A Thought for Today

Until tomorrow and all through your lifetime dear sisters, brothers, and honored guests may your life be filled with all things positive! 

I have all of the northern hemisphere’s regular daily posts for tomorrow ready to go. I have the same for the southern hemisphere’s tomorrow. YEAH! I am finally more or less ready to get out of the dark playground in my mind and start living for just today again. The old saying, “If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow you will piss all over today.” I have been straddling today for too long and feel that have been unfair to all of you. I am very grateful to everyone for being supportive, understanding and patient with me not posting as I work through things and illnesses. I will not say my clinical depression and anxiety disorder are totally under control again, but I am working on getting them controlled enough that I am not afraid to leave me home. Yes, I have been staying in my home basically 24/7 unless there is something I have to do that I cannot pawn off onto Lord Beltane. But to leave my home and yard I am picturing myself as a tiny mouse in a maze that no other human can see me in otherwise, I would feel like everyone is staring at me and whispering about me. I truly hope that me writing about my depression and anxiety has reached at least one person to realize they are not alone with how they feel and that I validate their feelings.

September 30 to October 8 Astronomy Picture of the Day List

Click on the date of the astronomy picture of the day you want to see:

2022 October 08: Two Comets in Southern Skies
2022 October 07: In Ganymede’s Shadow
2022 October 06: NGC 4631: The Whale Galaxy
2022 October 05: Expanding Plume from DARTs Impact
2022 October 04: Star Forming Eagle Nebula without Stars
2022 October 03: Jupiters Europa from Spacecraft Juno
2022 October 02: Supernova Cannon Expels Pulsar J0002
2022 October 01: Lunation Matrix
2022 September 30: Equinox Sunrise Around the World

Posts Will be Caught Up Sometime Today

The bruising continues on the back of the broken toe and the ones on either side of it.

First any ideas besides tapeing toes together for a broken, next to little toe, toe on my left foot? We have a beautiful deer family that visits us inn our backyard, across the street, and in the empty lot next door. They are amazing to watch especially the fawns we have watch grow from nursing as mom eats to them now eating along side of her. Well, all but Starbabie, my ESA Un- Chihuahua Chihuahua, love to try to give the deer a hard time so we check to see if they are around mostly when our, Min Pin Cleopatra, big male- German Shepherd/Pit mix- Merlin and big female – German Shepherd/Pit/Rottweiler/ Wolf/Chow mix – Dreamer, fur kids are taken out. I did not see them yesterday and took the two of them out. They spotted them and Dreamer, very unusual forcher to do something like this, lunged as I was coming down the last step where the sidewalk has broken off from the rest of the side walk leaving about an inch or so gap. My shoe came off and my foot turned some how breaking my toe and spraining my knee. Today it my foot and toe are a pretty shade of purple and black, need to look at something good to offset the pain lol, and I cannot walk without using my cane because my balance is off. I found this out the hard way when I got up to take our loving fur kids out and fell back on to the bed. It was funny watching Merlin’s reaction as he turned his head from side to side to try to figure out if I was playing some kind of game. I am elevating it above my hip and icing for 20 minutes every other hour. Getting ready to brew a small thermos of White Williow Bark tea for the pain and a cup of Comfery Leaf to help with the bruising (DO NOT DRINK COMFERY LEAF TEA! IT IS FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY) So any other helpful ideas are greatly appreciated

Now, for the important stuff. Today once again I will be catching up birthday horoscopes and doing today’s Moon phase. I know it is already October 6th or 7th depending on which hemisphere you live in but I am going to finish the monthly posts. I figure better late than not do them at all…Right? Since I will be sitting down as much as possible I am hoping to get tomorrow’s regular posts done for both hemispheres too but please do not need upset if these do not happen until tomorrow.

🤞fingers crossed that I do not have to take anymore time off because I am sick 🤞

Thank you so much to my long, medium, and short term folders for sticking with me while I post sporadically since mid-August. A close friend and mentor use the phrase “Dropping a Love Bomb on everyone reading this.” I think it is very appropriate for me to use it here but tweaked to be my own…

From my heart to yours dear Sisters, Brothers, and Honored Guests…Here is a virtual love bomb filled with love, peace, contentment, and a whole bunch of other positive things!

