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Your Tarot Card for December 11th is The Hierophant

The Hierophant

Tuesday, Dec 11th, 2012

Traditionally known as the Hierophant, this card refers to a Master and the learning of practical lessons from the study of Natural Law. This energy of this card points to some agent or resource that can reveal the secrets of life, the cycles of the moon and tides, the links between human beings and the heavens.

Because monasteries were the only places a person could learn to read and write in the middle ages, a Hierophant was one to whom a student would petition for entry. He was the one to set the curriculum for the neophyte’s course of study.

Often pictured with the right hand raised in blessing, the Hierophant is linked with the ancient lineage of Melchezidek, initiator of the Hebrew priestly tradition, the one who passes on the teachings. All shamans of any tradition draw upon this archetype.

The Witches Correspondence for Monday, December 10th

The Witches Correspondence for Monday, December 10th

 

Magickal Intentions: Psychic Sensitivity, Women’s Mysteries, Tides, Waters, Emotional Issues, Agriculture, Animals, Female Fertility, Messages, Theft, Reconciliations, Voyages, Dreams and Merchandise
Incense: African Violet, Honeysuckle, Myrtle, Willow, Wormwood
Planet: Moon
Sign: Cancer
Angel: Gabriel
Colors: Silver, White and Gray
Herbs/Plants: Night Flowers, Willow Root, Orris Root, Birch, Motherwort, Vervain, White Rose and White Iris
Stones: Carnelian, Moonstone, Aquamarine, Pearl, Clear Quartz, Fluorite, Geodes
Oil: (Moon) Jasmine, Lemon, Sandalwood

Monday belongs to the Moon. Monday’s energy best aligns itself with efforts that deal with women, home and hearth, the family, the garden, travel, and medicine. It also boosts rituals involving psychic development and prophetic dreaming.

 

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The Witches Almanac for *Monday, December 10th

The Witches Almanac for *Monday, December 10th

*Monday (Moon): Peace, sleep, healing, compassion, friends, psychic awareness, purification and fertility.

Nobel Day

Moon Sign: *Scorpio

*Scorpio: Increases awareness of psychic power. Precipitates psychic crises and ends connections thoroughly. People tend to brood and become secretive.

*Waning Moon

*Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation, and little magickal work (except magick designed to banish harmful energies).

Incense: Hyssop

Moon Phase: Fourth Quarter

Color: Lavender

The Moon Phase for December 8th: Last Quarter

Last Quarter Moon

(waning/34% illumination)

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.

Your I Ching Hexagram for December 5th is 13: Fellowship

13: Fellowship

Wednesday, Dec 5th, 2012

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Fellowship. When communal bonds unite people, great success is possible. But such bonds can develop only when personal interests are subordinated to goals that serve the greater good of all. The broader the basis for action, the greater the benefits that can be achieved. And conversely, the greater the potential good, the more powerful the support behind it. A spirit of cooperation steadies the boat, but it helps to have a beautiful island to row towards.

Learn to respect the strength in diversity, for a community’s true power lies not in its numbers, but in the diverse skills and resources of its members. Just as the stoutest walls are reinforced with many different materials, so the strongest groups allow differences to co-exist inside the whole.

With a unified group solidly behind you, even difficult enterprises can be attempted without great risk.

Daily Cosmic Calendar for December 5th

The first main celestial event today is the lunar shift out of void mode in Leo and into practical Virgo (3:53AM PST) for the next 2+ days. It’s now time to roll up your sleeves and get down to brass tacks. Clean-up campaigns are a necessity. Make favorite rooms and bath areas glow again. Eliminate dust bunnies and bring outgrown clothing to second-hand stores. Repair work, sewing, and organizing your office-desk area are invigorated.  Being too pushy during the first half of the day is not advised since the Moon makes a potentially confusing polarity with far-out Neptune (4:52AM PST) while Mercury makes a frictional, 45-degree tie with underworld-ruling Pluto (5:26AM PST). Keep your business cards close to the vest, and don’t get roped into hazy, supposedly lucrative deals that offer pie-in-the-sky rewards.  Be more logical, sensible and grounded later on as the Moon makes a supportive, 60-degree liaison with Saturn (5:15PM PST) while the Moon also forms a trine with Pluto (7:36PM PST). Keep going forward as an efficiency master and serious, confident research expert.

The Witches Almanac for *Tuesday, December 4th

 

The Witches Almanac for *Tuesday, December 4th

*Tuesday (Mars): Passion, sex, courage, aggression and protection.

St. Barbara’s Day

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

Your Tarot Card for December 3rd is The Moon

The Moon

Monday, Dec 3rd, 2012

What has traditionally been known as the Moon card refers to a deep state of sensitivity and imaginative impressionability, developed within a womb of deep relaxation. Here we dream and go into trance, have visions and receive insights, wash in and out with the psychic tides, and experience deep mystical and/or terrifying realities beyond our ordinary senses. The full moon and/or eclipse cycle charted by the Magi (as in some of the earliest Moon card images) exemplify this as a mechanism that Nature uses to expand consciousness.

The variants of the courtly lovers (representing skillful use of the sex force) or the man sleeping it off under the tree (use of drugs to alter consciousness) are also traditional avenues for tapping this primal force. Human interest in higher states propels us to the frontiers of consciousness, where we cannot always control what happens. The Moon card represents the ultimate test of a soul’s integrity, where the membrane between self and the Unknown is removed, and the drop of individuality reenters

Daily Cosmic Calendar for November 30th

Keep out of mischief-making during the first few hours of the day when the Moon remains void in Gemini. Once the lunar orb enters its natural abode of watery Cancer (5:56AM PST), you can breathe a big sigh of relief and get on with the business of sprucing up your residence. Make the kitchen and bath areas sparkle again. Out with clutter, grease and grime; in with a new shine and sense of pride around your home base.  Helping you nurture dear ones and be more productive across the board is the monthly Moon-Ceres conjunction (7:26AM PST). Use this union to add healthful foods to your weekly diet. Cooking, baking and taking care of your lawn and garden (weather permitting) are back in style.  Emotional mood swings may rock your psychic interior this evening as Mars is contra-parallel to Ceres (9:28PM PST), Mercury makes a frictional, 135-degree link to its higher-octave planet Uranus (10:34PM PST), and Mars forms an inspirational, 72-degree tie with Pallas (10:42PM PST). While the Mars-Ceres and Mercury-Uranus connections carry a strong note of cosmic turbulence, the Mars-Pallas rapport can play the role of problem-solver to the hilt.  However, warning signals continue to flash red as November morphs into December since two, off-kilter, 150-degree sky patterns — Mercury with Vesta, and Venus with Jupiter — are about to manifest at 12:27AM PST and 12:46AM PST respectively, tomorrow morning, Saturday December 1. You will really want to stay emotionally calm and mentally clear as the last month of 2012 comes into being.