Nov. 21

Festival of Kukulcan

 

It was on this day that the ancient Mayan people paid homage age to the God Kukulcan. His name means “the feathered snake whose path is the waters.” Later merged with Quetzalcoatl (Plumed Serpent) he was the great God of wisdom, wind, and fertility-the inventor of agriculture and the calendar. He was identified with Venus as the morning star and portrayed as a feathered serpent and sometimes as a bearded man. The Mayan religion permeated all aspects of life. Their festivals were times of great celebration and focused on seasonal changes and agriculture. Generally, their festivals included games, feasting, dancing and human sacrifice.

 

Home & Hearth Magick for Monday, November 21

 

On Monday, casts for matters concerning the home, emotions and nurturing.

 

Planetary Influence: The Moon

 

Household Symbols: Silver platters and bowls, moon shapes

 

Color: White and Silver

 

Kitchen Spices: Lemon rind and wintergreen.

 

Source:

Cottage Witchery

Natural Magick for Hearth and Home

Ellen Dugan

 

Monday Is Ruled By the Moon

 

This day of the week is dedicated to the moon and all of her magic and mystery. Mondays are for women’s mysteries, illusion, prophetic dreaming, emotions, travel, and fertility.

Some suggestions for Monday enchantments would include:

 

*Getting outside and looking for the moon in the heavens. Sit under her light and absorb a little glamour. Call on the moon goddess Selene for practical help in magical issues.

 

*Invoking the god Thoth for wisdom and insight

 

*Empowering your silver jewelry under the light of the moon. Wear moonstone or pearl jewelry today to add a lunar and magical shimmer to your outfit. Be mysterious and subtle and wear moon-associated colors such as white, silver, and blue.

 

*Working spells for safe travel with a simple moonstone

 

*Gathering bluebells, jasmine, gardenias, or white roses to create a little garden witchery with the flowers that are associated with the moon

 

*Setting up a lunar Tarot spell today to increase your psychic powers

 

*Eating a lunar fruit such as a melon to be healthy, serene, and at peace

 

*Brewing up a cup of chamomile or mint tea and enchanting it for sweet dreams and restful sleep

 

The Witches Correspondences for Monday, November 21

 

Day: Monday ( Moon-day)

 

Planet: Moon

 

Colors: Silver and White and Grey

 

Crystals: Moonstone, Pearl, Aquamarine, Silver, Selenite

 

Aroma: Jasmine, Lemon, Sandalwood, Moon Oil, African violet, Honeysuckle, Myrtle, Willow, and Wormwood

 

Herb: Moonwart

 

The sacred day of the Moon, personified by such goddesses as Selene, Luna, Diana, and Artemis. The Moon is ruler of flow affecting the changeable aspects of people. If a full moon falls on a Monday, its powers are at their most potent.

 

Magical aspects: peace, sleep, healing, compassion, friendships, psychic awareness, purification, and fertility

 

Monday is ruled by the moon – an ancient symbol of mystery and peace. Monday is a special day for mothers as the cycle of the moon has long been associated with the female menstrual cycle. Those wishing to conceive a baby would be wise to try on a Monday as the magic of motherhood is strong and pregnancy is in the air.

 

This is the proper day of the week to perform spells and rituals involving agriculture, animals, female fertility, messages, reconciliation’s, theft, voyages, dreams, emotions, clairvoyance, home, family, medicine, cooking, personality, merchandising, psychic work, Faerie magic, and Goddess rituals.

 

The Waning Moon

The Waning Gibbous Moon or Disseminating Moon appears 3 ½ days to 7 days after the Full Moon. The Moon will rise during the evening and set sometime mid-morning. Again we see the bulge on one side of the Moon but it is now decreasing each day. Darkness is slowly moving in. Waning is underway.

The Waning Last Quarter Moon appears between 7 and 10 ½ days after the Full Moon. She rises near midnight and sets near noon. Because of the return to a right angle between the Sun and Moon the variation between tides is low again. There is once again a balance between light and dark, but the dark will soon overcome the light.

The Waning Crescent or Balsamic Moon occurs between 10 ½ days after the Full Moon up until the New Moon. The Moon rises in the dark hours of the morning and sets in the afternoon. Again we see the Moon as a beautiful crescent, but it is rapidly diminishing into darkness.

You do not have to be concerned so much about overdoing things now because the lunar rhythm will act as something of a brake. Now is a good time to throw away your rubbish, take old clothes to charity shops. Consider how well things are working out and analyse information. Follow your needs and reactions.

