Your Daily Horoscopes for Friday, July 17th

Aries

After an early morning slump or lack of direction, dear Aries, the day brings good energy for enjoying yourself. Your needs for pleasure and entertainment are stronger than usual, and some positive feedback can also help a lot now! The Moon is in a sector of your solar chart that brings out your more expressive needs. This should be more about sharing your happiness with others than about being the center of attention, but if you feel the need for applause, there shouldn’t be harm in seeking it out within moderation. Paying others sincere compliments and showing others your more emotionally generous side can certainly help others to see your better traits.

Taurus

Today and much of tomorrow, dear Taurus, the Moon occupies your home and family sector, and you are emotionally inclined to seek out the familiar. Home life, people with whom you’re most comfortable, and tried and true activities and routines are most appealing to you now. Even while out and about, you’re seeing things in terms of their source or origins, making it a good time to sort out problems from their very root. You’re not as adventurous on an emotional level today, but you’re building your faith in yourself.

Gemini

All things having to do with learning and communicating tend to be in stronger focus for you today, dear Gemini. This suits your personality quite well! There may be a quickened pace today, but it’s experienced as more pleasant than frantic. This is a time for branching out, connecting, and learning about what’s going on around you. You’re at your happiest with a little bit of variety, as you have little interest in lifeless routine right now. Your ruler, Mercury, is in creative aspect with the asteroid Pallas, and this helps to heighten your perceptions. You are more able to see important patterns, particularly related to your close relationships.

Cancer

Emotions are settling and balance is sought today, dear Cancer, with the Moon out of your sign and in your solar second house. Physical comforts and pleasures are more appealing than usual to you now. Those things that remind you to appreciate the beauty of the moment, or of the “here and now”, are very beneficial for you today. You need to feel grounded and in the moment. This promises to be a day in which you are feeling more stable and comfortable than usual, and with emotions less immediate and urgent, you are in a great position to regroup. Good energy is with you for sorting, organizing, making lists, and formulating plans.

Leo

The Moon is in your own sign all day, dear Leo, and will continue this transit much of tomorrow as well. In some ways, you might be feeling as if you are beginning anew on an emotional level. This is the time to leave emotional issues that have been annoying you or undermining your personal comfort behind you so that you can move forward with a relatively clean slate. For some of you, the spotlight is pointed directly at you today. This is a time to learn about your needs and desires, as they become very clear to you now, but to exercise patience, knowing that they are likely to feel more immediate and pressing than they truly are.

Virgo

Today and much of tomorrow, the Moon is transiting the final sector of your solar chart, dear Virgo, and this stimulates a natural need for introspection. It also favors tying up of loose ends, endings in general if they are necessary, and extra private time for emotional recuperation. If it’s at all possible, lighten your workload and schedule and take extra time to review the significant events of the past month. This is a time for inner reflection so that when life demands more from you, your instincts and impulses are more aligned with your true self. Good, workable solutions for problems around the home or with family can come to you quite readily today.

Libra

Teaming up with others or simply letting in others’ ideas and feedback can be beneficial today, dear Libra. Make connections, share some of yourself with like-minded people, and open yourself up so that you can absorb new methods, ideas, and good advice. You might be inspired by a dream, idea, or vision. You are thinking in the long term, and the focus is less upon practical or business goals and more about finding your happiness. The goal should be a stronger sense of fulfillment. Do not be afraid to lend a helping hand. Giving someone else a boost can really brighten your day!

Scorpio

In recent days, your emotional focus has been on making your life more interesting, dear Scorpio, whether that’s through learning, some form of adventure-seeking, or putting yourself into new circumstances. While this certainly continues to be a theme for a while longer, today your attention turns to responsibilities, performance, career, or public life. What others think of you is based on their own personal realities, and has very little to do with you. However, how you feel about your own attention to how you perform or fill your duties is vital to your emotional well-being today. Taking extra time to do what you feel is right today can go a long way towards a feeling of satisfaction.

Sagittarius

If an interesting opportunity comes your way, seize it! You never know what will give life an extra little spark, dear Sagittarius, and emotionally, that’s what you’re looking for right now. Even if you have to fill certain duties and responsibilities today, you can still attempt to play things in such a way that you don’t get bored. Hurdles and trials can actually help us to grow. If you look at problems from a big-picture perspective, you can effectively reframe them and feel stronger in the process. You are looking to experience life without worrying about the particulars today.

