1My youngest son, William, sustained a serious injury at work today. He just turn 39 years old last month. He has broken right ribs one of which pierced his lung. The hole in the lung is growing and as I type this they are putting in a drainage tube. I am extremely worried but he doesn’t want me at the hospital yet because he has the idea that it isn’t really serious. I know if the lung collapses he may have to be put in a medically induce coma with a respirator so the lung can heal properly. If this happens I will be at the hospital 24/7 with him. I am not sure what will be happening with posts the rest of this week right now. I will only be doing a few posts tomorrow.
I humbly ask you to send healing in anyway shape or form to my son please.
Thank you for your help and support.
Category: Daily Posts
July 11th 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.
2023 July 11
Sunspots on an Active Sun
Image Credit: NASA, SDO; Processing & Copyright: Şenol Şanlı
Explanation: Why is our Sun so active now? No one is sure. An increase in surface activity was expected because our Sun is approaching solar maximum in 2025. However, last month our Sun sprouted more sunspots than in any month during the entire previous 11-year solar cycle — and even dating back to 2002. The featured picture is a composite of images taken every day from January to June by NASA‘s Solar Dynamic Observatory. Showing a high abundance of sunspots, large individual spots can be tracked across the Sun’s disk, left to right, over about two weeks. As a solar cycle continues, sunspots typically appear closer to the equator. Sunspots are just one way that our Sun displays surface activity — another is flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that expel particles out into the Solar System. Since these particles can affect astronauts and electronics, tracking surface disturbances is of more than aesthetic value. Conversely, solar activity can have very high aesthetic value — in the Earth’s atmosphere when they trigger aurora.
Some Humor for Your Day
This is my home because according to Big Dawg my snoring could wake the dead. I am no necromancer, so I definitely don’t want to wake those bodies in the ground.
July 10 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.
2023 July 10
Stars, Dust and Nebula in NGC 6559
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Telescope Live
Explanation: When stars form, pandemonium reigns. A textbook case is the star forming region NGC 6559. Visible in the featured image are red glowing emission nebulas of hydrogen, blue reflection nebulas of dust, dark absorption nebulas of dust, and the stars that formed from them. The first massive stars formed from the dense gas will emit energetic light and winds that erode, fragment, and sculpt their birthplace. And then they explode. The resulting morass can be as beautiful as it is complex. After tens of millions of years, the dust boils away, the gas gets swept away, and all that is left is a bare open cluster of stars.
July 9th 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.
2023 July 9
Doomed Star Eta Carinae
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
Explanation: Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when – it may be next year, it may be one million years from now. Eta Carinae‘s mass – about 100 times greater than our Sun – makes it an excellent candidate for a full blown supernova. Historical records do show that about 170 years ago Eta Carinae underwent an unusual outburst that made it one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. Eta Carinae, in the Keyhole Nebula, is the only star currently thought to emit natural LASER light. This featured image brings out details in the unusual nebula that surrounds this rogue star. Diffraction spikes, caused by the telescope, are visible as bright multi-colored streaks emanating from Eta Carinae’s center. Two distinct lobes of the Homunculus Nebula encompass the hot central region, while some strange radial streaks are visible in red extending toward the image right. The lobes are filled with lanes of gas and dust which absorb the blue and ultraviolet light emitted near the center. The streaks, however, remain unexplained.
Wicca, Witchcraft or Paganism? c. 2013
If you’re reading this page, chances are you’re either a Wiccan or Pagan, or you’re someone who’s interested in learning more about the modern Pagan movement. You may be a parent who’s curious about what your child is reading, or you might be someone who is unsatisfied with the spiritual path you’re on right now. Perhaps you’re seeking something more than what you’ve had in the past. You might be someone who’s practiced Wicca or Paganism for years, and who just wants to learn more.
For many people, the embracing of an earth-based spirituality is a feeling of “coming home”. Often, people say that when they first discovered Wicca, they felt like they finally fit in. For others, it’s a journey TO something new, rather than running away from something else.
Paganism is an Umbrella Term
Please bear in mind that there are dozens of different traditions that fall under the umbrella title of “Paganism”. While one group may have a certain practice, not everyone will follow the same criteria. Statements made on this site referring to Wiccans and Pagans generally refer to MOST Wiccans and Pagans, with the acknowledgement that not all practices are identical.
