Category: Articles

On Sunday, March 11, We Celebrate…

Best Witch Challenge
On Sunday, March 11, We Celebrate…

Nyambinyambi(West Africa)
HARA KE

Themes: Spring; Weather; Providence; Harvest; Growth

Symbols: Seeds; Soil; Rain Water; Dragon Images

About Hara Ke: An African goddess of sweet water (which also equates with the gentle spring rains) Hara Ke comes into our lives with spring with gentle, growth-inspiring refreshment. According to legend she lives under the river Niger with two dragons in attendance, caring for the souls who await rebirth, just as earth awaits its reawakening with spring.

To Do Today: People in Namibia pull out all their garden tools and seeds and bless them today before the sowing season starts.. This ensures a good harvest and plentiful rains, the water of Hara Ke’s spirit. If your garden or tinker with window pots, this tradition holds merit. Just sprinkle your tools with seeds with a little spring water or rainwater, then visualize the seeds being filled with pale green light (like new sprouts).

Alternatively, sprinkle open your own aura, first going counterclockwise to wash away residual sickness or tension, then going clockwise to invoke Hara Ke. As you sprinkle the water, say:

Hara Ke, renew in a me a sense of refreshed ability.
To my spirit, growth impart; make your home inmy heart.

If you’re pressed for time, you can recite this in your morning shower or while doing the laundry (during the rinse cycle). The latter allows you to figuratively don Hara Ke’s attributed with your clothing whenever you need them.

 

Source

365 Goddess, A Daily Guide to the magic and Inspiration of the Goddess
Patricia Telesco

The Goddess Book of Days for March 11

Your Best Witch - My Entry #4
The Goddess Book of Days for March 11

Day of Our Lady of Lourdes, France/Church calendar. The appearance of the Goddess to Bernadette on several dates. She is Mary, Mari, Isis, Kwan Yin, Yemaya, Tonantzin, Erzulie, Aida Wedo. Her site was a pre-Christian place of Persephone/Proserpina.

Source

The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

Today is Sunday, March 11

Fire in the Night

Today is Sunday, March 11

 

Traditionally, Sunday is the first day of the week. It is also known as the Lord’s Day from it original association with the Lord, that is, the Sun God, personified as Helios, Apollo, Ogmios, Mithras, and St. Elia. But in the Northern Tradition, the sun is seen as feminine, personified as the goddess known as Phoebe in East Anglia and Saule in eastern Europe. The sun rules the conscious element of the human being, the ego, the real self, and Sunday is the day on which this conscious power is at its most effective.

Deity: Sol

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Planet: Sun

Tree: Birch

Herb: Snakeroot

Stone: Ruby

Animal: Lion

Element: Fire

Color: Gold

Rune: Sigel

 

 

Celtic Tree Month of Nuin (Ash) (February 18 – March 17)

 

Runic Half-Month of Tyr (February 27 – March 13)

 

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

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

As March Blows In….

Up to no Good

As March Blows In….

 

As March blows into our lives bringing spring and new beginnings, we look to the source of all life as our Goddess of the Month.

Over 6000 years ago, the known world had a different feel. There were no city fortresses, or war. Progress was centered around the development of art, crafts, and agriculture. Then, unlike today, the societies of the world were matriarchal. The sexes were equal but the role of mother and giver of life was unequaled by any task that men could do and so women were honored and their societies flourished.

Later, around 3,500 BCE, marauding bands of men began destabilizing these societies and subjugating women. Few were able to withstand the superior strength of the invaders. The Amazons, for example, were among the few surviving cultures. In subsequent years the temples, statues, art work, and beauty of those civilizations were lost and buried but not gone from our deepest unconscious. Modern archaeologists have found in certain places like Turkey, evidence of highly developed cultures. Unfortunately, an unbiased interpretation did not always find its way into history.

We are in essence a replication of each human that ever was born. Within ourselves we carry patterns and thoughts that connect us with the past. This term was called the collective unconscious by Carl Jung. While the mysteries of the Goddess have been buried, they have not died. The constant change of seasons and the rebirth of the land each spring tell us that our origin from a Great Mother is part of us all. Many myths tell of Her rise from Chaos to give birth to humanity.

There are many creation stories from cultures all around the world. The Goddesses will have different names that are familiar to each of us and so we celebrate not one but all of the women in history who represent the life force of the culture in which you belong. To honour Her, plant a seed and watch it grow. Tend it with loving care and watch its many faces throughout the year and remember the source of your life.