Capricorn

It’s true that you can’t rewrite the past, dear Capricorn, but you can certainly adjust the way you look at it by turning trials into important life lessons, for example. Today, the tendency is to look behind, within, and forward from a place of observation. It’s a good time to contemplate recent decisions and events so that you can make small adjustments and edits to your plans going forward. You may feel the need to keep to yourself, and that’s just fine and even beneficial for now.

Aquarius

If you have concerns, now is a good time to seek out advice from people you trust, dear Aquarius. Things tend to be better in twos for you today. Even if you can’t be around someone special, it’s a time for putting some of your personal plans on hold temporarily as you think about how you affect others and how they impact your life. Finding a balance is particularly important to you today and much of tomorrow, especially if you have been focusing a little too strongly on your work and personal interests.

Pisces

Whenever the Moon is in Leo, which it is today and much of tomorrow, you have a stronger tendency to pay attention to details, dear Pisces – the parts that make up the whole, flaws, and problems – as the Moon is traveling through your solar sixth house. This serves a very good purpose in your life, if you use this time well. Those matters that require critical thinking and editing can benefit now. The little things that are behind the more glamorous elements of your life need some attention. Tend to these, and you’ll move ahead with a far lighter load.

Your Weekend Love Horoscopes & Love Meter for July 17 – 19

Weekend Love Horoscope

July 17-19: The little things…

The Moon will be in openhearted, dramatic Leo until Saturday night, helping you make the most of the better half of this weekend when it comes to love potential. Be sure to put on your dancing shoes and get yourself out there! If single, you’ll want to attend a party, mixer or other fun event.

Even if you’re attached, it’ll be a weekend to make plenty of time for romance. Just be sure to get it all in by Saturday night because that evening, the Moon enters Virgo and love planet Venus follows suit. For the rest of Saturday night and into Sunday, romantic matters take a more practical turn. Love, you’ll find out, is more about the little things. Pay attention to the details.

This Weekend’s Romantic Rating*

* Heart ratings are based on the lunar cycle. They range from low to full, with low indicating a rocky weekend for romance and full indicating plenty of passionate potential.

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The Balance of the Signs & the Elements for Friday, July 17th

CANCER STRONG
Nurturing, protective, tenacious, emotional sensitive, watery, strong roots. Can be overly protective, unwilling to let go, timid, reclusive.
LEO STRONG
Self-confident, generous, warm-hearted, powerful leader, dramatic. Can be overly proud, vain, extravagant, arrogant.
FIRE STRONG
Fire is enthusiastic, dynamic, and spontaneous, but lacks reflection. We are more courageous and adventurous now, with a tendency to act before thinking. There is little concern about what happened in the past. We are competitive and possibly impatient or bored easily.
EARTH WEAK
There can be a lack of desire, interest, or skills regarding practical affairs. We may not be very much in touch with reality. Difficulties concentrating, grounding ourselves.
AIR WEAK
We may have a difficult time being objective or detached. We may not be especially communicative.
WATER STRONG
We are more compassionate, emotional, and intuitive than usual, and we may react emotionally to situations, possibly at the expense of logic or practicality.

CARDINAL STRONG
We are ready to take action and to take on challenges, and can become frustrated with stagnant conditions.
MUTABLE WEAK
We can have a hard time adapting to changes and to others’ agendas.

Astrology of Today – July 17, 2015

Summary:

Early today, we can feel temporarily without clear direction. As the day advances, there is a greater desire for mental excitement and tendency to want to take on new projects.

The Moon is in Leo all day (until Saturday, July 18th, at 8:46 PM).
The Moon is waxing and in its New phase.
A New Moon occurred on the 15th, and a first quarter Moon will occur on the 24th.
Venus is direct and is in its pre-retrograde shadow (Venus will retrograde from July 25-September 6).

Calendar of the Moon for Friday, July 17th

Calendar of the Moon

Oak Tree Month

Color: Black
Element: Earth
Altar: Upon a black cloth place the vase of oak branches, a hammer, a metal lightning bolt, a sun symbol with the rune Sigil upon it, and a Green Man with an oak-leaf face.
Offerings: Give thanks for personal victories.
Daily Meal: Serve salad with each meal, arranged in the circular pattern of the Green Man.

