Your Daily Horoscopes for Saturday, May 7th

Aries

Business and financial affairs can be in stronger focus today, dear Aries, and you can feel strongly motivated to take charge and make improvements. You have increased influence professionally as well as personally. Money management benefits from a strategic approach – you’re inclined to be thinking in terms of the longview, which helps you to come up with solid ideas for bettering your life. The Sun and Pluto join in a healthy, supportive relationship now, and this is affecting your sectors of money and worth, and of career and reputation. It’s a good day for taking steps towards important long-term changes along financial, business, and career lines. You might be recognized for your work. You have a stronger sense of your most important goals today, and this helps you to concentrate on the best steps to take to get you closer to achieving them.

Taurus

You are likely to feel more confident than usual today, dear Taurus, and others tend to echo this feeling, helping to further boost you up. It’s especially easy to find backers or supporters – people tend to turn to you as a leader. Bonding can occur today, rather subtly. You might enjoy a brand new perspective about a relationship that you never imagined before. Good energy is with you for enjoying relationships, particularly with family, children, and lovers, and for working on resolving problems or making positive changes. This morning, the Sun in your sign is supported by ambitious Pluto, and there can be good news and recognition related to school, learning, travel, and legal matters. Your belief systems, morals, and outlook are changing and growing, and today you may be especially tuned in to the desire to make improvements.

Gemini

Supporting others lifts your own spirits today, dear Gemini. As well, this can be an important time for working on dealing with matters from the past that are interfering with the present. A harmonious connection between the Sun and Pluto facilitates self-honesty, clearer goals, and heightened perception. While there may be benefits coming from taxes, insurance, and support through others, much of the energy today is strong for getting yourself together from the inside out. If you need to quit a bad habit, you may get the motivation and gumption to do so right now. Your instincts are generally serving you well. The Moon moves into your sign midday and you begin to attract more attention. You’re looking for a stronger connection with the world around you on emotional levels, and your own needs and feelings come into stronger focus.

Cancer

Good money or business advice could come today, dear Cancer, so listen attentively not only to people in your life but to news programs and other avenues where you can learn something valuable. You are also in the position to gain new insight into your finances. Romantic feelings and matters can be strong today, and there may be a chance to bond with someone important to you, possibly through honest conversation or a commitment to make positive changes. Willingness to resolve problems will get you everywhere now. There is a desire to grow and improve in our interactions today, and it’s important not to shy away from conflict now. Friends are supportive and your biggest fans right now. Some of you could enjoy a gift or unexpected gain today. Shortly after midday, the Moon moves into a hidden, private sector of your solar chart, signalling a need for more time to yourself or emotional space.

Leo

The morning’s energies are strong for you, dear Leo, and conducive to getting where you want to go. Others tend to support your efforts and put their faith in you, as you are coming across with strength. There may be some help from a higher-up or an associate. Your ambitions are stimulated now, and you can feel more determined than usual to reach your goals, which may be professional, work, or health-related. You could feel especially good about helping others through your services, support, or leadership and guidance. This is a great time to work on making improvements to your work, daily routines, and reputation. Researching new or improved methods for achieving your goals can be very successful now. You’re focusing on making changes that have long-term impact. The Moon moves into your friendship sector just after noon today, and there can be some relaxing of the pressure to perform and decide.

Virgo

Revealing a deeply held belief or a cherished idea with someone today can be refreshing for both you and another, dear Virgo. Your ability to mix the small details with the big picture is strong now and is likely to be appreciated. Be generous and gracious about others’ input, and you’ll be in especially fine form. You may be seeing a matter more clearly now which puts you into an empowered position. You may be embracing a new philosophy or way of seeing the world. This is a time for making changes that run deep. You are less interested in quick fixes and would prefer to turn your attention to bigger things. You may be reworking a creative project in order to make improvements in the long term, and this can be especially successful now. Today is strong for positive moods and a happier outlook.

Libra

Dig a little and you’ll likely uncover something important today, dear Libra, particularly if this is done gently. No pushing, just encouragement – that’s the best approach now. You may be seeking to intensify the level of intimacy and honesty in a close relationship, and this may be achieved by clearing away impediments and blocks – gently! You are at your best today if you’re hanging out with people whose passions, interests, or visions support yours. It’s a good day for feeling that you’re overcoming difficult matters, problems, or attitudes and taking fuller advantage of the good things in life as a result. You naturally gravitate towards people whose visions or passions gel with your own. Financial matters can thrive today, and it’s a strong time for motivation to put a problem or bad habit behind you. The second half of the day is likely to be lighter, although there can be some tensions revolving around differences of opinion.

Scorpio

Your responsible and competent, yet sensitive and protective, personality is shining today, dear Scorpio, as others more readily recognize these wonderful traits in you. It can be easier/more natural than usual to gain respect or to get what you want. You are likely to feel quite supported and reinforced today, particularly for your ideas and insights. This is a good day for seeing ways to improve your career and to advance your professional goals. However, you also stand to gain personally and in your closest relationships. People are appreciating your focus and passion, and you are communicating very persuasively. Believe in your abilities and quietly go about your tasks. Your dedication can be impressive now.

