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November 24, 2024 Current Moon Phase for the Northern Hemispheres

Source: nineplanets.org

The current moon phase for November 25th, 2024 is the Waning Crescent phase.

On this day, the moon is 23.33 days old and 31.15% illuminated with a tilt of -25.339°. The approximate distance from Earth to the moon is 404,129.53 km and the moon sign is Virgo.

The Moon phase for November 25th, 2024 is a Waning Crescent phase. This is the phase where the moon is less than 50% illuminated but has not yet reached 0% illumination (which would be a New Moon).

In this part of the moon cycle, it is getting closer and closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing earth with a decreasingly thin crescent being illuminated.

The waning (shrinking) crescement Moon will rise at around midnight, transit the meridian after sunrise, before setting after noon. This phase is best viewed 1-2 hours before sunrise and is a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the illuminated crescent you can see the craters and mountains of the moon casting long shadows.

The Waxing Gibbous phase, like all moon phases, will last for just over 7 days. The actual length will vary because of the elliptical shaped orbit of the moon. During this Waxing Gibbous phase the moon will rise in the east in the mid- to late-afternoon and will be high in the eastern sky at sunset.

Assuming it’s a clear night, the Waxing Gibbous moon will then be visible through most of the night before setting just before sunrise.

Fun fact: the illuminated side of a waning crescent moon is always pointed eastwards, towards the sunrise.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Crescent

Moon age: 23.33 days

Moon illumination: 31.15%

Moon tilt: -25.339°

Moon angle: 0.49

Moon distance: 404,129.53 km

Moon sign: Virgo

The Summerland and the Afterlife: The Beauty of Rest and Rebirth

The concept of an afterlife has captivated human imagination for centuries, offering solace, hope, and a glimpse into what lies beyond our earthly existence. In Wicca, the idea of the afterlife is embodied in the beautiful concept known as The Summerland. Join us as we explore these beliefs and their significance in Wiccan spirituality.

What Is The Summerland?

The Summerland is the Wiccan term for the afterlife, described as a peaceful and joyous place where souls go to rest and rejuvenate before being reincarnated into their next life. It is said to be a realm that exists in parallel with our physical world, accessible only through death or astral projection.

History of the Summerland

In Wiccan belief, The Summerland symbolizes a time of transition, where the soul can bask in the divine energy of nature and experience spiritual growth.

This realm holds immense significance for many Neopagans such as practitioners of types of Wicca and other traditions of witchcraft. It serves as a reminder that life is a cyclic journey, where death is not an end but a part of the eternal dance of creation and rebirth. The Summerland represents the eternal return of life, a place where souls find solace and prepare for their next adventure on the wheel of life.

Comparisons to Other Afterlife Beliefs

Common Misconceptions

Who Can Go to The Summerland?

Honoring The Dead in Wiccan Tradition

Deities of the Afterlife

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Some Humor for Your Day

May the rest of your day be filled with relaxation, love, and all positive things!

Until we meet again blessed be.

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or herbs or flowers or anything pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it. If you want a friend to talk to please email me and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Some Humor for Your Day

May the rest of your day be filled with relaxation, love, and all positive things!

Until we meet again blessed be.

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or herbs or flowers or anything pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it. Remember I am here as friend if you ever need or want to talk with me.

Spell For Sunday – Honey Sweetening Jar Spell Made Easy: MAGIC for Kindness

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Honey Sweetening Jar Spell Made Easy: MAGIC for Kindness

Sweetening spells use the power of Kitchen Magic to transform the qualities of certain ingredients 🍯 into a matching frequency. Sugar, honey, candy and chocolates are all good sweetening agents and powerful ingredients in this type of spells.

This is a sweetening jar with honey that will help you improve the relationship with your boss, a coworker, or someone in your family, in an easy and effective way. If you’re looking for a 💑 Honey Jar Spell to return a lover click here.

⚠️ A sweetening ritual is a spiritual exercise that may involve manipulating someone else’s behavior. Playing with other people’s free will is not always acceptable for Wiccans and other types of Witches. If you are a Beginner, make sure you are familiar with these basic Rules of Spellcasting.

Honey Sweetening Jar Spell Made Easy

Recipe by Francisco Huanaco

Learn how to make a honey jar spell with easy ingredients. This witch bottle can act like a boss fix and improve a relationship.

What you’ll need

1 jar with lid

1 pink candle

Honey (if you don’t have honey, use sugar instead)

Paper

Pen or pencil

One of these herbs (fresh or dried): Bay leaf, Lavender, Cinnamon.

How to make a honey jar spell

The jar you use must have a lid. You can use any type of jar, even a bottle, provided it has a lid that seals well.

On the piece of paper, write the person’s full name.

Take a pinch of the herb you chose and sprinkle it on top of the paper. Bay leaf, Lavender and Cinnamon all have purifying and protective qualities.

