Author: ladyoftheabyss

The Balance of the Signs & the Elements for May 28th

 

 

The Balance of the Signs & the Elements for May 28th

 

GEMINI STRONG
Agile, versatile, inquisitive, flowing, conversational, airy, many ideas. Can be volatile, superficial, changeable, restless and inconsistent.
LIBRA STRONG
Even-handed, harmonious, artistic, diplomatic, balancing, strong sense of fairness. Can be over- compromising, appeasing, judgmental.

EARTH WEAK
There can be a lack of desire, interest, or skills regarding practical affairs. We may not be very much in touch with reality. Difficulties concentrating, grounding ourselves.
AIR STRONG
We tend to favor rational, objective thought over emotions, impulses, and feelings at this time. We are more intellectual, fair-minded, and logical in our approach, Ideas flow easily and quickly, we are more communicative and guided by principles, and also somewhat dispassionate or impersonal.

FIXED WEAK
We may be open to change but may not have much follow-through.
MUTABLE STRONG
We are flexible, adaptable, willing, open to change, and possibly flighty or nervous.

Astrology of Today for May 28, 2015

 

 

Astrology of Today – May 28, 2015


Summary:

There can be a nice flow of ideas today, and useful connections can be made. Later today, retrograde Mercury and Neptune close in on a square, pointing to some confusion or misreading of signals.

The Moon is in Libra all day (until Saturday, May 30th, at 5:33 AM).
The Moon is waxing and in its First Quarter phase.
Mercury is retrograde. (Mercury is retrograde from May 18 to June 11 in the sign of Gemini).

Current Moon Phase for May 28th – Waxing Gibbous

May 28
Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 75%

The Moon today is in a Waxing Gibbous phase. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts round 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon. During a Waxing Gibbous the moon will rise in the east in mid-afternoon and will be high in the eastern sky at sunset. The moon is then visible though most of the night sky setting a few hour before sunrise. The word Gibbous first appeared in the 14th century and has it’s roots in the Latin word “gibbosus” meaning humpbacked.

Phase Details for – Thursday, May 28, 2015

Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 75%
Moon Age: 9.86 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 404,464.57 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,613,819.17 km

The Witches Magick for the 28th Day of the Hare Moon – Waxing Moon Abundance Prayer

Cosmic WebWAXING MOON ABUNDANCE PRAYER

Go outdoors when the moon rises. Merge with the divine, look up to the moon, and say this prayer for abundance:
Bright magnificent lady of the night
Thank you for your all providing light
Please bless my life with divine abundance
And share your bright love, riches, and joy
May I have faith that you will guide me
And help me to thrive, grow, and prosper
Bright powerful goddess of the night
Thank you for your all providing light
In the Lady’s name, blessed be!

Each time you see the moon for a few nights, weeks, or even months, look up and say to her:
Thank you bright lady for your all providing light.

Wiccan Spell A Night: Spells, Charms, And Potions For The Whole Year
Sirona Knight

witchWOTC Extra – Charging and Empowering Components

witchCHARGING AND EMPOWERING COMPONENTS

There are a few basic steps you can take in order to ensure quality, and to fine-tune how you handle the energy of your components. Whatever ingredients or components you use in a spell, make sure to cleanse or clear them of any previous influence or energy hanging around, then empower them with your desire or purpose. It is called empowering or charging. If you don’t do this, you’re not energizing the components to act in accordance with your spell; it’s like a badly plugged-in electrical cord. You’re not being energy-efficient, and your spell won’t be using the power as well as it could.

There are several different methods to empower or activate the energy of your ingredients. Words used in spellbooks include enchant, empower, program, bless, charge, and consecrate. Different practitioners have different techniques to empower components, but it can be quite simple. Here are two methods by which you can charge spell ingredients.

Charging Technique #1
Hold the ingredient in your hand, or hold your hands over the ingredient. Close your eyes and take three deep breaths, releasing tension or stress with each exhalation. Reach deep inside yourself to the core of your heart and feel your need or desire. Allow your emotion concerning this desire to flow up from your heart and down your arms to your hands, and from there into the ingredient. Continue until you feel that the energy of the ingredient resonates with your desire.

Charging Technique #2
This technique clears any previous energy hanging around your components which might interfere with your new purpose. Hold your hands over your ingredients. Take three deep breaths, releasing tension and stress with each exhalation. Say:

I ask the great love of the cosmos,
The light of the universe,
To cleanse and charge these components
That they may be prepared and consecrated
To ensure my success.
Bless these ingredients, and bless my goal.
These are my words, this is my will.

