The Witches Digest for Friday, September 8th

As we begin this day, I would ask you to remember our brothers & sisters in Florida and Texas. Keep them all in your thoughts & prayers in the days ahead.

We will be bright and fierce
Like the flame that burns
In the candle hot
We will be strong and grounded
Like the tumbled stone
That once was earth
We will be flexible and resilient
Like the water that flows
Always to return
We will be the essence of potential
Like the seed that waits
And grows when needed
We will endure
We will survive
We will triumph
And rise like the Phoenix
At the dawn of another day
With the help of the Gods
And our own determination
We will endure
And rise like the Phoenix.

So Mote It Be

—Everyday Witch A to Z Spellbook: Wonderfully Witchy Blessings, Charms & Spells
Deborah Blake

Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Friday, September 8th

The Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 95.84° E
Sun Altitude: 16.78°
Sun Distance: 93.639 million mi
Next Equinox: Sep 22, 2017 3:01 pm (Autumnal)
Sunrise Today: 6:31 am↑ 82° East
Sunset Today: 7:12 pm↑ 277° West
Length of Daylight: 12 hours, 41 minutes

The Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 265.38° W
Moon Altitude: 8.35°
Moon Distance: 234092 mi
Next New Moon: Sep 20, 201712:29 am
Next Full Moon: Oct 5, 20171:40 pm
Next Moonset: Today8:48 am
Current Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 94.0%

Lunar Calendar
Moon Phase Tonight: Waning Gibbous
Third Quarter: Sep 13, 2017 at 1:24 am
(Next Phase)
Full Moon: Sep 6, 2017 at 2:02 am
(Previous Phase)

Source

timeanddate.com

Your Astrology for Friday, September 8th

The Moon is in Aries.
The Moon is waning and in its Full phase.
The Full Moon occurred on the 6th in the sign of Pisces, and the Last Quarter Moon will occur on September 13th.
Mercury is in its post-retrograde shadow until September 19th.

Moon in Aries

We’re motivated by a strong desire to start fresh. A gut instinct to start something new is with us now, as well as the gumption to do so. Our pioneering impulses are strong, and we feel energetic, spontaneous, and enthusiastic. We may also be tactless and impulsive now. Excess energy is best channeled into physical activity.

The Moon in Aries generally favors the following activities: Quick actions that yield immediate results. Undertakings that involve the self and the personality. (Staying power may be lacking). Self-assertion, taking on challenges, beginning short-term projects.

The Sky This Week for September 8 to 10

An asteroid passing by Earth, Neptune at peak visibility, and other amazing things to look for in the sky this week.

Friday, September 8

Although Saturn reached opposition nearly three months ago, it remains a tempting target in the evening sky. The ringed world stands some 25° high in the south-southwest as twilight fades to darkness and doesn’t dip below the horizon until midnight local daylight time. Saturn shines at magnitude 0.4 against the backdrop of southern Ophiuchus, a constellation whose brightest star glows six times fainter than the planet. When viewed through a telescope, Saturn’s globe measures 17″ across while its spectacular ring system spans 38″ and tilts 27° to our line of sight.

Saturday, September 9

The constellations Ursa Major the Great Bear and Cassiopeia the Queen lie on opposite sides of the North Celestial Pole, so they appear to pivot around the North Star (Polaris) throughout the course of the night and the year. In late August and early September, these two constellations appear equally high as darkness falls. You can find Ursa Major and its prominent asterism, the Big Dipper, about 30° above the northwestern horizon. Cassiopeia’s familiar W-shape, which currently lies on its side, appears the same height above the northeastern horizon. As the night progresses, Cassiopeia climbs above Polaris while the Big Dipper swings below.

Sunday, September 10

A week ago, Mercury was a binocular object low in the east during morning twilight. It now appears much more conspicuous — shining at magnitude –0.1 and climbing 10° high 30 minutes before sunrise. This morning, the innermost planet passes 0.6° due south of the 1st-magnitude star Regulus, while ruddy Mars stands 3° to the pair’s lower left. All three objects show up nicely in a single binocular field.

Source

Astronomy Magazine

Just When You Thought We Were Through Talking About the Eclipse of 2017…..

Donate your used eclipse glasses!

by Nicole Kiefert

Maybe you were one of the people scrambling at the last minute to find eclipse glasses for the Great American Eclipse on August 21, or maybe you were prepared and preordered your glasses.

But now that the eclipse has come and gone, are you wondering what to do with that coveted protective eyewear?

An eclipse is coming to South America and Asia in 2019 and now Astronomers Without Borders, along with their corporate partner Explore Scientific, is collecting those used eclipse glasses to donate to schools so children can safely view the eclipse.

Every pair of glasses donated will be inspected thoroughly to make sure they are not damaged or fake and meet safety certifications.

To find out more about the donations and where you can send them, visit the Astronomers Without Borders website.

Source

Astronomy Magazine

Today Is Friday, September 8th

Friday is the day of Venus. It takes it name from Frigg, the Goddess of love and transformation. She rules the spiritual side of a person that manifests in the physical. Because of this, Friday is often thought of as dangerously unpredictable. This is expressed in an old East Anglian adage:

Friday’s day will have its trick
The fairest or foulest day of the week.

Deity: Frigg

Zodiac Sign: Taurus/Libra

Planet: Venus

Tree: Apple

Herb: Vervain

Stone: Sapphire/Chrsolite

Animal: Bull/Serpent

Element: Earth

Color: Yellow/Violet

Number: 7

Rune: Peorth(P)

Celtic Tree Month of Muin (Vine) September 2 – September 29

Runic Half-Month of Rad (August 29 – September 12)

Goddess of the Month of Mala (September 6 – October 2)

Reference

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

On Friday, September 8th, We Honor the Goddess Iris

Iris

The Rainbow Goddess

Areas of Influence: Iris Goddess of the rainbow and messenger to the Gods.

As Goddess of the rainbow she joined the human realm to the place of the Gods. She restored calm and balance to the forces of nature after a storm.

She was the handmaiden to Hera and served nectar to the Gods.

She was one of the few Olympians who was able to travel to the underworld. Where It was the rainbow Goddesses job to collect for the swearing solemn oaths.

This Goddess had no specific myths of her own or temples dedicated to her.

Origins and Genealogy: Her father was the Titan Thaumas and her mother was Electra.

The cruel and fearsome Harpies were her sisters.

In some myths she is said to be the mother of the God Eros.

Strengths: Faithful, loyal and a shape – shifter.

Weaknesses: Defined by her role in life. No distant personality

Symbolism

Often depicted as a winged Goddess, holding a pitcher full of nectar.

The Rainbow is her main symbol.

Sacred Plant: The flower the Iris was named after her.

Iris’s Archetypes

The Servant:

A Servant is paid to look after other people, performing their menial tasks.

This role can be chosen or enforced as circumstances and issues of self-worth prevent the servant from having the same status as the master.

Shadow Servant fails to be of service to herself. She has no sense of her own powers and abilities, becoming a slave to the social system.

The Greek Goddess of the rainbow was a faithful servant to her mistress Hera and the other Olympian Gods.

The Shape shifter

The Shape Shifter has the ability to change her physical appearance. They are also able to adapt easily to different environments by altering there behaviour.

Shadow Shape Shifter is fickle, lacking conviction and constantly reinventing themselves, like politicians to appeal to more people.

This Goddess uses her ability to Shape Shift when she delivers messages, turning into the image of the sender.

Source

Goddess-Guide.com

Friday’s Conjuring

Friday – is associated with Venus

Candle colors – Green, Red, Blue, White, Purple

Spellwork for the Day: Love, Marriage, Money, Attraction, Luck, Healing, Prosperity, Change, Road Opening work, Bring Peace, Relationships, Power and Success

—Old Style Conjure Wisdoms, Workings and Remedies

Starr Casas

The Magickal Day of Friday

Friday falls at the end of the work week for many of us, and that means we get a chance to relax for a little bit! Mark your Fridays with colors like pink and aqua, and metals such as copper. This is a day ruled by the planet Venus, so it should be no surprise that Venus and Aphrodite – goddesses of love and beauty – are associated with Fridays. This is a day named for the Norse goddess Freyja, so be sure to take a moment to honor her as well.

Gemstones associated with Friday include coral, emerald and rose quartz, and plants like strawberries, apple blossoms and feverfew are also related. This is a good day to do spellwork associated with family life and fertility, sexuality, harmony, friendship, growth. Take advantage of Friday’s correspondences and plant a seed, make something grow, and enjoy your blessings

*Note: There are a lot of disputes as to the origins of the word Friday, because there is still a great deal of discussion as to whether it was named for Freyja or Frigga, and whether they were the same deity or two separate ones. Some scholars believe that while they may have eventually become two distinctly different goddesses, they could have had their origins in a single, common Proto-Germanic deity.

Author

Patti Wigington, Paganism/Wicca Expert
Article published on & owned by ThoughtCo

The Witches Guide to Friday

Ruler: Freya, Venus

Colors: Emerald green or pink

Power Hours: Sunrise and the 8th, 16th, and 24th hours following.

Key Words: Love, money, health

It is easy to spot the ruler of this day by its name. In the word Friday, we see the roots of the name of the Norse goddess Freya, a goddess of love and fertility, and the most beautiful and propitious of the goddesses thus the verse “Friday’s child is loving and giving.”

In Spanish this day of the week is called Viernes and is derived from the goddess Venus. Matters of love, human interaction, the fluidity of communication, sewing and the creation of artistic garments, household improvement, shopping, and party planning all fall under the aspects of Friday and its ruling planet, Venus.

Friday’s angels are Ariel/Uriel, Rachiel, and Sachiel. Rachiel also concerns himself with human sexuality and is a presiding spirit of the planet Venus.

On Fridays, the hour of sunrise and every eight hours after that are also ruled by Venus, and that makes these times of the day doubly blessed. These four hours are the strongest four hours for conducting ritual.

Check the local newspaper, astrological calendar, or almanac to determine your local sunrise.

Source

Gypsy Magic

Friday’s Witchery

Love magick is a perennial popular topic. However, there is more to this topic than meets the eye. There are many enchanting layers here for us to explore on this day of the week. What about creating a loving home, or producing a loving and nurturing family? What about keeping your intimate relationships vital and on track? How about promoting happy, healthy, and enduring friendships? See, there is more to be considered than just the “You shall be mine…” type of fictional love spell.

Don’t forget that many of the deities associated with Fridays are also parents. So, yes, while this is the day to work on romance, sex, and love spells, there is additional magick to be considered here, which makes Fridays a more well-rounded and bigger opportunity for witchery than many folks ever truly realize. The truest, strongest magick always comes from the heart.

Source

Book of Witchery – Spells, Charms & Correspondences For Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan,

Magickal Applications for Friday

Fridays are days of loving enchantments and passionate emotions.

See how many ways you could add a little loving enchantment into your life and the lives of your loved ones. If you wish to explore the topic of love and romance witchery even further, then check out my book How to Enchant a Man: Spells to Bewitch, Bedazzle &Beguile. If cat magick has tickled your fancy, then for further study read my book The Enchanted Cat: Feline Fascinations, Spells &Magick.

In the meantime, try sharing red berries with your partner some enchanted evening. Work that meditation, and see what other mysteries Freya has to teach you. Wear a Venus planetary color and call on the Goddess for a little inner sparkle. Burn some floral incense, light up some rosy candles, and set a romantic mood. Try wearing a little copper jewelry, and see how it affects you and your Friday magick. Get those potpourri and philter recipes going, and see what you can conjure up.

Advancing your magickal skills takes drive, ambition, and passion. Work with Eros to discover just how much enthusiasm, inspiration, and drive he can bring into your days, for the imagination is a place where dreams flourish and ideas come to fruition.

Call on these fertile and romantic powers, and create your own unique spells and charms. Just think of all the magickal information that you can now add to your repertoire of witchery. Lastly, remember this: when you combine imagination and a loving heart with magick, you’ll succeed every time.

Source

Book of Witchery – Spells, Charms & Correspondences For Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

The Witches Almanac for Friday, September 8th

International Literacy Day

Waning Moon

Moon Phase: Third Quarter

Moon Sign: Aries

Incense: Orchid

Color: Coral

Waning Moon Protection Charm

Items needed:
One tsp. each patchouli, sandalwood, and clove, an incense brazier, self-igniting charcoal, and a small white stone inscribed with the following protection sigil

When the moon is no longer visible, place a piece of charcoal in your brazier and light it. Mix the herbs together and sprinkle them over the glowing coal. As the mixture begins to burn, pass the stone through the smoke, as you chant:

Within this stone I pass my plight,
Banished forever From this night.

Take the stone to the nearest body of moving water. Toss the stone in and walk away.

FRIDAY CORRESPONDENCES

Venus/Water/East/West/South/Dawn/Female/Libra/Taurus

Magickal Intentions: Love, Romance, Marriage, Sexual Matters, Physical Beauty, Friendship and Partnerships, Strangers, Heart

Color: aqua, blue, light blue, brown, green, pale green, magenta, peach, pink, rose, white, all pastels

Number: 5, 6

Metal: copper

Charm: green or white garments, scepter

Stone: alexandrite, amethyst, coral, diamond, emerald, jade, jet, black moonstone, peridot, smoky quartz, tiger’s-eye, pink tourmaline

Animal: camel, dove, elephant, goat, horse, pigeon, sparrow

Plant: apple, birch, cherry, clematis, clove, coriander, heather, hemlock, hibiscus, ivy, lotus, moss, myrtle, oats, pepperwort, peppermint, pinecone, quince, raspberry, rose, pink rose, red rose, rose hips, saffron, sage, savin, stephanotis, strawberry, thyme, vanilla, verbena, violet, water lily, yarrow, and all flowers

Incense: ambergris, camphor, mace, musk, myrrh, rose, saffron, sage, sandalwood, sweetgrass, vanilla, violet, all floral scents

Goddess: Aphrodite, Asherah, Baalith, Brigid, Erzulie, Freya (Passionate Queen), Frigg, Gefion, Harbor (Beautiful One), Hestia, Inanna, Ishtar (Lady of Passion and Desire), Lakshmi, Lilith, Mokosh, Nehalennia, Nerthus, Ostara, Pombagira, Sarasvati, Shakti, Shekinah, Sirtur, Al Uzza, Venus (Queen of Pleasure), Vesta

God: Allah, Bacchus, Bes, Cupid, the Dagda, Dionysus, El, Eros (God of Love), Freyr, Frit Ailek, Shukra

Evocation: Agrat Bat Mahalat, Anael, Hagiel, Mokosba, Rasbid, Sachiel, Uriel, Velas

Source

Moonlight Musings

Friday Is Ruled By Venus

Friday belongs to Venus, both the planet and its namesake Roman goddess of love. This day is sacred to many other gods and goddesses of love such as Eros, Venus, Aphrodite, and the Norse goddess that gave the day its name, Freya. This day of the week is for magical topics such as love, birth, fertility, and romance. Colors for today include pink and aqua.

Some suggestions for Friday enchantments would include:

Carrying a rose quartz with you today to send out some gentle and loving vibes to those crabby co-workers

Working a loving Tarot spell to charm a friend’s pregnancy with good health and safety

Working a little flower magic to enchant a single pink rose for friendship and inner beauty, and setting it on your desk. Or try empowering a red rose for passion and placing it in your bedroom

Burning rose-scented candles to encourage the same effect. Call on Eros to “bring a passion for life” to your days.

