If You Were Born Today, August 9

Although your personality is restless, you are at your best when meeting your responsibilities and filling commitments. Self-esteem plummets otherwise. You are hard-working, likable, dependable, and achievement-oriented. Some of you are overachievers. You might often find yourself in the position of managing and taking care of others. You have a very responsible streak and might stay in difficult situations longer than most as a result – watch for over-committing yourself. Because pride and protectiveness can keep you from sharing your worries and concerns with people closest to you, it can be very important for you to find a confidante so that you can share some of your burdens. Making more time for pleasure is also essential to your success. In close relationships, control or imbalance can be issues, but relationships get much better later in life. You are deeply loving and have strong personal magnetism. Famous people born today: Whitney Houston, Gillian Anderson, Melanie Griffith, Audrey Tautou, Anna Kendrick, Eric Bana, Sam Elliott.

Your Birthday Year Forecast

The Moon is in its Balsamic phase in your Solar Return chart, marking this year the end of an important cycle, or stage of growth, in your life. You take more down time than usual, and this is natural, even good for you. This is a year when you are likely closing important projects or “chapters” in your life. This is an important year for reorienting yourself – discovering what you want, and identifying what you need to do in order to move forward more positively.

The year ahead is likely to be especially busy. At times, you may feel like the pace of your life is running ahead of you! You can be especially productive, however, in all types of communications–writing, speaking, learning, teaching, and so forth. There can be a stronger focus on past performance.

You have Jupiter transiting in harmony to your Sun from January forward. Under this influence, you have a stronger than usual desire to improve, grow, and learn. This is a fortunate aspect that helps boost optimism and confidence, and you are able to attract fortunate circumstances into your life as a result. Problems are easier to resolve. Matters related to universities, higher education, organized religion, publishing, legal affairs, and foreign interests can be especially strong. It’s a favorable time to further your education, travel, or otherwise expand your personal horizons. You are likely to enjoy a larger perspective on matters that keeps you from getting lost in details or overly frustrated by everyday stresses.

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. In fact, they may see the wisdom in your ways more clearly.

You are especially creative and expressive during this period, and you succeed most in fields or areas that allow you to make something beautiful, attractive, and/or entertaining. Personal magnetism is excellent at this time. This is a good period for creative projects and joining with others in the pursuit of a common goal.

Energy fluctuates this year, however. If you aren’t too rash or impulsive, you might be able to free yourself from restrictive circumstances. You could also have more courage than usual to do things that break the routine, and confrontations engaged in this year could clear the air and help you to move forward.

As well, getting serious about love or money (or both) can be a theme this year. Money may be tight, or the need to buckle down with your finances may be necessary. You may have an increased awareness of your limits. The responsibilities of partnership are magnified this year. You are likely to be more earnest on a romantic level. An existing relationship may become more serious, or you may form a new partnership with a serious or older person.

You might also watch for a tendency to overstate and to neglect important details when making plans. You may have so very many ideas that you end up implementing none if you’re not careful! You are likely to have increased opportunities for travel and/or new learning experiences.

Idealistic and humanitarian goals or impulses surface this year. Making connections with others from different backgrounds may figure strongly. Widening your mind through unusual or different experiences can be part of the picture. You more easily make personal sacrifices for what you believe to be the greater good this year.

There can be a pleasant sense that you’re moving forward and growing this year, but you’re also likely to be putting a major project behind you. Your creativity is stimulated in addition to your excitability and your need for freedom. It is easier than ever to express your individuality in a manner that is true to you. In certain areas of your life, you’re inclined to rock the boat this year so that you can break free from a limiting situation. Be mindful when/if making sweeping changes. Personal magnetism is strong, although there can be some feelings of restriction in a key relationship or with money matters at times.

2018 is a Number One year for you. Ruled by the Sun. This is a year of action. The seeds you plant now, you will reap later. Others might find you less sociable, as you are busier than ever and you focus on your activities and your needs. Still, you are outgoing and your initiative is stronger than ever. Advice – Stand alone, take action, start fresh, express independence.

