Fly low so you miss the jet wash from the big airplanes.
Blessed be dear ones.
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Everyone Needs Some Me Time to Relax and Center
We all have days we wish we could just hibernate and hide from everyone. This is when you need to have a special care package ready to go to relax you physically and mentally and recenter yourself spiritually.
I have a small kit made up in advance for when I take this me time. Mine includes a long incense sticks or cones of either sandalwood or jasmine (lavender is also very good for relaxing with), my favorite Celtic music bookmarked on my computer to find it easier, a big handful of my favorite Epsom salts in a Ziploc type bag or other holder, a smudge stick, a bar of scents soap, a black taper and a white taper candle, my favorite lotion, and a robe (type depends on the temperature in my home). I also shut off my cell/mobile phone and anything else that someone could call me on like Skype.
Allow a minimum of 2 hours for yourself to get the benefits you deserve.
I do a smudging in my den and bathroom and also myself. Then get into my usually hot bath with the salts. I soak for a while until I feel my muscles completely relax m(draining cooled water and adding more hot if I feel the need to) than I use one of my scented soaps to wash with (my hair is tied up because I wash it in the sink before getting into my bath or just leave dry, no one says you have to wash your hair just because you take a bath). After getting out of the bath and drying off I rub lotion on every part of my body I can comfortably reach just to feel the wonder of what the deities choose to make us into thousands of years ago.
Then if I feel like it put on my robe and go into my den or bedroom. Depending on my mood whether I stay in the robe or lay down skyclad.
Once in my den or bedroom, I have a small table next to the daybed in my den so the black candle is set on the southwest corner and the white in the northeast. I light the black candle first asking Hades and Persephone to take away all the negative energy, anger, resentment, envy, etc I may still be harboring inside myself. Next, I light the white candle asking Ra and Mother Earth to fill me with love, positive energy and to be grounded. I then light the incense I choose while enjoying the scent of the incense and listening to the music I do a relaxation technique (which I will describe below) and then I let my mind to float free not focusing on any one thought especially if it is a negative one. I usually wind up falling asleep and many times have had messages and/or vision brought to me by my ancestors, guides, some deities. These dreams I write down what I can remember of them when I awaken. The dreaming does not happen every time.
The two most important things to take away from this experience is one does not feel guilty for taking the time to pamper and nurture yourself because we all need to. The other thing is to take a is relaxed, centered mind, body, and spirit from reconnecting them all.
RELATION TECHNIQUE: Starting with your toes and working up the body tighten each muscle as you take as deep a breath as you can then allow the muscle to completely relax as you slowly exhale all the air you took in. This should take you at least 15 to 20 minutes to get all your muscles relaxed and your mind to slow down.
A great place you can get your incense, soap, candles and smudge sticks is Magickal Necessities. Below are the links for the items available:
In case you missed it the first time
Planet Tracker for July 20: Sun in Cancer: Emotional, Protective, Family-Oriented
June 21 – July 22, 2018
Life takes a sentimental turn when the Sun is in Cancer, the zodiac sign associated with home, family, and feelings. Cancer coincides with the Summer Solstice, the official start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This is a time when we’ll all celebrate the joy, light, and blessings that summer brings.
Cancer is ruled by the Moon, the planet of emotions and inner self. This reminds us of the deeply sensitive nature of this sign. When the Sun moves through this sign, we’re encouraged to listen to our feelings and respond to them in a constructive matter.
When the Sun is in Cancer
Life gets a lot more sentimental when the Sun moves into cozy Cancer! Here’s how to make the most of life during this transit:
WHAT TO DO:
Nest. Cancer loves spending time with family and close friends. Cook dinner together, work on a craft project, or cuddle up on the couch with a good movie during this transit.
WHAT TO SAY:
“I love you.” These three little words sound sweetest while the Sun is shining in Cancer and tender emotions are felt universally. If you’ve been waiting to say it to someone, this is your golden opportunity!
