Fairies, Midsummer Night dreams 2021

Midsummer Night Fairy Magick Sun Celebration

June 20 is the Peak of the SUN’s LIGHT, the MASCULINE FIRE in the Northern Hemisphere. The longest night of the year in the North, its a time of celebration. As the sun peaks everything shifts gradually into the DARK FEMININE ENERGY begins to grow stronger until December 21st when it peaks then the powers are switched again. This is the balance of everything that exists in the Universe. We need these complimentary opposites.

The SUN is sitting on the TROPIC OF CANCER and in Tropical astrology we say the Sun has entered the sign of Cancer.

This is the PAGAN Cardinal Cross Quarter day of LITHA. 

As Summer begins in the North here in 2021 we are not quite getting out of months of lockdown due to Covid-19. Time to celebrate, Life is green, the living colours of flowers are everywhere and abundant. The air smells sweet, bees are buzzing. We are growing our own food in our gardens or containers. We are soaking up the rays.  The Goddess is symbolically Pregnant with the child she conceived at Spring equinox.

The Summer Solstice or LITHA begins 8:32 pm PDT/11:32 pm EDT/ JUNE 21 At 3:32 am GMT  as the SUN enters CANCER the 0-degree “world point.” It is the beginning of Winter Down Under.

Shakespeare Immortalized Midsummer in his play A Midsummer Night’s Dream 

Sir Joseph Noel Paton- The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania_

Traditional symbols for Midsummer

Weave flower wreaths to wear on the summer solstice,

Speaking of Midsummer nights dreams

JUPITER the planet of expansion is in its home rulership in PISCES the Sign of dreams, visions, the last sign, the house of magic and imagination as Jupiter turns RETROGRADE at 8:06 am PDT/ 11:06 am EDT/3:06 pm GMT.

We have been floating in a DREAMLAND of Pisces fairyland waters since May 13/14. This is very significant for this SOLSTICE season.

Jupiter turns Retrograde June 20 on Solstice at 2 Pisces and turns direct October 17/18 at 22 Aquarius. Jupiter was there before March 26/27. We will have to resift through all the new Aquarian ideas until then and relaunch when Jupiter hits 2 Pisces on January 8, 2022

The Bonfire

Bonfires are lit on hilltops, by holy wells, and at a sacred place, to honour the fullness of the Sun. People danced around and leap through the flames. Traditionally people stayed up all night on Midsummer’s Eve to welcome the sunrise. Coals from the Midsummer fire were scattered on fields to ensure a good harvest, you can scatter them in your garden

Midsummer is one of the most powerful nights for MAGICK,

Especially healing prayers, love magick, energy, protection and purification. It’s a time of gratitude for family and friends. Reflect on the progress of the seeds that you planted in the earth. A great time to get rid of patterns and objects that no longer serve your Higher Self. 

The Fairy Queen and the fairies are said to be out riding on MidSummer Night 

This is the time to strengthen your connection with the Fae or Fairie and otherworldly beings,

Honour the Fairies 

Create a fairie house in your yard or even in your window. Remember that fairies are very mischievous so be careful. Place spirit boundaries around your house, and protect yourself from their pranks while outside. Wear garlands of marigolds, ivy and or St. John’s Wort. White lily petals, rue and oatmeal in your pockets or in baskets help in protection. Bury a Witch Bottle, a glass container filled with sharp objects such as pins, nails and needles, ashes and salt before entrances to your home for protection.

Leave treats for the Fairies. They love sweets of all kinds. Leave offerings outside in the woods a park or your yard or windowsill.  Leave herbs, ribbons, seashells and bowls of milk outside to gift the Faeries.

Bless the animals.

Ancient herders brought a token animal to be blessed to protect their herds. Ask for protection and blessings for pets, livestock and wildlife.Have a Feast 

Some great summer dishes include seafood, watermelon, berries, lemonade, summer squash, and baked potatoes. 

Renew and clean Your Altar

Litha is a great time to clean, cleanse and re-decorate your altar for the Summer season. Take everything off of your altar, clean it, then cleanse it with dried Cedar, Sage, honeysuckle or other sweet incense or sweetgrass smoke. Add summer yellows to and golds to your altar.

