
May your day be filled with joy, laughter, and love. Use today to try something new!
Until we meet again dear sisters, brothers, and honored guests may your life be filled with all things positive!

Until we meet again dear sisters, brothers, and honored guests may your life be filled with all things positive!
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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 July 24

Explanation: Many details of Saturn appear clearly in infrared light. Bands of clouds show great structure, including long stretching storms. Also quite striking in infrared is the unusual hexagonal cloud pattern surrounding Saturn‘s North Pole. Each side of the dark hexagon spans roughly the width of our Earth. The hexagon‘s existence was not predicted, and its origin and likely stability remains a topic of research. Saturn’s famous rings circle the planet and cast shadows below the equator. The featured image was taken by the robotic Cassini spacecraft in 2014 in several infrared colors. In 2017 September, the Cassini mission was brought to a dramatic conclusion when the spacecraft was directed to dive into ringed giant.
Explore Your Universe: Random APOD Generator
1534 Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scots
1832 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by Wyoming’s South Pass
1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas
1943 Operation Gomorrah: RAF begins bombing Hamburg (till 3rd August), creating a firestorm and killing 42,600 people
1982 Single “Eye Of The Tiger” by Survivor from “Rocky III” soundtrack starts 6-week run at No. 1 on US charts (Grammy for Best Rock Performance)
2019 Global warming is the fastest in 2,000 years and scientific consensus that humans are the cause is at 99%, according to three major reports published in journals “Nature” and “Nature Geoscience”

1132 Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily
1148 Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade
1411 Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place
1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, rebel against ban on foreign beer
1525 Second attempt to circumnavigate the globe as seven ships departs Corunna headed by García Jofre de Loaísa on orders of King Charles I of Spain for the Spice Islands (only one will make it)
1534 Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scots
1577 Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur

1952 “High Noon”, American Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gary Cooper and Thomas Mitchell, is released
1953 KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
1971 WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1974 “Death Wish”, based on the novel by Brian Garfield, directed by Michael Winner and starring Charles Bronson is released in the US
1978 Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
1998 “Saving Private Ryan“, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Edward Burns and Matt Damon, is released (Academy Awards Best Director 1999)

1917 Trial of Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari begins in Paris for allegedly spying for Germany and thus causing the deaths of 50,000 soldiers
1942 Irving Berlin‘s musical “This Is The Army” premieres in NYC
1965 “Flora, the Red Menace” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 performances
1965 Bob Dylan release “Like a Rolling Stone”
1965 Rock group “The Animals” 1st time in British charts
1967 The Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
1982 “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” closes at E O’Neill NYC after 63 performances
1983 “Mame” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances

1860 Olympics beat St. George, 25-17 at St. Georges Cricket Grounds, Philadelphia in first baseball game played in enclosed field
1893 For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men’s double championship in Chicago
1902 Victor Trumper scores a century for Australia before lunch 4th Test Cricket v England
1904 2nd Tour de France won by Henri Cornet of France
1905 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Laurence Doherty & Reggie Doherty beat Holcombe Ward & Beals Wright 8-10, 6-2, 6-2, 4-6, 8-6 to give British Isles an unassailable 3-0 lead over US (ends 5-0)
1908 American Johnny Hayes wins London Olympic marathon in Games record 2:55:18.4 after Dorando Pietri of Italy disqualified for receiving assistance before the finish line
1909 Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates in a 1-0 victory at Washington Park, Brooklyn
1921 15th Tour de France won by Leon Scieur of Belgium


If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link
To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link
The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America
24 July 2022
03:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
True Lunar Node:19 Taurus 59 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:18 Taurus 42 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):11 Cancer 13
Chiron:16 Aries 25 Rx
Ceres:00 Leo 24
Pallas:09 Gemini 17
Juno:21 Pisces 31
Vesta:05 Pisces 48 Rx
Eris:25 Aries 01 Rx

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa
24 July 2022
10:00 am GMT 12:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
True Lunar Node:19 Taurus 59 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:18 Taurus 42 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):11 Cancer 12
Chiron:16 Aries 25 Rx
Ceres:00 Leo 18
Pallas:09 Gemini 11
Juno:21 Pisces 31
Vesta:05 Pisces 49 Rx
Eris:25 Aries 01 Rx

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
24 July 2022
02:00 am GMT 12:00 PM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 01 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:18 Taurus 43 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):11 Cancer 09
Chiron:16 Aries 26 Rx
Ceres:00 Leo 10
Pallas:09 Gemini 01
Juno:21 Pisces 31
Vesta:05 Pisces 52 Rx
Eris:25 Aries 01 Rx

Until we meet again dear sisters, brothers, and honored guests may your life be filled with all things positive!
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 July 23

