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7 July 2022 Southern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions Digest
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Southeastern Hemisphere
The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America
7 July 2022
03:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
Sun:15 Cancer 29
Moon:22 Libra 01
Mercury:04 Cancer 43
Venus:17 Gemini 27
Mars:01 Taurus 39
Jupiter:07 Aries 59
Saturn:24 Aquarius 25 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 00
Neptune:25 Pisces 25 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 39 Rx
Moon:22 Libra 01
Mercury:04 Cancer 43
Venus:17 Gemini 27
Mars:01 Taurus 39
Jupiter:07 Aries 59
Saturn:24 Aquarius 25 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 00
Neptune:25 Pisces 25 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 39 Rx
True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 56
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 36 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 19
Chiron:16 Aries 22
Ceres:22 Cancer 51
Pallas:01 Gemini 11
Juno:20 Pisces 29
Vesta:06 Pisces 54
Eris:25 Aries 00
Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:4
Water:7
Earth:5
Air:4
Water:7
Cardinal:9
Fixed:5
Mutable:5
Fixed:5
Mutable:5
Southern Hemisphere
The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa
7 July 2022
10:00 am GMT 12:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
Sun:15 Cancer 18
Moon:19 Libra 15
Mercury:04 Cancer 18
Venus:17 Gemini 12
Mars:01 Taurus 31
Jupiter:07 Aries 59
Saturn:24 Aquarius 26 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 00
Neptune:25 Pisces 25 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 39 Rx
Moon:19 Libra 15
Mercury:04 Cancer 18
Venus:17 Gemini 12
Mars:01 Taurus 31
Jupiter:07 Aries 59
Saturn:24 Aquarius 26 Rx
Uranus:18 Taurus 00
Neptune:25 Pisces 25 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 39 Rx
True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 56
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 36 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 18
Chiron:16 Aries 22
Ceres:22 Cancer 45
Pallas:01 Gemini 05
Juno:20 Pisces 28
Vesta:06 Pisces 54
Eris:25 Aries 00
Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:4
Water:7
Earth:5
Air:4
Water:7
Cardinal:9
Fixed:5
Mutable:5
Fixed:5
Mutable:5
Southwestern Hemisphere
The time for these Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
7 July 2022
02:00 am GMT 12:00 PM AEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
Sun:14 Cancer 59
Moon:14 Libra 51
Mercury:03 Cancer 37
Venus:16 Gemini 48
Mars:01 Taurus 17
Jupiter:07 Aries 57
Saturn:24 Aquarius 27 Rx
Uranus:17 Taurus 59
Neptune:25 Pisces 25 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 40 Rx
Moon:14 Libra 51
Mercury:03 Cancer 37
Venus:16 Gemini 48
Mars:01 Taurus 17
Jupiter:07 Aries 57
Saturn:24 Aquarius 27 Rx
Uranus:17 Taurus 59
Neptune:25 Pisces 25 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 40 Rx
True Lunar Node:20 Taurus 56 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:19 Taurus 37 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):09 Cancer 16
Chiron:16 Aries 22
Ceres:22 Cancer 36
Pallas:00 Gemini 55
Juno:20 Pisces 26
Vesta:06 Pisces 54
Eris:25 Aries 00
Fire:3
Earth:5
Air:4
Water:7
Earth:5
Air:4
Water:7
Cardinal:9
Fixed:5
Mutable:5
Fixed:5
Mutable:5
Spell for Today – Strengthen Your Psychic Shield
The night before the Full Moon, find a place where your altar will not be disturbed for 24 hours. Put the cauldron in the center with a red candle on the right side, black candle of the left side, and white candle in the back; but do not light them yet.
Sprinkle a mixture of equal parts of elder blossoms, marjoram, mint and rue in an unbroken circle around the cauldron. Into a tiny vial, measure equal drops of clove, frankincense, jasmine, and lavender. Set the sealed bottle in the cauldron and leave until the night of the Full Moon.