Sharing a romantic snack with your partner. Feed each other ripe, red strawberries. Those strawberries are love-inducing food, and are sacred to many love goddesses, including today’s patroness, Freya.

Planetary Correspondences of Venus

Symbols Mirror, girdle, shell
Deity Venus, Aphrodite, Ishtar, Lakshmi, Bast
Archangel Anael
Day Friday
Colors Green, turquoise, luminescent greenish white
Number Seven
Metal Copper Stone Emerald, jade, lapis lazuli, chrysocolla, coral Incense Rose, lilac, violet
Plants Rose, iris, orchid, orris, passion flower, vanilla Trees Apple, cherry, avocado, fig
Animals Lynx, cat, rabbit, dove, sparrow

Venus is the epitome of the feminine mystique, the queen of love and beauty. Venus offers what others cannot, the quality of simple abundance. All of nature responds to Venus and the pleasures she affords. Passion, peace, affection, money, success, and friendships all come under the rule of Venus. Use Venus to arouse the passions of a loved one, create a peaceful environment, acquire money, become successful, and gain new friendships.

The Triple Goddesses – Hecate

The triple Goddess can be found in almost all mythologies. She was at once virgin, mother, and crone; the waxing, full, and waning moon. All that was feminine, enchanting, ripe, and wise. One of the most popular triple goddesses was the Greek Hecate, who reigned over heaven, earth, and the underworld, where she controlled birth, life, and death.

To demonstrate her triple nature, Hecate carried three magick symbols, the key, rope, and dagger. The key unlocked the door to the underworld—opening the way to the mysteries and secrets of knowledge and the afterlife. The rope symbolized the umbilical cord of rebirth and renewal—the connection between humanity and the Goddess. The double edged dagger symbolised her power to cut through delusion.

Hecate was the giver of visions, magick, and regeneration, the guardian at the gates of the underworld. As a guardian, she was associated with crossroads and the ability to see beyond death. This is because when you stand at a crossroads, you can view the past from whence you came, as well as the future, your destination.

INVOCATION OF HECATE

(To ask for Hecate’s blessing or help)

Items needed: One large black candle, censer, church charcoal, Hecate incense (three oz. black incense base mixed with one pinch patchouli leaves, one tsp. granulated myrrh, three drops patchouli oil, and three drops jasmine oil), black cloth, altar, chalice of red wine, plate of moon cakes (sugar cookies cut into crescent moons), piece of rope, old fashioned door key, and your athame.

For optimum effectiveness, perform this invocation at a crossroads and as near to midnight as possible. Before the ritual inscribe your name and desire on the black candle. Gather together all the items called for, along with something to serve as an altar, and proceed to the crossroads. Set the altar on top of the crossroads, where all four paths meet.

Arrange the altar with the black candle in the center; the athame front center, the rope right center, the key left center, and the censer center back. Light the charcoal and some incense. Take several deep breaths. Relax. Focus on your desire. When you feel the time is right, light the black candle, pick up the wine and hold it in offering as you invoke Hecate.

Thou who whispers, gentle and strong,
Thou for whom my soul doth long,
By most men you are seldom seen
You are the virgin, mother, and queen.
Through the veil you pass with pride,
I beckon thee now to be at my side, Hecate.

Thou who knows, thou who conceals
Thou who gives birth, thou who feels,
For you are the Goddess and mother of all
Pray thee now— come as I call.
Now through the mist I hear your voice,
I invoke the gracious goddess by choice, Hecate.

Thou who suffers as all men die
Doth with her victim in love lie.
You are the goddess and crone of despair
And with you our ending we must share.
I feel thy passion, I feel thy presence,
I rapture in your vital essence, Hecate.

I pray thee dancer of eternal bliss,
Bestow upon me thy wondrous kiss,
Let now thy light, love, and power
Become as one with me this hour.
For you are the creatress of heaven and Earth
So to my dreams and wishes give birth, Hecate.

Ask for your desire and Hecate’s blessing. Drink some of the wine and eat one of the cakes in her honor. Allow the candle to burn for one hour and then extinguish it. Leave a libation of wine and the rest of the cakes on the crossroads. Pack up all your magickal items and leave the area as you found it.

The Witches Current Moon Phase for September 8th

Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 94%

The Moon today is in a Waning Gibbous Phase. This is the first phase after the Full Moon occurs. It lasts roughly 7 days with the Moon’s illumination growing smaller each day until the Moon becomes a Last Quarter Moon with a illumination of 50%. The average Moon rise for this phase is between 9am and Midnight depending on the age of the phase. The moon rises later and later each night setting after sunrise in the morning. During this phase the Moon can also be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon.

Phase Details for – Friday, September 8, 2017

September 2017 Energy Report

a message from Lisa Transcendence Brown

To view more of Lisa’s insight, please visit her website, Awakening to Remember

Emphasis, Contemplation, REALization, Immense Integration and Increased Reflecting Fractals

September started off showing us what is possible and still existent within. It opened a Gateway for each to SEE and EXPERIENCE the “Result of Consciousness” “faster” now. Continual Convergence has expedited in a magnanimous way.

August was a huge month of integration, a POWERFUL month of activations, veil removal, clearing physical density, re-structuring cellularly & REALities like never before, and this will continue as the constructs of the old crumble, collapse, dissolve, dismantle (intentionally or unconsciously) – INSIDE – for any linear constructs to be replaced with nonlinear, vibrational ones. The more unconscious, the more this appears to happen outside first, while in fact, inside is already doing this and outside is just reflecting this back.

What does this mean? Many things. Mostly that all is vibrational and dictated by feelings, beliefs and thoughts and the only “control” each has, is through inner-connection with/as PURE SOURCE LIGHT and by way of holding PURITY LOVE and UNITY CONSCIOUSNESS as our Core Existence, otherwise there is no “glue” to hold anything together, as the glue is Vibrational ENERGY and deep sacred love and respect now.

Polarities become more vast and extreme, yet how polarity presents is different, based upon the dimension physically occupied. The more unconscious, the more physical all of this is. An unconscious program will play out within a physical reality for as long as there is any energy that keeps it going. The more conscious, the less a physical experience is necessary, because the polarity is visible before the reality is created, therefore, through “Quantum Expanded Consciousness”, it’s never created to materialize or play out. If it does, then each has the opportUNITY to see it/realize it and stop it, immediately, and shift to a much higher vibration within self and with their whole body, to shift to a different timeline, concluding the old one immediately for activating and anchoring a new one in its place.

On a grander scale, the greatest polarity is the vast difference between physical Heaven on Earth and physical Hell on Earth now, as these are polar opposites as well. Deep into “the Rapture” (Ascension is the same thing, just the 5th Dimensional word instead of the fear based 3rd-dimensional word, yet I use it to make a point here). The lower timelines now play out what was inconceivable before, prophesied, spoken of as “what was to come”, providing each an opportUNITY to intentionally choose Physical Body Ascension, which is the Embodiment of each’s Soul and eventually OverSoul/Monad here.

Responsive Physical Realities:

To experience Heaven, each must hold PURITY as a way of existing, continually anchoring photonic light/encodements from within, hold the absolute highest state of consciousness and honor this vast evolutionary process of transitioning from all of the old unconscious matrix programs/programmings to RETURN to an existence that is PURE. NEW Earth Heaven becomes visible differently along the way. First in dreams and visions, then holographically, then in all things physical…. for vibrational density-shifting processes are intricate ones, where every molecule, cell and particle of our StarDust/Earthly/Heavenly Bodies are completely re-worked/re-coded, de-densified and raised vibrationally through cosmic photonic frequencies bombarding daily so that each can fully become Conscious to REMEMBER again. Placing responsibility on anything outside for how any of this came to be created is an unconscious program as well.

Separation/Duality plays out in Extremes:

Heaven or Hell, awesome or not awesome, intense or immense, suffering or ease, hard or easy, aligned or non-aligned, flow or complicated, begin with mindsets and beliefs. Each now resides in their own Universe/Galaxy, connected through “like-vibrations” (collectives). Each must choose to EXIST AS LOVE and stop playing in the old games of unconsciousness again for the extremes to diminish. These extremes are the balancing of polarities within. You/we are returning to existences forgotten, as each holds realities in place according to NEW EARTH ENERGIES and no longer compromises or supports the old anymore. Realizations, in the beginning, are mind-blowing and beyond challenging, because a complete reversal of all unconsciousness is required.

August was a precursor

Emphasis: All will show you where your focus (energy) has been, where you place importance and how what you place your importance on creates your physical reality here. With the emphasis shifting to UNITY/CHRISTED CONSCIOUSNESS in very big ways, anything “not this” will become more visible/play out for you to see this and choose to shift vibrationally/expand your consciousness yourself. Many expansions are “spontaneous” for awhile and your human won’t understand, try to go to fear/control/resist or “label” this as something else….

Contemplation: Observe and decide what represents Heaven or Hell in your own reality world. Opening your heart/mind fully will allow you to sit with all and process easier, for new understandings/clarity to come through. Your physical reality is not going to be like you thought it was “supposed to be”. Unconscious Earth was realities built on fake, pretend, selfishness, not caring, not respecting, not coming together, not sharing and perceptions that you were alone/the only one, which could not be furthest from the truth. Yes, it will be all up to you, to decide, because as long as you are avoiding, trying to “not do” what your higher self/Universe is trying to show you, trying to “not listen” to what you know is “right”, holding out for yourself, not willing to come together, then you will suffer, for separation from your own SOURCE YOU is what creates your suffering here. The physical is not what you “think” it is….

FOCUS on what inspires, supports, unifies and creates/anchors highest consciousness new. Shift your focus off of attachment to others/things,  realize what you already have access to, the gifts you have/are, the gifts that you took for-granted, the opportunities that you turn down because they don’t fit into your “way of thinking” or what you “thought” reality was supposed to look like. Connect DEEP on a SOUL Level with all that you come into contact with. No more hiding, fake, BS, pretending…. everything is visible vibrationally… hiding is from yourself.

Expand your heart & mind, open completely up. Observe where you still hold resistance to ease and keep struggling inside with what challenges your human. This is a huge sign that provides you with the opportUNITY to dissolve resistance easily, for the Light of your Soul to integrate within you easier.

Love, Respect & No More BS: You, your body, each other. Kindness. Consideration. Support each other. Get over your chit. Move through things, process those emotions, get them out of your body, so that you can return to peace and love and to activate more Heaven New Earth to come forth faster again.

See your own divisiveness, see your own stuff. Stop judging, as this will keep you spinning in a loop cycle until you get tired/done.

Bring those walls down yourself. Dissolve anything you’ve still got going on. See the patterns in your own reality, your habits…

SEE what needs to be resolved, returned and merged back into/through UNITY CONSCIOUSNESS LOVE in order to shift into a vibrational timeline of Our NEW Earth now.

Continual REALizations occur by observing all through our hearts/higher mind consciousness and the depths of our Soul. Much contemplation is necessary when observing and realizing that a choice must be made …. to keep struggling to hang onto/keep the old or move on/let it go to be ready for the next awesome thing that’s been waiting for you.

When you realize that you are ready to be free, you will start to treat yourself with love and respect. As you do this, you gain the capacity to do this for all around you. Loving you comes first. Kindness for you comes first. Respecting you comes first. THEN you can share this love, this kindness, this self-respect through your FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS….

You are creating a new way of being and doing things. You are creating all new realities. You are anchoring realities through light. They come to fruition as you integrate this light within you and express it, share it, transmit it through your BEing and DOing… in everything that you are & do.

Dreams and Ideas: These higher realm “visions” and thoughts are your new realities floating around in your ethers (field) just waiting for you to grab them and do something with them. Your alchemist and you as a Divine Mother/Father will give birth, nurture and grow/raise these creations (your babies/Divine Children) to release them out into the ethers, out into the world, out into the hearts and souls of all that they touch to inspire, awaken and assist as love too. These dreams & ideas are important, yet cannot be ifyou continue to sit in fear, keep minimizing yourself, wasting what you already have, keep talking yourself out of all, keep making excuses for why you cannot yet. Your dreams are ACTIVATED as you open up, as you believe, as you dedicate your time/energy/money/reSOURCEs/things to bring these things into PHYSICAL REALITY here.

You/WE are the one that opens/closes portals: These abound in every moment, yet your human is not ready, makes excuses, turns all away. Everything just floats around in your field until you expand your consciousness into all to activate it as an actual reality here. There are many things that cannot come to fruition until all the pieces & parts have occurred. Sacred Geometrics are made up of pieces and parts. When you do the first piece, the next piece activates. When you do that one, the next one does… each piece you do/activate, creates a bigger part of the picture, the bigger piece of the puzzle until every piece has been activated/done. Each part comes together (converges) in the physical, as you achieve the vibration inside for materialization to occur. If you are not doing any of the “pieces” then the whole picture cannot come together for you. The whole reality is like this. Every piece of reality is constructed as you activate/DO it. Realities are constructed geometrically, by way of Quantum Creation, where each thing creates the whole. A reality is this. The conclusion/conversion of all of the pieces. Change the vibration of the piece, the picture/reality changes. This is how vibrational realities work. The ENERGY that you CREATE WITH dictates the vibrational reality that takes form. Your Quantum Energy transmits across all dimensions/timelines to activate ENTIRE REALITIES. Your ability to expand your own consciousness gives you the ability to “look across dimensional timelines” (galaxies/universes) and activate realities at will. You do this vibrationally, through your own abilities that you gain as you transcend unconsciousness from within. Where you are not ready yet, where you let your limited human dictate, then those portals/doors/opportUNITIES can close and you’ll have to wait until you achieve the vibration fully before another portal/door/gateway opens back up. You can also close portals yourself, as you see that things cannot fully align. You can close out realities that no longer serve highest purposes and represent an old timeline that’s collapsed because something was not ready…. and what this is, shifts/changes in every moment when we exist as Quantum BEings. (Humans don’t do well with this, as they want to “think” first. Here, there is no “thinking”. There is observing, seeing, knowing & doing. This collapses timelines instantly as we do!

Our Heaven on Earth will change all along the way. What brings us joy, happiness, peace and inspires will be different as we step further into fulfilling our own Soul’s Purposes/Galactic Missions while enriching all of our own lives by RECEIVING in RESPONSE to how much we are willing to do whatever is necessary to anchor our highest timelines in the physical here. Once we have achieved “that”, then that will be easy and the next thing will become our focus. Stepping stones, building blocks of a whole new “future” (vibrational reality)… from within this ZERO POINT FIELD NOW here.

Immense Instant Integration is required for ease “after” to occur. This ultra-high frequency light (waves & particles) will re-code the DNA of your body & your physical reality (yes your Physical Reality has DNA too). Integration is challenging to our human aspect, yet our bodies require this to function with greater ease, to continually ascend in the physical and clear the dense/unconscious programs held deep within our physical body structures keeping us from experiencing our highest timeline and purest existences together here.

