Category: Daily Posts

December 14 and 15, 2024 Current Moon Phase for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else was born.

Source: MoonGiant.com

Northern Hemisphere

January 14, 2024

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Crescent Phase. Best seen in the west after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. This is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. The moon is close to the sun in the sky and mostly dark except for the right edge of the moon which becomes brighter as the days get closer to the next phase which is a First Quarter with a 50% illumination.

Visit the January 2024 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Crescent Phase

The Waxing Crescent on January 14 has an illumination of 12%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On January 14 the Moon is 3.38 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

Phase Details

Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 12%
Moon Age: 3.38 days
Moon Angle: 0.55
Moon Distance: 363,438.09 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,143,887.40 km

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Southern Hemisphere

15 January 2024

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Crescent Phase. Best seen in the west after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. This is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. The moon is close to the sun in the sky and mostly dark except for the right edge of the moon which becomes brighter as the days get closer to the next phase which is a First Quarter with a 50% illumination.

Visit the January 2024 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Crescent Phase

The Waxing Crescent on January 15 has an illumination of 21%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On January 15 the Moon is 4.5 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

Phase Details

Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 21%
Moon Age: 4.50 days
Moon Angle: 0.55
Moon Distance: 363,458.21 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,152,646.57 km

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Divination Journal

Tarot Card

Source: tarotx.net

High Priestess – Major Arcana

Animal Spirit Guide or Helper

Source: uniguide.com

Hummingbird

The hummingbird symbolizes joy, healing, good luck, messages from spirits, and other special qualities. It’s no surprise that hummingbird symbolism and meaning are important to people around the world. Just as the hummingbird spirit animal is a sacred totem for many. While they are tiny beings, hummingbirds pack a lot of powerful, positive energy.

In this post, you’ll find a detailed guide on hummingbird symbolism, spiritual meanings, and cultural mythology. Plus, you’ll learn more about what hummingbird encounters may mean in your life.


Rune

Source: therunesite.com

Ior

Sound: “io” as in “helios”
Stands for: The World Serpent
Casting meaning: Ior symbolizes dual natures, evident in the amphibious habits of many water beasts (like the World Serpent). It also signifies the unavoidable hardships in life that we can do nothing about, but should still not worry about.

Witch’s Rune

Source: otherworldlyoracle.com

Trinity

Triple goddess, life/death/rebirth, trinity, love – romance

Some people read this witches rune as a flower – new life, birth, fertility, love. I tend to read it more like the triquetra – life/death/rebirth cycles, triple goddess, etc. It’s completely up to you how YOU interpret these!

Ogham

Source: druidogham.wordpress.com

Ruis

Regret, pride, shame, embarrassment, learning from experience, resolution

Tree: Elder (Sambucus spp.)

Letter: R

Shame isn’t all bad and does not deserve a uniformly awful reputation. Without shame and the fear of being shamed, every human child would be demonically bratty. Shame is a limit that informs us to keep our own ego in check. It is often about considering others. Having shame about one’s own past behavior is motivation to avoid shameful behaviors such as cheating and stealing.

Shame is an emotion that demands confrontation. All too often, people run away from what shames them, attempt to excuse themselves from wrongful or immoral behavior because they’re too cowardly to face what they have done or to admit their responsibility in causing their own misfortunes or the misfortune of others. Ruis indicates a willingness to face one’s own shame and to do with shame what it was meant for, and that is to use shame of the past to build oneself into a better person for the present and future. Ashamed of something you did? How can you make yourself into the type of person who would never even think of doing something like that? Overcome being the type of person who would engage in the shameful behavior and you become the master of it; you won’t have the remotest chance of repeating such a mistake. Did you become embarrassed because you did something you now understand to be greedy? Then learn to balance thriftiness with generosity. Adjust to the circumstance rather than overreacting to it. Are you ashamed about cheating on a boyfriend/girlfriend or spouse? Become a person who would never cheat on your boyfriend/girlfriend or spouse regardless of conditions, which could mean an assortment of outcomes: sticking to a resolution of no cheating and staying together, admitting one’s sexual preferences and going with the flow, changing the person you are with, or being single for a long time.

