How Not To Get Invited Back To A Circle

 

1. Take the ritual sword from the altar and make sounds like Darth Vader — “Luke, I am your father!” — and start making light saber noises.
2. Start skat-singing when chanting.
3. Take the ritual athame from the altar and start cleaning your nails with it.
4. When taking a sip of the ritual wine, act like a wine snob and comment on it.
5. When doing the spiral dance, make it a Conga line.
6. Call down the Goddess with “Get your rump down here, Big Momma!”
7. Call down the God with “Our father, who art in heaven …”
8. When chanting the names of the Goddess, randomly include Pokemon names.
9. When being smudged, complain vehemently about second-hand smoke.
10. In a drumming circle, laugh insanely and start drumming the beat to Wipe Out!
11. Ask the people in the circle “When are we all gonna git nekked?”
12. When in a skyclad circle, randomly point and laugh.
13. When the ritual wine goblet is passed to you, chug it and ask for more.
14. Invoke Satan.
15. Take out a Bible and start evangelizing.
16. Light-up a cigar.
17. Bring a cute furry creature and offer it as a blood sacrifice.
18. Talk a lot about casting spells for revenge against people who have offended you.
19. At a handfasting say “Thank God! Maybe now i’ll get some grandchildren!”
20. When in circle, answer your cell phone.
21. Respond to “So Mote it Be!” with “Amen!”
22. Invite people to “Come to the dark side.”
23. Bring you kids and ask the group to invoke the baby sitting Goddess.

 

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2016 June 25

Strawberry to Honey Moonrise
Image Credit & Copyright: Trevor Mahlmann

 

Explanation: Near the horizon the Full Moon often seems to loom large, swollen in appearance by the famous Moon illusion. But time lapse images demonstrate that the Moon’s apparent size doesn’t really change as it climbs toward the zenith. Its color does, though. Recording a frame every 10 seconds, this image shows how dramatic that color change can be. The composite follows a solstice Full Moon climbing above a rugged horizon over northwestern Indiana. A shrinking line-of-sight through planet Earth’s dense and dusty atmosphere shifted the moonlight from strawberry red through honey-colored and paler yellowish hues. That change seems appropriate for a northern June Full Moon also known as the Strawberry orHoney Moon.

Ophiuchus and Serpent on June evenings

Hopefully, you’ll have a dark, country sky to see the constellation Ophiuchus the Serpent Bearer. Its head is marked by the star Rasalhague.

Practiced sky watchers look for Ophiuchus to the north of the more prominent constellation Scorpius the Scorpion. As seen from mid-northern latitudes, Scorpius won’t completely rise into the sky until rather late evening. With an unobstructed view to the southeast, you should be able to catch Antares, the Scorpion’s bright ruddy star, by nightfall or early evening.

Ophiuchus is joined in legend and in the sky to the constellation of the Serpent, called Serpens. This is one constellation that looks to me like what it’s supposed to: a big guy holding a snake.

The constellation is identified with Aesculapius, said to have been the first doctor, who learned his trade from a snake. It’s this same tradition that causes a staff with a serpent around it to appear in doctors’ offices and hospitals today. It’s said that Aesculapius was such a powerful healer that he succeeded in raising the dead. This act angered Pluto, god of the underworld. To make peace among the gods, Zeus transported Aesculapius (Ophiuchus) to the night sky.

The sun lies within the borders of the constellation Ophiuchus for a few weeks each year, from about November 30 to December 18.

Bottom line: Look for the faint constellation Ophiuchus the Serpent Bearer late at night on June evenings.

 

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The Words of Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Consult the Psychic Eight Ball Oracle

Query:

Will it continue to storm all day?

I am beginning to think our local weather people get their forecast from this thing, lol!

 

 

Your Daily Influences
June 25, 2016 

 

Nine of Cups Reversed
Unfulfilled wishes, bad health and deprivation are possible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hagalaz
Hagalaz is the hail Rune. It denotes chaos, destruction and disruption on a primal level. You may experience delays in moving toward your goals.

 

 

 

Abraxas
A powerful force will rule you within aspect for the duration of a year. Your will be given few choices to make as most will be made for you. This force is malevolent in nature and the end result will be negative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Influences represent events and challenges the current day will present for you. They may represent opportunities you should be ready to seize. Or they may forewarn you of problems you may be able to avoid or lessen. Generally it is best to use them as tips to help you manage your day and nothing more.

Your Daily Charm for Today

The Eye Agate Reversed

 

You are about to experience an event within this aspect that will bring fear to your life. You will find yourself having to do without.

These enati (eye stones) were first worn for protection in the East, but soon the custom of wearing these charms spread to almost all countries. Implicit faith was placed in their reputed magical power to guard the wearer from the dreaded influence of the evil eye. From the very earliest times the imagined influence of the evil eye has struck terror into the hearts of the weak minded, ignorant, and superstitious. The uncanny effect of the eye is produced by cutting through the parallel bands, or layers of the different colours which form the agate.

Your Daily Domino
June 25, 2016 

Blank/Four

Your world is about to become more harmonious. All the pieces will begin to fit. However, for this to occur you must be open to change and embrace new ideas.

Your Daily Tile
June 25, 2016 

Wan 3
Symbol: Land
The Land tile suggests either a stable setting in which you are already thriving, or one that will exist in the near future. With stability your success and vision will grow.