By empowering your components, you are programming them to act in accord with your intent and goal.

When you charge an ingredient, use only as much as you need in the spell. If the component is an herb, this is likely to be a pinch or a spoonful, no more. Empowering your entire jar of mint for prosperity means that you can’t use it for healing later on. In other words, it’s a waste. Take only as much out as you intend to use, and keep the rest in an airtight jar. The only components you can really cleanse and reuse are objects such as stones, statues, boxes, and so forth, and even then it depends on your chosen method of spell disposal once your goal has been met. Sometimes it’s more appropriate to bury the object, or burn it, or some similar action.

Power Spellcraft For Life: The Art Of Crafting And Casting For Positive Change
Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Let’s Talk Witch – The Components of Magick

A Witch and Her CastleThe Components of Magick

A spell can technically be cast with three things: a goal, stemming from a need or desire; focus and visualization; and a gathering and release of energy toward that goal. However, just as the use of props facilitates drama and theater, spellcasting benefits from the addition of energy-rich ingredients to enhance the effects and results. These ingredients are also called components, and they possess specific corresponding energies that you can use to help achieve your goal. The system of correspondences is a classification of objects, entities, and energies, which affect one another or evoke certain outcomes.

The system of correspondences arises from a sympathetic association: by using components or ingredients that demonstrate a certain kind of energy, you can attract more of the same energy, thus illustrating the “like attracts like” principle.

Conversely, by using components possessing one kind of energy, you can push away the antithetical energy, like using a magnet to repel another magnet with the same polarity, for example. (For more examinations of magical methods. A correspondence is an identification of what an object’s energy represents: for example, a correspondence for sandalwood is purification. Thus, if you were creating an incense to help power a purification spell, you might choose to use sandalwood in it. Using sandalwood enables you to draw on the energy of the wood to help power your spell; since sandalwood is associated with purification, it also employs the sympathetic magic principle and draws your goal closer to you.

Components are the elements you use in the act of spellcasting to help gather energies associated with your goal. Looking through other spellbooks, you’ve likely noticed spells calling for a variety of components such as herbs, flowers, stones, incense, oils, candles, dolls (also called poppets), cords, and other objects. Some spells have elaborate lists of ingredients. However, a perfectly good, powerful spell can be performed with a comparatively short list of components. More components are not necessarily better. Remember, it’s how you use the energy of your correspondences that increases the power of your spellcasting, not how many correspondences and associated energies you can plug into it. It’s definitely an issue of quality over quantity.

Power Spellcraft For Life: The Art Of Crafting And Casting For Positive Change
Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Home & Hearth Magick for Thursday, May 28th

THE MAGIC EYE *Home & Hearth Magick for Thursday, May 28th

Thursday increase prosperity on this day, work toward expansion and moving up in the world.

Planetary Influences: Jupiter

Household Symbols: A dollar bill, coins, a paycheck stub, a picture of your home.

Color: Green and royal blue

Kitchen Spices: Sage and nutmeg

Source:
Cottage Witchery
Natural Magick for Hearth and Home
Author Ellen Dugan

CUSTOM-MADE DAILY MAGICK FOR THURSDAY

~Wicca~CUSTOM-MADE DAILY MAGICK FOR THURSDAY

Well, let’s see … abundance, prosperity, and good health has been our focus for this day. Now how about a little more information and ideas for working practical magick with one of our fascinating featured deities of the day?

Juno was the Queen of Heaven. As the matriarch of the gods, she guarded over women in every aspect of their lives. Juno was thought to have renewed her virginity every year. Similar to other goddess stories, Juno was a triple goddess-a virgin who belonged to no one; a mother and woman in the prime of her life, sexual and mature; and also a crone, powerful, wise, and sometimes vengeful (as she made her husband’s many mistresses’ lives either fairly unhappy or short).

There are references to an early all-female triad of goddesses known as the Capitoline Triad. This triad consisted of Juventas, Juno, and Minerva. To the Greeks, they would have been known as Hebe, Hera, and Hecate. Ultimately the triad became Juno, Minerva, and the male Jupiter. Jupiter, another of Thursday’s gods, was Juno’s consort.

As mentioned earlier, Juno, in her aspect as Juno Moneta, was the patron and protector of the Roman mint. The coins produced at her temples were blessed by Juno and imbued with her powers of abundance and prosperity. In another of her aspects as Juno Augusta, Juno was the goddess of an abundant harvest.