Duir Invocation

Call: Now is the time of the Sun’s height.
Response: Now is the time when the leaves reach to the heavens.
Call: Now is the time when the Oak King spread his arms.
Response: Now is the time when we reach with him for the Sun.
Call: Now is the time when we return to the ancient grove of the Druids.
Response: Now is the time when we witness the Sun’s sacrifice.
Call: Now is the time when we go forth in glory.
Response: Now is the time of the turning of the year.
Call: Hail to the wren, soul of the Oak King!
Response: Hail to the sky, crown of the Oak King!
Call: Hail to the Earth, bed of the Oak King!
Response: Hail to the Sun, lover of the Oak King!
Call: Hail to the guardians of the door!
Response: May they guard us well, O oaken beams!
Call: We have no need to guard ourselves….
Response: For the Gods will guard us.
Call: We have no need to hide behind bolted doors….
Response: For now is the time to be open to the Sun!
Call: Like the Green Man, we speak through the oak!
Response: Like the Green Man, our voice is the strength of the earth!
Call: Like the Oak King, we do not fear the lightning!
Response: Like the Oak King, we will accept all repercussions!
Call: We have no shame for our actions….
Response: For all that we do, we do from a place of worthiness.
Call: For all that we do, we do from a place of honor.
Response: For all that we do, we do from a place of love.

Chant:
By my body I be earth
By my spirit I be fire
Call the lightning to my heart
Bring my soul what I desire

[Pagan Book of Hours]

Calendar of the Sun for Friday, July 17th

Calendar of the Sun

Solstitium

Colors: Green and gold
Element: Earth
Altar: Upon cloth of green and gold set flowers and herbs in pots, a bowl of rainwater, a large pitcher of manure tea, and several empty baskets.
Offerings: Water and fertilizer, to be added to the garden.
Daily Meal: Vegetarian.

Solstitium Invocation

Earth, you begin to give forth your bounty!
Like the maiden blossoming into the mother,
Like the youth growing into the father,
You yield your children up to us
For our sustenance and health,
As we are also your children.
We will not waste your gifts!
We will nurture what you bring forth
With the labor of our hands,
That those gifts shall be sustained
Year after year, and that you shall
Never be exhausted.
We will not be ungrateful, O Earth whose life is ours,
But we will give back as much as we take,
For this is the way of balance.

Chant:
Life harnessed
Call the sun to us
Sacred harvest
You are one with us

(Two who have been chosen to do the work of the ritual take up the rainwater and the manure tea, and carry them out to the garden, where they are ceremonially poured around the roots of the herbs and vegetables. All others follow with the empty baskets, and harvest some thing from the garden, whether a token or a main part of the next meal. After this, each should do some part of the work of further watering, or fertilizing, or mulching, to give back to the earth as much as is taken away.)

[Pagan Book of Hours]

Current Moon Phase for July 17th is Waxing Crescent

July 17
Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 2%

The Moon today is in a Waxing Crescent Phase. A Waxing Crescent is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the wester sky after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. The moon is close to the sun in the sky and mostly dark except for the right edge of the moon which becomes brighter as the days get closer to the next phase which is a First Quarter with a 50% illumination.

Phase Details for – Friday, July 17, 2015

Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 2%
Moon Age: 1.37 days
Moon Angle: 0.50
Moon Distance: 398,865.24 km
Sun Angle: 0.52
Sun Distance: 152,042,994.22 km

Source:
MoonGiant.com

The Witches Magick for the 17th Day of the Mead Moon – Serpens Star Magic

Serpens Star Magic

Stars serve as gateways between ordinary reality and the many realms of experience and spirit. Serpens is a constellation that is partly visible from anywhere on earth. It is connected with Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer, who was a famous healer in Greek mythology. Ophiuchus was raised by the centaur Chiron who taught healing skills to the boy. He could bring the dead back, and Hades, who ruled the underworld, complained to Zeus that his power was threatened. Eventually, Zeus killed Ophiuchus with a thunderbolt and placed him in the sky. Cast this spell to heal your spirit and make you whole.

Gather together a white candle, a stapler, scotch tape, two six-inch by six-inch pieces of purple paper, a silver gel pen, three bay leaves, three pinches of powdered cinnamon, three pinches of dried mint leaves, and three pinches of powdered ginger.

At midnight, draw a sacred circle, and call in the elements. Light the candle, dedicating it to Ophiuchus. Staple and tape the two squares of paper together along the sides and bottom edge, leaving the top open. Use the gel pen to write the words “Serpens Healing” on both sides of the placket in large letters, and draw some stars and moons on the placket sides as well. Now, write the same words on both sides of each of the three bay leaves. Once the ink is dry, insert the three leaves into the placket. Add the other ingredients. Seal the top edge. To empower the placket, hold it in your hands, merge with the divine, and say three times:

Serpens healing powers

I call upon you this hour

Please heal my spirit and my soul

Star dreams make me whole.

