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A Laugh for Today

I bought myself a tank top that says, “More Naps.” I think this is a good day to wear it…lol

12 July 2022 Southern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions Digest

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

 For Your Local Time and Date 

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

12 July 2022
03:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:20 Cancer 15
Moon:03 Capricorn 47
Mercury:15 Cancer 14
Venus:23 Gemini 27
Mars:05 Taurus 07
Jupiter:08 Aries 17
Saturn:24 Aquarius 09 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 11
Neptune:25 Pisces 23 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 32 Rx

True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 49 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 20 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 53

Chiron:16 Aries 25
Ceres:25 Cancer 04
Pallas:03 Gemini 33
Juno:20 Pisces 59
Vesta:06 Pisces 49 Rx

Eris:25 Aries 01

Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:7
Cardinal:9
Fixed:5
Mutable:5

Southern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa

12 July 2022
10:00 am GMT 12:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:20 Cancer 04
Moon:00 Capricorn 37
Mercury:14 Cancer 48
Venus:23 Gemini 12
Mars:04 Taurus 59
Jupiter:08 Aries 17
Saturn:24 Aquarius 10 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 10
Neptune:25 Pisces 23 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 32 Rx

True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 51 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 21 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 51

Chiron:16 Aries 25
Ceres:24 Cancer 58
Pallas:03 Gemini 27
Juno:20 Pisces 58
Vesta:06 Pisces 49 Rx

Eris:25 Aries 01

Fire:3
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:7
Cardinal:9
Fixed:5
Mutable:5

Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

12 July 2022
02:00 am GMT 12:00 PM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:19 Cancer 44
Moon:25 Sagittarius 35
Mercury:14 Cancer 05
Venus:22 Gemini 48
Mars:04 Taurus 45
Jupiter:08 Aries 16
Saturn:24 Aquarius 11 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 09
Neptune:25 Pisces 23 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 33 Rx

True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 52 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 22 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 49

Chiron:16 Aries 25
Ceres:24 Cancer 49
Pallas:03 Gemini 18
Juno:20 Pisces 56
Vesta:06 Pisces 50 Rx

Eris:25 Aries 01

Fire:4
Earth:5
Air:3
Water:7
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6

July 11 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 July 11

Andromeda over the Sahara Desert

Credit & Copyright: Jordi Coy

Explanation: What is the oldest thing you can see? At 2.5 million light years distant, the answer for the unaided eye is the Andromeda galaxy, because its photons are 2.5 million years old when they reach you. Most other apparent denizens of the night sky — stars, clusters, and nebulae — appear as they were only a few hundred to a few thousand years ago, as they lie well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. Given its distance, light from Andromeda is likely also the farthest object that you can see. Also known as M31, the Andromeda Galaxy dominates the center of the featured zoomed image, taken from the Sahara Desert in Morocco last month. The featured image is a combination of three background and one foreground exposure — all taken with the same camera and from the same location and on the same calendar day — with the foreground image taken during the evening blue hour. M110, a satellite galaxy of Andromenda is visible just above and to the left of M31’s core. As cool as it may be to see this neighboring galaxy to our Milky Way with your own eyes, long duration camera exposures can pick up many faint and breathtaking details. Recent data indicates that our Milky Way Galaxy will collide and combine with the similarly-sized Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years.

11 July 2022 Southern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions Digest

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

 For Your Local Time and Date 

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

11 July 2022
03:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:19 Cancer 18
Moon:18 Sagittarius 41
Mercury:13 Cancer 06
Venus:22 Gemini 15
Mars:04 Taurus 26
Jupiter:08 Aries 14
Saturn:24 Aquarius 13 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 09
Neptune:25 Pisces 24 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 33 Rx

True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 54 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 23 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 46

Chiron:16 Aries 24
Ceres:24 Cancer 37
Pallas:03 Gemini 05
Juno:20 Pisces 54
Vesta:06 Pisces 51 Rx

Eris:25 Aries 01

Fire:4
Earth:5
Air:3
Water:7
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6

Southern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa

11 July 2022
10:00 am GMT 12:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:19 Cancer 06
Moon:15 Sagittarius 35
Mercury:12 Cancer 39
Venus:22 Gemini 00
Mars:04 Taurus 17
Jupiter:08 Aries 13
Saturn:24 Aquarius 13 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 08
Neptune:25 Pisces 24 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 34 Rx

True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 55 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 24 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 45

Chiron:16 Aries 24
Ceres:24 Cancer 31
Pallas:02 Gemini 59
Juno:20 Pisces 53
Vesta:06 Pisces 51 Rx

Eris:25 Aries 01

Fire:4
Earth:5
Air:3
Water:7
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6

Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

11 July 2022
02:00 am GMT 12:00 PM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:18 Cancer 47
Moon:10 Sagittarius 38
Mercury:11 Cancer 57
Venus:21 Gemini 36
Mars:04 Taurus 03
Jupiter:08 Aries 12
Saturn:24 Aquarius 14 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 07
Neptune:25 Pisces 24 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 34 Rx

True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 56 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 25 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 42

Chiron:16 Aries 24
Ceres:24 Cancer 23
Pallas:02 Gemini 49
Juno:20 Pisces 51
Vesta:06 Pisces 52 Rx

Eris:25 Aries 01

Fire:4
Earth:5
Air:3
Water:7
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6

Spell for Today – A Garnet Meditation

A Garnet Meditation

Garnet, the birthstone for January, is also a great all-purpose gem to use as an aid during meditation. It can be used to help make decisions or bring order to your life.

For the meditation, you’ll need a garnet gem or a smooth garnet stone. A string of garnet prayer beads would also work. Select a deep red garnet or one with a brown tint. You’ll also need a burgundy candle. Begin by lighting the candle, then relax and center. Hold the garnet and breathe deeply. Concentrate on your concern and then hold the garnet to your heart. You’ll begin to receive messages. Let them come, even if they don’t make sense. When youfeel ready to return to your everyday world, extinguish the candle. Thank the garnet for its help. Your thoughts should be clearer now so you can make any decisions.

James Kambos
Llewellyn’s 2017 Witches’ Spell-A-Day Almanac

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Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions

Today’s Word is

Natural Magick

From moonlitpriestess.com

Another term for Earth Magick, magick that is drawn from the energies of the Earth, natural objects, the Elements, etc.

July 11 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1405 Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail on his first major expedition, to the Spice Islands, leading 208 vessels, including 62 treasure ships with 27,800 sailors

1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England’s King Henry VIII

1818 English poet John Keats writes “In the Cottage Where Burns is Born”, “Lines Written in the Highlands”, and “Gadfly”

1877 Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts

1944 Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States

1995 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN ‘safe haven’ of Srebrenica

Today’s Historical Events

138 Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian as Emperor of Rome

911 Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy

1156 Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan

1244 Khwarezmian Tatars sack Jerusalem, decimating the city’s Christian population and driving out Jews

1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) near Kortrijk, Belgium. Flemish coalition defeat French army

1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

1347 Heir to the Bohemian throne elected German anti-king Charles IV

1405 Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail on his first major expedition, to the Spice Islands, leading 208 vessels, including 62 treasure ships with 27,800 sailors

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1895 Auguste and Louis Lumière show film for scientists

1922 The Hollywood Bowl opens.

1967 “The Newlywed Game” premieres in the US on ABC TV

1983 Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of NZ, crowned 32nd Miss Universe

2007 “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, the 5th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling is released

2013 “Orange Is the New Black” premieres on Netflix starring Taylor Schilling, first series to be nominated for comedy and drama Emmy awards

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1967 Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition

1969 David Bowie releases the single “Space Oddity” 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon

1969 Rolling Stones release “Honky Tonk Woman”

1982 “7 Brides for 7 Brothers” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 5 performances

1984 Britain’s MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe

1987 Heart’s “Alone” single goes #1 for 3 weeks

1995 Shaggy releases his third studio album “Bombastic” (Grammy Award Best Reggae Album)

  • 2021 Billionaire Richard Branson flies to the edge of space on his Virgin Galactic rocket plane in space tourism test

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1900 Charlotte Cooper beats Hélène Prévost to become the 1st female Olympic tennis champion and the 1st individual female Olympic champion in any sport

1912 There are 6 medallists in the Stockholm Olympic pole vault; American Harry Babcock takes gold (3.95m); countrymen Frank Nelson and Marc Wright dead-heat for silver; 3-man dead-heat for bronze

1914 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth makes his MLB debut as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox; earns 4-3 win against the Cleveland Naps at Fenway Park

1923 Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M

1930 21 year old Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman is 105 at lunch, 220 at tea, and 309 at stumps on the first day in 3rd Test vs England at Leeds; goes on to 334

1931 NY Giants beat Phillies 23-8

1939 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York NY Yankee/AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees

1944 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh

July 10 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 July 10

In the Center of the Cat’s Eye Nebula

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Reprocessing & Copyright: Raul Villaverde

Explanation: Three thousand light-years away, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known. Spanning half a light-year, the features seen in the Cat’s Eye are so complex that astronomers suspect the bright central object may actually be a binary star system. The term planetary nebula, used to describe this general class of objects, is misleading. Although these objects may appear round and planet-like in small telescopes, high resolution images with large telescopes reveal them to be stars surrounded by cocoons of gas blown off in the late stages of stellar evolution. Gazing into this Cat’s Eye, astronomers may well be seeing more than detailed structure, they may be seeing the fate of our Sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution … in about 5 billion years.