A Tought for Today

These are words I really need to remember especially now. I have been sleeping around 18 to 19 hours in every 24 since last Saturday and still feel exhausted but I know it is my body trying to heal itself so for now I am ok with sleeping that much.

My biggest problem is the increase in nightmares from a bunch of things including but not limited to fatal car accidents, my mom dad and Sonny sitting up in their coffins to tell me just one more thing, along with other things I do not want to bring into the light of day.

My psychologist has me Journaling about the nightmares ans PTSD not fun but it is helping. I just with I could get the above mentioned people into a nice forest or field or anywhere but their coffins. I talked to relatives and close friends beyond the veil anytime they come to me when I am awake. Why these 3 have to interrupt my sleep I probably will never know…lol

Have a terrific Tuesday dear Sisters, Brothers, and Honored Guests. My your journey in this lifetime be full of all positive energy and things.

UGH I Hate Being Sick

I went to our urgent care. After chest x-rays, covid test, and blood work it turns out I have pneumonia in both lungs. The x-rays show white in about half of each of them. I am now on an antibiotic and prednisone for 10 days. Along with using steaming water with eucalyptus in it to help open my air ways. If it was not for having allergy indeed asthma, fall allergy season where I live is bad because of all the crops being harvested and ragweed is everywhere, I would not use the prednisone. The doctor said because I have a low immune system the left over coughing and shortness of breathe after having covid in mid August with bad environmental allergies did not allow my lungs yo stay clear of bacteria and the financial stress and emotional stress of Sonny’s death combined to cause a perfect storm allowing bacteria into my lungs to become pneumonia.

Hopefully I will start feeling better tomorrow. Today is going to be spent relaxing and sleeping. I could use healing and positive thoughts from all of you please.

May you be blessed with good health and all positive things coming into your life.

Unsure if Posting Today

I woke up with 103⁰F temperature so I am not sure if I will be posting or not today. I am going back to bed after taking cold medicine and Tylenol. If I feel better when I wake up I will do today’s posts. Sorry I just do not understand why I am getting hit with a bad cold already this cold and flu season.

Scientists Studying Earth’s Trees Issue a Stark Warning to Humanity

From soaring coastal redwoods to dinosaur-era Wollemi pines and firs that make the perfect Christmas trees, even our most revered woody plants are in an awful lot of trouble.

But it turns out that losing some species won’t just endanger local forests; it will threaten entire ecosystems, says a new study.

Last year, a global assessment titled State of the World’s Trees found a shocking one-third of all tree species are currently teetering on the edge of existence.

This amounts to about 17,500 unique tree species that are endangered.

That’s more than double the number of all threatened tetrapods (mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles).

Some trees are so rare that only a single known individual remains, like the lonesome palm in Mauritius, Hyophorbe amaricaulis.

In a new paper, the same team of researchers behind the State of the World’s Trees reports issues a “warning to humanity” about the consequences of these losses, backed by 45 other scientists from 20 different countries.

Conservation biologist Malin Rivers from Botanic Gardens Conservation International and colleagues outline the many impacts these losses will have on our economies, livelihoods, and food.

Most of our fruit comes from trees, as do many nuts and medicines, with non-timber products amounting to about US$88 billion worth of trade.

In the developing world, 880 million people rely on firewood for fuel, and 1.6 billion people live within 5 kilometers (3 miles) of a forest, relying on them for food and income.

All up, trees contribute about US$1.3 trillion annually to the global economy, yet…

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2022 September 30

Equinox Sunrise Around the World

Collage Image Copyright: Luca Vanzella

Explanation: A planet-wide collaboration resulted in this remarkable array of sunrise photographs taken around the September 2022 equinox. The images were contributed by 24 photographers, one in each of 24 nautical time zones around the world. Unlike more complicated civil time zone boundaries, the 24 nautical time zones are simply 15 degree longitude bands corresponding to 1 hour steps that span the globe. Start at the upper right for the first to experience a sunrise in the nautical time zone corresponding to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) + 12 hours. In that time zone, the photographer was located in Christchurch, New Zealand. Travel to the west by looking down the column and then moving to the column toward the left for later sunrises as the time zone offset in hours from UTC decreases. Or, you can watch a video of September 2022 equinox sunrises around planet Earth.

