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Calendar of the Moon for June 3rd

Calendar of the Moon

Hawthorn Tree Month

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

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

Chant:
Cauldron of Changes
Blossom of Bone
Arc of Eternity
Hole in the Stone

 
[Pagan Book of Hours]

Calendar of the Sun for Friday, June 3rd

Calendar of the Sun
3 Lithemonath

Bellona’s Day

Color: Red
Element: Fire
Altar: Upon a red cloth set a single red candle, a sword, a spear, a bottle of Italian wine, and a brass trumpet. At the beginning of the ritual, a blast is blown on the horn.
Offerings: Defend what you value.
Daily Meal: Beef.

Invocation to Bellona

Hail Bellona, Lady of War!
Hail, Virgin of the bright trumpets!
Hail, Virgin of the brass mouth of battle!
Hail, sword-wielder and shield-maiden!
Hail, defender of open gates!
Hail, protector of the weak!
Hail, lady of battle-rage
Whose strength is unbending!
We honor you today, Lady Bellona,
In the hopes that we shall never need your services,
And yet we honor your value
When all hope of peace is lost
And we must fight for what we hold.
We who follow the path of peace
Must honor the honorable warrior,
For there are many kinds of battles,
And many kinds of warriors,
But courage and honor are base truths
Which are never valueless.
And so it is that we hail you, Bellona,
Dame of trumpets and drums,
Whose music is the cries of the fallen
And the shouts of the victorious.
Defend our gates from harm,
Lady in shining armor,
And may we always be worthy of your aid.

(A blast is blown again on the trumpet. Each steps forward and salutes the altar to the beat of a long slow drum.)

[Pagan Book of Hours]

The Witches Current Moon Phase for June 3rd is Waning Crescent

HALLOWEEN
June 3
Waning Crescent
Illumination: 4%

The Moon today is in a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this phase the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Phase Details for – Friday, June 3, 2016

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 4%
Moon Age: 27.67 days
Moon Angle: 0.55
Moon Distance: 364,355.27 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,770,012.09 km

Source

The Witches Magick for the 3rd Day of June – Dark Moon Transformation Spell

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Dark Moon Transformation Spell

Cast this spell to transform something specific in your life.

Use a royal blue candle and amber oil.

At midnight, draw a magick circle and call in the elements.

Dress the candle with a thin film of scented oil, and anoint yourself with the oil. Wipe any remaining oil from your hands. Light the candle, dedicating it to the Goddess of the Dark Moon. Focus your mind on the one thing you want to transform in your life. Select one thing and be specific. Now merge with the divine and say:

Dear Lady of the Dark Moon
Help me transform(Name what you want to change)
And help me to be whole again!

Imagine being surrounded and bathed in a cobalt blue light. See and sense yourself transforming.

Move your mind into the future for a few moments and actually feel what that transformation feels like. Enjoy the positive change. Continue doing this for several minutes. Bathe your vision of the future in bright golden light, the turn your awareness to the candlelight. When you are done, thank the Lady of the Dark Moon. Bid farewell to the elements and close the circle.

Magickal Activity for June 3rd, Festival of Bellona

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Magickal Activity for June 3rd, Festival of Bellona

Protection Charm

For this you will need the fourth pentacle of Mars, laminated with plastic, and a bowl of salt water. Slowly sprinkle some salt water over the seal as you chant the following charm:

Elements of earth and sea,
Return to all by power of three.
That which may be sent to me,
Unless I have summoned it to be.
I am protected from this night,
By the spirits of power and might.

Wear the pentacle for protection on a daily basis. Once a month, at the dark of the moon, repeat the charm to keep your pentacle properly charged.

Celebrating Legends, Folklore & Spirituality 365 Days A Year for June 3rd

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June 3rd

Festival of Bellona

In ancient Rome, this day was set aside to worship the Bellona, the Goddess of war and personification of force. Equated with Enyo, the Greek Goddess of combat, Bellona was sometimes regarded as the wife or sister of Mars. She was portrayed as driving her own chariot, with a sword and a spear or torch in each of her hands. Her temple in Rome was dedicated in 296 b.c. by Appius Claudius Caccus during a battle against the Etrucans and Sammites. Because the temple was situated just outside the wall of Rome, it was often used by the Senate for meetings and to receive foreign ambassadors.

