The Witches Almanac for Monday, March 18

Sheila’s Day (Irish)

Waxing Moon

Moon Sign: Leo

Moon enters Virgo 9:41 pm

Moon phase: Second Quarter

Incense: Clary sage

Color: Ivory

Llewellyn’s 2019 Magical Almanac
Charlie Rainbow Wolf

Monday’s Witchery

Think for a moment on all of the witchery, magick and enchantments that you have discovered. Don’t be afraid to adjust spells to suit your own specific needs. Any gentle, illusory, and dreamy charms and spells can be enhanced when you work on the day of the week that is dedicated to the moon. Mondays are a fantastic day to boost your psychic abilities and to tune in to your intuition and empathy. It also gives you the opportunity to work with a different lunar phase each and every Monday, which means in one month you could work four different types of moon magicks on Mondays. How’s that for adding to your repertoire? You are going to have mad skills in no time at all.

So light up those lunar scented candles and add a little mystique to your outfit by wearing an enchanting lunar color. Wear your sparkling silver jewelry and maybe add a pair of dangling silver earrings or a pendant shaped like a crescent moon. Create lunar potions and philters; make a dream catcher and give it as a gift to someone you love. Burn some sandalwood or jasmine-scented incense today to inspire the glamour and magick of the moon. Slice up a favorite variety of fruit that is in season for a snack or share it with your love and enjoy his or her lunar and romantic qualities. Brew up a cup of chamomile tea, enchant it with a little moon magick, and relax and get a good night’s sleep.

Most importantly, get outside tonight and watch the moon for a while. What phase is she in? What color was the moon as she rose? Why not start a journal and write down at what location the moon rises and sets for a few seasons? This is a great way to teach you to tune in and to become more aware of the moon and the influence that she pulls into our lives. Try calling on Selene for her magickal assistance, and call Thoth for wisdom and strength. Get to know the Norse Mani and the Latvian Meness. These gods of the moon have plenty to teach, and if you allow their influence to cycle through your life, you’ll receive many blessings. Be imaginative, and create your own personal lunar magick and witchery. Go on….the moonlight becomes you

Source

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

Monday

Monday is named after the moon. The Latin term for Monday is Dies Lunae (“moon’s day”); in the Old English language, this day was Monandaeg; in Greek, it was Hermera Selenes. All of these different names and languages translate to the same thing: the “day of the moon.”

Working with the different phases of the moon is an important skill that takes a bit of time for Witches to learn. So why not cut to the chase and experiment with the day of the week that is dedicated to the moon in all of its magickal energies and aspects?

Magickally, Monday encourages the lunar energies of inspiration, illusion, prophetic phetic dreams, emotions, psychic abilities, travel, women’s mysteries, and fertility.

Source

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

Ritual Work Associated with Monday The Day of the Moon

Perfume: White Poppy, White Rose, Wallflower

Incense: Myrtle

Wood: Willow

Color: Silver, Grey-white

Influences: Agriculture, Domestic, Longlife, Medicine, Travels, Visions, Theft (new moon)

Reference:

A Book of Pagan Rituals
Herman Slater

Monday’s Magick

Monday – Is associated with the Moon

Colours – White, Silver, Grey and Pearl.

Monday is the best time to deal with such matters as: Psychic Pursuits, Psychology, Dreams, Astral Travel, Imagination, Women’s Mysteries, Reincarnation, Short Trips, Women, Children, Public, Domestic Concerns, Emotions, Fluids, Magick, Spirituality, Nursing, Full moon magic, Purity, Protection, Truth, Meditation, Peace, Sincerity, Justice, Warding off Doubts and Fears, Anything to do with Water and Bodies of Water, Antiques, Trip Planning, Household Activities, Initiation, Astrology, New-Age Pursuits, Archetypes, Totem Animals, Shape-shifting and Religious Experiences.

A Wonder Why…

Ever Wonder Why There Are Seven Days a Week

The number of days in the week has not always been 7 in all societies. The early Egyptians had a 10 day week, as did briefly the French Revolutionary Government two hundred years ago. An ancient calendar once used in Lithuania employed a 9 day week, whilst the Mayans of Central America used a complicated system including ‘weeks’ of 13 numbered days and ‘weeks’ of 20 named days. As recently as 1930, the Soviet Union toyed with the idea of a 5 day week.

The point about this is that a week – unlike a year (one complete revolution of the Earth around the Sun), or a day (one complete rotation of the Earth on its axis) – has no scientific basis; there is no astronomical event pertaining to a week, much less a week of 7 days.

