The Witches Almanac for Wednesday, February 13

Parentalia

Waxing Moon

Moon phase: Second Quarter

Moon Sign: Taurus

Moon enters Gemini 4:32 am

Incense: Lilac

Color: Brown

–Llewellyn’s 2019 Magical Almanac
Charlie Rainbow Wolf

Wednesday Witchery

Be bold and daring today! Expand your knowledge of the Craft by working with the planetary energies of Mercury on this multifaceted day of the week. Consider the Greco-Roman gods Mercury and Hermes and all of the many lessons they have for you. Embrace change and movement, and work on your communication techniques. Conjure up a little good luck for yourself with that Mercury dime spell. Call on Athena to inspire you to try magickal arts and crafts and to be more creative in your own spellwork and witchery.

Meditate on Odin and see what you can discover about him. I wonder what sort of fabulous and fascinating magickal wisdom you will uncover? Odin is a shaman, after all; he may appear in many guises and faces. I guarantee that he will make you laugh at yourself before he is through with you, but you will learn. It’s up to you what you do with that knowledge. Will you let it shapeshift into wisdom?

Wednesday is the wild and wily day of the week, so try to go with the flow; don’t fight the quirky energies of the day. Most importantly, follow your heart, and always keep a good sense of humor, because of Wednesdays you will really need it.

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

Wednesday’s Conjuring

Wednesday – is associated with Mercury

Candle colors – Purple

Magickal Conjuring for the Day: Mastery, Domination Work, Wisdom, Healing, Dealing with Legal problems.

—Starr Casas, Old Style Conjure Wisdoms, Workings and Remedies

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Wednesday’s Associations

Color: Purple

Planet: Mercury

Metal: Mercury (Quicksilver)

Deities: Odin, Hermes, Lugh

Gemstones: Mercury, Athena

Crystals: Adventurine, Agate

Herbs: Aspen trees, lilies, Lavender, Ferns

Associations: Business, Communication, Loss and Debt, Travel.

On Wednesday, February 13, We Celebrate…..

Birthday of Humankind (China)
NU KWA

Themes: Luck; Opportunity; Abundance; Order; Divination

Symbols: Clay; Serpent

About Nu Kwa: NU Kwa is an ancient Chinese creatrix who formed people out of yellow clay and invented the flute. Today she plays her music hearing good fortune, opportunity, and the organizational skills with which to make both useful. She also serenades the earth back to fullness after winter.

In legends, this serpent-bodied goddess reestablished order on the earth after a terrible rebellion. Nu Kwa used melted stones to refashion the sky, tortoise toes to mark the four winds, and reeds to hold back overflowing rivers. Once this was done, the earth returned to its former beauty.

To Do Today: The eighth day of the Chinese new year celebrates the birthday of humanity, fashioned by Nu Kwa, and is filled with omens about human fate. For example, any person or animal born on this day is considered doubly blessed and destined for prosperity. So, consider taking out a divination tool today and seeing what fate holds for you.

To generate Nu Kwa’s luck or organizational skills in your life, make and carry a clay Nu Kwa charm. Get some modeling clay from a toy store (if possible, choose a color that suits your goal, like green for money). Shape this into a symbol of your goal, saying,

From Nu Kwa blessings poured, Luck and order be restored.

If you can’t get clay, bubblegum will work, too.

—365 Goddess: A Daily Guide To the Magic and Inspiration of the goddess
Patricia Telesco

~ The Goddess Days of the Moon ~

Days 13-15 Demeter, the nurturer, rules these

Days 16-18 Dedicated to Gaia, the Earth Goddess

Days 19-21 Hestia, Goddess of Waning Moon, is the matriarchal grandmother, ruling and protecting her family

Days 22-24 Ruled by Medusa, the crone of death and spiritual release, the necessary destruction that allows a new cycle to begin

Days 25-27 Ruled by Hecate, queen of the underworld and the shades, she is seen as the one who allows departed souls to choose thier paths in the next phase of existence and rebirth

The remaining days of the moon – the dark days – are those of the unknowable Masked Goddess, who is present, but invisible.