Witchcraft 101: The Four Powers of the Magus

Wiccan Woman and Dragons (GP)

The Four Powers of the Magus

TO KNOW – noscere – air – to know what you are doing
TO DARE – audere – water – to dare to practice the Craft
TO WILL – velle – fire – to will the power
TO BE SILENT – tacere – earth – to keep silent about what you are doing

To Know– noscere – air – to know what you are doing. Witchcraft is rarely dangerous, but when you do not know what you are doing, what you do can turn out wrong. Know the difference between good and bad. Know what you are doing and what is your intent. Know who might get hurt. Think long and hard about your words and your actions before you fling them, unheeded, into the world.

To Dare – audere – water – to dare to practice the Craft. Never be afraid of what you are. If you are not afraid of your religion, you have a freedom within it. No one should ever try to make you afraid of your god(s) or goddess(es). Your power comes from you and you should not fear that which comes from your body because it is a part of you.

To Will – velle – fire – to will the power. Magick is all power that comes from the mind. This power comes from your strength in believing and willing something to happen. If you do not believe it will happen, then it will not. Your strength is your will and your willpower. Nothing is so strong as the human mind.

To Be Silent – tacere – earth – to keep silent about what you are doing. Magick is not something that is used to make you popular or to scare or impress others. Magick, like lovemaking, is a very personal, very private act and anything said about it makes it less sacred. It is the sacredness of the act that gives it its power. The more you talk about what you have done, the less power it has. Do not discuss your spells with others until after you have cast it and gotten the effect. Also watch who you tell. Not all eyes and ears are as understanding as yours

 

Witches Correspondences for Friday, June 3rd

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Witches Correspondences for Friday, June 3rd

The day of Venus, Friday takes its name from Frigga, the Goddess of Love and Transformation. She rules the spiritual aspects of people as they manifest on the physical. because of this, Friday is sometimes thought of as unpredictable.

Element : Water / Earth

Planet: Venus

Zodiac Sign : Taurus / Libra

Angel : Ariel

Metal : Tin

Incense / Perfumes : Strawberry, Sandalwood, Rose, Saffron and Vanilla

Oils : Cardamom, Palmrosa, Rose, Yarrow

Color : Green, Aqua, Rose

Stones : Emerald, Rose Quartz, Moonstone, Pink Tourmaline, Peridot, Jade

Plants/Herbs : Apple, Balm of Gilead, Bergamot, Birch, Catnip, Clematis, Damiana, Dragons Blood, Geranium, Heather, Hibiscus, Ivy, Magnolia, Mugwort, Plumeria, Rose, Rose Geranium, Sage, Strawberry, Vanilla, Vervain, Violet, Water Lilly

Magick to Work: love, friendship, beauty, sensuality, arts, attraction, healing, peace, harmony, artistic ability, creativity generally, reconciliation, beauty, female sexuality, luxury, music, pleasure, scent, sensuality, social affairs

 

Correspondences for Gemini

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Correspondences for Gemini

Attributes: Creative, moody, positive, changeable, charismatic

Herbs: Dill, fern, licorice, sage, sandalwood, cinquefoil

Stones: Agate, topaz, carnelian

Element: Air

Day: Wednesday

Colors: White, yellow, silver

Planet: Mercury
 

Source

A Spell Crafter’s Compendium
Terri Paajanen

 

The Witches Almanac for Friday, June 3rd

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The Witches Almanac for Friday, June 3rd

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

Memorial to Broken Dolls (Japanese)

Waning Moon

Moon Phase: Fourth Quarter

Moon Sign: Taurus
Taurus: Things begun now last the longest, tend to increase in value, and become hard to alter. Brings out appreciation for beauty and sensory experience.

Moon enters Gemini 11:01 pm
Gemini: Things begun now are easily changed by outside influence. Time for shortcuts, communication, games, and fun.

Incense: Thyme

Color: Pink

Friday’s Witchery

Blessed Are The Witches

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.
 