On Full Moon night, take a cleansing bathe and robe yourself in white. Carry a good protective or purification incense through every room in the house. Make certain that the smoke drifts into closets.
Return to the altar and light the candles. Take up the dagger or sword. Face the East and raise the sword in salute. To salute in this manner, simply hold the sword point upward in front of you. Say:
By the power of the rising sun, all evil in my life is done.
Turn to the South, salute, say:
By the power of darkening night, my shield is strong, my armor tight.
Turn to the North, salute, say:
By Full Moon in blackening sky, I am not alone. My help is nigh.
The Goddess’s hands around me stay, To keep me safe by night and day.
Begone, foul spirits, unbidden here. I send you back, I do not fear.
For I have won. I am set free. You have no further power over me.
Face the altar and take up the vial of oil. Put a drop of oil on your finger and anoint your forehead, heart, solar plexus, wrists and ankles. As you do this, visualize a shining blue suit of armor slowly descending over your body until you are entirely protected. Cap the bottle and store in a safe place.
Thank the Powers for their help and extinguish the candles.
Apply the oil and repeat the chants whenever you feel the armor is slipping.
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Words are
Astral Plane
and
Astral Projection
From moonlitpriestess.com
Realm believed to be beyond space and time; considered by some as an alternative dimension running alongside the physical realm we currently inhabit where beings (including ourselves) can travel and interact in spirit or astrally; sometimes visited to perform magick that can affect change on the physical plane.
AND
Also called astral traveling; the art of “leaving one’s body” while in a trance state to visit other locations or realms astrally, or “in spirit.” Traveling into the astral plane, generally understood as a parallel world unseen in our world of form. Studies have shown an individual successfully astral projecting can be seen and heard by a non-projecting individual on this plane, giving credit to this ability.
July 7 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1520 Battle of Otumba, Mexico: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force
1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War
1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident
2005 Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London’s public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700
2005 Influenced by global Live 8 concerts, G8 leaders pledge to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010
Today’s Historical Events
1124 Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
1438 King Charles VII issues the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges stating that a General Church Council with superior power to the Pope must be held every 10 years
1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1495 King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
1498 Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
1520 Battle of Otumba, Mexico: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force
1534 European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick
1543 French troops invade Luxembourg
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy)
1939 “The Rules of the Game”, French film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Nora Gregor and Paulette Dubost, premieres in Paris
1949 “Dragnet” premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967
1956 “Hancock’s Half Hour” premieres as a TV show starring Tony Hancock and Sid James, written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
1975 TV soap opera “Ryan’s Hope” premieres
1977 “The Spy Who Loved Me”, 10th James Bond film starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, premieres in London
1980 Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
1980 Jineane Ford of Arizona replaces Shawn Weatherly (Miss Universe) as the 29th Miss USA
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1949 “Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)” opens at Broadway NYC for 76 performances
1956 Douglas Moore/John Latouche’ opera “Ballad of Baby Doe,” premieres
1965 Otis Redding records “Respect”
1967 Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” is released
1967 Doors’ “Light My Fire” hits #1
1968 Rock group “Yardbirds” disband
1986 It is reported that Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
1988 Hungarian state funeral for composer Béla Bartók in Budapest, 42 years after his death with his remains relocated from New York
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1868 Surrey wicket-keeper Ted Pooley completes a then-1st class cricket record 12 dismissals (8 caught, 4 stumped) in a County match against Sussex at The Oval
1887 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: 3-time runner-up Herbert Lawford wins his only Wimbledon title beating Ernest Renshaw 1-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
1890 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Irishman Willoughby Hamilton wins his only Wimbledon title beating 7-time champion William Renshaw 6-8, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1
1892 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Bingley-Hillyard for a 4th time in a Wimbledon final 6-1, 6-1
1900 Boston Beaneaters pitcher Kid Nichols notches his 300th career MLB victory with an 11-4 win over Chicago Orphans
1911 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothea Chambers becomes first player not to concede a game in a final beating Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0
1912 American athlete Jim Thorpe wins 4 of 5 events to win the Pentathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982
1914 Baltimore Orioles owner Jack Dunn offers future baseball legend Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10k to Connie Mack (Philadelphia A’s); refuses pleading lack of finance
Popping Pills and Magical Practice
Popping Pills and Magical Practice
Author: Deborah
Since writing my latest article for WitchVox on Magically Cleansing Your Home, I’ve been getting the same question over and over:
Do you think that taking medication affects your magical practice?
