 |
ALEXANDER and THINGS Magic SHOP MOON PHASE |
                  
|
The Moon
The phases of the moon will be important in all your workings. The inserted current moon phase cell, will add important information to you daily workings and charts. Significant dates will be placed below as they relate to the moon. The waxing moon phase will be best for constructive workings while the waning moon phases will work best for destructive workings. Constructive magic would be something similar to increasing something such as love, money, success, happiness etc. The destructive magic would involve something that you are getting rid of such as tooth aches, nail biting basically bad habits or even loosing wait or cutting your hair. Knowing this you can call upon the moon's power to aide you in your magical working and increase your successes. Blessed Be in all your workings.
CURRENT MOON  A diagram showing how the Sun moves through the sky on the Winter solstice.ice.
The Moon is the planetary ruler for Mondays. It's attributes are for Ancestors, Childbearing, Dreams, Healing, Instinct, Memory, Merchandise, Purity, Theft, and Virginity. BIG FULL MOON:
It's
no illusion. Some full Moons are genuinely larger than others and
this Friday's is a whopper. Why? The Moon's orbit is an ellipse with
one side 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other: diagram. In the
language of astronomy, the two extremes are called "apogee" (far
away) and "perigee" (nearby). On Dec. 12th, the Moon becomes full a
scant 4 hours after reaching perigee, making it 14% bigger and 30%
brighter than lesser full Moons we've seen earlier in 2008.
A perigee Moon brings with it extra-high "perigean tides," but this is nothing to worry about, according to NOAA. In most places, lunar gravity at perigee pulls tide waters only a few centimeters (an inch or so) higher than usual. Local geography can amplify the effect to about 15 centimeters (six inches)--not exactly a great flood. Okay, the Moon is 14% bigger, but can you actually tell the difference? It's tricky. There are no rulers floating in the sky to measure lunar diameters. Hanging high overhead with no reference points to provide a sense of scale, one full Moon looks much like any other. The best time to look is when the Moon is near the horizon. That is when illusion mixes with reality to produce a truly stunning view. For reasons not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, low-hanging Moons look unnaturally large when they beam through trees, buildings and other foreground objects. On Friday, why not let the "Moon illusion" amplify a full Moon that's extra-big to begin with? The swollen orb rising in the east at sunset may seem so nearby, you can almost reach out and touch it.But you still won't be able to see Armstrong's footprint. Not even Hubble can do that. The Moon is 384,400 km away (on average). At that distance, the smallest things Hubble can distinguish are about 60 meters wide. The biggest pieces of left-behind Apollo equipment are only about 9 meters across and smaller than a single pixel in a Hubble image. What you will see is the world around you. This is both the brightest and (in the northern hemisphere) the highest-riding full Moon of the year. If you go outside around midnight it will be close to overhead and act like a cosmic flood lamp making the landscape absolutely brilliant, especially if there's snow. Full moons are always high during winter and, indeed, the solstice is right around the corner on Dec. 21st. A fun experiment: Take a friend outside on Friday evening and ask if they notice anything unusual. Is the Moon big and bright enough to impress the unwary? Explain perigee later....
Full Moon Names January = Storm Moon A storm is said to rage most fiercely just before it ends, and the year usually follows as well.
February = Chaste Moon The old and outdated word for purity reflects the custom of greeting the new year with a clear soul
March = Seed Moon Sowing season and symbol of the start of the new year.
April = Hare Moon The sacred animal was associated in Roman legends with springtime and fertility.
May = Dyad Moon The Latin word for a pair refers to the twin stars of the constellation of Castor and Pollux.
June = Mead Moon During late June and most of July the meadows, or meads, were mowed for hay.
July = Wort Moon when the sun was in Leo, the worts (from the Anglo-Saxon wyrt plant) were gathered to be dried and stored.
August = Barley Moon Persephone, virgin Goddess of rebirth, carries a sheaf of barley as a symbol of the harvest.
September = Blood Moon Marking the season when domestic animals were sacrificed for winter provisions. Libra's full moon occasionally became the Wine Moon when a grape harvest was expected to produce a superior vintage.
October = Snow Moon Scorpio heralds the dark season when the sun is at it's lowest and the first snows fly.
November = Oak Moon The sacred tree of the Druids and the Roman God Jupiter is most noble as it withstands winter storms.
