The Eclipse Cycle Begins

a message from Archangel Michael channeled by Meredith Murphy
To read more of Meredith’s insight, please visit her website, Expect Wonderful by Meredith Murphy
Greetings Divine One,
The Eclipse Cycle begins this weekend with a new moon and a partial solar eclipse. We want to offer you some energetic support for this alignment, so if you would like this, please pause for a moment now and go inward. Connect through the center of your chest, your heart chakra, with an openness within you. A calm, quiet stillness. To do this, is to tap into an access-way to all that you are.
Once you have oriented there, speak telepathically to all that you are. You might think of this as calling upon your Divine Self. By doing this, you’re in a sense saying energetically, “Hello — I’m orienting to our connection now…and I am consciously amplifying and empowering you to participate in my embodied life more fully.” You can telepathically say what you wish to greet all that you are, to summon or activate this connection consciously. Think of all that you are, like a super fantastic ally who is always here for you and loves being summoned. It’s true, you know.
Now then, in this quiet still point within your very being, and consciously connected with all that you are, if you wish, open up to a direct connection with the Angelic Realm. Simply create it with imagination or inner-telepathic-talk, or whatever way you wish. Your focus is powerfully creative. So choices like these simply steps we are describing make stuff happen. For real.
Now then, if you wish, state that you welcome angelic support for this Eclipse Cycle. Invite the fullness of your being to mediate that support. You can instruct all that you are to help you to experience the expansion, transformation, clarity, healing, support, love, insight, release, whatever you may need most at this time. You can invite all that you are, to provide you with the most relevant and beneficial experiences and energies and to also facilitate you receiving support from the Angelic Realm.
We in the Angelic Realm love to be with you. We are here for you. We are here on behalf of all that is and all that we are, to support divine expression in human experience. What we mean when we say this is this: we are here to help you be fully you. You are the divine that is wishing to express through this life. The life form that is experiencing this message, which Meredith is translating — that version of you, is simply an elaboration of all that you are. So you are, in the way we are suggesting you focus and orient right now, tapping into the Source of your being.
In this powerful alignment, you can easily get the support you will find most useful for you at this time. In this powerful alignment, you can free yourself up from anything that is bothering you in life, and you can shift into an energy that will be more resonant with all that you seek.
As your Divine Self, you are already expressing all that you have chosen and wish to have unfold as manifest experience. So this Divine You is the means by which all that you wish to experience can flow into your manifest life, what you think of as reality.
Realize there are many realities available to you and your alignment is like the engineer at a multiple-track train station, altering which line delivers the manifest experience to you. You call these timelines. Your inner being can alter what is arriving in your “station of life,” by you being in alignment more. Your alignment facilitates your Divine Self, or your inner being, giving you more of what you seek to experience.
The Eclipse that takes place this weekend can also help you out with the aspirations you have, be they personal or spiritual. The energies of the Sun and Moon affect life on Earth and your planet. You are part of these fields, which progress into increasingly expanded focus and manifest in different ways — such as your planet, your galaxy, your universe. As you take in the realization that these vast fields are in a sense expanded versions of you. That these fields such as the galaxy and the universe, actually nest, so to speak, within your own vaster wholeness, you realize that you can play at many different levels of consciousness.
To learn to live at different levels of consciousness and to embody higher frequencies, which facilitate experiences of higher, vaster fields of consciousness is one of the potentials available to you. This Eclipse Cycle is offering you a progressive opportunity to build into more capacity to embody these higher frequencies and thus have a broader menu of consciousness available to you.
Consciousness is dynamic. Your state of being is continually generating your consciousness. Your choice of focus and the quality of is are creating your state of being. Think of it like this — how you are viewing things has a particular frequency and this determines your state of being. This state of being is like a location, energetically, and as such has access to certain views and experiences. You can choose this with your focus or what you are paying attention to and by the quality of that attention. A higher quality of attention — one that is more neutral and unconditional — will give you the broadest options for perspective, insight, wisdom, and manifestations that give you the greatest joy.
This Eclipse Cycle is beneficial because it’s a like a portal, that will transmit to you a concentrated experience of progressive energies. You can play with this by using the unfolding within this time frame to condition yourself to higher frequencies.
We would suggest that you start with the relationship with all that you are — by orienting inward to your Divine Self. This relationship with all that you are is how you access everything else, so it is absolutely fundamental.
Many human beings have not loved themselves enough to want to connect with their higher self. In fact, when one feels self-loathing, for example, this is often projected onto the Divine Self. So there have been many humans who preferred to connect with the idea of a separate GOD, or with us — the Archangels — or the Star Beings, or the Ascended Masters. Some energy field that felt separate and, therefore, might be able to help more!
The fullness of your being is your access to everything. As you grow in self-love, which all of you are doing, you begin to be more available to the direct connection you have with Source. Your direct connection with Source/Creation/All that is, is within you and available via your own energetic hierarchy — the fullness of your being.
By beginning to cultivate this relationship more, you open yourself up to great wisdom and guidance. Your life can start to ease out and your ascension experience become more graceful. Everything starts to smooth out and you feel more peaceful and calm.
We suggest you start this today, right now. Commit to your own Divine Self as the most important relationship in your life and begin to consider that this IS the Source of your being.
The Eclipse Cycle will build energetically, and with the assistance of your Divine Self, you can use it to your greatest advantage. Your Divine Self knows how to do this, and so you don’t need to know how. You benefit when you orient to the vaster you. In that connection, in the present moment you will have all the knowledge and knowing that you need to function well and thrive. If you let yourself orient this way, it will release you from planning for the future or needing to figure anything out. You will be more available to the fun and joy and beauty of each moment and yourself.
It can be truly glorious to live this way. Now, more and more of you have returned to a greater state of self-love so that the illusions between you and all that you are, are dissolving. With this insight and awareness, you can see that the direct connection with Creation is what has always been available to you, and you can decide to cultivate your relationship with the broader YOU.
We hope you will take these simple suggestions for your alignment to heart and play with them in your life. The promise of connecting more fully with all that you are can be fulfilled. It is simply up to you to empower this participation often enough that the fullness of your being, can more fully participate in your embodied awareness and share with you, the beauty and radiance of your aliveness.
May this Eclipse Cycle support you well, in loving yourself more and in freeing yourself up to be more fully who you are. We know you as a beautiful, radiant fullness of light and are so honored to participate in this Divine Unfolding, which you are creating.
I AM Archangel Michael with the Angelic Legion of Light

