Fuck, I had most of a post written, and was finishing up with some shit about the Mercury Retrograde screwing up communication, and fucking Blogger erased my entire post. Irony is some bullshit.
Blessings Darlings!
I guess I'll just have to start this post again. After I drink some water, because I am also over due on that. You get yourself some water, too. I'll be right back. And, no, my husband has NOT yet made me that little every-half-hour pop-up for my computer, reminding me to drink some water. It's still my own responsibility, and I'm not doing well at it.
I've been getting lots done in the garden since my last post. The phone has been ringing a lot. Laundry washed and hung. The landscape plastic is down. Replacement tomato plants in. Many big ass weeds pulled. Garlic harvested. 12 heads of garlic, and not huge ones at that. Enough to last us 3 months, IF I didn't want to save some to plant this fall. I discovered that my cucs aren't sprouting because the seeds are 6 years old. So I went out and bought a few cucumber plants. Not ideal, but the cucs will still be better than store bought
The internets are full of people going on about new moon, and eclipse, and summer solstice. And retrogrades. Retrogrades aren't a thing I worry about - I use their occurrence as a cue to back up computers and check status of insurances and such. Do the maintenance that you know you should do. It's not a big deal.
But, sure, there are a lot of different energies out there, and folks are aware of them. They also think that they can control them. Or 'harness' them. On the whole - they can't. And add to the not great ability to control or harness the rare assortment of cosmic energy, even I admit that with both Venus and Merc retrograde that communication is more difficult ... you're not going to be clear in your statements of intent. Being unclear in THAT means your magic is going to be more inclined to fail to begin with. So my magical focus this weekend is very very very ... grounded. I'm clearing ground. I'm putting in seeds. I'm harvesting what I've sown. I'm eating what I produced. I'm sharing it with others. I'm trying to perfect a recipe for Strawberry Lemonade.
Maybe I just don't have the spoons - or the loom - to weave with these energies. Maybe as an old white woman it's my time to step the hell back from doing to weaving and let the next generation of weavers take it on, with my support. Yes, of course I'm struggling, like everyone else, with depression with all the coronavirus disruption and the evidence of failure in progress that my generation produced, as well as my 'usual' depression.
For now, tho', I'm planting cucs and beans and whispering encouragement to my potatoes and beets. While Florida has just had over 4000 new cases of coronavirus in one day.
It is what it is.
Oh, we're in Fly Season here on the cattle farm. At this point it's the middle sized slow flies. I smashed at least 18 of them so far today, and there is at least one more left. We had the big horse flies two weeks ago. In about a month, it will be the somewhat smaller but VERY much faster flies. And there must be some big wasps nests around, too - there were 6 paper wasps eating the clothes pins on my clothes line as I tried to hang clothes today. I wish that the swallows would do something about them ... except that the wasps eat other bugs.
Frondly, Fern
Showing posts with label Dark Moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dark Moon. Show all posts
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Friday, July 13, 2018
Friday the 13th this year is Chaotic Neutral.
Blessings Darlings!
I've been rather gobsmacked by all the memes and such that I've run into today along the lines of "Friday the 13th is the Witch Day of [Good] Luck!" Look, folks, this is just bullshit.
First - why do SOME folks think that Friday the 13th is bad luck?
1 - 13 people were seated at the Last Supper (servers don't count, eh?)
2 - Jesus was crucified on a Friday.
3 - The slaughter of the Templars was on a Friday the 13th.
NONE OF THIS HAS SHIT TO DO WITH WITCHES. Or Pagans, for that matter. Get over it. Just because it was 'bad' to Christians doesn't make it 'lucky/good/whatever' to us. It's neutral.
What IS true about today, Friday the 13th, 1028 is that it is a Dark Moon. SOME of the folks going on about the Friday the 13th shit did notice that. But virtually NONE of them noticed that it also featured at partial solar eclipse. A solar eclipse - which, BTW, can only happen during a dark moon - is the chaotic combination of the chaos/Samhain like aspects of the Dark Moon combined with the strong hard-to-shape energy of the sun/moon/earth alignment.
Chaotic Neutral.
How can people who claim to be so tied in to nature and the universe be more tied to the totally artificial calendar dates than they are to ... well ... nature and the universe, to the point that they don't even know what's going on between our planet, it's one moon, and the star in our solar system?
I weep.