Honour Sun Gods & Goddesses

Honor any solar deities with offerings and prayers Some of the sun gods and goddesses are Ra, Horus, Huitzilopochtli Aztec Sun and War God, Irish Goddess Aine, Celtic Sun God Belenos, Greek Sun God Helios, Roman Apollo, Etain Irish Sun Goddess, Yuyi, Taoist God of the Sun, Macha, Irish Goddess of women, Sunna, Norse Goddess of the Sun and many more. 

Flowers, honey honouring nature and growth

The Midsummer Moon is also known as the HONEYMOON, where this term originated. Mead is made, handfasting ceremonies are performed. Mead is considered to be a magical life-enhancing drink, You can make an altar to honour the Oak tree, with their leaves. Sunflowers are also a great example.  Magical baking and charms are created on this special day. Traditionally this festival spans three days. This year it is June 20-23rd.

Buttermilk Bread 

To bring abundance to your kitchen. Sunflower seeds represent the light half of the year and the poppy seeds represent the dark half of the year.

You will need:

3 cups of white flour, preferably bread flout type.

500 ml of Buttermilk 

I tsp.of bicarbonate of soda

Sunflower and poppy seeds for sprinking

Red ribbon and a sprig of rosemary

Place the flour in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre. Sieve in the blended salt and soda and pour in the buttermilk. Mix well with a wooden spoon until the dough feels springy. If it feels too sloppy just add a little more flour. Turn it onto a board and cover with a fine dusting of flour. Pat it with your hands until you have a round shape. Take a sharp knife and score lightly into eight sections, one for each festival. Sprinkle half of the loaf with poppy seeds and the other half with sunflower seeds.

Place onto a greased baking tray and pop your buttermilk bread into a moderate oven for about 20-25 minutes. Keep and eye on it. When the bread is ready it will change colour and it will sound hollow when you tap the bottom. Cool completely on a wire rack. When it is cool, place your sprig of rosemary on top and tie the red ribbon across the middle.

Consecrate the bread by turning the loaf three times saying “From the fields and through the stones, into fire, Midsummer Bread, as the Wheel turns may all be fed. Goddess Bless.”

Take your bread and share it with your family, friends or whoever you would like to bless. Eat it fresh, as soon as it is made if you can. 

Elderflower Champagne

Elderflowers peak at Midsummer. Pick them in the fullness of a sunny day, ideally on Midsummer’s Day. The Elder is sacred to the Mother Goddess and is often called the Witch’s Tree, the Elder Mother, or Queen of the Trees. It is protective, with wonderful healing properties. It aids transformation, change and renewal, this drink will aid in transforming your life. Or drink Elderberry Liqueur.

In Canada, Strongbow makes an elderflower cider. 

Ingredients:

8 litres water

1.25 kg sugar

8 large elderflower heads

4 lemons

4 tablespoons mild white wine vinegar

Do use screw-top bottles. Large plastic bottles are good. This is a fizzy drink, if not bottled tightly it can explode! Keep it somewhere safe. Make sure the elderflowers are clean and pick them when the sun is strongest. 

Boil the water and dissolve the sugar into it, organic sugar is best.

When the water cools, add the elderflowers, the juice of two of the lemons and slices of the other two, plus the vinegar.

Cover with a clean cloth and leave for a day.

Strain through a fine sieve or piece of muslin, carefully squeezing the flowers to extract as much flavour as possible.

Store in clean screw-top bottles.

Leave alone for 10 days or so. Drink within a month. Enjoy and give thanks to the Spirit of the Elder.

Honey Cake

A celebration of a sweet life. 

If you can source locally produced honey its the best. Wherever it comes from always thank the precious Bees. 