2019 will be a Number Two year for you. Ruled by the Moon. This is a year of potential companionship. It is a quiet, gentle, and mostly harmonious year that is less active than other years. Instead, you are more responsive to the needs of others. If you are patient and open yourself up in a gentle manner, you will attract both things and people. This is an excellent year in which to build and develop for the future. Advice – be patient, be receptive, enjoy the peace, collect.

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Your Cosmic Calendar for August 9

After a 72-hour blitzkrieg of universal temper tantrums directed at Spaceship Earth, the skies are still not ready to return to a semblance of normalcy. Unsettled conditions outweigh a path to serenity as a 16 hour void lunar zone in Cancer begins at 4:22am during the monthly moon-Pluto polarity and continues until Leo moon begins at 9:19pm. A quartet of planetary-pair outlaws forms a nemesis gang composed of Venus-Uranus (4:58am), sun-Chiron (6:00am), Mercury-Neptune (2:30pm), and Venus-Saturn (6:35pm). While you are scrambling to maintain a good outlook on life, a hopeful light shines a beacon of self-confidence as Mercury unites with knowledge-wisdom keeper Pallas at 17 degrees of Leo (6:28am). Whether this isolated favorable alignment can neutralize the disagreeable sky cycles is up to your spiritual awareness and ingenuity.

[Note to readers: All times are now calculated for Pacific Daylight Time. Be sure to adjust all times according to your own local time so the alignments noted above will be exact for your location.]

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Astrology of Today – Thursday, August 9, 2018

Today’s Moon:

• The Moon is in Cancer.
• The Moon is void from 7:20 AM forward (until the Moon enters Leo tomorrow at 12:17 AM).
• The Moon is waning and in its Waning Crescent phase.
• We are in between the Last Quarter Moon (which occurred on the 4th) and the New Moon Solar Eclipse (which will happen on August 11th in the sign of Leo).

Retrogrades/Stations:

• Mercury is retrograde (Mercury is retrograde from July 26-August 19).
• Mars is retrograde (Mars is retrograde from June 26th to August 27th)—there are less than three weeks left of the Mars retrograde cycle.
• Also retrograde: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Chiron.

Moon in Cancer

The Moon is traveling through Cancer today. Beware of mood swings. Cook some soul food. Cuddle up with someone.

The restlessness of the Gemini Moon gives way to an instinctive need for peace and quiet. Feelings of belonging and safety are what motivate us under this influence. The Moon feels right at home in the sign of Cancer, as it rules the sign. This Moon position has much healing potential. Although insular by nature, our feelings run deep, making it an ideal time to get in touch with what motivates us.

The Moon in Cancer generally favors the following activities: Domestic activities, those that involve awareness of personal needs. Home decor, family get-togethers.

Correspondences Every Witch Should Know

There are many herbs that can be used for magickal purposes;

Herbs are wonderful for magick – they can be burned or tied up in sachets or made into
amulets to wear. (Do not ingest any of these herbs before you do your research and sure they are safe to do so)
Anise: purification, protection, keeps away nightmares
Basil: purification, protection, exorcism, love, prosperity
Chamomile: prosperity, meditation, calmness
Cinnamon: psychic powers, protection, success, healing, clairvoyance, prosperity
Dill: seeds draw money and protection, the flowers are used for love
Hazel: mental powers, hazel nuts are used in fertility amulets or spells
Lemon Balm: health, success, love
Mugwort: divination, clairvoyance, psychic powers, protection,
strongest when picked on a full moon night
Nutmeg: clairvoyance, prosperity
Parsley: purification, protection
Peppermint: healing, purification
Rosemary: protects from negativity, blessing, consecration, aids memory, protection rituals of all kinds
Sage: healing, prosperity, wisdom
Thyme: burn for purification, protection from negativity, clairvoyance
Yarrow: for a happy marriage, defense, protectio

Spell to Rekindle Love

Items needed: A white birthday candle; one white or silver 8-inch taper candle; jasmine oil; white parchment paper; a small jar; silver cord.

Begin by chipping the wax away at the bottom of the candle so you have two wicks. Next, carve two stars onto one side of the candle. Carve your initials into one star and the initials of your loved one on the other star. Anoint the candle with the jasmine oil as you chant:

As the stars doth rise above
I beckon forth the return of love.