In addition, another of Juno’s magickal correspondences is the semiprecious stone malachite. Malachite is a beautiful green-banded stone that was also called the “peacock stone” in Italy. The peacock was a sacred animal of Juno’s, and the magickal energies of malachite encourage health and prosperity.

Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

The Witches Correspondences for Thursday, May 28th

WitchThe Witches Correspondences for Thursday, May 28th

Thursday (Thor’s day)

Planet: Jupiter

Colors: Purple, Deep Blue

Crystals: Amethyst, Lepidolite, Sugilite, Tin

Aroma: Melissa, Clove, Oakmoss, Jupiter Oil, Cinnamon, Musk, Nutmeg, and Sage

Herb: Cinquefoil

Ruled by the planet Jupiter and dedicated to Thor, god of thunder and agricultural work. His parallels in various European Traditions include Zeus, Taranis, Perun, and Perkunas.

Magical aspects: controlled optimism, energetic growth, physical well-being, material success, expansion, money/wealth, prosperity, leadership, and generosity.

Thursday is the day of Jupiter, the largest of the planets and said to be the most powerful. Spellcasters would be wise to use this day for attempting wealth, success and prosperity spells.

Thursday is also associated (in Greek mythology) to Thor – Thor’s day – and some even say that Jupiter and Thor are one in the same. Both are strong and powerful, yet wise and just. Try a small prayer to Jupiter before commencing any ritual on Thursday as a sign of respect.

This is the proper day of the week to perform spells and rituals involving luck, happiness, health, legal matters, male fertility, treasure, wealth, honour, riches, clothing, money, desires, business, group pursuits, joy, laughter, and expansion

The Witches Almanac for Thursday, May 28th

Witch WiccanThe Witches Almanac for Thursday, May 28th

Thursday (Jupiter): Expansion, money, prosperity, and generosity.

St. Germain’s Day

Waxing Moon
The Waxing Moon is the ideal time for magick to draw things toward you.

Moon phase: Second Quarter

Moon Sign: Libra
Libra: Favors cooperation, social activities, beautification of  surroundings, balance, and partnership.

Incense: Carnation

Color: Green

Thursday’s Witchery

WITCH OF THE CASTLEThursday’s Witchery

 
Today is the day for prosperity work of all kinds. It can also be used for healing work, whether that is a physical healing of an illness or an emotional healing. Also remember that you have to follow up your healing work and prosperity magick and physical action.

 
I can’t tell you the number of times I have met new witches who complain to me that their prosperity spell or “I need a better job” spell did not work as they expected. They’ll ramble on and on about how much time and money they spent working their magick….but, alas, they had no glorious manifestion of wealth or fabulous job that suddenly dropped out of the sky and landed in their laps.

 
Then, when I gently ask them, “Did you enchant your resume or application when you filled it out? Did you do a little confidence-boosting spellwork when you went to apply for the job or went to the interview?” typically they give me a blank, confused stare.

 
Nine times out of ten, their response is, “You mean I have to go out and actually look for the job too?” Um, yes, my dear, you certainly do. Magick follows the path of least resistance, which means it’s going to manifest along the simplest, quickest route. Get out there and hit the pavement. See what you can find. Times are tough and competition for good jobs is fierce, so you need whatever edge you can get. For folks like us, we’re going to get the edge by using our magick and our spellcraft.

 
Thursdays have such a rich source of magick for us to draw upon that, honestly, the sky is the limit. This is the day associated with the gods of the sky and heavens, after all. Get to know these deities and add their wisdom and magick into your days

 
Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

Thursday’s Must Dos

BLESSED BEThursday’s Must Dos

 

Try wearing some honeysuckle-scented perfume to encourage prosperity. Bewitch someone by wearing deep royal blue or brighten up a dreary day by wearing lucky, prosperity-drawing green. Brew up a pot of mint tea to help increase your cash flow. Try adding a pinch of nutmeg or cinnamon to an unscented candle to encourage some fast cash. Bake up a loaf of wheat bread for the family, and celebrate abundance and be thankful for all that you have.

 
Conjure up a witchy craft and create a philter or two for your magickal needs. Work with the deities and the magickal plants corresponding with Thursday.

 
How did the energies of the plants of Jupiter enhance your magick? What did you learn by working with Juno, Jove, or Zeus? The truth is that by adding these new techniques and information into your spellcasting repertoire, you will indeed advance your skills, thereby moving up in the ranks to become a more adept magickal practitioner

 
Just by believing in yourself and working toward creating abundance, health, and prosperity, you have already begun to transform your outlook on life. Put your game face on; think positively. Work with Thor for perseverance and courage, and apply those qualities to your own prosperity spells and healing witchery. Break out the tarot cards; How could you incorporate that symbolism into other spells of your own design?

