If Today is Your Birthday: January 3

You are playful, clever, and have a fabulous sense of humor. Youthful all of your life, while you respect age and seniority, you don’t always accept that you are aging! Because you are quite quick-witted, it is easy for you to discover that you can lie and get away with it at a very young age. It’s up to you how you choose to use your cleverness! Many of you are quite spiritual in your beliefs in your adult life. Freedom and independence are extremely important to you. Famous people born today: J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen Stills, John Paul Jones, Mel Gibson, Bobby Hull, Victoria Principal.

Your Birthday Year Forecast:

The Sun in a waxing sextile to the Moon in your Solar Return chart has a fortunate influence on your year ahead. You can be especially productive this year, as in many ways you are starting fresh, but you have a rather clear vision of what you want to accomplish. Your inner needs tend to be mirrored by external events, and vice versa, which helps to boost your confidence and happiness levels. You more readily accept that challenges are part of the natural cycle in life, which in turn helps you to meet them with confidence and to worry less. You are likely to be on top of your game this year for the most part, and positive connections with others can be made fairly easily. A comfortable level of personal popularity helps keep conflict to a minimum. With the ability to handle your emotions successfully, there will be less stress on both your mind and body.

Neptune transits in harmony with your Sun this year. A higher purpose to your life is what you seek, and you rely more heavily upon your intuition in order to achieve it. You could find that your intuition is subtly enhanced and that you’re often in the right place at the right time, probably because your hunches are more likely to be correct. This aspect softens your disposition somewhat, as you tune into your imaginative and artistic side. This is a good year for self-improvement programs or efforts. The need to “get away from it all” — for some peace and quiet now and again — will be strong. A more sensitive, even mysterious, persona is projected this year, and this can attract pleasantly unusual circumstances (and people) into your life. You will want to reserve time alone, away from the hectic pace of life, for reflection and meditation.

Career and life path matters may seem to magically fall into place, taking you in a direction that fits.

There is charm in the way you present your ideas this year, helping to smooth over differences in your personal relationships. The period ahead favors dancing, swimming, photography, arts, and entertainment. If you are an artist, this could be an especially inspired, imaginative, and productive year. Pay attention to your gut feelings, which will, more often than not, give you valuable information. Business benefits from a more creative approach, but you should be especially careful that you aren’t missing important details. This can be a year in which you are building faith and confidence in your personality, skills, and talents. You can experience a stronger desire to seek out

The period ahead favors dancing, swimming, photography, arts, and entertainment. If you are an artist, this could be an especially inspired, imaginative, and productive year. Pay attention to your gut feelings, which will, more often than not, give you valuable information. Business benefits from a more creative approach, but you should be especially careful that you aren’t missing important details. This can be a year in which you are building faith and confidence in your personality, skills, and talents. You can experience a stronger desire to seek out meaning, wisdom, and mental stimulation in your life during this period. Others might frequently turn to you for guidance.

This can be a powerful year for friendships. You are especially concerned with being fair to one another in your relationships. You seek out balance and peace, and the platonic elements of a relationship may be emphasized now with great success. There can be a focus on sharing or blending beliefs, morals, and values; or there can be a strong focus on growing and improving through one another. This can also be a very creative, artistic time.

You are likely to establish connections and/or relationships with people that help forward your own personal growth. Teamwork and camaraderie, as well as meaningful connections, are themes. You feel your life has a definite purpose this year. Through your contacts with others, you are encouraged to grow.

Pleasing circumstances surrounding your love life, finances, and creative pursuits are in store this year. You are more generous, and others return the favor. You might receive financial backing or special gifts in the period ahead. You seek a little more from your love life and you are likely to receive it. Some of you could fall in love this year, or existing relationships are enhanced. Adventure-seeking is a theme.

Perceptions are more reliable than usual this year, and it’s an active period for self-development. You are more resourceful and might benefit from some great bargains, buys, and finds. You may be recycling ideas from your past and bringing new energy to your projects that increases their success. For some, long-lost friends or lovers can return or an existing relationship can transform and reach a new level.