The rest of 2017 (and into 2018) is dedicated to anchoring these unity frequencies & new timelines in. Gauge all based upon higher consciousness awareness, instead of lower consciousness judgments, re-actions, limits and fixed beliefs. Listen to your feelings, keep opening up fully to communicate, to support, to share, to step-up and into those shoes that allow you to walk on NEW Earth with greater ease. Embrace what you might not understand yet, yet somewhere inside already know. Release those things you held onto out of fear, cut those cords of attachment, let go of expectations, making promises or committing to things you can’t fulfill, as the way you feel & what you see continually changes here. Your capabilities will also change constantly, as your Universal Body works very different than your human body did. Let go of the need to save, protect and convince anyone else of anything (because it’s you, you are trying to convince). Let go of what other’s think/say, for this is their reality, not yours unless you take it on as your own/have an emotional reaction. REALize that a higher dimensional reality means you are going to do the INNER WORK and whatever contributes in the physical, you are going to have to do this too. Understand that you will receive VIBRATIONALLY, non-linearly, however, is appropriate as a RESPONSE TO ALL OF THE VIBRATIONS you are transmitting out continually and that if everything you hold/be/do is fully aligned, then the reality you receive will be too!

Get ready for more magic, see all not love and intentionally shift this yourself. Maintaining your Ascended Christed/God/Source Self means that your reality is always aligned, and where it is not, you decide what is appropriate in each moment based upon the presence of love, which often means standing in your POWER and saying “not acceptable” and letting all outside resolve itself/go figure it out (often somewhere else). This is YOUR reality…. September is to anchor more of your highest everything here… for all of us… it takes us all…. REMEMBER… ♥

I love you! Happy September… this powerful Equinox Gateway is another huge transition for us all! ♥

Lisa Transcendence Brown ☼

Calming Renewal, A Time of Inspiration and Empowerment – September 2017

a message from Emmanuel Dagher

To read more of Emmanuel’s insight, please visit his website, Emmanuel Dagher

My friend,

It’s a blessing for me to connect with you this way every month. Your presence is helping to raise the consciousness of the planet, and for that and so much more, I am grateful.

We have much to catch up on, so let’s get right to it.

What an eventful summer it has been! So many internal and external shifts have taken place in our lives and in the world over the past three months.

For many empaths, these shifts felt like being in the high spin cycle of a washing machine, especially with everything coming at us in such a scattered way.

Focused and Inspired

Over the next few weeks, the scattered energies will alchemize themselves into a more focused energy.

This focused energy will help to stimulate inner feelings of empowerment, passion, and inspiration, which will help get things moving again in our lives in a way that feels productive and progressive.

These focused energies will awaken something within us that have long been dormant.

The image that keeps coming up is that of a golden lioness/lion that has been fully awakened from a deep sleep.

The physical feeling that keeps coming up is passion in every cell and fiber of the body.

A big part of this new, focused energy has to do with the effects of the two eclipses that we moved through recently, in addition to Saturn going direct at the end of August, after being in retrograde since April 6.

Add Mercury going direct on September 5 to this celestial cocktail mix, and we find that a new inner flame is being lit.

That inner flame will help us move past any stagnancy rooted in victim consciousness, supporting our return to our powerful, majestic selves. From there, we can move forward with greater joy, intention, and ease.

Something to note: During a Saturn retrograde, we are given the opportunity to renegotiate and review any past activities or commitments that have been a source of frustration for us.

We get the opportunity to tie up loose ends, and finish uncompleted tasks in our immediate environment.

The Saturn retrograde is also about quickly learning lessons from old karmic patterns that have not fully resolved yet. This has probably felt bumpy at times, because we can feel stuck and unmoving about an issue, while our emotions are all over the place.

Saturn retrograde is a pause for responsibility. It creates a type of disruption in the process of engaging our awareness and energy in something. This often creates a sense of incompleteness.

But that is all about to change now.

Long-range goals and projects can progress smoothly again. Delays can clear up, and moving forward will feel much easier.

Things that felt like a standstill will start expanding again. If there’s an idea, project, or opportunity that you have been sitting on for a while, now is the time to go for it! Just make sure it’s something that feels joyous, expansive, and in alignment with your most positive self.

If it does, then that is your confirmation to go ahead and move forward with it. The electricity in the air now is in full support of the manifestation of your greatest visions!

Over the next few days and weeks, you may notice feelings of being more inspired, free, active, blessed, motivated, excited, joyful, open, energized, and loving.

This is all a confirmation that things are moving forward for you, and that you’ve worked through much of the karmic lessons that can come with Saturn retrograde.

This focused intention will be with us for the rest of the year. It will allow us to be more productive, both in our personal lives and in the larger sense, on the world stage.

Stable and Grounded

The energies of September will also support us in feeling more stable and grounded.

When we are grounded and stable, we operate at our most powerful, which is always found in the present moment.

Becoming present allows us to transcend the illusions of time. It’s from this space of no-time (a place of nonattachment) that our greatest, most desired intentions can manifest.

Here are some simple things we can do to feel more stable and grounded:

• Walk or stand on the Earth (soil, grass, or sand) with bare feet
• Express gratitude daily
• Spend more time in Nature
• Have compassion and love for the thoughts our mind has, without needing to judge them
• Get connected fully to our five senses, taking quiet moments to notice the sounds, shapes, colors, tastes, textures, and scents all around us
• Look into the eyes of everyone we meet, remembering that they are a reflection of the Universe

To the mind, and to those who identify more with being free spirits, the idea of being grounded may seem limiting. This usually stems from the idea that the word “grounded” implies being fixed or inflexible.

However, the opposite is true.

When we choose to be stable and grounded, we instantly bring ourselves into the flow of the present moment. Again, it’s in the present moment where we operate from our most powerful state.

It’s in the present that most of our freedom is experienced, because we are no longer bound to the past or the future.

Being grounded in the present moment allows us to fully enjoy our lives, while being open to all the new blessings life has available to us.

Support and Community

This is an excellent time to get clear on what we desire to bring into our lives.

Here are some helpful questions we can ask ourselves to get more clarity on what we want to create more of:

• “What excites me?”
• “What are some things I loved doing as a child that I can integrate into my present reality?”
• “What feels expansive and good to me?”

These questions can help us get clear on what we really want to experience more of.

Once we have that clarity, it becomes easier to take action and to ask for support.

Most of us have shied away from asking for support from others, either because we were not clear on where we truly needed their support, or because we had been conditioned to believe that getting what we want takes something from someone else, as if we are creating a burden for them.

Life is about being part of the human experience. One of the main components of the human experience is being part of a community.

We are here to share our blessings with one another. If you are surrounded by people who do not want to support or help you, it’s usually a reflection of how you have been treating yourself or others.

Are you generous with your support towards yourself and others? Do you offer support without expecting anything return? Does it feel easy and fun for you to share your blessings with the world?

When you can fully answer “yes” to these questions, you will notice abundantly available support in your life.

When we share and express what we desire with the Universe and those around us by asking for support, we open ourselves up to receiving opportunities we may not have otherwise had a chance to experience before.

The Universe wants to give us everything we’ve ever desired for ourselves. It’s just a matter of how open we are to receiving it.

If you are ever feeling unsupported, find an opportunity to support someone else, even if it’s someone you don’t know very well.

This act of kindness will shift the energies for you, and open your mind, eyes, and heart to knowing that life is much more than separating ourselves and hiding from others.

It’s about living, loving, and sharing our gifts and our presence openly.

The next few months will nudge us to open ourselves up to receiving and giving support.

It’s time to release the pride or old patterns that we’ve allowed to hold us back from living our most desired reality.

Till next time,

Miraculously yours,

Emmanuel

This Weekend’s Love Horoscope: Take the Leap

Your love horoscope for the weekend of September 8-10, 2017

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By Maria DeSimone

Videos, Love, Horoscopes, Astrology

You just might get everything your heart’s been desiring this weekend! On Friday the Moon in Aries lights a fire in your heart and encourages you to take a risk and chase whatever you desire. The pace slows down on Saturday when the Moon enters comfortable Taurus. Taurus loves to bask in physical pleasure, so be sure to make plenty of time for enjoyment, and don’t be afraid to satisfy your sensuality. Thankfully Mercury, the planet of communication, is finally picking up speed and moving forward again, so you’ll have no trouble asking for what you want this weekend! Take a leap, and you could reap big rewards

Part of the Daily Insight Group ©2017

 

Youe Horoscopes for Friday, September 8th

Aries

The Moon in your sign all day animates your emotions, Aries. The desire is strong to feel free, fresh, and spontaneous. However, Pluto is heavy today, in some ways pulling up doubts or insecurities, but also working doggedly in your favor as priorities become clearer and ways to feel empowered open up. Financial and/or love or social matters can be worrisome on the one hand, but your determination to improve your health or work and habits is so strong now that you turn negatives into positives. You can make significant headway in your projects and, for many of you, this can be day one of a new fitness or nutrition program that holds great promise. Look for ways to reform, renovate, upgrade, and reorganize your work instead of giving in to the lure of brand new projects. This can be a good time to clarify a matter or clear the slate with your reputation, as well.

Taurus

The Moon spends the day in your soul sector, Taurus, encouraging your introspective side. You may want to hide away on some level now, and if you can pull it off, it’s good for you just for now. A Venus-Pluto aspect today can throw you off center a little. You may feel that you need to choose between two equal alternatives, and this puts you in a tight spot. Emotionally, this is not the most adventurous of times, but your desire to grow is dominant right now, and you instinctively recognize that if you stick with the familiar, you won’t have learning opportunities. Fortunately, a Sun-Pluto influence that grows in strength as the day advances encourages you to connect more deeply with personal interests, hobbies, and possibly even a person. This is invigorating, serving as a tonic or refresher for your spirit. It’s clearer to you today what is hindering your progress. Problems seem more resolvable with the determination you feel now. People you meet or ideas you come across have you looking at the world in new and exciting ways.

Gemini

You’re seeking out cooperation today, dear Gemini, but you could feel a little out of step with others at times now. This may have to do with a tendency to want two very different things, and you can be giving off mixed signals as a result. On the one hand, you’re seeking light, easygoing friendliness, but on the other, this can leave you wanting more or feeling a little empty! Overthinking is possible now and can complicate things. Doubts can also throw you off track. However, a Sun-Pluto influence encourages you to take charge of your emotions and turn negatives into positives today. Especially as the day advances, you can see your personal priorities, and you’re able to hone in on what truly matters. Emotional or financial support could be in the offing for some of you. Rehauling and improving something can be attractive, particularly related to home and family or other intimate relationships.

Cancer

The Moon in your public sector all day inclines you to want to take care of business, Cancer. However, you can feel pressure to come to decisions that you don’t feel entirely ready to make. Love can seem unreasonably complicated at the moment, but feelings emerging now can bring insecurities to light, allowing you to learn from them. In fact, a Sun-Pluto aspect active today helps you find the right path. Discrepancies between core values with someone can be frustrating, but can ultimately lead to greater understanding. Often, arguments over superficial things mean something much more. For example, if a partner were to criticize what you bought, you could have a strong reaction because you feel that they don’t think you can manage your life and make wise choices, and this is how something small can lead to something big! Seeing problem areas more clearly or facing significant truths can lead to a restructuring of activities and massive improvements to your projects and possibly also your relationships. Communication is the key today. You may be connecting with people and information that helps you get closer to your goals.

Leo

The Moon in your adventure sector all day sets your sights high from the get-go, Leo. However, today’s energies aren’t quite so breezy, but they’re handy! Doubting a project or even a person can temporarily seem to undermine your confidence, but you’re quick to come back from any minor setback today. You have a Sun-Pluto trine working in your favor, and while it’s directly affecting your practical affairs, it helps you personally as well since the Sun is your ruler and Pluto’s influence adds a little more clout to what you already have going for you. You may very well discover activities and projects that make full use of your talents and skills, and these can be showcased quite beautifully today and tomorrow. Your desire to improve, grow, and develop is strong now, and this is especially true when it comes to income, work, and health. This is a time for self-improvement through better attention to finances, work, and health.

Virgo

Your desire to get on top of emotional matters is strong with the Moon in your solar eighth house all day, Virgo. Do watch for overthinking things, however, as you’re so often inclined to do! Frustrations can bubble to the surface at unexpected moments, but if you pay attention to the cues, you can learn a tremendous amount about what is truly behind your fears and insecurities, particularly about a relationship. A Sun-Pluto aspect occurring now is particularly empowering, however, as the Sun is currently a guest in your sign and Pluto, the planet of transformation, encourages you to grow and improve. This is a time for feeling very determined to give a particular project, relationship, or endeavor your all. Status quo simply won’t do today. Your resourcefulness helps you turn something old into something new, or turn a negative into a positive. This is also a time for riding on the hurt of a rejection or a personal slight and using it to improve your life.

Libra 

You’re a little more invested in your relationships today, dear Libra, but you could have some concerns or worries about a friendship or partnership. You could be dealing with pressures related to home and family and perhaps some challenges keeping up with friends or groups now. Do your best to push past your fears. It can be difficult to take a step back and allow others space when you’re feeling insecure, but it’s important to let go from time to time. In fact, this can be a great time to learn from missteps. Excellent energy is with you, however, for recognizing the need to make changes in your personal life, at home, or within. You can find useful ways to improve your emotional life and domestic world today. You may be sitting on an important idea or project, and it’s probably wise to keep things under wraps for the time being. Strategy pays off for financial and home-related endeavors today.

Scorpio

The Moon spends the day in your practical, work-oriented sector, Scorpio, and you can feel some nice enthusiasm for your work or for taking care of business. On an emotional level, concerns about falling behind in a project or with your personal interests and projects can interfere with work. You are sensitive to your reputation or professional image, but you should watch for communicating something that stirs the pot, or that’s likely to receive backlash. Be a little more vigilant about what you say now. Fortunately, you’re in a particularly good position when it comes to group-related or social matters, personal influence, persuasion, and effecting changes. It can be an excellent time to repair bonds or clarify your position, as well as to put something to rest that is no longer serving your needs to grow, evolve, and thrive.

Sagittarius

The Moon spends the day in your playful, creative sector, dear Sagittarius, but relationships are a little more complicated today than you’d like! At the very least, feelings are complex, and you may be wrestling with a fear of letting go and a simultaneous desire to be free or to grant others freedom. Doubts may be raised. What you don’t know about a situation can quickly become an obsession, but that’s precisely where you’re inclined to make the wrong move today, so do your best to rise above it. Helping you to find your center is a Sun-Pluto trine that encourages you to see your priorities. This trine falls along your career, talents, money, and reputation sectors. You can completely transform a difficult situation into an opportunity to grow and improve. There can be financial gains for some of you, a chance to showcase your talents, or increased ambition to improve your financial picture. It’s your determination to overcome obstacles that gets you places now.

Capricorn

The Moon in your home and family sector draws you into your inner world, Capricorn, and quiet activities suit you especially well today. Relationships or feelings are complicated today, and there can be some missteps and a lack of flow in your interactions. Recognize the need to make changes but avoid obsessive thinking that only serves to take you in a mental circle. Try to make peace with the idea that you can’t read a person or situation right now and try to tap into the divine energy of the Sun-Pluto trine of the day. Personal priorities become clearer. This is a great aspect for making renovations — deep, lasting changes that refresh your life, and this isn’t only about cosmetic changes. Emotional renovations include getting rid of bad habits, situations, and attitudes. This is also a good time to take a chance or two through learning and exploring beyond your usual bounds. Push your limits and explore ideas that you normally wouldn’t. This can also be a time when you’re especially persuasive.