Ingredients:

225 gram Butter 1 cup
250 gms Honey or 1 cup 
100 gms Dark Muscovado Sugar, 3.5 ounces by weight 
3 Eggs, beaten
300 gms Self-Raising Flour, 1 1/2 cups 

Cut the butter into pieces and heat slowly, adding the honey and the sugar. When fully melted, turn up the heat and boil the mixture for one minute. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Add the beaten eggs to the cooled honey mixture. Sift the flour into a large bowl and beat the liquid honey mixture into it until you have a smooth batter. Pour the mixture into a round lined sponge tin and bake in a preheated oven at 160 C for about 50 mins – or until the cake is well-risen and springs back to the touch. Cool on a rack and glaze with a few tablespoons of warm honey. A nice sweet treat. 

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HAPPY SUMMER or WINTER down under

I will be celebrating making magic and dancing with the fairies,

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Happy Summer Solstice

Malloym, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

SUMMER ARRIVES as Sun enters Zero degrees of Tropic of Cancer creating SUMMER at last in Northern Hemisphere and WINTER in Southern Hemisphere!

THE LONGEST DAY OF LIGHT OF THE YEAR arrives Wednesday, June 20, 2021 at 11:32 pm EDT.

Cancer solstice or LITHA to wiccan pagans is the Crowning of the Sun King who embraces the Queen of Summer and begins his slow dance of death with Her. The longest night of Light in the North! Summer harvesting begins, Revel in the Light,

Ive been a practicing green witch since I was initiated in 1987 by Susun Weed.

Our organic garden is coming along nicely now with some heat. We;ve got purple beans, snow peas, lots of tomatoes many varieties, Brussel sprouts, cabbages, artichokes! my big experiment! cuces, potatoes, celery, 2 kinds of lettuce, chard of rainbow colours, green onion, rapini, dill, basil, rosemary, chives, tarragon has come up again very nicely and asparagus gets bigger ever year.  I love my little garden.

CANCER is all about Nurturing, nourishment, watery, emotional, sensitive, MOTHERING, MOTHER EARTH, home, security, privacy, family.

ON SUMMER SOLSTICE we always do a ceremony to mark the next main quarters of the Year. Pagans, earth/nature worshippers  mark 8 stations of the year.

SHORT CEREMONY RITUAL FOR SUMMER INVOCATION

Smudge, use incense, high quality, natural. Clear a space. Cast a circle. Begin in the EAST always. EAst is Fire spirit, the SuN.

call Spirit of the Sun to be present in your circle. Always move CLOCKWISE!  NExt to SoUTH, call in WATER ELEMENT.

MOVE WEST, call in EARTH element,add earthy adjectives,  move North call in AIR ELEMENT. – see Air ceremony below-join me Grail Springs Spa

Once centered call in the “As Above, So below, so within”  YOU.

Give thanks to Grandfather Sun for being directly overhead, for shining the longest, for casting the longest shadows on this day,

Give thanks for all things you love about summer, rapid growth, greenery, fresh food, swimming, sunbathing, relaxing long days, the cottage,

fireflies, beers, cold drinks, whatever it is you like about summer, pop songs, whatever… “In the summertime when the weather is fine….”

Deeper symbolism of Cancerian Summer is emotional security, safety, coming home. Cancer is water and water is emotions, why we are here on this earth plane, to feel, everything.

Imagine feeling, as Cancer is the deep security need of unconditional mother love, totally loved by the Great Mother Goddess in all her aspects but especially emotionally.

See, sense and feel the earth’s waters, her oceans as nourishing and sustaining all life on this planet. You are 70% water, the earth is 70% water.

Know that you are emotionally safe, protected, nurtured and loved. Sense this, feel it, know it as the blood flows through your heart and veins and arteries. The great mother pours through you in your blood, your tears, as sweat, as sexual secretions, urine as all bodily fluids. Your essence is love.

We must give back to the mother goddess. As Japanese Dr. Emoto shows our minds can move change and heal matter, especially water.

How interesting that a Japanese Dr. brought out these findings years ago almost unconsciously knowing that we would need them now.

So send your intention to heal the Ocean, the fish, dolphins, whales, krill, seaweed, all life, as all life is dependent on the ocean which we came from.

