Your Daily Horoscopes for Sunday, May 22nd

Aries

You may be hitting brick walls if you move too fast or push too hard today, dear Aries. Patience may be in short supply now, and conflicts are quite possible, particularly revolving around opinions or other forms of disagreements. Aim not to take things too personally now, as difficult as this can be today, and avoid being argumentative. You can choose to react to what feels like insensitive comments, or you can choose to rise above them. Make safety an important priority, as impatience can lead to errors in judgment. Today’s Sun-Mars opposition can manifest as a battle of wills or an inner conflict. You can learn from anger or frustration that bubbles up today, and after the heat of the moment passes, you might figure out better ways of pursuing your goals and desires.

Taurus

Provocative energy is with us right now, but can be tamed if we consciously exercise patience, dear Taurus. It can be hard to have healthy conversations when both parties are trying to get their way. Money, sharing responsibilities, and intimate matters can all be heated topics now. Ultimately, you want to improve these things, and conflicts that emerge now could point you in the right direction. Battles of ego or will can be distracting, however, obscuring what truly matters. The Sun-Mars opposition occurring today might force a confrontation or it can put the spotlight on opposing forces related to money, possessions, debts, trust, and ownership. Try not to feel threatened by others’ assertion of their desires. Aim to take a lesson from any issues that become inflamed now. Attention should be drawn to better money management.

Gemini

Try not to allow confrontations lead only to hurt feelings and bruised egos, dear Gemini, and aim instead to learn from frustrations emerging now in order to improve conditions, particularly related to partnership. You might be encountering passive-aggressive behavior in others today, and this can lead to some level of confusion and chaos. It might seem like you can’t win, and this is probably true right now! People are especially sensitive today, so it may be wise to choose your words carefully, and your battles! Close partnerships may require considerate attention and care, but the tendency now is to too easily feel threatened by others’ assertion of their desires. Consciously letting go of the desire to assert yourself at all costs is important now.

Cancer

Today’s energies can be frustrating if you’re attempting to push forward plans, particularly related to work or health, but frustrations stimulated now can be very revealing, dear Cancer. Relationships are not likely to be easy today, and you may need to take a look at the hard issues so that you can later take action to make some important changes. Now is probably not the time to do so, however, because it’s hard to feel supported and to support others at the moment. Feeling dissatisfied is likely right now, and this discomfort can propel you to make improvements. Avoid lashing out at others if you feel overwhelmed by work or things on your to-do list. Mercury’s forward turn in your social sector promises more clarity and understanding with friends in the coming days. For now, be especially attentive to details.

Leo

Tensions now can come from pushing something that shouldn’t be accelerated, dear Leo. Particularly in your social life, matters can be especially emotional or tense. Battles of will and ego conflicts are possible. However inflamed things become, difficult areas are brought strongly to your attention, and this gives you the opportunity to see what may be tripping you up and eventually plan out how to make improvements. A matter from your past can emerge and frustrate you, but this can also be a signal to put something behind you once and for all. There may be push-pull energy in a friendship or romance, or you could experience problems between attention to friends or networking and love. You might also encounter a dilemma in which you’re not sure if you should go it alone or work with others to achieve your goals. Hot-headedness doesn’t win the day. Frustrations that arise out of conflict today may be very revealing.

Virgo

It’s in your best interests to be discreet and to avoid acting out today, dear Virgo, as the day’s energies are cantankerous at best. You are more visible than usual with the Sun in your solar tenth house, challenged by retrograde Mars in your home and family sector. Moodiness of family members or troubles on the home front are quite possible now. If people are not as warm as you might like them to be, do your best to set feelings aside and instead concentrate on those things that you can do to make improvements. However, do pay close attention to any emotional “slush”, anger, or resentment that surfaces now, as you might better understand some of the tension that has recently been plaguing you. Mercury turns direct today after a few weeks of retrograde motion, and this suggests a turnaround in some of your projects, particularly related to travel, education, publishing, ane legal matters.