Not All Pagans are Wiccans
There are many Witches who are not Wiccans. Some are Pagans, but some consider themselves something else entirely.
Just to make sure everyone’s on the same page, let’s clear up one thing right off the bat: not all Pagans are Wiccans. The term “Pagan” (derived from the Latin paganus, which translates roughly to “hick from the sticks”) was originally used to describe people who lived in rural areas. As time progressed and Christianity spread, those same country folk were often the last holdouts clinging to their old religions. Thus, “Pagan” came to mean people who didn’t worship the god of Abraham.
In the 1950s, Gerald Gardner brought Wicca to the public, and many contemporary Pagans embraced the practice. Although Wicca itself was founded by Gardner, he based it upon old traditions. However, a lot of Witches and Pagans were perfectly happy to continue practicing their own spiritual path without converting to Wicca.
Therefore, “Pagan” is an umbrella term that includes many different spiritual belief systems – Wicca is just one of many.
Think of it this way:
Christian > Lutheran or Methodist or Jehovah’s Witness
Pagan > Wiccan or Asatru or Dianic or Eclectic Witchcraft
As if that wasn’t confusing enough, not all people who practice witchcraft are Wiccans, or even Pagans. There are a few witches who embrace the Christian god as well as a Wiccan goddess – the Christian Witch movement is alive and well! There are also people out there who practice Jewish mysticism, or “Jewitchery”, and atheist witches who practice magic but do not follow a deity.
What About Magic?
There are a number of people who consider themselves Witches, but who are not necessarily Wiccan or even Pagan. Typically, these are people who use the term “eclectic Witch” to apply to themselves. In many cases, Witchcraft is seen as a skill set in addition to or instead of a religious. A Witch may practice magic in a manner completely separate from their spirituality; in other words, one does not have to interact with the Divine to be a Witch.
Hope You Are Having a Magickally Good and Peace Filled Sunday WOTC Family and Friends!
I am so excited today I get to spend this afternoon with 2 of my sons, a daughter-in-law, and my 2 youngest grandsons!
So I will get done as many of the tomorrow posts as I can before I have to shower and get ready. The rest or those I put only on the next day tomorrow.
Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy, and magickal Sunday!
July 3rd to July 8th Astronomy Picture of the Day
These are the Astronomy Picture of the Day for the past week. Just click on the hyperlink next to the date for the pictures you want to see. Starting Tomorrow this will be a daily post. Starting tomorrow, Sunday, July 10th this will be a daily post again.
2023 July 08: Stickney Crater
2023 July 07: The Double Cluster in Perseus
2023 July 06: Fireworks vs Supermoon
2023 July 05: A Map of the Observable Universe
2023 July 04: Aurora over Icelandic Waterfall
2023 July 03: Venus in Ultraviolet from Akatsuki
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends! What is On Your Mind Today?
I am sorry today’s posts went up so late, but I haven’t been sleeping well again and was to exhausted yesterday to do anything more but cuddle with Star, Merlin, and Cleo on the couch. I will get part of Sunday’s posts done today and the rest tomorrow. I am still very tired at my age and with my health difficulties 4 hours of broken sleep for a week doesn’t let my brain function as it normally does.
How are you doing today?
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends! What is On Your Mind Today?
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
Henry David Thoreau
New posting will be starting this Sunday, July 9th. I hope you enjoy the extra things I will be adding. There will be 12 posts Monday through Saturday and 13 on Sunday. The extra one on Sunday is the weekly horoscopes.
Some Humor for Your Day c. 2016
Overnight Karma
Mildred, the self-appointed arbiter of the community’s morals, kept sticking her nose into other people’s business. Several members were unappreciative of her activities, but they feared her enough to maintain their silence. She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his pickup truck parked in front of the town’s only bar one afternoon. She commented to George and others that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing.
George, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just walked away. He didn’t explain, defend, or deny, he said nothing. Later that evening, George quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred’s house… and left it there all night.