You may feel more like meditating and being alone. Clear spaces of all descriptions and make endings, let go of unwanted energies, release, banish and reverse. Some people favour scrying and meditation with the Dark Moon because it is a more inward time. The insights you glean now will have a deeper more insightful quality, whereas as Full Moon they may be more obviously creative.

To connect with the Waxing Moon energies and the energy of the Crone, place an amethyst in a bowl of water, light a purple candle and scry.

Use a hag stone (holey stone) or a piece of elder or yew wood. Hold this during meditation to connect with crone energies and the energy of the Waning Moon.

Make a crone hearth in your fireplace or on your mantelpiece. Decorate it with symbols that represent her to you, or you could just use a cauldron (or big casserole dish) and fill it with a large dark coloured candle and pebbles.

 

Source

Pagan Portals – Moon Magic

Rachel Patterson

 

The Witches Almanac for Monday, November 21

Repentance Day (German)

 

Waning Moon

Fourth Quarter 3: 33 am

Moon Sign: Leo

Moon enters Virgo 4: 34 am

Sun enters Sagittarius 4: 22 pm

Color: White

Incense: Lily

 

Magickal Applications for Mondays

 

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 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

 

Monday Is A Day of Witchery, Magick and Enchantment

 

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’s Conjuring

 

Monday – is associated with the Moon

Candle colors – white or gray

Magickal Applications for the Day – Crossroads work to learn to read cards, dealing with family matters, Protection, Truth, Peace, Justice

 

—-Old Style Conjure Wisdoms, Workings and Remedies

Starr Casas

The Goddess Book of Days for Monday, November 21

 

Day of Kulkulcan, Mayan God (Quetzalcoatl, Apollo, Damballah, Osiris, Attis, Adonis, Damuzi, Tammuz, Pan, Dionysus, Heme, Chango, Legba). The Presentation of Mary in the Temple, Church calendar. Mary as a child, Persephone, Ishtar, Isis, Kwan Yin, Yemaya, Tonantzin, the Virgin of Guadualupe, and Changing Woman.

 

Source

 

The Goddess Book of Days

Diane Stein

Monday, November 21

 

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)

 

Celtic Tree Month of Ngetal (Reed) – 28 October – 24 November

 

The Runic Half Month of Hagal (constraint) – 13 November – 27 November

 

Goddess of the Month of Cailleach/Samhain – 31 October – 27 November

 

Source

 

The Pagan Book of Days

Nigel Pennick

Today Is Monday, November 21, We Celebrate….

Tori no Ichi (Japan)

OKAME

Themes: Luck; Kindness

Symbols: Masks; Good-luck Charms

About Okame: In Japanese art, Okame is portrayed as simple and somewhat homely, yet her domain is the beautiful energy of good fortune and kind acts. In this form, Okame gently reminds us that true beauty really does come from within. Local lore claims that any area that bears a mask of Okame’s likeness is blessed with her lucky nature.

To Do Today: Late in November, just preceding the new year in Japan, this is a day for rituals to improve one’s wealth and luck. Following the Japanese tradition, begin by finding any lawn rake (or broom), and attach as many personal good-luck charms to it as you can find. Take this token clockwise around your home, raking or brooming inward, to gather up Okame’s fortunate energies. As you go through your house, add verbal incantations like the following:

[In the kitchen] Okame, in my kitchen shine, so that good luck will be mine!

[Dining room] Okame, at this table where we eat, lei good fortune take a seat!

[Living room] In this room where people lounge, let your fortuity come around!

[Bathroom] Clean negativity and problems away; let my good luck start today!

To encourage Okame’s serendipity even further, you can burn orange, rose, heather, violet, or allspice incense or potpourri as you go.

 

Source

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

Patricia Telesco

 

The Sky This Week for November 21 to 27

A globular star cluster, the Summer and Winter triangles visible, and other beautiful things to look for in the sky this week.

By Richard Talcott

 

Monday, November 21

 

Mars continues to put on a nice show these November evenings. The magnitude 0.6 Red Planet lies among the background stars of Capricornus and appears nearly 30° high in the south-southwest after darkness falls. A telescope reveals the world’s 7″-diameter disk, though you’ll be hard-pressed to see much surface detail except under exceptional viewing conditions.

 

Tuesday, November 22

 

Uranus reached opposition more than a month ago, but it remains a tempting target. The outer planet appears in the southeast after darkness falls and climbs highest in the south around 9 p.m. local time. The magnitude 5.7 world lies in southern Pisces just 1.1° due east of the 5th-magnitude star Zeta (z) Piscium. Although Uranus shines brightly enough to glimpse with the naked eye under a dark sky, binoculars make the task much easier. A telescope reveals the planet’s blue-green disk, which spans 3.7″.