However the number 7 did hold a sacred significance for many societies in which ritual was of great importance. The lunar month was approximately 28 days long (easily divisible into four quarters or phases of the moon, each of 7 days), and in the sky there were 7 traditionally identified planets. Both of these factors contributed at different times to the adoption and proliferation of the 7 day week as we shall see. Later on the 7 day creation myth of the burgeoning Christian religion cemented the length of the week in most Western civilisations,

It seems that ancient Babylon was possibly the first civilisation to divide the year in this way, and it seems it was the length of the lunar month which was most important to this society. The phases of the lunar cycle – New Moon, waxing half Moon, Full Moon, and waning Half Moon – were obvious visual signs which could be interpreted in a religious or astrological way. Certain activities and festivals became set by the phases of the Moon, and hence by the days of a 7 day week.

This was later adopted by the Greek and Roman Empires, and then the Christian religion. As Christian European nations developed empires throughout the world, so the 7 day week became the established norm.

The Goddess Book of Days for March 18th

Sheelah’s Day in Ireland, for Sheelah-Na-Gig, Goddess of Fertility, Sexuality, Birth. Other names are: Astarte, Baubo, Inanna, Demeter, Oshun, Erzulie, Gaia, Ceres, Rhiannon, Carmen, Venus, Ashtoreth, Tonantzin, Ishtar, Freya, and Aida Wedo (also June 4).

Goddesses Associated with Mondays

Luna, Selene, Diana, Re, Gealach, Ida, Artemis, the Witches, Yemaya, Erzulie Tuesday Soorejnaree, Pinga1la, Anna, Aine, Danu, Yngona.

Source

The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

The Wicca Book of Days for March 18

In ancient times, the Pagan fertility-goddess known as Sheela-na-gig was honored annually on this date in Ireland. With the advent of Christianity, the identity of the goddess was altered from heathen deity with oversized genitalia to the consort or mother of Saint Patrick.

On this day in the year 1877, psychic and “absent healer” Edgar Cayce (also known as the Sleeping Prophet) was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He was renowned for his psychic visions and miraculous ability to accurately diagnose illnesses and prescribe remedies while in a self-induced trance. He prophesied the Second Coming of Christ in the year 1998, followed by cataclysmic changes of the planet. Edgar Cayce died on January 3, 1945.

The Wicca Book of Days
Gerina Dunwich

About the Celtic Tree Month of Fearn (Alder)

March 18 to April 14

Ogham Letter: Fearne (F)

Symbolic Meaning: Release, Shield and Foundation, Determination, Discrimination and Inner Confidence, Healing, Protecting, Peaceful, Passionate Royalty

Ruling Planet: Mars

Ruling Elements: Fire & Water

The fourth moon in the calendar is ruled by the Alder tree. The Alder makes up a part of the birch family and is commonly found growing near wetlands, rivers and streams. It’s roots are able to improve the pH of the surrounding soil giving life back to poor soil conditions.

The cutting down of an Alder Tree was once a punishable act and it was believed if you felled one, the fairy that dwells within its branches would burn your house in revenge.

The tree has many magnical influences and was thought to help people to face up to things that may have been avoiding. It was also believed that it could take you the fairy realm. Alder can be used with spells to help with business and academia.

The bark from the Alder Tree was used to treat inflammation and the heated leaves were said to help with chronic skin conditions.

Alder Tree Zodiac

Those born under the Alder sign are straight to the point, they etch paths in the land for others to follow. They will always chase their dreams and work hard to reach their passions. They believe strongly in themselves and have a self confidence that others love to be around. They are energetic and do not tolerate time wasting. Alder signs can get on with almost anyone and are fun to be around, people often feel motivated to get up and do things when they are around.

Alder signs are compatible with Hawthorn, Oak and Birch.

–tree2mydoor.com

Today is Monday, March 18th

Monday is the sacred day of the moon, personified as the goddesses Selene, Luna, and Mani. The moon is ruler of flow, affecting the changeable and impressionable aspects of people. If a full moon falls on a Monday, then the powers of the moon are at their most potent.

