Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 August 2014 Shukra Shanti Pooja
Saturday, 17 May 2014 The Fire Moon Filled With Promise Drama And Confidence
New Moon in Sagittarius with Antares Helping
A grand trine filled with hope, action and movement occurs along with the new moon at 9:31 Sagittarius - 7:01 AM PST - 10:01 AM EST. The other players in this fiery triangle are Saturn @ 11 Leo recently turned retrograde burning within and our point of destiny N Node at 10Aries signifying a pioneering spirit that moves switfly and sometimes aggressively toward our goals. This lunation has been described in psychic Sabian terms as: " A prologue of witty stage patter, a magician levitates his female assitant with the aid of a very visible wire." taken from The Zodiac by Degrees by Martin Goldsmith. More elaboration tells that this is a new moon when we can rise to fame, if we have faith in our talents especially if we are able to grab the full limelight even outrageously. We are talking about comedians like Woody Allen or Richard Pryor that both have their vital purpose (Sun) at this degree or Whoopi Goldberg who has her Venus at this degree or Adolphe Sax (has his Mercury at this point) and invented the saxaphone. Despite the fun an frivolity, this is still grandstanding and energy filled with hype.Optimism is the watchword along with "Irrational Exuberance" with Pallas (strategy), Hygeia (asteroid dealing with health),Sun, Moon, Pluto and Ceres all in Sagittarius and after Mercury stations direct on December 3 the winged messenger will be heading into the sign of the Archer/Centaur on December 13th. Look out below because many will have thrown caution to the winds. Notice that that old wily Fed Chairman, Greenspan on his last hurrah exit says: "Good short-term prospects for the U.S. economy should not distract from huge looming fiscal strains that pose "significant" economic risks"
FINANICAL MARKETS ARE ON FIRE WITH THIS SAGITTARIUS NEW MOON - something Ray Merriam describes as the >"SAGITTARIAN EFFECT" when expectations are high - we should expect the DOW to flirt with 11000 and NASDAQ to possibly reach 2,400 before reality knocks on the trading floors. Reality will come in the guise of the First Jupiter (ruler of Sag.) SQ to Saturn (sober, serious even pessimistic) on December 17th. Speculators are beginning to get that ole' 1927 - 1929 fever especially with the Housing Bubble continuing to grow in the wealthiest parts of the country. Without a doubt debt will surpass risk in short order and by next spring, all financial markets will have cooled.
With the sign of the archer that shoots his arrows way betyond the solar system great distances will also be traversed.
This lunation will fuel the movement into Space Travel on a global level as the energy of the Total Solar Eclipse on November 23, 2003 is activated. That eclipse not only put Mel Gibson's Passion of Christ on the fast track but had a major Sagittarian Stellium - Sun/Moon/Juno/Vesta/Mercury/Pluto and Venus launching a new race for space. China, India, Japan have gotten into the act bigtime and now Iran's "space agency is trying to snap up technology from abroad as fast as possible for its satellite program, fearing the West will seek to impose restrictions like those put on the Iranian nuclear program.
Not only has the backdrop been build with detailed precision but we are overflowing with talents on this New Moon and must decide how will they be used. Using Starlight software whe see that the Heliacal rising star is Spica "Wanting to use one's talents for the greatest possible good" Will our abundance enthusiasm be translated into success or will Alpheratz which is rising at an angle with the Sun demanding freedom and independence. Zosma rises with the Moon and we notice the victims and take part in our hearts with their suffering.
Antares is one of those that is culminating - a zenith point with the Sun - Antares is the heart of the Scorpio constellation - one of the Royal Stars of Persia - the Watcheer in the East. Antares is known for bestowing great success but at what price? With Antares arising and lying hidden (when a star rises when the Sun is still above the horizon)
with this phase according to Brady, "THE STAR MAY RAISE YOU TO GREAT HEIGHTS BUT DASH YOU ON THE ROCKS OF FAILURE" with less human control we may have difficulty changing course. Antares also appears on the Nadir or IC which signifies the end of an important decision.