My short answer would be: No.
For those of you interested in a discussion, I will share my thoughts with you here. Firstly, I’d like to say that I really dislike it when people are made to feel like they need to engage in secrecy and shame. If that happens, something has really gone wrong in my opinion. The fact that apparently a lot of Pagans/Magical Practitioners feel that they can’t talk about taking prescription medication — and need to hide the reality that they do take medications from the community — makes me really sad. Taking care of your health and taking advantage of modern medicine shouldn’t be something you have to feel shame about in spiritual circles.
So let’s start kicking down some walls and lay it all out there. I have depression, anxiety, anemia and fibromyalgia. I currently take the following medications to make it so that I am a productive member of society: Prozac, Xanax, Remeron, Savella, Celebrex, Vitamin D, Multi-Vitamin and Birth Control. In the past, I have: gone to therapy and tried Kava and St. John’s Wort to help.
The therapy helped immensely, the Kava and St. John’s Wort significantly less so. In addition to my medication I use yoga, stress management techniques, japa/self guided meditation, massage, journaling and talking to loved ones to manage my conditions. I see my doctor regularly. She is very tight fisted with all the “fun” meds and I don’t think I could get a Vicodin out of her if it meant she could retire on an island of her own. But at the same time, she treats my conditions very aggressively.
Even with good coping mechanisms, good medication and a good support structure, I still have days where I’m anxious and can’t sleep and I occasionally have days when I am depressed for no reason. Sometimes my fibromyalgia causes me so much fatigue and pain still that I can’t get out of bed.
Even with taking medication, I still feel the normal human range of emotions and generally only feel sad or stressed when I’m “supposed to”. I’ve worked since I was fourteen. I pay my taxes. I write; I ran a convention. I go out and have fun doing all the things early thirty-somethings like to do. I have loving relationships and I own a car and a condo. My medication makes it so that instead of being too depressed to be motivated, or paralyzed with inexplicable fear and anxiousness, or too bedridden with pain and fatigue, I can lead a fairly “normal” life.
Which is the reason I get confused about why shame needs to be implemented if people choose to take advantage of first world medical care in order to lead functional lives. Are there people who abuse prescriptions? Um, yeah. They’re addicts like the people who are alcoholics and drug abusers. Is that the majority of people who take meds? No.
There’s this idea that really bugs me that there are all these people who take medication they don’t really need and this medication magically takes away all of their problems so they don’t need to deal with them. Last I knew, you needed to take like a fistful of Xanax or are shooting H to get that effect. Which . . .see: addict.
Medication (and therapy) helps get you to the point where you’re not in a full-blown chemical freak-out so you can effectively solve your problems and live your life. If you can do that for yourself without meds, awesome! You have an incredible immune system and brain chemistry. If you can do that solely with homeopathic methods, great! There’s nothing wrong with homeopathy if it works for you.
If you feel taking meds makes you a lesser person somehow then that’s your business and you certainly have a right to your feelings. But I start to get really touchy when someone who thinks that taking meds makes him/her a lesser person insists that I should think that too. I get even more touchy when you start to try to tell me what to do with my body because I have a real problem with that. Agency over my body goes way beyond whether or not I decide to have an abortion; it’s also about having the right to make the decisions I make regarding my health care.