Aquarius

The Moon spends the day in a very light area of your chart, dear Aquarius, inclining you towards easygoing situations and people. However, feelings are complicated today and interactions can be a little off or difficult to read. Consider the possibility that you’re overthinking things, but if you feel a strong call for action, this can be a good time to rework a challenging situation into an empowering one. Making some waves now can be awkward at first, but ultimately a learning experience as a Sun-Pluto aspect encourages you to grow, improve, and prioritize. You may be feeling stronger through your intimate connections now. On an emotional level, this is a great time to take charge and tap into your inner courage. You may be facing a fear, kicking a bad habit, or vowing to improve your close relationships now. You are bound to see self-destructive patterns or tired, old habits in your relationships that could use some renovation.

Pisces

The Moon spends the day in your solar second house, Pisces, and you’re particularly comfortable in the practical world. You have wonderful energy with you for focus and concentration, although your relationships can be on the tricky side now. Insecurities about your performance or your usefulness or worth to others can emerge. However, you can truly learn from them and get yourself on the right track. In fact, better relationships can be a powerful motivator for self-improvement. Pushing boundaries just a touch can work well for you now, even if it’s a little messy. Counseling, organizing, negotiating, and networking can be in focus. You might experience a strong attraction to someone today as you’re drawn to strength, or this can be a time for strengthening an existing bond.

If You Were Born on Friday, September 8th

You are not only creative, you are able to channel your vision into practical avenues of expression. You are not well-suited to routine work. Your mind is always busy, and if you’re not using it productively, you are given to worrying and overanalyzing. Some worrying is good–you are strong at organizing. Too much, and you fret over the small stuff. Overall, however, you are hopeful and fresh, and you have a wonderful spin on life that intrigues others. You are hard-working, inventive, and talented. Your ideas are gold–you can generally turn a brainchild into something lucrative.

Famous people born today: Pink, Peter Sellers, Patsy Cline, David Arquette, Martin Freeman, Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

Get A Jump On Tomorrow…..

Your Daily Horoscopes for Saturday, September 9th

Aries

Energies continue to be good for devising strategies to get your daily routines, including health, into better order, Aries. This is a time to concentrate on reform, updates, and upgrades. Also today, Mercury returns to your solar sixth house where the Sun and Mars are currently guests. Further emphasis lies on daily routines, work, health, and self-care or self-improvement programs now. You can be successful at organizing your work and workspace as well as seeking out information that helps you improve your health. During this cycle that lasts until the 29th, you’re in great shape for tending to details, lists, tables, charts, and anything that gets your life – and your mind – tidy and organized. You might also do a lot of small services for others, but watch for doing so at the expense of your own.

Taurus

A stronger sense of purpose sticks with you again today, Taurus, and this can boost your relationships with others, and with yourself! This is a time for digging deep and committing to making long-term changes and improvements to your life rather than relying on band-aid fixes. You’re inclined to want to fix what you already have rather than seek out something new. Also today, Mercury returns to your creativity sector for an almost three-week stay. The Sun and Mars are already guests here, and the addition of Mercury brings in a mental or verbal element to your creative and romantic worlds. Activities through which you can have fun, impress, create, and share are in strong focus. You’re taking even more interest in love, art, and self-expression. You are more playful and spontaneous in your communications during this cycle.

Gemini

Again today, Gemini, you’re in a practical frame of mind that helps you see what is truly valuable and worth your effort – and what isn’t. Today is strong for facing a matter that you’ve avoided in the past, leading to improvements. Also today, Mercury returns to your solar fourth house. The Sun and Mars are already guests in this family and home sector, and Mercury brings a mental or verbal theme to the mix. Mercury’s transit that lasts until the 29th can find you more frequently thinking about and discussing family, domestic life, your support system, your roots, and the past. Activity increases in your home, and this can include work and learning/studying. This transit can also have the effect of decreasing interest in your worldly affairs. You may return to recent decisions or stalled initiatives now with a new perspective or new information.

Cancer

This is another good day for successfully pruning or refining areas of your life so that you can improve them, Cancer. This applies in particular to recent learning endeavors and mental projects. Also today, Mercury returns to your solar third house and will transit here until the 29th. This is a great place for Mercury to be as Mercury rules communications, and so does the third house. The only possible downside is that you get too caught up in small matters and details. However, this is a generally good time for learning, transportation, making contact and connections, and getting out and about. Your social life can improve, your mind is even sharper than usual, and keeping/getting in touch with others can lead to valuable opportunities. Recent decisions and conversations may be revisited now, and this time around, you’re armed with new information.

Leo

Personal magnetism is strong again today, Leo. Without much effort, you’re showing others just how capable and competent you can be. This continues to be a time for self-improvement through better attention to finances, health, and services. Also today, Mercury returns to your solar second house, reinforcing a developing theme of sticking with the status quo, cultivating patience, and working on building your resources. The Sun and Mars are already guests here, and now Mercury adds a mental theme to the mix. Until the 29th, you put far more thought than usual into business and finances. Thinking is good for your practical affairs and security. This is also one of the best Mercury cycles for building and growing your natural talents.

Virgo

There is good energy for creative matters today, Virgo. Your resourcefulness can lead you to transform something old into something new, creatively speaking or practically speaking. Mercury returns to your sign today, where the Sun and Mars are currently transiting. This brings further attention to your personality and your personal plans. The weeks ahead are excellent for some healthy self-focus! With Mercury’s transit, which lasts until the 29th, you are more inclined to talk about your plans, to draw attention to yourself or your observations and ideas, and to speak out about things you care about. You might benefit from doing some self-teaching during this period. You’ll be revisiting recent problems, now with new information. You are more talkative, communicative, involved, curious, and responsive. Decisions come far more easily than they have in recent weeks.

Libra 

This morning continues the theme of inner strengthening, Libra. You’re feeling more in charge of your life when it comes to family and domestic matters. Mercury returns to your privacy sector today, where the Sun and Mars are currently guests. During this Mercury transit, which lasts until September 29th, you’ll be doing a lot of thinking and analyzing the recent past, more frequently than usual. You’re focused on where you are in your journey. You’re more impressionable and sensitive now, and there can be an inclination to keep your ideas, observations, and thoughts to yourself. There can be a stronger focus on your private world and a tendency to keep things — including the decision-making process — to yourself during this cycle in preparation for when Mercury enters your sign, and you’re ready to share your ideas with the world, from the 29th forward.

Scorpio

This can be a time for beginning a long-term project that involves special dedication and devotion, dear Scorpio, or for making powerful refinements to a current endeavor. Career and reputation matters are favorable now. As well, Mercury returns to your solar eleventh house today, where the Sun and Mars are currently transiting, bringing further attention to networking, social affairs, and goal-setting until the 29th. This is also a time for revisiting recent decisions, now with new information. You are extra concerned about — and giving a lot of thought to — enjoying yourself, fulfilling happiness goals, making contact, and reaching out to like-minded people. Group activities and friendships can pick up pace or involve you more often. Tap into your more progressive and unique ideas for future projects and enjoyment during this enchancing cycle.

Sagittarius

This can be a productive time for you and your work, Sagittarius. You may be finalizing a long-term project or cementing a business alliance. It’s easier than usual to see your professional or financial priorities right now. Also today, Mercury returns to your career sector where the Sun and Mars are already guests. Today and in the coming almost three weeks, your thoughts often turn to career or life-plan matters, and what you say or write has more impact than usual. You’re giving a lot of thought to your life plan, structures, business, career, performance, and the setting of goals. Until the 29th, communications are a little more studied or guarded, probably for good reason since your “voice” seems a little louder or is more impactful than usual.

Capricorn

Now and until September 29th, you are especially into expanding your mind, dear Capricorn. While you’re an organized person by nature, Mercury in your solar ninth house now points to some level of aversion to routines which can be seen as particularly dull. This theme is reinforced by both the Sun and Mars already in this area of your solar chart. Mercury’s transit stimulates your curiosity and mental restlessness as well as your desire to learn and share ideas. Also today, you’re in a good position to identify areas of your life that should be updated or upgraded! You are expressing your strength of character today, and you benefit from a stronger sense of purpose.

Aquarius

You continue to benefit from a Sun-Pluto influence that can make you feel invigorated and refreshed today, Aquarius. You can feel in charge of your life through the control of impulses that no longer serve you well. Today is about making deep, lasting changes. Also today, Mercury returns to your solar eighth house for a transit that lasts until September 29th. You may be going over recent decisions, but now you have new information to go on. This transit places further emphasis on your intimate world, long-term strategies, work on the self, investigations, and attraction to that which is hidden. During this cycle, you communicate with more intensity or passion, and/or your focus becomes more singular. You tend to be more deliberate and strategic.

Pisces

With the Sun and Pluto supporting one another today, you continue to have good energy working for you in your relationships, dear Pisces. Particular attention to details make a big difference now. Also today, Mercury returns to your partnership sector in direct motion, where it will transit until the 29th. You have a stronger need for intellectual stimulation through others and might often seek out someone with whom to share your ideas and decision-making processes. During this cycle, you might require a little coaxing to get to decisions and conclusions, and you might frequently take your cue from others. This hesitancy is not a weakness, however, as it can benefit you greatly to consider the perspective of others at this time, whether or not you take it! Your best ideas seem to come through conversations.

General Meaning

The Hierophant Tarot this card refers to a master and the learning of practical lessons from the study of natural law. This energy of this card points to some agent or resource that can reveal the secrets of life, the cycles of the Moon and tides, the links between human beings and the heavens.

Because monasteries were the only places a person could learn to read and write in the Middle Ages, a Hierophant was one to whom a student would petition for entry. He was the one to set the curriculum for the neophyte’s course of study.

Often pictured with the right hand raised in blessing, the Hierophant is linked with the ancient lineage of Melchezidek, initiator of the Hebrew priestly tradition, the one who passes on the teachings. All shamans of any tradition draw upon this archetype.

In the Advice Position

Develop your expertise, and have faith that you are a master in the making.

The card in the Advice position suggests a course of action which will harmonize what you want with what is currently possible.

The Hierophant advises that you return to the role of a meticulous student. Learn everything you can about your chosen area. Let that knowledge become a part of you and an operative influence on your day-to-day awareness. In this way, you can slowly and steadily establish real credibility in your field or chosen subject.

Earn respect and recognition by completing your education and broadening your experience. If you already have all the necessary experience you need, then rewrite your resume so others can appreciate who you are and what you can bring to a situation. Focus on your goal and be determined. You may be destined to be a master in your realm.

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Daily Love Tarot

Temperance

The Temperance card selected you today to tell you that you transform current conditions into something different by your thoughts and actions. You have the ability to bring about the results you desire. Be optimistic. Through the power of positive thinking, the optimist knows something is only incurable until they find a cure. The pessimist thinks everything is incurable. The caveat is always to be careful what you wish.

Erotic Tarot

The Wheel of Fortune

As good luck would have it, the Wheel of Fortune card has appeared, which is a symbol of advancement and things taking an unexpected turn for the better. Have you noticed your friends saying “you’re so lucky” lately? Well, this is what they’re thinking! The Wheel of Fortune shows that everything in your sex life is going your way (or is about to), and although it also indicates a lot of growth and transformation could occur, the main thing you probably wanted to know is, yes, you’re probably about to get lucky!

Your Influences for the Weekend of September 8th

Tarot Influence

Eight of Swords Reversed

Fresh starts are possible.

Astrological Influence

Aquarius Reversed

This card signifies the closing of both heart and mind, which leads to stagnation.

Element Influence

Fire Reversed

Fire reversed denotes calamity that may be on a catastrophic level. Prepare to deal with changes you do not want.

Psychic Tip of the Day

INSPIRING THEM

You can get a lot of work accomplished simply by taking control and letting others know what needs to be done. Is your lover hanging on your every word or are you the complaint one?

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Your Daily Rune for Today

Nauthiz

 “Not-this” – Literally: “Need-fire” or “Necessity” – Esoteric: Constraint, Friction

Key Concepts: Need, resistance, constraint, conflict, drama, effort, necessity, urgency, hard work, need-fire, life lessons, creative friction, distress, force of growth, the consequence of past action, short term pain for long term gain

Psi: resistance, need, effort

Energy: necessity, coming forth into being, urgency

Mundane: doing what must be done, chores, hard work

Divinations: Resistance (leading to strength), recognition of örlög (ultimate law, primal truth), innovation, need-fire (self-reliance), personal development and life lessons, achievement through effort; or constraint of freedom, distress, toil, drudgery, laxity, warnings, worry, guilt, moral cowardice, unfulfilled or unrecognized needs.

Governs:

Overcoming distress or negative örlög
Acceptance of the unchangeable
Development of magical will, the manipulation of wyrd
Understanding the dynamic force of “resistance” in the process of creating
The generation of creative energy for problem solving
Protection of one’s own needs
Recognition of personal need
Love magic; especially to obtain a lover

Your Ancient Symbol Card for Today

The Key

The Key indicates the existence of a powerful tool capable of favorably influencing your future. The Key may be an idea, physical entity, an action, a mentor, or the combination of a number of things. While readily available to you The Key may not be all that obvious. You might have to search for it, and it may take a fair dose of courage and faith to actually use it.

As a daily card, The Key indicates the presence of an idea or entity that can positively effect your life at this time. The advantage The Key will give you may concern a single element of your life such as your career, or it may have an impact on your life as a whole. The trick for you is to identify your Key and have the courage to use it.

Your Animal Spirit for Today
September 8, 2017

Badger

Badger is a ferocious opponent, unwilling to back down over any issue. Unfortunately, this unwavering stance leads some Badgers to their demise. If Badger has dug into your reading, he is asking whether you are fighting the right fight. Is this issue the hill you’re willing to die on, or are you fighting for no other reason than pure stubbornness? Think about it.

Your Charm for Today

Today’s Meaning:
This aspect of your life will be strongly influenced by a person who is determined, forceful, emotional, intuitive, powerful, passionate, exciting and magnetic. This person is probably an acquaintance you made at work.

General Description:
Eighth sign of the Zodiac, Oct. 24th to Nov. 23rd. Ruling by the planet Mars; correct metal, Iron. Those born under Scorpio were believed to be energetic, strongly determined, persistent, and thorough in their undertakings, with inflexible will-power, of magnetic personality, affable, just, affectionate, and powerful convicting speakers. The Scorpio gems are the Aquamarine and Beryl. The Aquamarine has always been reverenced in the East as all emblem of purity, and was given at marriage for increasing mutual love. In Rome worn for cheerfulness, curing distempers and internal complaints; by mariners to protect them from sickness and danger at sea.

Crack the Cookie

The Wisdom of the Buddha

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Your Earth Sky News for September 8:  Moon and Uranus in Pisces

Tonight – September 8, 2017 – the waning gibbous moon and Uranus, the seventh planet outward from the sun, are near each other on the sky’s dome, in front of the constellation Pisces the Fishes. Although Uranus will remain within Pisces’ borders for the rest of this year, the moon will leave Pisces after a day or two. Around the world, the moon and Uranus will rise over the eastern horizon by around mid-evening, though you can find out a more specific time from an astronomical almanac.

With the moon so bright and so close to Uranus on the sky’s dome, you’re not likely to glimpse Uranus with the unaided eye. But keep reading. We give you an idea of its location, and links to detailed charts, in this post.

Uranus was the first planet to be discovered by the telescope, by William Hershel on March 13, 1781. At a distance of about 19 astronomical units from Earth at present, this world is pretty easy to see through binoculars – if you know exactly where to look.

People with good vision – and good charts (scroll to bottom of page) – can see Uranus with the unaided eye on dark, moonless nights.