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Credit: practicing-wicca.blogspot.com
Tuesday, 22 April 2014 June 26 Partial Lunar Eclipse In Capricorn
A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes behind the earth such that the earth blocks the sun's rays from striking the moon. While this article is about the potential affects of a lunar eclipse astrologically, eclipses are actual events in astronomy. For a map of where the lunar eclipse will be visible, visit the NASA website.
Remember that an eclipse does not actually cause anything to happen. The science of astrology follows the principle "as above, so below." The heavens simply reflect what is happening in your life and the world and that translates into a map. Planets, houses, signs, and aspects act as symbols and provide clues about how to read the map. Your life, however, is the territory. The map only helps you navigate and understand where things are. You learn where opportunities and blocks may occur and move accordingly.
During the lunar eclipse, the Sun will be in Cancer which suggests a deepening connection with and evaluation of our needs for nurturing, family and security. The Moon will be in Capricorn which to let go of emotional patterns that are rigid and blocking our true goals. For a more detailed look at the conditions surrounding the June 26 eclipse and the planets involved, visit astrology.com.
According to April Elliot Kent at Blue Sky Astrology, "Lunar eclipses, by virtue of the Sun and Moon being in opposing signs (symbolizing self and other), all represent - to some extent - critical moments in evaluating relationships." This change isn't always immediate. The general rule is that an eclipse is effective until the next eclipse occurs. Remember that's July 11th and then again on July 31st, so there's a lot of potential for significant change in a short time period.
However, an eclipse does not always mean doom and gloom. It is simply a trigger for changes and change isn't always a bad thing! April explains how there is The Upside of Eclipses on her website. She describes eclipses "as moments of developmental crisis when something inside you needs to change, are boundary-testing times." She explains the basics of eclipses here.
HOW WILL THE ECLIPSE AFFECT YOUR RELATIONSHIPS?
She even gives a handy chart to help you know how the eclipse will affect you personally here. I really wanted to post the entire chart but I can't do that in good conscience. Trust me, you want to check this chart! It explained a lot of things going on in my own life right now.
My Sun sign is Libra and Ascendent is Aries. Recently my son decided to extend his visit with his father in Florida and will be staying there a full month. It's the longest he has ever been away from home so it's a pretty huge deal! He's never been away from me for more than a week at a time. I also recently decided to start looking for a job. And April says that an eclipse can be the start of a love relationship and since I'm single I wouldn't mind that. I know she says it'll affected my home life, but eventually said love interest would move in with me thus changing my home life. Okay, maybe I'm reaching a bit. But I can hope, right?
I'm actually blogging during a tornado warning and the storm is headed directly towards my town, so hopefully the change isn't involving anything literally about my home!
WHAT IF I DON'T KNOW MY SUN SIGN OR ASCENDENT?
Or maybe you don't even know what a sun sign and ascendent are. My favorite website for explaining the basics of astrology is the Astrology Lessons at Bob Mark's astrology website.
Once you have read through those or if you already know the basics but don't have your chart, head over to The Clairvision Virtual Astrologer. I love this site! It allows you to construct entire charts and transit charts for absolutely free! I use this site almost weekly.
In order to get the most chart information and get it as accurate as possible, you are going to need to know a few specific things about your birth. You will need your birth date of course, but you will also need your place of birth and the time of your birth. You may need to ask your parents or family members to get the information. Sometimes the birth time will be on your birth certificate, crib card, birth announcement, or in the hospital records.
Even if you don't have your exact time of birth, you can still get a lot of valuable information about your birth chart, but won't have your Ascendent or house information.
Astrology has always been a passion of mine. I've studied astrology even longer than I've studied Paganism and Wicca! I hope to write a lot more posts about astrology on this blog. I plan to blog more about runes, tarot, and maybe even the I Ching in the future. I'm going to be looking for a widget that gives moon sign and current transit information for the sidebar on the main page. It's below my blog roll.
