Hey these witches are good! They did some scrabbling and turned all the Daily Tarot, Daily Runes and etc., into tomorrow’s Dailys!

Included in this podcast

Your Daily Tarot Card for May 8

Your Love Tarot for May 8

Your Past Life Tarot for Tomorrow

Your Witches Rune for Tomorrow

Your Ancient Symbol Card for Tomorrow

Your Animal Spirit Guide

The Wisdom of the Buddha

and last but not least…

A Little Thought from Me to You!

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Get A Jump On Tomorrow, Your Horoscopes for Tuesday, May 9th

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We apologize for running so late, we are now back on track.

This podcast includes

Your Weekly Horoscopes for May 8

Your Daily Horoscopes for Today

If You were Born Today

Up next, everyone’s favorite….

Get A Jump on Tomorrow

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Love is in the Air! Well, I could break out in song but instead, how about Your Weekly Love Horoscopes!

Since we do so many horoscopes on Monday’s, we took the liberty of dividing them up into the categories you like most.

Now Your Weekly Love Horoscopes

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A very beautiful & blessed Monday to all! It is a glorious day to be alive. You can feel Mother Earth waking up to this brand new day the Goddess has blessed us with. We hope you enjoy our broadcast today and have a wonderful afternoon.

A Witch Is….

To be a witch is to love and be loved.
To be a witch is to know everything, and nothing at all.
To be a witch is to move amongst the stars while staying on earth.
To be a witch is to change the world around you, and yourself.
To be a witch is to share and give, while receiving all the while.
To be a witch is to dance and sing, and hold hands with the universe.
To be a witch is to honor the gods, and yourself.
To be a witch is to be magick, not just perform it.
To be a witch is to be honorable, or nothing at all.
To be a witch is to accept others who are not.
To be a witch is to know what you feel is right and good.
To be a witch is to harm none.
To be a witch is to know the ways of old.
To be a witch is to see beyond the barriers.
To be a witch is to follow the moon.
To be a witch is to be one with the gods.
To be a witch is to study and to learn.
To be a witch is to be the teacher and the student.
To be a witch is to acknowledge the truth.
To be a witch is to live with the earth, not just on it.

To be a witch is to be truly free!

Also included in this broadcast…

Your Daily Astronomy

In Your Sky Tonight

The Current Moon Phase

Your Astrology for the Week of May 8th

Up Next…

Your Weekly Love Horoscopes

Your Daily Horoscopes

If you were born today

and last but not least,

Get a Jump On Tomorrow

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You ought to know when I butter you up that much, something’s up, lol! The site that hosts our podcast, Podbean, made an agreement with us. The agreement was that they would use our site as one of their featured site. I looked this morning and they have kept their word our site is one of their featured sites now. You can check it out for yourself here. I had talked to Podbean before this and asked them if possibly they could feature us. No hesitation or anything, YES! I told them, we wanted this opportunity to tell individuals what witches were really like and to dispel all the old myths and stereotypes associated with us. That is the truth. But we also need the patrons(those are the people who donate to support the podcast) and the followers there. I have been paying all the expenses for this one and the podcast out of my pocket. Plus we are almost ready to go on YouTube, I finished the graphics up this morning. Needless to say there is expenses there. So we are going to be doing a number of podcast over there until Podbean rotates again. Podbean kept their word to us, now we have to keep our word to them. It will also mean more members for this site. Now that you know all the circumstances surrounding this, I hope you will have patience with us. It won’t be for long, so we have to strike while the iron is hot.

Thank you for your understanding, your love and most of all your support,

Lady of the Abyss

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Reincarnation

Is this life after death? Exploring the Witches’ belief in reincarnation, the purpose of reincarnation and what happens while we are waiting to reincarnate? Let us dive into this subject and see if we can find some answers to these questions……

By Lady of the Abyss

With Excerpts from

Wicccapedia, A Modern Day White Witch’s Guide
Authors: Shawn Robbins & Leanna Greenaway

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The Witches Spell of the Day for May 6 – Purification Spell (To Break a Curse)

This is a “heavy-duty” purification spell.

