Blessed Be!
More Winter Comments
The time of reaping is at hand. There is a feeling of completion infused into the atmosphere during the Last Quarter Moon. The opportunity opens to recognize how far you’ve come in various parts of your life. This is not a good time for new beginnings, but rather a reflective period suited to evaluating how you have been using your time and what has been accomplished. Issues of authority may arise. This Moon phase supports taking responsibility for actively tying up the loose ends of projects that are already underway.
**Sunday (Sun): Healing, spirituality, success, strength and protection.
Moon Sign: *Libra
**Libra: Favors cooperation, social activities, beautification of surroundings, balance and partnership.
*Waning Moon
**Waning Moon (from the Full Moon to the New): is a time for study, meditation and little magickal work (except magick designed to banish harmful energies).
Moon Enter *Scorpio 4:50 p.m.
**Scorpio: Increases awareness of psychic power. Precipitates psychic crises and ends connection thoroughly. People tend to brood and become secretive.
Moon Phase: Fourth Quarter
Incense: Frankincense
Color: Gold
This is a time to rest, reevaluate and reflect, pulling back into yourself to reconnect with inner sources of strength. Now is not a time to initiate anything new. It’s a phase suited to spending time with friends and getting in touch with the “big picture.” A window of opportunity exists for seeing your life objectively and becoming aware of what is important to you. At this point, what are your dreams and aspirations? What larger goals can you aspire to that will bring vitality and excitement into your life? This is a time for resting and gaining inner strength to prepare for a new cycle.
*Friday (Venus): Love, friendship, reconciliation and beauty.
Moon Sign: *Virgo
*Virgo: Favors accomplishment of details and commands from higher up. Focuses on health, hygiene and daily schedules.
*Waning Moon
*The Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation and little magickal work (except magick designed to banish harmful energies).
Moon enters *Libra 1:35 pm
*Libra: Favors cooperation, social activities, beautification of surroundings, balance, and partnership.
Moon Phase: Fourth Quarter
Incense: Vanilla
Color: Pink
Express your love with this spell tonight.
You will need a phone with voice mail or a phone answering machine.
Tonight call the one you love. Just before you dial the phone number say three times:
“May this message of love touch the heart of my beloved.”
Now, leave a special message of love on the phone machine. Tell him or her your loving thoughts and express your feelings. Also leave romantic instructions as to exactly what you want your lover to do for you tonight, and what you are going to do for him or her. If you have called your own home, make sure your mate isn’t home. Then go home, and watch your lover’s face as he or she listens to your message. Again express your feelings to your lover, faced to face, and enjoy a romantic, loving evening together. If you prefer, you can do this spell with e-mail instead of an answering machine.
Cast this spell to fill yourself with bright star power.
At midnight, look your window or doorway at the stars for a few minutes. Then draw a magick circle and call in the elements. Light a white candle, dedicating it to the stars. Say:
Starlight, Star bright, you are the star I see tonight I wish I may, I wish I might, be forever divine starlight.Now inhale deeply and imagine a burst of starlight filling your lungs. Holding your breath causes the light to expand and move throughout your body. When you exhale, any negative feelings and thoughts are released through your breath.
Imagine you are a star whose light keeps growing brighter and brighter. You are a beacon in the night sky, shining as an example for all to see. You are making every effort to be the person you purport to be. Your ideal and real are continually moving closer to being one.
When you are done, bid farewell to the elements, pull up the circle, and allow the candle to burn down safely.
The time of reaping is at hand. There is a feeling of completion infused into the atmosphere during the Last Quarter Moon. The opportunity opens to recognize how far you’ve come in various parts of your life. This is not a good time for new beginnings, but rather a reflective period suited to evaluating how you have been using your time and what has been accomplished. Issues of authority may arise. This Moon phase supports taking responsibility for actively tying up the loose ends of projects that are already underway.
Thursday (Jupiter): Expansion, money, prosperity and generosity.
Moon Sign: *Virgo
*Virgo: Favors accomplishment of details and commands from higher up. Focuses on health, hygiene, and daily schedules.