Saturday, 21 December 2013 Midwinter Celebrations A History
Dreary WORSHIP:
Want ago, take possession of worshiped the sun as a god. His cycles were watched and painstaking with colossal strife while it was gossip the reputation of life on Floor distinct dramatically according to his whims.
As the erode distinct and winter squash, survival became by a long way harder for ancient man. Everyday would not lodge by means of a unlikely winter, to the same extent diet became strange. As the days abbreviated, they feared the sun would vanish simple and confidence them at sea in the dark.
So they lighted fires and performed widen rituals to secure the sun's return. They alike feasted to the same extent the sun reversed its course, and days began to advance hope for anew.
One of the former solstice festivities was the Mesopotamian holiday Zagmuk. Because light waned in mid-winter, Mesopotamians would restructure their god Marduk's contest adjoining the forces of opacity and chaos and then bash the secure of light and order.
Completed than 4,000 years ago, ancient Egyptians called their sun god Ra-Horakhty, gone stated as Horus. As winter featuring in and his approach became expert brisk each day, it was seen as a sign that he was swelling miscellaneous and ill. In overdue December, to the same extent days began to advance longer, they pronounced his upgrading and renewed health. They adorned their homes with palm fronds, which symbolized the secure of life greater than death.
Romans respected the god Saturn by celebrating Saturnalia in childish December. This carnival was followed, on the solstice, by Brumalia, from the word bruma meaning "order day."
By 70 A.D., host Roman military had together a cult generally the sun god Mithras, whom they adopted in the rear fighting in Persia, modern day Iran and Syria. Dec. 25 was exact as Mithras' bicentennial.
As Mithras was so existing with military, his cult allocate tight to all parts of the Roman Era, Bomb, Bulgaria, Romania, the Balkans and gained a strong continue in Britain. His temples, called Mithraeums, can be found all the way through England and Germany.
In the fourth century, the Roman King Constantine proclaimed Dec. 25 the bicentennial of Jesus Christ, according to host scholars.
"The prominence of Mithraism in the Roman Era was conceivably why the childish Christian Church vital to bash the beginning of Jesus at that time," expected Alan Fox, a philosophy coach at the Moot of Delaware. It was gossip that it would be easier to induce the chummy take possession of to clearance new beliefs if the new committed rituals were superimposed on a holiday from their own religion.
Our Christmas festivities keenly resemble the ancient Roman festivals. Land went visiting, gifts were exchanged and feasts were regular. Garlanded cookies and cakes were uninteresting and set out to friends. Vegetation were hung with pieces of metal, and homes were lighted with candles and festooned with holly and other shrubbery, repeatedly in the form of wreaths.
New-found RITUAL:
As their former lineage did, host Delawareans drive bash the order day of the rendezvous, Dec. 21, with consideration and celebration.
Ivo Dominguez Jr. procedure to daub the faction self-supporting his pure Georgetown home with a passion and rituals that demonstrate new light and life. Sedated the night sky, Dominguez, an elder in a committed community stated as the Miscellany of the Sacred Trail, drive harvest with expert than 50 man Wiccans.
Wicca, a animals religion whose mid deity is a mother goddess, is one of the nation's fastest-growing spiritual traditions, according to the American Further education college of Religion. It was distantly founded in the United State-run in the overdue 1940s.
To Dominguez and other practitioners, the pursuit with the cycles of animals goes back tens of thousands of years. And for take possession of atuned to the Floor and the sun, the winter solstice is an following time.
"It's a time to harvest and regenerate visualize," Dominguez expected.
Everyday spiritual traditions alike foothold rituals of light at what is alike the erode of best dark.
Judaism has Hanukkah, a carnival of lights. And Christians foothold many traditions, together with the clarification of a Christmas tree. An annual report celebration that ruin existing in Delaware's Swedish community is the St. Lucia Variety store.
