Current Moon Phase: WANING

Time: Waning – From full moon to dark moon (approx.14 days)
Goddess Aspect: Crone
Associated Goddesses: Callieach, Banshee, Hecate, Kali, Morrigan
Magickal Attributes: BANISHING Releasing the old, removing unwanted negative energies, wisdom, psychic ability, scrying,
reversing circumstances.   Workings on this day are for banishing magick, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity, physical and  psychic cleansings.

Lunabar Moon Almanack for Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Waning, Disseminating Moon          Age: 21 days.
Ascending Node is at 29° Sagittarius.
Moon in 24th degree of the Sign Scorpio, the Scorpion;
also in 17th deg. of the Constellation Libra, the Balance.

Midheaven: 4:37 morn.  Moonset: 9:42 morn. 

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 Love,  Faithfulness, Gentleness, Goodness, Joy, Kindness, Patience, Perseverance, Protection, Trust, Truthfulness, Passion and Unselfishness. 

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Crone’s Corner – Your Sun Sign Success Colors
Adapted from Earth Magic, by Claire Nahmad (Inner Traditions, 1994).

Colors can have a significant effect on our mood and behavior, and on
the ways in which others perceive us. When our color choices are aligned
with a deeper, more authentic self rather than with what is merely
fashionable, we radiate an aura of confidence grounded in who we are.

Find out which colors are in tune with your sun sign so you can truly
dress for success, or decorate your home to reflect more of your deeper
self.

Aries, March 21-April 19: Red, bright colors, especially green, pink,
white, and yellow.

Taurus, April 20-May 21: All shades of blue and green, turquoise, soft
rose-pinks.

Gemini, May 22-June 20: White, silver, yellow, spring green, pale gray.

Cancer, June 21-July 22: Pale blue, silver, pearl, glistening white,
emerald green.

Leo, July 23- Aug 22: All shades of gold, yellow, orange, vermilion,
copper, blood red, light green, white.

Virgo, Aug 23-Sept 22: Pastel shades of blue, gold, peach, yellow, and
amethyst; jade green, autumn hues.

Libra, Sept 23-Oct 22: Royal blue, cerulean blue, rose-pink, amethyst,
violet.

Scorpio, Oct 23-Nov 1: Deep, dark shades of red, russet-brown,
shadow-black, stone-gray.

Sagittarius, Nov 22-Dec 21: Lilac, mauve, purple, amethyst, violet,
indigo, vermilion, midnight blue.

Capricorn, Dec 22-Jan 19: Black, gray, violet, dark brown, dun, shades
of earth.

Aquarius, Jan 20-Feb 18: All colors of the spectrum, particularly
electric and ultramarine blue, electric green, deep violet.

Pisces, Feb 19-March 20: Purple, violet, amethyst, sea-green, turquoise.

Copyright: Adapted from Earth Magic, by Claire Nahmad (Inner Traditions,1994).

Copyright (c) 1994 by Claire Nahmad. Reprinted by permission of InnerTraditions.

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GrannyMoon’s Morning Feast Archives  and

Pagan Studies  –  Pre-Spring Cleaning Ritual

 

What is cluttering up your home, both literally and metaphorically? Now is a good time to clear your home of clutter and to clear whatever blocks your progress. Begin with your altar. Is it cluttered? Clear it, put down a fresh altar cloth, and place a new white candle on it. Take a cleansing bath or shower with sage, lavender, or hyssop, chanting “Pure, pure, I am pure” as you bathe. (Purity was very important to the priests and priestesses in ancient times.) At dusk, light the candle. Look into the candle flame and meditate on its solitude and purity. Feel burdens slip off your shoulder, and open the shades so you can see the Moon. Promise the Moon and Virgo the Virgin that you will focus on what is important in life and remove whatever is blocking you. Set aside the time between the Full and New Moon to clear clutter from your life.

  

By: Denise Dumars 

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GrannyMoon’s Morning Feast Archives  

Today’s Goddess:  MINERVA

Terminalia (Rome)

  

Themes: Earth; Home

Symbols: Owl; Geranium

  

About Minerva: This Etruscan/Italic Goddess blended the odd attributes of being a patroness of household tasks, including arts and crafts, and also being the patroness of protection and of war. Today she joins in pre-spring festivities by helping people prepare their lands for sowing and embracing the figurative lands of our hearts, homes, and spirits with her positive energy.