In your quest to locate Uranus, first make friends with the constellation Pisces after the moon leaves the evening sky, starting in a few more days. Familiar with the Great Square of Pegasus? If so, jump off from there to the constellation Pisces the Fishes. Then with a good sky chart and binoculars you just might catch Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun.

Bottom line: The moon and the planet Uranus both reside in front of the constellation Pisces the Fishes on September 8, 2017.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

A Little Humor for Your Day

You Might Be Giving Pagans A Bad Name If…

• You insist that your boss call you “Rowan Starchild” because otherwise you’d sue for religious harassment.
  (Score double for this if you don’t let that patronizing bastard call you “Mr. or Ms. Starchild.”)
• You’ve ever confused the Prime Directive with the Wiccan Rede.
• You’ve ever cast a spell with twenty-sided dice.
• You said it was bigotry when they didn’t let you do that ritual in front of city hall. It had nothing to do with the skyclad bit.
• You picketed The Craft and Hocus Pocus, but thought that the losers who picketed The Last Temptation of Christ needed to get lives.
• You’ve ever publicly claimed to be an elf, alien, vampire, faerie, or demigod, and been genuinely surprised when not everyone took you seriously.
• You’ve ever publicly claimed to be the reincarnation of Gardner, Merlin, Aleister Crowley, King Arthur, Cleopatra, Morgana Le Fay, or Jim Henson, and been genuinely surprised when not everyone took you seriously.
• You’ve suddenly realized in the middle of a ritual that you weren’t playing D&D.
• You’ve failed to realize at any point in the ritual that you weren’t playing D&D.
• You’ve suddenly realized that you are playing D&D.
• Your Book of Shadows is a rulebook for Vampire: The Masquerade with notes in the margins.
• You’ve ever effected an Irish or Scottish accent and insisted that it was real.
• You talk to your invisible guardians in public.
  (Score double if you save places for them in crowded restaurants)
  (Score triple if you admit to having sex with them)
• You’ve ever claimed to have met the Vampire Lestat or Dracula.
  (Score double if you got into a fight and escaped)
  (Score triple if it was no contest)
• You own a ceremonial bong.
• You’ve ever tried something you saw on Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
• You’ve ever had to go along with someone’s ludicrous story because it was twice as likely to be true than most of the crap you spout.
• You expect your employer to exempt you from the random drug testing because of your religion.
• You’ve won an argument by referencing Drawing Down the Moon, knowing damn good and well they haven’t read it either.
• You’ve ever referenced the Great Rite in a pick-up line.
• Someone has had to point out to you that you do not enter a circle “in perfect love and perfect lust.”
  (Score double if you argued the point.)
• You claim to be a famtrad (hereditary), but you’re not.
  (Score double if you had to tell people you were adopted to pull this off.)
• You claim to be a descendant of one of the original Salem Witches.
  (Score to a lethal degree if you don’t get this one.)
• Someone once lost their boat delivering your ritual incense from Mexico.
• You’ve ever used tongue delivering the fivefold kiss.
  (score double if you did it more than once.)
• You’ve ever used reincarnation as the intro for a pick up line.
  (You may deduct this point if it worked.)
• You think it’s perfectly reasonable to insist that, since every tradition is different, and no one tradition is right, there’s no reason not to do things your way.
• You request Samhain, Beltaine, and Yule off and then bitch about working Christmas.
• The thing that drew you to the Craft was the potential to dance with naked members of the opposite sex.
• You strip in a club like the one in Porky’s under your craft name, and consider it highly appropriate.
• You’ve ever been psychically attacked by someone who conveniently held a coven position you crave, and suddenly had a glimpse into their mind so you could see how evil they were.
• You’ve ever achieved position or influence in a coven by sleeping with half of it.
• You claim yourself as a witch because how early you were trained by the wise and powerful such-and-such. Of whom nobody has heard.
• You complain about how much the Native Americans copied from Eclectic Wiccan Rites.
• You’re not a hereditary witch but you have a good disposition to it because your ancestors (the ones before your German parents) were Native American or Irish.
• You don’t know the difference between Irish and Scottish, and you alternately claim to be both.
• You think it’s your Pagan Duty to support the IRA, not because of any political beliefs you might share, but because, damn it, they’re IRISH.
• You think the number of Wiccan books you own is far more important than the number you have read, regardless of the fact that most of your books are for beginners.
• You hang out with people who each match at least fifteen of these traits.
• You recognize many of these traits in yourself, but this test isn’t about you. But, boy, it’s right about those other folks.

Cather Steincamp, Author

Originally published on Pagan Library

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Almighty Goddess, Loving Mother to us all,
We come before you in this time of need
When chaos and fear surround us
and threatens to overtake us.

Awaken our faith to know the power
Of Your Divine Presence, Love & Protection.
Deliver our brothers & sisters in Florida
from their fears and ease their anxiety.
Let them feel Your Mighty presence as they face this
time of uncertainty and give them strength to face
the challenges ahead.

Let them feel Your shield of love and Your Mighty Arms
of protection encompass them and protect them from all harm.
Give them the assurance of Your presence as they face the
hurricane to come.

As your children, we cling to you not only
as our Almighty Mother but also our comfort,
our protection and our light in this very dark time.

Give your children strength Mother,
let their faith be strong and
You, their almighty Rock.
Protect them, keep them from harm and
give them hope for a brighter tomorrow
for with you all things are possible.

In Your Divine and Almighty Name, we pray.

So Mote It Be

Divine Lady and Almighty Lord,
Hear the cries of Your children in Texas,
show them mercy in the wake of the
recent disaster.

Reveal Your Divine Presence in the
midst of chaos and confusion.
Help them to trust and find comfort
in Your promises of hope and life.

Come quickly to their aid that they
will know peace and joy once more.
Strengthen and comfort those who
have lost loved ones.
Give them the courage to carry on
as their loved ones would wish.

Bless all your children in Texas,
Bless them with your strength,
courage and love in the days ahead.

So Mote It Be.

The Witches Digest for Wednesday, September 6th

Great Goddess, Great God
We greet you at the start of a new day
And thank you for the potential that this day holds

Please send us the best day possible
Help us to feel our best
So we might do our best for ourself and for others

Smile upon us as we walk our path
And guide us so we might walk with wisdom and grace
And shine your light upon the world.

As the sun rises
Fill us with energy and joy
Bless us with your presence
And watch over us ad those that we love.

So Mote It Be.

—Everyday Witch A to Z Spellbook: Wonderfully Witchy Blessings, Charms & Spells
Deborah Blake

Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Wednesday, September 6th

The Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 100.19° E
Sun Altitude: 23.31°
Sun Distance: 93.685 million mi
Next Equinox: Sep 22, 2017 3:01 pm (Autumnal)
Sunrise Today: 6:29 am↑ 81° East
Sunset Today: 7:15 pm↑ 278° West
Length of Daylight: 12 hours, 45 minutes

The Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 277.49° W
Moon Altitude: -21.93°
Moon Distance: 238194 mi
Next New Moon: Sep 20, 201712:29 am
Next Full Moon: Oct 5, 20171:40 pm
Next Moonrise: Today7:45 pm
Current Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous (Near Full Moon)
Illumination: 99.8%

Lunar Calendar
Moon Phase Tonight: Waning Gibbous
Third Quarter: Sep 13, 2017 at 1:24 am
(Next Phase)
Full Moon: Sep 6, 2017 at 2:02 am
(Previous Phase)

Source

timeanddate.com

Your Astrology for Wednesday, September 6th

The Moon is in Pisces.
The Moon is void from 4:27 PM forward (until tomorrow when the Moon enters Aries at 8:01 AM).
The Moon is waxing and in its Waxing Gibbous phase until 3:02 AM, after which the Moon is waning and in its Full phase.
The Full Moon occurs today at 3:02 AM in the sign of Pisces.
Mercury is no longer retrograde and is in its post-retrograde shadow until September 19th.
Mars spends its first full day in Virgo (Mars transits Virgo from September 5-October 22).

Moon in Pisces

The Moon is traveling through Pisces today. You may feel disconnected. Serve others. Listen to music. Paint a picture. Daydream.

We are not inclined to want to face reality while the Moon is in dreamy, impressionable Pisces. It can be a wistful, sensitive, intuitive, and compassionate time. We are especially imaginative, and our intuition reigns under this influence. Boundaries and walls come down, as Pisces energy merges and blends. It’s a time when details are overlooked and feelings defy description.

The Moon in Pisces generally favors the following activities: Imaginative undertakings, mystical or spiritual pursuits, inner development, music and drama, going on a retreat, activities involving water.

The Sky This Week for September 6 to 10

An asteroid passing by Earth, Neptune at peak visibility, and other amazing things to look for in the sky this week.

Wednesday, September 6

If you look overhead as darkness falls anytime this week, your eyes will fall on the brilliant star Vega in the constellation Lyra the Harp. At magnitude 0.0, Vega is the brightest member of the prominent Summer Triangle asterism. The Triangle’s second-brightest star, magnitude 0.8 Altair in Aquila the Eagle, lies some 35° southeast of Vega. The asterism’s dimmest member, magnitude 1.3 Deneb in Cygnus the Swan, stands about 25° east-northeast of Vega. Deneb trails Vega across the sky by about two hours, and passes through the zenith at approximately 10:30 p.m. local daylight time.

Thursday, September 7

After a three-month hiatus, Mars returns to view in early September. The Red Planet rises more than an hour before the Sun and climbs 7° high in the east 30 minutes before sunup. It shines at magnitude 1.8, so you’ll likely need binoculars to pick it out of the twilight glow. This reappearance marks the beginning of a long and glorious apparition for Earth’s neighbor that will culminate at opposition next July.

Friday, September 8

Although Saturn reached opposition nearly three months ago, it remains a tempting target in the evening sky. The ringed world stands some 25° high in the south-southwest as twilight fades to darkness and doesn’t dip below the horizon until midnight local daylight time. Saturn shines at magnitude 0.4 against the backdrop of southern Ophiuchus, a constellation whose brightest star glows six times fainter than the planet. When viewed through a telescope, Saturn’s globe measures 17″ across while its spectacular ring system spans 38″ and tilts 27° to our line of sight.

Saturday, September 9

The constellations Ursa Major the Great Bear and Cassiopeia the Queen lie on opposite sides of the North Celestial Pole, so they appear to pivot around the North Star (Polaris) throughout the course of the night and the year. In late August and early September, these two constellations appear equally high as darkness falls. You can find Ursa Major and its prominent asterism, the Big Dipper, about 30° above the northwestern horizon. Cassiopeia’s familiar W-shape, which currently lies on its side, appears the same height above the northeastern horizon. As the night progresses, Cassiopeia climbs above Polaris while the Big Dipper swings below.

Sunday, September 10

A week ago, Mercury was a binocular object low in the east during morning twilight. It now appears much more conspicuous — shining at magnitude –0.1 and climbing 10° high 30 minutes before sunrise. This morning, the innermost planet passes 0.6° due south of the 1st-magnitude star Regulus, while ruddy Mars stands 3° to the pair’s lower left. All three objects show up nicely in a single binocular field.

Source

Astronomy Magazine

Today is Wednesday, September 6th

Wednesday is the day of the Teutonic deity known as Wodin or Odin, an aspect of the Allfather, god of knowledge, wisdom, enlightenment and combat, the parallel of Hermes, the planet Mercury.

Deity: Woden

Zodiac Sign: Gemini & Virgo

Planet: Mercury

Tree: Ash

Herb: Cinquefoil

Stone: Emerald & Sardonyx

Animal: Raven & Cat

Element: Air

Color: Red & Blue

Number: 6

Rune: Odal(O)

Celtic Tree Month of Muin (Vine) September 2 – September 29

Runic Half-Month of Rad (August 29 – September 12)

Goddess of the Month of Mala (September 6 – October 2)

Reference

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

On September 6th, We Celebrate the Goddess Gaia

Goddess of the Earth

Gaia the Creator

Gaia is the Earth.

Chaos was the first Immortal to come into existence and he was soon followed by Gaia, Tartaros and Eros. Tartaros is the Pit and Eros is the god of love. Gaia became the foundation of all the Immortal and mortal generations to follow. Gaia, Tartaros and Eros were not necessarily the children of Chaos but rather came into existence as a result of the presence of Chaos. Of the primal Immortals, Gaia was by far the most prolific and nurturing.

Gaia’s first creation was the Heavens … she named him Ouranos. Gaia gave birth to Ouranos to cover herself on all sides and to be her equal in all ways. Ouranos proved to be a difficult son … he was devious and sometimes dangerous. Ouranos had absolute dominion over the Heavens but he became too concerned with the affairs of Gaia and much to her disapproval, tried to dominate her as well.

Gaia then brought forth Ourea [the Mountains], Pontos [the fruitless deep sea] and the Cyclopes [the Orb-Eyed]. Ouranos, Ourea, Pontos and the Cyclopes were all born to Gaia without consort … in other words, she brought them into existence without the aid of a father. As her first consort, Gaia chose Ouranos. She became pregnant with three gigantic boys who would be named Briareos, Kottos and Gyes. Ouranos feared the boys … he kept pushing them back inside Gaia’s womb and refused to allow them to be born. Ouranos was worried that the three monstrous boys would be more powerful than himself and usurp his power.

The Banishment of Ouranos

With Ouranos as the father, Gaia became pregnant again but this time Ouranos allowed the children to emerge from Gaia’s womb … thus the Titans were born. Ouranos named these children Titans because they quickly demonstrated their complete lack of restraint … the name Titans literally means Stretchers or Strainers … they stretched and strained the limits of propriety and indulged themselves to the point of self destruction. The Titans not only brought about their own demise, they were also responsible for the demotion of Ouranos.

The problem with the unborn brothers Briareos, Kottos and Gyes was becoming a serious problem for Gaia. Each time the boys would attempt to emerge from Gaia’s womb, Ouranos would force them back inside. Gaia suffered greatly and finally in desperation, devised a treacherous plan to punish Ouranos. She created the element flint and formed a sickle … she then gathered her male children and explained to them that Ouranos could not continue with his brutal behavior. All but one of her sons refused to help because they feared Ouranos … only devious, devising Kronos was willing to stand against his father. Kronos reasoned that Ouranos was the first to act shamefully and anyone who stood against him would be absolved of any blame.

Gaia rejoiced when Kronos promised to help her … she gave Kronos the flint sickle with its jagged edge and hid him in a secret place so that he could surprise Ouranos. As night fell, Ouranos came to Gaia … Kronos took the sickle in his left hand and struck at his father … Ouranos was caught unawares and could not protect himself from the cruel flint … his male members were cut off and the drops of blood were absorbed by Gaia. As the seasons passed, Ouranos’s blood gave life to Erinys [the Punisher], the Giants and the Meliae [Nymphs of the Ash Tree]. The remaining flesh fell into the sea and from the foam and water a maiden was created … this maiden became the goddess of love, Aphrodite.

Briareos, Kottos and Gyes

With Ouranos out of the way, Briareos, Kottos and Gyes were finally allowed to be born … all three were truly gigantic … each of the brothers had fifty heads and fifty arms sprouting from his massive shoulders. Although Kronos had helped his mother greatly, he soon became overbearing and devious just like his father, Ouranos. When Kronos saw Briareos, Kottos and Gyes he became afraid of their strength and beauty … before they could become too powerful, he imprisoned the three brothers under the earth and would not let them see the light of day.

