The Magick of Friday

Magickal Intent:
Lust
Romance
Happiness
Travel
Friends
Beauty
Sexuality
Harmony
Growth

Planet: Venus

Colors: Pink, Aqua, Seafoam

Crystals: Coral, Emerald, Rose Quartz

 

New Moon + Solar Eclipse – February 26/27, 2017

By Simone M Matthews

During our February New Moon in Pisces we have a Solar Eclipse combined with a number of other high energy alignments with Neptune, the fixed star Skat and the Galactic Centre.

Please keep reading down the page where I share with you the following:

General Meaning of the Energy of New Moons
Energy of our February 26/27, New Moon
Energy of our New Moon Annular (Total) Solar Eclipse
Energy of other alignments – Neptune, Skat & Galactic Centre
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What a HUGE energetic week (in fact the next few weeks)…. sharing with you how to make the most of these powerful celestial events ☆
GENERAL MEANING: New Moons

New_Moon_PThe NEW MOON represents the beginning of our 29 day lunar month. During a New Moon, the moon is roughly sitting between the Earth & the Sun, hence the Sun is shining on the ‘dark side of the moon’, the side of the moon we never see. As a result, we cannot see the moon as the side that faces the Earth is not illuminated.

The Moon & the Sun emanate frequencies and these energy waves influence the tides, and all life forms on Earth, including human behaviour / consciousness. In addition, during a NEW MOON, both the Moon & Sun are in the same Zodiac sign… giving an exponential boost or concentration of the energy.

The SUN represents our ‘outer-world’, our identify, our personality, our ego. It represents how we ‘shine our light’ out into the world, the present moment, our yang or masculine archetype expression. The Sun offers us strength, courage and illuminated insight of the Soul.

The MOON represents our ‘inner world’, our hidden emotions, desires, our shadow-self, fears/worries and our dreams. It represents our feelings, our unconscious beliefs, the past and our yin or feminine goddess archetype. The Moon offers us the ability to feel, learn from the past and creatively unlock and express our essence.

During a NEW MOON, the side of the moon that remains invisible to us here on Earth is being illuminated by the Sun. Thus our own ‘invisible’ side, our inner feelings, emotions and desires are also being illuminated during a new moon. During this illumination, we are given a window of opportunity to start a fresh, let go of the energy of the previous cycle and set our intentions, dreams & inner-most desires into conscious action.

The NEW MOON is a great time to set your intentions, write down goals or begin new projects for the forthcoming cycle. Consider sitting in ceremony or personal meditation and affirming to the Universe your intentions & inner-most heartfelt desires for the cycle.
ENERGY: New Moon – February 26/27
Moon – past, Intuition, unconscious, emotions, nurturing, feelings
Sun – now, Identity, consciousness, self-esteem, expression
Pisces (Water) – Sensitive, psychic, dreamy, creative, charitable, impressionable

Sunday, 26 February 2017 – 6:58 am PST (USA/Canada)
Sunday, 26 February 2017– 9:58 am EST (USA/Canada)
Sunday, 26 February 2017– 2:58 pm UTC
Monday, 27 February 2017 – 12:58 am AEST (Australia)
Monday, 27 February 2017 – 1:58 am AEDT (Australia)
Monday, 27 February 2017– 3:58 am NZDT (New Zealand)
View times in your City/Country>

Our February NEW MOON falls in the Zodiac sign of PISCES. Piscean New Moons are very powerful experiences of self-exploration… an opportunity to dive deep into the darker recesses of the psyche and explore the unconscious.

Whilst a heightened sensitivity and spiritual intuitive awareness of a Piscean New Moon maybe a very emotional experience for many, it need not be a painful or distressing experience. If you allow the glimpses into self to emerge with ease and simply trust in the divine unfoldment of the unknown… you open the door to reveal the highest version of yourself.

During this Piscean New Moon your inner-creativity will be heightened (during both your waking & sleep hours) and you may find yourself dreaming solutions to problems in your life or seeing new paths of opportunity beyond your perceived limitations. Allow the Piscean energy to amplify your dreamy state such that it knows no boundary. Don’t ‘play small’ with your dreams during a Piscean New Moon… to quote the words of Einstein: ‘you can’t solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created it’. So dream big, bold, beautiful & joyously this New Moon in order to create new opportunities from a higher level of consciousness.