WHERE TO GO:
Nowhere. Cancer craves security, so stick close to home and enjoy summertime in your own backyard. Even better, host a big barbecue to make your friends and family feel loved.
WHAT TO WEAR:
Jammies. Cancer loves getting comfy, but if you must get dressed, choose Cancerian colors like white or yellow, and decorate yourself with the Crab’s signature pearls or silver jewelry.
WHAT TO BUY:
A kitten. Not only does the Sun move into Cancer during June, National Cat Month, but Cancer is also the most nurturing sign. Adopt a sweet little kitty and feel the love of being a pet parent.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR:
Mood swings. Cancer is an emotional sign, so while there are many highs during this time, the extra sensitivity you’re feeling may bring on a bad mood — fast. This is why you’d be wise to stay home and cuddle up with your loved ones while the Sun is in Cancer.
WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO:
Intimacy. Sun in Cancer is a beautiful, tender, and sentimental time to enjoy with all your heart. Feel the feelings and love the love — it only gets this sweet once a year.
If you were born with the Sun in Cancer
The Sun in Astrology influences the way we express ourselves and our overall personalities. Having your Sun in Cancer means that you have a need to connect with others on an emotional level. Your tenderness isn’t immediately obvious since your hard outer shell protects your soft internal world.
Your sign is closely connected to the mother and her role as nurturer and protector. A homebody at heart, family and tradition are incredibly important to you. Someone is much more likely to find you spending quiet nights in with your loved ones than out on the town.
As a Water sign, your intuition is off the charts! It’s nearly impossible to get anything past you since you have a special knack for reading people and situations. You often make decisions based on your instinct or gut feelings because they have almost never led you astray.
LOVE:
Emotions run deep with you, and you expect emotional depth and security in your relationships. This doesn’t mean you are one to give your heart away very easily. In fact, it’s only after someone has earned your trust that you allow yourself to fall in love. Your partners soon realize it was worth the wait — you are an intense and passionate lover who gives everything you have to your relationships.
CAREER:
As a Crab, your need for financial security is what drives your ambition. You aren’t one to crave the professional limelight, and yet you manage to be a standout star for your perseverance and ability to handle responsibility with ease. Your shrewd mind and powers of observation help you see the little things that others might miss. If you can avoid getting tangled up in emotion, you will easily climb the ladder of success.
FRIENDSHIP:
You are all about quality, and not quantity, when it comes to those you surround yourself with. While you may limit the number of friends you have, there is no shortage of loyalty and support that you give to them. When people come to you with a problem, not only will you listen, but you’re the first person to offer help. You have a selfless approach to friendship, and a willingness to do anything for them. Your friends probably feel lucky to have someone like you in their life!
WHAT SETS YOU APART:
Nobody makes others feel loved quite like you do, Cancer! Your family and friends mean everything to you, and you’ll go above and beyond to make sure they know how much you care about them.
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Your Cosmic Weather Horoscope for Sunday, July 22
Your Cosmic Weather Horoscope for Sunday, July 22
Jane Lyle, Astrologer
Sunday 22nd July:
Here comes the Sun!
The Sun enters fiery Leo the Lion (and Lioness) – its radiant home sign today. The Sun in Leo is warm, loving, generous, creative and playful. The qualities of the Sun in astrology are magnified here in the Sun’s home sign.
Leo rules the fifth house of the natural zodiac – the house of children, creativity, speculation, and romance. Lurking in Leo’s shadows are bossiness, vanity, and brashness. But Leo rules the heart, and that’s what Sun in Leo asks us all to focus on.
‘Tonight the Super Trouper lights are gonna find me
Shining like the sun
Smiling, having fun
Feeling like a number one’
From Abba’s ’Super Trouper’ lyrics (1980) by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus
Current planet patterns mean that the Sun is crackling with surprises, and the urge for freedom. Between 22nd and 25th July Uranus in early Taurus squares off with the Sun in Leo, symbolising sudden insights, unlikely infatuations, liberation, and brand-new circumstances.