Sagittarius

This is a day for pulling things together and getting things running smoothly, dear Sagittarius. You could find yourself very absorbed in details, quite passionately so, and likely to good end. Stay focused, allow for some flexibility with others, and deal with practical matters. This is a good day for recognizing your priorities on a practical level, with money, and at work, but you might also come to important conclusions about the kind of value you have in others’ eyes. There is a stronger sense of your priorities and you can be especially focused on what you’re doing. Even so, you’re also in fine shape personally. You could feel especially reinforced and uplifted through sharing your beliefs or perspectives. The second half of the day puts social matters more strongly in focus. While you may struggle a little with it at first, it’s a good time to allow someone else to take the stage.

Capricorn

This is a great day for bonding and joint problem solving with others, dear Capricorn, particularly with children, friends, and lovers. Use your personal influence, which is very strong now, wisely and for the good of you and your loved ones. You are seeing your priorities and gravitating towards people and situations that help you advance, express yourself more effectively, and build your confidence. You are very much in your element today – others see you as unique and valuable. There can be good progress with a creative project, romantic relationship, or financial matter. The Moon’s move into your work and health sector just after noon can turn your attention to the routines in your life.

Aquarius

There is a strong desire to make positive, growth-oriented changes today, dear Aquarius, particularly on psychological levels and/or with family and on domestic lives. Some of you could recover a lost item today – the trick now is to look a little deeper than you normally do. There can be important emotional discoveries or a breakthrough in something you’ve been researching. This can also be a good time for connecting more deeply with a partner, or for gaining new understanding of an important person in your life. This can be a strong day for leaving a bad habit behind or making lifestyle changes and adjustments. The Moon moves into your creative sector shortly after noon today, and you could be feeling as if you are coming out of your shell. This is a more playful, fun-focused period of the lunar month.

Pisces

This can be a great day for conversations and connections, dear Pisces, retrograde Mercury aside! While you might often find yourself dabbling and spreading your energy over a variety of endeavors these days, you are likely to cover more ground than you think today. While you might not finalize anything, you’re sure to make progress on a variety of endeavors. You are also especially persuasive now, and you have the ability to work the crowd and team up effectively to accomplish a goal. A friendship or news you read now can alter your perspective on a matter significantly. Right now, you’re especially talented at bringing out the best in others in a coach-like capacity. You have a strong ability to bring out the best in others, and are inclined to devise plans and strategies rather than jump into something impulsively. Energy today is quiet but powerful.

Astrology of Today – May 7, 2016

Summary:

• The Moon is in Taurus until 12:34 PM.
• The Moon is void until 12:34 PM (since 10:10 PM yesterday).
• The Moon is in Gemini from 12:34 PM forward (until Monday, May 9th, at 1:23 PM).
• The Moon is waxing and in its New Moon phase.
• A New Moon occurred yesterday, and a First Quarter Moon will occur on May 13th.
• Mercury is retrograde (Mercury is retrograde from April 28-May 22).
• Mars is retrograde (Mars is retrograde from April 17-June 29).

May 7th

Thargelia

Held on the sacred island of Delos in ancient Greece, the Thargelia honored Apollo and Artemis. This was a festival of prophecy, music, medicine, and poetry. There were processions, offerings of first fruits, and elaborate musical contests. A youth, with both living parents, was chosen to carry an olive branch, entwined with white and purple wool and hung with figs, acorns, and a vessel of wine to the sanctuary of Apollo. This elaborate offering stayed in the shrine until the next Thargelia, at which time it was replaced by a new branch, adorned with fresh fruits and wine.

Correspondences for the Moon in Gemini

Attributes: Creative, moody, positive, changeable, charismatic

Herbs: Dill, fern, licorice, sage, sandalwood, cinquefoil

Stones: Agate, topaz, carnelian

Element: Air

Day: Wednesday

Colors: White, yellow, silver

Planet: Mercury
 

Source

A Spell Crafter’s Compendium
Terri Paajanen

The Waxing Crescent Moon

Magick performed on the waxing crescent moon is very similar to the waxing gibbous moon (they are both in the waxing or increase phase) and indeed you don’t have to pay attention to the distinction between them if you choose not to, but you should be aware that the closer the moon comes to being full, the more powerful it’s increasing potency becomes. This can be useful to know because sometimes we all have the luxury to wait a few days until after the half gibbous moon has passed into the more powerful phase, the waxing gibbous phase. With rituals that require less lunar potency or are the first in a line of several consecutive rituals that lead up to the full moon, you can confidently use this phase of the moon. For example, a healing performed to ease a cold or mild chronic illness can easily be started during the waxing crescent phase of the moon. However, a more serious illness would be better served during the waxing gibbous phase.

 
Ideally, with some minor examples, nearly all magick would be best divided out between the full or new moon, but this is such a short period of time each month, that we delegate certain phases to certain less important tasks. However, remember two things. For very serious illnesses the full (for healing the illness) or black (for banishing the illness) moons are the best choices, but they are not always necessary for more minor problems. Also the time does come sometimes when we have no choice but to do ritual work during incompatible times. In emergency cases, don’t let bad timing stop you. Use other Nature Correspondences or the other types of magick (Mental or Spiritual Magick) to offset your lack of timing.