Libra

Watch today for impatience that can lead you to trip over yourself, dear Libra, whether this is socially or literally. Communications can be tricky, and you may be inclined to speak about something prematurely or impatiently. It can be all too easy to get worked up over minor issues, and others may be argumentative or otherwise disagreeable as well. Consciously try to slow down and tame your desires, which can seem very immediate and urgent now, but may not seem as important later. You may be chasing a desire that isn’t true, but in the process, you may discover more about your innermost needs and wants. If so, you can redirect your energies more appropriately in the coming weeks. Mercury’s direct motion today is good news for financial and intimate matters as more clarity is likely to come to these areas of life going forward.

Scorpio

There can be a tug of war going on with someone, or within yourself, over money, possessions, and matters of control today, dear Scorpio. You can be swinging from being on the offensive to being on the defensive if you’re not careful, but pushing matters will only lead to further tension and possible discouragement. It can be difficult to satisfy ego desires right now. Wait it out and avoid pushing matters that need more time to unfold naturally. However, pay special attention to areas of heightened sensitivity, as these can be big clues to what you’ll want to improve and strengthen going forward. Matters of trust, sharing, and respect are in strong focus. If you’re not in touch with your desires, you may convince yourself to overspend. Mercury turns direct today after a few weeks of retrograde motion, and this can point to increasing clarity in your close relationships going forward.

Sagittarius

Power struggles are quite possible today with retrograde Mars in your sign opposing the Sun, dear Sagittarius. It can be very difficult to keep your cool at times today, and you may have difficulties knowing what you truly want. You can be feeling restless, blocked, or vetoed now, and it can be challenging to apply yourself as a result. You might also struggle with whether to tend to others’ needs or your own, when a compromise is truly the best course of action. Avoid pushing matters, but pay attention to the emotional slush that emerges today with conflicts, as it can be very revealing. Aim to learn how the ways you approach getting what you want can be improved. While work and health matters are set to iron out and become clearer in coming days and weeks, be a little more vigilant than usual to details today.

Capricorn

How you manage your time and channel your energy can be emerging issues now, dear Capricorn. You could be feeling under the weather, likely due to emotions and nervous tension. There are difficult energies today that seem to prevent healthy, open relationship patterns. Stubbornness is likely but should be avoided. Bringing up the past may be a real theme now with Mars retrograde and opposing the Sun, and while this may seem counterproductive, it can also alert you to problems that need handling. Tame impatience, which can lead to messy situations. Restlessness with your current routines is stimulated, largely due to uncertainty about where exactly it is you’re heading. Focus on doing your best instead of allowing a lack of direction interfere with productivity. In time, direction and purpose will be revealed.

Aquarius

Unrest with friends and lovers may be in focus now, dear Aquarius, largely because we may be focusing too much on what we want and neglecting to see the other side of the equation. Difficulties that have been put to the side, but that are still affecting relationships, can arise now, possibly in disruptive ways. Be patient with others, but don’t get pulled into game playing or “tug of war” scenarios, as this will sap you of energy that can be put to better use elsewhere. As well, treat others with care, while doing so with yourself. Try not to take things too personally, as hard as that may be right now! Aim to learn from the conflicts that emerge now. Circumstances seem to block quick progress today, so it’s best not to push.

Pisces

Work can pose some challenges in the form of frustrating delays or difficult personalities, dear Pisces, but opportunities arise to improve working conditions or refining goals if you’re looking for them. Be cautious when it comes to mixing personal and professional arenas again today – imbalances between these can be pronounced now, prompting you to pay more attention to time management strategies. You can feel pulled in many directions today with demands on you overwhelming at times. There can be pouting, drama, and all kinds of tricky relationship maneuvers going on now. Avoid letting these things drain you. Impatience won’t move things forward if they’re not ready to go in that direction. Be especially attentive to details today. While Mercury turns direct in your communications sector, the shift can magnify problems or stimulate fuzzy thinking.

