If You Were Born Today, April 24

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If You Were Born Today, April 24

You are a determined person and you intuitively know that with patience, you can accomplish anything you set out to do. You easily earn respect from others around you, due in part to your regal manner. Your family is extremely important to you, and many of your values are quite traditional, which keeps you grounded and responsible. However, you are unafraid of embracing the new, even if you do so slowly. Famous people born today: Shirley MacLaine, Barbara Streisand, Kelly Clarkson.

Your Daily Horoscopes for Friday, April 24th

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Your Daily Horoscopes for Friday, April 24th

 

Aries 

There is a desire to go with the flow and accept things as they are today, Aries, and this comes as a nice break from much of the pressure to get things going that you’ve had lately. Do something creative, physical, or otherwise tension-relieving. Give out the kind of approval and affection you’d like to receive, and it will more likely be returned. If you’ve had difficulty with, or have been holding grudges against, someone in your life recently, good energy is with you today for letting go and moving on. Don’t allow others to rent space in your mind if it’s unhealthy for you. Promoting peace and harmony is important now, and is mutually beneficial. This might also be a strong day for intuiting new ideas about how to handle your finances, although it’s also a time when you are especially attracted to beautiful and/or expensive objects.

Taurus

The Moon in your sign all day brings some pleasing liveliness to your world, Taurus, and it helps that the Moon is making mostly easy aspects today. As well, Venus is your ruler and currently in your sign, which on its own boosts your personal appeal and ability to attract what you want, and it also moving towards a nice aspect with gentle, dreamy Neptune. This serves to pull out your natural healing, gentle nature for all to see and enjoy. If you choose today to work through a problem with someone, it’s quite likely to be successful. Complicated emotional, social, and possibly even financial situations may reach a level of resolve, or improve in some way.

Gemini

 

You could find it quite easy and natural to smooth over tensions today, Gemini. This is a good day for compassionate understanding of matters that have previously frustrated you, as it’s time to let go of anger so that you can move forward and live with yourself more happily. Career matters can be serendipitous, and drawing on past ideas can be successful if you decide to now put them into motion. Love’s complications may be of the pleasant variety right now. This may be a nice day for creativity, but perhaps more so for envisioning something than producing in physical form. The Moon’s position today brings a need for some down time.

Cancer

 

Today, you’re more likely to feel more content and emotionally grounded, Cancer. Forgiveness and grace are reigning over insecurities. Very good energy is with you today for social situations, understanding, and increased faith in your life, as well as your future. You’re reaching out to others more. A pleasing aspect between the goddess of love, Venus, and dreamy Neptune highlights your friendship and adventure sectors, and you may want to take a chance on love and friendship with a kind gesture or expression. Imagination is heightened, and inspiration can be found through friends and through new experiences. Love cues are subtle but there, so keep your eyes open if this is what you are looking for. Challenging relationships could improve and happy ones may get better.

Leo

 

Forgiving and forgetting come more naturally today, Leo. There is calmer energy to the day. Venus and Neptune combine in a pleasant way and affect not only your relationships, which Venus aspects tend to do, but also your business sense and professional appeal. There is an intuitive understanding of others’ feelings and moods, and this affects your dealings with them. There can be a visionary quality to your career or business efforts now. You can engage an audience, group, or important person. You may even mesmerize people on some level now. Keep in mind that the day’s energies favor small advances and subtle moves, rather than bold ones.

Virgo

Love matters can thrive today, Virgo, as you open your heart. Energies of the day favor slowing down and appreciating what you have, while daydreaming about other possibilities as well. It’s a good time for connecting with people who benefit you romantically and/or spiritually. There can be an almost psychic rapport with others now. It’s also a strong time for intuiting how to manage your finances. Someone special may be looking on you quite favorably. The key now is to attract through gentleness and warmth, and you may naturally maintain some emotional distance or an air of mystery. Compassion and understanding are highlighted in your interactions.