By Friday, 27th July, there’s yet more electrifying energy as the Sun opposes Mars at the spectacular total lunar eclipse. It’s competitive, physical, and potentially aggressive.
So roll with the punches, and hold off on any binding decisions. What July and August’s events and news reveal could mean we need to make important adjustments, or feel free to change our minds more than once.
Your Daily Cosmic Calendar for Friday, July 20
Your Daily Cosmic Calendar for Friday, July 20
Rare insights peak during a 72-degree alignment between Saturn in Capricorn and Neptune in Pisces (6:41am). Any time these two major planets form a favorable sky cycle — in this situation their linking together by a highly-energizing quintile aspect — the physical and spiritual realms develop a temporary bridge of communication. Consider bold ways to enhance your professional stature. Later on you can receive a supreme dose of optimism blended with self-confidence as the moon makes its monthly conjunction with Jupiter in Scorpio (7:30pm) while Mercury parallels Uranus (8:09pm). Take advantage of every opportunity coming your way as this is the best day happening this month.
[Note to readers: All times are now calculated for Pacific Daylight Time. Be sure to adjust all times according to your own local time so the alignments noted above will be exact for your location.]
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Calendar of the Sun for July 20
Calendar of the Sun
Feralia: Day of Purification
Color: White
Element: Air
Altar: On a white cloth put a lit candle, incense, a cup of water, and a bowl of salt.
Offering: Although this day is not a day of total silence, it is a solemn day and talking should be done only when necessary and in quiet tones. Bodies should be thoroughly cleaned during the bathing hour, and then the altar area should be cleaned and purified with all four elements. Each person, upon entering the altar space at the beginning of Sponde should remove their clothing and be naked, and each body should be purified with the four elements and marked with water and salt, at which point they may enrobe again. Chores of the day should concentrate on cleaning and repair.
Daily Meal: Vegan and extremely simple and plain.
Feralia Invocation
Breathe the air into your body
And breathe out again,
And as you breathe out,
Let all grime and corruption
Depart on that breath
(All breathe together for twelve breaths.)
Feel the blood coursing through your body
And imagine it clean
Of anything but what should be there.
Feel the energy coursing through your body
And wash it clean
Of anything that does not belong.
Feel the Earth beneath you,
Remember that She can absorb all
Remember that all rot is her provenance
Draw her energy up into you
And give it back again.
(After this grounding, all breathe together again in a yogic breathing pattern for the next half an hour, after which all will go with water and salt and incense and fire to all rooms in the house and cleanse them. Great care should be taken for the rest of the day not to disturb the energy of the freshly cleaned house.)
In the Sky This Month
In the Sky This Month
July 20: Moon and Jupiter
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, stands just below the Moon this evening and looks like a brilliant star. Binoculars reveal Jupiter’s biggest moons, which look like tiny stars near the planet.
July 21: Two Crosses
The Northern Cross is another name for Cygnus, the swan, which sails high overhead on summer evenings. When we look at Cygnus, we’re looking down the spiral arm that contains our own solar system, so we see many amazing celestial objects.
July 22: Vega
Vega, the fifth-brightest star in the night sky, is enthroned at the top of the sky tonight. The name Vega is from an ancient Arabic name that means “swooping eagle.” Vega is in the constellation Lyra, the harp.
July 23: Mars at Opposition
Mars blazes across the sky this week. It rises around sunset and is in view all night. It is brightest for the year, too. In fact, for the next couple of months it will be the third-brightest object in the night sky, after the Moon and Venus
July 24: Mars and Company
The planet Saturn is the bright star-like point of light just below the Moon at nightfall. Its broad, bright rings are tilted into good view, so they reflect a lot of sunlight, enhancing the giant planet’s luster.
July 25: Martian Opposition
Mars is at opposition this week, passing closer to Earth than it will for many years. It is in the southeast as night falls. It looks like a brilliant orange star, outshining all but the Moon and the planet Venus.