The Goddess Book of Days for February 13

Roman Parentalia and Feralia, February 13–18, purification festival of peace and love devoted to ancestors and to God- desses Mania and Vesta (Hestia, Lucia, Lucina, Brigid, Perchta, Oya, Bertha, Befana, Freya).

Goddesses Associated with Wednesday

For Woden: Isis, Demeter, Ceres, Spider Woman, Bona Dea, Oya, Devi-Kali, Hella, Rhiannon, Coatlique, Maman Brigette

—The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein.

The Wicca Book of Days for Wednesday, February 13

On this date, an annual holiday called the Parentalia was observed in ancient Rome. It lasted until the twenty-first of February and was a day for families to honor and commemorate their deceased loved ones, particularly their parents. During the week of Parentalia, all temples in Rome were closed and all wedding ceremonies forbidden. Ancestral tombs were visited and offerings of wine and flowers were made to family ghosts.

–The Wicca Book of Days
Gerina Dunwich

Pagan Calendar of Days for February 13 thru February 17

February 13 – International Self Love Day
February 13 – February 21 – Ancient Roman Festival Parentalia – Festival of the Ancestors and placation of the ghosts

February 14 – Susan B. Anthony’s Birthday
February 14 – Valentine’s Day

February 15, 2019 – Nirvana Day – Mahayana Buddhist Festival – Anniversary of the death of Buddha

February 16 – Ancient Roman Festival of the Goddess Victoria – Victory

February 17 – Ancient Roman Festival of Fornicalia – Celebrating the Roman Goddess Fornax, the personification of the oven

—Motherhouse of the Goddess, Sacred Living for Modern Women

Today is Wednesday, January 13

Wednesday is the day of the Teutonic deity known as Wodin or Odin, an aspect of the Allfather, god of knowledge, wisdom, enlightenment and combat, the parallel of Hermes, the planet Mercury

Deity: Woden

Zodiac Sign: Gemini & Virgo

Planet: Mercury

Tree: Ash

Herb: Cinquefoil

Stone: Emerald & Sardonyx

Animal: Raven & Cat

Element: Air

Color: Red & Blue

Number: 6

Rune: Odal(O)

Celtic Tree Month of Luis (Rowan) (January 21 – February 17)

The Runic Half Month of Sigel (February 12 – February 26)

Goddess of the Month Bridhe (January – February 19)

—The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

An it Harm None

This world would be a better place,
If everyone believed,
The pagan rule of bring no harm,
To those who live and breath,
But that’s an ideological,
That can never be fulfilled,
For religions all around the world,
Bear other faiths I’ll will.

They all say they are peaceful,
They say their God is right,
They say that if you don’t believe,
You should forfeit your life,
Just look back at history,
And even here today,
Religion is not peaceful,
No matter to whom you pray.

A world without religion?
That’s never going to be,
For faiths will fight to put their God,
On the pinnacle of the tree,
And if there’s no religion,
What then will man fight for?
For man must fight for something,
He must always be at war.

You know my friends, it seems to me,
That whatever you believe,
We only want to live in peace,
But that will never be,
For God will be on both sides,
Fighting against himself,
And we are mere pawns in His game,
His game of cat and mouse.

But we could thwart His little game,
If we only had the will,
To turn our back on evil things,
And bear no one I’ll will,
Following the pagan way,
With nature we’d be one,
And we would praise the morning dew,
And the setting of the sun.

–Alan Faraway, Pagan Ways

I honestly thought I would have received a like or some kind of response from the post I made yesterday. Nothing. Now that I stop to think about it, I shouldn’t even make a comment or opened my mouth. I figured out yesterday what was wrong with me, Mercury is retrograding in my sign. Well, when all else fails, blame it on a Retrograde, lol!