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September 12

Pumpkin Festival

In France, the pumpkin festival draws people from far and wide to search the produce markets in search of The Mother of all Pumpkins. Once the great squash has been decided upon, it is decorated and placed upon a throne, where it is allowed to remain for a respectable period of time. At the conclusion of the festivities, the pumpkin is made into bread and soup and shared among those in attendance.

Saturday Is Ruled By Saturn

This day of the week got it’s name from the god of karma and time, Saturn. This day is obviously associated with the planet Saturn and is our last day of the week. Traditionally Saturdays are great days for protection, banishing a negative situation, and generally a good time to clean up any magical messes that you have been ignoring. Some suggestions for Saturday enchantments would include:

◦Wearing the colors of the day, black and deep purple. Here’s your perfect excuse to be dramatic and witchy. Empower these dramatic pieces of your wardrobe for protection and strength.

◦Burning black candles to absorb negativity and burning purple ones to increase your magical wisdom and boost your spirituality

◦Adding a touch of garden witchery to your Saturday spells by working with the pansy (in black or purple of course), the morning glory flowering vine, or the cypress tree.

◦Carrying an obsidian, hematite, or jet tumbled stone in your pocket to reinforce your personal protection and to ward off bad vibes and sour feelings. You can also add these crystals to a candle spell on a Saturday night to really increase the punch of your spellcasting.

◦Cleaning your house and cleansing it while you are at it. Tap into those obstacle-removing vibes and the positive, concluding energies.