Some of the Witchcraft/Magickal Correspondence for Friday

 

Venus/Water/East/West/South/Dawn/Female/Libra/Taurus

Magickal Intentions: Love, Romance, Marriage, Sexual Matters, Physical Beauty, Friendship and Partnerships, Strangers, Heart

Color: aqua, blue, light blue, brown, green, pale green, magenta, peach, pink, rose, white, all pastels

Number: 5, 6

Metal: copper

Charm: green or white garments, scepter

Stone: alexandrite, amethyst, coral, diamond, emerald, jade, jet, black moonstone, peridot, smoky quartz, tiger’s-eye, pink tourmaline

Animal: camel, dove, elephant, goat, horse, pigeon, sparrow

Plant: apple, birch, cherry, clematis, clove, coriander, heather, hemlock, hibiscus, ivy, lotus, moss, myrtle, oats, pepperwort, peppermint, pinecone, quince, raspberry, rose, pink rose, red rose, rose hips, saffron, sage, savin, stephanotis, strawberry, thyme, vanilla, verbena, violet, water lily, yarrow, and all flowers

Incense: ambergris, camphor, mace, musk, myrrh, rose, saffron, sage, sandalwood, sweetgrass, vanilla, violet, all floral scents

Goddess: Aphrodite, Asherah, Baalith, Brigid, Erzulie, Freya (Passionate Queen), Frigg, Gefion, Harbor (Beautiful One), Hestia, Inanna, Ishtar (Lady of Passion and Desire), Lakshmi, Lilith, Mokosh, Nehalennia, Nerthus, Ostara, Pombagira, Sarasvati, Shakti, Shekinah, Sirtur, Al Uzza, Venus (Queen of Pleasure), Vesta

God: Allah, Bacchus, Bes, Cupid, the Dagda, Dionysus, El, Eros (God of Love), Freyr, Frit Ailek, Shukra

Evocation: Agrat Bat Mahalat, Anael, Hagiel, Mokosba, Rasbid, Sachiel, Uriel, Velas

Missing Birthday Horoscopes, Astronomy Picture of the Day and Emails

Well, I am finally back to posting. The regular posts for today will not be done because of catching up the birthday horoscopes and astronomy pictures. Sitting at my desk for 2 hours trying to get things done after not being at it for so long is making back start to hurt so I have to be more like the turtle than the hare with getting back into my routine of sitting at my desk for about 5 to 6 hours a day to bring you the things you enjoy reading. Tomorrow, I hope to be feeling up to posting for September 30th, October 1st. Which are the tomorrow posts for the Northern Hemisphere. Then Saturday I will be posting for October 2nd and 3rd which are the tomorrow posts for both hemispheres.

Thank you, Libra’s, for your patience in being able to read your birthday horoscopes. You can find your birthday horoscope by clicking on the date you want calendar on WOTC’s Homepage.

I am put up one post with the links to all the Astronomy Picture of the Day from September 13th to today instead of a post for each day.

I will be catching up on emails hopefully Saturday.

Thank you all for all the support, comments, and patience while I went through a heavy grieving period with major depression and anxiety problems. I will not say the depression and anxiety are back under my control, but I will say I am better than yesterday. But I know getting back into a regular routine is very important for my mental and emotional health so here I am. As you can tell I am coming ack kind of slowly.

Until we meet again dear sisters, brothers, and honored guests may your life be filled with all things positive! 

September 13 to September 29 Astronomy Picture of the Day

2022 September 29: DART Asteroid Impact from Space
2022 September 28: A Furious Sky over Mount Shasta
2022 September 27: DART: Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos
2022 September 26: All the Water on Planet Earth
2022 September 25: The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
2022 September 24: September Sunrise Shadows
2022 September 23: Ringed Ice Giant Neptune
2022 September 22: NGC 7331 Close Up
2022 September 21: The Horsehead Nebula in Infrared from Hubble
2022 September 20: Star Forming Region NGC 3582 without Stars
2022 September 19: Star Trails and Lightning over the Pyrenees
2022 September 18: Analemma over the Callanish Stones
2022 September 17: Perseverance in Jezero Crater s Delta
2022 September 16: The Tarantula Zone
2022 September 15: Harvest Moon over Sicily
2022 September 14: Waves of the Great Lacerta Nebula
2022 September 13: A Long Snaking Filament on the Sun

I Am Doing Better

Yeah, my professional covid test came back negative. Boo-hiss, so I just have a lousy cold on top of bad allergies. I thank you all for your support, patience, and understanding while I have been depressed because of Sonny’s crossing the veil. I thank you also for you still following WOTC’s website even though I have not posted anything for a short while.