Libra

Recent problems tend to smooth out nicely today, dear Libra, as you are more willing to let mysteries unravel at their own pace rather than push to find an answer. You’re also seen in a favorable light today, although not necessarily understood, and this can suit your purposes quite nicely right now. While you may not get things done in a measurable way, this can be a useful day for unwinding and enjoying yourself. The gentler side of your nature is enhanced today, and people around you might even feel that you have healing energy. Others tend to want to be around you. Your day is colored by your imagination or your inner landscape and dreams. There can be good intuition for work, health, and research or analysis.

Scorpio

This is a strong day for consciously choosing to let go of negative thoughts and ideas, Scorpio. Love opportunities can emerge, and it can be a creative, romantic time. You are more intuitive about people and especially sensitive to their feelings. New relationships formed around now tend to have a very pleasing, almost mystical quality, while current relationships can improve as you notice things to appreciate about your lover that you may have previously overlooked. This is a good time for creating, writing, and making art or music, or for appreciating and enjoying imaginative art, theater, writing, and music. Not only is loving Venus in harmonious aspect to dreamy, romantic Neptune, both bodies are stimulating your relationship sectors. It’s a subtle energy, but decidedly positive and hopeful. A warm, gentle approach to others is favored, and in some way, rewarded.

Sagittarius 

Charm levels increase today, Sagittarius, especially if you let things flow naturally rather than push to make things right. Let go of problems and errors right now. There is easy, gentle, and subtle energy with you now, so that charm can be drawn upon to pursue your goals. Connections with others tend to be enhanced, and you may be experiencing some form of psychic rapport or communication. Your social life can be warm and comforting today, and it’s a good time for promoting peace, and possibly beauty, in the work place. It’s also strong for pampering or spa-like treatments. You might take special pleasure in offering your help or services today.

Capricorn

If you play your cards right today, there can be a nice release from stress now, Capricorn. It’s a strong day for communications, especially of the non-verbal kind, so be sure to connect personally, not only through devices. It’s also a good time for romantic expression. Your ability to soothe and heal through your communications can be emphasized. Your perceptions are heightened, and this allows you to understand others on a whole new level. It’s also a good time for coming up with new ideas in your career or business. Your romantic imagination is stimulated now, which can be expressed or applied through relationships or artistic creativity.

Aquarius

This is a strong day for letting go of suspicion and negative thinking – something we all can benefit from. Sympathy for the underdog or stronger compassion for people in your life can be moving today, Aquarius. You may play a supportive role to others, or you could be asked, or you could volunteer, to help a friend in need. Some of you could be making a personal sacrifice of sorts for a loved one, and quite willingly so. Going the extra mile for someone can make you feel stronger. Circumstances are such that spiritual support is much more appreciated, and needed, than physical or practical aid. Today is strong for helping out family members, offering an ear, and for mending broken fences with others. Life is slowing down today, in a good way, and this affords you the opportunity to take in and appreciate your life and the people in it.

Pisces

Healthier and more productive conversations can be experienced today, Pisces, if you need to discuss anything too seriously at all. Sometimes just being around people and letting them do their thing is enough to communicate the best message. Personal magnetism is strengthening. This is a fine day for feeling good about yourself and your relationships. People are tuning in to, noticing, and appreciating the personality traits that you express effortlessly and naturally. Allow your sentimental and gentle nature to emerge – own it, appreciate it, and express it unapologetically. You may feel inspired to help someone in need, and you are more inclined to communicate openly. Your words, and even your nonverbal communications, can be soothing, healing, and very attractive.

Current Moon Phase for April 24th – Waxing Crescent

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Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 35%

 

The Moon today is in a Waxing Crescent Phase. A Waxing Crescent is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the wester sky after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. The moon is close to the sun in the sky and mostly dark except for the right edge of the moon which becomes brighter as the days get closer to the next phase which is a First Quarter with a 50% illumination.