July 9 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 July 9

Saturn and the ISS

Image Credit & Copyright: Tom Glenn

Explanation: Soaring high in skies around planet Earth, bright planet Saturn was a star of June’s morning planet parade. But very briefly on June 24 it posed with a bright object in low Earth orbit, the International Space Station. On that date from a school parking lot in Temecula, California the ringed-planet and International Space Station were both caught in this single high-speed video frame. Though Saturn was shining at +0.5 stellar magnitude the space station was an even brighter -3 on the magnitude scale. That difference in brightness is faithfully represented in the video capture frame. In the challenging image, the orbiting ISS was at a range of 602 kilometers. Saturn was about 1.4 billion kilometers from the school parking lot.

A Thought for Today

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

A Laugh for Today

Esbat Soap

Esbat Soap

This take (the cleansing recipe a step further in that it is designed to prepare you for the working elements of ritual and Magick, when you will need the additional ability to focus and control.

Add the following to liquid shower gel:

tbsp rosemary leaves

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

6 drops frankincense oil

6 drops sandalwood oil

4 drops jasmine oil

4 drops oil of orange

(you can literally scrape the oil from the outside of an orange using a blunt knife)

July 8 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 July 8

Roots on a Rotating Planet

Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace

Explanation: With roots on a rotating planet, an old tree is centered in this sequence of 137 exposures each 20 seconds long, recorded one night from northern Sicily. Digital camera and fisheye lens were fixed to a tripod to capture the dramatic timelapse, so the stars trailed through the region’s dark sky. Of course that makes it easy to spot the planet’s north celestial pole. The extension of Earth’s axis of rotation into space is toward the upper left, at the center of the concentric star trail arcs. The Milky Way is there too. The plane of our galaxy stretches across the wide field of view from north to east (left to right) creating a broader luminous band of diffuse starlight.

8 July 2022 Southern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions Digest

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

 For Your Local Time and Date 

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

8 July 2022
03:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:16 Cancer 27
Moon:05 Scorpio 33
Mercury:06 Cancer 47
Venus:18 Gemini 39
Mars:02 Taurus 21
Jupiter:08 Aries 03
Saturn:24 Aquarius 22 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 02
Neptune:25 Pisces 25 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 38 Rx

True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 57
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 33 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 26

Chiron:16 Aries 23
Ceres:23 Cancer 17
Pallas:01 Gemini 39
Juno:20 Pisces 36
Vesta:06 Pisces 54 Rx

Eris:25 Aries 01

Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:3
Water:8
Cardinal:8
Fixed:6
Mutable:5

Southern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa

8 July 2022
10:00 am GMT 12:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:16 Cancer 15
Moon:02 Scorpio 42
Mercury:06 Cancer 21
Venus:18 Gemini 24
Mars:02 Taurus 13
Jupiter:08 Aries 03
Saturn:24 Aquarius 23 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 02
Neptune:25 Pisces 25 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 38 Rx

True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 57
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 33 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 25

Chiron:16 Aries 23
Ceres:23 Cancer 12
Pallas:01 Gemini 33
Juno:20 Pisces 35
Vesta:06 Pisces 54 Rx

Eris:25 Aries 01

Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:3
Water:8
Cardinal:8
Fixed:6
Mutable:5

Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

8 July 2022
02:00 am GMT 12:00 PM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:15 Cancer 56
Moon:28 Libra 10
Mercury:05 Cancer 39
Venus:18 Gemini 00
Mars:01 Taurus 59
Jupiter:08 Aries 01
Saturn:24 Aquarius 24 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 01
Neptune:25 Pisces 25 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 38 Rx

True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 57
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 34 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 22

Chiron:16 Aries 23
Ceres:23 Cancer 03
Pallas:01 Gemini 24
Juno:20 Pisces 32
Vesta:06 Pisces 54 Rx

Eris:25 Aries 01

Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:4
Water:7
Cardinal:9
Fixed:5
Mutable:5

Spell for Today – Banish Procrastination – Printable

Some of the Witchcraft/Magickal Correspondence Digest for Friday

From AncientPathway.com

Magickal Intentions:
Love, Romance, Marriage, Sexual Matters, Physical Beauty, Friendship and Partnerships, Strangers, Heart		 Incense:
Strawberry
Sandalwood
Rose
Saffron
Vanilla
Planet:
Venus		 Sign:
Libra
Taurus		 Angel:
Colors:
Green
Pink
Aqua		 Herbs/Plants:
Pink Rose
Ivy
Birch
Heather
Clematis
Sage
Violet
Water Lilly		 Stones:
Rose Quartz
Moonstone
Pink Tourmaline
Peridot
Emerald
Jade

Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions

Today’s Word is

Banishing

From moonlitpriestess.com

Removing, pushing away, or expelling something or someone magickally; generally for removing negativity or unwanted spirits.