Our February Piscean New Moon is being amplified exponentially by the Solar Eclipse PLUS the alignments with Neptune, Fixed Star Sketa & Galactic Centre. Please keep reading down the page for all the details.
ENERGY: Total Solar Eclipse

During this February 2017 New Moon, we also have an Annular Solar Eclipse.

Firstly, a Solar Eclipse is whereby the moon moves between the Earth and Sun, obscuring Earth’s view of the Sun.

And then an Annular Solar Eclipse is where from our position here on Earth, the Sun appears behind the Moon as a very bright ring of light (an annulus or ring of fire) around the dark disk of the Moon, as the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. From the vantage point of Earth, during our February Annular Solar Eclipse the moon will cover approx 99.27% of the Sun.

Solar Eclipse’s create the potential for huge personal and hence planetary transformations. The energy of a Solar Eclipse ‘obscures’ the now or potential future, and allows you to reflect on the past. Not to drag up old energy, or relive painful events or experiences, but rather to positively reassess where you have been and use this knowledge to re-adjust your path moving forward.

Whilst this eclipse is extraordinarily powerful, it doesn’t have to be a horrendous experience of loss, despair, struggle and inner-turmoil. You have a choice to experience this eclipse with a heightened or awakened vision of divine potential.

Let the Piscean dreamy intuitive states help you to see into the depths of your unconscious let go of all that was revealed during the Lunar Eclipse on the 10/11 February 2017 in order to step through golden doors of new opportunity in the months ahead.

With our New Moon Solar Eclipse aspecting Neptune, Skat & Galactic Centre (discussed below), I feel that this New Moon Eclipse will be the closing of a chapter (or even a book) in many peoples lives and the writing of a whole NEW STORY of awakened beauty and divine potential.

Our February Solar Eclipse will be visible in the Pacific Ocean, South America, Atlantic Ocean, Africa, Indian Ocean & Antartica.

View the visibility and times of the Lunar Eclipse in your city of the world >
Lunar Eclipse UTC Time AEST Time
Eclipse Begins 26 Feb 2017 at 12:10 pm 26 Feb 2017 at 10:10 pm
Maximum Eclipse 26 Feb 2017 at 14:58 pm 27 Feb 2017 at 12:58 am
Eclipse Ends 26 Feb 2017 at 17:35 pm 27 Feb 2017 at 3:35 am

Please also visit SLOOH.com where you can watch a LIVE broadcast of the Lunar Eclipse from anywhere in the world !
http://live.slooh.com/

 

Source

Universal Life Tools.com

 

The Sky This Week for February 24 to 26

A comet, visible star clusters, and other marvelous things to see in the sky this week.

By Richard Talcott
Friday, February 24

A pair of fine binocular objects shows up nicely on evenings this week. The open star clusters M46 and M47 reside about a degree apart in the northwestern corner of the constellation Puppis the Stern. The two lie about 12° east-northeast of the night sky’s brightest star, Sirius. The western cluster, M47, glows at 4th magnitude and appears as a fuzzy patch sprinkled with several pinpoint stars. Sixth-magnitude M46 shows up as a hazy collection of faint stars that is hard to resolve under most conditions. Although it contains nearly twice as many stars as M47, M46 appears fainter and fuzzier because it lies some three times farther from Earth.

Saturday, February 25

Asteroid 4 Vesta reached opposition and peak visibility in mid-January, but 2017’s brightest minor planet still shines at magnitude 7.0 and shows up easily through binoculars. To find the minor planet, start at magnitude 1.2 Pollux in northern Gemini and then drop 2.4° southwest to magnitude 4.1 Upsilon (u) Geminorum. Vesta lies 1.5° southwest of Upsilon this evening.

Sunday, February 26

New Moon occurs at 9:58 a.m. EST. At most New Moons, our satellite tracks across the sky with the Sun and remains hidden from view. But today, the alignment between the Moon and Sun is perfect and people in the right locales can view a solar eclipse. Observers across most of South America and southwestern Africa will see the Moon take at least a bite from the Sun. The best views, however, come along a narrow path that runs through southern Chile and Argentina before crossing the Atlantic and reaching the coast of Angola. People there will witness an annular eclipse. The Moon appears slightly smaller than the Sun in the sky, so observers along this central track will see a ring of sunlight surrounding the Moon. Because the eclipse is not total, people will need to use safe solar filters to view it directly.