Weekly Astrology: May 23-29, 2016

A meeting of the minds

By Maria DeSimone, Weeky, Astrology

Part of the Daily Insight Group

Once in a Blue Moon

Learn about the Blue Moon and its meaning

By Tarot.com Staff, Moon, Astrology

Have you heard the expression, “once in a Blue Moon,” and wondered what it means? Does the Moon really turn blue? Does this only happen once every couple of hundred or thousand years? Well, the answer is no and no. But it IS happening in May 2016.

The term “Blue Moon,” which people have adopted as a way of describing something rare, is more or less an “extra” Full Moon. Most years have 12 Full Moons, which occur approximately every month. But once every two or three years, there’s an extra Full Moon — and that is what we call a “Blue Moon.”

So why is there an extra Full Moon? It’s simply because the solar calendar has about 11 more days than the lunar calendar, and after a few years all those extra days build up to the point where there’s an extra Full Moon.

And why the color blue, if the Moon doesn’t really turn blue? It’s believed the word comes from an old Middle English word, “belewe” — which actually means “betray.” In other words, they used to call it the Betrayer Moon, because this extra Full Moon didn’t fit into the normal lunar cycle. Over the years the word “belewe” evolved into “blue” — hence, we give you the “Blue Moon.”

In spring of 2016, there are four Full Moons, making the Full Moon in Sagittarius on May 21 the “extra” Moon — the Blue mMoon. There won’t be another Blue Moon like this again until 2019.

Full Moons are emotionally charged, so any time there are two Full Moons in one month it means that month could be an emotional roller coaster for some people. Thank goodness it only happens once in a Blue Moon!

Part of the Daily Insight Group

Full Moon in Sagittarius Horoscopes
Immediate gratification is hard to find at May’s Full Moon

By Rick LevineVideos, Sagittarius, Moon, Horoscopes, Full Moon, Astrology

Part of the Daily Insight Group

Astrology of Today – May 22, 2016

Summary:

• The Moon is in Sagittarius all day (until Tuesday, May 24th, at 1:33 AM).
• The Moon is waning and in its Full Moon phase.
• A Full Moon occurred yesterday, and a Last Quarter Moon will occur on May 29th.
• Mercury stations direct today.
• Mars is retrograde (Mars is retrograde from April 17-June 29).

21st/22nd May 2016: Full Moon in Sagittarius

a message from Sarah Varcas

To view more of Sarah’s insight, please visit her website, Astro-Awakenings

Lilith & Luna

The Moon is full in the 2^nd degree of Sagittarius at 9:16 p.m. UT on 21^st May. Occurring less than 24 hours prior to the end of Mercury retrograde, this Moon signals a shift of perspective. Events of the past three weeks begin to reveal a deeper significance now and through the coming month. What may at first have seemed an unlikely possibility becomes all the more real as time passes and events unfold. Plans thrown off course due to unforeseen circumstances reveal the potential of their new configuration. What we thought we ‘knew better’ about affirms we knew very little and there was a whole heap of possibility previously overlooked.

This is a positive Moon with an uplifting tone and encouraging demeanour. That said, she poses a challenge too, our response to which will colour the weeks to come. Conjunct retrograde Mars she calls forth courage and appeals especially to those who identify as spiritual warriors, seeing through the seductions of an unconscious world, whilst living in that world full-blooded and passionate: engaged, enlivened and entranced by its paradoxical beauty. There exists an innocence about this Moon, even as she radiates timeless wisdom passed down through ages. Burning away the jaded half-truths of dogma and obedience to belief and form, she illuminates the vitality at the heart of a soul on fire for truth, god/dess, the divine – ready and willing to know the sacred inside out, back to front and more intimately than we know our very selves.

Currently in Scorpio, Black Moon Lilith also speaks, reminding us that without the darkness of inky skies we could never appreciate a magnificent moon. We cannot have light without darkness. To deny the shadows renders life uni-dimensional, robbed of its guts and gumption. Those feelings we judge as wrong or negative, the ones we’re told aren’t spiritual or ‘of the light’, they are part of us too, an expression of our wild nature which rages against obstacles, suffers when suppressed and challenges the narrative that nice is more important than true.