On the night after the full moon and just before bed, light 13 candles, preferably white. Fill the tub up with hot water (as hot as you can stand to sit in). Add 1 cup sea salt, 1 tablespoon sage, 1 tablespoon lavender and 1 tablespoon chamomile. Turn off the water and let the bath steep in the herbs. Kneel or sit in front of the tub, in the nude, and repeat this incantation:

What was done was done
Be it now undone
By the light of the full moon’s wane
Cleanse my soul of taint and stain
Let now my hurtful spell reverse
And lift from me this vicious curse
As I enter now this sacred space
Return my spirit to it’s grace

Enter the bath and let the water cleanse away the effects of the curse. Use your hands to gather up the water and pour it 3 times of your head. Each time you do, repeat:

Accept my apologies for what was done
Disperse my spell with the morning’s sun

Remain in the bath until the water cools. Drain the tub and rinse off. Snuff the candles and go to sleep. By dawn the curse will be broken and you will once again find that feeling of “blessedness” that you lost.

Resource

Everything Under the Moon

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Well, we’ve got your Daily Tarot, Your Love Tarot, Your Past Life Tarot, Your Runes and lots more. If you are looking for what the cards hold for you today you came to the right place. We are still wondering how the story Lady A tells about her rabbit and the rabbit eating fiend got into the mix. Oh, well, you listen and you decide, lol!

Next Up…

The Spell of the Day

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Horoscopes, Horoscopes & More Horoscopes!

Today’s Horoscopes

If Today Is Your Birthday Horoscopes

Get a Jump on Tomorrow Horoscopes

Next up…

Daily Tarot

Daily Runes

Ancient Symbol Card

and much more!

Oh and be sure to grab our new ribbon, no link back to us is required, I swear. It is our honest effort to unite the Pagan community. When we stand together, there is nothing we can’t accomplish.

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Good morning, Sunshine! We hope you are having a very beautiful Saturday morning so far. Grab yourself a cup of coffee and spin some time with us today.

She’s Been Waiting

She’s been waiting
She’s been waiting, waiting.
She’s been waiting so long.
She’s been waiting for her children
To remember, to return.

Blessed be, and blessed are,
The lovers of the lady.
Blessed be, and blessed are,
The mother, maiden, crone.
Blessed be, and blessed are,
The ones who dance together.
Blessed be, and blessed are,
The ones who dance alone.
She’s been waiting, waiting.
She’s been waiting so long.
She’s been waiting for her children
To remember, to return.

Blessed be, and blessed are,
The ones who work in silence.
Blessed be, and blessed are,
The ones who shout and scream.
Blessed be, and blessed are,
The movers and the changes.
Blessed be, and blessed are,
The dreamers and the dream.
She’s been waiting, waiting.
She’s been waiting so long.
She’s been waiting for her children
To remember, to return.

– Paula Walowitz

Also Included….

Current Astronomy of the Day

The Witches Current Moon Phase

In Your Sky Tonight

And A Little About the Current Moon Phase

Next Up

Your Horoscopes

and of course, Get A Jump On Tomorrow

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2017 May 5

The Bull’s Eye and the Young Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgia Hofer

Explanation: Aldebaran, eye of Taurus the Bull, and a young crescent Moon shared an early evening sky last Friday. The lovely celestial pairing could be enjoyed around planet Earth, but from some locations the Moon was even seen to pass in front of Aldebaran, a dramatic lunar occultation of the familiar bright star. Taken at nightfall on April 28, this skyscape captures Aldebaran shortly after it emerged from behind the bright lunar limb. In the foreground are craggy peaks of the Dolomite mountains near Laggio di Cadore, Italy. Before reappearing beyond the sunlit crescent, Aldebaran first winked out behind the Moon’s ashen glow, the lunar nightside faintly illuminated by earthshine.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is active between April 19 and May 28, and this shower’s peak is broad. If you’ve looked in a dark this week, you might have seen some of these meteors, although we’re hearing that they’ve been sparse so far. In 2017, the forecast calls for the greatest number of Eta Aquariid meteors before dawn on May 5 or 6. The moon is in a waxing gibbous phase and will set in the wee hours after midnight. This shower favors the Southern Hemisphere, ranking as one of their finest showers of the year. At mid-northern latitudes, these meteors don’t fall so abundantly – and twilight is long and so interferes at northerly latitudes – but mid-northern meteor-watchers who try will likely catch some Eta Aquarids, too. Follow the links below to learn more about the Eta Aquariid meteor shower.

When and how should I watch the Eta Aquarids?

Radiant point of the Eta Aquariid shower

How many meteors should I expect to see?

Why more Eta Aquarid meteors in the Southern Hemisphere?

Halley’s Comet is the source of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower.

