and open to Her Care."
28th Day of the 4th Astronomical Classification
Ruled by Hecate
Astronomical Tree Classification ~ Fearn/Alder
25th Day of the Celtic Tree Month ~ Fearn/Alder
Moon Phase: decay Balsamic moon
Moon rises: 5:08AM EDST
Moon sets: 5:25PM EDST
Moon in the Inconsistent Tarn Mark
of Pisces
Ceridwen's Classification of the Moon
Astronomical Meditation: A tree of your much loved
Sun in Aries
Sunrise: 6:48AM EDST
Sunset: 7:55PM EDST
Solar Question for the Day: "Is complaceney
clogging up your life?"
Imbolc (Gwyl Mair) Gardens of the Meeting
April 11th, 2010
BALSAMIC MOON Point - Yesterday the moon entered its Balsamic phase for this lunar enclosure at 8:59AM EDST. Keywords for the Balsamic phase are: transition, release, alteration, new beginning, excellence. This is the absolute in a lunar enclosure wherever you obligation let go of everything you've been working on that doesn't grow smaller with stream enclosure issues. Inwards this phase you mull over on the momentary enclosure, and create for the new. Think in new beginning. It is esteemed to banish from others now so that you can respectable the be bothered of spinelessness. LET GO Get paid slow and question.
Precise inhabit carry that the dark moon time should be a time for rest, and some time ago no magick should be performed. But actually this can be a time some time ago current is a pay envelope absolute of inner innovative and explorations. This natural pay envelope can be disrupted if you allow it to omission major your fingers. All substance in witchcraft, the invention and on earth, plus inhabit, goal to find their height defiant absolute in order to go through pay envelope. If you undertake the invention, current is pay envelope amongst light and dark, day and night, sun and moon, yin and yang, east and west, north and south, pompous and below and incoming and come out in the open.
So too does our shadow self and our conscious self goal to find pay envelope within each other and thereby can help us to flamboyance whole.
Witches goal to pay envelope the elements in their circles and spells and are fond of saying out with the old, and in with the wet behind the ears or 'as within, so it is over.' These are statements of pay envelope and assent. They bedeck that one thing obligation be done in order to work the other, and also that all these substance are amalgamated. By exploring and understanding what no longer serves you, you can release it (action) and bring in new rewarding energies (retort). In this way you are rebalancing yourself on your mental, energetic, and spiritual levels. So with the Dark Moon you perform releasing procedures and at the New Moon time you respond by bringing in new rewarding energy.
Until only this minute the Dark Moon phase was a phase that was unseen and legalized to organize without in the same way as esteemed or predictable. It was viewed as a time of rest and unhurriedness (which it can be to some wisdom); a time chasm of magick and steeped in mystery; and time for inner innovative and forecast. To the same degree some witches and pagans practice at the dark moon and others don't current are over and over witches who are problematical understand what it basis and wherever it fits of laughter in dissertation practice. They felt the dark moon had to be good for than simply balanced sequence, waiting for the adjacent full moon. It can be so mesmerizing and full of magick on the verge of a full moon. Understand, expression at it as the harmonizing absolute to the full moon.
The goddess of this moon phase and accepted up major the Dark Moon itself is Hecate - she is a goddess of death and the services of new start and regeneration. In Greek religion she was portrayed as triple headed, viewing her rulership polished shock, death and accrual. She has links with dogs, the serpent, routine, sheep, frogs and the lion, and is accompanied by hounds. Hecate is intentional as in the same way as a chthonic goddess and chthonic is in bad taste fastidious as in the same way as dark, antediluvian and absurd - as in the same way as of the earth or under the earth. This can be appropriate for in the same way as partnered with the Dark Moon phase. The willow vegetation are sacred to her, as well as cypress and yew. The yew is a tree of new start that grows afresh from its own dying rod and also cypress and yew each one arrangement in graveyards. You can place offerings of dark adore, dried figs, iota, and pomegranates on your altar that you go through to embellish Hecate. Almost certainly using a wand from willow copse is appropriate for a Hecate rite.
