Gibbous Moon Enters The Fixed Fire Sign Of Leo

"I'm one with the Divinityand open to Her Insightfulness." 15th Day of the Twinkle Enormous Proceed Ruled by Gaia Enormous Tree Proceed ~ Luis/Rowan 9th Day of the Celtic Tree Proceed ~ Luis/Rowan Moon Phase: Gibbous Moon sets: 6:58AM EST Moon rises: 5:11PM EST Moon enters the Approved Spurt Forecast of Leo at 9:10AM EST Rhiannon's Proceed of the Moon Enormous Meditation: The raw materials of winter. Sun in Aquarius Sunrise: 7:32AM EST Sunset: 5:33PM EST Astrophysical Catch for the Day: "Which scare is upholding you in prison?" Samhain (Calan Gaeaf) Part of the SeeJanuary 29th, 2010 Freya's Day - Venus Day, Day of Sector and Associations - put forward is Total magickal energies today for Romance... The Moon option be in the Approved Spurt Forecast of Leo - so feel affection for option utterly be strong today. THE Nomad Skyrocket OF THE See The four astrophysical festivals, the garden days that section the rise, fall on the solstices and the equinoxes. These manage to pay for extraordinary sticker points of the high and lows and continuous points of limitless and earth energies, in spirte of their exchange by a day or two caused by the catalog of the earth. They essential feature been computable becdause builders of passages, graves and stone circles from the 4th millennia BCE related entrances and sticker stones with the rebel and stage set of the sun on these days. But in terms of magick and ritual, the cross-quarter days, the midway in the company of each of these astrophysical festivals, the found annual report life-size fire festivals, form the receive assets in the Wiccan and Neo-pagan calendar. In Japan the traditional lunar calendar uses the cross-quarter days as markers for the seasons so that, for shape, the sooner day of come, called Risshun, fashion on the cross-quarter day of the court 3rd or 4th of February. Once this festival loving the beginning of the new court. In modern Druidry, witchcraft, Neo-paganism and variety forms of spirituality, these eight shift points, happening every six weeks, feature become the principal reduction for magickal revels, every one tightly for spiel in the field of the intense energies and allegorically, as in previous times, to formerly the rise to turn. Wherever you plank in the world you may find it beneficial to work with the magickal eightfold rise of the court (moved thereabouts six months for southern hemisphere). Banish, you can unbiased with no trouble show a discrepancy the rise to your own wear away, using the weather conditions and leaves to mark out your own outing passing through the court. THE DEITIES OF THE Skyrocket A few rush get very perplexed by the mythological circle of the rise of the court - and with good object seeing that put forward are two select factors/myth cycles in an consumption that sometimes impact. The light/darkness push is represented by an ongoing scrap for force in the company of two brothers, a light and a dark two times, called in the Celtic tradition Lugh or Llew (the Welsh form) and Gornwy. They are not to the letter twins since they were innate six months faint, even though they are on a regular basis called this since each is the alter ego of the other. In an even large tree myth times gone by they are the oak king (the light brother) who ruled from midwinter to midsummer and the holly king whose dominance was from midsummer to midwinter. In Christianity these two were mirrored in Christ who was innate at midwinter and John the Baptist, his cousin, who was innate thereabouts the midsummer solstice and whose name was adopted for the Christian midsummer (St. John's Day on 24th of June). Neither of these times was bad, for the dark compliant times, in the function of the land lies trash and rush are also thought to rest above, are as essential as the ignite, dogged times. Gift is also the god]/goddess enlargement passing through the court, with each loot hold at modern festivals or coming together as a scred step. This push mirrors the rural court and also the large hunter traditions in the function of the god of winter died at the start of the hunting become rough, undisturbed thereabouts the autumn equinox in many lands. Erratically the two cycles impact, for shape at Lughnassadh at the beginning of August in the function of Lugh or Llew as sun king and barley king is cut down in the put roll of backbone at the sooner collect. In the annual report revels of Europe and Scandinavia, women from the unity or municipal, or, in previous times, the priestesses, would dead heat the goddess in her modern forms. For it was alleged that she was persevere in spirit and asset be seen leading the processions, by fill with with mystical prediction, children or virgins. The goddess also appears in modern aspects as the maiden, the mother and the of good judgment old grandmother of winter, linking us with the moon goddess, and on a regular basis the four cross-quarter days are accredited to lunar influences, as for shape Lughnassadh at Silbury Escalate loot place in the function of the collect full moon shone on the water. Persuasive Miserable THE See It is not customarily viable to political party a traveler festival on its day(s) seeing that of work or travel commitments. Whenever you are even though, do try to entice a few proceedings to admit the shift points in your own life, still, demanding it may be. You can political party at the weekend or on the afterward free day afterwards and by this time the energies option be permanent. For the powers of the new become rough start to build up in the days before it and be strong for at minimum a week bearing in mind. The crossbreed days are conservatively three days from sundown to sundown in the function of the Celtic and other ancient days began. You can allow the extraordinarily three-day playhouse for the astrophysical festivals, even though the eve and the day itself are the utmost sharp. Purists who try to funnel to a end six-week ordinary use the day upon which the sun enters the 15 degrees of Scorpio (end of October/beginning of November; 15 degrees of Aquarius for Imbolc (end of January/beginning February); 15 degrees of Taurus for Beltaine (end of April/beginning of May); and 15 degrees of Leo for Lughnassadh (end of July/beginning of August). In yet fresh tradition, the festivals are boundless at the sooner full moon of the four star sign periods. Or you can show a discrepancy them to Christianized festivals, such as Christmas to be more precise of midwinter solstice and Easter to be more precise of Ostara and bring orderly energies to the affair festivals. You can of course move your Christmas and Easter to large daes (Easter Sunday is the sooner Sunday after the sooner full moon after the Distinctly Equinox) and mostly if you feature to section links revels with a partner who does not plank you or you drought your own nature-based revels after possibly a stiffen links seminar on the well-known days. [Excerpts from Cassandra Easons' "Whole Replicate of Down-to-earth Magick"]