Some names of creation Goddesses; Mere Ama, Ishtar, Astarte, Demeter, Hera, Cybele, Gaia, Oya, Lillith, Sheila Na Gig, Cerridwen

Source

Discover the Path

I think I might need to explain myself…..

I meant to do this yesterday but I took a nap at the computer. It was in preparation for losing an hour’s sleep today, lmao! Yeah sure! I feel like I owe all of you and the sites we sponsor an explanation about The Commentary Gazette. All of a sudden posts from this site start coming across here, which is something we never done before. We are pushing it harder than any of our other sites ever. Well the truth is, that site belongs to one of our husband’s. He did not want us to tell anyone that but…..we have other sites and other feelings to take into consideration. I have had several ask me what’s up with that? Well now you know!

 

He had recently retired and was bored silly. He had no interests except a lot of information in that little brain of his (which was going to waste). He would play computer games all day long. His wife got fed up and asked me if I would see if I could get him interested in blogging. I asked him to come up with a site title just in case he might ever want a blog. He gave me the name, I designed the site and the rest is history. Blogging has brought him back to life. He now enjoys it and doesn’t seem depressed anymore. Now you know why we are pushing The Gazette so hard. We want it to succeed so he will keep his interest in it. I don’t feel bad about pushing it because I could see a change in him, myself. So if this works and he rejoins life, excellent. He is a smart man and to see him waste away, I couldn’t stand it myself.

 

Now you know why we are pushing The Gazette. He has some excellent information in that brain of his and he occasionally makes some very informative commentary. So if you get a moment, hop over and check it out.

Thank you,

Lady A

 

https://thecommentarygazette.wordpress.com/

Livia: Wife of Augustus

LIVIA:

Wife of G. Julius Caesar Octavianus

In the year 38 B.C. it suddenly became known at Rome that G. Julius Caesar Octavianus (afterward the Emperor Augustus), one of the triumvirs of the republic, and colleague of Mark Antony and Lepidus in the military dictatorship established after the death of Caesar, had sent up for decision to the pontifical college, the highest religious authority of the state, a curious question.  It was this: Might a divorced woman who was expecting to become a mother contract a marriage with another man before the birth of her child?  The pontifical college replied that if there still was doubt about the fact the new marriage would not be permissible; but if it was certain, there would be no impediment.  A few days later, it was learned that Octavianus had divorced his wife Scribonia and had married Livia, a young woman of nineteen.  Livia’s physical condition was precisely that concerning which the pontiffs had been asked to decide, and in order to enter into this marriage she had obtained a divorce from Tiberius Claudius Nero. Read More….

Elidorus and the Fairies

THE COMMENTARY GAZETTE

“Elidorus and the Fairies”.

“A short time before our days, a circumstance worthy of note occurred in these parts, which Elidorus, a priest, most strenuously affirmed had befallen to himself.

When a youth of twelve years, and learning his letters, since, as Solomon says, ‘The root of learning is bitter, although the fruit is sweet,’ in order to avoid the discipline and frequent stripes inflicted on him by his preceptor, he ran away and concealed himself under the hollow bank of the river.  After fasting in that situation for two days, two little men of pigmy stature appeared to him, saying, ‘If you will come with us, we will lead you into a country full of delights and sports.’  Assenting and rising up, he followed his guides through a path, at first subterraneous and dark, into a most beautiful country, adorned with rivers and meadows, woods and plains, but obscure, and not illuminated with the full light of the sun.  All the days were cloudy, and the nights extremely dark, on account of the absence of the moon and stars.  The boy was brought before the King, and introduced to him in the presence of the court; who, having examined him for a long time, delivered him to his son, who was then a boy.  These men were of the smallest stature, but very well proportioned in their make; they were all of a fair complexion, with luxuriant hair falling over their shoulders like that of women.  They had horses and greyhounds adapted to their size.  They neither ate flesh nor fish, but lived on milk diet, made up into messes with saffron.  They never took an oath, for they detested nothing so much as lies.  As often as they returned from our upper hemisphere, they reprobated our ambition, infidelities, and inconstancies; they had no form of public worship, being strict lovers and reverers, as it seemed, of truth. Read More….

Wives of G. Julius Ceasar

THE COMMENTARY GAZETTE

The Wives of G. Julius Ceasar

Most everyone knows the history of the famous men of Rome, but do they even know the names of the women that were involved in their lives. The Great Ceasars of the Empire Era were not isolated from the normal pursuits of family and friends. Here is but a brief look in to their family and the why’s.