I have been up all night so as you can imagine I am in very rare form. I don’t like bearing my soul to the entire world but when something goes wrong, I am not afraid to say it was my fault. But that wasn’t why I was up all night, I have been fighting with the fish aquarium for two nights in a row. I cleaned it out Sunday and the light went out. I found another light under the stand and lite the aquarium up. Good grief, the water was so cloudy you could even see the decorations in it. I put the chemicals in it and waited till yesterday. Same thing. Country water has so much chlorine in it, I am surprised that the humans who drink it actually survive, but anyway…. I watched a little TV and as I walked back and forth pass the aquarium, I decided to tackle it again. I just didn’t realize when I decided to tackle it, it was 2:00 in the morning. By the time I finished it was 3:30 in the morning. I had to make a few phone calls early this morning and I decided in order to make those calls, why go to bed. Real smart, I know. So I stayed up and goofed off on the internet and made my phone calls. Now I think my head is going to hit the keyboard and off to sleep I go.

Due to the simple fact, I have had no sleep and Mercury is currently in my sign and I dare not open my mouth (as I have already found out this morning), I am going to put a simple poll below (I know this is a run on sentence, I’m tired!).  If you have a moment, look it over and check the appropriate box, it is about the store. I want to know your opinion before I proceed. Like I have always said, “this is your site, I am just the zoo-keeper, lol!” I am leaving it up to you if we open another store or not. So you get a minute, look it over and let me know your opinion.

I am going to The Gazette were we will all be safe. Come on over, I am going to post the horoscopes over there if I can stay awake. Till then….

Love & Hugs,

Lady A

There are several things I need to talk to you about and I hope you will take time to listen. First of all, I would sincerely like to apologize to one of our very newest authors and additions to the WOTC, Kale Smith. I am sorry I did not take time to introduce Kale to you. Kale has offered to write for the WOTC on divination and other such topics. I have communicated with him numerous times, he is a wonderful person, very knowledgeable and I feel very honored to have him with us. He is also the founder of a new Pagan website, Apende Gran Magia. Please feel free to check out his site. He has some wonderful spells on it and as I mentioned he is just getting it started so please feel free to visit his site often and give him our support. Kale, please accept my apologizes for not making your introduction sooner but I think you know life around the WOTC has been rather hectic to say the least. Please welcome Kale to the staff and as a member of our family.

I do feel sincerely sorry for not having introduce Kale sooner, I also have something else to apologize for, that is the sudden disappearance of Magickal Necessities. As you all know I was planning on closing the store on February 28. Unfortunately, that was not to be, the store was deleted yesterday. As for the orders that were placed, don’t worry I retrieved them from our PayPal account, they have been filled and now on their way to you. The reason the store disappeared before the time I said it would was because I found out that Wix’s would be charging us $60.00 on the 15th of this month for the store to stay open till the end of the month. I think most of you know me, know that I don’t believe in chancing good money after bad. So when I found this out, I promptly deleted the site. It has got to the point that Wix’s was charging us for everything. We could not get ahead for losing. We were charged for the search engine on the site, the cart on the site, the check out page on the site and even the member section on the site. They were nickeling and diming us to death.

I had mentioned that Magickal Necessities would never again be revived and it won’t. During the past year, the reputation of the store has gone to hell. That is my fault. My fault for putting individuals over it I trusted and instead of doing the job they were suppose, they didn’t. Thus causing the store to start to earn a bad reputation. The WOTC has been on the internet for almost 20 years. During that time, we have earned one of the best reputation on the internet and one of the oldest Pagan sites on the net. We do not associate ourselves with anything or anyone that will ruin or tarnish our reputation. When I learned of the reputation Magickal Necessities was getting, I took it over. By that time, it was too late to save the store. When I saw it was impossible to turn it around, I decided to close it. As I said, the WOTC will not be associated with anything or anyone that might ruin the reputation that we have all worked so hard to earn. The individuals that were over the store have been let go and unfortunately due to Wix’s I had to close the store before the date I gave you. I sincerely apologize for that.