Lay the candle aside and write the name of your loved on the parchment paper. Place the jar on top of the paper. Light the birthday candle and drip the wax from it onto the top of the jar, and then affix the silver candle to the top of the jar so that it will permit it to burn from both ends. When the candle is solidly attached, light both ends as you chant:

Dark starry night, and candle light,
End forever this loveless plight.
Bring back my lover to me,
For this I will so mote be!

Stay with the candle until it burns out. Tie up the parchment ment paper into a small packet and place under your pillow. Keep it there until your loved one returns.

August 9th

Chinese Milky Way Festival

This festival celebrates love and the art of weaving, similar to the Weaving Festival of Japan (July 7). The myth follows the life of the Sun God’s daughter, who falls in love with a humble herdsman one day while weaving. The two were married and soon the Goddess forgot about her weaving. This indifference toward her craft angered the Sun God, who then banished the herdsman to the other side of the Milky Way. On August 9, the two star-struck lovers are allowed to meet at the silver river of the Milky Way. The rest of the year, the Goddess must attend to her weaving.

Full List of Different Types of Psychic Abilities

f you’re looking into developing psychic abilities you first need to know how many are there, so in this post we have displayed a full list of different types of psychic abilities for you to extend your knowledge regarding this topic.

First, let’s have a look at what the words ‘psychic abilities’ mean and which attributes you need to develop if this is something that interests you particularly.

Using Your “Sixth Sense”

Common sense has it that possessing psychic ability is using your ‘sixth sense’. Indeed the perception of bioenergies and what happens in dimensions beyond the physical world, this immediate three dimensional reality you perceive when you are awake, cannot be achieved by simply using our five physical senses, although it does help to sharpen them too.

But how awake are you on a daily basis, and how aware are you 24/7?

Possessing psychic ability or psychic capacity is hence being able to perceive, to ‘read’ what is beyond the physical realm. This means expanding your level of awareness and for this you need to use other tools, as you need to develop your perceptive ability or capacity.

In a nutshell: psychics are many times also called sensitives. Therefore, one of the main attributes you need to develop if you want to become one is your sensitivity.

Sharpening Your Tools

We all possess the tools and therefore those who want can sharpen them.

Through intense work with energies, any interested individual can gradually become more proficient at inducing at will certain modified states of consciousness, which will in turn allow for psychic phenomena to occur.
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There are many different types of psychic abilities all related or resulting from the fact that we do not possess only a physical body or soma, but also an energetic body named by Projectiology as energosoma, plus an emotional body or psychosoma, and the ‘body’ of ideas, or mentalsoma. These four somas we call Holosoma.

At the IAC, we work with the whole Holosoma, but we prioritize the mentalsoma (to strengthen our will) and energosoma (to bring to control our energies) as we consider these the less well known and/or conveniently developed areas for most people.

We have developed and experiment with many techniques which have proved well for most researchers, but each individual is invited to find what works best in his/her case, and this is because each one of us is an individual consciousness that has been developing all along lifetimes differentiated characteristics, or consciential attributes.

For these reasons, there is no such thing as one ‘size fits all’. During our courses you will be given all the necessary information for designing your own programme and path in evolution, as well as optimizing your skills.

Making Decisions & Our Dedicated Course

There are different types of psychic abilities, and while one individual may be better at one or another, he or she may decide on further developing those skills to spend time, work and energy in developing different ones (thus enhancing her/his awareness and sensitivity to perceive beyond the five senses the other realms of reality).

During the IAC core course: the CDP or Consciential Development Programme, in the first class of module 2 we discuss all possible modified states of consciousness, the OBE and all related psychic phenomena.

Here is Our List of Psychic Abilities

**Based on the individual’s well developed physical senses:

Clairvoyant – the person who can clearly see non-physical realities or dimensions, surrounding energies, auras, physical people’s psychospheres, and also non-physical consciousnesses.

With a well developed clairvoyant capacity, one may also come to be able to use it for autoscopy and heteroscopy.

Clairaudient – the person who can hear events occurring at long distance, in the physical world, and events occurring in non-physical dimensions.