  

To Do Today: In ancient times, this was a day to bless one’s lands and borders. Gifts of corn, honey, and wine were given to the earth and its spirits to keep the property safe and fertile throughout the year. In modern times, this equates to a Minerva-centered house blessing.

  

Begin by putting on some spiritually uplifting music. Burn geranium-scented incense if possible; otherwise, any pantry spice will do. Take this into every room of your home, always moving clockwise to promote positive growing energy. As you get to each room, repeat this incantation:

 

Minerva, protect this sacred space and all who live within. By your power and my will, the magic now begins!

 

Wear a geranium today to commemorate Minerva and welcome her energy into your life.

GrannyMoon’s Morning Feast Archive 

Seasons of the Witch!   Ancient Holidays (and some not so ancient!)         Venice: PANCAKE DAY. Pancake tossing, pancake races. King Carnival is greeted with much ceremony. He is a very fat man, his straw body stuffed with explosives. He is burned at midnight.

Live each Season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. ~Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)  

Terminalia – On this day, Romans honored boundary god Terminus. Neighbors met at the boundary stones between their properties, with the women bringing torches ignited on their hearths, the sons with baskets of produce from the property and the daughters with special honey cakes. The women kindled twin altar fires made of neatly interlaced sticks. The sons held their baskets over the fire and the girls shook them three times to scatter its contents into the flames, then fed the cakes to the fire. Employees stood by dressed in white, wine in hand. The two landowners slaughtered a lamb and a suckling pig and let the blood spatter on the stone. Then the two families sat down for a feast.

A good day to honor boundaries of all sorts, from property boundaries to personal boundaries. How can you mark and define your space? What tokens will you set up to show others where your boundaries are? And how will you honor these?   Rufus, Anneli, The World Holiday Book, Harper San Francisco 1994

St Mildburga – This sixth century Shropshire saint was associated with plowing and sewing from an early date. She protected a newly-sown field from the depredations of worms and geese. While fleeing from her enemies she caused water to spring up out of the ground and a field of barley to grow to maturity in one day. Her feast day falls in the middle of the spring wheat sowing season in Shropshire. Berger, Pamela, The Goddess Obscured, Beacon Press 1985

St Polycarp – The LaPlante sisters recommend St Polycarp as the saint to invoke when looking for a parking spot, although the connection between his life (he was a student of the Apostle John, a Bishop of Smyrna and martyred at the age of 86) and parking places is obscure. They suggest the following prayer: “Polycarp, find me a spot.”
LaPlante, Alice & Clare, Heaven Help Us: the Worrier’s Guide to the Patron Saints, Dell 1999

 Resources : GrannyMoon’s Morning Feast Archives 

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NOTE: Because of the large number of ancient calendars, many in simultaneous use, as well as different ways of computing holy days (marked by the annual inundation, the solar year, the lunar month, the rising of key stars, and other celestial and terrestrial events), you may find these holy days celebrated a few days earlier or later at your local temple .  

Osiris Affirmation

OSIRIS – to be displayed in the light, channeling HH
I stepped into your life,
to prompt you to over-
To consider where in your life you
‘re not in your midst.
How often Do you watch it, the
the thoughts which then in
Words come from the mouth,
actually words of truth,
of love and of peace?

I am Osiris, a sign of strength, omnipotence, fertility and life after death. do I stand in the service of humanity, which all of the links to know the universe and know everything is stored in you, even in every cell of your body!

All you studied in the outside already improved in yourself and your life is constantly under your will and desire development.
You are light and come out of the light, light is vibration, so you’re oscillation. Through this program, we are the source of all being.

So, why do you ask your light under a bushel, you’re something special, your body radiates from now life force, energy and vitality! Open your heart and let the light from his lamp, try not to play but his salvation salvation!

You have the right to a successful, rich and happy life in abundance, so please activate your inner divinity and the liver what are YOU!

You can easily learn new, your life is filled with so many new options, and move up to a time full of great fame and love, I support you there!

The healing light of the source of all existence is flood up and activate your self healing powers, I am your God OSIRIS friend and companion.