The year ahead is one for discovering your creative side. Making new contacts through learning and mental pursuits figures strongly. The period ahead is one of greater consideration for others, self-understanding, enterprise, and winning projects. You meet with people who inspire you to be your best. You have much energy to pour into your pursuits, although you can be a little moody when it comes to motivation for your projects – you need to feel inspired for the energy to flow well. Your ability to pace yourself leads to greater happiness and health.

2017 will be a Number Six year for you. Ruled by Venus. This is a year of relative contentment. It is a time when love is the easiest to attract, and partnerships formed under this vibration have a better chance for longevity. You are able to attract others, and material things as well, this year. This is a good year for establishing harmony in the family and in the home. Advice – develop existing relationships, be positive and receptive because these kinds of energies help you to attract what you desire. 

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Cafe Astrology

Your Daily Horoscopes for Tuesday, January 3rd

Aries

Venus is now in your soul sector, dear Aries, and will visit there until February 3rd. This cycle brings a little more mystery to your love life and your affections. You need time to get in better touch with your feelings during this period of your life, which can be complicated. Alternatively, relationships can be a little complex. There can be a greater love of private moments, and some of you will be enjoying a certain measure of solitude or benefits and help coming from behind the scenes. There may be significant private moments with a partner, or circumstances are such that you need to keep things quiet or give of yourself, making sacrifices for those you love. Some of you could be taking a break from romance. There is every reason to take your time during this cycle when it comes to matters of the heart and decisions about love. This is also true of money! Today can have its generous share of feel-good moments. Mercury’s retrograde continues until the 8th, and you may want to be mindful of what and how you communicate. Otherwise, there is a subtle sense that you’re getting over a hump, and possibly understanding a career matter better as you’re reminded of something relevant from the past.

Taurus

Venus moves into your friendship sector today, dear Taurus, where she will stay until February 3rd. This cycle brings good-natured energy and pleasing variety to your social life. It’s easier for you to attract friends and those who share common interests, and your manner is exceptionally approachable. You might gain a stronger sense of fulfillment through activities with and for others. If you need to make peace with someone, this is a good time to do so. It’s also strong for joining a group, working together with others in a team, socializing with associates, networking efforts, and setting long-ranging happiness goals. Today, you’re more inclined to see opportunities that you overlooked in the past. As well, there can be nice energy for personal appeal and friendships. Conversations about the past can be useful and may help clear the air.

Gemini

Venus begins its month-long transit of your career and reputation sector today, dear Gemini. This cycle brings increased social and financial opportunities through your business or professional dealings, as well as more concern for the image you are projecting to others. You are coming across as helpful, charming, attractive, and kind. You are socially ambitious right now, and success may come through your good managerial qualities or some form of artistic talent. Making personal contact with people in positions of authority or with the public can enhance your career and reputation. Today, dig deep, research, and keep an open mind. Discoveries can be breakthrough. You may be in the position to mediate or counsel someone today. Although Mercury remains retrograde until the 8th, your communications are likely to come through quite well as people are responding to your gestures more than your words today.

Cancer

Venus begins its transit of your solar ninth house today, dear Cancer, where it will stay until February 3rd. This cycle is strong for your powers of attraction and for bringing desired things to you. It also stimulates your desire for more variety and diversity in your life. Your tastes can be a little more exotic now, and your interests and attractions can stray quite a bit from your usual ones – you’re interested in new and different flavors! Sharing your personal philosophy with someone special can bring a relationship to a new level or might even attract a new one. Today, you are likely to enjoy chatting with others and exchanging ideas or talking through problems. Reminding yourself of past successes can help you to solve problems in the present.

Leo

Venus enters the sign of Pisces today, where she will transit until February 3rd, dear Leo. This transit stimulates your urge to share in a harmonious manner with others, and on a more mundane level, can be beneficial for money shared or coming to you from other sources than direct personal income. You are beginning a cycle that favors working on the more complicated or intricate areas of relationships, sharing, and intimacy. Mars has been in this area of your chart since December 19th, and while Mars is excellent for pushing ahead and getting results, you may welcome the softer touch and kindness of Venus here now as well. Negotiations go more smoothly. With both of these influences, you are in a great position to bring more creativity and dynamism to your intimate life in the coming weeks, as well as to the handling of money.