The key to develop all psychic abilities is energy, and hence how your work with energy

Clairsensitive – the person who can feel the surrounding energies and non-physical consciousnesses. You can also train to feel all that touches or could touch your skin at a distance from it, by exteriorising your sensitivity to the periphery of your energosoma, thus producing the effect or becoming a full body/full energosoma ‘radar’.

Some Sensitives are also good at smelling non-physical fragrances.

Remote-viewer – the phenomenon of remote-viewing can also be technically called of travelling clairvoyance. Therefore the remote-viewer can clearly see consciousnesses, places, and events happening at long distance, either in the physical dimension or in non-physical dimensions. The remote viewer can also describe to an audience, even with eyes open, what is being seen, what is happening in real-time.

Based on the natural or inducible looseness or misalignment of the psychosoma:

Lucid Projector – astral traveller or sky walker, the person that leaves the physical body or soma sleeping in the physical dimension and explores with the psychosoma other physical or non-physical locations, thus gathering information the soma cannot obtain during the waking state. The lucid projection amplifies one’s level of physical and non-physical awareness not just of oneself but also of the reality of all consciousnesses.

Lucid dreamer – the person that achieves control of dreams, becomes increasingly more lucid, and can use the trigger(s) of his/her lucid dreams to further increase lucidity and induce conscious lucid projections (astral travelling). During the level 2 of the IAC’s core course – the CDP – we will provide further information and techniques

Precognitor – the person that develops the capacity to gather information from a possible future. To be able to access information from the future means only that you can ‘read’ the possibilities. The future may or may not unfold according to these possibilities, because consciousnesses still have freewill and with it the capacity of choice and change the future.

Retrocognitor – the person that acquires information from past lives or from the intervals between physical lives where the consciousness lived in non-physical dimensions. This modality can bring to the projector information from what was learnt and planned during these periods spent in non-physical dimensions allowing for present increased discernment in the physical dimension.

Telepath – the person that can ‘read’ the information being transmitted mind-to-mind in physical or non-physical dimensions between the consciousnesses. The telepath is a receptor and a transmitter. We all are. In the physical dimension, telepathy occurs when the alpha rhythms of the two communicating consciousness enter synchronicity. Perhaps for this reason it is easier for two consciousnesses that have more affinity to relate and communicate with each other using telepathy.

Paragenetics

Psychometrist – the person that can ‘read’ information contained in the energy of objects. The psychometrist can learn information from the past, the present or details of the personality of the owner of an object and the epoch in which he/she lived by reading the energy that got stuck to this object.

The psychometrist reads in the energy of the object the owner’s thoughts and feelings. One of the most positive applications of psychometry is, for instance, in the finding of disappeared people, when associated with precognition. It can also be used to help retrocognition.

Intuitive – the person that can get an intimate clear knowledge of things, and grabs insights that escape the normal thought process. The immediate and instinctive represents a shortcut of the mentalsoma, a jump over reason, it adds to intelligence.

Psychographer – the person that does psychic writing or automatic writing, being at the moment it happens the instrument of the non-physical consciousness(es) that take over the process of reasoning. This means reasoning is eliminated in favour of becoming the medium of the mind of some other non-physical being who dictates.

Medium – person that mediates and brings information from the non-physical dimensions to the physical dimension. We are all mediums, much more than we can think of. We keep bringing information transmitted to us through telepathy by non-physical consciousness around us only too often, and when you don’t know it you think these thoughts you are thinking or these feelings you are having are actually just yours.

Psycophoner – this is when a non-physical consciousness uses your physical body and speaks through you. This process can happen consciously or unconsciously, hence the interest in learning more about it. In mediumship, the medium is the mouth piece of the extraphysical consciousnesses that wish to manifest or convey their messages to the physical dimension.

Physical ectoplasmic medium – the person whose levels of ectoplasmy allow for the dense, almost physical manifestation of non-physical consciousnesses and non-physical objects.

Ectoplasm is a dense semi-physical and non-physical energy that can be produced by some people (ectoplast mediums). It is a very plastic substance that contains leukocytes, epithelial cells, fat, albumin, combined with other non-physical substances and presents an unstable form, looking like tenuous vapours, spirals, threads, cords, webs, rays, and seems to be an intelligent being.