Deity: Mani

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Planet: Moon

Tree: Willow

Herb: Chickweed

Stone: Agate

Animal: Crab

Element: Water

Color: Green

Rune: Lagu (L)

The Celtic Tree Month of Fearn (Alder) (March 18 – April 14)

The Runic Half Month Beore (March 14 – March 29)

Goddess of the Month for March – Moura (February 20 – March 19)

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

Ostara

March 20

4:58 pm

Days To Go

Ostara Return to Us

The wheel has turned to our Goddess
Our lovely Maiden Goddess
Goddess Ostara
Who will return to us

Return to us
On Spring’s morning dawn
Return to us
When new life begins
Return to us
As the earth is reborn
Return to us
Wearing Her floral crown
and Her celestial gown

Return to us
The sun in the sky
with Her whispering sigh

The blossoming trees
that hold the birds of She

The beautiful butterflies
that fly thru Her sky

The blooming flowers
that spring from Her showers

Her soft green grass
that our bare feet will pass

As Ostara returns to us
Returns to us
On Spring’s morning dawn
Returns to us
When new life begins
Returns to us
As the earth is reborn
Returns to us
Wearing Her floral crown
and Her celestial gown

Ostara who will return to us
Return to us as this wheel turns on
Turns on past Spring’s morning dawn

–Savannah Skye, Author
Published on Pagan Library

Happy Irish Heritage Day, you say? Yes, Happy Irish Heritage Day to You & Yours! I am sure some of you who have been with us for a while, know we do not celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Instead, we celebrate Irish Heritage Day. Why? It is out of reverence to our brothers & sisters of the Druid Tradition. It is a long drawn out story about the history & actions surrounding St. Patrick. He was kidnapped as a young boy, supposedly by the Irish, and enslaved. Later on when he was freed, he went to the Church and was ordained as a priest. This is just my opinion from now on out and I have had other Pagans agree with me. Patrick then returned to the Emerald Isle to cleanse the land of Pagans and Druids, mostly Druids. He tried to wipe the Druid Religion off the face of the planet. You remember hearing about Patrick cleared Ireland of all the snakes it had? Those snakes he was clearing out were Druids but he also took a strong stance on Pagans as well. Anyone who wasn’t of his faith, had to go.

As customary in that time, if you didn’t convert, you were hunted down and killed. He slaughtered thousands of Druids and Pagans in his crusade to clear Ireland of “the snakes.” He almost succeeded in his quest to wipe the Druids off the planet. He was especially after the Druid high-archery, the Priests in other words. They were the leaders of the Druids and Patrick decided if he wipe out the head of the snake, he would wipe out the Religion. A large group of the Druids did hide and go underground during this massacre. Some even converted just to stay alive but secretly practiced Druidism. If they hadn’t, their religion would have been lost. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? I know several Druids myself and I consider them part of our Pagan family. Out of respect for them, we do not celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Instead we celebrate “Irish Heritage Day.” We will not give honor to any man who persecuted, hunted and killed our fellow brothers & sisters. Again, my personal opinion, if we pay homage to St. Patrick, then it would be the same as honoring those who persecuted, hunted and killed so many of us back in the 1600’s. We learn from the past so we are not doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. So there you have it, that is why we don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!

Now after my sermon on St. Patrick, something I have been debating on long and hard for the past few days. We are currently in Troy, Tennessee. Eleanor and Lord M thought it would be a good idea for us to get out of town and for me to clear my head. At first I wasn’t sure I even wanted to approach the subject of what I had been through during the past week. But there seems to be some confusion and I believe it is now time to clear the entire matter up. Whatever you think of me after I tell you my side of the story is completely up to you. I know my son made a post that I had been arrested and that is true. I was arrested for using excessive force to defend myself. At the time of my arrest, the police did not know what had transpired. My attacker and myself were both arrested.

I did not want it known that I had been arrested. I have never been in trouble with the law and to me it was shameful that I was arrested. I still feel ashamed of what happened that day but I was only defending myself. I was grabbed by the neck and thought I was going to pass out. I took my nails and sunk them into my attacker’s hand. I started to get up and leave, I was forcefully grabbed and thrown back into a rolling office chair. The chair hit the desk and I was in immediate pain. After that I have no idea what happened. I don’t know if I lost my mind or blacked out. Anyway, when the police arrived, they pulled me off of my attacker. This man is not a small man, he probably weighs at least 250 and stocky as a bull. How I managed to get on top of him, I don’t know. I guess it was just blind fury with a little help from above. Back to the story, when the police pulled me off of him, I couldn’t believe what I saw or what I did. I almost took one of his eyes out and his cheeks and down his face were deep, deep scars from my fingernails. I almost ripped his face off. In fact, they told me I had embedded on of my nails in his face. After my hands were clean, I saw that was true. I embedded my pinkie nail, all the way to the cuticle in his face. I was wondering why my finger hurt like hell. When the police arrived, all they saw was a wild animal (me) brutally attacking this poor man on the floor. So I was immediately pulled off of him and cuffed.