Virgo

Venus moves into the sign opposite yours and your partnership sector in your solar chart, dear Virgo, where she will stay until February 3rd. The month ahead is excellent for attracting and enhancing close relationships. This influence can bring pleasant people or social situations into your life. You are open to conciliate and compromise now, considering the other side of the coin before making decisions. Mars has been in this sector of your chart since December 19th, and while this has been a dynamic and active time, you can certainly use Venus’ softer touch in your relationships now. This is an especially good time for negotiations of all kinds, although you’re in a better position after the 8th. With Mercury retrograde until then, there can be some problems with being understood. Even so, you are working things in such a way that you’re coming out ahead today. Today can be most excellent for design and creative projects. You are assuaging tension in your relations quite successfully.

Libra

Venus begins its month-long transit of your work and health sector today, dear Libra. The month ahead is strong for bringing more harmony, enjoyment, and even aesthetic appeal to your daily life and working environment. Restoring balance to working relationships can be in focus, and perhaps some social opportunities through your work or your daily routines. Work and charm are tied to one another during this cycle, and this can mean attractions on the job for some, or improved social relations in the work environment. There may be some lack of discipline at times, however. It may not be the most productive of times in the year, but it serves a useful purpose, as the enjoyment of your work and routines is important. Today, your imagination takes you to inventive places, and you could have a great time thinking up new plans or procedures, especially those that make life easier and more progressive, in and around the home and with your business.

Scorpio

Venus enters your creative and romantic sector today for a month-long stay, dear Scorpio. This is one of the best Venus transits of the year for natural charm, attraction, romance, and artistic expression. You are more playful and attractive, and you are received well by others, especially love interests. It’s also a good cycle for dabbling in the arts, entertainment, and pleasure-seeking activities. Venus in this sector of your chart can offer a nice release from pressures. Today can be good for interactions with a sibling or news you can truly use. If you’ve been doing editing or reviewing recently, as many of you have, you might begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Remember that you may be a little disconnected from your heart when you speak, and so can others. Otherwise, enjoy your more inspiring ideas and a sense of progress.

Sagittarius

Venus enters your home and family sector today, dear Sagittarius, and will visit this house of your solar chart until February 3rd. During this cycle, great energy is with you for home and family matters. Your heart may be playing it safe with new people, however. Make a point of spending more leisure time with family or those near and dear. You might get an urge to dress up your living quarters in a more artistic or aesthetically pleasing way. Entertaining in the home can also be quite favorable during this cycle, and efforts to smooth over relations with family can be quite successful. Love might be found close to home. Today’s conversations or news could be a breakthrough of sorts as you come to new knowledge that sheds light on a past matter. Others tend to support your ideas and family can be especially appreciative. Even so, it’s important to be mindful of how and what you communicate now as retrograde Mercury is about to move into your sign.

Capricorn

Today and until February 3rd, Venus is in favorable aspect to your Sun, dear Capricorn. This transit boosts your communication skills as well as your powers of persuasion. You seem to know what to say at just the right moment, although this may be more pronounced only after Mercury’s retrograde that lasts until January 8th. Love can be enhanced with good conversations, emails, texts, and letters. Others can be especially attracted to your ideas and style of communication. Instead of pushing for answers, Venus waits for them to come her way or asks for them nicely! During this cycle, you are especially curious about others and particularly interested in sharing your daily activities with a friend or lover. Today, you could find yourself on the same page as a friend. Keep in mind that some communications can be taken a little more seriously or literally, and not correctly. Even so, today is strong for feeling positive and hopeful as well as enjoying unusual ideas. Gestures may be far more meaningful than words right now.

Aquarius

Venus moves out of your sign today and into your values sector, dear Aquarius, where she will visit for one month. Affections stabilize during this cycle, and you especially appreciate simple pleasures. This is a stable position for love matters and close relationships or at least a period in which relationships tend to be status quo. You value those who make you feel comfortable. Money or gifts may come to you at this time, and money may be spent on comfort items and beautiful things. There can be surprise support or memory and intuition that boosts your business or money situation today. While ideas can be inspired, it’s better not to begin a brand new project today with Mercury still retrograde until the 8th, as it will likely get off to a slow start or it can be reconsidered later on. Even so, this si a good time for feeling positive and sharing valuable ideas. Let life inspire you today, be a little more mindful with communications and directions, and take note of new ideas.