STAFF

A History: But when there broke out the revolution in which Marius placed himself at the head of the popular party, and the revolution was overcome by Sulla, the old aristocracy, which had conquered with Sulla, did not forgive the patrician family of the Julii for having connected itself with that bitter foe, who had made so much mischief.  Consequently, during the period of the reaction, all its members were looked upon askance, and were suspected and persecuted, among them young Caesar, who was in no way responsible for the deeds of his uncle, since he was only a lad during the war between Sulla and Marius. Read More….

Hypocrisy of the Drug War

THE COMMENTARY GAZETTE

Hypocrisy of the Drug War

The Drug War, we hear so much about this every evening as we sit and relax for a long arduous day. A constant reminder of the ill of our own making in the society that we strive to improve, enrich and transform. I cannot go into the reasons for which this plague came upon us, for that began in the far reaches of our history as a species, who…how…when will never be answered. But we can address the issues of how this malady is approached and dealt with.

The governing bodies, of which we elect, in the hopes of safe guarding our well-being, seem to be on a collision course. The Federal government in the late 1960’s declared a war in which the full weight of its agencies would within their power and might tackle this growing and dangerous problem in our country. Seemly for decades it had progressed with sometimes glowing achievements diminished the rapid expansion it’s growth. Then with a creeping subtleness it began to expand into a huge enterprize, dwarfing anything previous. Why is this? MONEY. The root of all evil or so I have heard. But I doubt this could be the only reason, it would seem that societal acceptance also played a perhaps even greater part. Read More….

The Witches Digest for Friday, March 9th

cross

The Witches Digest for Friday, March 9th

111111

Today Is Friday, March 9th

 

Friday is the day of Venus. It takes it name from Frigg, the Goddess of love and transformation. She rules the spiritual side of a person that manifests in the physical. Because of this, Friday is often thought of as dangerously unpredictable. This is expressed in an old East Anglian adage:

Friday’s day will have its trick
The fairest or foulest day of the week.

Deity: Frigg

Zodiac Sign: Taurus/Libra

Planet: Venus

Tree: Apple

Herb: Vervain

Stone: Sapphire/Chrsolite

Animal: Bull/Serpent

Element: Earth

Color: Yellow/Violet

Number: 7

Rune: Peorth(P)

 

 

Celtic Tree Month of Nuin (Ash) (February 18 – March 17)

Runic Half-Month of Tyr (February 27 – March 13)

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

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

 

111111

The Goddess Book of Days for Friday, March 9th

Mothering Day in England, the fourth Sunday in Lent, the origin of Mother’s Day. Dedicated to all Mother Goddesses: Demeter, Rhea, Ceres, Oddudua, Erzulie, Aido Wedo, Changing Woman, Cybele, Sarah, Spider Woman, Yemaya, Kwan Yin, Copper Woman, Eartha, Freya, Mary, Tonantzin, Coatlique, Isis, Mawu and Rhiannon.
Source
The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

111111

Goddesses Associated with Fridays

Friday For Freya: Astarte, Aphrodite, Erzulie, Aida Wooo, Eve, Venus, Diana, Isis, the Witch of Gaeta, Chalchiuhtlique
Source
The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

111111

On Friday, March 9th, We Celebrate……

Butter Festival (Tibet)
ADITI

Themes: Luck; Change; Perspective; Time; Protection; Prosperity; Overcoming Obstacles; Divination.
Symbols: Butter; the Number Twelve; Anything that Changes Shape
About Aditi: Aditi means “unfettered.” In India, she represents the infinite sky and the boundlessness of time and space. she offers us this expansive perspective–one in which we are citizens of eternity. Additionally, Aditi is a protector who aids in averting or surmounting difficulties. In regional prays, people refer to her as the ever-young protectress who guides life’s boat safety through the roughest waters.
To Do Today: Buddhists believe that the world is transient—that only spirit is eternal. The Butter Festival illustrates this concept with huge butter statues of heroes that are torn, distributed to participants for luck, or tosses in a river to melt away into time. Following this custome, take out an ice cube. Relax and watch the ice as it melts. Consider: Is the ice still there, even though it’s gone? Similarly does the spirit exist outside its “shape”—-the body?
For a less ponderous way of honoring Aditi, light twelve candles (yellow is ideal) and watch the flames. HInus use butter lamps instead, but this is far easier! If the flames appear dark red, your spirit is filled with strife. Mottled flames indicate weakness, tall flames symbolize mental clarity, crescent-shaped ones reveal a peaceful soul, and round ones proclaim magickal power.
Source
365 Goddess, A Daily Guide to the Magick and Inspiration of the Goddess
Patricia Telesco

111111

Friday’s Magick

Magickal Intent:
Lust
Romance
Happiness
Travel
Friends
Beauty
Sexuality
Harmony
Growth

Planet: Venus

Colors: Pink, Aqua, Seafoam

Crystals: Coral, Emerald, Rose Quarz

111111

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

111111

The Witches Guide to Friday

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 enduring 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.