Because humans tend to remember negative experiences more easily than positive ones, it’s important when you draw Ruis to acknowledge the things you are not ashamed of about yourself. For every bad or shameful thing you’ve done, remember there are a thousand shameful things you avoided. Maybe it is time to appreciate the places you could have gone horribly wrong and did not.

I Ching

Source: psychic-revelation.com

Hexagram Ten/10

Name: Lu.

Keyphrase: Correct conduct.

Formed By The Trigrams: Heaven over Lake.

Imagery: The sky over a lake.

General: A successful journey can be assured if one careful step at a time is taken.

Love: Goodwill is the key to solving any relationship issues.

Business: Achieving success within business is best accomplished treating others with courtesy and respect.

Personal: Focus on ridding yourself of any feelings of envy or jealousy.

Overview: Lu relates to the need to develop your social skills and to make sure that they are sincere and not insincere. It indicates a need to make sure that jealousy or envy are not present within your life and if they are, to take steps to resolve them. Lu is all about inequality and the need to avoid it.

Numerology

Source: numerology.com

Three

The optimistic number 3, communication, connection, and unbridled creativity are the opportunities in store.

Definition

The 3 has a tendency to thrive in an upbeat and engaging atmosphere. Its energy is youthful and positive and it has an incredible zest for life. It dances from one enjoyable experience to the next, eager to interact with others along the way. The prized skill of the number 3 is communication and it uses this talent to build a wide and interesting circle of friends, lovers, and kindred spirits.

The 3 is highly original and embraces unique thinking and creative expression. This number’s artistic, curious nature allows it to convey abstract ideas and find solutions others may miss. A child at heart, the number 3 never misses a chance to have fun, engage with others, and express all the love and joy it embodies.

Strengths …

Weaknesses…

Personality Traits …

Angel Number

Source: Angel-Numbers.com

Ten

Higher powers are guiding you through your thoughts a ideas. You may doubt how they come to you but don’t worry and trust your intuition. Remain positive and accept this guidance, it will lead to good things.

A Thought for Today

Sorry I haven’t been doing tomorrow posts. I’m a little rough around the edges right now. Starting this pass Tuesday, I have been wearing a nicotine patch to help me to quit smoking cigarettes. While it is going well, I don’t feel like totally like myself as I am also changing my diet and exercising more. It also is a little hard to concentrate on what I am doing at any given time…lol. Why all these major changes in my life at once? My last blood tests show my cholesterol is so high the doctor put me and a second medication to try to help lower it. Making me at a very high risk of a stroke which I definitely don’t want. I want to dance at all 10 of my grandchildren’s weddings and welcome great-grandchildren into our family and introduce them to their ancestors through a Wiccianing. I will do the best I can on posting but no guarantees I will post daily right now as I don’t like to post when my feeling physical and metaphysical are not in a positive state of mind. Everything I am changing will also help me not to have so many fibromyalgia flares according to the doctors. So, wish me luck on getting the cholesterol down and my body in better shape again.

Some of the Witchcraft/Magickal Correspondence for Wednesday

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Wednesday’s Correspondences



Be bold and daring today! Expand your knowledge of the Craft by working with the planetary energies of Mercury on this multifaceted day of the week. Consider the Greco-Roman gods Mercury and Hermes and all of the many lessons they have for you. Embrace change and movement, and work on your communication techniques. Conjure up a little good luck for yourself with that Mercury dime spell. Call on Athena to inspire you to try magickal arts and crafts and to be more creative in your own spellwork and witchery.
Meditate on Odin and see what you can discover about him. I wonder what sort of fabulous and fascinating magickal wisdom you will uncover? Odin is a shaman, after all; he may appear in many guises and faces. I guarantee that he will make you laugh at yourself before he is through with you, but you will learn. It’s up to you what you do with that knowledge. Will you let it shapeshift into wisdom?
Wednesday is the wild and wily day of the week, so try to go with the flow; don’t fight the quirky energies of the day. Most importantly, follow your heart, and always keep a good sense of humor, because of Wednesdays you will really need it.
 