Pisces

The Moon is in your sign again today, dear Pisces, and you’re in tune with your feelings. Today, Venus leaves your privacy sector and moves into your sign for a month-long stay. This puts the focus on pleasure and affection in your life. Your natural charm emerges for everyone to see during this cycle, and you are also clearer about your feelings and more expressive and open with your affections. Your demeanor is calmer, more harmonious, and attractive, although your affections may feel quite urgent. People notice you for your personality and unique traits. Your powers of attraction skyrocket, and with Mars already in Pisces, you can certainly attract attention! Today’s Mercury-Venus influence further promotes your interests and is good for connecting with others, but because Mercury remains retrograde until January 8th, it can be a little tricky in some areas mainly due to the possibility of speaking about matters of the heart without our hearts fully in the equation.

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Cafe Astrology

Weekly Astrology: January 2 – 8, 2017

Matters of the head and heart

By Maria DeSimone

Weekly, New-year, Astrology

Part of the Daily Insight Group

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Astrology of Today – Tuesday, January 3, 2017

• The Moon is in Pisces all day (until Wednesday, January 4th, at 11:19 AM).
• The Moon is void from 8:32 PM forward (until tomorrow at 11:19 AM).
• The Moon is waxing and in its Waxing Crescent phase.
• A New Moon occurred on the 29th in the sign of Capricorn and the First Quarter Moon will occur on January 5th.
• Mercury is retrograde (Mercury is retrograde from December 19-January 8).
• Venus enters Pisces today (Venus transits Pisces January 3-February 3).

What’s in Store by the Stars:

January 3, 2017

Venus enters Pisces early today, where it will transit until February 3rd. With the goddess of love in Pisces, our love is all-embracing, we are able to forgive and understand, we are seducible and seductive, and we show compassion to our partners. Venus in Pisces is tender and affectionate, although hard to reach nevertheless, as there is a longing for something that is hard to define and hard to satisfy. Borders and boundaries blur under Venus in Pisces. The shadow side of this position is allowing ourselves to be victimized or deluded, as well as evasiveness. We are open and creative and have an intuitive approach to money, personal possessions, the pursuit of pleasure, and art. The Moon continues to transit Pisces all day. Retrograde Mercury forms a sextile with Venus today, and this stimulates a desire to cooperate, compliment, encourage, and express our affections. We might also tend to analyze our relationships, particularly past ones.

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2017 Energy Reports: Releasing These in a Segmented Series

a message from Lisa Transcendence Brown

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

Aloha love family,

I am working on the 2017 Energy Report(s) in many different segments, because of how much information there is, the different dimensions and collectives there are, and how each dimension will experience is vastly different. Those who have been doing this process intentionally will understand this….

I will be typing these up in segments and am not sure if it will be 2 segments or 10… we will find out… They will all be titled: 2017 Energy Report: (Then followed by the primary focus of each report.) I hope to voice record them as well at some point, yet vibrationally all has to align for me to accomplish everything here.

What is coming, like in the previous linear years, when we “see”, we have to take great care in how we share the information, because each perceives this information differently. When I gained “prophetic abilities” a years ago, a whole new level of responsibility also came forth. There is much that we do not share, because it is so vastly mis-understood and for many, we choose not to project such things “creating a belief, fear or conceptualized reality”. We present in a way that this information can be utilized as a tool to work with in order to experience this huge process much easier.  We do realize that experience is necessary to give one a “reference point to understand all of this”, until experience is no longer required in order to “get it” fully from within. Those who are totally open and ready, it’s a very different experience than those who are not. Other times, it’s totally appropriate to say certain things to stir all up, to challenge fixed/limited human mindsets, to create confusion so that clarity can be achieved. Confusion is the human stretching/challenging the “boxes” of realities created and believed as “real”. Challenging realities is what often opens the door for others realities not previously perceived to become visible. One’s heart has to open FULLY for this to occur. Fear becomes a motivator instead of being “frozen” in time. We “work” to move those ready beyond the space of “needing” fear (perceived as loss or threats) as a tool to open up/step-up/do what it takes to shift realities intentionally and as love here. Fear creates one experience, love creates another. Each are always available. The parallel created/timeline activated is determined by either unconscious or conscious actions…