When I finally came back to my senses and this world, I was able to tell them what had happened. They also arrested him and took him to the hospital to have his face sewn up. Seems strange a woman gets attacked and she ends up getting arrested but they told me it was only till they figured out what happened. All I can say is money talks. He went before the judge and he was immediately released. I went before the judge (who happens to be good friends with my attacker) and, now get this, never having a criminal record, my bond was set at $5000. My lawyer was dumb founded as well as I was. He pleaded and argued with the judge over my bond. It did no good. Come up with $5000 or stay there till you rot apparently. I had already made my mind up that I was doomed to be in jail till hell froze over. $5000, gee whiz, we don’t have that kind of money. But all the ladies and everyone here pulled together and come up with a substantial amount, plus I had several individuals here donate (Lady Beltane, Aimee, Marcia & Barbara, thank you very, very much ladies) to getting the Jailbird out. Then what we were short, my lawyer made up the difference.

Now you have the entire story and the truth. My lawyer told me that we have enough evidence that if it does go to trial that we will be able to prove that he attacked me. He made sure that the hand print that was on my neck and shoulder was photographed. Yeah, I have one hell of a thumb print on my the front of my throat and down on my shoulder. I also have a hand-print on my face from where I was slapped. I have a broken rib from hitting the desk so hard plus my arm looks like it has been beaten with a hammer. My lawyer made sure he grabbed my shirt before it could disappear. It was a brand new shirt and now it is a rag. How it got ripped I don’t know. It must have happened while I was blacked out. What force possessed me while I was blacked out, I don’t know. All I know it was an entity full of rage and anger, that is the only way I can explain it. Maybe it was just my survivor mode kicking it but to knock him on the floor and do what I done to his face, I seriously doubt it.

So that is the entire story. Think what you want of me, I am not proud of being arrested. I was defending myself from a sexual assault. I did not want it to be known that I had been arrested. But a panicked young boy told the world because he was scarred he would never see his mother again. I can’t fault him for that. The whole entire incidence, I am very ashamed of. I have talked to Lady Beltane, Eleanor and Lynette about it. All of them told me I had nothing to feel ashamed about. But still it is hard right now to hold my head up because of the shame I feel. I know eventually it will pass or at least I hope it will. I was concerned what people would think and all of those who I spoke to told me, “if they are truly your friends they will understand and support you, if not, let them go because they were never truly your friends to start with.”

I am not proud of what I did but I have come to realize, I was fighting for my life. If I hadn’t fought back, no telling what would have happened. I am slowly coming to terms with the whole entire mess. Everyone packed my happy ass up and brought me down here was right, I did need a few days away from home. I have started to clear my head and deal with what happened. The hardest part is that I keep seeing his face afterwards. I would never hurt a fly and what I did to his face, I just can’t believe it. I guess when we are in a fight for your live or your virtue, that survivor mode kicks in and takes over.

Think of me, what you will. But I sincerely hope you think of me as your sister once again. Like I said I am not proud of what I did and I didn’t want anyone to know. But since it is out there, you might as well know what really happened. We are going to spend the rest of the day in Troy and will be back tomorrow. I have been told I need to try to get back to a normal life. So I am going to sink myself into our work tomorrow and hopefully I will eventually put this in the past. One of the conditions of getting out of jail was that I never leave the office again. Right now, I think that is a wonderful idea. Home sweet home, how good the thought of that sounds. Jail life sucks, I can tell you that. Also my lawyer is negotiating with my attacker’s lawyer and he knows if we do go to court, that I will be proven innocent after all the facts come out. My lawyer is a wonderful friend, I still have to pay him back for the bail he put up for me. So if you would like to buy an item or two from the store or make a donation to help me pay back my lawyer, it would be deeply appreciated.

Now that I wrote a book, I want to thank the dear ladies who donated to getting the jailbird out once again. It was a combined effort to get me out of jail and I appreciate everyone of you who donated to that cause. My main point in telling you all of this is because I don’t want to lose your respect, your love and most of all your support. With that I will finish and we will be back in Kentucky sometime this evening and tomorrow, we will start a brand new day.

Thank you again and Happy Irish Heritage Day!

Lady of the Abyss

First of all, we had some severe storms come through here Saturday. It took out our internet service till sometime during the night. They weren’t suppose to have it fixed to today. I guess we got lucky. It never fails every time a storm comes through here, we lose some either power or internet. But it is back up and running for the time being. Keyword “time being.”