Source
Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

A Thought for Today

I think and feel it would be so nice to start a morning out like this. Gathering with friends to make offering to whichever Goddess or God you feel inclined to honor.

If you could pick as smaller circle four or say even up to twelve other like minded people to go on a retreat with to get closer to being in harmony with the unsullied world around us and to honor Goddesses, Gods, and other beings that try to keep nature in the wild pure…Who would you pick?

This is not a question to answer here. For me, it is a question I ponder often and usually come up with twelve others and myself to go on a trip like this. Those currently in my coven always come to mind, but the other six evolve and change over time. As I evolve, my priorities in life change, and the people close to me change, so do who I would want to be with.

So, this is just a question to ponder. I think for everyone, whether they follow The Old Ways, Neo-Paganism, or some other spiritual path.

2024 Yearly Calendar for All Moon Phase Calendar – Printable

A Thought for Today

Yep, I am still at my computer making sure all the daily and birthday plus the northern and southern hemisphere’s tomorrow current moon phases are done through January 2, 2024 are done. At least doing these posts are relaxing me after printing out about 400 pages of paperwork today for various jobs that  Big Dawg has got done. I still have another 408 pages for just one job to do but they can wait for tomorrow. I so deserve to have fun time at the computer! Look for New Year’s Eve some of the witchcraft/magickal correspondences and some spells for New Year’s Eve to be posted tomorrow. I want to make sure you have plenty of time to have everything on hand you may need to pick up if you choose to do them.

I sincerely hope you are being able to relax and have been enjoying your whatever time a day or night it is where you!!

Love and hugs, LCB a.k.a. Lady Carla Beltane

I’d like to thank my reader ED for the LCB nickname so much easier than typing out Lady Carla Beltane all the time so expect to see me using it more in 2024.

I’m Walking 31 Miles in January to Help the American Cancer Society Research

In my mom’s family, all different types of cancer don’t just rum they gallop through family members. I have lost count of how many family members either crossed the veil due to complications of their cancer or because treatment they were receiving to put it in remission. My mom had a rare type of anal cancer, which had been in remission for 17 or 18 years when she crossed the veil due to 2 brain surgeries because of a bleed in her brain from a fall. She is one of very, very few family members who only had to deal with one type of cancer, and thankfully, no type of cancer came back.

There are many, many families dealing with cancer of one kind or another from babies to grandparents. So, my story isn’t unique.

You can use the link below to donate towards my goal to raise $200.00 USD. Which will help me stick to reaching my goal of 31 miles. Or use it to jump to where you can join me in support of cancer patients via research for better treatments or possibly, some day, a cure for it.

https://www.facebook.com/donate/682398417354466/?fundraiser_source=external_url

A Thought for Today

May this song touch your heart as it does mine.

Angel Flight

“Angel Flights are the U.S. Air Force planes (C-130’s) used to fly home our Fallen Soldiers. Angel Flight is also their call sign. … Now, of course, there are other flights that have an even higher priority, but in reference to other standard military flights, Angel Flights get number 1 priority.” #AngelFlight

I know there are some who read my blog are former military from different countries. I dedicate this post to the fallen among you. As this year comes to a close please remember not only those in the military who gave their lives, men-women-animals, to keep us civilians and the country they fought for safe and for a better way of life. Also remember their families and friends who sacrificed there military hero for us and in many cases the love ones never get over the loss.

Keep in mind too those that come home from a war zone who have seen things no one ever should that they deserve our thanks and support. Just as their families do.

Join me in saluting not only every military person who is now serving but also all those that have served going back centuries.

All first responders living, or dead deserve our thanks and appreciation for all they do too.

A Laugh for Today

I am sorry I did not get posts up for the 24th and 25th. We got invited to my middle son’s in-laws for breakfast on the 24th with getting up late I didn’t have the time to post. We wound up staying overnight to celebrate Santa gifts with my 2 youngest grandsons than dinner and didn’t get home until late last night.

I will back later today for today’s daily and birthday horoscopes along with the current moon phase for the northern hemisphere posts. Then tomorrow’s posts which will include things for December’s full Moon.