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau
I am slowly marching to my dream of bring WOTC back to its glory days when Lady Abyss was alive and could help me after turning her life’s work over to me. In many ways with including less posts I feel I am failing her. She would put out between 15 and 30 posts a day where as from the feed back from the surveys last month I am only doing a third of that. So, I guess I have a choice to make either put out more posts and possibly lose some follower or stick with what I am doing as the visitors and views keep going downhill. I am leaning more towards a few more posts covering a wider range of topics daily. If you feel I am blowing up you inbox I apologize but partly for my small income from WOTC which I will be getting paid every 3 months for the time I put in everyday instead of every 2 months and hopefully bring you more content that you can use or find interesting I will be going with a few more posts starting this Sunday. No, it will not go all the way up to 30 posts a day but probably around 12 or 13 instead of only 8. I know I will never be rich writing this blog but I would like to get a little more each month to go back to being paid at least a little every other month.
For anyone who decides to leave because of more emails from WOTC I wish you well on your journey and thank you for your support. For all of you who stay I thank you for sticking with us and for your support.
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Good Day, Hail and Well Met and Merry Meet to All Who Gather Here This Day!
Interesting question put to me by one of my students, “Do you just talk the talk or do you really walk the walk of a pagan and witch?”
So, I pose the same question to you.
To me walking the walk means being out of the broom closet to help other witches and pagans to do the same. We do not have to be ashamed or feel the need to hide your spiritual path. The more of us who stand up for our beliefs that more the world around us will accept witches and pagans. I am not saying to come out of the broom closet if it would have a major negative impact on your life. I am saying if you can step out of the musky broom closet do so proudly and with your head held high!
Here is a Little VooDoo History – Marie LaVeau
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I found this on NewsBreak: Maya canoe surrounded by animal and human bones found in ‘portal to the underworld’ in Mexico
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Some Humor for Your Day
Good Day WOTC Family and Friends! What is On Your Mind Today?
Always remember the Law of Three – whatever you send out will come back to you three times over whether it is white or gray or black magick
Full Moon General Information for July 2023
July’s full Buck Moon rises after sunset on Monday, July 3—the eve of Independence Day! This is also a supermoon that will appear bigger and brighter than average. See more information about July’s Full Moon from why we call it the “Buck” Moon to best days by the Moon.
When to See the Full Moon in July 2023
July’s full Buck Moon will rise on Monday, July 3, reaching peak illumination at 7:39 A.M. Eastern Time. It will be below the horizon at that time, so plan to look towards the southeast after sunset to watch it rise into the sky. Being the day before the Fourth of July, it should make for dazzling fireworks displays!
→ Consult our Moonrise and Moonset Calculator to see precisely when the Buck Moon will be visible in your area!
Behold the Full Buck Supermoon!
July’s full Buck Moon orbits closer to Earth than many of the other full Moons this year, making one of the four supermoons of 2023! At its nearest point, the Buck Moon will be 224,895.4 miles (361,934 km) from Earth, which means that August’s Blue Moon will be the only supermoon that is closer to our planet this year.
While a supermoon is technically bigger and brighter than a regular full Moon, it only appears about 7% larger—which can be an imperceptible difference to the human eye, depending on other conditions.
→ Want to really see a huge full Moon? Read about the “Moon illusion” to discover how and when to look for one!
Why Is It Called the Buck Moon?
The full Moon names used by The Old Farmer’s Almanac come from a number of places, including Native American, Colonial American, and European sources. Traditionally, each full Moon name was applied to the entire lunar month in which it occurred, not solely to the full Moon.
The Buck Moon
The full Moon in July is called the Buck Moon because the antlers of male deer (bucks) are in full-growth mode at this time. Bucks shed and regrow their antlers each year, producing a larger and more impressive set as the years go by.
Alternative July Moon Names
Several other names for this month’s Moon also reference animals, including Feather Moulting Moon (Cree) and Salmon Moon, a Tlingit term indicating when fish returned to the area and were ready to be harvested.
Plants are also featured prominently in July’s Moon names. Some of our favorites are Berry Moon (Anishinaabe), Moon When the Chokecherries are Ripe (Dakota), Month of the Ripe Corn Moon (Cherokee), and Raspberry Moon (Algonquin, Ojibwe).
Thunder Moon (Western Abenaki) and Halfway Summer Moon (Anishinaabe) are alternative variants that refer to the stormy weather and summer season.