Fold the paper once towards you and put it inside the jar.

Take a spoonful of honey and add it to the jar. Add another spoonful until it covers the paper entirely. Say the following spell:Sweetening Magic Spell

Seal the jar tightly. Place the pink candle on top of the lid and light it.

Meditate upon the candle flame, visualizing the person sweetening their attitude toward you. Picture this person smiling, being kind, and paying attention to you.

Never let candles burn unattended. If you leave the room, put out the candle and keep burning it once a week or whenever you feel like it. Once the candle is totally out, toss the remains of wax and keep the jar closed, stored in a dark place where nobody will touch it.

Some of the Witchcraft/Magickal Correspondence for Saturday

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Saturday Source: spells8.com

Deities

Saturdays are ruled by Bast, Hecate, Hestia, Hades, and Saturn among others.

Tea

Drink a cup of Black Tea to connect with Saturday’s infallible inspiration. Black tea has a higher rate of theine than other teas, so it is a powerful stimulant. Its rich aroma promotes an awakening of the senses and its fluorine contents can help prevent cavities!¹

Herbs

Thyme, Cypress, Hemp, Ivy, Morning Glory, Patchouli, Myrrh.

Crystals

Sapphire, Black tourmaline, Amethyst.

Saturday Source: smudgemetaphysical.com

Planet: Saturn

Colour: black and deep purple

Plants: pansy, morning glory , cypress 

Stone: obsidian, hematite, or jet, Coral, Hematite, Salt, Lead, Serpentine, Pewter

Herbs: Cypress, Myrrh, Patchouli, Black Poppy seeds, Mullein

Oils: High John oil

Gods/Goddess: Hecate, Saetere, Saturn, Cronos, the Norns, Loki.

Saturday is ruled by Saturn, the planet of time, karma, self-discipline, and systems that are in place to help you live your best life. This is an excellent day to begin breaking a habit, it is the ideal day to clean up any messes, whether physical or energetic, so that you can start your week off on a clean slate.  

This is the day to create plans. To write down goals. To evaluate aspects of your life. To decide what is working and what needs to be altered. If you work a 9 to 5 job then this time is yours and yours alone. You can choose to dedicate a small portion of your day to improving your life. 

Spells and rituals: spirit, communication, meditation, psychic attack or defence, locating lost items or missing persons, self-discipline, life, building, doctrine, protection, freedom, elderly, destroying diseases and pests, crystallization, hidden or obscure matters, limitations, and boundaries.

Solution Saturday spells:

Write a list of what you are grateful for from the week you’ve experienced and attract more of that yummy energy into your life. 

Do a 3 card tarot spread of what area of your life needs re-evaluating, how it’s affecting your life and how can you go about altering it. 

Perform some magical cleansing by sweeping your home and smudging it to dispel the old energy and invite new energy.

Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

So today I wake up again to a cloudy, chilly cold day and all I want to do is curl up on the couch and read a good book, like Alice Worth Series – Heart of the Damn by Lisa Edmonds, with Crystal Moon and Merlin after doing posts instead I have to go with Big Dawg to serve documents….GRRR. I am lucky with my depression that these kinds of days do not make it worse, but my fibromyalgia and arthritis do not agree. My depression gets worse with too many sunny days or in the late spring throughout the summer. Why? Neither I or my doctor can figure it out, so I just deal with it by wearing very dark sunglasses and having black out curtains through our home except the kitchen. I feel the kitchen should always be bright and sunny to bring more energy and love from RA into the heart of our home.

What do you like to do on cloudy, chilly days? If it effects your mood know that while I am not a doctor or any type of therapist I am here if you just want to talk friend to friend. As I am an ordained minister nothing, we talk about will ever go any further than my ears or eyes. Just email me at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and all things positive!

Blessed be.

Some Humor for Your Day

May the rest of your day be filled with relaxation, love, and all positive things!

Until we meet again blessed be.

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or herbs or flowers or anything pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

Seven Rules of Life

Coming in January 2025 WOTC Open Chat Everyone is Welcome to Join us

Merry meet WOTC Family! This is the link to Skype for the WOTC Open Chat meeting room.

WOTC Open Chat Meeting Room

To join me and others for an open witchy or whatever chat you will need to make a Skype account including a name you would like to go by in the chat. Then look for my name Lady Beltane. My avatar is wearing an orange witch outfit holding a cup of tea and reading a book. We will be doing audio-only calls for anonymity for everyone who wants to attend.

Our first get-together will be Sunday, January 19th, starting about 1:00 PM CT in Chicago, Illinois (use this for the time listed when looking for your local time).

Use can use this link to find out what time we are starting locally:

Find your local time

We are using Skype because it is free and I cannot afford to pay for a private chat room somewhere else every month. I have been using Skype for a few years for my coven gatherings and other things. Any questions please put them in the comment section as you might not be the only one with the same or similar question about our open chat or if you prefer email me at ladybeltane@witchcraftsofthecraft.com.