Lilith embraces everything and everyone, resplendent in her power and alive in her fullness. She stands beside every person torn apart by grief, ground down by depression, fractured by rage or broken by guilt. She looks into our eyes and sees our soul aflame with both divine love and sacred wrath, united in one ecstatic expression of Life. Combined with the buoyancy of this Moon she reminds us we can be all of these things when anchored soul-deep whilst reaching for the stars: the peaceful eye amidst the storm of humanity in which we live out our days.

In one month’s time we have a Blue Moon in Sagittarius, the foundations of which we encounter today. We can call upon Lilith to strengthen our spirit and sharpen our resolve to embrace all that arises between now and then. This energised and encouraging Moon enlivens our hearts, imbuing a sense of adventure where once was reluctance or fear. She reminds us the most effective response to life is born of an open mind and heart, not one resistant to the very conditions it struggles to confront. Every situation contains its opposite, each problem its solution, all shadows are defined by light. Once we know intimately the relationship between polarities within and without we can rest in the middle, assess with clarity and act with clear intention for the greatest and most courageous good.

Calendar of the Moon

Hawthorn Tree Month

Color: Purple
Element: Air
Altar: Upon a cloth of purple place a vase of the budded hawthorn twigs, a knife, incense of gardenia and marjoram, and a figure of the Goddess.
Offerings: Contemplate something that is both beautiful and painful.
Daily Meal: Serve fruit juice with the food.

Huath Invocation
Call: Now is the time of the flower’s blossoming.
Response: Now is the time when the hand reaches forth to pluck.
Call: Now is the time when we struggle with our instincts…
Response: To take beauty for ourselves, or to leave it in its place.
Call: Now is the time when we must remember that all plants are not ours.
Response: We did not plant the forest, and it does not belong to us.
Call: We were not the first beings on this earth.
Response: We have come young and late, and the trees look down upon us.
Call: They groan from the centuries of our meddling.
Response: They grow thorns to protect themselves.
Call: Now is the time when the hawthorn goddess steps forward.
Response: Now is the time when the heartless lady lifts her hand.
Call: Now is the time of great beauty in the world.
Response: Now is the time when Nature protects her beauty.
Call: The hawthorn goddess stabs us to the heart with beauty.
Response: She reminds us of our place in the world.
Call: She reminds us that we do not own this green planet.
Response: She reminds us that our grasping fingers can still bleed.
Call: She makes the hedges that our animals cannot cross.
Response: She sets the boundaries that no man may cross.
Call: She makes our hearts beat faster or slower.
Response: Her berries are sweet, but she protects them.
Call: We must respect her as we respect the Earth….
Response: The Green Man falls before her, heedless and headless.
Call: She is the blade of all trees, and we shed our blood for her.
Response: She is the teeth of Nature, and we give way before her might.

Chant:
Cauldron of Changes
Blossom of Bone
Arc of Eternity
Hole in the Stone
[Pagan Book of Hours]

Calendar of the Sun

Feralia: Day of Purification

Color: White
Element: Air
Altar: On a white cloth put a lit candle, incense, a cup of water, and a bowl of salt.
Offering: Although this day is not a day of total silence, it is a solemn day and talking should be done only when necessary and in quiet tones. Bodies should be thoroughly cleaned during the bathing hour, and then the altar area should be cleaned and purified with all four elements. Each person, upon entering the altar space at the beginning of Sponde should remove their clothing and be naked, and each body should be purified with the four elements and marked with water and salt, at which point they may enrobe again. Chores of the day should concentrate on cleaning and repair.
Daily Meal: Vegan and extremely simple and plain.

Feralia Invocation

Breathe the air into your body
And breathe out again,
And as you breathe out,
Let all grime and corruption
Depart on that breath
(All breathe together for twelve breaths.)
Feel the blood coursing through your body
And imagine it clean
Of anything but what should be there.
Feel the energy coursing through your body
And wash it clean
Of anything that does not belong.
Feel the Earth beneath you,
Remember that She can absorb all
Remember that all rot is her provenance
Draw her energy up into you
And give it back again.