Phase Details for – Friday, April 24, 2015

Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 35%
Moon Age: 5.98 days
Moon Angle: 0.51
Moon Distance: 394,066.90 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 150,474,626.99 km

The Witches Magick for the 24th Day of the Seed Moon – Fehu Fast Cash Charm


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FEHU FAST CASH CHARM

You will need cinnamon oil, a dollar bill, and a stapler.

At midnight, slowly trace the Fehu (pronounced Fay-hoo) Rune three times with the cinnamon oil on the face of the dollar bill. Hold the bill in your hands, imagine the bill multiplying beyond your expectations, and say:

Fehu, Fehu, Fehu,

Fu, fa, fi, fe, fo,

Fehu, Fehu, Fehu

Bring cash fast!

Next, trace three clockwise circles around the Fehu Rune. As you do, say:

One, two, three

Bring cash to me!

Fold the dollar three times, and staple it. When you staple the bill, use three staples. Make the staples look like the Fehu Rune with one upright stave and two adjoining ones to the right of the first stave . Stick the stapled dollar into your wallet or purse, and don’t spend it for at least four weeks to draw money to you. Every time you look at the stapled bill, chant:

Fehu, Fehu, Fehu

One, two, three

Bring cash to me!

Imagine more and more cash in your wallet or purse. Visualize the dollar multiplying again and again into hundreds of dollars.

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

Sirona Knight

WOTC Extra (d) West Wind

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West Wind

 

The west wind blows cool and moist; it may carry a hint of rain or mist as it washes over the land. It is a fertile, loving force that is gentle and persuasive.

It symbolically rules twilight, when all is at a standstill; day and night merge into a magical landscape of muted colors and breezes. Sunset, like sunrise, is an excellent time to perform magic— more so if the correct wind is blowing.

Water magic— love, healing, fertility and so on— is excellent for the west wind, as it adds its own forces and energies from that quarter. Especially excellent for spells involving cleansing or purely religious rituals, the west winds is welcome relief after the dry, hot breeze from the south.

The west wind is the blue of the sky just before all the light fades from the sky.

Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic

Scott Cunningham

WOTC Extra (c) South Wind

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South Wind

 

The further south you travel, the hotter it gets— on this side of the equator, at least. For this reason, the southern wind is a hot and fiery one.

Symbolically it rules noon, when the sun (or moon) is highest in the sky, the time of the greatest light and heat. Because the south wind is related to the element of fire, its magic covers the same ground. The south wind, however, can be used for any type of magic when it’s blowing. It’s a good time to cast spells.

Since this wind is strong and hot, spells performed with it are assured an extra jolt of power. It is always exciting and interesting working with the south wind!

Be warned, however, that fire— even the diluted fire of the southern wind— can be dangerous. As we know, fire can burn.

The color of the south wind? Yellow— the yellow of the sun at noon.

Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic

Scott Cunningham

WOTC Extra (b) East Wind

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East Wind

The wind blowing from the east is that of freshness, renewed life, strength, power, and intellect. It is a warm, bracing wind that blows from the point at which the sun, moon, and stars make their shining appearances.

Thusly, it is the wind involved with beginnings, the new phenomena that rise from the work of the north wind. The heat is that of the sun, and the spark of creation.

Spells best utilized when the wind is sweeping from the east are those concerning dramatic improvements and changes for the better, especially in behavior. Also, east wind spells are those involving the mind and all spells involving the element of air, to which it is magically related.

Love spells are best not performed with an easterly wind, unless you want a very intellectual love. But perhaps there’s nothing wrong with that!

Since the east is the direction of sunrise and light, the color is white.

Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic

Scott Cunningham

WOTC Extra (a) North Wind

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North Wind

 

The north wind is the wind of death— but not necessarily that of physical death. This is the realm of the one eternal universal law— change. “Death“ here refers to the elimination of negativity.

The north wind is cold (magically speaking), blowing in as it does from the direction of winter when snows lie deep across the lands. It is “dry,“ or barren, thus paving the way for spells of destruction.