Taking 3 days off from Big Dawg’s job was great! But now we have to start catching up on serving papers for big Dawg’s job which means a whole lot of time driving from one location to the next. UGH!😖

A Happy and Joyous Solstice Dear WOTC Family and Friends!!

I was thinking in the middle of the night when all three of our fur kids, Cleo, Star, and Merlin, woke me up for cuddles that you might enjoy knowing how I celebrate the Winter Solstice and Yule. If you would like to use an idea from here, please do.

I’ll start with the Solstice because it’s a little more in depth than our Yule celebration. About 2 minutes before sunset, I light a black 4-inch candle to bid the Holly King a restful slumber and thank him for what he has helped me during this wheel of the year. I place a small black or dark blue piece of material over his statue to symbolize his passing. I mourn with the Triple Goddess for the lost of this consort I meditate and let my mind wander to all I want to let go of and speak it to the candle to burn it away. I sit until the candle has burned down to a small stub usually about 1/2-inch is left I snuff it out so as not to release the negative energy it holds into our home or the universe. I take the small stub of the candle and in the moonlight, I bury it on the west side of our yard as far away from our home as possible with all the negative things I ask Mother Earth it to take all negativity I may still unknowingly be harboring from me for her to renew and reuse however she sees fit to do with the energy.

Then I completely clear my altar and use the small broom I have to sweep away to the west all the negative energy that might have been left after doing spell and ritual since Samhain. I sweep off all the items that had been on my altar also so everything is clean and shiny to welcome the Oak King.

I then set up my altar to welcome the rebirth of the Oak King and to rejoice his rebirth with his mother /consort the Triple Goddess. Now I only have one statue to represent the Holly and the Oak King. When I place this statue back on my altar, I place a white piece of material around it like a swaddled baby to represent the Oak Kings rebirth. About 1 minute before the exact time the Winter Solstice “officially” begins I light a 4-inch white candle to help the birthing of the Oak King and for RA to honor him for bring the Sun back for longer days. After welcoming the Oak King and thanking RA I meditate on the candle speaking to it the goals I have set for myself for the coming calendar year. Once it has burnt down to about a 1/2-inch I blow it out to release my goals to the universe with a chant to please help me achieve them. I bury this on the east side of our yard close to our home in the morning as the first rays of sunlight are showing in the sky. I ask Mother earth to hold my goals so I can revisit the spot I have bury the candle stub in when I feel I may not achieve them.

This year my main goal is to write a short story on Esbats, New Moon one or two but one for every Full Moon, and each Sabbat as the wheel of the year turns. My second goal is to quit smoking cigarettes, eat less red meat and other things high in the bad fats as my cholesterol level is so high, I am on 2 different medications for it and am in very real danger of having a stroke. Will I completely achieve these goals? I’m not sure but if I just break them down into pieces to do each month there is an excellent chance that I will completely achieve my goals for 2024. I actually start the short stories with Yule as I follow the Celtic Tree calendar and tradition that the new year starts on Samhain.

Now for our Yule celebration I fix a nice meal, or we may even go to a favorite restaurant for supper. We come home light our Yule/Christmas tree exchange gifts, riminess about the preceding year which had many real high ups, our legal marriage, the birth of my 10th grandchild and a few very low downs, putting our beloved Dreamer into eternal sleep. Then I get into my favorite pair of pjs, curl about with which ever fur kids want to join me to watch Its a Wonderful Life. Then the fur kids and I will watch The Nightmare Before Christmas which always makes me laugh. Big Dawg goes in the other room and does whatever on his laptop while I binge on movies until it is time to celebrate the rebirth of the Oak King. This may sound pretty simplistic, but it works for us. Big Dawg and most of my children with their families celebrate Christmas. Along with a daughter-in-law who celebrates Hanukkah with my son, who is Christian, and their two boys, this is another home in my family that celebrates 2 different holidays in December and a couple of other times during the year. What this means for me is a lot of family stuff in one month, but I enjoy the diversity of spiritual paths in my family.

Now that this post has gone from a simple few lines to as a friend referred to an email he sent as his “War and Peace” that’s fits this post…ROFL! Thank you Owen Firewolf for this fantastic way to describe long posts!!