 

Some Humor for Your Day

May the rest of your day be filled with relaxation, love, and all positive things!

Until we meet again blessed be.

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or herbs or flowers or anything pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.

Let’s Have Some Fun for Our Inner Child

 

Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

This quote hit home for me. Part of my problem over the last few months has been depression and not wanting to really face my grief from Starbabie and Cleo crossing the rainbow bridge. It is hard to lose a life and magickal companion when you multiply it by two it is even harder. Now that I am letting myself grieve and not pushing memories of them a side I am slowly coming out of my deep depression. The bigger breaks between some posts is because I also have not been taking breaks to move around away from my computer to walk around and stretch like I should which effects my fibromyalgia and not moving around sometimes during posting is adding to my flares being worse.

I won’t apologize for allowing my mental and physical health effect my work on here because it is what it is. I will hope you can understand where I have been and where I am going now.

I thank you all for your continuous support, love, and not giving up on read what I have been posting or not posting. I am sharing this so others going through a rough time know they are not alone even in their darkest times. I am here to “listen” if you want to talk or vent or scream or just whatever you may need. I am not here to replace a doctor or therapist or any other health care professional I am just here as a person willing to be there for you no matter what is going on in your life. Let me add I am an ordained minister so anything you want to share with me will never go any further than my eyes or ears. If you want to email me, send it to ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. If you want to do a Skype audio call email me a couple of times and days that work for you and I will let you know which one fits better for me. Please remember I live in the Central Time zone in the USA when picking a time, I will, if at all possible, stay up late into the night or get up in the wee hours of the morning if that’s what works best for you. To me support and an ear to listen works both ways so I am not just saying I will be there for you I totally mean I will be there for you if you just reach out to me.

Much love, happiness, laughter, joy, and all things positive from me to each of you!

Blessed be.

Spell For Monday – Mirror Glamour Spell to Change Your Appearance

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Mirror Glamour Spell to Change Your Appearance

Best performed: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during the Waxing or Full Moon

Spell Ingredients

1 Small Mirror, best if decorated with a silver frame or handle

1 Palo Santo Stick

1 Red Candle, to add power to the spell

1 Rose Quartz, plus more to decorate

Micellar Water

Cotton ball or cotton pad

Any Jewelry or makeup you plan to wear

Spell Directions

  1. Cleanse: Use the Palo Santo to cleanse your sacred space and all items for this glamour ritual! (PSST: This spell can be done anywhere, your vanity, your bathroom, or in your magickal space.)
  2. Cast: Cast your magickal circle to seal in the energies of your sacred space.
  3. Decorate: Decorate your space with your mirror and extra rose quartz. (You can place crystals in places that feel right on your altar/counter OR you can create a beauty illusion crystal grid.)
  4. Prep/Create Glamour Potion: Add one rose quartz to your micellar water. Say: “Pasithea, Aphrodite, see my wishes shine through brightly.”
  5. The Spell: Hold the mirror in your recessive hand, the hand that receives.
    1. Look at your face, specifically at the part that you want to change. Say: “My face (or specific part of you) seen only to me. I create the canvas for others to see.”
    2. Still looking at your face, dip your cotton into the micellar water. Enchant the cotton by saying: “Now a canvas, I wipe it clean, Only what I visualize shall be seen.”
    3. Begin wiping the Micellar Glamour Potion over your full face, being sure to pay special attention to the the area you want to change. As you wipe, allow your vision to go cloudy, like you would when scrying in a black mirror.
    4. Look into the mirror and see exactly what you want others to see. Be sure to see the rest of your face in tact as well. (I usually go for a folded eyelid flap above my eyes.)
    5. Once you’re satisfied with your visualization, say, “What I see will be seen by all, until I let my glamour fall. And it harm none, so mote it be.”
  6. Close your circle: Place the mirror down, thank Aprhodite and Pasithea and release your circle.
  7. Repeat: Glamours take multiple and repetitive visualizations and energy to keep up. So everytime you pass a mirror, visualize your glamour. People who don’t know you well will see your glamour, and over time, close friends will notice your glamour, and after a long time, the glamour becomes physical.

Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Today

Good whatever time of day you are reading this. Today we start posting times as I complete them rather than starting at 9:00 AM CT. Enjoy yourself as you read new or reposted things I feel are important to update. Most of the posts will be done by me while others will be from Lady Abyss and others. SO here we go…

May your and your family’s lives be filled with love, happiness, laughter, joy, and all things positive!

Blessed be.

Some Humor for Your Day

May the rest of your day be filled with relaxation, love, and all positive things!

Until we meet again blessed be.

If you want to see some information on any tradition of witchcraft or herbs or flowers or anything pertaining to witchcraft, please put it in the comment section or email Lady Carla Beltane at ladybeltane@witchesofthecraft.com. I will try to find some information to post about it.