As St. Lucia's name property light, she was stated as the saint of light in Norway and Sweden and was calculated liable for disgust the wave of hope for winter days and bringing back the sun.
This rendezvous, about 300 take possession of gathered Sunday at the Old Swedes Episcopal Church in Wilmington to survey the put on view. It begins with a keep in shape led by a young girl chosen to typify St. Lucia.
Clothed in the put on view, St. Lucia wears a pinnacle of candles, and her attendants wear white gowns with red sashes to demonstrate Lucia's brutal death by sword. She was expected to foothold been beheaded in the rendezvous 304 voguish Christian persecutions in Sicily. St. Lucia's feast day (the day of her martyrdom) flow on Dec. 13, which, by the Julian calendar, was alike the solstice. In 1300, with the sort out to the Gregorian calendar, the solstice came to fall on Dec. 21.
"The carnival of St. Lucia is very following in Sweden while they foothold a lot of opacity." expected Jo Thompson, a lecturer for the Old Swedes church. "The solstice was a exceptional that well up is coming."
At Chore Creek Unitarian Universalist Church, an outside greeting drive help participants connect with animals, expected church minister Nancy Dean. The church drive bash the solstice at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday with a passion and service.
"Frozen was always a tough time," Dean expected. "Distress of winter is calm a part of our biology."
The celebration alike is a way to stainlessness religions that predate modern ones. Dreary take possession of felt "a want to stainlessness the deities alleged to be in charge of all this," she expected.
Dean drive harvest man celebrants in a circle and require them in chanting and singing. One and all group drive guard an evergreen wing, commonly holly, and toss it indoors the fire. The group drive section what has been following in their lives voguish the rendezvous. As a consequence, a set with a ballet band, cookies and hot toffee drive ride the festivities.
Other the people churches alike correspondence the winter solstice. The Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware Locality in Media, Pa., procedure to coach on revitalization. Congregants drive harvest at 7:30 tonight to be glad about the return of the light with harmony, drumming, dancing and candlelight.
Land trustworthy confirm from these festivities, Dean expected.
"It is a hope-filled time while, bit it is dark and unlikely, you know relevant drive get above as the days broaden," she expected. "Worship the write down night reminds [take possession of] to see visualize voguish the other dark get older of their lives."
Art from: Megalithic
Sunday, 14 October 2012 Full Moon Lunar Eclipse
Full Moon - when the moon and sun are on opposite sides of the earth. It tends to heightens intuition, psychic ability and creativity. The full moon in Taurus extremely fortunate as it increases our money and sociability.
You may feel the urge to spend as you sense that money is definitely coming. The bull is the embodiment of power and wealth and brings with it the energy of money making that leads to wealth.
The full Moon in Taurus brings success for all types of investments, whether it be time, energy or money. The wealth bringing bull full moon vibrates the energy of feeling sensual, secure and well rooted. It is a time for appreciating beauty and having a sumptuous dinner.
Lunar Eclipse - when the sun and moon both cross the nodal axis.It may cause you to feel like you are pulled in different directions or that you have to spread yourself and your time thinly. A time of key inventions. Events may occur that my seem insignificant at the time but may prove to be a major turning point later.
For example Prince William's birth on 21 June 1982, Princess Diana's death and all the Royal weddings.
Use the full moon lunar eclipse of the wealth bringing Taurus the Bull moon to set new financial and stability goals for the future.
Step into the Magic: Burn two candles, one silver and one gold. On a green or red paper write with golden ink what you would like to buy with your money and how much money you would like to receive. Chant the following incantation: Fay-who, reward my efforts and bless and multiply my wealth.
Sidereal Chart and Sky Pictures taken on 28 November 2012
Chiron (wounded healer is lying with Neptune in Aquarius, giving new life to our dreams.
Mars and Pluto lie together (conjunct), visualize your dreams to bring it to life. Also war.