Frondly, Fern
I've been rather gobsmacked by all the memes and such that I've run into today along the lines of "Friday the 13th is the Witch Day of [Good] Luck!" Look, folks, this is just bullshit.
First - why do SOME folks think that Friday the 13th is bad luck?
1 - 13 people were seated at the Last Supper (servers don't count, eh?)
2 - Jesus was crucified on a Friday.
3 - The slaughter of the Templars was on a Friday the 13th.
NONE OF THIS HAS SHIT TO DO WITH WITCHES. Or Pagans, for that matter. Get over it. Just because it was 'bad' to Christians doesn't make it 'lucky/good/whatever' to us. It's neutral.
What IS true about today, Friday the 13th, 1028 is that it is a Dark Moon. SOME of the folks going on about the Friday the 13th shit did notice that. But virtually NONE of them noticed that it also featured at partial solar eclipse. A solar eclipse - which, BTW, can only happen during a dark moon - is the chaotic combination of the chaos/Samhain like aspects of the Dark Moon combined with the strong hard-to-shape energy of the sun/moon/earth alignment.
Chaotic Neutral.
How can people who claim to be so tied in to nature and the universe be more tied to the totally artificial calendar dates than they are to ... well ... nature and the universe, to the point that they don't even know what's going on between our planet, it's one moon, and the star in our solar system?
I weep.
Frondly, Fern
Friday, May 24, 2013
The Witching Hour
Blessings Darlings!
There's a lot of references to "The Witching Hour" in popular culture. Mundanely, it can refer to the time of day when things are at their worst - the rush time a job, the time of day when the newborn is ALWAYS cranky (that was 5:30 pm for the Spawn), that type of thing. Sort of the inverse of Happy Hour, both in tenor and in the ability to have a drink during it.
The basic premise behind 'the witching hour' is that witches, ogres, demons, and all sorts of 'nasties' come out and play when all the adults circadian rhythms say 'sleep'. And by 'adult', I really mean adult. As in 27 or older, when the brain is fully developed.
Here's what the adult body circadian rhythms are doing during the day
http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/insidelifescience/images/biological_clock_human.jpg
But, as you might guess, this post is going to look at that from the perspective of an adult Pagan/witch. And when most folks talk about the witching hour for witches, they most often mean midnight (with a small number of people saying 3 am) being the 'best time' to do magic/rituals/whatever.
That's a nice theory. It fits in very well with the lives of teens, who don't have the same circadian rhythms as adults, and usually feel the need to hide their witchcraft from their parents.
But the times that matter to most witchcraft are liminal times. Liminal times are the 'times between'. The best known liminal time for most witches and pagans is Samhain - the Celtic 'New Year' that is celebrated on a day after the end of the old year and before the beginning of the new year. Lliminal times go together with the liminal spaces we make when we cast a circle, as in the line so often used as part of circle casting "A place that is not a place, a time that is not a time, between the worlds and beyond". A three-fold liminality!
What does liminality bring to the table?
What do you want it to bring to the table? For me, in my worldview, it is a time when it is easier to manipulate energy. Energy in these times is more fluid, not yet one thing or the next.
These are the times I like to play.
Everyday liminality
Every person has their liminal times. Your personal ones are the times each day when you are falling asleep and when you are waking up - you are in two worlds, and neither, at once. We've all been there, probably within the past 12 - 24 hours.
Every day has it's liminal times. Midnight is a modern version of a liminal time - until there were clocks, no one knew when it was midnight (at least without referencing the Big Dipper, humor me here). More traditionally, the liminal times were and are the grey time before dawn and twilight. Not yet the one state of night, nor the other state of day. These are the times when traditional Witching was done.
Every month liminality
The month, okay the LUNAR month has it's own liminality. That occurs on the Dark Moon, the time after the moon has waned all the way, and before that first thin crescent of the Waxing/New Moon. Just like Samhain is a day between the years, the Dark Moon is a few hours between the months. For me, I use the 13 hours (one hour for the 13 lunar months of the year) before the astronomical New Moon.
Don't get me wrong
I don't limit my magic/ritual to liminal times. For example, I cook at all times of day - I'm going to do my food magic every time I cook and not try to only cook at liminal times. And as noted earlier, I create my own liminal time and space when I cast a circle. But Ii don't blow off the every day or every month liminal times when I have some workings that I can do that don't have a set time frame. Because I'm one of them Practical Pagans.