So be it! So mote it be!

Put the placket next to your bed. Allow the candle to safely burn down. When you are finished, bid farewell to the elements and pull up the circle. Leave the placket next to your bedside for a moon cycle for best results.

Wiccan Spell A Night: Spells, Charms, And Potions For The Whole Year

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WOTC Extra – Black, White, and Gray Magick

Black, White, and Gray Magick

Your motive for doing a spell determines whether it’s “white” or “black” magick, or somewhere in between. Magick spells can be grouped into three basic categories:

Any spell done to harm someone else is black magick.

Spells and rituals performed for the purpose of connecting with the Divine or to obtain higher knowledge are considered white magick.

Everything else falls into the gray area.

As you might imagine, most magick that witches perform fits in the gray category. This doesn’t mean it’s wrong to do gray magick. Tapping your magickal skills to get a better job or improve your love life is like using any other talent to enhance your situation. As long as you don’t harm someone else in the process, you’re operating in safe territory.

Many witches end a spell or ritual with the words “This is done for the greatest good and may it harm none.” Because it’s sometimes hard to determine whether what you’re doing is for the good of all concerned, this phrase invites the universe to step in and guide energy to keep it from being misdirected.

Magicians recognize that they may not be able to foresee all possible outcomes of their magick. Human beings are not omniscient, and sometimes good intentions lead to terrible results. By requesting that higher (and wiser) powers direct their magick toward the best possible outcome, witches remove any selfish attachments and desires from their spellworking. The phrase “harm none” also pertains to the person doing the spell and protects the magician from any unwanted ramifications of a spell.

This brief overview is a broad generalization at best. Each witch relies on her inner voice (or conscience, if you will) in determining how she wields magick. There is no cut-and-dried answer to whether anyone is a good or a bad witch. Most witches hope and try to be the best witches—and the best people—they can be.

The Everything Wicca and Witchcraft Book: Rituals, spells, and sacred objects for everyday magick (Everything®)

Skye Alexander

Let’s Talk Witch – Good Witch, Bad Witch

Good Witch, Bad Witch

Are there “bad” witches who use their knowledge and power for personal gain and ill will? Yes, of course, just as there are “bad” Christians, “bad” Muslims, and so on. People are people. If you shake any figurative tree hard enough, a couple of rotten apples are liable to fall off. That’s just human nature. The good news is that these rotten apples are the exception, not the rule. Just like everyone else, witches confront issues that require them to make ethical choices. For instance, should magick be used as a weapon, even if it’s only to fight back?

Wiccans and witches alike see magick as ethically neutral, even as electricity is neutral. Both magick and electricity can be used to help or to harm. Magick is simply the intentional use of energy. The witch directs energy by willpower toward a goal. How a person uses magick—the witch’s intention—is what colors it white, black, or gray. To complicate matters, people’s perceptions of what constitutes white, black, and gray aren’t the same. Followers of any religion or belief system face a similar conundrum. Defining anything in concrete terms is nearly impossible.

The Everything Wicca and Witchcraft Book: Rituals, spells, and sacred objects for everyday magick (Everything®)

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Seasons of the Witch – Legends and Lore, Ancient Holidays And Some Not So Ancient!

Today Is …

In China, the Sun-Goddess Amaterasu is honored annually on this day with a Shinto procession called the Amaterasu-Omikami.

Festival of Amaterasu-Omikami. Spend the day enjoying the sunshine. Illumine your home with candles in Her honor.

1992, a Pagan-based radio show called The Witching Hour (hosted by Winter Wren and Don Lewis) made its debut on radio station WONX in Evanston, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago).

Epping Forrest, England: FAIRLOP FAIR. Daniel Day found a gigantic, ancient hollow oak tree in the forest fitted with a round table that seated twelve & Day held an annual picnic there. The picnics grew into a full-scale English Fair. Then one year a bough fell from the tree, mortally wounding Day. He ordered his coffin made from the bough. Shortly thereafter the oak burned down. Fairlop Fair was no more.

St. Alexis ~ Because this fifth century Roman youth left his aristocratic parents and rich wife and went off to live as a poor hermit, he is the patron of beggars. Make a contribution to charity or give alms to a street person.

1439 ~ Kissing banned in England, in an attempt to stop the spread of pestilence & disease

Remember The Ancient Ways and Keep Them Holy!

