Your Daily Horoscopes for Tuesday, June 7th

Aries

You are a little more open when it comes to expressing your normally private thoughts today, dear Aries, even though there remains a retiring quality to your personality right now. Thoughts and affections can be deliciously private. Love can bring pleasant, private surprises today, even if it’s only about entertaining unusual feelings that take you off guard. You can dream up very useful and creative ideas today, particularly related to making money or doing something fabulous with a talent or hobby.

Taurus

While there are likely to be pleasant outlets for expressing yourself today, dear Taurus, you are unlikely to commit to any one feeling – today is more about experimenting and exploring on an emotional level. While getting rid of something you no longer need can feel slightly uncomfortable, it is likely to feel unusually liberating as well, and especially so if it’s related to communications that simply are too much and interfering with your progress or productivity. This is a good day for helping out a friend with good ideas or creative advice.

Gemini

Emotions tend to settle in today, and you seek some form of emotional balance, dear Gemini. Physical pleasures and comfort are especially appealing and appropriate now. Today is about enjoying the moment! Your instincts for money are strong right now. When it comes to your relationships, you find happiness in the little or simple things. Put more faith into the people you love, and see it returned. Business ideas are creative today.

Cancer

There is good energy for getting places in your conversations with others today and tomorrow, dear Cancer. Consider creative ways to connect, network, or simply share ideas. It’s a good time for reaching out, but it’s also important to take extra care of your own personal needs. The Moon in your sign all day gives you this license – it’s the time of the lunar month to pay a little more attention to yourself, and perhaps to do some self-pampering. The Moon reaches out to Mars in your creative sector, making it a strong time to release and express your feelings through creative or expressive physical activities.

Leo

This can be a fine day for behind the scenes or restful, healing activities, dear Leo. For the most part, you are able to find ways to escape some of the elements of your usual routine. Even when among others you tend to have a rather retiring quality to you today, and it’s good for you – it’s a natural phase in the monthly lunar cycle. Early on the 8th, the Moon will enter your sign and you’ll be “out there”. For now, take things easy and focus on getting extra rest and time to think, process, and digest. Even so, today holds good energy for creative thinking along business or life path lines. A conversation about goals and the future can be warming.

Virgo

You’re feeling especially positive today, dear Virgo. You’re better able to rise above small problems and not let them drag you down – such is one of the many benefits of Mercury’s transit through your adventure sector, as you have bigger things to think about. The Moon connects well to Mercury and Mars today, inspiring a sense that you can accomplish pretty much whatever you want to, as well as new ideas that you’re enthusiastic about. While there may be some confusion about the depth of a relationship now, you’re choosing to see things in a good light.

Libra

This is one of your more public days of the lunar month, dear Libra, when people tend to notice what you’re doing or look to you to take the lead. This is not always the most comfortable period for you, but today, you’re in a good position to enjoy a little more attention and visibility. In fact, you can learn of someone’s appreciation for all that you do. It’s a good time to rally up support for your cause, idea, or business direction/goal. If researching a topic further, you may seem to arrive at the right information at the right time today.

Scorpio

Venturing beyond your routine is attractive now, dear Scorpio, particularly as there may be some wild cards in your work or daily life to deal with and you’d rather be elsewhere, or at least thinking about it. You may be seeking a higher level of freedom and well-being, and with the Moon’s harmonious connections with Mercury and Mars today, this may very well be possible. Conversations today are likely to be rewarding and inspiring. Creative inspiration can come from a partner or close friend.

Sagittarius

Deeper, hidden subjects and topics come to the surface today, dear Sagittarius. You can get into stronger touch with your inner needs and motives, and those of others as well. This is a better time, generally speaking, for observing and planning than jumping into quick action. This is largely due to strong activity in the sign opposite to yours, suggesting a need to accommodate rather than pursue personal goals, as well as an emphasis on your sectors of service. Most telling is Mars’ position in your privacy sector, which can have the effect of delaying or denying direct pursuit of goals temporarily, and rightfully so, as slowing down and observing will serve you best right now.

Capricorn

Impressions are especially strong through the emotions today, dear Capricorn, although you tend to be absorbing a lot from others’ as you tune in more intuitively to the needs and feelings of the people close to you. There is a stronger need for companionship now, and there is much to share and learn with a partner or close friend. You seek emotional understanding and true equality in your relationships today, and you have a good chance of achieving these things, particularly through playful, creative conversation.

Aquarius

This can be a good day for becoming absorbed in an exciting project or pursuit, dear Aquarius, or perhaps for enjoying tackling routine and getting things done. Ideas are especially good – even inspired – today, particularly related to money, resources, talents, and improved family and home life. It’s appropriate to focus on the details rather than the bigger picture today, making it a good time to refine and improve plans or projects. While you’re friendly, you’re also quite content to do things on your own for the time being.

Pisces

This is a potentially strong day for connecting with others, dear Pisces, and for creative ideas. You can find that motivation levels are increasing now, and you’re becoming more and more enthused about what you’re doing and where you’re headed. This, in turn, can attract some positive attention, and partnerships can improve as well. You can feel psychically connected to friends now, perhaps sensing when and if they need help or advice, and rewards can come out of surprise or random events. This is not a great day for taking a risk with money, however. While people instincts are through the roof today, practicality is not your strong suit just for now.

Astrology of Today – June 7, 2016

Summary:

• The Moon is in Cancer all day (until Wednesday, June 8th, at 2:47 AM).
• The Moon is void from 8:17 PM forward (until tomorrow at 2:47 AM).
• The Moon is waxing and in its New Moon phase.
• A New Moon occurred on the 4th, and a First Quarter Moon will occur on June 12th.
• Mercury is direct and ends its post-retrograde shadow today.
• Mars is retrograde (Mars is retrograde from April 17-June 29).

