Lunabar Moon Almanack for Friday, 15 May, 2015

Waning, Crescent Moon Age: 27 ¼ days.
Ascending Node is at 7° Libra.
Moon in 27th degree of the Sign Aries, the Ram;
also in 27th deg. of the Constellation Pisces, the Fishes.
Moonrise: 4:14 morn. Souths: 10:47 morn. Moonset: 5:30 eve.
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Aspects of Aries: Yang, Masculine, Solar, Positive, Diurnal, Fiery, Cardinal, Barren, Horary Eastern, Vernal, Boreal, Commanding, Equinoctial, Feral, Bestial, Animal, Four-footed, Dry, Bitter, Hoarse, Hot.
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Spells and rituals involving the Fire Element should be performed when the Moon is in a Fire Sign: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.
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Current Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
Waning Crescent – occurs when the Moon is partly but less than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight while the illuminated part is decreasing.
Crescent Phase: Keywords for the Crescent phase are: expansion, growth, struggle, opportunity. It is the time in a cycle that you gather the wisdom learned in the new phase and communicate your intention to move forward. Light a candle. Write or read an affirmation. Listen and absorb! Commit to your goal.
Time: From Full Moon to Dark Moon (approx.14 days)
Goddess Aspect: Crone
Associated Goddesses: Cailleach, Banshee, Hecate, Kali, Morrigan
Magickal Attributes: Banishing: Releasing the old, removing unwanted negative energies, wisdom, psychic ability, scrying, reversing circumstances.
Workings on this day are for banishing magick, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity, physical and psychic cleansings.
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Moon Moon, Mother Moon
Lunar Lore
If the moon on a Saturday be new or full,
There always was rain, and there always wull.
– Worcestershire
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Then the domestic dog, to east and west,
Expounds the passions burning in his breast.
The rising moon o’er that enchanted land
Pauses to hear and yearns to understand.
– Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary.”
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The nearer to twelve in the afternoon, the drier the moon.
The nearer to twelve in the forenoon, the wetter the moon.
~Herefordshire.
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Moon in the Lunar Mansion
Batn-Alhut, The Belly of the Fish, also known as
Piscis, The Fish.
Marked by the fix’d Star: Mirach, in Andromeda.
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Next swims the “Southern Fish” which bears a Name
From the South wind, and spreads a feeble Flame.
To him the “Flouds” in spacious windings turn.
~ Thomas Creech’s trans. of Manilius’ “Poeticon Astronomicon”.

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Thursday, 14 May, 2015

Waning, Crescent Moon Age: 26 ¼ days.
Moon On Equator.
Moon in 12th degree of the Sign Aries, the Ram;
also in 12th deg. of the Constellation Pisces, the Fishes.
Moonrise: 3:36 morn. Souths: 9:56 morn. Moonset: 4:21 eve.

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Aspects of Aries: Yang, Masculine, Solar, Positive, Diurnal, Fiery, Cardinal, Barren, Horary Eastern, Vernal, Boreal, Commanding, Equinoctial, Feral, Bestial, Animal, Four-footed, Dry, Bitter, Hoarse, Hot.

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Spells and rituals involving the Fire Element should be performed when the Moon is in a Fire Sign: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.

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Current Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
Waning Crescent – occurs when the Moon is partly but less than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight while the illuminated part is decreasing.
Crescent Phase: Keywords for the Crescent phase are: expansion, growth, struggle, opportunity. It is the time in a cycle that you gather the wisdom learned in the new phase and communicate your intention to move forward. Light a candle. Write or read an affirmation. Listen and absorb! Commit to your goal.
Time: From Full Moon to Dark Moon (approx.14 days)
Goddess Aspect: Crone
Associated Goddesses: Cailleach, Banshee, Hecate, Kali, Morrigan
Magickal Attributes: Banishing: Releasing the old, removing unwanted negative energies, wisdom, psychic ability, scrying, reversing circumstances.
Workings on this day are for banishing magick, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity, physical and psychic cleansings.

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon
Lunar Lore
We see Osiris represented by the moon,
and by an eye at the top of fourteen steps.
These steps symbolize the fourteen days of the waxing moon.
~J. N. Lockyer, in the “Nineteenth Century,” July 1892.

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Moon in the Lunar Mansion
Alfargh Althani, Lower Spout of the Water-bucket,
also known as Hauriens Secundus, The Following Spout.
Marked by the fix’d Star: Algenib, in Pegasus.
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To those stars he soared again.
But they found upon the greensward
Where his struggling hoofs had trod,
Pure and bright a fountain flowing
From the hoofmarks in the sod.
~ Longfellow, “Pegasus in Pound.”

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