◦Closing up the final day of the bewitching week with a bang by calling on Hecate for protection and guidance.

Saturday’s Must Dos

Feel the need for a psychic cleansing in the house? Light up some patchouli- or myrrh-scented incense, and wave the smoke around your house or apartment. It will help to break up any lingering negativity or bad feelings. Crumble up a few dried mullein leaves and create a circle around your home, or scatter it across the thresholds, to keep prowlers away.

Burn a few black candles to repel manipulative intentions or unwanted advances. Add a few protective herbs to your dinner such as thyme or basil. Try growing a blooming cyclamen plant in your kitchen to ward the family and to encourage Hecate’s blessings. Grow deep purple and black pansies in window boxes to encourage the planetary vibrations of Saturn. Let ivy grow up the walls of your home for even more bewitching security.

Saturdays are the particular day of the week for protection and for dealing with more serious magickal matters. Go back over the at-a-glance list and see what components you can add to your spells for today for a little more oomph.

Meditate on Hecate to learn her lessons and include some dark goddess wisdom into your Craft. As a Witch, you already know that you have power-the power to effect real change in your life. Working with Hecate can teach you how and when to best use this power for the greater good.

If you want to expand your magickal skills, then start learning how to incorporate all of this information on the days of witchery in a whole new way. This includes the knowledge you already have and the new day-by-day correspondences and witchcraft that were presented in this Book of Shadows. Put your own unique spin on things. Decide what your enchanting specialties are, then apply them to your Craft each and every day with wisdom and style.

Source:
Book of Witchery Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

Saturday’s Witchery

Saturday is a day filled with opportunities to clean up and clear out. So if you are wondering why Hecate is assigned to this day, take another look at what she symbolizes and the magick that is associated with her. That should answer the question.

Hecate was the oldest form of the Greek Triple Goddess, as she presided over heaven, the underworld, and earth. Crossroads where three roads met were especially sacred to Hecate, earning her the title of Hekate of the Three Ways. It’s interesting to note that even after the worship of other goddesses waned, ancient people still worshiped Hecate as the Queen of the Underworld and the Guardian of the Three-Way Crossroad. It was also believed that if you left her an offering of food there, she would grant you her favors. As Hecate Trivia, her triple images were often displayed at these crossroads, where she was petitioned on the full moon for positive magick and on the dark of the moon for cursing and dark magick.

While this last bit of information sounds a little ominous, keep in mind that Hecate/Hekate was known by many titles and is a shapeshifter. Her appearance could and did change often. As a dark moon goddess, her faces are many. To some she may appear as a old crone, hunched over a smoking cauldron and draped in a midnight cape. To others she may appear as a dark beautiful, mysterious, and mature woman wearing a shimmering crown. To some she may be perceived as a maiden priestess. She was called the “most lovely one,” the Great Goddess of Nature, and the Queen of the World of Spirits. This dark goddess knows her way around the earth and the underworld. All the powers of nature, life, and death are at her command.

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

Saturday

The planetary correspondence for Saturday is Saturn. Matters dealing with the public, farming, family ties, legal matters (such as wills and estates), taking care of debts, dealing with lawyers, financing, joint money matters, real estate, older people, banishing or binding negativity, and getting rid of bad habits all fall under the charge of Saturn. It’s easy to see why “Saturday’s child works hard for his living.”

Saturday’s angels are Cassiel, Machatan, Uriel, and Orifiel. Cassiel is the angel of solitudes and tears. He is one of the rulers of the planet Saturn and occasionally appears as the angel of patience. Cassiel links himself to dragon energy. Regarding Machatan, the only information we get is that he works well with Cassiel and is also a power of Saturn. Orifiel is an angel of the wilderness, a ruler of the second hour of the day, and also associated with Saturn.

On Saturday, the hour of sunrise and every eight hours after that are also ruled by Saturn, and that makes these times of the day doubly blessed. These four hours are the strongest four hours for conducting ritual. Check the local newspaper, astrological calendar, or almanac to determine your local sunrise.