Honour your inner sun, the light within, the light that you are, feel the Inner fire, your inner heat, Kundalini energy,

You are a micro- sun. It is YOur turn to shine brightly now. As above so below. Your turn to En- LIGHT- en yourself!

Turn on the light to everyone else. The light bring consciousness to what is in the dark. The light brings warmth, heart.

Be thankful, be grateful. Vow to be en LIGHT ened more and more.  Light has triumphed. In the Tarot the SUN is the # 19.

Meditate on the Sun, the source of all life on this planet. Nothing could live on this planet if the Sun weren’t 83 million miles away, very close. A perfect distance.

Meditate on the perfection of the Universe, That all is Light, even the darkness is part of the Light, that the Universe is  UNI =one.

Place your hands on your heart, meditate on one Light, One LOve. Yeah yeah it’s a Bob Marley song.

I will be more conscious, as consciousness is Light, Illumination. Vow to LIVE THE LIGHT. Live  Lightly on this planet. Let your Light shine! Live your light!

BE still and meditate on Light. When finished thank the directions from East to North for being present in your ritual.

And dismiss them into their directions with love and light. Then dance, sing, Here comes the Sun, In the Summertime, Summer in the city, summertime, I like New York in June, who doesn’t like Gershwin?  etc..

Solstice, Summer season ahead Astrology

Summer Solstice 2021 Astrology

Watch summer solstice astrology reading  youtube.com/watch. 

THE SOLSTICE CHART IS THE KEY to the NEXT QUARTER YEAR

I have a northern hemisphere bias but the energies of the planets ring true no matter if you are North or South.

THE MOON IS IN SCORPIO

promising a deeply emotional soul searching and transformative quarter year ahead. The moon trines Jupiter earlier in the day so stay aware of your psychic impressions.

SCORPIO MOON squares Mars in LEO

SCORPIO MOON squares Mars in LEO summer astrology. An obsessive dramatic time of emotional battles and fights to the death on many levels. Scorpio LEO is very dramatic, strong-willed, a Lionhearted King, warrior, someone who defends their turf and passion

JUPITER TURNS RETROGRADE ON THE SOLSTICE

We are doing the backstroke from 2 degrees Cancer back into  Aquarius July 28 until October16 where Jupiter stations at 22 degrees 20′ Aquarius which is where it was on March 26/27. That’s a rewind of over 6 months. Both the Summer and Autumn Equinox has Jupiter Retrograde we will feel like we may be spinning our wheels. We will have to pick up our stitches from there before moving on to 2 degrees Pisces in January 9/10 2022. Addictions, debt, inflation, deflated expectations, projections, rehab and VIRUSES are all part of Jupiter in PISCES. 

JUPITER Retrograde in  AQUARIUS IS a RE-revolution 

NEPTUNE is virtually standstill turning Retrograde June 25, a power point at 23 degrees 12′. We will rehash our dreams until December 1 when Neptune station at 20 degrees 24′ PISCES. Look at where this is in your natal chart. Rehab, redream, redirect, revisit, reflect, reinvent all your dreams. 

Here is the Sabian Symbol of the Sun at 1 degree Cancer on the solstice, we always round up to the next degree.

Cancer 1. Rainbows slowly moving across a white wall. (Omega Symbol) Manifesting/Experimental

(Degree Angel: LEUVIAH (LOO-vee-YAH) Dialing God, Expansive Intelligence/Fruition)

You have the ability to block out everything you don’t want to look at, and then project onto your reality your own conceptions. When these conceptions are spiritually inspired, you are able to shift reality into a higher vibration. You need to beware, though, of being too much in denial of the challenges and discords of life.

The Chandra Symbol for this degree is “A potter at work.” The white wall is the perfect background on which to clearly see the colors of the rainbows, and likewise the potter is creating vessels which can hold whatever needs to be saved, contained, or protected. This degree seeks to apply itself to tasks that require concentration and focus and also to create environments which can hold and nurture whatever it finds to be of ultimate value. The contrast between the etherial qualties of the colors on the wall versus the tangible and highly physical forming of clay signifies the meeting of both spiritual and physical in this degree’s impulse to protect and support.