Explanation: Have you seen a panorama from another world lately? Assembled from high-resolution scans of the original film frames, this one sweeps across the magnificent desolation of the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility. The images were taken by Neil Armstrong looking out his window of the Eagle Lunar Module shortly after the July 20, 1969 landing. The frame at the far left (AS11-37-5449) is the first picture taken by a person on another world. Toward the south, thruster nozzles can be seen in the foreground on the left, while at the right, the shadow of the Eagle is visible to the west. For scale, the large, shallow crater on the right has a diameter of about 12 meters. Frames taken from the Lunar Module windows about an hour and a half after landing, before walking on the lunar surface, were intended to initially document the landing site in case an early departure was necessary.
1215 Frederick II crowned King of the Romans (King of the Germans) in Aachen
1829 William Austin Burt patents America’s first “typographer” (typewriter)
1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada
1944 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
1995 Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later

636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1148 Crusaders begin siege of Damascus during Second Crusade (abandoned 28 July)
1215 Frederick II crowned King of the Romans (King of the Germans) in Aachen
1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne, France by order of Pope Innocent IV
1298 Rindfleisch (“Beef”) Persecutions – Jewish community in Wurzburg, Germany massacred
1453 Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion
1532 Emperor Charles V and the Schmalkaldic League sign Peace of Nuremberg

1966 Frank Sinatra‘s album “Strangers In The Night” hits #1 on the US charts, (Grammy for Record Of The Year and Best Male Vocal Performance)
1975 Alan Ayckbourn’s “Absent Friends” premieres in London
1981 14th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel
1984 Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America, resigns after Penthouse publishes unauthorized nude photos of her
1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America’s Most Wanted)
1989 Ringo Starr‘s first All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include Joe Walsh, Nils Lofgren, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Clarence Clemons, Dr. John, Billy Preston, and Jim Keltner
1994 American dancer, actor, and director Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke

1961 American opera singer Grace Bumbry becomes the first black singer to perform at the Bayreuth Festival, Germany, she earns 42 curtain calls
1965 The Beatles’ single “Help” is released in the UK
1976 Wings release single “Let ’em In”
1992 Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour, his first with musicians other than the E Street band
1995 “Hamlet” closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 121 performances
2010 One Direction is formed during the X Factor show as Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson join together

1827 1st US swimming school opens (Boston, Massachusetts)
1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms
1868 All England Lawn Tennis Club is founded as The All England Croquet Club; 1877 name changed to The All England Croquet & Lawn Tennis Club
1902 Dutch Excelsior soccer club is established in Rotterdam (Eerste Divisie winners 1973-4, 78-79, 2005-06)
1907 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Norman Brookes beats Herbert Roper Barrett 6-2, 6-0, 6-3 to give Australasia a 3-2 win over British Isles
1921 Edward Gourdin of US sets long jump record at 25′ 2 3/4″
1922 16th Tour de France won by Firmin Lambot of Belgium
1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers


If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link
To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link
The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America
23 July 2022
03:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 02 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:18 Taurus 45 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):11 Cancer 06
Chiron:16 Aries 26 Rx
Ceres:29 Cancer 57
Pallas:08 Gemini 48
Juno:21 Pisces 31
Vesta:05 Pisces 55 Rx
Eris:25 Aries 01 Rx

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa
23 July 2022
03:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 02 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:18 Taurus 45 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):11 Cancer 06
Chiron:16 Aries 26 Rx
Ceres:29 Cancer 57
Pallas:08 Gemini 48
Juno:21 Pisces 31
Vesta:05 Pisces 55 Rx
Eris:25 Aries 01 Rx

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
23 July 2022
02:00 am GMT 12:00 PM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 02 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:18 Taurus 47 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):11 Cancer 03
Chiron:16 Aries 26 Rx
Ceres:29 Cancer 43
Pallas:08 Gemini 33
Juno:21 Pisces 30
Vesta:05 Pisces 59 Rx
Eris:25 Aries 01 Rx
She spreads damaging gossip about you at work. He steals your ideas and claims they’re his. It’s time to bring out the big guns – magick-wise, that is. This spell ties the backstabber’s hands and prevents him/ her from doing further harm.
INGREDIENTS/ TOOLS:
A small figurine (poppet) made of clay, wax, cloth, wood, or another material
A black marker
Black cord long enough to wrap around the figurine several times
A shovel
A large stone
BEST TIME TO PERFORM THE SPELL:
During the waning moon, preferably on Saturday
Collect the ingredients needed for this spell. If possible, make the figurine (known magickally as a poppet) yourself, but if you aren’t handy you can purchase an ordinary doll (the plainer the better, unless you can find one that resembles the backstabber). Cast a circle around the area where you will cast your spell.
With the marker write the troublemaker’s full name on the poppet. Say aloud: “Figure of [whatever material the poppet is made of], I name you [the backstabber’s name] and command you to cease your attacks on me now. I bind your ill will and render you powerless against me.” Wrap the black cord around the figurine several times and tie it, making eight knots. Each time you tie a knot, repeat the last sentence of the affirmation: “I bind your ill will and render you powerless against me.” When you’ve finished, open the circle.
Take the poppet and shovel to a place near your workplace and dig a hole in the ground. If that’s not feasible, go to a remote area away from trees or water (and not on your own property). Place the poppet in the hole and cover it with dirt, then put the stone on top of it for good measure.
—Skye Alexander, The Modern Guide to Witchcraft: Your Complete Guide to Witches, Covens, and Spells