As you know I told you Magickal Necessities would never be revived again and now you know why. But it is my full intentions to open up another store. Yes, I am a glutton for punishment I know. But this time things are going to be different. I am running the store myself. I will be solely responsible for all transactions conducted through the store and all the store’s operation. The store will open under The WOTC’s name. You all know how highly I value the reputation we have, this store will have the same values and principles that we have set for the WOTC. If it fails to uphold the values and principles the WOTC has, it will cease to exist. We are leaving Magickal Necessities behind and opening up a brand new store, one with the WOTC name on it. You can rest assure that I will solely operate the store and oversee all your purchases and transactions. I have negotiated with some new wholesalers and we will also offer new merchandise at lower prices. I have found that one person who was suppose to oversee the old store had marked the prices up and was pocketing the money. That person is now faces criminal charges.

Some of the events that I have found out about while the store was open and running, I am ashamed of. I truly regret letting it stay open as long as it did. As you know my health during the past year hasn’t been the best so I had to depend on others to operate the store. I am now back to 100% if not better. I have learned from various employees of some of the events that occurred while Magickal Necessities was open and all I can say is I am truly, truly sorry. I had no idea of some of the events that occurred, if I had known the store would have long been gone before now. I can only ask that you have patience as we try to rebuild our new store and have trust in me. Trust me, that I will operate the store the way a store is suppose to be run. Provide you with reasonably priced merchandise, fast delivery and no hassle returns.

I am asking for a second chance on a new store. A store that will bear the name “Witches of the Craft.” A store that will have the same values and standards that this site has always had over the years. I know most of you know me well enough to know how I value the reputation of this organization and myself. The new store, Witches of the Craft, will be operated by myself and if you will give me a chance and the new store a chance, I can guarantee you, you will not be disappointed.

The last couple of months Magickal Necessities was open, I did more apologizing than I have ever had to do. I am tired of apologizing. I am tired of all of you having to listen to me apologize. You have my word and you know when I tell you something it is the truth, this new store will be honest, run properly and if I have a fatal illness, then it will close immediately. I will never, ever again trust a store or anything to do with the WOTC to be operated by anyone else besides myself. You have my word on that.

So one more time, I beg you to forgive me and I ask that you give me and our new store a chance. Give me the opportunity to show you that a store with the WOTC’s name on it, can be the best damn store on the internet. I haven’t found a new site to build a store on yet when I do I will let you know. I have thought about seeing if I could work out a deal with WordPress to open it here, I don’t know I haven’t even approached them about that. But when I do find a new site for it, I will let you know. I do know it won’t be on Wix’s that is for sure. You now know why the store was closed so suddenly. I can’t believe any of you would blame me for doing so. Hell, all I would have been doing if I had paid them the $60.00, would have been padding their pockets instead of ours. I honestly wish I could just wipe Magickal Necessities from all of our memories. But I can’t do that. I can only hope that you will take me at my word, once again and trust me.

I want the members of the WOTC to have a store so they can obtain their ritual items and needs easily. It has always been one of the main objectives of the WOTC to meet the needs of the Pagan community. I know the store was a big help to lots of our members and I can tell you it absolutely killed me to delete it. But it was also very painful to find out some of the things that had gone on in my absence. I guess the old saying, “when the cat’s away, the mice will play,” holds true. Because these mice, no excuse me, rats, ruined a very good thing. I am now to the point that I trust no one except myself and that is pretty darn bad. But if you want it done right, you have to do it yourself. So when the new store does open, it will be run by me and it will be run right. You have my word on that and you know I am good for my word.

I can never apologize enough to all of you. I would like for you to find it in your heart to give a new store and myself a second chance. When the store first started out, it did prove the WOTC with a financial income that helped us with our operations. It was not only a benefit to us but also a benefit to you as well. I can never take back what has happened but I can do my damnest to try to make things right this time. I feel like I have let all of you down but I could not help my health issues. The last year has been a disaster, I plan on changing that around for all of us. I plan on starting fresh and all over again. I ask that you join me in turning over a new leaf and taking a leap of faith with me one more time.

With my sincere apologizes to all my family, friends, brothers & sisters,

Lady of the Abyss