Pleiadian Symbol: On a passing boat a flag continually changing its colors and patterns.

Azoth Symbol: Words seen for an instant on a leaf that suddenly blows away.

Seed degree: 4 Aries. A man destroying a wall as he attempts to eradicate black mold from a house. (Omega Symbol). Breaking down barriers and clearing away the detritus of the past leaves the consciousness free to experience imaginative possibilities.

A cup overflowing with clear water. (Chandra Symbol). Experiencing the gushing of feeling, we seek to form vessels to give it form and store it.

Fulfillment degree: Libra 8. A rare type of honey imbued with magical healing powers. (Omega Symbol). To be receptive to all the colors of the spiritul light is to find a food that can restore harmony.

A vast junkyard. (Chandra Symbol). To fashion vessels to hold what is valuable leaves us with what is left over – life’s trash – which we seek to collect together so that it is out of our way.

Oracle

The smoothness of a white wall invites illusion. Unmarred, it holds shadows up, so that we may see them more clearly, and allow them to live out their lives as they wax, wane, and change shape in the changing light. Or rainbows may appear and slowly stretch out, as they move over the white, becoming long, like the tails of comets. The light gives us time to take in its colors, to see the seamless, imperceptible way they are born of each other, each one a fire, whose delight is to travel, searching for eyes.

And join me live for a solstice and CAPRICORN Full Moon Astrology Magic Workshop June 22 at 7:30 pm EDT https://lu.ma/pucx9lvs

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Rare Blue Sagittarius Rose Moon June 20

Rare Blue Sage Full Moon Solstice June 20

This moon is known as the Strawberry Moon to Native Americans and the ROSE MOON in Europe.  I like the combo of the Blue Rose Moon or roses and sage, smells wonderful..

These are powerful times we’re living in. The movement of the planets and stars, “as above, so below” indicate our interconnection to point out what we need to integrate in the cosmic round of events. 

This is a very rare, very potent synchronistic Blue Full Moon, which occurs at the very last and most critical degree of SAGITTARIUS @ 4:02 am PDT/ 7:02 am EDT/ 11:02 am GMT.

A Blue Moon is when there are 2 full moons in one month or one extra Full Moon in a season. This year there have been 4 since Spring. Once every 19 years the phases of the moon recur on, or near, the same calendar dates. 

But to have a Blue Moon on the SOLSTICE is much rarer.  This is the first full moon to fall on the June solstice in 1967, which was the beginning of the Hippie PEACE LOVE movement. We are referring to June Solstices here. A December Solstice and Full Moon happened in 2010.  

The Next Full Moon exactly on the Solstice in June using GMT will be on June 21, 2062. That is 46 years from now. So better celebrate this BIGGIE!

The Solstice, one of the four major Gateways in the turning of the wheel of the year occurs almost 12 hours after the Full Moon. This is the day of the longest LIGHT in the entire year in the Northern Hemisphere where the energy shifts into the ascent of the FEMININE and vice versa in the Southern. It is a day of balance and honors the SACRED MARRIAGE in the entire world.

Pagans and indigenous peoples worldwide have marked these solstice turning point since time immemorial. There will be tens of thousands at Stonehenge and other major ancient sites. If you do celebrate wiccan or pagan rituals it will be a beautiful night to be outside under the shining Capricorn Full Moon Light, as the moon enters Capricorn 53 minutes after the Full Moon.

The Grand Mutable Cross is also potently powerful and reminds us to stay flexible and to be aware of working with all of the elements. Venus is still conjunct to the SUN in Cancer since June 17^th indicating that love and Light and living in harmony are the goals to guide us.

CANCER Sun and Venus times primarily focus on family, home, our childhoods, our moms, our stomachs, what we need to keep us feeling safe and emotionally secure.

29 degrees SAGITTARIUS is the most critical of the 9^th signs degrees. It is conjunct to the Galactic Center the Black Hole or cosmic Vagina of our Galaxy. This is the place the Mayans revered as a place for Cosmic REBIRTH and which the December 21st Solstice was aligned with in 2012. We are three and a half years from that shift in Consciousness, we may want to take stock of how far we have come.