July 26: Lunar Eclipse
The Moon will pass through Earth’s shadow tomorrow, creating an eclipse, although it won’t be visible from the U.S. Our consolation is that the Moon will be close to Mars. It looks like a brilliant orange star, to the lower left of the Moon at nightfall.
An Overview of the Sky, Stars & Planets for July 20
An Overview of the Sky, Stars & Planets for July 20
The Moon spends the day in Scorpio, and while it forms a square to retrograde Mars this morning, stirring up buried frustrations, it harmonizes with Venus and aligns with Jupiter tonight, promoting warm cooperation and goodwill. Retrograde Mars aligns with the South Node of the Moon this morning, and we may be cycling back to a problem or situation that first emerged in early June. We should watch for stubbornly holding onto something that no longer supports our growth.
The Moon-Jupiter alignment tonight also has the effect of magnifying our feelings and attachments, except that we can be exceptionally comfortable with our emotions now. A Mercury-Uranus parallel today promotes exciting ideas. We’re not interested in recycling old ideas now – we are embracing new concepts. Routines may feel particularly stifling today.
Moon in Scorpio
Moon in Scorpio
Intensity is what the Moon in Scorpio is all about. Whether it’s passion, elation, sorrow, or desire, emotions are felt on a deeply personal level. We are motivated by the desire to get to the bottom of things, and we instinctively read between the lines. Superficiality won’t work for us now. The Moon in Scorpio urges us to uncover our own power, and it’s an excellent time to rid ourselves of old fears and limiting habits. It can be an intimate and passionate time. Avoid manipulative tactics, brooding, and suspicion.
The Moon in Scorpio generally favors the following activities: Taxes, accounting, intimacy issues, psychological examinations, research, self-examination, getting rid of old things.
Your Erotic Tarot Card for July 27 is Judgment
Your Personal Daily Erotic Tarot Card
The Judgement
The Judgement card indicates that you’ve had some sexual hang-ups in the past, but you’re working toward getting over them. This is a period of transition, and although you’re doing the work, you may not be getting the exact results you desire. Forgive yourself for past missteps in order to take a sexual step forward today. Being afraid to express your true erotic self can even effect other areas of your life, so getting beyond your sexual inhibitions translates into a happier overall existence.
CELTIC TREE MONTH TINNE HOLLY
CELTIC TREE MONTH TINNE HOLLY
“The Celtic Tree Calendar is a calendar with thirteen lunar divisions. Most contemporary Pagans use fixed dates for each ‘month’, rather than following the waxing and waning lunar cycle. If this was done, eventually the calendar would fall out of sync with the Gregorian year, because some calendar years have 12 full moons and others have 13. The modern tree calendar is based on a concept that each letter in the ancient Celtic alphabet corresponded to a tree.”
July 8th through August 4th marks the Celtic Tree Month of Tinne or Holly. “Although the Oak ruled in the previous month, its counterpart, the Holly, takes over in July. This evergreen plant reminds us all year long about the immortality of nature. The Holly moon was called Tinne, pronounced chihnn-uh, by the Celts, who knew the potent Holly was a symbol of masculine energy and firmness. The ancients used the wood of the Holly in the construction of weapons, but also in protective magic. Hang a sprig of Holly in your house to ensure good luck and safety to your family. Wear as a charm, or make Holly Water by soaking leaves overnight in spring water under a full moon — then use the water as a blessing to sprinkle on people or around the house for protection and cleansing.” — Patti Wigington
“The Holly is best in a fight. He battles and defends himself, defeating enemies, those who wish to destroy him, with his spines. The leaves are soft in summer but in winter, when other greenery is scarce and the evergreen Holly is likely to be attacked by browsing animals, the leaves harden, the spines appear and he is safe. The old name for Holly is Holm, preserved in names such as Holmsdale, Surrey, whose motto is ‘Never wonne, we never shall’. With the coming of Christianity, the Holly became the Holy tree, the tree symbolic of the crown of thorns, so representing the fighting of the soul’s battles that eventually unites this life with the one that follows and, runs parallel.”