Calendar of the Moon

Hawthorn Tree Month

Color: Purple
Element: Air
Altar: Upon a cloth of purple place a vase of the budded hawthorn twigs, a knife, incense of gardenia and marjoram, and a figure of the Goddess.
Offerings: Contemplate something that is both beautiful and painful.
Daily Meal: Serve fruit juice with the food.

Huath Invocation
Call: Now is the time of the flower’s blossoming.
Response: Now is the time when the hand reaches forth to pluck.
Call: Now is the time when we struggle with our instincts…
Response: To take beauty for ourselves, or to leave it in its place.
Call: Now is the time when we must remember that all plants are not ours.
Response: We did not plant the forest, and it does not belong to us.
Call: We were not the first beings on this earth.
Response: We have come young and late, and the trees look down upon us.
Call: They groan from the centuries of our meddling.
Response: They grow thorns to protect themselves.
Call: Now is the time when the hawthorn goddess steps forward.
Response: Now is the time when the heartless lady lifts her hand.
Call: Now is the time of great beauty in the world.
Response: Now is the time when Nature protects her beauty.
Call: The hawthorn goddess stabs us to the heart with beauty.
Response: She reminds us of our place in the world.
Call: She reminds us that we do not own this green planet.
Response: She reminds us that our grasping fingers can still bleed.
Call: She makes the hedges that our animals cannot cross.
Response: She sets the boundaries that no man may cross.
Call: She makes our hearts beat faster or slower.
Response: Her berries are sweet, but she protects them.
Call: We must respect her as we respect the Earth….
Response: The Green Man falls before her, heedless and headless.
Call: She is the blade of all trees, and we shed our blood for her.
Response: She is the teeth of Nature, and we give way before her might.

Chant:
Cauldron of Changes
Blossom of Bone
Arc of Eternity
Hole in the Stone
[Pagan Book of Hours]

Calendar of the Sun
7 Lithemonath

Vestalia: Vesta’s Day

Color: Red
Element: Fire
Altar: Today the altar is set up in the kitchen, in front of the stove or fireplace, at the point which is most “hearth”. Before setting it up, everyone pitches in to clean the kitchen thoroughly, and purify it. All halls leading into the kitchen are swept as well, and everyone enters barefoot with cleanly washed feet. Upon a red cloth set a bowl of water, one large red candle, bread baked the night before, and kitchen implements.
Offerings: Promote domestic harmony.
Daily Meal: Breads and baked goods.

Invocation to Vesta

Hail Vesta, Lady of the Central Fire,
Flame of the Hearth
Keeper of the Inner Circle
Faceless One
Eldest of the Olympians
Lady of the Pantry
Whose open hands dispense hospitality
Chimney and cooking fire
Lady of routine and dailiness
To miss your quiet strength
In the rush of our sudden lives
Would be as great a disservice
As forgetting the air we breathe.
Teach us to take our time, Lady.
Teach us of the holiness of step after step
Chore after chore, moving in small circles
Around the hearth of our own beings.

Chant (spoken, not sung):
I circle my hearth from without
And I focus the work of my hands;
I circle my hearth from within
And I focus the work of my heart;
Every work of my hands
Is a victory won;
Every thing that I do
Is another thing done.

(All share bread, and pitch in together to make more, which can be saved or given away.)

[Pagan Book of Hours]

Day 24

For Healing

Healthy, wealthy wise and smart
I place my hand upon my heart.
Renewal flows throughout my veins,
With healing magick, my power sustains.

Source

The Power of Positive Witchcraft
Garden Summerland

Invocation for Vesta

You will need:
A small table covered with white cloth
A statue or picture of Vesta
One large white pillar candle
Fresh violets
A dish of salt
A dish of flour

Place the statue or picture of Vesta near the center-back of the altar. The candle should go directly in front of the statue, and the violets are sprinkled around the candle. The two small dishes of salt and flour are placed center-front.

To begin, take several relaxing breaths and focus on the image of Vesta. Imagine how it might have been to one of her priestesses. When you feel the time is right, light the candle and speak her invocation:

Goddess of the hearth and home
Let your brilliance now be known
The flair of potential does abound
Well within your temple round.
Vestal Virgins dressed in white
Keep your fire burning bright.
As elements of salt and flour
Are offered in this ritual hour.
Let your powers bright and bold
Grace me now from times of old.
Your flame of love I did light
To bring me honor from this night.
I now give all honor to thee
For your blessings.
So Mote It Be

When you have completed the invocation, take some time to reflect on the Goddess. If you have prayers or petitions of your own, make them at this time. Leave the candle to burn for one hour. Daily lighting of the candle will bring Vesta’s blessings to your home and family.

7-9 June

Vestalia, Festival of Vesta

Vestalia is the spirit of ancient Rome, abided in a flame that was kept flickering in the temple of Vesta-the hearth (heart) of the city and the royal palace. The fire was tended by six priestesses, considered to be the “king’s daughters,” who were chosen as children for their nobility and physical perfection. The priestesses or bestial Virgins were held in high regard and lived a life of affluence. However, their high position demanded discipline and compromise; they were required to remain celibate for their 30 years of service.

The festival of Vesta began on June 7. When the temple was opened to women, men were forbidden to enter the temple. Because very little is known of the public or private Vestal rites, we can only speculate as to what took place. However, historians ans do know that at some point, the fire in the temple was ritually ally rekindled and that prayers and offerings were made. In addition to performing all of the sacred rites for the festival, tival, the Vestals undertook other ritual duties. For example, it was their responsibility to make the sacred salt cake (molasses) used in the Vestalia. This required them to fetch water from a sacred spring and bring it back without setting it down along the way. They were also in charge of ritually sweeping the temple clean before it was closed to outsiders on June 15.