W-I-C-C-A

Tune: YMCA

Young witch, there’s no need to feel sad.
I say young witch, ’cause the preacher’s your dad.
I say young witch, there’s good times to be had.
You can choose your own religion

Young witch, do you hear what I say.
I said young witch. there’s a new way to pray.
I say young witch, you can mould your own clay.
You can be who you want to be.

Chorus

It’s fun to pray when you’re W-I-C-C-A!
It’s fun to pray when you’re W-I-C-C-A!
You can revel all night, and then sleep until noon.
You can stay up and howl at the moon.

It’s fun to pray when you’re W-I-C-C-A!
It’s fun to pray when you’re W-I-C-C-A!
You can invoke air, fire, water and stone,
Be the maiden, the mother, the crone.

Young witch, there’s a place you can go.
I say young witch, where you can read the Tarot.
I say young witch, and there’s no hell below.
You can be a Wiccan priestess.

Young witch, if you’re harming no one,
I say young witch, then your will may be don.e
I say young witch, you can even have fun.
You can dance and laugh in circle.

Chorus

Young witch, I was once in a lurch.
I was a young witch, my parents sent me to church.
I knew this witch, had to go on a search.
I had to find my path to spirit.

That’s when, a Pagan came up to me
And said “Young witch, merry meet, blessed be!”
He said “Young witch, there’s a path you should see,”
And he turned me on to Wicca

Chorus

 

Source

Turok’s Cabana

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.

2016 March 11

Lunar Shadow Transit
Image Credit: NASA, NOAA/DSCOVR

 

Explanation: This snapshot from deep space captures planet Earth on March 9. The shadow of its large moon is falling on the planet’s sunlit hemisphere. Tracking toward the east (left to right) across the ocean-covered world the moon shadow moved quickly in the direction of the planet’s rotation. Of course, denizens of Earth located close to the shadow track centerline saw this lunar shadow transit as a brief, total eclipse of the Sun. From a spacebased perspective between Earth and Sun, the view of this shadow transit was provided by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC).

Westward shift of Orion and all the stars

We always get this question at this time of year:

Orion seems to have moved and turned considerably in the last two weeks. Will Orion disappear before summer?

The answer is that all the stars and constellations shift westward as the seasons pass, and they also move westward in the course of a single night. And Orion is no exception. Exactly when Orion will disappear from the evening sky – into the sunset – depends on your latitude. The farther south you are, the longer you can see Orion. But for the central U.S., Orion is lost in the sun’s glare by early to mid-May (depending on how carefully you look for it). And for all of us in the U.S., Orion is gone by the time of the summer solstice in June.

If you want to notice the westward shift of the constellations due to the passage of the seasons, be sure to watch at the same time every night. If you want to watch their westward shift throughout the night, just pull up a lawn chair and watch.

Either way, you can definitely notice Orion moving steadily westward.

The westward shift of the sky throughout the night is due to Earth’s spin under the stars. But the westward shift of the stars throughout the seasons is due to Earth’s motion in orbit around the sun. Earth’s motion in orbit causes our night sky to point out on an ever-shifting panorama of the galaxy.

Why does Orion go into the sun’s glare each year at this same time? Only because – each year, as we orbit continually around the sun – our motion in orbit brings the sun between us and Orion at this same time each year.

Bottom line: Why the constellation Orion – and all the stars – shift westward as the seasons pass.

 

Author

Deborah Byrd