Best Days in July 2023
Below are the best days for activities, based on the Moon’s sign and phase in July.
| Activity | Best Days |
| Cutting Hay | 9, 10 |
| Pick Fruit | 20-22 |
| Fishing | July 17- August 1 |
Full Moon and New Moon for July 2023
 Full Moon July 3 11:38 UTC |
 Last Quarter July 10 01:47 UTC |
 New Moon July 17 18:31 UTC |
 First Quarter July 25 22:06 UTC |
You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else was born.
From MoonGiant.com
The Full Moon for this month will occur early in the month on Monday, July 3rd. The New Moon will happen later in July on Monday, July 17th.
The Full Thunder Moon of July
July’s full moon is called the Full Thunder Moon, after the frequent thunderstorms that roll in during early summer. Thunderstorms are more likely to form in humid environments during summer because of the moist, hot air rising from the ground to the higher, colder parts of our atmosphere. The Full Thunder Moon is, therefore, a warning sign for a surprisingly dangerous time of the year.
Did you know that you are more likely to get hit by lightning twice in your lifetime than win the Powerball lottery, and that summer is usually when most lightning fatalities happen? As the Full Thunder Moon rises to prominence during the warm summer months, people are more likely to be taking part in outdoor activities, which increases their risk of being hit by the frequent thunder and lightning strikes that happen during this period. Everyone knows to avoid trees and bodies of water during thunderstorms, but that basic precaution alone is not enough.
According to experts, you should head inside a safe building immediately when you hear thunder, no matter how safe you think you are. Lightning can strike from up to 10 miles away, and nothing can protect you when you’re outdoors. Wearing rubber soles or crouching down low will not stop lightning from hurting you. Lying down on the ground is an even worse idea, as it’ll make you even more vulnerable to currents traveling through the ground.
If you do get caught outdoors with no way to make it into a building safely, sheltering in a completely closed, all-metal car is an option as long as you don’t touch anything metal. You should also avoid open areas such as fields. Just keep moving as fast as you can until you reach shelter. If you happen to be in a group, spread out so that if one of you gets struck, the others can provide emergency CPR and other help. Remember that it’s completely safe to touch a person after they’ve been struck. Lightning-related deaths are most often caused by the heart stopping due to the sudden surge of electricity, and so it is very important to administer CPR to a lightning strike victim immediately.
Ultimately, the best way to avoid being caught outdoors in a thunderstorm is to take a little of your time each day to monitor the weather situation, and have backup plans for shelter if you’re heading outdoors. That said, being indoor doesn’t necessarily guarantee that you’re safe either. Make sure to stay far away from any plumbing, metal objects, electronic devices and equipment, or anything that might conducts electricity. Avoid windows or doors at all costs. Not even concrete walls and floors are safe, since they contain metal rods that conduct electricity, so never allow yourself to lean against concrete walls or come into contact with concrete floors. The risk of a strike remains for 30 minutes after the last flash of lightning or peal of thunder.
The Full Thunder Moon is a great time for you to brush up on your lightning safety knowledge and educate other people as well. Feel free to head to the wild outdoors to observe deers whose velvety antlers are growing out during this period – which is why July’s full moon is also known as the Full Buck Moon – but also make sure to take the necessary safety precautions.
Local Date and Time for July 2023 Full Moon in major cities around the world:
Los Angeles,
San Francisco,
Vancouver
July 3, 2023
4:38am PDT
Denver,
Salt Lake City,
Calgary
July 3, 2023
5:38am MDT
Chicago,
Houston,
San Antonio
July 3, 2023
6:38am CDT
New York,
Toronto,
Atlanta
July 3, 2023
7:38am EDT
London,
Manchester,
Dublin
July 3, 2023
12:38pm BST
Paris,
Rome,
Berlin
July 3, 2023
1:38pm CEST
Athens,
Istanbul,
Helsinki
July 3, 2023
2:38pm EEST
Dubai,
Abu Dhabi,
Muscat
July 3, 2023
3:38pm +04
Bangalore,
Mumbai,
New Delhi
July 3, 2023
5:08pm IST
Singapore,
Kuala Lumpur
July 3, 2023
7:38pm +08
Perth,
Hong Kong,
Beijing
July 3, 2023
7:38pm AWST
Sydney,
Brisbane,
Melbourne
July 3, 2023
9:38pm AEST
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