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The Witches Correspondences for Friday, July 17th

FRIDAY CORRESPONDENCES

Venus/Water/East/West/South/Dawn/Female/Libra/Taurus

Magickal Intentions: Love, Romance, Marriage, Sexual Matters, Physical Beauty, Friendship and Partnerships, Strangers, Heart

Color: aqua, blue, light blue, brown, green, pale green, magenta, peach, pink, rose, white, all pastels

Number: 5, 6

Metal: copper

Charm: green or white garments, scepter

Stone: alexandrite, amethyst, coral, diamond, emerald, jade, jet, black moonstone, peridot, smoky quartz, tiger’s-eye, pink tourmaline

Animal: camel, dove, elephant, goat, horse, pigeon, sparrow

Plant: apple, birch, cherry, clematis, clove, coriander, heather, hemlock, hibiscus, ivy, lotus, moss, myrtle, oats, pepperwort, peppermint, pinecone, quince, raspberry, rose, pink rose, red rose, rose hips, saffron, sage, savin, stephanotis, strawberry, thyme, vanilla, verbena, violet, water lily, yarrow, and all flowers

Incense: ambergris, camphor, mace, musk, myrrh, rose, saffron, sage, sandalwood, sweetgrass, vanilla, violet, all floral scents

Goddess: Aphrodite, Asherah, Baalith, Brigid, Erzulie, Freya (Passionate Queen), Frigg, Gefion, Harbor (Beautiful One), Hestia, Inanna, Ishtar (Lady of Passion and Desire), Lakshmi, Lilith, Mokosh, Nehalennia, Nerthus, Ostara, Pombagira, Sarasvati, Shakti, Shekinah, Sirtur, Al Uzza, Venus (Queen of Pleasure), Vesta

God: Allah, Bacchus, Bes, Cupid, the Dagda, Dionysus, El, Eros (God of Love), Freyr, Frit Ailek, Shukra

Evocation: Agrat Bat Mahalat, Anael, Hagiel, Mokosba, Rasbid, Sachiel, Uriel, Velas

Courtesy of Moonlight Musings

The Witches Almanac for Friday, July 17th

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

Ramadan ends

Waxing Moon

The Waxing Moon is the ideal time for magick to draw things toward you.

Moon phase: First Quarter

Moon Sign: Leo

Leo: Draws emphasis to the self, central ideas, or institutions, away from connections with others and other emotional needs. People tend to be melodramatic.

Incense: Orchid

Color: Rose

Must Do’s For Friday

Fridays are days of loving enchantments and passionate emotions.

See how many ways you could add a little loving enchantment into your life and the lives of your loved ones. If you wish to explore the topic of love and romance witchery even further, then check out my book How to Enchant a Man: Spells to Bewitch, Bedazzle &Beguile. If cat magick has tickled your fancy, then for further study read my book The Enchanted Cat: Feline Fascinations, Spells &Magick.

In the meantime, try sharing red berries with your partner some enchanted evening. Work that meditation, and see what other mysteries Freya has to teach you. Wear a Venus planetary color and call on the Goddess for a little inner sparkle. Burn some floral incense, light up some rosy candles, and set a romantic mood. Try wearing a little copper jewelry, and see how it affects you and your Friday magick. Get those potpourri and philter recipes going, and see what you can conjure up.

Advancing your magickal skills takes drive, ambition, and passion. Work with Eros to discover just how much enthusiasm, inspiration, and drive he can bring into your days, for the imagination is a place where dreams flourish and ideas come to fruition.

Call on these fertile and romantic powers, and create your own unique spells and charms. Just think of all the magickal information that you can now add to your repertoire of witchery. Lastly, remember this: when you combine imagination and a loving heart with magick, you’ll succeed every time.

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

Ellen Dugan

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 eduring 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.

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

Ellen Dugan

Friday

Gothic Comments

Friday

Friday: Is associated with Venus and the colors of – Green, Pink and White

Friday is the best time to deal with such matters as: Affection, Alliances, Architects, Artistic Ability, Artists, Balance, Beauticians, Beauty, Change , Chiropractors, Cosmetics, Courage, Courtship, Dancers, Dating, Decorating, Designers, Engineers, Entertainers, Fashion, Fertility , Friendship , Gardening, Gifts, Grace , Harmony, Herbal Magick, Household Improvements, Income, Luck, Luxury, Marriage, Material Things, Music, Painting, Partners, Peace, Physical Healing, Planning Parties, Poetry, Prosperity, Relationships, Romantic Love, Shopping, Social Activity, Soul-mates, Success

Practical Magick for the Penny Pinching Witch

Carol Moyer

Tasha’s Day by Day Planner for July 2015

Fri. 7/17 Royal Leo Moon promotes expansive feelings today.