Source

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

111111riday’s Witchery

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.

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

111111

The Witches Almanac for Friday, March 9th

Teachers’ Day (Lebanese)

Waning Moon

Fourth Quarter 6: 20 am

Moon Sign: Sagittarius

Incense: Violet

Color: Coral

111111

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

111111

Friday Is Ruled By Venus

Friday belongs to Venus, both the planet and its namesake Roman goddess of love. This day is sacred to many other gods and goddesses of love such as Eros, Venus, Aphrodite, and the Norse goddess that gave the day its name, Freya. This day of the week is for magical topics such as love, birth, fertility, and romance. Colors for today include pink and aqua. Some suggestions for Friday enchantments would include:

Carrying a rose quartz with you today to send out some gentle and loving vibes to those crabby co-workers

Working a loving Tarot spell to charm a friend’s pregnancy with good health and safety

Working a little flower magic to enchant a single pink rose for friendship and inner beauty, and setting it on your desk. Or try empowering a red rose for passion and placing it in your bedroom

Burning rose-scented candles to encourage the same effect. Call on Eros to “bring a passion for life” to your days.

Sharing a romantic snack with your partner. Feed each other ripe, red strawberries. Those strawberries are love-inducing food, and are sacred to many love goddesses, including today’s patroness, Freya.

111111

Venus – Day – Friday

The planet of affectionate LOVE music, friendship and art
Venus is a skilled mediator, so can bring polar opposite together in harmony and balance
In our physical bodies Venus rules our sense of smell, as well as governing kidneys, cell formation, blood and and the sex organs.
KEYWORD: Relating

Source
The Path of Witchcraft PDF

111111

Venus

Crystals to tap into the energies of Venus

Rose Quartz
Emerald
Green Calcite
Malachite
Jade
Lemon Crysoprase
Mangano Calcite

Source
The Path of Witchcraft PDF

111111

MOON MAGICK

The Esbat or full moon, has long been seen by pagan’s as the best time to do rituals and magick.
The Celts believed that the impact of the full moon’s energy and influence was felt for three days before and three days after the full moon.

The Celtic year was divided by it’s full moons into thirteen months, one for each moon occurring during the solar year.

We can align ourselves with the energy of each full moon by paying attention to the names that are frequently given to them.

The BIRCH MOON is (feminine) in polarity and is called the MOON OF INCEPTION, or the MOON OF BEGINNING.

The ROWAN MOON is (masculine) in polarity and is called the MOON OF VISION, or the SPIRIT MOON, or ASTRAL TRAVEL MOON.

The ASH MOON is (feminine) in polarity and is called the MOON OF WATERS.

The ALDER MOON is (masculine) in polarity and is called the MOON OF UTILITY, or the MOON OF EFFICACY, or the MOON OF SELF-GUIDANCE.

The WILLOW MOON is (feminine) in polarity and is called THE WITCH’S MOON, or the MOON OF BALANCE.

The HAWTHORN MOON is (masculine) in polarity and is called the MOON OF RESTRAINT, or the MOON OF HINDRANCE, or the SUMMER MOON.

The OAK MOON is (masculine) in polarity and is called the MOON OF STRENGTH, or the MOON OF SECURITY, or the BEAR MOON.

The HOLLY MOON is (feminine) in polarity and is called the MOON OF ENCIRCLEMENT, or the MOON OF POLARITY.

The HAZEL MOON is (feminine) in polarity and is called the MOON OF THE WISE, or the CRONE MOON.

The VINE MOON is (androgynous) in polarity and is called the MOON OF CELEBRATION.

The REED MOON is (masculine) in polarity and is called the MOON OF THE HOME, or the HEARTH MOON, or the WINTER MOON, or the MOON WHICH MANIFESTS TRUTH.

The ELDER MOON is (masculine) in polarity and is called the MOON OF COMPLETENESS.