Mars continues to put on a nice show these February evenings. It appears 25° high in the west once twilight fades to darkness, though it’s easier to find by looking 11° (about 1.5 binocular fields) to the upper left of brilliant Venus. The magnitude 1.3 Red Planet lies among the background stars of Pisces the Fish. Although this is normally a rather unremarkable region, it currently also hosts the distant planet Uranus. Mars passes just 34′ north of its 6th-magnitude neighbor this evening, and the two appear within 1° of each other both yesterday and tomorrow evenings. That’s close enough that both worlds appear within a single low-power telescopic field of view. Mars presents a 4.6″-diameter disk while Uranus, despite lying 10 times farther away, spans 3.4″. Neither object shows any detail, bit the ruddy color of Mars contrasts nicely with the blue-green of Uranus.

 

Source

 

Astronomy Magazine

 

Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Friday, February 24th

The Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 103.42° ESE
Sun Altitude: 2.53°
Sun Distance: 92.007 million mi
Next Equinox: Mar 20, 2017 5:28 am (Vernal)
Sunrise Today: 6:31 am↑ 101° East
Sunset Today: 5:43 pm↑ 259° West
Length of Daylight: 11 hours, 12 minutes

 

The Moon
Current Time: Feb 24, 2017 at 6:49:26 am
Moon Direction: ↑ 125.55° SE
Moon Altitude: 15.98°
Moon Distance: 240714 mi
Next New Moon: Feb 26, 20178:58 am
Next Full Moon: Mar 12, 20179:53 am
Next Moonset: Today3:57 pm
Current Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 5.0%

Source

timeanddate.com

 

Pagan Ways

Upon my altar a crystal ball,
An athame, candles and chalice tall,
A pagan goddess, a pagan god,
All laid upon my altar cloth,
A bell to help me celebrate,
Offerings placed upon a plate,
My pagan tools I now display,
How I love my pagan ways.

I’ll cast my circle upon the floor,
Then call upon the quarters four,
Earth, Fire, Water, Air,
The God and Goddess may join me there,
I may sing, or I may dance,
I may even dare to chant,
As pagan music softly plays,
How I love my pagan ways.

My ritual over, now time to seek,

I’m feeling light upon my feet,
I’ll walk among the trees and plants,
And search for berries upon the branch,
I’ll feel the breath of natures kiss,
At one with all is total bliss,
I wish I lived in bygone days,
To learn first hand these pagan ways.

 

—-Pagan Ways
Alan Faraway

 

At 3:45 a.m., Mystie’s home burnt to the ground. I got the phone call around 4:00 a.m., and went straight over to her home. There was nothing left. They got out of the house with the clothes on their backs and that’s it. The fire marshall is investigating the fire to determine what started it. Don’t get me wrong, he doesn’t expect arson, it is just standard procedure. In the mean time, Mystie and her son will be staying with me

 

I don’t know how well you know Mystie or not, she was beginning to take over this part of the WOTC. Then when that happened you would have come to realize what a wonderful person she really is. I grew up with her, she has been my sister for as long as I can remember. Her life hasn’t been easy. She was living in Mississippi when Hurricane Katrina hit shore. She lost everything then. To make matters worse, she was going back to Mississippi to see what was left of her home and she was hit head on by a semi-truck. She had her two sons with her at the time. One of her son’s only suffered minor injuries while the other one along with Mystie was flown to Vanderbilt. I did leave her side and I prayed every night for both of them to return to us. She did recover and like me she does have scars from that wreck she will carry with her the rest of her life.

 

As much as she has been through, she always manages to have a smile on her face. I thought it was only right to let you know what had happened. If you feel the need to donate something, it would be greatly appreciated. Right now she is wearing my clothes and my son has brought over some of his clothes for her son. Like I said they have nothing. Rebuilding, starting from scratch is nothing I have ever had to do, I don’t know if I would have the fortitude that Mystie has shown or not to keep doing it and doing it.