Ectoplasmy is a complex phenomenon that implies temporary dematerialization of the ectoplast medium, materialization of different forms, and posterior re-materialization of the ectoplast medium. During this process people around the medium can see the dematerialization, the materialization, and the re-materialization, so this is a phenomenon that can be witnesses, and to this day there are many people conducting séances during which these phenomena can happen.

Psychic Surgeon – Thanks to the abundance of ectoplasmic energy and well developed mediumship, some people have/can become psychic surgeons, operating intraphysically while guided by extraphysical non-physical consciousnesses. Generally, the psychic ectoplast mediums were not surgeons by profession, but the non-physical consciousness operating through them were. There are ample examples in China, Brazil, and the Philippines.

Telekinesist – the person that can move objects without touching them. Besides making objects move in your awaken state, people can when projected act like non-physical consciousnesses and produce phenomena like finding objects, making them disappear, produce: combustion, electromagnetic, electrochemical, photogenic, mechanical, nuclear chemical, and sonorous effects.

For the specifics of how all this works, we invite you to take the CDP – Consciousness Development Programme at the IAC, the International Academy of Consciousness at any of its educational centres spread a bit all over planet Earth.

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IAC, International Academy of Conciousness

How Can I Tune Into My Psychic Abilities? Learn the Best Techniques

Psychic abilities give you access to dimensions and perceptions well beyond those you can reach with your physical senses (smell, taste, and so on). Because those perceptions are not rooted in the physical body, people often ask “how can I tune into my psychic abilities?

Tuning into psychic abilities can be done at will. It does not require elaborate rituals, years of living on a mountain, or a particular belief. While the history of psychic development includes countless procedures and methods that are complex and sometimes sacred or mysterious, with those methods working for some, you can chose to apply techniques and a rational approach on your path to experiencing other dimensions.

How many potential psychic abilities are there that we can tune into? The short answer is: many. Perceiving energies (chi, prana) is one example, experiencing telepathy, premonition, past life recall, and seeing auras (clairvoyance) amongst others are examples of some other popular ones.

Awakening to Our Abilities

If you are trying to awaken your psychic abilities, a clear theoretical base and practical techniques can help in focusing your efforts. You will have to apply techniques and put some theory into practice. Learning how to work with your energosoma (or bioernergies, chi) can help a lot in this process.

Learning how to unblock your chakras and to reach a deep level of relaxation are also skills that you will need along the way.

How do I Develop my Psychic Abilities?

In order to tune into your psychic abilities the first thing that helps is learning how to relax. Relaxing the physical body will reduce the intensity of the stimuli you receive from it and therefore will make it easier to pick up the non-physical perceptions, which are often felt as very subtle in the beginning. While the relaxation can be learned, most of the time the main impediment is to get into a more serene and focused frame of mind. To start on the physical relaxation front, you can help yourself by taking a warm shower, going for a brisk 20-minute walk, or simply taking a 20 minute nap before you attempt a psychic development exercise.

Physical relaxation will tend to induce a slight misalignment between your physical body and your astral body (psychosoma). This condition is the one that helps to induce altered states of the consciousness that help you to get in touch with your psychic perceptions. The condition of misalignment is a pleasant one, it sometimes feels like you are almost floating, or that your astral body (psychosoma) is rocking very gently from side to side.

At that point another variable that can help you to reach into the psychic realm is learning how to control your energies. You have an energy body (energosoma) and you can learn how to work with it using your will power. Applying techniques such as the VELO, described in a previous article, will help you start to learn how to perceive non-physical things, which is the essence of psychic ability.

There’s an article relevant to this section which you might also be interested in reading: “How Long does it Take to Develop Psychic Abilities“.

What’s their Usage?

For those who have psychic abilities and are looking for ways to use them, the answer can be a bit longer. In summary, psychic perceptions can be used to understand what happens around you, for your own personal self-knowledge, and to help others.

Since psychic abilities are rooted in non-physical bodies, such as our energy body and astral body (psychosoma), we add the prefix “para”, to indicate that they are beyond physical matter or the physical brain. Due to this characteristic, you will also see this prefix in regards to other terms like parapsychism referenced in our other articles.