“The Holly is male, so symbolizing paternity and fatherhood. With the Ivy and the Mistletoe, the Holly has always been regarded as a potent life symbol, both for his year-long foliage and for his winter fruits. Concealed within the verses of the ‘Song of Amergin’, chanted by a chief Bard as he landed on the shores of Ireland, is the line ‘I am a battle-waging spear’ – the wood of the Holly was used in fashioning spear shafts.”
“What should the qualities of such a shaft be as it is hefted and thrown? The essentials are balance in the hand of the user and directness as it leaves the hand. This quality of directed balance shows that you will be enabled by this card’s guidance to find the strongest argument in your spiritual battle, providing the fight is just and not directed towards aggression and acquistiveness. Also, drawing this card will enable you to find the vigour to fight with balance and unity. Coming after the fertile and central Oak month of the Ogham calendar, this card provides and indication of what lies ahead in the second half of the year. This card can also indicate a lack of direction and balance. Without these attributes, you are not yet equipped to succeed in your present conflicts. You need to know more clearly what you are struggling with and how to combat it correctly in order to win through.”
Today’s message comes from The Celtic Tree Oracle – A System of Divination by Liz and Colin Murray.
Article originally published on Spiritblogger’s Blog
The Energy of Venus
The Energy of Venus
Weekday ruled by Venus: Friday
Stones:
Rose quartz
Moonstone
Pink tourmaline
Peridot
Emerald
Jade
Herbs and Plants:
Pink rose
Ivy
Birch
Heather
Clematis
Sage
Violet
Waterlily
Magickal intentions: Love, romance, marriage, sexual matters, physical beauty, friendship and partnerships, strangers and heart matters.
Moon in Aries
Moon in Aries
We’re motivated by a strong desire to start fresh. A gut instinct to start something new is with us now, as well as the gumption to do so. Our pioneering impulses are strong, and we feel energetic, spontaneous, and enthusiastic. We may also be tactless and impulsive now. Excess energy is best channeled into physical activity.
The Moon in Aries generally favors the following activities: Quick actions that yield immediate results. Undertakings that involve the self and the personality. (Staying power may be lacking). Self-assertion, taking on challenges, beginning short-term projects.
The Witches Almanac for Friday, July 6th
The Witches Almanac for Friday, July 6th
San Fermín begins (Spanish)
Waning Moon
Fourth Quarter 3: 51 am
Moon Sign: Aries
Incense: Orchid
Color: Purple
Friday’s Witchery
Friday’s Witchery
On Friday’s Love magick is a perennial popular topic. However, there is more to this topic than meets the eye. There are many enchanting layers here for us to explore on this day of the week. What about creating a loving home, or producing a loving and nurturing ing family? What about keeping your intimate relationships vital and on track? How about promoting happy, healthy, and enduring friendships? See, there is more to be considered than just the “You shall be mine…” type of fictional love spell. Don’t forget that many of the deities associated with Fridays are also parents. So, yes while this is the day to work on romance, sex, and love spells, there is additional magick to be considered here, which makes Fridays a more well-rounded and bigger opportunity for witchery than many folks ever truly realize. The truest, strongest magick always comes from the heart.
Source
Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan
Friday’s Magick
Friday’s Magick
Magickal Intent:
Lust
Romance
Happiness
Travel
Friends
Beauty
Sexuality
Harmony
Growth
Planet: Venus
Colors: Pink, Aqua, Seafoam
Crystals: Coral, Emerald, Rose Quartz
The Pagan Book of Days for July 6th
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The Pagan Book of Days for July 6th
The Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus (331 – 363 c.e.), known as Julian the Blessed was a learned philospher in his own right and the restorer of the Pagan religion to the Roman Empire.
Source
The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick
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