Sat. 7/18 Playful Leo Moon suggests having fun. After 6:30 diligent Virgo Moon makes for good organizing.

Mars/Uranus says take extra care with machinery and action oriented movement. Use this energy to make a breakthrough.

Sun. 7/19 Tidy Virgo Moon helps get everything in order.

Mon. 7/20 Particular Virgo Moon helps scrub up the surroundings

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Friday, 17 July, 2015

Waxing, Crescent Moon Age: days.

Ascending Node is at 4° Libra.

Moon in 18th degree of the Sign, and 1st degree

of the Constellation of Leo, the Lion.

Moonrise: 7:27 morn. Souths: 2:27 eve. Moonset: 9:26 eve.

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Waxing Moon

Time: From New Moon To Full (Approx. 14 Days)

Goddess Aspect: Maiden

Associated Goddesses: Artemis, Branwen, Eriu, Nymph, Epona

Magickal Attributes: Invoking Beginnings, New Projects, Ideas, Inspiriation, Energy, Vitality, Freedom. Workings On This Day Are For “Constructive” Magick (Love, Wealth,

Success, Courage, Friendship, Luck Or Health.)

Perform magic on waxing moons to attract a new quality or behavior, to increase the light within, to attain personal and spiritual growth and greater awareness. The quarter moon suggests a period of overcoming obstacles and continuing on the path to growth.

Spells and rituals involving the fire element should be performed when the Moon is in a fire sign: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius.

Aspects of Leo ~ Yang, Masculine, Solar, Positive, Diurnal, Fiery, Fixed, Barren, Horary Eastern, Summery, Boreal, Commanding, Feral, Bestial, Animal, Four-footed, Dry, Bitter, Hot.

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon

Lunar Lore

Midsummer-Moon Madness: madness is supposed to be

affected by the moon, and to be aggravated by summer heat;

so it naturally follows that the full moon at midsummer is

the time when madness is most outrageous.

~ Brewer’s “Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.”

Among the leaves & the rolls of moonlight,

The moon, which weaves lace on the road-white

Among the winds, & among the flowers,

Our blithe feet wander – life is ours!

~Voltairine deCleyre , excerpt, “Love’s Ghost”

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Lunabar Sun Almanack for Friday, 17 July, 2015

Sunrise: 5:56 morn. Sunset: 8:31 eve.

Length of Day: 14h. 35m.

Dawn: 5:24 morn. Dusk: 9:03 eve.

Length of Twilight: 0h. 31m.

Sun in 24th degree of the Sign Crabba, the Crab fish;

also in 25th degree of the Constellation Gemini, the Twins;

Solar Lore

The sun pale and (as we call it) watery at its rising

denotes rain; if it set pale, wind.

~ Francis Bacon, “Historia Ventorum”.

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Aspects of Crabba: Yin, Feminine, Lunar, Negative, Nocturnal, Watery, Cardinal, Fruitful, Horary Northern, Summery, Boreal, Commanding, Solstitial, Tropical, Moist, Dumb, Mute, Cold, Psychic, Sensitive.

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TGIF! Thank The Goddess It Is Finally Friday! Have A Very Blessed Day, My Friends!

Gothic Comments

As the sun sets
The moon rises.
We are called.
Gathering deep in the forest
Our capes flap in the wind.
Hoods covering our head
As we form our circle
Hand in hand we take our places.
The elements are called forth:
Wind, rain, earth and fire.
We are filled with their energy.
In a low chant We call for our Mother.
The Goddess answers our call,
She stands before us,
Center in our circle.
We lower our heads to her grace.
Our circle is filled with her love.
Energy flows from her to us.
Slowly we rise;
Our feet no longer touch the ground.
Wind rips through the trees.
Flames raise high from the fire.
Rain beats on the earth below
Yet, we remain dry.
Power transfers from Sister to Sister.
The Goddess’s influence is felt.
Sounds from the forest fill the air.
All is alive.
Energy fills all there,
We know who we are,
The Witches of the present.
Those long past have joined us.
We know our beginning.
We know our past.
We know our future,
Witches now and forever.

“Witches” from
A Witch’s Prayerbook
JoAnne Spiese

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