How to use it? If you are depressed, anxious, envious, jealous, angry, and the wind is blowing from the north, face full into it and it will free you of these things.

If you wish to break a bad habit, perform any spell of this, nature while the north wind is blowing for added power.

The north wind, while chilly with night and death and deep snows, is also the wind of the element earth, and thus shares in some of its qualities. But the wind, being dry, is not favorable for fertility and prosperity magic, although magic involving healing can be greatly aided by the north wind.

Its color is the black of midnight.

Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic

Scott Cunningham

Let’s Talk Witch – Air Magick: The Winds

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Air Magick: The Winds

The Winds

For centuries peoples have thought of the wind as being of four basic types, corresponding to the four directions or quarters of the earth. These are the north, east, south, and west winds. Each is possessed of its own magical virtues, and certain spells are best cast during certain winds.

This may seem to be rather unnecessarily complicated, but it needn’t be. Looking to the winds when performing magic is no more difficult than checking the phase of the moon, although the “phase” of the wind doesn’t last as long.

At best, if you can rig up a weathervane or windsock to determine the winds, you can adjust your magical workings slightly by waiting for the right wind.

Naturally, if the wind has been blowing steadily from the north all morning, it won’t do to wait for a westerly one. The system is here to guide and aid, not to control our actions. Check the winds or not as you wish.

In looking over the following discussions of each of the winds, bear in mind that this is not an absolute system; different parts of the world have different attributes for the winds. The attributes described below are those favored in North America and Europe. Changes may be necessary for your own area, due to climate, location, and weather patterns.

The four winds are at least superficially related to the elements, and this can be kept in mind, but each has its own powers peculiar to the winds themselves.

One important point: in speaking of, say, the north wind, it is the wind that blows from that direction rather than to the direction that is in question.

Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic

Scott Cunningham

Celebrating Other Spirituality 365 Days A Year – St. George’s Day

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April 24

St. George’s Day

St. George is the patron saint of England—as well as Greece, Portugal, and Aragon—as of soldiers and boy scouts. As are most of the saints, George was a mysterious character. He was reputed to have rescued the daughter of the king of Silene-the end of the third century A.D. The princess was a sacrificial victim being offered to a dragon that was devouring the people. Saint George arrived on his white horse and beheaded the dragon with one swift blow of his mighty sword.

During the late medieval period this date was widely celebrated ebrated throughout London, Norwich, Chester, Leicester, and York. The festivities began on the evening of the 23rd and proceeded throughout the following day. There were civic presentations, parades, and horse races. It was believed that if you dreamed of a man on this night, he would become your love.

Today Is …

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Today Is …

 

Children’s Day in Iceland. Celebrate with your own children or let the child within come out and play.

Saint Mark’s Eve. According to folklore of the English countryside, the ghosts of all men, women, and children destined to pass away in the next year can be seen floating by on this night by any person brave enough to spend the night awake on the front porch of a church. However, if a person was unfortunate enough to fall asleep during the vigil or if he failed to repeat it annually for the remainder of his life, he would never wake up the next morning.

In North Africa, this holiday is called Maimuna. The evening meal features dairy foods symbolizing birth and fertility: milk, figs, ears of wheat, pancakes with butter or honey. The table is decorated with a live fish in a bowl (like the table for St. Joseph (see Mar 19) or Nawruz (see Mar 20) and a bowl of flour containing golden rings. The following day is devoted to picnics at beaches, fields and in cemeteries.

The striking similarity of Maimuna to No Rooz (celebrated on Spring Equinox in Persia), plus its geographic location, suggests that this is a hybrid holiday, an integration of the old Zoroastrian New Year celebration with the rituals of Passover.
Waskow, Arthur, Seasons of Our Joy, Beacon 1982

Secretaries Day – The Wednesday of the last full week in April has been designated as Secretaries Day, perhaps to provide secretaries with a welcome day off during a month with no other paid holidays. Having spent a large portion of my working life as a secretary, I always advocate for the honoring of this often overlooked and underestimated profession. Secretaries will get another chance to celebrate on August 25th, the feast day of their patron saint, St. Genesius of Arles.