What’s coming is all-over-the place if we lump it all into one box. We have to separate it out by dimensions to explain it, so that each vibrating in and out of different dimensional experiences can identify with which dimension they are currently creating/experiencing, so as to choose to shift intentionally, therefore changing dimensions. It is that easy. The “hard part” is the achieving of the physical body’s OVERALL vibrating at that highest frequency all of the time, to actually physically gain the ability to not vibrate physically back into (old) unconscious one again and the ability to ACHIEVE YOUR HIGHEST ONE in the physical here.

Because absolutely everything is a part of this, every reality, every occurrence, every part of your body, your mental constructs, your emotions, your physical body density (physical matter/space/mass), the Light Quotient integrated into your physical body (LightBody), the amount of evolved/formed crystals (Crystalline/Christed Consciousness) formed within your physical body structure, the amount of embedded higher light codes, the amount of density that has been released, the amount of SPACE held in your body (yes, as a Galactic), the evolution of your physical body occurs as you open your heart fully, bring the walls down, open/stretch your mind continually (Higher/Universal Mind), the more your entire neural network has been re-wired, your organs/glands (systems) have been re-worked, the less your human controls the process out of fear and you honor the process as a multi-dimensional here.

The 12/20/16 showings of “The Extreme of Extremes” now begins as we have CROSSED THE THRESHOLD into the next phase that continaully begins, today being a marker point for our “new year”. Nothing is linear and all occurs vibrationally. We have now reached that vibration. This is occurring “faster” and “faster”, as the cycling process has been increased substantially now.

Over the last two days, we began a HUGE TEMPLATE WIPING and Operating System Upgrade process, with new light encodements/filaments being embedded into our’s & Earth Gaia’s Physical Bodies to bring our Crystalline LightBody Structures further online here. Deep cellular cleansings and deep core SOUL “work” is occurring on a multi-dimensionally/on an energetic level. Every cell in our body going through deep CORE re-sequencing right now.

These intricate re-coding & re-calibration processes are as complicated or as simple as we require/allow them to be. Honoring the process and being totally present and aware, as it can be quite uncomfortable for our human, yet very easy for us as Galactics here. This discomfort is also cellular cleansing that needs to occur. Discomfort is often the energy that presents as we transcend our own human’ness and deep cellular programming held within. Breaking points are necessary for the really super big shifts. These can be extremely physical, emotional or just energetic. How physically dense (matter) or light (energy) we are will dictate HOW we experience this.

Today we continue deep cellular cleansings and template re-writes, so be kind to yourself and honor what your body speaks to you. If you feel to sleep, sleep. The integration process will occur easier, yet your human will have issues. Early years, “Deal with it”, were my higher selve’s words along the way…. Our human minds don’t work when huge operating system upgrades are occurring (which are continual now). Linear work is a great struggle for those of us that have this as a part of how we provide here. It takes every moment of “forward movement” for us to accomplish all vibrationally to adhere to linear parameters, yet not being bound by these. Once the process is complete, all will “speed up” for you to re-align/to re-align for you, with all functioning at a “higher processing rate” than ever before. Be patient, for when this occurs, portals/gateways open huge “releasing” everything that was “on the other side” to arrive/materialize that was not physically available/accessable before.

StarGate alignments now increase beyond anything before. These BRING ALL INTO ALIGNMENT FOR US and create the “convergence” of a multitude of dimensions in this “space” here. It’s also when Inner Earth “vibrations” amp up/increase and Galactic Portals open in order to vibrationally converge multiple dimensions/galaxies/timelines in our physical one here.

I will write more on this in other segments and post links back to my website to read these soon. So very much love to you! ♥

Start 2017 with Hope

a message from Selacia

To view more of Selacia’s insight, please visit her website, Selacia and the Council of 12

Right now is a perfect time to set the energetic tone for how you want to begin 2017. This is done with consciousness and intention, your purposefully deciding what kind of experience you want to have. Yes, there is a lot of very strange stuff happening out there in the world, but you can consciously choose your responses.