 
Use your imagination, check Thursday’s correspondence list, and see what other bewitching things you can conjure up for prosperity magick all by yourself. Call on the gods and goddess of Thursday and bring some positive change, abundance, health, and prosperity into your life!

 
Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

Thursday

wiccaThursday


Thursday: Is associated with Jupiter and the colors of – Blue and Metallic Colors

 
Thursday is the best time to deal with such matters as: Broadcasting, Business, Charity, College Education, Correspondence Courses, Doctors, Expansion, Forecasting, Foreign Interests, Gambling, Growth, Guardians, Horses, Logic, Long Distance Travel, Luck, Material Wealth, Merchants, Philosophy , Political Power, Psychologists, Publicity, Publishing, Reading, Religion, Researching, Self-improvement, Social Matters, Sports, Studying, and The Law

 
Practical Magick for the Penny Pinching Witch
Carol Moyer

“GOOD MORNING, WOTC!” Wishing You A Very Blessed & Glorious Thursday!

A Beautiful Witch & Her Black CatMy Pagan Heart

My wicked self is always near,
The body that you sometimes fear,
It is a fact of life you know,
That Witches don’t convert, this is so –
We love what we do and won’t give it up, no matter what the situation,
We work our Magick and yell ‘head’s up!’
We wait and see how it will turn out,
When lust is in the air, and spirits move about.
Even though I know it scares you at times,
When all of my prayers are spoken in rhymes,
And when my love shoots a painful dart,
You will know that it’s me, and my Pagan heart.
Your smile is gentle, your words without care,
So you can imagine that I’m hurt by your stare,
When you look at me with fear in your eyes,
Clouded by the inaccurate lies,
That have been told since the ‘Burning Times’,
When we were evil with Satan in our lives.
So I struggle to tell you the truth,
It’s my very first job as a Witchcraft Sleuth,
Now let me love you, like I’ve wanted to from the start,
With nothing but me, and my Pagan heart.
I feel that I’ve known you since the beginning of time,
And loved you even before my crime,
Of letting you go, and turning you out,
But your safety is something I’ll always care about.
Now I hope I’ve explained all of my evil ways,
And your fear of the unknown has vanished, in the haze,
So you can begin to know the truth,
About my adventures as a Witchcraft Sleuth,
And you will understand, like I’ve wanted from the start,
That I am and always will be, a Pagan at heart.

Author: Carol
Website: Pagan Heart

Basic Circle Casting From The Gypsy Path

This Ritual is a Circle Casting which calls upon the Gypsy Spirits to make a powerful circle!

  • Wand-Air
    ?
  • Athame-Fire
    ?
  • Cup-Water
    ?
  • Rock-Earth
    ?
  • Angel Status-Spirit
    ?
  • Black Candle- Nyx
    ?
  • Dark Blue Candle-Erebus

Hold up wand and Chant:

I call the Gypsy Elemental Spirit which comes from
the East. In the name of the Ancient Gypsy Spirit, I
call Air to my Ancient Circle, May it be cast

Hold up Athame and Chant:

?call the Gypsy Elemental Spirit which comes from
the South. In the name of the Ancient Gypsy Spirit, I
call Fire to my Ancient Circle. May it be cast.

Hold up cup and Chant:
I call the Gypsy Elemental Spirit which comes from
the West. In the name of the Ancient Gypsy Spirit, I
call Water to my Ancient Circle. May it be cast.

Hold up Rock and Chant:

I call the Gypsy Elemental Spirit which comes from
the North. In the name of the Ancient Gypsy Spirit, I
call Earth to my Ancient Circle. May it be cast

Hold up Angel Statue and Chant:
I call the Gypsy Element which is in every living
thing. In the name of Nyx and Erebus, I call spirit
to my Ancient Circle, May it be cast.
Hold your hand over black candle and chant:
I call the great Gypsy Goddess of my Chose,
The Mother of the Night, and The one which
stands with the Father, I call Nyx to my Circle,
May it be Cast

Light the Black candle, Then Place your hand over the Dark Blue Candle, and Chant:
I call the great Gypsy God of my Chose,
The Father of the Darkness, and The one which
stands with the Father, I call Erebus to my Ancient
circle, May it be Cast.

The Shuvani then proclaims loudly: Hail Nyx and Erebus, Blessed Be

This article was contributed by Gypsy Witchcraft.

