Good Day WOTC Family and Friends! iT IS A mURPHY’S laW daY FOR me

UGH… I can’t even type right this morning.

Anywho…I will be getting the regular posts up, but they may not follow the normal sequence of posting because as temperatures soar into triple digits today, I got an email stating that, we will have more rolling brown outs. For those not familiar with what a rolling brown out is let me try to explain. When a lot of extra electricity is being used for say fans and air conditioners the electric company cuts power down in one area and puts it back up only to less it somewhere else. The reason they do this is so the entire City of Ottawa, IL or whatever city or town or village does not overload the power grid and everyone electrical power goes out and stays out until the company can fix transformers and other important stuff.

Yesterday when I came back to finish doing posts it was a yucky time. My computer was going soooo slooow the post was time out meaning I got a message asking if I wanted to wait or reload the page and try again, well words to the effect LOL. After trying to get up just one post for 20 minutes I gave up because I was so dan frustrated that all the post if they went up would be filled with my negative energy and I rather keep you from feeling it. These are times I wish our landlord would have solar power for our home then we’d be off the grid and my computer wouldn’t be finicky.

Well here goes today’s attempts to get posts done. Wish me luck and patience.

Stay safe and cool. Drink extra good for hydration fluids! Check on elder friends, family, and neighbors. If your area has one use a cool station if it is too hot in your home.

Blessings of good health from WOTC to you and yours during this heat wave and always.

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends! along with a PSA

Thanks to rolling brown outs and allergies I didn’t make it back to my computer yesterday to get today’s posts up. As Big Dawg and I have to go deliver court papers this morning before it gets too hot, I am unsure when today’s posts will be finished. All I know is I plan to do them when I get home.

For those with heat index warning please heed them, drink extra water or sports drinks or even vitamin water to stay hydrated if you have to be outside. Stay away from any kind of tea as it will make you urinate more which can dehydrate you quicker. Also, the sugars, real or artificial, in soda hardly do anything to help your hydration level same with coffee and other caffeinated beverages. This biggest dehydrator in these types of temperatures in alcohol in any form including beer.

I apologize for not getting this PSA up when the southern USA was going through their heat wave earlier this month. From the news up here in the Midwest it sounds like y’all are still in recorded breaking high temperatures. I know places all over our beautiful Mother Earth are suffering this year with above average temps thanks to an El Nino.

Stay cool as possible, drink extra water and/or sports drinks, and check on your neighbors who maybe elderly or have young children to make sure everything is ok and they have enough to drink.

Some Humor for Your Day

Remember Monday’s give out what we give in.

Witchcraft/Magickal Correspondence Digest for Monday

 

From Ancient Pathway

Magickal Intentions:
Psychic Sensitivity, Women’s Mysteries, Tides, Waters, Emotional Issues, Agriculture, Animals, Female Fertility, Messages, Theft, Reconcilliations, Voyages, Dreams and Merchandise
Incense:
African Violet
Honeysuckle
Myrtle
Willow
Wormwood
Planet:
Moon
Sign:
Cancer
Angel:
Gabriel
Colors:
Silver
White
Gray
Herbs/Plants:
Night Flowers
Willow Root
Orris Root
Birch
Motherwort
Vervain
White Rose
White Iris
Stones:
Carnelian
Moonstone
Aquamarine
Pearl
Quartz Crystal
Flourite
Geodes

 

Motivational Magick

You can ask the Greek Goddess Aphrodite for help in this spell as She rules over self-acceptance and physical beauty. I think She’s the perfect Deity to help you with your spell to lose weight.

  • 4 cinnamon sticks
  • A length of blue ribbon
  • Piece of dried apple
  • Vanilla oil (or pure extract)

Lay out your supplies and hold your hands over everything. Ask Aphrodite for Her help with these words:

I ask you Aphrodite to bless this ritual

To bring me beauty, strength and love of myself

Help me shed my extra pounds

To be slim as well as healthy and true.

Bundle everything together and wrap ribbon around the charm, leaving enough to let it hang from. Dab a little vanilla oil on it and you’re done.

Now put it somewhere that you’re likely to see it in the kitchen but not out in the open. In a cabinet or in the fridge, hanging by the ribbon (don’t just set it on the shelf). Remember your dedication to lose weight every time you see the charm. Every night before you go to bed, say a little prayer to Aphrodite for resolve the next day.

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!

The start of another work week for some and the end for others. Enjoy Monday it doesn’t have to live up to the stereotype of a bad day. It can be whatever type of day you want it to be good or bad or indifferent.