ESBATS

Full and New Moon Celebrations are the Days and Nights of an Esbat. These are Considered Working Days…

111111

MOON POWER

 

Full Moon Power… is usually used for Banishing/Protection.
New Moon Power… is usually used for Healing/Blessing.
Waxing Moon (between new and full) Power… is usually used for Attraction.
Waning Moon (between full and new) Power… is usually used for Banishing.
Dark of the Moon (3 days before new)…Time to rest and meditate.
If all the moon phases are not quite right for a particular bit of work that needs to be done, we need not wait if it is important and necessary. The Goddess and God are always there and always have been and together we get stuff done. Silver Raven Wolf in her book “To Ride a Silver Broom stick” said to use the following when spell working. Add the words “I ask the Universe to lend the power of all the correct astrological correspondences. so they may enter this circle now. t o obtain my desire.” this will cover you if they are not…

111111

The Witches Magick for Friday, March 8th – The Ribbon Spell

The Ribbon Spell

(A LOVE SPELL)

You Will Need:
One long red ribbon
One red candle
Rose oil

Working:-In a quiet place where you will not be disturbed.

1. During a Friday at the Venus hour, (11am or 11pm) Light and burn the red candle
which you have anointed with the rose oil. Envision the image of the sort of lover or
soul mate you desire. Do not aim at any specific man or you will limit the scope of the spell.
Now wrap your ribbon a round your right index finger and visualize the man you wish for.

2.Place the ribbon on your forehead so that it crosses your 3rd eye, (between your eyebrows)
Concentrate and `see` your love with all your energy.-His looks, his eyes, his voice.
Hold the image of this man in your mind and ask him to think sweet, loving thoughts of you.

3. Think of all the thoughts you want him to `send` you and try to hold them for 5 minutes.
Burn the candle and do this spell for 10 minutes at the eleventh hour on a Friday
(morning and evening) The harder you concentrate your energy and the more often you try this spell the better the results will be. `Send` no negative messages!

111111

Home & Hearth Magick for Friday, March 9th

On Fridays cast for love, luxury, pleasure and entertainment

Planetary Influence: Venus

Household Symbols: A sea shell, a fountain, fresh flowers, your wedding ring or wedding phot, red or pink paper hearts, apples and cherries.

Color: Pink and aqua green

Kitchen Spices: Thyme and sugar

Source:

Cottage Witchery
Natural Magick for Hearth and Home
Ellen Dugan

 

111111

The Current Moon Phase for March 9th

Last Quarter
Illumination: 50%

The Moon today is in a Third Quarter phase. Sometimes called a Last Quarter Moon, this phase occurs roughly 3 weeks after the New Moon when the earth is three quarter of the way through it’s orbit around the earth. If you live in the northern hemisphere the Moons left side will be illuminated and the right side dark. For thoughts of you in the southern hemisphere it will be the opposite with the right side illuminated. On the day of the Third Quarter phase the Moon will rise around midnight on the eastern horizon and set in the west around noon the next day. In the days following the Third Quarter Phase the Moon’s illumination will decrees each day until the New Moon.

Source
111111

Moon in Sagittarius

The Moon is traveling through Sagittarius. The grass looks greener on the other side during this time. Jump ship. Learn a new language. Tell it like it is. Make people laugh.

The Moon is at her most optimistic and upbeat in Sagittarius. We are motivated by a need to seek the truth, and we are ready to pursue a new vision. We are not interested in details just now. Instead, we focus on the big picture. New experiences and adventures satisfy a deep emotional need. Spontaneity is the key. We may also be inclined toward overdoing and overstating. We don’t want to plan ahead, and prefer to “wing it”.

The Moon in Sagittarius generally favors the following activities: Adventurous activities that involve “winging it”, travel, higher education, starting publishing projects, advertising, sports, physical activity.

 

111111

Ystrad Legend

THE COMMENTARY GAZETTE

 “The Ystrad Legend”.

The next legend is taken from Williams’s “Observations on the Snowdon Mountains”.  His work was published in 1802.  He, himself, was born in Anglesey, in 1738, and migrated to Carnarvonshire about the year 1760. It was in this latter county that he became a learned antiquary, and a careful recorder of events that came under his notice.  His “Observations” throw considerable light upon the life, the customs, and the traditions of the inhabitants of the hill parts and secluded glens of Carnarvonshire.  I have thought fit to make these few remarks about the author I quote from, so as to enable the reader to give to him that credence which he is entitled to.  Williams entitles the following story, “A Fairy Tale,” but I will for the sake of reference call it “The Ystrad Legend.”

“In a meadow belonging to Ystrad, bounded by the river which falls from Cwellyn Lake, they say the Fairies used to assemble, and dance on fair moon-light-nights.  One evening a young man, who was the heir and occupier of this farm, hid himself in a thicket close to the spot where they used to gambol; presently they appeared, and when in their merry mood, out he bounced from his covert and seized one of their females; the rest of the company dispersed themselves, and disappeared in an instant…..Read More