Frondly, Fern
There's a lot of references to "The Witching Hour" in popular culture. Mundanely, it can refer to the time of day when things are at their worst - the rush time a job, the time of day when the newborn is ALWAYS cranky (that was 5:30 pm for the Spawn), that type of thing. Sort of the inverse of Happy Hour, both in tenor and in the ability to have a drink during it.
The basic premise behind 'the witching hour' is that witches, ogres, demons, and all sorts of 'nasties' come out and play when all the adults circadian rhythms say 'sleep'. And by 'adult', I really mean adult. As in 27 or older, when the brain is fully developed.
Here's what the adult body circadian rhythms are doing during the day
http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/insidelifescience/images/biological_clock_human.jpg
But, as you might guess, this post is going to look at that from the perspective of an adult Pagan/witch. And when most folks talk about the witching hour for witches, they most often mean midnight (with a small number of people saying 3 am) being the 'best time' to do magic/rituals/whatever.
That's a nice theory. It fits in very well with the lives of teens, who don't have the same circadian rhythms as adults, and usually feel the need to hide their witchcraft from their parents.
But the times that matter to most witchcraft are liminal times. Liminal times are the 'times between'. The best known liminal time for most witches and pagans is Samhain - the Celtic 'New Year' that is celebrated on a day after the end of the old year and before the beginning of the new year. Lliminal times go together with the liminal spaces we make when we cast a circle, as in the line so often used as part of circle casting "A place that is not a place, a time that is not a time, between the worlds and beyond". A three-fold liminality!
What does liminality bring to the table?
What do you want it to bring to the table? For me, in my worldview, it is a time when it is easier to manipulate energy. Energy in these times is more fluid, not yet one thing or the next.
These are the times I like to play.
Everyday liminality
Every person has their liminal times. Your personal ones are the times each day when you are falling asleep and when you are waking up - you are in two worlds, and neither, at once. We've all been there, probably within the past 12 - 24 hours.
Every day has it's liminal times. Midnight is a modern version of a liminal time - until there were clocks, no one knew when it was midnight (at least without referencing the Big Dipper, humor me here). More traditionally, the liminal times were and are the grey time before dawn and twilight. Not yet the one state of night, nor the other state of day. These are the times when traditional Witching was done.
Every month liminality
The month, okay the LUNAR month has it's own liminality. That occurs on the Dark Moon, the time after the moon has waned all the way, and before that first thin crescent of the Waxing/New Moon. Just like Samhain is a day between the years, the Dark Moon is a few hours between the months. For me, I use the 13 hours (one hour for the 13 lunar months of the year) before the astronomical New Moon.
Don't get me wrong
I don't limit my magic/ritual to liminal times. For example, I cook at all times of day - I'm going to do my food magic every time I cook and not try to only cook at liminal times. And as noted earlier, I create my own liminal time and space when I cast a circle. But Ii don't blow off the every day or every month liminal times when I have some workings that I can do that don't have a set time frame. Because I'm one of them Practical Pagans.
Frondly, Fern
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Chaos Multiplied!
Blessings, Darlings!
Have you ever spent a year being in trance or meditation EXACTLY WHEN the moon moves into specific phases? Especially when it becomes Full and when it becomes Dark? And I DO mean "Dark" - the 13 hours before the "new" moon silver is visible.
Most of us magick workers are familiar with the Waxing Moon energy (which starts 13 hours into the 'new' moon) - growth, beginnings, planning, etc. We're familiar with the warmth, blessings, sustaining energy of the Full Moon. We clean house, pay bills, let go of things during the waning moon's darkening nights. But then there's the Dark Moon ...
Dark moon energy is ... sometimes a vortex .... sometimes a roller coaster ... never what you expect. It's a time when you can more easily get to know your Shadow Side, when you an end up face to face with parts of yourself you had hoped to deny. It takes you into your deep dark depths. Especially if that's not where you want to go. I see it as the time of the moon's cycle when you're most likely to have a spontaneous initiatory experience, and it will be one of the types where you are taken apart and re-integrated by your own 'demons'.
It's humbling. People tend to go into the Dark Moon expecting that they will surf the tsunami, but the thing about the Dark Moon is that NO ONE does. ALL get swept away by it.
This coming Dark Moon there will ALSO be a solar eclipse. So, instead of 'just' the Chaos of the Dark Moon, it will be magnified by the Chaos of Solar Eclipse. Wild Times.