 

Please keep them in your prayers,

Lady A

 

I wouldn’t be running off so early but I promised my little fuzzy butt a trip outside to play. Before we do go, I have a concern or two and I want your opinion about the matter. So that no one would know who anybody was, I put it in poll form. It is also easier to hit a button and run, especially if your in a hurry. Please take a moment and let me know your honest thoughts, we would deeply appreciate it.

 

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.

2017 February 17

Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 660
Image Credit & Copyright: CHART32 Team, Processing – Johannes Schedler

 

Explanation: NGC 660 is featured in this cosmic snapshot. Over 40 million light-years away and swimming within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces, NGC 660’s peculiar appearance marks it as a polar ring galaxy. A rare galaxy type, polar ring galaxies have a substantial population of stars, gas, and dust orbiting in rings strongly tilted from the plane of the galactic disk. The bizarre-looking configuration could have been caused by the chance capture of material from a passing galaxy by a disk galaxy, with the captured debris eventually strung out in a rotating ring. The violent gravitational interaction would account for the myriad pinkish star forming regions scattered along NGC 660’s ring. The polar ring component can also be used to explore the shape of the galaxy’s otherwise unseen dark matter halo by calculating the dark matter’s gravitational influence on the rotation of the ring and disk. Broader than the disk, NGC 660’s ring spans over 50,000 light-years.

Big Dipper stars point to North Star

Bottom line: Use the Big Dipper to find Polaris, the North Star.

 

 

The Wisdom of Buddha

The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.

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 aare 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.

Please buy cosmetics, toiletries, and cleaning products that are NOT tested on animals! It is so easy and many mainstream brands no longer use this barbaric practice! Look for the leaping bunny symbol or other indication that the products are not tested

Your Ancient Symbol Cards for the Weekend of February 17th

 

The Eastern Dragon

The Eastern Dragon derives its symbolism from eons of rich, Asian culture. The Eastern Dragon is a revered creature who brings good fortune and power to those under its influence. It influences situations by supplying courage, nobility and perseverance. The Eastern Dragon is the most Yang of creatures in Chinese mythology, and represents the male character at its strongest and best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Cat

The Cat represents the need for stealth and the freedom to act without restrictions. Acting stealthily in no way implies the need for underhanded behavior. Instead the suggestion here is to move quietly towards your goals and reach out for them when they are within range. It also denotes a need to free yourself from restrictions imposed by others.

Your Weekend Influences for February 17th – 19th

 

Tarot Influence

Ten of Coins Reversed

You and your family may suffer through some misfortune. Be wary of high risk ventures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Astrological Influence

Virgo Reversed

Virgo reversed signifies a lack of honor and settling for the superficial.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Element Influence

Earth Reversed

Earth reversed denotes a lack of positive connection with the life spirit–a lost soul. If you are not careful you may miss much of what life has to offer you.

The Lovers

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Integrate two potential realities or let go of one of them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Meaning

Although it has taken on a strictly romantic revision of meaning in some modern decks, traditionally The Lovers Tarot card reflected the challenges of choosing a partner. At a crossroads, one cannot take both paths. The images on this card in different decks have varied more than most, because we have had so many ways of looking at sex and relationships across cultures and centuries.

Classically, the energy of this card reminded us of the real challenges posed by romantic relationships, with the protagonist often shown in the act of making an either-or choice. To partake of a higher ideal often requires sacrificing the lesser option. The path of pleasure eventually leads to distraction from spiritual growth. The gratification of the personality eventually gives way to a call from spirit as the soul matures.

Modern decks tend to portray the feeling of romantic love with this card, showing Adam and Eve at the gates of Eden when everything was still perfect. This interpretation portrays humanity before the fall, and can be thought to imply a different sort of choice — the choice of evolution over perfection, or the choice of personal growth through relationship — instead of a fantasy where everything falls into place perfectly and is taken care of without effort.

In the Advice Position

Creative compromise helps you accept your commitments fully.

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

The Lovers card advises that you study your options and make the wisest choice. Carefully consider your long-term interests. There is no judgment on what you choose to keep from the array of possibilities before you. Just watch out for choices that will produce dissatisfaction and discontent.

Be willing to make some compromises, then stick with the commitments you finally make. Trust your intuition along with your rational intellect, and once you make your choice, carry it out with conviction.

 

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