*Waning Moon
*The Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation and little magickal work (except magick designed to banish harmful energies).
Incense: Carnation
Moon Phase: Fourth Quarter 10:31 am
Color: Green
More Dream Catcher Comments
This is a tremendous time of transmutation. All of the prior elements are coming together for a final burst of creative output. You have seen a clear view of your own needs and the posture of significant others. Now the accumulation of that input is leading to a deep, core change within you. In this phase, you will naturally be inclined to seek higher guidance so that you can emerge from this transformation successfully. The Disseminting Moon favors sharing what you have learned (and are learning) with others.
*Wednesday (Mercury): The conscious mind, study, travel, divination, and wisdom.
Moon Sign: *Leo
*Leo: Draws emphasis to the self, central ideas or institutions, away from connections with others and other emotional needs. People tend to be melodramatic.
*Waning Moon
*The Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation, and little magickal work (except magick designed to banish harmful energies).
Moon enters *Virgo 6:51 am
*Virgo: Favor accomplishment of details and commands from higher up. Focuses on health, hygiene, and daily schedules.
Moon Phase: Third Quarter
Incense: Marjoram
Color: Brown
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4 Ngetal/Maimakterion
Night of Wild Winds
Colors: Black, white, grey
Element: Air
Altar: Upon cloth of swirling white, grey, and black place incense, fans, pens, and small pieces of paper. All windows in the House should be opened throughout the night.
Offering: Give your wishes to the winds.
Daily Meal: Raw, cold food.
Invocation to the Wild Winds
This is the Night of Wild Winds!
We have opened ourselves to the still cold waters,
And tonight we open ourselves to their counterpart,
The ever-flying bitter winds that rush
Through all things! Open all the windows,
Let them run through the House,
Let them tear through our hair and our heads,
Let them flay us clean of all impurities!
For on the winds ride the souls of our ancestors,
And the spirits of the Air itself!
Listen to their songs, their whispers,
And learn the wisdom they speak.
Spirits of the Air, Powers of the Winds,
Be with us tonight!
Be with us in our beds,
Be with us in our dreams,
Be with us until the dawn!
Hail, Night of Wild Winds!
May we breathe in your inspiration
And may it blow us through to a new day!
Chant:
Spirit of the Wind, carry me,
Spirit of the Wind, carry me home,
Spirit of the Wind, carry me home to myself.
(The incense is carried throughout the house, and all windows are thrown open. They shall stay that way, regardless of cold, until after sunrise the next day.)
This is a tremendous time of transmutation. All of the prior elements are coming together for a final burst of creative output. You have seen a clear view of your own needs and the posture of significant others. Now the accumulation of that input is leading to a deep, core change within you. In this phase, you will naturally be inclined to seek higher guidance so that you can emerge from this transformation successfully. The Disseminting Moon favors sharing what you have learned (and are learning) with others
*Tuesday (Mars): Passion, sex, courage, aggression and protection.
Moon Sign: *Leo
*Leo: Draws emphasis to the self, central ideas or institutions, away from connections with others and other emotional needs. People tend to be melodramatic.
*Waning Moon
*The Waning Moon (from the Full Moon to the New): is a time for study, meditation, a little magickal work (except magick designed to banish harmful energies).
Incense: Basil
Moon Phase: Third Quarter
Color: Red
This is a tremendous time of transmutation. All of the prior elements are coming together for a final burst of creative output. You have seen a clear view of your own needs and the posture of significant others. Now the accumulation of that input is leading to a deep, core change within you. In this phase, you will naturally be inclined to seek higher guidance so that you can emerge from this transformation successfully. The Disseminting Moon favors sharing what you have learned (and are learning) with others
*Monday (Moon): Peace, sleep, healing, compassion, friends, psychic awareness, purification and fertility.
Moon Sign: *Leo
*Leo: Draws emphasis to the self, central ideas or institutions, away from connections with others and other emotional needs. People tend to be melodramatic.