FROM: http://www.spellsofmagic.com/coven_ritual.html?ritual=1826&coven=246

A Binding Spell

While this spell may sound gentle for a binding spell it will work and with the way it is worded the person casting it does not have to be concerned with bad things coming back on them. Always remember The Threefold Law when writing a spell or perform a ritual.

Burn or get rid of anything the person you are binding may have given you or a family member when at all possible before performing the spell. If you are doing the spell in a ritual the items may be disposed of them if you are burning them.

In the first, third, sixth, and eighth blanks fill in the person’s full name you wish to bind. In the second, fourth, fifth and seventh blanks fill in your name and all family members, you want covered in this spell. If a person is a junior or second or has some or some other suffix to their name be sure to add it.

In the second, fourth, fifth and seventh blanks fill in your name and all family members, you want covered in this spell. If a person is a junior or second or has some or some other suffix to their name be sure to add it.

I ask the universe to help _______ to find meaning, happiness, joy, peace and love in (his or her) life.

I ask these things fill her life so she no longer causes tension and strife in __________

As this is done with no harm intended to _______I ask she find excitement in her and her families lives

So he or she stays out of  _________ , their immediate and extended family’s lives.

I cast a shadow to cloak _________ extended and immediate family, whenever _____tries to pry into any of our lives.
The entire ______ family, want _______ out of their lives today, tomorrow and forever more

As I will it So mote it be!

Copyright 2015 Lady Beltane

‘THINK on THESE THINGS’ for May 26th

‘THINK on THESE THINGS’
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler

It has become increasingly noticeable how the power grab has reached even the lower levels of living. It is a right thing for us to try to raise ourselves. To fail to try would earmark us for failure….and yet up the shaky ladder of success climb, so many bodies without spirits, so little understanding of what is ahead….and often less of what is past.

If we could only realize our power comes not from grasping the coattails of others, but from a higher source that knows the way….that places before us the right steps, the correct manner, the much needed wisdom and inspiration.

Why is it that when all this guidance is available to us, we let the littleness of our souls hold us back, believing all the time that any forward motion is because we have learned how to twist situations to our own avail.

How sad the lot of those who discover all the rungs on their ladder are on the same level. “Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads,” wrote Caleb Colton. “No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.”

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Available online! ‘Cherokee Feast of Days’
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler.

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Elder’s Meditation of the Day
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Elder’s Meditation of the Day – May 26

Elder’s Meditation of the Day – May 26

“The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.”

–Luther Standing Bear, OGLALA SIOUX

There is a concept that says you move toward and become that which you think about. If we think about everything as interconnected and interrelated, we will begin to accept the greater whole and that there is a power who is in charge. If we see the cycles of life, if we see the inner powers, if we see the interdependence of the universe, then we will participate in a harmonious way. We all need to pray and meditate on this. We need to understand the property of unity.

My Creator, let me have the insights of nature and give me the power of acceptance.

May 26 – Daily Feast

May 26 – Daily Feast

Little children should be allowed to imagine, to let their minds run ahead to things that can be and things that never were. The imagination lets us see beyond the actual outline of things as they are. A mind freed of bias can detect times and times ahead. Go back and recapture the imagination you never allowed to develop. Give it the freedom to examine your motives, your feelings, your heart. It will reveal joys and purposes and realign things gone wrong. There is no drab space in the imagination, no tears, and no losses – for that is the purpose of imagination, to remove and heal and let go.

~ The roots of a plant go down deep, and the deeper they go the more moisture they find. ~

SHOOTER – TETON SIOUX

“A Cherokee Feast of Days, Volume II” by Joyce Sequichie Hifler

The Daily Motivator for May 26th – Life is amazing

Life is amazing

Stop for a moment and consider how wondrous life is. Remind yourself that despite all the pains and challenges, problems and frustrations, life is amazing.

Life is amazing, and the possibilities for expressing its beauty and magnificence are endless. You could come up with dozens of new ways to experience life each day, and never run out.

Make it your business to do that. You have life, which itself is amazing, and you have this day, so take it upon yourself to put something new and valuable into it.

You don’t have to make headlines to have a rich and fascinating life. There are plenty of opportunities in each seemingly ordinary day to add extraordinary substance to your world.

It all starts with reminding yourself what a wondrous and amazing thing your life is. Feel the possibilities that come with every breath, and live with a constant sense of real gratitude.

Life is amazing, and you have it right now to live in your own unique way. Feel the magnitude of opportunity that is yours, and make the very most of it.

— Ralph Marston

Source:
The Daily Motivator