Mine is going to be a fantastic day – the Sun is shining; Big Dawg and I only have four people to try to serve legal papers to and then the rest of the day will be ours to spend with our fur kids. Only drawback today is grass and corn pollen are very high where we live so unless I want to be down from my allergies again, I can’t take a very long walk in the woods and definitely cannot work in the yard 😣.

I was down all Saturday afternoon and evening, slept 11 hours, which was a good thing for my fibromyalgia to go out of the super flare I was in from lack of sleep, and felt miserable all day. Found out I was allergic to corn pollen as places we had to drive through miles and miles of corn fields left me with an asthma attack. But now that I know about this, I wear a mask or turn on the Jeep’s air conditioning for a bit as we drive through them. Within about 5 minutes in any direction, we go from home we have corn and soybean fields. Don’t get me wrong I love living in a rural area for all the wildlife and wooded areas I just don’t like the allergies that go with it. For every bad in life I always try to find the good in it also. Our physical life needs to be balanced just as our metaphysical and spiritual life needs to be.

Wishing all of you dear Sisters, Brothers, and Friends a wonderful Monday!!

Which Witch Said What?

Fast food with a person holding a fork
Image by Pixabay

What’s your go-to comfort food?

Find the Answer Key at the bottom.

1. Anything chocolate. Chocolate on it, in it; chocolate ribbons throughout it… If it’s chocolate, then that’s my “go-to.”

2. McDonald’s French fries and a Double Cheeseburger

3. Piping hot organic oatmeal with brown sugar and chamomile tea with local honey.

4. Lemon sandwich cookies


And the survey says…?!

**drumroll please**

  • 1. Graphia
  • 2. Lady Beltane
  • 3.Graphia (hey, it’s good for your heart!)
  • 4. Lady Beltane

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!

This is me and proud of it!

I came out of the broom closet about 4 decades ago. I don’t just talk the talk of being a witch/pagan I always try to walk the walk.

Sorry for the missing days but living in a rural area it takes longer to fix things. I will get the missing birthday horoscopes up today along with some of today’s daily and tomorrow’s posts. I am also not going to have specific posting times for today like I usually do because I am playing catch up.

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!

Even though it does not say it in the picture this is an Irish blessing I heard often from my maternal grandma in English and Gaelic. Granted it came about after Christians decided that witches and pagans were someone to torture and kill but the words in Gaelic do not translate to well so this blessing was as close as it could be.

I would like to add this to it:

May only positive energy and the blessing of the Great Mother and Great Father surround you anywhere you go every day.

Some Humor for Your Day

And that’s why I never argue with my wife.

Wife : Don’t forget to pick up kids from school.
Me : It’s Saturday, they’re both upstairs.
Wife : It’s Wednesday and we’ve three kids.

Happy Wednesday! I hope the rest of your week goes well!

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!

I feel I was given this website to not only spread truth about witches/pagans to every country on Mother Earth but to also meet so many interesting, supportive people. Thank you for being part of the WOTC Family or a visiting Friend!

For my Son, William

Medical Bills and Living Expenses for William

You can still help him by sending healing however you do it. Thank you for all the support and everything else you have given us during this scary, rough time in his life. WIlliam has asked to send you her personal thanks and gratitude for helping him get out of the hospital as quick as he did.

I send you and yours blessings of good health, love and a boat load of hugs!

Some Humor for Your Day

I am sorry that once again my insomnia kept me from getting today’s posts up at the regular time. I was up for around 27 hours between very early yesterday morning until I finally feel asleep about 5 AM today. Worry about my son WIlliam kept me up last night as i went into a super fibromyalgia flare again. Stress and my adrenal glands just don’t work well together along with allergies not responding to my normal dose of allergy medicine. Yep, I was and am a train wreck waiting to happen at times and this is one of those times.

With having 5 children, 4 of which have children of their own and a partner. While WIlliam lives alone and has not experienced the ups and downs, joys and heart ache of being a parent or in a long-term relationship yet; he doesn’t quite understand my point of view worrying about him as he is healing from his, to me, horrific injury. In fact, because of my overprotective motherly concern in regard to his, having no cash flow right now due to his injury, granted it was at 2 AM and I should have waited until later to text him, he has asked me not to contact him for a while which put me in tears this morning and as I am typing this.

Maybe some of you can help me understand why a grown child, who just turn 39 years old in June, can’t understand why a mother or father worried about their child no matter how old they are? Or maybe I am overreacting to his situation because of my sleep being messed up and my brain not functioning as well as it should as a result of the lack of sleep? I would really like your point of view as you are further away from the love and worry, I feel for my youngest child. Am I overstepping my boundaries as a parent or not? Thank you very much in advance for your input on this!!