And this junk that some people in our community put on others — about how taking prescription medication is selling out, supporting corporate evil and bringing our community down and how you don’t “believe” in the pharmaceutical industry so neither should anyone else, along with the hype that positive energy/crystals/herbs/alternative therapies would work for everyone regardless of their brain chemistry and body systems and personal desires — is just that: junk.
Because honestly? Unless you’re completely off the grid (and then would not be reading this on the internet) , we all have to make compromises every day with big business. Do I like that? No. Am I willing to compromise my issues with big business in order to be a reasonably functioning human? Yes. Am I saying you have to make that compromise? No. Am I saying you need to leave me alone and make my own big girl decisions about that compromise and why I don’t use crystals for healing? Yes.
With all that out of the way, let’s get to the nuts and bolts of the question asked. While I haven’t been completely unmedicated in roughly ten years, there are occasions when I have a little time in between prescriptions due to various reasons (mostly due to the length of time it takes for my prescriptions to arrive to me via mail) . It is during these times when I am in a quasi-unmedicated state — and/or if my fibro-flare is that impressive that it punches past my meds — that I feel able to give my own take on whether or not my medications have affected my magical practice.
When I was unmedicated/quasi-unmedicated, it was significantly easier for me to be in touch intuitively. What that means to me is that Tarot reading was easier to “pull”, getting random psychic impulses and having an easier time seeing what’s going on with what I call The Tapestry. The Tapestry refers to everything that’s happened in the past, everything that’s happening right now, everything that will happen and everything that never happened. To me it looks like a huge tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving itself in bits and pieces. Typically I could see about like one billionth of the whole tapestry, and it was mostly my little corner of the world.
However. And this is a big however, my magic has significantly improved since medicating. My spells are much more effectively, I now have the focus to have a personal practice (which I didn’t previously) and my rituals are more effective and meaningful.
So while yes, my general fuzzy random psychic ability was better unmedicated, having the ability to cast better and have a better personal practice to me far outweighed my unmedicated abilities. My unmedicated abilities were more “traditional” psychic aspects.
The ability to get the perfect condo through my targeted magic work far outweighed the benefit of being able to say, “Gordon! I think something is going to happen to you on Wedne- Thursd- No, definitely Wednesday. No idea what though. Cheers!” So for me, being more functional in my daily life and being more effective in my targeted magical practice far outweighed being unmedicated.
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Word is
Aromatherapy
From moonlitpriestess.com
Form of alternative healing using essential oils, believed to contain the power of plants and that the medicinal properties of those plants can work through the olfactory system (sense of smell) as smell is shown to affect the conscious mind; may be used in a multitude of ways, such as candles, and incorporated into other modalities such as massage.
July 6 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 6
Milky Way Motion in 3D from Gaia
Credit & License: ESA, Gaia, DPAC; Text: Ata Sarajedini (Florida Atlantic U., Astronomy Minute podcast)
Explanation: Our sky is alive with the streams of stars. The motions of 26 million Milky Way stars are evident in the featured map constructed from recent data taken by ESA‘s Gaia satellite. Stars colored blue are moving toward us, while red indicates away. Lines depict the motion of the stars across the sky. The large blue on the left and red areas on the map’s right give the overall impression that stars in the Milky Way are rotating around the center. However, there is a region near the middle — caused by our own Sun’s motion relative to a rigidly-rotating central Galactic bar — that seems to reverse it. Understanding details about the motion of stars is helping humanity to better understand the complex history of our Milky Way galaxy and the origin of our Sun.