The Birth of the Olympians

Kronos was the most self-indulgent of all the Titans. His outrageous behavior towards Briareos, Kottos and Gyes was nothing compared to his contemptible treatment of his own children. When Kronos married his Titan sister Rheia, Gaia told him that he would be stripped of his authority by one of his children. In a vain attempt to avoid his destiny, Kronos swallowed each of his children as they were born. When Rheia gave birth to her sixth child, she substituted a stone in place of the infant. Kronos swallowed the stone without knowing that he had been tricked.

Gaia assisted Rheia in hiding the child from Kronos. The child was named Zeus and just as Gaia had predicted, he was destined to overthrow the power and authority of Kronos. When Zeus grew to manhood, he returned to confront his father. Zeus kicked Kronos in the stomach with such violence that the swallowed children were disgorged.

The children Kronos had swallowed were quite different from the Titans. When the five children Kronos had swallowed were disgorged, they were fully grown gods and goddesses … Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter and Histia.

Zeus summoned all benevolent Immortals of the earth and asked if they would become his allies in the inevitable war against the Titans. Zeus promised that any Immortal who fought for him would be allowed to keep their domains and their powers after the Titans were vanquished. At Gaia’s advising, Zeus freed Briareos, Kottos and Gyes so that they could fight for him … they proved to be formidable allies.

The fierce ten-year war with Kronos and the other Titans was called the War of the Titans. After winning the war, the children of Kronos and Rheia made Mount Olympos their home and they became known as the Olympian gods. At the prompting of Gaia, the Olympians asked Zeus to reign over them all. Kronos was banished from the face of the earth.

Gaia and Typhoeus

After the War of the Titans, Gaia became the consort of Tartaros … he was of the same generation as Gaia and manifested himself as the Pit. Like Gaia, Tartaros was one of the four original Immortals after Chaos. Gaia and Tartaros had a son named Typhoeus … Typhoeus was truly a formidable dragon-god with one hundred heads like snakes … each head had flickering tongues and breath of fire … the voices of the different heads each created a different sound: one head spoke in a voice that the Olympian gods could understand, another made the hissing sound of a snake, another was like the roar of a lion, another was like a furious bull and another made whelping noises.

Zeus saw the threat that Typhoeus posed to all the Immortals and quickly moved to subdue the beast … the battle began … with the thunderbolts of Zeus and the fire belching from Typhoeus, the earth trembled and sea boiled. Zeus finally burned the hundred heads from Typhoeus’s necks and cast him under the earth to the darkness of Tartaros. Molten rock and vile winds spewed from the earth where Typhoeus was buried and the damp and boisterous winds were born. Some authors [Pindar and Tzetzes] say that Typhoeus was buried under Mount Etna on the island of Sicily but the poet Homer said the location was in Kilikia in what would now be the southern portion of modern Turkey.

Gaia and Orion

Orion was the most renowned hunter of all time. He was the son of Poseidon [lord of the sea] and Euryale, the daughter of King Minos of the island of Crete. Poseidon gave Orion the power to walk on water as if it were land and this, no doubt, added to his hunting abilities as well as his arrogance.

When Orion went to the island of Chios he became drunk and offended a young woman named Merope, the daughter of Oenopion. Outraged at such crass behavior, Oenopion blinded Orion and the disabled hunter was forced to flee Chios and take refuge on the island of Lemnos. While on Lemnos, the god Hephaistos saw the plight Orion and gave him a servant named Kedalion to act as his guide. During his travels, Orion was noticed by Helios [Sun] … the god pitied Orion and healed him of his blindness. Orion learned nothing from his punishment and immediately resumed his prideful and self-indulgent way of life. When Orion ventured to the island of Crete he hunted with the goddesses Artemis and Leto. His zeal for hunting made him boast that he would kill every wild animal on the earth. Hearing this haughty and distressing talk, Gaia sent a giant scorpion to kill Orion. After his death, Artemis and Leto persuaded Zeus to place Orion in the heavens as a constellation.

The Silver Generation of Mortals

The second race of mortals on the surface of the earth was called the Silver generation and their time was called the Age of Silver.

After the earth had covered the Golden race of mortals, the Olympians made a second generation, which was Silver and less noble than the Gold. The Silver race was completely unlike the Golden race in body and spirit. The Silver generation remained as children for one hundred years … they were simpletons who spent their lives playing childish games. When they were finally grown, they lived very short and sorrowful lives. They would wrong others and not serve the Immortals or offer sacrifices on the holy altars. When they refused to give honor to the Olympians, Zeus became angry and ended their existence.

The souls of the Silver generation are called blessed spirits of the Underworld and even though they are of a second order compared to the Golden generation, they are worthy of respect and honor.

The Olympians are credited with the creation of the Silver generation mortals but the poet Hesiod reasoned that since silver was the symbol of Gaia, she must therefore be responsible for that particular race of humans. Hesiod’s theory is not confirmed by other texts and might be thought of as a theological deduction and not necessarily a fact.

The Children of Gaia

As the foundation of all life on earth, Gaia had many children. The following list is abbreviated and essentially chronological:
Gaia without consort:

Ouranos – Heavens

Ourea – the Mountains

Pontos – the fruitless deep sea

Cyclopes – the Orb-Eyed

Gaia with Ouranos:

Kottos, Briareos and Gyes – the hundred-handed brothers.

Gaia absorbed the blood of Ouranos and produced:

Erinys – the Punisher

The Giants

The Meliae – Nymphs of the Ash Trees

Gaia with Pontos [Sea]:

Nereus – the Ancient of the Sea.

Thaumas – the father of the messenger goddess Iris.

Phorkys – the Old Man of the Sea.

Keto – the mother of the Graiae [the Gray Sisters], the Gorgons, the six-headed Skylla and the serpent, Ladon.

Eurybia – the mother of Pallas.

Gaia and Ouranos produced the Titans:

Okeanos – [Ocean]; the father of the three thousand Okeanids and the Rivers.

Koios – the father of Leto and Asteria.

Krios – the father of Pallas.

Hyperion – the father of Helios [Sun], Selene [Moon] and Eos [Dawn].

Iapetos – the father of Prometheus, Atlas, Epimetheus and Menoitios.

Theia – the mother of Helios [Sun], Selene [Moon] and Eos [Dawn].

Rheia – the mother of the Olympians.

Themis – the goddess of law and order.

Mnemosyne – [Memory]; the mother of the Muses.

Phoibe – the mother of Leto and Asteria.

Tethys – the wife of Okeanos [Ocean] and the mother of the three thousand Okeanids and the Rivers.

Kronos – father of the Olympians.

Gaia with Tartaros:

Typhoeus – Gaia’s youngest child

Gaia with Hephaistos

Erichthonios was the half-man/half-snake son Gaia and the god Hephaistos. Gaia gave the infant Erichthonios to the goddess Athene for protection … she in turn put the child in a chest, which she gave it to the three daughters of King Kekrops of Athens to guard with the admonition that they never open the chest. Even after being warned by the goddess, the young women could not resist opening the chest. When they beheld the snake-like appearance of Erichthonios, they went mad and threw themselves from the rocky plateau of the Acropolis of Athens.

Source:

mythagora.com

Wednesday’s Magick

Magickal Intentions: Communication, divination, luck, safety, health, wisdom, commerce, business

Ruling Planet: Mercury

Color: Purple

Crystals: Aventurine, Agate

The Magickal Day of Wednesday

Wednesday is named for Woden himself, although the Romans called it dies Mercurii. This is a day associated with the color purple, the planet Mercury, and the metal quicksilver – which is also called mercury. See a pattern here?

When it comes to deities… yes, Mercury! However, there are a few other gods associated with Wednesday, including Odin and Hermes, Athena, and Lugh. Gemstones like adventurine and agate come in handy as well, as do plants such as aspen trees, lilies, lavender and even ferns.

Business and job-related issues, communication, loss and debt, traveling, and journeys are all tied in to Wednesday. This is a good day to do a working to open up lines of communication – especially if your own actions are preventing you from being an effective speaker or listener. Go someplace new or return to an old favorite stomping ground, step up your game, and settle up your accounts.

Author

Patti Wigington
Published on ThoughtCo

The Witches Guide to Wednesday

Be bold and daring today! Expand your knowledge of the Craft by working with the planetary energies of Mercury on this multifaceted day of the week. Consider the Greco-Roman gods Mercury and Hermes and all of the many lessons they have for you. Embrace change and movement, and work on your communication techniques. Conjure up a little good luck for yourself with that Mercury dime spell. Call on Athena to inspire you to try magickal arts and crafts and to be more creative in your own spellwork and witchery.

Meditate on Odin and see what you can discover about him. I wonder what sort of fabulous and fascinating magickal wisdom you will uncover? Odin is a shaman, after all; he may appear in many guises and faces. I guarantee that he will make you laugh at yourself before he is through with you, but you will learn. It’s up to you what you do with that knowledge. Will you let it shapeshift into wisdom?

Wednesday is the wild and wily day of the week, so try to go with the flow; don’t fight the quirky energies of the day. Most importantly, follow your heart, and always keep a good sense of humor, because of Wednesdays you will really need it.

Source

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

Wednesday’s Witchery

Be bold and daring today! Expand your knowledge of the Craft by working with the planetary energies of Mercury on this multifaceted day of the week. Consider the Greco-Roman gods Mercury and Hermes and all of the many lessons they have for you. Embrace change and movement, and work on your communication techniques. Conjure up a little good luck for yourself with that Mercury dime spell. Call on Athena to inspire you to try magickal arts and crafts and to be more creative in your own spellwork and witchery.

Meditate on Odin and see what you can discover about him. I wonder what sort of fabulous and fascinating magickal wisdom you will uncover? Odin is a shaman, after all; he may appear in many guises and faces. I guarantee that he will make you laugh at yourself before he is through with you, but you will learn. It’s up to you what you do with that knowledge. Will you let it shapeshift into wisdom?

Wednesday is the wild and wily day of the week, so try to go with the flow; don’t fight the quirky energies of the day. Most importantly, follow your heart, and always keep a good sense of humor, because of Wednesdays you will really need it.

Source

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

The Witches Almanac for Wednesday, September 6th

Unification Day (Bulgaria)

Waxing Moon

Full Moon 3:03 am

Moon Sign: Pisces

Incense: Honeysuckle

Color: White

What’s Happening at the Full Moon?

The Full Moon is a peak, and many feel the buzz. It’s a crescendo and sometimes brings on a reckoning…a moment of truth. It’s associated with illumination since it lights up the dream time landscape.

At the Full Moon, the luminaries — Sun and Moon — are always in opposite Zodiac signs. The polarity brings heightened tension, as balance is sought between the two extremes.

Waxing Moon

The Moon has been waxing (increasing), and if you set new Moon intentions, you’re ready to act!

In the hum of the jolty energies, there can be epiphanies about things that were vague desires at the New Moon.

Make it real, with tangible actions, perhaps a ritual that signifies you’re ready to integrate your intent. I like to stay open to surprise, too, and divine inspiration.

Time to Act?

Every month, you have a chance to experience a fresh start. The Moon’s waxing and waning is like the shortest hand on the cosmic clock. The intentions we set with the Moon can get specific, and match the traits of the sign that month.

This is a way to stay attuned to cosmic currents and go with the flow. It’s a constant in a chaotic time, that the Moon waxes and wanes. Each lunation is a chance to set new goals, and feel closer to a bigger mystery.

Full Moon Intentions

This word is used a lot and is interchangeable with the word goals. Perhaps, though, it suggests an active engagement in what you’re co-creating with the universe.

Your intent is what you intend to create in your life. Some like to create Vision Boards at the New Moon. But the amped up energies and clear sight make the Full Moon ideal for dreaming-while-awake.

Preparing for the Full Moon

Each full Moon has a different intuitive feel, and any ritual you do could draw on the essence of the sign.

As it approaches, you might gather photos, found objects, meaningful totems and place them with your intentions in a prominent place.

You might light a candle in a simple Full Moon Ritual.

Time to Celebrate

The Full Moon often casts an exuberant vibe, making it a great time to have a party. This also opens the door for meaningful people to step into your life. But keep in mind that it can be intense, too.

There’s a reason why more patrolmen are sent out on full Moons! Take time to honor yourself in some way for any steps you took since the new Moon.

The Climax and the Big Reveal

Sometimes Full Moons feel like the end of an Act in your ongoing life story.

It’s like in a movie where all the plot points are pulled together, and for a brief moment, you can see the interwoven whole. If you set intentions, the full Moon is a time when you begin to make out the path and can take an exhilarating step forward. It is both a culmination and a time to act on something you’ve imagined. In the act of doing, you have brought an idea into reality and made magic.

Author

Molly Hall
Published on ThoughtCo

Full Moon Release Ritual

Items you’ll need: Floating candles, a large bowl, water, matches, a pen.

1. Create sacred space with candles, sage smudging, and setting up altars with powerful totems. For some rituals, I’ll use an owl’s wing that a friend gave me, to represent wisdom.

2. If possible, stand or sit under the Moon. Allow yourself to feel a direct relationship to it, as a mover of the living waters of the Earth and within our own bodies.

3. Do a grounding exercise, to bring you out of the chatter of small talk and into ritual space. Feel the earth under your feet and shake out the tension in the body.

4. Place the large water-filled bowl in front of you, or in the middle of your gathering on a table.

5. Each person writes what they’re releasing on the floating candle. It’s not important that it shows up, just that the intention is there.

6. As you place the candle into the bowl, declare what you’re releasing.

7. Light the candle.

8. Allow yourself to feel the transfer of what you’re releasing to the candle. As a group focus on letting go into the water, holding hands if that feels right.

9. Celebrate this release by sharing a feast under the full Moon!

Allow the candle to keep burning in the bowl as a symbol of the letting go process. The flame is a purifier, and symbolizes the sparks of inspiration as well. If you blow out your floating candle, and your bowl is in your home, relighting it will remind you of your commitment. Place inspiring pictures and totems around it that remind you of who you’re becoming. Above all, give yourself kudos for honoring your own growth.

Author

Molly Hall
Published on ThoughtCo

WEDNESDAY CORRESPONDENCES

Mercury/Neptune/Air/North/West/Southwest/Female/Male/Gemini/Virgo

Magickal Intentions: Communication, Divination, Writing, Knowledge, Business Transactions, Debt, Fear, Loss, Travel, Money Matters

Color: black, light blue, brown, gray, green, magenta, orange, peach, purple, red, silver, turquoise, violet, white, yellow; orange is the primary color

Number: 3, 5

Metal: mercury

Charm: distaff, rod, runes, staff, iridescent garments

Stone: moss agate, amethyst, bloodstone, emerald, hematite, lapis lazuli, lodestone, pearl, ruby, sapphire, sodalite, all blue stones

Animal: bear, dog, fox, magpie, swan, weasel

Plant: almond, bayberry, chamomile, cherry, cinnamon, cinquefoil, clove, coltsfoot, ginger, hazel, hazelnut, jasmine, lavender, millet, oak, peppermint, periwinkle, rosemary, sage, St. John’s wort, sweet pea, tamarind, lemon verbena, violet

Incense: cassia, cedar, cinnamon, clove, frankincense, jasmine, lavender, mastic, mint, rosemary, sage, sandalwood, storax, dried and powdered citrus peel, and all incense made from aromatic bark, wood, and seeds

Goddess: Carmenta, Hecate (Queen of Crossroads), Hel, Ishtar, Ma’at, the Morrigan, Nike

God: Anubis, Bragi, Elath-Iahu. Enki, Garuda, Hermes, Maximon (Black Magician), Mercury, Nebo (Wise God of Wednesday), Odin, Shango, Ullr, Vishnu, Wayland, Woden

Evocation: Agrat Bat Mahalat, Michael, Miel, Raphael, Seraphiel, Tiriel

Source

Moonlight Musings

Wednesday Is Ruled By Mercury

Wednesdays are wild and wacky days. They are for communication, change, cunning, and the arts. This is a Mercury day, and just its patron god this day is full of contradictions, change, and excitement. Some suggestions for Wednesday enchantments would include:

Pulling a little Wednesday color magic into your life by wearing purples or orange

Carrying a multipurpose agate with you and tapping into its various charms

Working with magical plants such as the fern for protection. This plant will also boost the power of any other magical plants with which it is arranged.