Well time to get posts up for you all today. I will only be doing a few of the regular daily posts so, I can get back to doing the northern hemisphere tomorrow which are the southern hemispheres today posts today. I could not have gotten through this last week if not for your encouragement, love, and support. Thank you for all you do to help me every day!!

Blessings of all positive thing in yours and your family’s lives. Sending each and every one of you that reads this a long-distance hug.

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends!

Going through the last week with my son, my youngest child being in the hospital was a wakeup call for me to remember with faith no matter who the God or Goddess is that a person believes and prays to or how ever a person communicates with the deity of their choosing minor miracles can happen. But something everyone of every faith has to start doing is living back in harmony with Mother Earth and all the beings that inhabit her. By doing this I truly believe instead of countries fighting each other for whatever reason or different mainstream religions trying to get everyone they can to follow their dogma we could live and let live as the saying goes. The more we can set a side difference because of race, color, religion, lifestyle preference the more we would find that people are more alike than we might think they are.  Do we not all bleed red? Do we not all come from a man and woman’s egg and sperm meeting to create a new life? Ask yourself today “How can I make my neighborhood a little more friendly and safer?”

There is truth in the saying, “One person doing something can change the world!” When I took a speech class in college I did my final speech on this exact topic using Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Adolph Hitler as examples. The first want to change the world to make all mankind equal no matter what the color of their skin and did so in a peaceful way. For this he was murder in cold blood. While the later want to change the world so it was completely under his control with his version of the perfect race and unleash violence against many nations. This man either took his own life or was killed by some of those closest to him. So maybe we should ask ourselves who’s way of looking at the world would bring peace across Mother Earth?

Just a couple of things to ponder when you have some free time or are bored at your job. Remember to find peace within yourself before trying to find it with others.

Blessed be and have a spectacular Sunday dear Sisters, Brothers, and Honored Guests!!!

Hail and Well Met WOTC Family and Friends!

I will be back to doing all the regular daily posts and something extra tomorrow plus the northern hemisphere tomorrow posts.

My son is now healing at home since late yesterday afternoon. Thank you all for your support and healing energy that made it possible for him to heal quicker!

Wiccans Practicing Witchcraft

Wiccans Practicing Witchcraft

Ro Longstreet
BellaOnline’s Wicca Editor

You can walk a Wiccan spiritual path without practicing witchcraft. Wicca is a religion centered upon the natural world that involves worship of God and Goddess. It also requires that you live by certain tenets such as the Wiccan Rede (“An harm it none, do what ye will”).

Meanwhile, witchcraft is a set of learnable methods by which you can influence the flow of energy that surrounds you and permeates the universe. As with skills such as growing herbs or meditating, witchcraft can add a deeper layer to your spiritual life, but you do not have to practice witchcraft to worship the God and Goddess in a Wiccan way. Many Wiccans are interested in witchcraft, some are good at it, and others have no interest whatsoever in picking it up.

Within the broad scope of Wicca, witchcraft is only a small part. If you live your life as a Wiccan without practicing witchcraft, you will still have plenty to keep you occupied. You can focus on ritual rather than spellwork. Daily rituals can include morning and evening prayers to God and Goddess, blessing food and drink, and making everyday choices to live in harmony with the earth.

You can observe ceremonies known as esbats to mark the phases of the moon, and sabbats for the passing of the seasons. Milestones in your life such as marriage, birthdays, birth of a child, passage into adulthood, self-dedication to your spiritual path and more can be celebrated with Wiccan ritual.

Much of Wiccan ritual is similar to witchcraft with a focus on altar, tools, candles, herbs, and other accessories. The difference is that you would not be raising, focusing, and directing energy, as in spellwork. Rather, your ceremony communicates devotion to God and Goddess. If you were to compare an act of witchcraft to a religious ritual, the two would feel very different. Casting a spell involves a rising tension and release whereas a ceremony is more a gentle outpouring of gratitude.

If you did want to practice witchcraft as part of your Wiccan spiritual path, it can deepen your understanding of the natural world that surrounds you. This is similar to how growing your own herbs can put you in touch with the agricultural cycles of life. If you learn to cast spells, it will teach you about the ebb and flow of the energy that fills the universe – and your own place within the tide pool of that vast ocean.