*Waning Moon
*The Waning Moon (from the Full Moon to the New): is a time for study, meditation, a little magickal work (except magick designed to banish harmful energies).
Incense: Clary sage
Moon Phase: Third Quarter
Color: Silver
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Elder Tree Month
Color: Russet
Element: Air
Altar: Upon a russet cloth set three black candles, a cauldron filled with water, a vase filled with elder branches, a cup of dried elderberries, and a knife.
Offerings: Give aid to the elders in the House, and outside.
Daily Meal: Soups and stews, and soft foods.
Ruis Invocation
Call: Hail the month of passing.
Response: For all things pass away.
Call: Hail the month of waning.
Response: For all things must fade and die.
Call: Hail the month of creaking wood.
Response: Hail the month of creaking bones.
Call: Hail the month of the dwindling Sun.
Response: Hail the time of all endings.
Call: For even as we began the year in silence,
Response: So we shall end the year in silence.
Call: For even as we began the year with chill winds of newness,
Response: So we shall end the year with chill winds of darkness.
Call: May the raven croak his warning from the bare branches.
Response: May the deer leave her footprints in the wake of the first snows.
Call: We will surrender ourselves to the darkness.
Response: Yet even with that surrender, we shall not pass away.
Call: For the seed that was grown in the spring still lives.
Response: Its life force is given back to the Earth.
Call: Its life force is given back to the Maker of new life.
Response: And new life shall spring forth in time.
Call: This is the moment of waiting for the end.
Response: This is the moment of bowed heads.
Call: Elder Goddess, teach us to praise loss, death, and the passing of all things.
Response: For from this flux we know your blessings flow.
Chant: In the eye of the Moon
We walk willingly
Into the darkness.
This is a tremendous time of transmutation. All of the prior elements are coming together for a final burst of creative output. You have seen a clear view of your own needs and the posture of significant others. Now the accumulation of that input is leading to a deep, core change within you. In this phase, you will naturally be inclined to seek higher guidance so that you can emerge from this transformation successfully. The Disseminting Moon favors sharing what you have learned (and are learning) with others.
*Sunday (Sun): Healing, spirituality, success, strength and protection.
Moon Sign: *Cancer
*Cancer: Stimulates emotional rapport between people. Pinpoints need, supports growth and nurturance. Tends to domestic concerns.
*Waning Moon
*The Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation and little magickal work (except magick designed to banish harmful energies).
Moon enters *Leo 9:57 pm
*Leo: Draws emphasis to the self, central ideas or institutions, away from connections with others and others emotional needs. People tend to be melodramatic.
Moon Phase: Third Quarter
Incense: Eucalyptus
Color: Yellow
Dark Moon Night
Color: Black
Element: Air
Altar: Upon a black cloth set a single black candle, incense, an iron sickle laid to mimic the direction of the waning moon, a cup of water, a lock of silver hair, and a white bone.
Offerings: Bones. Stones. Menstrual blood. Give something up.
Daily Meal: Soup of some sort, cooked in a cauldron, eaten in silence.
Dark Moon Invocation
At this time, in the dark of the moon,
When the Silver Lady ages
To an old woman in the dark,
Haunting crossroads, working magic,
Stirring her cauldron
Of poison that heals,
Grandmother Moon of sorcery
And wisdom, who sees all
And reveals little to our searching eyes.
Moon of Death, Moon of mystery,
Moon of silence who hides her face,
Let us learn silence from your averted gaze
Let us learn patience from your aging face
Let us feel for the dark places within us
And find our way down your path in the darkness
Which is utter and complete
But not impenetrable.
As darkness wraps us,
So silence heals us.
As darkness finds us,
So silence guides us.
As darkness speaks,
So silence falls.
(The candle is blown out, and all leave in silence. From the beginning of this rite at Hesperis until the dawn, silence will rule in the house. Talking must be done only in whispers, and between no more than two people, and only for that which is necessary. Long meditation is encouraged, and all work must be done quietly if possible. The evening meal should be eaten by candlelight, and only candles may light the house, except for the sake of certain important work.)
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