 

Wednesday, November 23

 

Although the Leonid meteor shower peaked before dawn November 17, observing conditions have improved significantly since then. The gibbous Moon of last week has now waned to a crescent that doesn’t interfere much with viewing a few last-minute stragglers. To tell a Leonid meteor from a sporadic, trace the shooting star’s path backward. If it points toward the constellation Leo the Lion, it likely is a shower member.

 

Thursday, November 24

 

While Venus dominates the evening sky, Jupiter rules the predawn hours. The giant planet rises four hours before the Sun and climbs 25° high in the southeast by the time twilight starts to paint the sky. Jupiter shines brilliantly at magnitude –1.8 and shows a 32″-diameter disk when viewed through a telescope. A small scope also reveals an unusual alignment of the planet’s moons this morning. Callisto, the outermost major satellite, passes due north of Jupiter. For North American observers, this is the first time in 3.5 years that Callisto’s orbit has not carried the moon in front of the planet.

 

Friday, November 25

 

The variable star Algol in Perseus appears faintest at 12:13 a.m. EST tomorrow morning, when it shines at magnitude 3.4. If you start watching it immediately after darkness falls, you can see it dim from its peak brightness (magnitude 2.1) to minimum and then rise back to maximum all in a single night. This eclipsing binary star runs through a cycle from minimum to maximum and back every 2.87 days, but the drop from peak brightness and subsequent rise lasts only about 10 hours. Algol appears in the east-northeast after sunset and passes nearly overhead around 11 p.m. local time.

 

Saturday, November 26

 

Although Thanksgiving weekend signifies autumn to many people, the stars of both summer and winter appear prominent in late November’s evening sky. If you head out around 9 p.m. local time and look toward the west, you’ll see the bright stars of the Summer Triangle. These three luminaries — Vega, Deneb, and Altair — stand out nicely against the fainter stars in their vicinity. Deneb appears highest (nearly halfway to the zenith), while the brightest, Vega, lies farthest to the right. Now, if you turn around and face east, you’ll find stars normally associated with winter. Betelgeuse, Rigel, Aldebaran, and Capella all clear the horizon before 8 p.m. and appear conspicuous an hour later.

 

Sunday, November 27

 

While the stars of summer and winter remain on view on late November evenings, the stars of spring are not so lucky. The Big Dipper swings low in the north at this time of year. Although this conspicuous asterism never sets from much of the United States and Canada, it does come close. And the star at the end of the handle — magnitude 1.9 Eta (h) Ursae Majoris — does dip below the horizon around 9 p.m. local time for viewers south of 40° north latitude.

 

The Moon reaches apogee, the farthest point in its orbit around Earth, at 3:08 p.m. EST. It then lies 252,621 miles (406,554 kilometers) from Earth’s center.

 

 

Source

 

The Astronomy Magazine

 

 

Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Monday, November 21

The Sun

Sun Direction: ↑ 157.41° SSE

Sun Altitude: 29.55°

Sun Distance: 91.814 million mi

Next Solstice: Dec 21, 2016 4:44 am (Winter)

Sunrise Today: 6:40 am↑ 115° Southeast

Sunset Today: 4:41 pm↑ 245° West

Length of Daylight: 6:40 am – 4:41 pm

 

The Moon

Moon Direction: ↑ 260.50° W

Moon Altitude: 27.42°

Moon Distance: 242362 mi

Next New Moon: Nov 29, 20166:18 am

Next Full Moon: Dec 13, 20166:05 pm

Next Moonset: Today12:44 pm

Current Moon Phase: Waning Crescent

Illumination: 46.8%

 

Source

Timeanddate.com

 

A Woodland Walk

If you’ve ever walked through a copse or wood,

How many times have you just stood,

And looked more closely at the trees,

At the berries or their different leaves.

The natural world has a lot to see,

Not just animals, birds or bees,

Or fish that swim in the oceans deep,

Or insects scurrying on tiny feet.

The different trees that you can see,

When you wander through a wood that’s free,

The leaves and fruits, a vast array,

Will fall to ground and rot away.

But leaves return year on year,

 And produce their fruit for creatures near,

Humans and animals on these will dine,

Given by trees in the woods you’ll find.

So when you wander among the trees,

Take some time and you will see,

What mother nature’s showing you,

Perhaps you’ll see with eyes anew.

—-Pagan Ways

Alan Faraway

The Wisdom of Buddha

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.