April 24

Birthday of the Sun China
Children’s Day – Iceland
Feast of the 3 Holy Maries
General Federation of Women’s Clubs’ “Federation Day”
Happenstance and Coincidence Evening – Fairy
Library of Congress Day
National Concord Day – Niger
National IBM Personal Computer Day
National PC/Typing Contest begins
National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
National Remberance of Man’s Inhumanity To Man Day
Native Son Day – Alton, Illinois
Passover – Judaism
Plumber’s Day
Professional Secretary’s Day
Rattlesnake Day – Magnum, Oklahoma
St. Egbert’s Day
St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen’s Day
St. Mark’s Eve
St. Mellitus’ Day
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
Teach A Child To Save Day
Tulip Festival – Netherlands

28 – May 3:The three day Festival of Flora and Venus, or the Florialia in Rome; Goddess of Sexuality and Spring flowers.

30: Walpurgisnacht celebrated by German witches

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Seasons of the Witch – Legends and Lore, Ancient Holidays And Some Not So Ancient!

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Seasons of the Witch – Legends and Lore, Ancient Holidays And Some Not So Ancient!

Remember The Ancient Ways and Keep Them Holy!

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Goddess Month of Columbina begins 3/20 – 4/17
Month of Maia begins 4/18 – 5/15
Celtic Tree Month of Willow April 15 – May 12

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April Moon Phases
First Quarter falls on Saturday, 25 April, 2015 at 7:56 PM

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The Year Is Divided Into Four Seasons:
The first season is of a frigid complexion, and this is “Winter”;
The second is of the complexion of Air, and this is “Spring”;
Then follows the third, which is “Summer”, and is of the complexion of Fire;
Lastly, there is the fourth, wherein fruits are matured, which is “Autumn”.
~The Turba Philosophorum, ca. 12 century

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The Witches Correspondences for Friday, April 24th

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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, Vela

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The Witches Almanac for Friday, April 24th

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The Witches Almanac for Friday, April 24th

Friday (Venus): Love, friendship, reconciliation, and beauty.

St. Mark’s Eve

 

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: Cancer

Cancer: Stimulates emotional rapport between people. Pinpoints need, supports growth and nurturance. Tends to domestic concerns.

Incense: Violet

Color: White

FRIDAY’S WITCHERY

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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.

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

Tasha’s Day by Day Astro Planner

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Tasha’s Day by Day Astro Planner

 

Fri. 4/24 Motherly Cancer Moon brings sympathy to all.

Sat. 4/25 Romantic Leo Moon says have a fun date with a someone.

Sun. 4/26 Playful Leo Moon says have a good time one and all.

Mon. 4/27 Creative Leo Moon says make work into play.

Tue. 4/28 Efficient Virgo Moon says clean up, clear out,. get it done.

Wed. 4/29 Diligent Virgo Moon says it’s a good day for organizing.

Thu. 4/30 Artistic Libra Moon suggests a trip to a museum. Mercury into Gemini enhances communication for the next several weeks.

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Friday, 24 April, 2015

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Friday, 24 April, 2015

 

Waxing, Crescent Moon Age: 6 ¼ days.
Ascending Node is at 8° Libra.
Moon in 23rd degree of the Sign Crabba, the Crab fish;
also in 24th deg. of the Constellation Gemini, the Twins.

Moonset: 12:55 morn. Moonrise: 11:14 morn. Souths: 6:27 eve.

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Current Moon Phase: Waxing, First Quarter

Keywords for the First Quarter phase are: action, expression, growth, breaking away. It is the time in a cycle to take the initial action
necessary to achieve your goal by expressing your needs and desires.

Feel & Move. Make phone calls.Write letters. Dance. Act now.