As far as the new site goes, it is coming right along. I never knew there was so much to opening one of these kinds of sites. I am going to stop by our lawyer’s office today while I am out. I want the new site to be a non-profit, tax-exempt site. That way if you give to any of the causes we pick up, you can deduct  it from your taxes. I have already fought my way through a Terms of Use policy and a Privacy policy and they made my head swim. I went to the IRS site and I was just like, “ahhhhhh!”  You fill out this form, then you go on and read, no it is this form. So to make sure I get it all right, I am going to the lawyer and let him help us out on that one. He is a good friend so he won’t charge anything for that.

Next, I have two job interviews today. Both of them are with friends who have been trying to get me to come to work for them for a while. I called them and they are both still interested in hiring me. I guess it depends on which one I see first, which job I get first. It is a stone cold fact, that the WOTC, our new site, my family and I cannot survive on the check I draw each money. So it is high time I get my rump out the door and return to the work force. At least with a paycheck coming in, we can keep everything going and we can accomplish everything we want too. Both of these individuals are good friends, not like family that I use to work for. In other words when I worked for family, I could do what I wanted too. Friends, I am not so sure about. But anyway the money is needed all the way around, so world here I come. Keep your broom straws crossed for me, lol!

I wanted to give you a quick up-date on everything. We will not be on today but will definitely be back tomorrow. Till then, my dear sweet family….

Luv & Hugs,

Lady of the Abyss

The Old Farmer’s Almanac

–Old Farmer’s Almanac

This weekend brings the long-awaited start of Daylight Saving Time, which suddenly fills our evenings with brightness. The way our clocks “spring ahead” is a strange business.

DST begins on Sunday, March 10, 2019, at 2:00 A.M. We are told to “spring forward” in the spring and set our clocks forward one hour (i.e., losing one hour).

It means that this Saturday night, you cannot have an appointment with anybody at 2:30 AM because that simply does not exist. Or, you could boast that in solidarity for World Peace, you will remain balanced on one leg from 1:59 until 3:01 AM.  Mr. Spock and other logic-loving Vulcans still might not be too enthusiastic, for the way our clocks “spring ahead” is downright illogical.

It didn’t have to be; In fact Daylight Time starts off being a wonderfully sensible idea.

WHY WE CHANGE OUR CLOCKS

In a nutshell, we modify our clocks so that an hour of brightness that would fall in the generally unusable realm of five in the morning gets transferred to a time when we’re all awake.

• Changing the clocks does not create extra daylight; however, it causes the Sun to rise and set at a later time by our man-made clocks. When we spring forward an hour this Sunday, we add 1 hour of natural daylight to our afternoon schedule.
• A century ago, DST was supposed to save energy because it used less artificial light. However, today, the amount of energy saved is negligible or even non-existent, due to modern society’s use of computers, TV, air conditioning units, etc. When the state of Indiana decided to introduce DST in 2006, a study found that the measure actually increased energy use in the state.

But being human we apparently found it impossible to make the project fully rational, so we’ve added a wild, screwy twist.

• We advance the clocks now, 11 days before the spring equinox. So far, so good.
• Common sense then demands that we set them back again when the Sun and length of day symmetrically return to their present positions, which will happen soon after the autumn equinox, specifically October 1. Instead, however, Daylight Time is bewilderingly set by Congress to end over a full month later, on November 3.
• If for some reason we couldn’t bear to give up November’s date, then the start of Daylight Time, for balance and logic, ought to be the first week of February! Nobody has ever offered a syllable of justification for the current system; It just is, like raisin bran and the bow tie.

It used to be worse. Before 1986, Daylight Time began even later, on the last Sunday in April, which made even less sense. Alternatively, one might opt out of the whole thing, the way Arizona and Hawaii do. And Africa. And most of Asia. Or one could keep fooling around with it, the way Russia did when it had year-round Daylight time until 2014, and then switched to year-round standard time.

Odds are, no one’s finished screwing with this.

 

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Magickal Activities for March 8, Mother Earth Day

Gaia Offering

Items needed: One green votive candle and holder; fresh flowers; patchouli incense.

Place all the required items on a table or altar covered with a green cloth. Light the incense. Take a few moments to meditate on the Goddess Gaia, your connection to her, and the earth. In your own words, ask the Goddess to bless and protect you and your family. Light the candle and place it in front of the flowers as you recite the blessing:

To your heavenly vault I lift my eyes,

My hopes fears at your feet are laid.

For you who built the earth and skies,

Shall keep me strong and unafraid.

Leave the candle to burn out. Place the flowers in the main room of your home as a reminder of the power and potential of the Goddess.

–-Celebrating Wiccan Spirituality: Spells, Sacred Rites, and Folklore for Each Day of the Year

Lady Sabrina