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Greetings Everyone an Update on My Son

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” —Agatha Christie

I am sorry yesterday’s posts were not done and that today’s there are only a few. I just do not have the energy to do more. I will do Saturday’s regular posts tomorrow. As I have told you before when my stress level is high my fibromyalgia symptoms go off the chart of 1 – 10. So, all I can do is what I feel up to doing and can concentrate on. With what happened to my son it made me take a look at what is most important to me in many areas of my life including all things related to WOTC. I no longer care as much what amount I make monthly from the website so, I will be combining some posts again and taking some out. This is because I know how frustrating it can be to get a bunch of emails from the same place or website every day. I am cutting down the posts to just 6 or 7 a day for 12 to 15 daily. I hope this is good news for you.

My son is doing better this morning. The suction machine on his chest tube has been removed as the doctor says the hole in his lung has closed. In a few hours he will have an x-ray to confirm this. Willam says they will decide what is happening with him after the x-ray. He broke the 4th through 8th rib on his right side lifting a ladder onto a roof while balancing on another ladder for his job. The doctor said the punctured lung probably happened when he collapsed in pain after coming back down the ladder. He felt his ribs break. This has been this mother’s worse nightmare for any of my 5 children or 4 in-law children or 10 grandchildren.

He’s my youngest child so I still see him at times like this as a 6 year old with a cut just under his eye coming into the emergency room on a stretcher because he had to show a girl in his class how to hit the ball off a t-ball stand during gym class. That was the scariest moment in his life up until age 39 when this happened with his ribs and lung.

I thank you all for your continuing support and however you are sending healing to my son. You are helping him to recover more quickly than the medical professionals thought he would!! 🙂🧡🙏🌛🌕🌜🕯

July 14, 2023 Moon’s Current Phase and Northern Hemisphere Planetary Positions

Moon’s Current Phase

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.

From MoonGiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase. This phase is best viewed just before the sunrise in the western sky. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the July 2023 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on July 14 has an illumination of 10%. 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 July 14 the Moon is 26.51 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: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 10%
Moon Age: 26.51 days
Moon Angle: 0.51
Moon Distance: 392,311.46 km
Sun Angle: 0.52
Sun Distance: 152,066,242.47 km

Useful Moon Resources

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.

If you need to calculate the planetary positions in either hemisphere you can use this for a specific use and time in your local time zone, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link  

For Your Local Time and Date

 Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

Northwestern Hemisphere

This local time is in Los Angeles, California, USA

July 14, 2023
11:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:22 Cancer 15
Moon:20 Gemini 39
Mercury:07 Leo 14
Venus:27 Leo 24
Mars:02 Virgo 44
Jupiter:11 Taurus 31
Saturn:06 Pisces 37 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 15
Neptune:27 Pisces 38 Rx
Pluto:29 Capricorn 18 Rx

True Lunar Node:00 Taurus 34 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Aries 53 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):21 Leo 00

Chiron:19 Aries 56
Ceres:06 Libra 41
Pallas:02 Virgo 08
Juno:12 Cancer 43
Vesta:09 Gemini 04

Eris:25 Aries 15

Fire:6
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:4
Cardinal:7
Fixed:6
Mutable:6

Northern Hemisphere

This local time is in Chicago, Illinois, USA

July 14, 2023
09:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:22 Cancer 10
Moon:19 Gemini 37
Mercury:07 Leo 04
Venus:27 Leo 23
Mars:02 Virgo 40
Jupiter:11 Taurus 31
Saturn:06 Pisces 37 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 15
Neptune:27 Pisces 38 Rx
Pluto:29 Capricorn 18 Rx

True Lunar Node:00 Taurus 35 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Aries 53 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):20 Leo 59

Chiron:19 Aries 56
Ceres:06 Libra 39
Pallas:02 Virgo 05
Juno:12 Cancer 41
Vesta:09 Gemini 02

Eris:25 Aries 15

Fire:6
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:4
Cardinal:7
Fixed:6
Mutable:6

Northeastern Hemisphere

This local time is in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

14 July 2023
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:21 Cancer 54
Moon:16 Gemini 00
Mercury:06 Leo 32
Venus:27 Leo 18
Mars:02 Virgo 30
Jupiter:11 Taurus 28
Saturn:06 Pisces 38 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 14
Neptune:27 Pisces 38 Rx
Pluto:29 Capricorn 18 Rx

True Lunar Node:00 Taurus 37 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Aries 54 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):20 Leo 57

Chiron:19 Aries 56
Ceres:06 Libra 34
Pallas:01 Virgo 58
Juno:12 Cancer 31
Vesta:08 Gemini 55

Eris:25 Aries 15

Fire:6
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:4
Cardinal:7
Fixed:6
Mutable:6