Source

Occult 100

The Witches Almanac for Saturday, May 7th

Saturday (Saturn): Longevity, exorcism, endings, homes, and houses.

Pilgrimage of St. Nicholas (Italian)

Waxing Moon
The Waxing Moon (from the New Moon to the Full) is the ideal time for magic to draw things toward you.

Moon phase: First Quarter

Moon Sign: Taurus
Taurus: Things begun now last the longest, tend to increase in value, and become hard to alter. Brings out appreciation for beauty and sensory experience.

Moon enters Gemini 12: 35 pm
Gemini: Things begun now are easily changed by outside influence. Time for shortcuts, communication, games, and fun.

Incense: Sage

Color: Black

The Witches Musts for Saturday

Feel the need for a psychic cleansing in the house? Light up some patchouli- or myrrh-scented incense, and wave the smoke around your house or apartment. It will help to break up any lingering negativity or bad feelings. Crumble up a few dried mullein leaves and create a circle around your home, or scatter it across the thresholds, to keep prowlers away.

Burn a few black candles to repel manipulative intentions or unwanted advances. Add a few protective herbs to your dinner such as thyme or basil. Try growing a blooming cyclamen plant in your kitchen to ward the family and to encourage Hecate’s blessings. Grow deep purple and black pansies in window boxes to encourage the planetary vibrations of Saturn. Let ivy grow up the walls of your home for even more bewitching security.

Saturdays are the particular day of the week for protection and for dealing with more serious magickal matters. Go back over the at-a-glance list and see what components you can add to your spells for today for a little more oomph.

Meditate on Hecate to learn her lessons and include some dark goddess wisdom into your Craft. As a Witch, you already know that you have power-the power to effect real change in your life. Working with Hecate can teach you how and when to best use this power for the greater good.

If you want to expand your magickal skills, then start learning how to incorporate all of this information on the days of witchery in a whole new way. This includes the knowledge you already have and the new day-by-day correspondences and witchcraft that were presented in this Book of Shadows. Put your own unique spin on things. Decide what your enchanting specialties are, then apply them to your Craft each and every day with wisdom and style.
 

Source

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

Spellwork Best Done on Saturdays

 Banishings
 Protection
 Bindings
 Lost objects
 Discipline
 Habits
 Freedom
 Obstacles
 Endings
 Spirit communication
 Meditation

Source

A Spell Crafter’s Compendium
Terri Paajanen

Saturday’s Witchery

Saturday is a day filled with opportunities to clean up and clear out. So if you are wondering why Hecate is assigned to this day, take another look at what she symbolizes and the magick that is associated with her. That should answer the question.

Hecate was the oldest form of the Greek Triple Goddess, as she presided over heaven, the underworld, and earth. Crossroads where three roads met were especially sacred to Hecate, earning her the title of Hekate of the Three Ways. It’s interesting to note that even after the worship of other goddesses waned, ancient people still worshiped Hecate as the Queen of the Underworld and the Guardian of the Three-Way Crossroad. It was also believed that if you left her an offering of food there, she would grant you her favors. As Hecate Trivia, her triple images were often displayed at these crossroads, where she was petitioned on the full moon for positive magick and on the dark of the moon for cursing and dark magick.

While this last bit of information sounds a little ominous, keep in mind that Hecate/Hekate was known by many titles and is a shapeshifter. Her appearance could and did change often. As a dark moon goddess, her faces are many. To some she may appear as a old crone, hunched over a smoking cauldron and draped in a midnight cape. To others she may appear as a dark beautiful, mysterious, and mature woman wearing a shimmering crown. To some she may be perceived as a maiden priestess. She was called the “most lovely one,” the Great Goddess of Nature, and the Queen of the World of Spirits. This dark goddess knows her way around the earth and the underworld. All the powers of nature, life, and death are at her command.
 

Source

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

Saturday

The planetary correspondence for Saturday is Saturn. Matters dealing with the public, farming, family ties, legal matters (such as wills and estates), taking care of debts, dealing with lawyers, financing, joint money matters, real estate, older people, banishing or binding negativity, and getting rid of bad habits all fall under the charge of Saturn. It’s easy to see why “Saturday’s child works hard for his living.”

Saturday’s angels are Cassiel, Machatan, Uriel, and Orifiel. Cassiel is the angel of solitudes and tears. He is one of the rulers of the planet Saturn and occasionally appears as the angel of patience. Cassiel links himself to dragon energy. Regarding Machatan, the only information we get is that he works well with Cassiel and is also a power of Saturn. Orifiel is an angel of the wilderness, a ruler of the second hour of the day, and also associated with Saturn.

On Saturday, the hour of sunrise and every eight hours after that are also ruled by Saturn, and that makes these times of the day doubly blessed. These four hours are the strongest four hours for conducting ritual. Check the local newspaper, astrological calendar, or almanac to determine your local sunrise.
 

Source

Gypsy Magic