How Can I Make My Psychic Abilities Stronger?

Understanding and mastering your energies will give you a strong foundation for a healthy and productive development of your psychic sense. This is the reason why the IAC includes bioenergy work in practically every class that we have. It helps if you are trying to reach an OBE, develop your psychic abilities, or to develop yourself as a consciousness.

At first the sensations of bioenergies may be subtle and it is common to “second-guess” or dismiss our perceptions. With persistence, a bit of theory and techniques, you can reach a point where the sensations of energy moving within you, or being absorbed or externalised, are very clear and can be perceived and described with precision.

Since the energy body (energosoma) is one of the vehicles we use to perceive psychic realities, it can also make it easier for us to learn how to perceive also psychically if this body is “healthy and balanced”.

While a healthy energosoma is a topic for another article altogether, one thing you can do in this regard is to learn how to unblock your chakras.

Access Through OBE Training

Training for OBEs is the best way to learn how to manage deep levels of relaxation while staying lucid and in control. This kind of training also helps you to understand and master, in practice, the natural take off of the astral body. While learning how to take off, you will learn how to reach a condition where your body is partially misaligned and your psychic perception is triggered naturally.

For example, you may start to see your bedroom through clairvoyance, or have a spontaneous premonition experience just because you reached a state where you are perceiving everything with the astral body, and no longer relying on your physical brain to process your sensorial input.

Personal Growth

Parapsychism can help us a lot in putting things into perspective. It can help you to understand in practice that you are not the physical body. While this concept may be clear to some, understanding this intellectually does not bring the same benefits in comparison to learning this directly by first-hand experience via your non-physical bodies.

For example, most people believe in life after death. However, lots of them – if not most of them – are uncomfortable with discussing the subject. Death is not a subject for a cocktail party or something you would discuss in a casual chat with a friend. Sometimes it is hard to talk about this even with those that we have a deep and meaningful relationship with.

Understanding the theory that you are not your physical body and that you, the consciousness, will continue to exist after that “vehicle” ceases to exist is easy. The intellectual understanding, however, will not take off the uneasiness to discuss this topic. Of course, everyone has a natural sense of life preservation and all of us may be, at times, keen to fulfill a certain responsibility in the next few years, or to enjoy the company of certain friends and relatives for a bit longer. Psychic experiences can, however, remove the uneasiness surrounding the transition that we call death. The near-death experience, a deep type of psychic experience, often brings this result. People that experience the NDE value life and their time after the experience, many of them also lose the fear of death itself.

No one would wish for an NDE, since the forced OBE happens due to the clinical death of the physical body. The alternative we have is to learn how to have lucid out-of-body experiences. OBEs can be induced at will, in a comfortable and healthy condition. This will demonstrate in practice that you can exist outside and beyond the physical body.

Meaning and Benefits

Psychic ability does not mean the person possessing the skills is evolved or better than anyone in the general sense. It is a very, very important ability to have, but it is still one ability. It does not indicate the level of ethics, cosmoethics, coherence, discernment nor does it indicate the quality of the help that can be provided. Being aware of other dimensions can help you to improve all those things.

However the personal growth process is something that depends on the individual.

Parapsychism is particularly important if you live in a culture that values physical things above all. Having direct experiences with non-physical dimensions can help you connect with your extraphysical “home town”, and to think more as a multidimensional consciousness, as opposed to a one-dimensional human being.

Psychic Abilities and Discernment

In a way, having psychic abilities is just the beginning. Parapsychic experiences can be very interesting, life-enriching, and can produce positive shifts in our personal paradigm. Once you start having psychic perceptions, the first thing you need is to sharpen your discernment and see how you can learn more about yourself and apply those experiences for your personal growth.

Accessible to All!

While psychic development is something accessible to everyone, understanding the phenomena from a technical perspective and dedicating a few hours per month to work on practical exercises can make a world of difference. Perceiving the non-physical reality around can broaden your perspective in many aspects of life as well as help with your development as a consciousness.

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IAC, International Academy of Conciousness