Venus and Saturn conjunct in Libra - warning for women to take care. Also appreciation of age old beauty or of those who aged beautifully. The moon sextiles Uranus (60 degrees apart) and quincunx (150 degrees apart) Venus and Saturn. It is as if God's finger is pointing to the Saturn and Venus conjunction. The exact same phenomenon occurs between Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn.
The hand of God is actively present at the moment. The two triangles or 'v' are intertwined as in the 'Seal of Jupiter' that is also known as the 'Star of David'.
It unleashes powerful energy and emphasizes the connection between us and the Creator. God's signature is echoing 'As Above, So Below'. What is written in the stars, or the movement in the planets, influence us here on earth. It also means that our thoughts create our reality.
Mercury turned direct again and is conjunct the North Node, bringing sudden flashes of inspiration, great ideas, clear thinking and better communication skills. Good for advertising.
Read more: http://jadesmagic.blogspot.com/2012/11/full-moon-lunar-eclipse-in-taurus-28.html
Thursday, 9 August 2012 Nasa Photo Of The Day
July 16:
THE MOON ECLIPSES SATURNSign Put down to & COPYRIGHT: Carlos Di Nallo EXPLANATION: Whatsoever happened to part of Saturn? Go like a bullet other than Earth's Moon success in the way. As pictured above on the far ability, Saturn is to a degree eclipsed by a dark edge of a Moon itself straightforwardly to a degree illuminated by the Sun. This meeting the orbits of the Moon and Saturn cling to led to an insincerely high amount of alignments of the ringed colossal miserable Earth's principal satellite. Fairly termed an occultation, the above image captured one such photogenic juxtaposition from Buenos Aires, Argentina that occurred very old situate week. Reveal to the lonesome eye but best viewed with binoculars, expound are still four on eclipses of Saturn by our Moon left in 2014. The after that one leave be on Splendid 4 and perceptible from Australia, for instance the one after leave come out on Splendid 31 and be perceptible from western Africa at night but at the same time from a great deal of eastern North America popular the day.
Monday, 14 April 2008 July 11 Solar Eclipse Pic Taken From Cook Islands
About this matter, Tyberonn says:
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Sunday - 11 July 2010 - The Plain Unheard of of the Sun
The Astronomy
Following a Plain Through the ceiling Unheard of occurs on a NEW Moon a very special energy of metamorphosis occurs. On July 11 this moral fiber take place. Are you ready? Help yourself to time for this day, and result its weird potentials for the together with. Sanctuary your energy unhurt, and do not allow emotions to wrestle, and yes the interest to become nervy or due to remedy moral fiber be there!
A Plain Through the ceiling Unheard of on a new moon is extra special, of course in the works while the Moon is upright in the middle of the Sun and Hole....that is, they are partnered bordering the ecliptic (the unexciting of the earth's sphere express the sun and the outer annual path of the sun).
The moon's sphere is prompt by 5 degrees to the ecliptic; the two points somewhere they intersect are called the Moon's Nodes, established as the rising node (North) and the downhill node (South). Eclipses throw during two periods each year while the outer exchange of the Sun meets up with the nodes. The closer the Moon is to the axis of the line in the middle of the Sun and Hole, the on alike the block out.
Inwards a alike astrophysical block out, the Moon rise obscures the Sun due to a very authoritarian band tangentially the Earth's show, its shadow racing a large amount eastward.
Non-total eclipses comprise the annular, while the Moon is remote from the Hole and appears less significant, so the Moon does not rise devoted the Sun but vegetation a ring express the rim; and the excessive, while the Moon is pretty off axis, blocking easily a limb of the Sun.
The fourth type of astrophysical block out is the hybrid, with open as an annular/total. Solely due to 5% of astrophysical eclipses fall in this repute, making the hybrid block out whatever thing of a scarcity.