Source

Book of Witchery – Spells, Charms & Correspondences For Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

 

The Goddess Calendar of the Day for Friday, June 3rd

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The Goddess Calendar of the Day for Friday, June 3rd

Memorial to Broken Dolls Day in Japan, a Buddhist ritual for little girls dedicated to Children’s Goddesses: Rumina, Surabhi, Mayauel, Bona Dea, Befana, and Kwan Yin. Roman consecration of Bellona, Amazon and War Goddess (Athena, Minerva, Sekhmet, Oya, Mah, Mami, Anath, Medusa, Kali, Hecate).

Source

The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

Friday, June 3

Wiccan

Friday, June 3

Friday is the day of Venus. It takes it name from Frigg, the Goddess of love and transformation. She rules the spiritual side of a person that manifests in the physical. Because of this, Friday is often thought of as dangerously unpredictable. This is expressed in an old East Anglian adage:

Friday’s day will have its trick
The fairest or foulest day of the week.

Deity: Frigg

Zodiac Sign: Taurus/Libra

Planet: Venus

Tree: Apple

Herb: Vervain

Stone: Sapphire/Chrsolite

Animal: Bull/Serpent

Element: Earth

Color: Yellow/Violet

Number: 7

Rune: Peorth(P)

Celtic Tree Month of Hauth (Hawthorn) – May 13 – June 9. Hawthorn month is a time of fertility, masculine energy, and fire. Also associated with the realm of Faerie.

Runic Half-Month of Odal (home, possessions) – May 29 – June 13

Goddess of the Month of Hera – May 16 – June 12. Hera is associated with motherhood, marriage, the household, infidelities, beauty, luxury
 

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

 

The Sky This Week for June 3 to June 5

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The Sky This Week for June 3 to June 5

 

Friday, June 3

• The Moon reaches perigee, the closest point in its orbit around Earth, at 6:55 a.m. EDT. It then lies 224,402 miles (361,140 kilometers) away from us.

Saturday, June 4

• Another comet in the growing crowd of such objects discovered by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii makes its appearance in June’s morning sky. Comet PANSTARRS (C/2013 X1) currently glows around 7th magnitude in southern Aquarius. As a bonus today, the comet’s head lies less than 1° east of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) while the comet’s tail grazes this bright planetary. From most of the United States, you’ll need a haze-free southeastern horizon to spot the comet through a telescope shortly before dawn breaks.

• New Moon occurs at 11:00 p.m. EDT. At its new phase, the Moon crosses the sky with the Sun and so remains hidden in our star’s glare.

Sunday, June 5

• Mercury reaches greatest elongation today, when it lies 24° west of the Sun and stands 6° high in the east a half-hour before sunrise. The innermost planet shines at magnitude 0.5 and shows up easily through binoculars if you have an unobstructed horizon. When viewed through a telescope, Mercury appears 8″ across and about one-third lit.
 

Source

Astronomy Magazine

 

Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Friday, June 3rd

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Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Friday, June 3rd

Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 107.91° ESE
Sun Altitude: 57.99°
Sun Distance: 94.303 million mi
Next Solstice: Jun 20, 2016 5:34 PM (Summer)
Sunrise Today: 5:35 AM↑ 61° Northeast
Sunset Today: 8:10 PM↑ 299° Northwest
Length of Daylight: 14 hours, 35 minutes

 

Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 151.05° SSE
Moon Altitude: 64.05°
Moon Distance: 224421 mi
Next New Moon: Jun 4, 20169:59 PM
Next Full Moon: Jun 20, 20166:02 AM
Next Moonset: Today6:36 PM
Current Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 3.4%

 

Source

timeanddate.com

 

Goddess Grant Your Children Protection

fantasy
Goddess, Give us protection from the outside world,
Let whatever people say about us not hurt,
Let whatever we fear not bother us,
Let all the mixed up feelings inside be released without harm,
Goddess, you see our pain,
We are your children, we are your soul,
We need a dream to cast away this pain,
Something to soothe our soul,
Give us protection from the outside world.
In Your Divine Name, we ask these things.
So Mote It Be

A Very Happy & Blessed Friday Morn’ To All Our Brothers & Sisters of the Craft!

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One quick note, we are not really running late. We have been here working on up-dating the site. Now it is finally up-dated, one worry down. I don’t want to think about how many more might be coming, lol! Ha, what am I taking about we still have several other sites to up-date, gee! I spoke too soon.

Anyway, let’s get this party started…..

Have a super Friday and a very Blessed & Relaxed Weekend,

Love ya,

Lady A