Source:
Gypsy Magic

~* ~ A Witch’s Tale ~* ~

What is it like

To cast a spell?

To chant a charm?

To ring a bell?

To cast a circle?

To praise the moon?

To love the Earth?

To read the rune?

To love the Goddess?

To live her way?

To ebb and flow

Every day?

The trees, the grass,

The clouds and hills;

All these things

Witchcraft fills.

Every laugh,

Every cry,

Need you ask

The reason why?

The power can be found

From deep within,

When you find it

You’re ready to begin.

—By The Light Of The Crystal Moon:

A Book of Pagan Poetry and Short Stories

Elizabeth Gardiepy

Good morning, my sweets! It seems like it has been forever and yet only 3 days. Hmm, how things can change in three days! The last time I talked to you I told you we were experiencing internet service provider problems. I am proud to announce after blowing a gasket our internet problems are now fixed. We had a generous contribution to our organization. A sponsor presented us with a brand new all-in-one HP computer. When I was using it off the net it would run like a demon. Then when I got on the net, it was horrible. This is what lead up to me throwing one heck of a hissy fit with our local provider. I know a woman that works there, we have been good friends for years. I contacted her and talked to her about our problem. Then I was connected to the local “hi-tech” hick-a-billy in charge of their internet service. I hate to call anyone a hick-a-billy but the truth is the truth. He gave me an address on the net for a speed test to calculate our speed. I did the speed test and it was horrible. The most signal coming through our lines was 8 megabytes. We were suppose to be getting 50. The next day, I called him and he told me, he just couldn’t believe it. I told him he had better get technicians out here “again” to fix this problem. He stumbled around and insisted the problem was already fixed. I told him, “no there is now a new problem getting ready to occur, that we need new wires installed all over our building.” He was totally confused. I clarified the situation for him. I told him I had ripped out all the wires they had installed, now get out here and put us in new. He couldn’t believe it. He ended up coming out with the techs. Of course, we had a few words. He couldn’t believe I had ripped the wires out. Hell, what good were they, they weren’t doing what they were suppose to. There was a problem, we have had it the whole time we had been with them. Perhaps this seemed a little desperate but it was the only way to get the problem finally fixed.

Well with wires hanging out all over the place, he agreed to reinstall all our connections. I told him I wanted our old wire outside dug up and a new one put in also. I told him if he didn’t, I had a shovel. For the last two days, the internet service has been out here, laying a new wire outside and installing all new connections on the inside. I have my fingers crossed that the problem is now fixed. During the process of laying the new wires, I have had time to get use to Windows 10 and learning how to operate this new computer. So tomorrow, we will return in full force again. The workmen have a few more finally touches to add today. They are installing covers on all the connections they made. To me, it is absolutely pathetic when you have to go to the extremes to get something fixed. But occasionally I guess a witch has to do what a witch has to do, lol!

I figured that everyone knew we were having computer issues. I see by some of the comments some didn’t know, I apologize for that. This is the first time any of us have actually been on the net in a few days. We tried some yesterday and there were still issues. They came back out yesterday and found a short in one of the wires that had installed. Now if that don’t make you feel really confident about the bunch working on your wiring, I don’t know what will, gee! The supervisor has guaranteed me that we will have fully operational internet by this afternoon. I told him that we would be back tomorrow on the net. If we had any problems, I expected them fixed immediately. He actually gave me his cellphone number just in case. We pay good money for the service and when we pay for something I expect us to get it. Besides we can afford to be off the net for that long.

I thought I would let you know what was going on since some didn’t know. We are going to let them finish their work today. All I can say is if we have problems tomorrow, there will be heck to pay. But please hang with us one more day, we will get this problem fixed and see you tomorrow. I done told the old boy if he doesn’t get it fixed, we are going to show up at his house and hi-jack his internet service. I don’t think he wants all of us camped out in his front yard, lol!