July 8 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1099 First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on

1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage, will become the 1st European to reach India by sea

1777 Independent Vermont introduces a new constitution, prohibiting slavery

1800 Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to prevent smallpox

1853 Commodore Matthew C. Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to Western influence and trade

1948 500th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated in Moscow

1949 South Africa’s Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences, prohibiting marriage or a sexual relationship between White people and people of other races [1]

Today’s Historical Events

939 The Major Occultation, or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi

1099 First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on

1283 War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta

1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage, will become the 1st European to reach India by sea

1579 Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan

1663 King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island

1672 William III is appointed stadholder by the States General in the Netherlands

1680 The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1954 KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast

1982 15th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hotel San Diego

2005 Marvel superhero film “The Fantastic Four” starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis premieres

2010 “Inception”, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, premieres in London

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1946 “Tidbits of 1946” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances

1949 Monte Irvin & Hank Thompson, 1st black players for New York Giants, 4-3 loss to Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field

1982 “7 Brides for 7 Brothers” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 5 performances

1988 Rockers Jonathan “Chico” & Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking

1988 Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992; he does not follow through

1996 British girls group the Spice Girls release their debut single “Wannabe” in the UK

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1889 John L. Sullivan successfully defends last officially sanctioned, bare-knuckle world heavyweight prizefighting championship; Jake Kilrain’s trainer throws in towel after 75 x 1-minute rounds near Hattiesburg, Mississippi

1889 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: William Renshaw wins his 7th Wimbledon singles title; beats twin brother Ernest Renshaw 6-4, 6-1, 3-6, 6-0

1898 Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Red Donahue no-hits Boston Beaneaters, 5-0 at the Baker Bowl

1902 Baltimore manager John McGraw is accused by AL President Ban Johnson of trying to wreck the Orioles & Washington Senators; negotiates his release from the Orioles, having already signed with NY Giants

1905 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: May Sutton becomes first American player to win the singles title at Wimbledon; beats Dorothea Chambers 6-3, 6-4

1905 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Home town favourite Laurence Doherty wins his 4th consecutive Wimbledon singles title; beats Norman Brookes of Australia 8-6 6-2 6-4

1909 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights

1911 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Anthony Wilding of New Zealand wins 2nd of 4 consecutive Wimbledon singles titles beating Herbert Roper-Barrett 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 6-2 ret

Charming Something to Use for Personal Protection Workshop

I have had more requests than usual on how to make a personal protection talisman. So, I decided to do a witchy workshop on the topic. It will cover why everyone should always carry personal protection talisman along with a discussion about the topic. We will also make a personal protection talisman during the workshop. The workshop should last about 90 minutes depending on the Q & A part. The circle to make your personal protection talisman will take no longer than 30 minutes. 

Email High Priestess Lady Beltane at ladybeltane@aol.com to reserve your place for this workshop. Workshop will be held on Saturday, July 9 at 11:00 AM CDT. Workshop limited to 10 people. The donation for this workshop will be $20.00 USD.

You can use this link to find out what YOUR local time will be.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

An object you will wear or carry with you daily

Bowl of water large enough to dip your object in

A red candle to run the object through the flame

Small amount of table salt or dirt to lightly sprinkle on the object

RITUAL:

Lady Beltane will cast a sacred circle and call the quarters

First, we will cleanse the object with the objects that represent the elements

Second, we will charm the object

Lastly Lady Beltane will open the circle and dismiss the quarters

July 7 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 July 7

The NGC 6914 Complex

Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgio Ferrari

Explanation: A study in contrasts, this colorful skyscape features stars, dust, and glowing gas in the vicinity of NGC 6914. The interstellar complex of nebulae lies some 6,000 light-years away, toward the high-flying northern constellation Cygnus and the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Obscuring interstellar dust clouds appear in silhouette while reddish hydrogen emission nebulae, along with the dusty blue reflection nebulae, fill the cosmic canvas. Ultraviolet radiation from the massive, hot, young stars of the extensive Cygnus OB2 association ionize the region’s atomic hydrogen gas, producing the characteristic red glow as protons and electrons recombine. Embedded Cygnus OB2 stars also provide the blue starlight strongly reflected by the dust clouds. The over 1 degree wide telescopic field of view spans about 100 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 6914.