I am planning on catching up all the missed birthday posts on Thursday. Than on Friday do a full daily posting for all the regular posts for both hemispheres. Saturday I plan on getting back to do tomorrow posts for both hemispheres.

May you life be blessed with only positive things.

I Need to Start Making Lemonade

You know the old saying when life gives you lemons make lemon ade? Well I definitely have enough lemons right now to make big vats of it.

Someone came to Sonny’s wake with active covid. I, one of his stepdaughter, one of his daughters and her children plus an Aunt who’s in her 70s or 80s have all tested positive. Who knows how many more people will.

I’m hoping the person who brought it is only a carrier with no symptoms. If it was someone who knew they were positive and came anyway…no words to describe how I’m feeling about that person right now.

I Want to Hide From the World

Besides the fibromyalgia and arthritis I deal with clinical depression, anexity/panic disorder and PTSD from my dad’s death. I know some of you reading deal with the same or similar mental/emotional disorders so I decided to let you know and for me to know we do not have to go through problems physical, mental, and emotional alone.

There are times I need someone to talk to that is not blood family or my psychologist. As I think some of you may feel the same way. I want you to know I am here to listen either through an email, sent to ladybeltane@aol.com Subect – please listen, or through a call via Skype (it can be just a voice call or if you prefer a video call). As an ordained minister I am bond by ethics and my own morality to keep everything between just the person I’m talking to and myself.

Today my anexity is really bad not only because of Sonny’s crossing but also my dad’s in 1970 and my mom’s in 2015. I have endless loops going through my mind of how my dad and died plus their and Sonny’s funerals. I am going to be drinking a lot of valerian/ peppermint tea today to help me get out of my funk.

Why am I posting about mental and emotional health today? Why am I disclosing my disorders? I hope by doing so that I reach at least one person to know they are not alone with their disorders. I feel by my sharing what I am going through daily when I just cannot bring myself to get going to get on the computer and work because I just do not have the energy it takes to do them. I am going to take off from doing regular posts to do some very much needed self-care and mental flossing. I will let you all know how I am feeling each day. When I am ready to do posts knowing they do not have my negative energy in them I will be back.

Thank you for your understanding and support while I am going through this difficult time in my life.

Until we meet again my allergies positive things come into your life..

No Posts Today

I am very sorry. I know I said I would be back with all the regular daily posts today but I do not have the energy or mental capacity to do them. I only got three hours of sleep as my mind was full of thoughts about Sonny, all our children, my four and his eight besides our son, our grandchild and other descendants. When I got woken up this morning by mine and Lord Beltane’s fur daughter Dreamer my pillow was wet from tears shed while I was dreaming. I know dear Sisters, brothers, and honored guests that you understand that grieving is a personal thing and everyone handles it different and through a different time span. I will be back to regular posts I hope tomorrow until than may each of you have positive blessings through out your day.

Thank You for Your Loving Support

Thank you all for your loving and continuous support. All the physical things are done and Sonny’s body has been laid to rest. Over time the emotional part will heal.

I hope to get back to regular posting and answering emails on Friday. I need to get my mind back from the dead to the living but more just have some quite time with Lord Beltane and our fur kids. I am a wreck and totally exhausted from the roller-coaster my emotions have been on this past 8 days.

Until wee meet again blessed be Sisters, Brothers, and Honored Guests.

September 21, 2022 Current Moon 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 Gibbous Phase. This is the first phase after the Full Moon occurs. It lasts roughly 7 days with the Moon’s illumination growing smaller each day until the Moon becomes a Last Quarter Moon with an illumination of 50%. The average Moon rise for this phase is between 9pm and Midnight depending on the age of the phase. The moon rises later and later each night setting after sunrise in the morning. During this phase the Moon can also be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon.

Visit the September 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The 8 Lunar Phases

The Waning Crescent on September 21 has an illumination of 18%. 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 September 21 the Moon is 25.35 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.

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.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 18%
Moon Age: 25.35 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 404,014.69 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 150,168,585.97 km

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