(After this grounding, all breathe together again in a yogic breathing pattern for the next half an hour, after which all will go with water and salt and incense and fire to all rooms in the house and cleanse them. Great care should be taken for the rest of the day not to disturb the energy of the freshly cleaned house.)

[Pagan Book of Hours]

Day 11

To ensure a day full of happy. Sadness be GONE!

All smiles, no sorrow
Troubles not to borrow.
Feeling happy, never sad
Misery ceased, all pain is released

Source

Daily Incantations & Enchantments A Spell A Day for 30 Days
Garden Summerland

May 22

Ragnar Lodbrok

Remembered on this day, Ragnar Lodbrok was a leader of the Vikings who was captured by the Christian Northumbrians, tortured, and thrown into a pit of poisonous snakes. It was Ragnar’s death song, of his faith in the afterlife, that inspired a bard present at the execution to convey his message to others. ers. Passed from generation to generation, the song provides reassurance and hope for what lies in the great beyond:
 

The Disir call me back home, those whom Odin
has sent for me from the Hall of the Lord of Hosts.
Gladly will I sup ale in the high seat with the Gods.
The days of my life are finished. I laugh as I die!

Home & Hearth Magick for Sunday, May 22

On Sunday, work for success, healing and blessings.

Planetary Influence: The Sun

Household Symbols: A rooster, a sun, gold jewelry

Colors: Yellow and gold

Kitchen Spices: Cinnamon and orange peels

Source:

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

HEALING CORRESPONDENCES

Elements: all

Planets: sun, moon, earth

Best times: Sunday or Monday

Moon waxing to full – for increased health

Moon waning to dark – for banishing and driving away disease

Colors: blue, green, gold and orange

Numbers: 1, 3, 7, 9

Incense: bay, cinnamon, eucalyptus, frankincense, sandalwood

Plants : all healing herbs

Gods and Goddesses: Artemis, Hebe, Hygeia, moon and earth Goddesses, Asclepius, Apollo

Daily Magickal Applications for Sunday, May 22

The Latin term for Sunday, our first day of the week, is Dies Solis (“sun’s day”). In ancient Greek, it was called Hemera Heliou. In the Old English language, it was known as Sunnandaeg; in Middle English, Sonenday. All of these titles mean the same thing: the day of the sun.

What do you think of when you feel the sun shine down on you? What sorts of enchantments and energies do you think would be complementary to a day named after our closest star? Sunday brings those bright solar energies into your life and has the magickal correspondences of success, promotion, leadership, pride, light, generosity, warmth, fitness, and personal growth. Astrologically, the sun symbolizes the conscious self and rules the zodiac sign of Leo.

The charms and spells that would complement this magickal day of the sun are ones for personal achievements of any kind-such as if you are seeking fame and wealth, working for that much-deserved promotion at work, or being acknowledged for a job well done. Health issues, increasing personal power, or simply sticking to your diet and being proud of what you have accomplished all fall under the sun’s golden influence

Source

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

Sunday Is Ruled By The Sun

Sunday corresponds to the sun, our closest star. This day is full of wonder and all sorts of magical potential for success, wealth, and fame. Sundays are for personal achievements of any kind such as working towards a promotion at your job, seeking fame and wealth, or being acknowledged for a job well done. All of these goals fall under the golden influence of the sun. Some suggestions for Sunday enchantments would include:

Sitting outside at sunrise and calling on the goddess Brigid for illumination and inspiration

Wearing gold jewelry or clothing that is gold or sunshine yellow to pull some color magic into your life

Arranging a few sunflowers in a vase and empowering these “flowers of the sun” for fame and ambition

Gathering up the common marigold flower and scattering it’s petals about to encourage prosperity

Baking up a batch of cinnamon rolls for the family and enchanting them for health and success

Snacking on a solar fruit, the orange, and enjoying the magical boost it brings to your life