Now, I've been around the block a few times. First spell in 1968 (one of Z Budapest's, gotten from a newspaper!), first Goddess experience around then. I still do not plan to do magic during Dark Moons or Eclipses, because I don't fool myself that I can control or harness the energies. I'll scry during them - I find the veils thin then. I'll do workings where I learn more about myself, especially my shadow self.
If an emergency arises, such as a family member in an accident or heart attack, sure, I'll do what I can. But most likely it will be prayers to a God or Goddess that I'm already tight with, not magick where I am going to pretend to be able to shape the energy. I'm not saying that if I did magick during a solar eclipse that I'd have some "monkey's Paw" result, or grow a second head or anything. But I'm sure that the results would not be what I anticipated - they would be off on some totally unanticipated tangent and the unintended result would be HUGE. Probably bigger than the Crone working that resulted in great intended results ... and a liver infection that made me so ill I barely left my bed for 2 months. And that was for an INTERNAL working.
I know of folks planning to do Big Ass Magick To End Oppression in Iran during the solar eclipse. What unintended consequences might come from that? Israel bombing the Iranian nuke plant? Dirty bombs in some cities somewhere?
Chaos trumps wimpy ass-covering statements of 'good intentions' such as "for the good of all". For the LONG TERM good of all might well be served by the world human population dropping to 10% of what it now is.
I am certainly arrogant. But I'm not THAT arrogant that I think I can manipulate the energy of the solar eclipse for magick, especially world-influencing magick, and be able to 'handle' any unintended consequences.
Frondly, Fern
Have you ever spent a year being in trance or meditation EXACTLY WHEN the moon moves into specific phases? Especially when it becomes Full and when it becomes Dark? And I DO mean "Dark" - the 13 hours before the "new" moon silver is visible.
Most of us magick workers are familiar with the Waxing Moon energy (which starts 13 hours into the 'new' moon) - growth, beginnings, planning, etc. We're familiar with the warmth, blessings, sustaining energy of the Full Moon. We clean house, pay bills, let go of things during the waning moon's darkening nights. But then there's the Dark Moon ...
Dark moon energy is ... sometimes a vortex .... sometimes a roller coaster ... never what you expect. It's a time when you can more easily get to know your Shadow Side, when you an end up face to face with parts of yourself you had hoped to deny. It takes you into your deep dark depths. Especially if that's not where you want to go. I see it as the time of the moon's cycle when you're most likely to have a spontaneous initiatory experience, and it will be one of the types where you are taken apart and re-integrated by your own 'demons'.
It's humbling. People tend to go into the Dark Moon expecting that they will surf the tsunami, but the thing about the Dark Moon is that NO ONE does. ALL get swept away by it.
This coming Dark Moon there will ALSO be a solar eclipse. So, instead of 'just' the Chaos of the Dark Moon, it will be magnified by the Chaos of Solar Eclipse. Wild Times.
Now, I've been around the block a few times. First spell in 1968 (one of Z Budapest's, gotten from a newspaper!), first Goddess experience around then. I still do not plan to do magic during Dark Moons or Eclipses, because I don't fool myself that I can control or harness the energies. I'll scry during them - I find the veils thin then. I'll do workings where I learn more about myself, especially my shadow self.
If an emergency arises, such as a family member in an accident or heart attack, sure, I'll do what I can. But most likely it will be prayers to a God or Goddess that I'm already tight with, not magick where I am going to pretend to be able to shape the energy. I'm not saying that if I did magick during a solar eclipse that I'd have some "monkey's Paw" result, or grow a second head or anything. But I'm sure that the results would not be what I anticipated - they would be off on some totally unanticipated tangent and the unintended result would be HUGE. Probably bigger than the Crone working that resulted in great intended results ... and a liver infection that made me so ill I barely left my bed for 2 months. And that was for an INTERNAL working.
I know of folks planning to do Big Ass Magick To End Oppression in Iran during the solar eclipse. What unintended consequences might come from that? Israel bombing the Iranian nuke plant? Dirty bombs in some cities somewhere?
Chaos trumps wimpy ass-covering statements of 'good intentions' such as "for the good of all". For the LONG TERM good of all might well be served by the world human population dropping to 10% of what it now is.
I am certainly arrogant. But I'm not THAT arrogant that I think I can manipulate the energy of the solar eclipse for magick, especially world-influencing magick, and be able to 'handle' any unintended consequences.
Frondly, Fern
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