One example is hope. At the core of your being, you are hopeful and filled with light. This part of you can move through any challenge and remain confident that everything will be okay. This response of hope has a palpable energy. It lifts you up and gives you courage to prevail and persist. It helps you to succeed, and to see success even in so-called failure. When you connect with hope in a grounded spiritual way, it is like an elixir from the heavens.

In this article, I outline some ways to connect with your own reservoir of hope and become more resourced for what’s next. As you read, invite your inner wisdom to show you what is relevant for your life. Ask for understanding and a knowing of divine timing in all things.

Background

Much of the outer world craziness and uncertainty of 2016 is continuing as we sit in the void of not knowing the next chapter. In fact, as you probably have noticed, that void has rather unusual energies now. We really haven’t witnessed anything quite like it in our lifetimes. We have had wild cards before, but the sheer number of them occurring simultaneously is unprecedented.

January an Instrumental Month

Given that, the month of January will be instrumental in determining a number of new directions. This is happening out there in our world but also within ourselves. It’s vital that we be awake to the process and be in the driver’s seat of our own lives. No matter how uncertain or gloomy things seem, we must remain hopeful and take steps to forge new beginnings in our lives.

New beginnings will be unfolding around us in the external world. There likely will be a heightened sense of anticipation, intensity, and concern within society as people respond to events.

Many things occurring will be outside of our individual control. What we do have control over, however, is our response. No matter how strange things get, the key for us is to find our balance and take the high road of spirit. As we do that, we connect with the energy of hope at our core.

Shedding Many Skins

Most likely, you feel like you have shed many skins this year. It has been a time of mega transformation, letting go, and experimenting with new approaches for living your best life. Some of your experiments may have had a lukewarm reception or outcome. Others may still be percolating, not yet ripe. Still others may be fully formed, but cannot yet be manifested because the timing isn’t yet right.

What’s in Store for January

Here are a few highlights of what’s in store for January.

First, it’s the start of a new year with the energy of new beginnings in the air. That likely will feel different this January because of the wild cards and tensions of not knowing how things will play out. Personal tips: pay attention to what’s happening but pay more attention to managing your own energy and emotional responses. You may need more sleep or more frequent refueling to stabilize when so much stress is in the air. Do your best to avoid taking things personally by being a neutral observer. Come back to your center often to be reminded of what really matters to you, and to feel the hopefulness at your core.

Second, we are still in Mercury Retrograde through the first week of January. That means revisiting issues, review of plans, and sometimes re-dos when things didn’t go right the first time. It’s normal to want to be full speed ahead as the year starts, but with Mercury Retrograde, it sometimes may feel more like traveling in first gear or neutral.  Mercury tips: pace yourself and breathe often. Remember that you are a quantum being and that when you are operating in quantum, what needs to happen can get done in a flash of time. Don’t let apparent delays irritate you. Trust in divine orchestration.

Third, note in your calendar the January 12 Full Moon. This will be a powerful Cancer Full Moon, with the potential for challenging dynamics and intense emotions. Issues from behind the scenes could arise unexpectedly. The best way to work with these energies is to stay grounded and in your heart. Strive to be patient and allowing. If something comes to a boiling point energetically, consider a time out so you don’t say or do something you may later regret. Other key energy dates: we have some tense planetary lineups and the Sun moving into Aquarius January 19, the day before the US Presidential Inauguration on January 20. The very next week, we have the January 27 Aquarius New Moon occurring the day before the January 28 start of Chinese Rooster Year. From an energy standpoint, it’s going to be a month of intensity, catalysts for change, and challenges in relating to others. Do your best to stay in your center and regroup your energy often. Take time daily to listen to your inner guidance about actions and timing.

Going into this potentially groundbreaking year, remember the big picture of why you are here. Remember your role as a divine changemaker. Remember that you are not an accidental tourist who just happens to be here as the world goes through its messy remake.