Incorporating lavender into charms and spells for transformation

Using the charming scent of lily of the valley to improve your memory, or working with the aspen tree for communication

Calling on Athena, patron of arts and crafts, for inspiration for a new project

Fanning out a Tarot spell to increase you creativity

Calling on Hermes on a Wednesday night to bring movement and good luck into your life

Mercury’s Energy

*Notes: perform on a Wednesday and/or during the waxing Moon with the Full Moon being strongest. An orange or violet candle is associated with any magick cast on this day.

Day: Wednesday

Color: Orange, violet, multicolored, pale yellow

Metal: Quicksilver, alloys.

Stones: Carnelian, fire opal, agate

Plants: Anise, caraway , cassia, club mosss, dittany of Crete, lavender, licorice, parsley, sandalwood, storax

Rules: Gemini, Virgo

Oils: Lavender, lemon, lily of valley, nutmeg, sandalwood, styrax, vervain

Rituals Involving: Intellect, memory, science, creativity, business, magickal conjuration, divination, prediction, eloquence, gift of tongues, speed, speech, writing, poetry, inspiration, improvement of mind power, healing of nervous disorders.

Physical Chant for Mercury:

Magick, the Arts, success on my trade,
Business wisdom and divination,
These gifts I would gain for my physical growth
And to help in my conjurations.

Source

Dancing with Dragons, Invoking Their Ageless Wisdom and Power
D. J. Conway, Author

Home & Hearth Magick for Wednesday, September 6th

On Wednesday cast for communication matters and to improve good luck

Planetary Influence: Mercury

Household Symbols: Phones, television, computers, letters, silver coins

Colors: Orange or purple

Kitchen Spices: Dill and celery seed

Source

Cottage Witchery, Natural Magick for Hearth & Home
Ellen Dugan

The Current Moon Phase for Wednesday, September 6th

Full Moon
Illumination: 100%

The Moon today is in a Full Moon phase. During a Full Moon the moon is 100% illuminated as seen from Earth and is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. The Moon will be visible throughout the night sky rising at sunset in the east and setting with the sunrise the next morning. The point at which a Full Moon occurs can be measured down to a fraction of a second. The time it takes between full moons is known as a Synodic month and is 29.530587981 days long.

Phase Details for – Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Every Full Moon symbolizes a culmination in the cycle of tension between cosmic opposites — things like good/evil, male/female, and yin/yang. The Full Moon in watery Pisces on September 6, 2017, fills our hearts with compassion by melting away the illusions of separateness. We are all flood victims, even if we don’t live in Houston or Mumbai. But, once we step beyond our local points of view, we are also subject to fantasy and deception. It’s more challenging to know what’s real when we venture into imaginative dreams.

Ultimately, the Pisces Full Moon pits the Virgo Sun’s egoic drive for efficiency against the soul’s need for spiritual connection. It’s true that dreamy Pisces can be prophetic and intuitive, yet it can also be fearful and confusing. Nevertheless, we must also remain practical as the earthy Virgo Sun narrows our perspectives and bring us each back to the pressing matters in our individual lives.

Conflicting cosmic messages are strong during this Full Moon, as the detail-oriented Virgo Sun focuses our thoughts while the Pisces Moon joins nebulous Neptune to soften our resolve. Establishing healthy boundaries is hard work, yet our fuzzy thinking inspires us to imagine alternatives that previously seemed impossible. Luckily, action-hero Mars and clever Mercury are harmoniously trine to electric Uranus at the time of the Full Moon, shocking us into awareness. Intelligence is poised to overcome ignorance. Change is not only possible, it’s inevitable — and it’s going to happen fast!

Part of the Daily Insight Group ©2017

Your Daily Horoscopes for Wednesday, September 6th

Aries

Aries

The Full Moon in Pisces occurs early today, Aries, and has the effect of bringing matters, feelings, projects, and ideas to a head or to fruition. This lunation can bring a secret, health, or private matter to light or a work project to fruition as it occurs in your solar twelfth house. If you’ve been pushing too hard recently, some rest, a break, for a hiatus may be needed now, even if it feels at odds with your work or health initiatives. In truth, it will ultimately improve your productivity. Circumstances point to a need to find a healthy balance between time for yourself and time to perform your services or tend to your daily affairs. Even so, Mars is now in your work and health sector, revving you up for action. It will be here until October 22nd, so you have time to benefit from this powerhouse planet, and going forward, you may be taking on more challenging projects that advance or improve your work or routines. The desire to step up a health and fitness or nutrition program runs high now.

Taurus

Taurus

A Full Moon tends to illuminate unacknowledged feelings or resources, dear Taurus, and today’s Full Moon shines brightly in your social sector, pulling up buried feelings for someone or stimulating the need to come to someone’s aid. A buried relationship problem can emerge and demand attention. You’ll gain new insight into the emotional side of a matter now, and you may very well feel purged and empowered now. There can be sudden involvement with others and perhaps a friendship issue coming to a head. Love affairs, children, friends, and teams are areas of life that can involve revelations, unveilings, and important discoveries now. Yesterday, Mars moved into your solar fifth house, bringing more power to this sector of your chart until October 22nd. This brings invigoration to romance, pleasure, self-expression, and entertainment. Romance can become heated, and this can be stimulating or challenging, depending on how you handle the energy.

Gemini

Gemini

The Full Moon this morning stimulates feelings and realizations that lead to turning points and epiphanies this week, dear Gemini. In your solar chart, this lunation brings light to matters related to career, life direction, ambition, goals, and reputation. The need to fill your responsibilities or to reach a major goal can come over you in a rush. Some of you may even discover or awaken to a dream job or path that motivates you in a new direction. If you’ve been paying too much attention to your personal life, events occurring now push for balance. Emotions can be hard to contain, but it’s a good idea to observe a little longer before making important decisions. While the need to get to a better balance still stands, Mars is now transiting your sector of home and family, and this can be an excellent period for getting a lot done in your personal life. Until October 22nd, you may be working more heartily on home projects or spending more time actively involved with family.

Cancer

Cancer

The Full Moon occurs early today, dear Cancer, and lights up your sector of spirit, adventure, and expansion. There can be turning points brought upon by new information or sudden emotions that surface now that stimulate a strong need to get away from it all. An idea that you’ve been working on might blossom or take off now. A desire to travel, take a new course, pick up a new interest, or expand your reach or audience can take you over today and this week. Try to set limits and priorities, of course, but enjoy the realizations and rush of discovery coming over you now. Even so, Mars has just moved into your communications sector, and you have some excitement to deal with in your daily life. Do fight for a balance, but also take advantage of this Mars transit that can motivate you to get a lot done in a short time until October 22nd. Arguments over the little things could be more frequent now, however, and you should certainly watch for impatience while driving, walking, and getting around.

Leo

The Full Moon happening early today has a way of bringing projects and feelings to bloom or previously unacknowledged matters to light, dear Leo. This lunation occurs in your solar eighth house, and intimate matters or power dynamics in close relationships may come to a head, or a financial issue reaches a turning point. Managing expectations can be the key to success now, but it’s also a time to push the usual boundaries a little. Much of your attention has been to the material world recently, and the Full Moon reminds you to feed your needs for emotional sustenance. Even so, Mars is now transiting your solar second house until October 22nd, and a bolder approach to business, earnings, defending your territory, and proving your worth can emerge. You may experience a drive for more financial independence. Tap into this increased courage to earn what you need and deserve. Focus on building your resources for the most, but this transit may be just what some of you need to take an educated risk.

Virgo

The Full Moon occurring early today illuminates your relationships and gives you a rather sudden perspective on your life, dear Virgo. You have a lot to learn from others now, and while this is an important time for pouring energy into your personal plans and interests, you can benefit from the support of and attention to special people in your life now. This is a time of full exposure. Something surfaces that brings buried emotions to the surface, a relationship to a turning point, or a push to make an improvement in your life. Even so, Mars has now entered your sign and will be your guest until October 22nd. Over the course of this energetic cycle, you’ll have plenty of chances to assert yourself and seek out what you want from life. You can find yourself especially motivated, desirous, assertive, and perhaps impulsive at times in the weeks ahead.

Libra 

The Full Moon occurring this morning falls along your work and service axis, dear Libra, stirring up the need to pay more attention to the delicate balance between mental and physical health as well as work and rest. Generally speaking, this is a time for getting more rest and paying special attention to your emotional world, but this Full Moon has something to teach you about moderation. A deadline, incoming news, or the need to attend to work or an appointment can emerge now. With all Full Moons, seek out balance and compromise, and for this one, consider what’s healthy for you, both mentally and physically. Even so, Mars has just moved into your privacy sector, and until October 22nd, encourages you to take charge of your private life. This is a good time to reassess your goals, needs, and desires. It’s not the most decisive or energetic of periods in your life, with the exception of cutting out activities and situations that have outworn their usefulness.

Scorpio

A Full Moon occurring early today brings illumination to your life in the areas of romance, dating, recreation, creativity, friendship, and personal goals, dear Scorpio. You may receive special attention for your creativity or your ideas now. For others, this is about recognizing feelings for a person or a situation that you’ve left unacknowledged. There can be an epiphany now, a blooming or blossoming of a project, or final word on a matter. New information or a burst of emotion can prompt a turning point. This can be an exciting time for you, but it can also be a time for wrestling with your expectations and attempting to come to a better balance in your life. If your love life and social life have conflicted, this matter can now reach a head. Mars has just moved into your social sector and is set to visit there until October 22nd. During this cycle, your social life is more active, and you could find you’re in high demand. The need to find a good balance still stands, but there is no harm in putting a little more energy into friends, networking, and community during this cycle.

Sagittarius

The Full Moon early today falls along your career and family axis, Sagittarius. This is also your public life versus private life axis, and finding a balance between these worlds becomes vital now. With the Sun (and now Mars) in your career and reputations sector, you are more ambitious, performance- or goal-focused, and in tune with your responsibilities to the outside world. This Full Moon serves as a potent reminder of your personal relationships, responsibilities, and ties. Try not to go to extremes now, but do acknowledge new feelings and realizations now. However, Mars is bringing formidable energy to your career and reputation sector, having entered it yesterday and set to stay until October 22nd. While the Full Moon’s prompt to find balance still stands, this is nevertheless a period for pumping yourself up professionally, taking the lead and initiative more often, and pursuing your ambitions directly and with vigor, but also with particular attention to detail. At times during this seven-week transit you could find yourself in conflict with authority figures or facing challenges with your reputation, but you’ll get better at this after Venus enters this same sector on the 19th.

Capricorn

The Full Moon early today pulls up the need to pay more attention to your daily affairs, immediate environment, and communications, Capricorn. You can feel quite pressed to take care of things or news can arrive that gets you going. A project could reach a head or a deadline for some of you. Recent inattention to details or daily affairs now needs some rectifying, and you should be lobbying for a better balance between things you need to do to keep your life in order and those things that feed your spirit and take you away from the daily grind. Watch for information overload now, but pay attention to what emerges now. While the Full Moon’s push for you to find a balance stands, Mars, the planet of action began energizing your solar ninth house yesterday and is set to stay there until October 22nd. This encourages a crusade for more engaging, mind-expanding experiences, whether this takes place in your mind or in person (or both). With Mars now in harmony with your sign, asserting yourself and pursuing your desires comes more naturally and without much ado.

Aquarius

The Full Moon occurring early today tends to pull up emotions and lead to significant realizations, dear Aquarius. It falls along your resources axis and tends to center around issues related to earning, sharing, possessiveness, self-worth, and how these things affect you and your close relationships. This lunation can bring a financial or ownership matter to light or to fruition, or an emotional or relationship matter might reach a head and epiphanies can come now that bring you closer to how you feel about a situation. Dependencies are in focus now, but it’s also a time for balancing the books. Wait until you’ve digested feelings emerging now before springing into action. Mars is now energizing your solar eighth house until October 22nd. This can be a cycle in which you can get to the root of challenges in a close relationship related to sharing and power politics or to the heart of your desires. If there are confrontations now, you’ll be able to get in touch with your own passions and desires through them.

Pisces

The Full Moon early today occurs in your sign, dear Pisces, and can serve to pull up epiphanies or unacknowledged emotions, as well as bring long-standing problems or projects to fruition. A personal revelation can occur now. Keep in mind that wishful thinking may color judgment at the moment, but while it may not be wise to act on your feelings immediately, it’s a powerful time for self-awareness. You might recognize your true feelings about an issue, which can set you on a new path. You’re making incredible discoveries about your life plan, body, and attitude/outlook. This can also be a time when a close relationship makes headlines in your life, and with energetic, assertive Mars now moving through your partnership house, it’s a time of animation in your relationships. Mars’ transit lasts until October 22nd and tends to pull up problems that may have been at work under the surface of things. This can be a little tense or chaotic, but ultimately refreshing, as you now get the chance to deal with them. Watch that you don’t pass the buck during this cycle – own and acknowledge your role in conflicts or strife that might emerge now.

Source

Cafe Astrology

If You Were Born Today, September 6th

You have a love-hate relationship with routine! While you crave the security that comes with it, you also enjoy some level of unpredictability and excitement. You love to keep active and you are energetic, sometimes restless. You have quick reflexes and strong instincts. At your worst, you are impatient, impulsive, and restless to the point of never seeming satisfied. At your best, your imagination is excellent, you have good people skills, and your insatiable curiosity makes you extremely interesting to know, as  your ideas are always unusual. Your talents are many and varied. You are exceptionally adaptable. You need a certain sense of freedom of movement in order to be happy, yet you also yearn for stability and security. You are attracted to mentally stimulating and interesting people –those you remain youthful in spirit throughout life. You are romantic and fun to be around in partnership, but you need to know that a relationship furthers your own personal growth in order to stay satisfied.

Famous people born today: Jane Addams, Roger Waters, Jane Curtin, Rosie Perez, Idris Elba, Naomie Harris.

Source

Cafe Astrology

Get A Jump On Tomorrow…..

Your Daily Horoscopes for Thursday, September 7th

Aries

The Moon moves into your sign this morning, Aries, bringing emotions to the surface and stimulating your need to feel connected and reinforced by the world around you. You seem to take the lead naturally, and others follow along without much thought to it. However, a Mars-Pluto aspect influencing the day suggests you may be taking some things quite seriously, and this can weigh down on you at times today. Your desire to tackle the details or smaller problems is powerful but seems to run at odds with your larger ambitions, and you can fear that you’re falling behind as you sort out the little things. Try to identify your priorities and strike a compromise. Learn when to draw the line for best results so that you don’t end up losing ground.