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When and how should I watch the Eta Aquariids? The 2017 Eta Aquariid meteor shower is expected to produce the greatest number of meteors in the wee hours before dawn on May 5 and 6. However, the broad peak of the Eta Aquariid shower may present a decent showing of meteors during the predawn hours on May 4 and May 7, too. And in fact the shower extends much beyond these dates on either side. Writing for the International Meteor Organization on May 1, 2017, Robert Lunsford pointed out:

… There is no sharp peak for this shower, but rather a plateau of good rates that last approximately one week centered on May 6.

In fact, Lunsford recommended watching earlier in the week, to avoid the moon. Whether you have tried that – or plan to watch closer to the peak – you’ll want to keep an eye on moonset times. A waxing gibbous moon will shine in the sky during the shower’s peak. On the peak mornings, the moon is setting a few hours before dawn, leaving a window for meteor-watching. But the moon is now setting later each morning, interfering more and more with the shower. For this reason, for example, the morning of May 5 might be a better time to watch than the morning of May 6. Click here, and check the moonrise and moonset box, to know when the moon rises and sets in your sky.

In general, the best time to watch these fast and often bright meteors is in the early morning hours, before the onset of morning twilight. Don’t know when twilight begins in your part of the world? Try one of the links on our almanac page.

Give yourself at least an hour of viewing time for watching any meteor shower. Meteors tend to come in spurts that are interspersed by lulls. Also, it can take as long as 20 minutes for your eyes to adapt to the dark.

You need no special equipment to watch a meteor shower, but a little luck always helps. Meteor watching is a lot like fishing. Sometimes you catch a good number of them and sometimes you don’t.

Meteor shower radiants are sometimes misunderstood by casual meteor-watchers. You don’t need to know where they are to watch a meteor shower. That’s because the meteors fly every which way across the sky, in front of numerous constellations. However, the higher a shower’s radiant appears in your sky, the more meteors you’re likely to see. For the Eta Aquarids, the radiant soars highest in the nighttime sky just before dawn. That’s why you can expect to see the most meteors in the wee morning hours.

You can see some Eta Aquarid meteors in late evening, before the radiant rises into your sky. In fact, late evening is the best time to see earthgrazers, meteors that make exceptionally long streaks across your sky. As the radiant rises higher – that is as the hours of the night tick away to dawn – you’ll see shorter meteors, but more meteors.

No special equipment is needed to watch a meteor shower. Find a dark, open sky away from artificial lights, and sprawl out on a reclining lawn chair.

How many meteors should I expect to see? In a dark sky, especially at more southerly latitudes, the Eta Aquarids can produce up to 20 to 40 meteors per hour. From mid-northern latitudes, you might only see about 10 meteors per hour. Or you might see more.

Halley’s Comet is the source of the Eta Aquariid meteor shower. Every year, our planet Earth crosses the orbital path of Halley’s Comet in late April and May, so bits and pieces from this comet light up the nighttime as Eta Aquarid meteors. This shower is said to be active from April 19 to May 20, although Earth plows most deeply into this stream of comet debris around May 5 or 6.

The comet dust smashes into Earth’s upper atmosphere at nearly 240,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) per hour. Roughly half of these swift-moving meteors leave persistent trains – ionized gas trails that glow for a few seconds after the meteor has passed.

Our planet also crosses the orbital path of Halley’s Comet at the other end of the year, giving rise to the Orionid meteor shower, which is usually at its best in the predawn hours on or near October 21.

Why not see how many Eta Aquarid meteors you’ll catch in the dark hours before dawn on May 5 and 6?

Bottom line: What’s a good shower for the Southern Hemisphere? In 2017, it’s the Eta Aquariid shower on the mornings of May 5 and 6. It’s possible to see some Eta Aquariids in the Northern Hemisphere, too, but the farther south you live in the Northern Hemisphere, the better! How to watch, some history, chart showing radiant point in this post.

EarthSky’s meteor shower guide for 2017

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Your Charm for Today

Today’s Meaning:
The hand indicates you will need to extend effort to protect this aspect from outside influences. The devices attached indicate you will need tools to be successful in your protection.

General Description:
The use of a representation of the Hand as a talisman can be traced back to at least 800 years B.C., when it was used as a charm against enchantment. Many varieties of the Hand exist; in some the elaboration is very marked, each devise represents some particular charm. Life size models of these Hands were supposed to guard the house against all the influences of magic and evil, and smaller replicas protected their wearers from every description of harm. The extended thumb and first two fingers, the third and fourth fingers closed, is the position still assumed during the benediction in some Christian Churches of today.