved rest, or at least that you deserve rest even if you are unable to have enough of it. Constant activity goes against the flow of nature. Our society, which seeks to progress at an ever-faster pace until the human race metastasizes across the universe, has got it all wrong. Slowing down is the appropriate action in many cases, for instance after a period of activity or at the culmination of a big project.
There is great delight in the smallest periods of rest, whether that means taking the time to thank the person at the restaurant for making your sandwich (just because you paid for it with money does not mean verbal gratitude goes unappreciated) or to give a firm, polite “no” when someone deliberately or unwittingly threatens your peace of mind by asking too much of you. Quiert speaks of the sweetness of small human gestures and petite graces. Without them, civilization wouldn’t be quite so civilized, nor would it be as worthy of holding together.
Quiert might also indicate a longer resting/healing time for you or for someone else, or that rest is needed. Quiert says, “Don’t forget to stop and smell the roses. Observe. Live in the moment instead of always planning for the perfect future or reliving the past.” It is a marker of gratitude in general, and the slowness required to fully sense the world around us.
I Ching
Source: IChingOnline.net
Hexagram 61
Chung Fu / Inner Truth
The gentle Wind ripples the Lake’s surface:
The Superior Person finds common ground between points of contention, wearing away rigid perspectives that would lead to fatal error.
Pigs and fishes.
You may cross to the far shore.
Great fortune if you stay on course.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
The subject of this hexagram discovers a key to Tranquility by first gaining insight into his own nature, then turning that vision outward.
By resolving inner conflicts and being at peace with himself, he learns to gain insight into others.
In effect, he enters another, sees with the other’s eyes, listens with the other’s ears, feels with the other’s heart.
He then returns to his own center, with new perspective and understanding.
Numerology
Source: Kasamba.com
Zero
Number 0 is the mother of existence. Everything comes from this void, this inexplicable, dark, eternal womb. Nobody has 0 as their life path or destiny number – this number is the number of the Universe itself. We are all children of 0.
Angel Number
Source: angel-numbers.com
Double Zero
Number 00 means emphasized message, Angels and Higher Powers ask for your attention. Open your eyes, listen and think about everything that’s happening. Trust your intuition and follow their guidance without any delay.
Witchcraft Symbol
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