July 6 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1348 Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection
1785 US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the “dollar” and adopts decimal coinage
1885 Louis Pasteur successfully give an anti-rabies vaccine to 9-year-old Joseph Meister, saving his life
1923 The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union, signed in Moscow in December 1922, and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1967 Nigerian Civil War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the secessionist state of Biafra
1970 California passes 1st “no fault” divorce law
Today’s Historical Events
1016 Battle of Pontlevoy: one of largest battles of early Medieval France won by Fulk the Black and Hebert I of Maine again Odo II of Blois in the Loire Valley
1044 The Battle of Ménfő takes place in Hungary, won by a German force led by Peter Orseolo over Hungarians
1189 Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England, upon the death of King Henry II
1253 Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania
1348 Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection
1415 Bohemian religious reformer Jan Hus is burned at the stake in Constance, Germany
1483 Richard III is crowned King of England after deposing Edward V
1484 Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1933 “Nertsery Rhymes” short film starring Ted Healy and His Stooges premieres, one of the first film appearance of The Three Stooges
1945 Abbott and Costello‘s film “The Naughty Nineties” released; features longest version of their “Who’s on First?” routine
1954 KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 Filming begins on “Ned Kelly” starring Mick Jagger
1990 “Jetsons the Movie” by Hanna-Barbera with Tiffany Darwish, premieres
1994 “Forrest Gump”, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1995)
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1946 “St Louis Woman” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 performances
1957 John Lennon (16) & Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon’s rock group Quarrymen perform at St. Peter’s, Woolton’s Parish Church in Liverpool
1964 The Beatles’ film “Hard Day’s Night” premieres in London
1965 Rock group “Jefferson Airplane” forms
1975 Dmitri Shostakovich completes Sonate for alto opus 147
1997 “Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical” closes at Royale NYC after 109 performances
2005 Live 8 concert at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland; performers include Wet Wet Wet, Annie Lennox, James Brown, the Corrs, and The Proclaimers
2010 Brandon Boyd announces the release of his debut solo album, “The Wild Trapeze”
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1887 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Lottie Dod becomes youngest ever Wimbledon champion (15 years, 285 days); defending champion beats Blanche Bingley 6-2, 6-0
1889 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Blanche Bingley-Hillyard beats Lena Rice 4-6, 8-6, 6-4
1907 Tom Reece takes 5 weeks to compile the highest recorded billiards break in a match (499,135) in London, his ‘cradle’ cannon method is soon banned
1912 V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games officially open Stockholm, Sweden; events conducted prior to the ceremony dating back to 5 May
1920 New York Yankees score MLB record 14 runs in 5th inning of a 17-0 rout of Washington Senators
1923 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France beats Kitty McKane 6-2, 6-2 for her 5th straight Wimbledon singles title
1928 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: In an all-French final René Lacoste beats defending champion Henri Cochet 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
1929 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Henri Cochet beats fellow Frenchman Jean Borotra 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 for his 2nd Wimbledon singles crown
A Laugh for Today
Wishing you a whimsical Wednesday!
July 5 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 5
A Molten Galaxy Einstein Ring
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Jha; Processing: Jonathan Lodge
Explanation: It is difficult to hide a galaxy behind a cluster of galaxies. The closer cluster’s gravity will act like a huge lens, pulling images of the distant galaxy around the sides and greatly distorting them. This is just the case observed in the featured image recently re-processed image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster GAL-CLUS-022058c is composed of many galaxies and is lensing the image of a yellow-red background galaxy into arcs seen around the image center. Dubbed a molten Einstein ring for its unusual shape, four images of the same background galaxy have been identified. Typically, a foreground galaxy cluster can only create such smooth arcs if most of its mass is smoothly distributed — and therefore not concentrated in the cluster galaxies visible. Analyzing the positions of these gravitational arcs gives astronomers a method to estimate the dark matter distribution in galaxy clusters, as well as infer when the stars in these early galaxies began to form.
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Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Word is
Archetype
From moonlitpriestess.com
Universal pattern, symbol, or figure believed to be of primordial origins; typically used as a form of language between the conscious and subconscious minds. The most famous theories and discussions of the role and importance of archetypes were first proposed by psychologist Carl Jung.