Anyway, we appreciate your patience. Things will return to normal one way or another tomorrow. One more day and we will be back in full operations. Keep your fingers crossed, my sweets. Till tomorrow…

Love ya,

Lady A & The WOTC Staff

Eclipse Countdown

a message from Selacia

To view more of Selacia’s insight, please visit her website, Intuitive Healing Worldwide

Shift Your Life at Eclipse Season

Right now with a change of seasons in the air and a duo of powerful eclipses on the way, don’t be surprised if you sometimes feel scattered and like you are “in between” things. Change and energy shifts can be unsettling, to be sure. These natural cycles, however, can become amazing catalysts for the positive changes you want to create. In this article I describe what this can mean for you – and what you can begin doing right now in preparation.

Since cycles like season changes and eclipses happen annually, why would things feel either more unsettling or more intense in these moments? And why would you simply sense that the energies had been amplified several notches?

Why You Feel What You Feel

For one, you are not imagining things. There is a plethora of energy recalibration occurring. Most likely, because you are awake to your spiritual path and conscious of the planet’s mega shift, you are a “sensitive.” This means that you feel things more than the ordinary person still asleep to the bigger picture of things. It means that many times you sense energies even before they arrive! You are intuitive, after all, and like a cat that senses an earthquake seconds before it happens, you can anticipate things way before you have physical world validations.

Here’s another important thing to note. Natural cycles have a kind of preamble to them. The seasons, for example, don’t radically change overnight. It’s gradual, with little signs here and there – signaling the new season. With eclipses it’s similar – an effect can be felt up to six weeks before and six weeks after the actual eclipse.

Impact of September Eclipses

Within this larger context, consider that you are already being impacted by both of September’s eclipses: the Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse of 12th-13th and the Aries Full Moon Lunar Eclipse of 27th-28th during Equinox weekend. An eclipse tends to amplify the effect of the moon, too, catalyzing emotions and increased awareness of things usually hidden from view. Significant endings and beginnings tend to get energized – on both a personal and collective level.

It’s like someone put a magnifying glass on the status quo and what’s out of balance. This, of course, can be uncomfortable to say the least!

Back in the 1800s or even the first half of the 1900s, our world was in a radically different place. Energy shifts were happening, but most of humanity was unconscious and the momentum for radical revolutionary change was not fast enough for most to notice. Starting in the 1960s, however, everything shifted and humanity began to wake up. With each decade since then, there’s been a powerful surge of energies that not only support awakening but shine light on dysfunctions, inequities, and injustices.

Each time we have an eclipse cycle, it’s like the energetic catalyst for change moves up several notches. Before 2010, those shifts were much smaller than now. Each year we’ve seen an incremental acceleration of the process – with the September 2015 eclipse season helping to bring a whole new set of energies.

What you are sensing now is these new energies arriving this September.

Part of the discomfort you may feel with changing energies is that they are fluid. They have varying potentials. Therefore, it’s impossible to know how they will play out on either a personal or planetary level. There’s another side to the discomfort, however, and I suggest tapping into that: the extra powerful push available to help you shift your life.

Turning the Magnifying Glass Around

As a divine changemaker, you are at choice in cycles like this. You can utilize even chaotic and uncertain energies to grasp nuances previously hidden from view and to make connections not possible before. As you do this, you can jump start your life in miraculous ways!

It’s like you are turning the magnifying glass around – the magnifying glass that seems pointed at you and perhaps making you feel uncomfortable as it brings to light what you need to change. Rather than fighting it, you say “yes” to it.

You courageously take that magnifying glass in your own hands and point it inward, receiving spirit’s guidance. You boldly invite the deeper look at yourself. You do this, not with self-judgment or harshness, but with self-love. You do it knowing that whatever you are seeing is not you at your core. You are love.

The love that you are is not afraid of being at the helm of such big changes and challenges. That boundless part of you intuitively knows you are okay. It trusts that you can do things you have never done, if truly needed and appropriate. It sees your path, not as an obstacle course but as an engaging labyrinth full of adventure and amazing potentials. The love that you are can find contentment even in irritation, for it remembers that you are divine. The love that you are helps you to find your way home.