One of the most extensive ancient Roman temple complexes in northern Europe, which includes sacrificial altars used by soldiers on a far frontier of the Roman Empire, has been unearthed in the Netherlands.
The first century A.D. site — known as a temple sanctuary — was located near the fork of the Rhine and Waal rivers and a short walk from Roman forts along the Lower German Limes, which was then the northernmost border of the empire. It now lies near the Dutch city of Zevenaar in the eastern Gelderland region, near the border with Germany.
The sanctuary consisted of at least three large temples and many smaller altars dedicated to particular Roman gods and goddesses, and would mainly have been used for sacred vows by Roman soldiers stationed at the nearby forts, project leader Eric Norde, an archaeologist at the Dutch archaeology agency RAAP, told Live Science.
Hundreds of artifacts have been found at the site, including coins and jewelry; while the tips of spears and lances, and the remains of armor and horse harnesses, emphasize its military nature, he said.
The discoveries give a glimpse of the lives of soldiers stationed on the frontiers of the empire, far from the Roman heartlands.
“It’s the best-preserved Roman sanctuary in the Netherlands, and perhaps in a much larger area,” Norde said. “It’s quite extraordinary.”
The central government of the Netherlands and the provincial Gelderland government have contracted RAAP to excavate the site, which was first unearthed during commercial clay extraction works in 2021, according to a statement by the Dutch cultural ministry (opens in new tab). The clay extraction has been stopped for the excavations but is continuing nearby, and so the archaeological site is closed to the public for now.
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 July 22

Explanation: Beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 74 (also known as NGC 628) lies some 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces. An island universe of about 100 billion stars with two prominent spiral arms, M74 has long been admired by astronomers as a perfect example of a grand-design spiral galaxy. M74’s central region is brought into a stunning, sharp focus in this recently processed image using publicly available data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The colorized combination of image data sets is from two of Webb’s instruments NIRcam and MIRI, operating at near- and mid-infrared wavelengths. It reveals cooler stars and dusty structures in the grand-design spiral galaxy only hinted at in previous space-based views.
Security vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built GPS vehicle tracker can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines of at least a million vehicles around the world, according to new research. Worse, the company that makes the GPS trackers has made no effort to fix them.
Cybersecurity startup BitSight said it found six vulnerabilities in the MV720, a hardwired GPS tracker built by MiCODUS, a Shenzhen-based electronics maker, which claims more than 1.5 million GPS trackers in use today across more than 420,000 customers worldwide, including companies with fleets of vehicles, law enforcement agencies, militaries and national governments. BitSight said in its report that it also found the GPS trackers used by Fortune 50 companies and a nuclear power plant operator.
But the security flaws can be easily and remotely exploited to track any vehicle in real time, access past routes and cut the engines of vehicles in motion.
Security vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built GPS vehicle tracker can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines of at least a million vehicles around the world, according to new research. Worse, the company that makes the GPS trackers has made no effort to fix them.
Cybersecurity startup BitSight said it found six vulnerabilities in the MV720, a hardwired GPS tracker built by MiCODUS, a Shenzhen-based electronics maker, which claims more than 1.5 million GPS trackers in use today across more than 420,000 customers worldwide, including companies with fleets of vehicles, law enforcement agencies, militaries and national governments. BitSight said in its report that it also found the GPS trackers used by Fortune 50 companies and a nuclear power plant operator.
But the security flaws can be easily and remotely exploited to track any vehicle in real time, access past routes and cut the engines of vehicles in motion.
Item needed:
1 Quartz crystal
Find a nice quiet place where you can lay down, place the quartz crystal on you third eye and say:
“I call upon Gula, great goddess of Healing,
Guide the help to direct any bad feelings,
See this dark specters reeling.
By the grace of your power I ask you to heal them.
Teach each to feel what the other feels,
By the power of three, I wish it to be.”
If you focus on one person the spell will affect that person a little better than just doing in general.
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

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link
To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link
The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America
22 July 2022
03:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 03 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:18 Taurus 48 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):11 Cancer 00
Chiron:16 Aries 26 Rx
Ceres:29 Cancer 31
Pallas:08 Gemini 20
Juno:21 Pisces 30
Vesta:06 Pisces 02 Rx
Eris:25 Aries 01 Rx

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa
22 July 2022
10:00 am GMT 12:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 03 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:18 Taurus 49 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):10 Cancer 58
Chiron:16 Aries 26 Rx
Ceres:29 Cancer 25
Pallas:08 Gemini 14
Juno:21 Pisces 30
Vesta:06 Pisces 04 Rx
Eris:25 Aries 01 Rx

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
22 July 2022
02:00 am GMT 12:00 PM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 03
Mean Lunar Node:18 Taurus 50 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):10 Cancer 56
Chiron:16 Aries 26 Rx
Ceres:29 Cancer 16
Pallas:08 Gemini 04
Juno:21 Pisces 29
Vesta:06 Pisces 06 Rx
Eris:25 Aries 01 Rx
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