Waxing Moon: Time: From New Moon To Full (Approx. 14 Days~Symbolic of growth, manifestation, attainment, gravidity (heavy with child – both philosophical and literal).

Goddess Aspect: Maiden

Associated Goddesses: Artemis, Branwen, Eriu, Nymph, Epona

Magickal Attributes: Invoking Beginnings, New Projects, Ideas, Inspiration, Energy, Vitality, Freedom.

Workings On This Day Are For “Constructive” Magick (Love, Wealth, Success, Courage, Friendship, Luck Or Health.) Symbolic of growth, manifestation, attainment, gravidity (heavy with child – both philosophical and literal).
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Aspects of Crabba: Yin, Feminine, Lunar, Negative, Nocturnal, Watery, Cardinal, Fruitful, Horary Northern, Summery, Boreal, Commanding, Solstitial, Tropical, Moist, Dumb, Mute, Cold, Psychic, Sensitive.

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Spells and rituals involving the Water element should be performed when the Moon is in a water sign: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces.

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon
Lunar Lore
Cynthia, The moon; a surname of Artemis or Diana.
The Roman Diana, who represented the moon, was called Cynthia
from Mount Cynthus, where she was born.
– Brewer, “Dictionary of Phrase & Fable”.

When changes of the moon occur in the morning,
expect rain.
– Collected in R. Inwards, “Weather Lore”.

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The Moon is in the Lunar Mansion

Aldhira, The Paw, or Forearm,
also known as Bracchium, The Arm.
Marked by the fix’d Stars: Castor and Pollux, in Gemini
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Starry Gemini hang like glorious crowns
Over Orion’s grave low down in the West.
~ Tennyson, “Maud.”

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Lunabar Sun Almanack for Friday, 24 April, 2015

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Lunabar Sun Almanack for Friday, 24 April, 2015

 
Sunrise: 6:19 morn. Sunset: 7:53 eve.
Length of Day: 13h. 33m.
Dawn: 5:51 morn. Dusk: 8:21 eve.
Length of Twilight: 0h. 27m.
Sun in 3rd degree of the Sign Taurus, the Bull;
also in 5th degree of the Constellation Aries, the Ram;

Solar Lore
The weary sun hath made a golden set,
And by the bright track of his fiery car
Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.
– Shakespeare, “Richard III.”
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The sun pale and (as we call it) watery at its rising
denotes rain; if it set pale, wind.
~Francis Bacon, “Historia Ventorum”

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Aspects of Taurus: Yin, Feminine, Lunar, Negative, Nocturnal, Earthy, Fixed, Semi-fruitful, Horary Southern, Vernal, Boreal,
Commanding, Feral, Bestial, Animal, Four-footed, Dry, Cold.

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Wishing All of Our Dear Brothers & Sisters A Very Blessed Friday!


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Great Goddess, Great God

Look down upon your children

And help us to live together in peace

Send us tolerance and understanding

Patience with each other

And with ourselves

Help us to play nice

And to get along despite our differences

Let us tear down the walls that keep us apart

And build bridges that will bring us together

Help us to realize

That we must learn to live as one

On our beautiful planet

Great Goddess, Great God

Let there be peace

And let it begin with us.

 

So Mote It Be.

Moon Names

The Moon has long been as important in deity worship as the Sun has. For many ancient people believed that without the Moon to allow the Sun to sleep the Sun would not return the next day. For many the month or a period of time passing was from one full Moon to the next. Many tribes had a calendar year of thirteen months to coincide with the number of full Moons. The Celtic/Lunar calendar, still in use today, has thirteen months or Moon cycles to it. The lunar calendar is based on a month that has approximately 29.5 days. This is the reason the full Moon dates change from year to year.

Why does each full Moon have many different names? For that we have to consider that the names come from many different parts of the world. When the old ones naming them were alive they did not have the communication access to other people around the globe as we do now. They were isolated in their own portion of the world and only knew things there. Remember it is only been a few hundred years that the Earth was not thought of having an end you could fall off of in to an abyss.