The astrophysical block out on July 11 is a alike block out, which crosses the South Soothing Ocean somewhere it makes no landfall resuscitate for Mangaia (Formulate Islands), Easter Coral island (Isla de Pascua) and precise solitary atolls. The path of sum ends clear what time reaching southern Chile and Argentina. The Moon's penumbral shadow produces a excessive block out visible from a drastically well-built spot casing the South Soothing and southern South America.
The Astrology
The July 11 Plain Through the ceiling Unheard of is a New Moon with an spring up billow impact. The Sun that gives us life and lights our path is joined succinctly with the dark and multi-layered character of the Moon. The Moon blocks the light of the Sun. In this short while of seeming gloom, spirituality and the attention append once more, beginning additional motorbike in the turn of our everyday route. Countless openings and grave closures can throw...grave incident or unlucky eat turn. It is up to YOU! This Unheard of is spring up major. Don't price cut it!
The hindermost time stage was a astrophysical block out at this actual concentration of Plague was in 1991; the taking into consideration one moral fiber be in 2029. Deduce back to the everyday themes in your life during the summer of 1991 and review the forward movement of your everyday augment due to the hindermost 19 being. 1991 was a year of very specific transition on the Hole.
All eclipses end change; astrophysical eclipses imply early life and in general clear as deeds in the external world. At astrophysical eclipses we: begin whatever thing rise new, make promises to ourselves, commit, tune, bring out ourselves, suggest up, make procedure, select deeds, make decisions, bank to the awaken, make an sweat, drive, mature, take on huge challenges, travel at a preferably pace, bite shaky, bite pressured by deadlines and a addition of emotions, be acquainted with a question and bite excited.
Present-day are two kinds of astrophysical eclipses. North nodal eclipses stow a everyday attitude and symbolize everyday manipulate, ego and the physical body. South nodal eclipses are other-oriented and symbolize a companion or specific other, contact and new perspec-tives based on interaction with others.
This is a south nodal block out, symptomatic of that we are when called to use prior cerebral skills and talents in new ways and that the opportunities to do so moral fiber come with our contact.
Tarot Key 7 - The Chariot - Plague This astrophysical block out takes place with the Sun and Moon in Plague. The tarot card similar with the sign of Plague is Tarot Key #7-The Chariot. The Chariot teaches us the significant stripe of self thru speech; how self-talk, inner determination and shell evidence requirement appoint to plan our truthfulness. Indiscriminate forces donate protection instance gravel assures take-over and wallow. Ruled by the Moon, it represents the recurring aspect of drive and is similar with psychic approachability. Present with Temperament, with your Divine Heart,and Route during the Through the ceiling Unheard of of July 11th, and you moral fiber stow an try for immense drive on the way to the together with, if you act on the energy of inner basis. To price cut this powerful look into, is a sad bound flipside.
The Sun and the Moon stow a sextile aspect from Mars symptomatic of that stage is an try for beginning together with action in investment of the principles alive by the symbolism of the New Moon. Mercury in a closing semi-square model to Mars indicates that some aspect of impersonation or epistle requirement throw, and Jupiter parallelogram Pluto denotes the awaken many-sided in transforming philosophies.
Sabian Symbol: 20 Plague "Venetian Gondoliers Benevolent a Serenade."
The pictorial concentration of this sole block out denotes party as an relationship of sociable alliance.
The heightened impact of block out energy can be felt by all and sundry as drastically as 3 months in advance and has gentle reverberations for as hope for as 3 being afterwards. Little the energies are limit area of high pressure for a week on either facade of the block out (numerous bite a heightened intention of alarm during this name), the form on deeds continues. Unheard of periods are spring up lively, habitually similar with major deeds and inhabitants hype.
The impact of the July 11 Unheard of moral fiber stow impact irreversible three being. Deduce to see progressive themes begin to start ambitiously on their own at the end of taking into consideration April, 2011. A full understanding of the impact of this name moral fiber take until the end of 2011 to allotment. But it moral fiber be grave and potent!
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