December = Wolf Moon The fearsome nocturnal animal represents the "night" of the year.
The Blue Moon - Varies A Blue Moon occurs when the moon with its 28 day cycle appears twice within the same calendar month, due to that month's 31 day duration. Many consider the Blue Moon to be a Goal Moon where you set specific goals for yourself.
The Black Moon - Varies A Black Moon occurs when there are two dark cycles of the moon in any given calendar month. It is believed that the second dark moon of a time is of great power within the spiritual world and any magick worked during this time is especially powerful.
The Moonstone: A rock variety of adularia or sanidine. Colorless, yellowish, milky, cloudy with blush-white tint, and wavelike light reflections, particularly distinct when curved; weak bluish or orange florescence under ultraviolet light Found in Sri Lanka, India, Burma; western Australia, Tazania, Madagascar, Virginia/USA, Brazil. Similar to Chalcedony, glass imitations are common.
The Hours of the Moon are: Sunday - 4am, 11am, 6pm Monday - 1am, 8am, 3pm, 10pm Tuesday - 5am, 12noon, 7am, Wednesday - 2am, 9am, 4pm, 11pm Thursday - 6am, 1pm, 8pm Friday - 3am, 10am, 5pm, 12midnight Saturday - 7am, 2pm, 9pm
FULL MOON RITUAL INCENSE 2 parts sandalwood, + 2 parts frankincense, + 1/2 part gardenia petals, + 1/4 part rose petals, + a few drops ambergris oil Burning during esbats or simply at the time of the full moon to attune with the Goddess.
A Story of the Waning and Waxing of the Moon Aware of Ganesh's greediness his devotees gave him many sweets which he swallowed immediately. Ganesh returned home on riding his mouse at sunset and in the darkness. The mouse suddenly stumbled over a snake and Ganesh fell to the ground. He had eaten so much that his over filled stomach burst and the cakes poured out. He collected and replaced them in his belly, caught the snake and used it as a belt around his waist and held the sweets in. The Moon, Chandra, starts laughing at the whole performance. Ganesh was very annoyed. He removed his right tusk and threw it to the moon's face. He then cursed her so she could not shine at night and disappears from the sky. Everyone complained. Young lovers complained. Old people complained. Even the gods found heaven found life unbearable. They went to Ganesh's house asking him to manage the situation. He decided the moon would not be allowed to shine every night as she had before. She was sentenced to wax and wane, alternating a shining fortnight and a dark fortnight, each period ending with a full moon and a new moon. This is the reason why people think it superstitious to look at the moon on the Ganesh birthday (which corresponds to the fourth day of the wax) in August or early September. People taking no notice at all, will probably get big problems. The belief is still practiced today. If any unlucky man sees the moon on that particular day, he has to throw stones quickly on the next house, so that the injuries sent by his neighbors return upon the god's anger!
Herbs and Plants of Full Moon Rituals For full moon rituals it is appropriate to use any nocturnal plant, white or flowers with five petals, like whites Roses, night blooming Jasmine, Carnations, Gardenias, Cereus, Lilies, Iris which are all pleasingly scented. They all call forth the Goddess. Camphor is also symbolic of the Moon and the Goddess. IMPACT ALERT: Japan's Kaguya spacecraft will crash into the Moon on Wednesday, June 10th, at around 1830 UT. The timing favors telescopic observers in east Asia, Australia and New Zealand, who may be able to see a brief flash of light or a plume of debris rising from the Moon's southeastern limb close to selenographic coordinates 80ºE, 63ºS. The expected impact point is marked by a red dot in this image from astrophotographer Pete Lawrence:
At the top of the photo we see the Pleiades, known to
the
Maori as
Matariki.
"Traditionally, the first new moon after the appearance of Matariki
in the dawn sky was taken as the start of the Maori New Year, or 'Te
Whetu o te Tau,'".
Different tribes had slightly different customs. Some held festivities when Matariki was first seen in the dawn sky; others celebrated after the full moon rose or at the beginning of the next new moon. Around Auckland, the Maori New Year of 2009 is being celebrated from June 24 to July 24 with a program of events showcasing Maori culture. At the Te Papa national museum in Wellington, the Matariki Festival is being held from June 25 to July 12.
© Copyright 2006-2010 P. Alexander. All rights reserved.
|