July 5, Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1687 Isaac Newton‘s great work Principia published by Royal Society in England, outlining his laws of motion and universal gravitation
1811 Venezuelan Declaration of Independence: 7 provinces declare themselves independent of Spain
1852 Frederick Douglass, fugitive slave, delivers his ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ speech to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, condemns the celebration as hypocritical sham
1865 US Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department
1994 Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos
2004 First Indonesian presidential election by the people – first round (eventually won by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono)
Today’s Historical Events
649 St Martin I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
767 Duke of Nepi names his brother (leek) Pope Constantine II
1166 Austrian town of Bad Kleinkirchheim is first mentioned, in an ecclesiastical document
1294 Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V
1295 Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England
1436 German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten
1450 Pope Nicolas V names Walraven van Meurs bishop of Munster
1596 English fleet under Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, captures Cadiz
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1953 WANC TV channel 21 in Asheville, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin
1961 KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 20th Berlin International Film Festival cancelled due to controversy surrounding the participation of Michael Verhoeven’s anti-war film “o.k.”
1989 “Seinfield” (originally titled The Seinfeld Chronicles” screens its pilot episode starring Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards on NBC
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1942 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Chôros 6/9/11
1947 “Barefoot Boy with Cheek” closes at Martin Beck NYC after 108 performances
1954 Singer Elvis Presley‘s 1st professional recording session (with guitarist Scotty Moore & bass player Bill Black) takes place at Sam Phillips’ Memphis Recording Service in Memphis, Tennessee. The trio record four songs including their historic cover of Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup’s song “That’s All Right”. [1]
1963 1st Beatles’ tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon’s cover of “From Me to You” at no. 87
1965 Greek-American soprano Maria Callas makes her final opera stage appearance in the title role of Giacomo Puccini‘s “Tosca” at Convent Garden, London, England
1968 John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce
1969 Rolling Stones play a free concert in London’s Hyde Park
1975 At Knebworth Festival in England, Pink Floyd debut their album “Wish You Were Here” with pyrotechnics and an exploding plane which flies into the stage
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1898 Lizzie Arlington becomes first woman to play professional men’s baseball when she pitches 9th inning for the Reading Coal Heavers against the Allentown Peanuts; allows 2 hits and walks a batter but preserves 5-0 win
1902 All-rounder Monty Noble takes 6 for 52 as Australia wins the one and only cricket Test played at Sheffield’s Bramall Lane, England
1904 NY Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 innings at Huntington Park
1906 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats May Sutton 6-3, 9-7 for her 3rd of 7 Wimbledon singles titles
1907 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: American May Sutton avenges previous year’s defeat, beating Dorothea Chambers 6-1, 6-4
1912 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: English badminton champion Ethel Larcombe wins her first and only major tennis title beating Charlotte Cooper 6-3, 6-1
1914 MLB Boston Braves (26-40) are 15 games back in NL, go on to win World Series 4-0 vs Philadelphia A’s
1919 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France beats Dorothea Chambers 10-8, 4-6, 9-7 for the first of 6 Wimbledon singles titles
A Thought for Today
Until we meet again dear sisters, brothers, and honored guests may your life be filled with joy and happiness!
Spells for Today – Daily Spellwork
Did you know that each day of the week has a special kind of energy to make magic happen?
Let’s see the best spells for Monday and let’s learn how to use this day and its energy the right way!
Contents
What kind of spells could we cast on a Monday?
Which planet influences Monday
My favorite spells to do on Monday
Click on the hyperlinks to read the rest of this article about Monday’s Spells from magickalspot.com
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Word is
Annoint
and
Anointing Oil
Annoint: to rub, smear, or dab an oil, ointment, or potion onto an object or person as part of a religious or magickal practice as a means of imbuing with intended energies, status, or other specified purpose.
Anointing Oil: a skin-safe, scented oil, that is dabbed on the body (common locations are the pulse points and forehead) in order to purify an individual mentally and physically.