Taurus

With the Moon moving into your privacy sector today, Taurus, you’d do well for yourself if you took some extra time to yourself or escape from overly demanding or chaotic atmospheres. You may very well need a little more anonymity today and tomorrow.  This can help you tremendously, especially if you’ve been having trouble getting in touch with your intuition. However, the day’s energies are not always conducive to total relaxation, particularly as Pluto challenges Mars in your creative sector and you can feel some pressure to stay in control or “in the know.” It’s best to aim to get in touch with what it is you actually want and desire, as well as with those things that might bring you the most joy and consider making changes that improve your motivation and focus. All the while, try to avoid controversy today – you don’t need it!

Gemini

A Mars-Pluto challenging aspect that influences today can stimulate a strong desire to better your situation and seek out a higher level of well-being, Gemini. However, a good part of you just wants to relax and enjoy pressure-free, familiar, and safe activities, and this is a valid desire with Mars transiting your family and home sector until the third week of October. Even as you do try to relax, part of you may be reading between the lines and playing detective. Some of your concerns are hard to shake now. Tap into the energy of the Moon that moves into your social sector and asks you to find company that accepts you as you are, but honor the part of you that needs to dig a little deeper by striking a compromise.

Cancer

The Moon moves into your career and reputation sector today, dear Cancer, and your emotional focus can be on issues of responsibility, performance, and integrity today and tomorrow. However, as much as you’d like to pour yourself into something productive and exciting, relationship matters can be concerning and/or distracting. Do your best to shake these worries so that you can take care of business. As well, be a little more cautious about how you express yourself, as there is a tendency to make some controversy out of small misunderstandings, but you don’t need this kind of drama now! Confidence in yourself is something you should be striving for now, and you’ll get extra help with this tomorrow and the next day.

Leo

Today and tomorrow feature rising ambitions, dear Leo, and while today it can be difficult to know what you want, facing some frustration can get you to a better understanding of your desires. Mars in your resources sector challenges Pluto in your work and health sector, and you may have a hard time deciding how to go about organizing your time and dividing your attention. You could be feeling somewhat possessive of people, ideas, projects, and things today if others seem to be moving into your territory or pushing your limits. You may not see the direct route to satisfying your needs or asserting yourself, and this can lead to a lot of needless frustration. The will to get things done is strong, but it’s important not to get lost in unexpressed anger or resentment. If you can manage it, it’s probably best to work at your own pace or independently, as you tend to be a little more particular than usual about how you want to get things done.

Virgo

The Moon moves into your intimacy sector this morning, dear Virgo, making it a good time for processing and digesting recent events, as well as observing rather than leaping forward. However, Mars in your sign has other plans! Mars encourages a gung-ho, spontaneous approach to your world today, but certain concerns can be hard to shake, and this can all feel quite choppy as a result. These underminers are related to worries about relationships, children, or creative projects. Challenges may be coming from the outside or they can be internal ones, but what actually matters now is your response. It’s better to avoid smoldering anger and resentment if things don’t seem to be going your way. Give it some time, and things are likely to work out far better than you expect.

Libra 

With the Moon moving into your partnership sector this morning, Libra, the tendency is for you to need company more than usual. However, a Mars-Pluto aspect influencing the day adds a layer of complexity to our desires and needs, and it can be difficult to relax fully and enjoy yourself at times today. There can be some tension revolving around memories or reminders of a frustrating past matter, but this can ultimately motivate you to make changes that free you up and lighten your load. So, while you shouldn’t get too caught up in all of this, it’s a good idea to pay attention to what gets you all riled up. In fact, through observation, you may get a nice little window into what’s going on under the surface so that you can see what exactly needs purging!  Try not to over-identify with your ways of doing things or your traditions if it’s interfering with your relationships.

Scorpio

The Moon moves into your work and health sector today, encouraging you to take care of business on the level of details, dear Scorpio. The bigger plans and thinking can be tackled at a later time – now is a time for taking care of the small things that hold everything up. There can be distractions today as you go about your business and pursue studies, projects, or personal interests, and not everybody in your social sector is likely to be on board with your ideas. You may, in fact, have a hard time loosening up as you’re worried about competition or getting behind. There may be some hard-headedness with assertive Mars running into your ruler, Pluto. You may be wanting to do it your way now, and there is a small tendency to stir up controversy. However, sticking to your guns makes sense now. Try to keep things real today!

Sagittarius

You are a little more driven and ambitious right now, dear Sagittarius, but you can have a hard time moving forward as you can be stuck on a problem or issue that keeps you from pushing forward today. Defensiveness is likely with Mars and Pluto in challenging aspect. This is a minor aspect, so it doesn’t have to control your day, but if you’re not aware of this tendency, then it very well might! If you observe before acting, there is a better chance of seeing vulnerable areas and learning from them. In fact, this is a great time to find motivation, possibly through frustration, to go after what you truly want and need, and the Sun-Pluto trine influencing the next two days will help you make this progress. The Moon’s move into your creative sector today can contribute to lighten the mood.

Capricorn

The desire to get out and about is healthy now, dear Capricorn. To live life more spontaneously is something you’re striving towards with Mars in your adventure sector until the third week of October. However, with Mars and Pluto in challenging aspect today, you may have a hard time fully relaxing as you may fear that you’ll fall behind. You might also have a strong desire to do things your way or to oversee a project rather than feel at others’ mercy, but you should seriously consider whether this is as important as taking a break from the routine. Ideally, frustrations you meet now can motivate you to go after what you want and need, and a Sun-Pluto trine influencing the next two days will help you towards these ends. The Moon’s move into your home and family sector today suggests a need to connect with familiar places and faces.

Aquarius

A Mars-Pluto aspect today may stimulate some tension, dear Aquarius, particularly on the level of power dynamics in a close relationship or involving unresolved matters from the past. The larger purpose of this aspect is to get you in better touch with your true needs and desires, and small frustrations ignited today can motivate you to learn about your desires and then go after what you want. You’ll get help for this when the Sun and Pluto form a trine in the next two days. For now, tap into some of the lighter elements of the Moon’s move into your communications sector and enjoy some easy conversations or diversions that help you lighten up, but don’t ignore any tensions coming to the surface now as they can help you understand yourself better.

Pisces

This morning, the Moon moves into your solar second house, dear Pisces, and this turns your emotional attention to building and developing something important to you. It takes some of the pressure or urgency off emotional needs as you understand the value of patience more instinctively. With Mars and Pluto in minor challenging aspect influencing the day, however, you could experience some frustrations if you feel you’re not in control of your life. You may be sensing a hidden agenda when you interact with a partner or friend. Ideally, this motivates you to better your situation and seek out a higher level of satisfaction and comfort in a relationship. Fortunately, the energies of the next two days support this goal. Hang in there and try not to make mountains out of molehills today.

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Your Weekly Influences for September 6 thru September 10th

Tarot Influence

Ten of Swords Reversed

Evil will be defeated. Courage is needed to face challenges. Develop your spiritual self

Astrological Influence

Virgo

Virgo denotes intelligence and a drive for perfection taking command–the dealing with all aspects of life honorably.

Element Influence

Your Daily Rune for Wednesday, September 6th

Laguz

“Log-uhz” – Literally: “Water” or Ocean – Esoteric: Unconscious, Collective Memory

Rune of the unconscious context of becoming or the evolutionary process. Rune of Life’s longing for itself.

Psi: emotion, psychic powers, unconscious mental processes, love, dreaming

Energy: life energy, ocean spirit, origins of life, collective unconscious, the astral plane, love as unity, evolution

Mundane: water, imagination, occultism, dreams

Divinations: Life, passing a test, sea of vitality and of the unconscious growth, memory, dreams; or fear, circular motion, avoidance, withering, depression, manipulations, emotional blackmail, lack of moral fiber, fantasy, poison, toxicity

Governs:

Transpersonal powers
Mastery of emotion in order to shape wyrd
Guidance through difficult initiatory tests, ie. initiation into life
Increase in vitality and life force
Communication between your conscious mind to another’s unconscious mind
Development of ‘second sight’ or prophetic wisdom
All powers of dreaming (lucid dreams, astral projection)

Your Karmic Number for October 6

There are too many options for getting healthy and in shape for you to not be involved in one, and soon. There are even aquatic spinning classes where the water will wash away the sweat while you burn calories. No more excuses! You pulled this 5 because your body needs your TLC. Start small. Go out dancing or shake your moneymaker at home. It will increase your endorphins, which will help you feel better and make healthier choices. Revert to your childhood, if you dare, and get a hula hoop. Make this transition fun.

Crack the Cookie

The Wisdom of Buddha

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

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Oh, what a lovely Tuesday morn’! Oh, don’t panic, this ain’t the storm that came through our area, close but not quite. Anyway, there is no power at the office, at my home or anywhere in our area. We had a severe storm come through early this morning (around 5:00 am) and it took the power out. And you are wondering, no power, no internet, then how are they on the internet? Simple, we drove 45 miles to the main town around here. Mystie ran in at the donut shop and got donuts and I drug out the half charged laptop to let you know what was going on. If we are going to be blowed away, we might as well get blown away while stuffing our faces. Anyway, the power is out, the laptop’s battery is going and I just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know what is going on. Ain’t free wifi great! Yeah right, tell you get hacked.

Anyway, just as soon as the power comes back on at the office, we shall return. Till then, grab a donut and sympathize with us, lol!

See ya’ in a bit, hopefully,

Lady of the Abyss

Good Monday Morning to one and all! I hope you are enjoying your Labor Day. Hey, a short work week ahead, if nothing else!  We are taking the day off to take time to spend with our family and friends. If nothing else(in my case), just to enjoy the peace & quiet.  I know why I am Solitary, I like the time I get to spend alone. Sound strange? It gives me time to think and clear my mind. I believe anybody who does this seven days a week needs a break every now and again. If not, you get burnt out, real quick. So we are taking a break, enjoying the day, perhaps hitting the old fishing hole, do a little grillin,’ who knows but we are going to enjoy the day. If nothing else, in the past few months, I have learned to enjoy every moment you can because there might not be a next.

We hope you have a very safe, beautiful & blessed Labor Day. We will see you tomorrow.

Till then….

Lady of the Abyss & The WOTC Staff

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

Proxima Centauri: The Closest Star
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Explanation: Does the closest star to our Sun have planets? No one is sure — but you can now follow frequent updates of a new search that is taking place during the first few months of this year. The closest star, Proxima Centauri, is the nearest member of the Alpha Centauri star system. Light takes only 4.24 years to reach us from Proxima Centauri. This small red star, captured in the center of the featured image by the Hubble Space Telescope, is so faint that it was only discovered in 1915 and is only visible through a telescope. Telescope-created X-shaped diffraction spikes surround Proxima Centauri, while several stars further out in our Milky Way Galaxy are visible in the background. The brightest star in the Alpha Centauri system is quite similar to our Sun, has been known as long as recorded history, and is the third brightest star in the night sky. The Alpha Centauri system is primarily visible from Earth’s Southern Hemisphere. Starting last week, the European Southern Observatory’s Pale Red Dot project began investigating slight changes in Proxima Centauri to see if they result from a planet — possibly an Earth-sized planet. Although unlikely, were a modern civilization found living on a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, its proximity makes it a reasonable possibility that humanity could communicate with them.

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Before dawn, Orion the Hunter

Mike wrote:

I noticed on your site that Orion returned to the predawn sky in late July. You called it the ‘ghost of the summer dawn.’ Due to cloudy skies and other conditions, I was not able to see it until August 6. When will Orion return to the evening sky?

Mike, Orion the Hunter is always behind the sun as seen from Earth in June. It comes back to the predawn sky every year in late July. By early September, Orion is rising in the wee hours and is well up in the southeast an hour before dawn, as shown on today’s chart.

Orion will soon be up by midnight, then 10 p.m. … and by December you’ll find it rising in early evening.

There’s nothing unusual about Orion’s shift from the predawn to the evening sky. This constellation is simply following the westward shift of all the stars, caused by Earth’s orbit around the sun. As we orbit the sun, our night sky points toward an ever-changing panorama of the Milky Way galaxy. Our orbit causes all the stars to rise approximately 4 minutes earlier each day.

Bottom line: If you’re an early riser, look to the southeast and spot Orion the Hunter roaming the September predawn sky.

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The Wisdom of Buddha

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Your Ancient Symbol Card for Today

The Golden Egg

The Golden Egg denotes the opportunity for substantial material gains. However, the Golden Egg is also a reminder that unmanaged greed ensures what gains are made will be lost.

As a daily card, The Golden Egg suggest that the prospects for you to increase your financial wealth are very strong today. Seize whatever opportunities come your way, but don’t ride them too long or you may find yourself no better off than you were before they came along.

Get A Jump On Tomorrow…..

Your Daily Horoscopes for Sunday, September 3

By Astrologer Claire Petulengro

ARIES (March 21st-April 20th)
You may have learnt by now that the three great physicians are time, nature and patience. If you haven’t then this is the weekend you will learn just how important they will be for you this month. Happier times at home link to unexpected phone calls.

TAURUS (April 21st-May 21st)
Hard work is what it will take to make the most of your life this month. You’ve got the energy, you just don’t realise you have it yet. Something which took place at the end of last month is demanding an answer from you. Follow your heart!

GEMINI (May 22nd-June 21st)
Where money matters are concerned, things got out of hand. Today you start to see solutions where before you only saw problems. Happier times link to a new friend who has asked more than once to be a part of your life.

CANCER (June 22nd-July 23rd)
Baby steps you take are still helping you to move forward. Don’t take what help you have been offered for granted. If you do you may find yourself out of favour and friends before this weekend is over.

LEO (July 24th-August 23rd)
Your element of fire can often see you saying things you wish you could take back. What you learn today is that by saying what you really mean, rather than trying to protect your heart, you end up happier and more in control.

VIRGO (August 24th-September 23rd)
You may feel let down and betrayed, but what you’re about to discover is that someone’s actually done you a very large favour. Give yourself time to process what’s occurred before you start asking others’ opinions.

LIBRA (September 24th-October 23rd)
I see from the stars you’re looking for common ground with a close one. What I also see is that they’re not allowing you to do so. Getting back to what’s important to your day to day life will soon spur their interest.

SCORPIO (October 24th-November 22nd)
Try not to poke your nose into other people’s business, but instead put your energy into the personal matter you’ve been avoiding. By doing so you will add confidence and sparkle to who you are attracting all sorts of magic into your life.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23rd-December 21st)
You feel your future calling. What you can’t seem to work out is which of the many paths you see, should be your priority. A new calling in your career marks the beginning of the rest of your life.

CAPRICORN (December 22nd-January 20th)
You’re tired, but I also see that you’re not doing anything to distance yourself from those who have sapped your energy. Be true to yourself and give yourself the self respect and self worth you know you deserve.

AQUARIUS (January 21st-February 19th)
Travel is well starred and even though you may feel as if you have been deserted by certain people, they are actually there in spirit if not in body. A breakthrough with a legal or professional matter is possible if you do your research today.

PISCES (February 20th-March 20th)
Your need to see a certain person could see you travelling a ridiculous distance to make sense of recent words. Letting others talk would be a good way to ensure you don’t misinterpret or make up words.

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