On a soul level, you have a destiny here during these times. The world needs your love, your consciousness, and your light. You as a human being need to have the completions and self-realizations available because of living now. In no other lifetime to date could you do and complete what is possible now. Treasure that for the opportunity it is. On a daily basis, invite a tangible connection with the energy of hope that exists at your core. Ask to be guided to live your best life.

St. Genevieve, the Deer Dance, and Weather Forecasting

In the East Anglian tradition this day was dedicated to St. Genevieve, patroness of the city of Paris. At seven years of age Genevieve was singled out of a crowd by St. Germain of Auxerre, who foretold of her future sanctity.

The life of St. Genevieve was one of great austerity, constant prayer, and works of charity.

January 3 is still the day that Native American tribes of the Pueblo perform their annual fertility ceremony, known as the Deer Dance. This centuries-old ceremony includes a ritual dance performed by a Shaman, wearing a deer headdress, who invokes the Goddess known as the Deer Mother. When properly summoned, the Deer Mother grants the tribe prosperity for the coming year.

In Elizabethan England, the third day of January was set aside to observe the weather. It was believed that if the weather was mild at this time, it would be paid for later. This rhyme, from The Perpetual Almanack of Folklore by Charles Kightly, is an example of this observance:

A kindly good Janiveer,
Freezeth the pot of the fire.
If in January, the sun much appear,
March and April pay full dear.

Mar’s Energy

Weekday ruled by Mars: Tuesday

Stones:
Bloodstone
Ruby
Garnet
Carnelian
Pink Tourmaline
Diamond

Herbs and Plants:
Red Rose
Cock’s Comb
Mugwort
Mullien
Nettle
Thistle
Wormwood

Magickal Intentions: Courage, physical strengths, revenge, Military Honors, surgery, breaking negative cycle, was, vitality,assertiveness.

Tuesday Is Ruled By Mars

Tuesday is a Mars day, and just like the god of war, this is the time to tap into magicks to call for strength and courage. This day of the week is for rebels and warriors. If you are facing a challenge of any kind, need a boost to your courage, or want to enhance your passions, Tuesday is the day of the week for you. Some suggestions for Tuesday enchantments would include:

*Wearing the fiery colors associated with this day: scarlet, red, black, and orange. Don some of the more daring and bewitching colors of your wardrobe on Tuesdays and turn a few heads

*Carrying a bloodstone in your pocket or wearing garnet-studded jewelry to reinforce your convictions

*Working with protective and fire-associated plants such as the snapdragon, thistle, and holly to boost your shields and bravery

*Burning spicy-scented energy-enhancing candles to add a little magical aromatherapy to your home

*Cooking up a hearty meal featuring carrots, peppers, and garlic (all Mars foods and spices) to empower yourself for victory and success

Correspondences for Tuesday, January 3rd

Tuesday (Tiw’s-day)

Planet: Mars

Colors: Red and Autumn Shades

Crystals: Bloodstone, Ruby, Garnet, Flint, Rhodonite, Iron and Steel

Aroma: Basil, Ginger, Black Pepper, Mars Oil, Dragon’s blood and patchouli

Herb: Basil

The day of Mars. This day could only ever symbolize the sheer power of the god of war! The ideal spells to be cast on this day are that of force, power war and protection.

Dedicated to the powers of the planet Mars, personified as Ares, Tiwaz, Tiw, and Tyr.

Magical aspects: controlled power, energy, and endurance, passion, sex, courage, aggression, and protection.

This is the proper day of the week to perform spells and rituals involving courage, physical strength, revenge, military honors, surgery, the breaking of negative spells, dynamic energy, matrimony, war, enemies, prison, hunting, politics, contests, protection, victory, and athletics.

The Witches Almanac for Tuesday, January 3

Tuesday (Mars): Passion, sex, courage, aggression, and protection.

St. Genevieve’s Day

Waxing Moon
The Waxing Moon (from the New Moon to the Full) is the ideal time for magic to draw things toward you.

Moon phase: First Quarter

Moon Sign: Pisces
Pisces: The focus is on dreaming, nostalgia, intuition, and psychic impressions. A good time for spiritual or philanthropic activities.

Incense: Ginger

Color: White