I am sure I have missed a few of the names the Moon is or has been called by so I do not claim this is a complete list. If you know of other names I have not listed please email the name and month it belongs to, to me at ladybeltane@aol.com, so I can put them on. Thanks!

What and when is a Blue Moon?

Most seasons have only three full moons in them, but because of the variation due to the Moons 29.5 day cycle some seasons have four full moons. The term “blue moon” is used to identify these extra full moons.

All Moon Names are listed in order by regular calendar month names

Some of the Native American names for the Northern and Eastern Tribes/Nations

Wolf

Snow

Worm

Pink

Flower

Strawberry

Buck

Sturgeon

Harvest or Corn

Hunter or Harvest

Beaver

Cold or Long Nights

COLONIAL AMERICA

Winter

Trapper’s

Fish

Planter’s

Milk

Rose

Summer

Dog Day’s

Harvest

Beaver

Christmas

CHINESE

Holiday

Budding

Sleepy

Peony

Dragon

Lotus

Hungry Ghost

Harvest

Chrysanthemum

Kindly

White

Bitter

NATIVE AMERICAN- CHEROKEE

Cold

Bony

Windy

Flower

Planting

Green Corn

Ripe Corn

Fruit

Nut

Harvest

Trading

Snow

NATIVE AMERICAN-CHOCTAW

Cooking

Little Famine

Big Famine

Wild Cat

Panther

Windy

Crane

Women’s

Mulberry

Blackberry

Sassafras

Peach

NATIVE AMERICAN-DAKOTAH SIOUX

Moon of the Terrible

Moon of the Raccoon, Moon when trees pop

Moon when eyes are sore from bright snow

Moon when Geese return in scattered formation

Moon when leaves are green, Moon to plant

Moon when June berries are ripe

Moon of the middle Summer

Moon when all things ripen

Moon when calves grow hair

Moon when quilling sand beading is done

Moon when horns are broken off

Twelfth Moon

NATIVE AMMERICAN-ALGONQUIN

Wolf

Snow

Sap

Seed

Flower

Strawberry

Buck

Sturgeon

Corn

Raven

Hunter’s

Cold

CELTIC-TWO VERSION

(The Celts also you a 13 month lunar calender of Trees. This does not fit into months we are use to.)

Quite or Storm

Moon of Ice or Chaste

Moon of Winds or Seed

Growing or Hare

Bright or Dyan

Moon of Horses or Mead

Moon of Claiming or Corn

Dispute or Barely

Singing or Blood

Harvest or Snow

Dark or Oak

Cold or Wolf

ENGLISH MEDIEVAL

Wolf

Storm

Chaste

Seed

Hare

Dyan

Mead

Corn

Barley

Blood

Snow

Oak

NEO PAGAN

Ice

Snow

Death

Awakening

Grass

Planting

Rose

Lightening

Harvest

Blood

Tree

Long Night

New Guinea

(These do not go by our calender months)

Rainbow Fish Moon

Parriotfish Moon

Palolo Worm Moon

Flying Fish Moon

Black Trevally Moon

Open Sea Moon

Tiger Sharl Moon

Rain & Wind Moon

CELTIC-LUNAR

(This calendar does not have months like we are use to. It has thirteen months based on 29.5 days or from one Full Moon to the next. I have included the dates the coincide with our regular calendar)

Birch (December 24 – January 20)

Elder (November 25 – December 23)

Birch (December 24 – January 20)

Rowan (January 21 – February 17)

Ash (February 18 _ March 17)

Alder (March 18 – April 14)

Willow (April 15 – May 12)

Hawthorn (May 13 – June9)

Oak (June 19 – July 7)

Holly (July 8 – August 4)

Hazel (August 5 – September 1)

Vine (September 2 – September 29)

Ivy (September 30 – October 27)

Reed (October 28 – November 23)

Elder (November 24 – December 23)