The Witches Correspondences for Sunday, May 22nd

The Sun, The day of the Sun God… Helios, Apollo, Ogmios, Mithras. In some traditions, the sun is seen as feminine, personified as Phoebe (East Anglia), and Saule (eastern Europe). The Sun rules the conscious element of the human mind, the ego, the “real” self.” Sunday is the day on which this power is most effective

Element : Fire

Planet : Sun

Zodiac Sign : Leo

Angel : Michael

Metal : Gold

Incense/Perfumes : Musk, Lemon, Frankincense, Orange Blossom, Citrus

Oil : Cedar, Frankincense, Neroli, Rosemary

Color : Orange, Gold, Yellow

Stones : Amber, Carnelian, Tiger’s Eye, Ruby

Plants/Herbs : Beech, Buttercup, Cedar, Cinnamon, Clove, Frankincense, Heliotrope, Juniper, Marigold, Mistletoe, Oak, Orange, Rosemary, Sunflower

Magick to work: health, confidence, creativity protection, spirituality, strength, physical strength, obtaining goals, promotions, illumination, friendship, leadership, power, life energy, favor, and initiating any magickal activity

The Witches Almanac for Sunday, May 22nd

Sunday (Sun): Healing, spirituality, success, strength, and protection.

Heroes’ Day (Sri Lankan)

Waning Moon
The Waning Moon (from the Full Moon to the New) is a time for study, meditation, and little magical work (except magic designed to banish harmful energies).

Moon Phase: Third Quarter

Moon Sign: Sagittarius
Sagittarius: Encourages flights of imagination and confidence. This is an adventurous, philosophical, and athletic Moon sign. Favors expansion and growth.

Incense: Juniper

Color: Gold

Sunday’s Witchery

Those ambitious, successful spells and charms will be heightened by working on the day of the week that has the planetary influence of the sun. So light those sunny candles, wear some luminous colors, and break out the gold jewelry! Bake up some cinnamon rolls or low-fat cinnamon muffins for an enchanting family breakfast. Take an orange with you to eat at lunch today. Try using a little magickal aromatherapy and burn some cinnamon-scented incense to encourage success and wealth today. Make the talisman to keep your solar magick with you. Sprinkle some dried marigold petals around your house-or across the threshold-to pull triumph and protection toward you and your family.

Get outside and tip up your face to the sun. Take a walk outside, and soak up some sunshine! Acknowledge the power of Sunna or Helios as they blaze across the sky and bring courage and motivation into your life. Sit outside at sunrise on a Sunday morning and bask in its warm, rosy-golden glow Acknowledge Brigid as the inner, creative spark of imagination and inspiration. She can help these gifts burn brightly within your own soul. Use your imagination and create your own brand of witchery and magick. Here comes the sun, and it’s your turn to shine!
 

Source

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

Sunday

Ruler: Sun

Colors: Gold or yellow

Power Hours: Sunrise and sunset.

Key Words: Love, happiness, health, wealth

It is easy to spot the ruler of this day by its name. Sunday is the day of the sun. Community work, volunteer services, exercise, outdoor sports, buying, selling, speculating, meeting people, anything involving groups, running fairs and raffles, growing crops and taking care of all health matters fall under the influence of the Sun. With all this activity and the brightness of the sun, it’s easy to see why the child that is born on the Sabbath day is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

Michael is the primary angel of Sunday but each hour of this day also has it’s secondary angel. These angels are Michael (first hour), Anael (second hour), Raphael (third hour), Gabril (fourth hour), Cassiel (fifth hour), Sachiel (sixth hour), Samael (seventh hour), Michael (eighth hour), Anael (ninth hour), Raphael (tenth hour), Gabriel (eleventh hour), and Cassiel twelfth hour). Notice some of the angels do double duty this day.

On Sundays, (unless you are invoking a specific angelic energy) the hour of sunrise will be the most powerful time to work, especially if you want to infuse energy into your work. Sunset is the second best time and is favored when you need to calm down a situation. Check the local newspaper, astrological calendar, or almanac to determine your local sunrise.

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Gypsy Magic