From moonlitpriestess.com
July 4 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 4
Strawberry Supermoon Over Devil’s Saddle
Image Credit & Copyright: Lorenzo Busilacchi
Explanation: Near the horizon the full moon often seems to loom large, swollen in appearance by the famous Moon illusion. But time-lapse image sequences demonstrate that the Moon’s angular size doesn’t really change as it rises or sets. Its color does, though. Recording a frame about every 60 seconds, this image also shows how red the Sun can look while low on the horizon. The featured montage was taken from Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, the day after June’s Strawberry Moon, a full moon dubbed a supermoon due to its slightly larger-than-usual angular size. This Strawberry Supermoon is seen rising behind the Devil’s Saddle, a mountain named for the unusual moon-sized dip seen just to the right of the rising moon. A shrinking line-of-sight through planet Earth’s dense and dusty atmosphere shifted the moonlight from strawberry red through honey-colored and paler yellowish hues. That change seems appropriate for a northern June Full Moon also known as the Strawberry or Honey Moon. A Thunder Supermoon — the third of four supermoons in 2022 — will occur later this month.
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July 4 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Great Britain
1785 James Hutton, geologist, publicly reads an abstract of his theory of uniformitarianism for the first time at the meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
1803 The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people by President Thomas Jefferson
1838 Huskar Colliery Mining Disaster in Silkstone England: mining pit floods drown 26 children, leads to 1842 ‘Mines and Collieries Act’ bans women and children working underground
1934 Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb
2017 North Korea tests first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into Sea of Japan
Today’s Historical Events
836 Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
993 Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized.
1054 Brightest known supernova SN 1054 (creates the Crab Nebula) 1st reported by Chinese astronomers
1120 Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew’s death
1187 Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of Châtillon
1301 Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg
1359 Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
1415 Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1954 WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF) TV channel 48 in Huntsville, AL (ABC) begins
1961 Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Skørping in Denmark
1962 KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast
1970 Casey Kasem‘s “American Top 40” debuts on LA radio
1989 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide
1991 24th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Pan Pacific Hotel
1996 29th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2014 Rolf Harris is sentenced to 5 years and 9 months for indecently assaulting female minors
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1831 “America (My Country ‘Tis of Thee)” is 1st sung in Boston
1964 Beachboys’ “I Get Around” reaches #1
1966 Beatles attacked in the Philippines after (unintentionally) insulting Imelda Marcos
1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin
1977 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
1986 Farm Aid II benefit concert held in Manor, Texas; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Waylon Jennings, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Nicolette Larson, Los Lobos, and Steve Earle
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1890 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Lena Rice becomes the only Irish female to win at Wimbledon beating May Jacks 6-4, 6-1
1891 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley wins first of 3 Wimbledon singles championships; beats Joshua Pim 6-4, 1-6, 7-5, 6-0
1892 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Defending champion Wilfred Baddeley beats Joshua Pim 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2
1904 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Laurence Doherty & Reggie Doherty beat Paul de Borman & William le Maire de Warzée 6-0, 6-1, 6-3 to give British Isles an unassailable 3-0 lead over Belgium (ends 5-0)
1905 Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers Rube Waddell (A’s) and Cy Young (Boston) matchup in 20-inning classic; Philadelphia win, 4-2
1906 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Laurence Doherty beats Frank Riseley 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 for his 5th straight Wimbledon singles title
1907 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires of Australia in round 1 in Colma, California, his 6th title defence
1907 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Australian Norman Brookes becomes the first non-Englishman and left-hander to win Wimbledon beating Arthur Gore 6-4, 6-2, 6-2
The Star-Spangled Banner Song’s History
“The Star-Spangled Banner” is the national anthem of the United States. By the time the song officially became the country’s anthem in 1931, it had been one of America’s most popular patriotic tunes for more than a century. The anthem’s history began the morning of September 14, 1814, when an attorney and amateur poet named Francis Scott Key watched U.S. soldiers—who were under bombardment from British naval forces during the War of 1812—raise a large American flag over Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Who Wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner”?
From Drinking Song to American Anthem
Growing Popularity of “The Star-Spangled Banner”
History of the National Anthem at Sporting Events
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