This powerful Full Moon is one of alchemical change and transformation. We must stay optimistic and trust, but we must also act.

Symbols for 30 degrees Sagittarius from John Sandbach

By time traveling, a man takes a photograph of dinosaurs. (Omega Symbol) Transforming/Inspired

(Degree Angel Name: Nithael (NIT-ha-EL) The Death of Death, Rejuvenation and Eternal Youth)

So deep are the roots of karma, sometimes when it is only cleared on surface levels it can grow back and then we find ourselves once again in an old pattern. This degree has an instinct for going deep into the self or any problem or complex of circumstances to really contact the source of it. This can give a whole new perspective on reality, and eventually loosen the energetic knot that has bound us.

Chandra Symbol “The completion of a large Persian rug.”

It is a joy to come to the end of a long, arduous task, and the truth is, every minute of our lives is just that – the completion of a process that has been going on so long that its beginnings are far beyond memory’s normal capacity. This degree carries the precious truth that every moment is complete in and of itself, and is full of the richness and abundance of a grand and tremendous history. It personifies cosmic perspective carried to the most glorious and nth degree.

Pleiadian Symbol: A man in a tall hat is reading omens in the smoke from an altar.

Azoth Symbol: People sleeping as they travel near the speed of light.

Seed degree: 27 Pisces. A spider searching its web. (Omega Symbol). By looking at what we have drawn to ourselves karmically we can perceive the depths of our own past.

A ritual sand painting. (Chandra Symbol). When we let go of attachments to permanence, we are able to do what we need to do and finish what we have started.

Fulfillment degree: 23 Virgo. A library is burning. A man therein continues to read. (Omega Symbol). When we sense the vast chain of events of which we are a part, we attain eventually an unshakable patience.

 Reflect on the depth of these symbols.

Sagittarius, the 9^th sign is known for distant travels, truth, justice, freedom, higher education, philosophy, humor, religion, politics, teachers, optimism, risk-taking, trust, adventure, faith and mysticism.

The root of the word Sagittarius is related to the word sage. A sage is a venerable, older, wise teacher who inspires and passes on valuable information. The Sagittarius mission is to inspire and to point its arrows of truth higher towards the Galactic Center. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, King of the Gods. Jupiter now in VIRGO keeps our mission practical, grounded and humble.

Sagittarius is connected to the Greek Goddess Diana, the wild virgin huntress, Goddess of the Moon. The wolf or the dog is also associated with Sagittarius. Call upon her wild independent wisdom if you need.

The Tarot Major Arcana for SAGITTARIUS is #14 Temperance /ALCHEMY or ART

Thoth Tarot Trump #14 Sagittarius

This is the card of balance and Transformation. It is related to the Philosopher’s stone which symbolizes turning lead {Saturn, matter} into Gold {the Sun or spiritual Light}.

The TEMPERANCE ANGEL symbolizes our Higher Self. It combines the masculine fire {mind} and the feminine water {instincts} to transform both into something entirely new. In this way we combine our shadow selves and become more than we were. This card is also known as the SACRED MARRIAGE card.

At this powerful Full Moon imagine the union of your feeling function, the Feminine intuition and your active fire masculine side. Send that loving union energy throughout your whole body and out into the world. If each one of us does our inner work, the outer world will be transformed. 

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Blue Sage Galactic Full Moon June 20 Astrology

We have an extraordinarily rare and powerful BLUE MOON at the 29th “critical” degree of SAGITTARIUS or Sage Moon.

Less than 12 hours later we have SOULSTICE, one of the four major turning points in the year,when the Sun stands on the Tropic of CANCER, enters zero degrees Cancer, called the WORLD POINT. 

We haven’t had a Solstice and a Full Moon since 1997, a complete nodal cycle. The next one won’t happen until 2035.  The 1997 Full Moon solstice is an especially powerful memory for me as I was just pregnant with our daughter Leah who has just graduated from High School yesterday. Think back on what has happened in your life over the past 19 years and think about where you want to be 19 years into the Future.

The 29th degree of Sagittarius Blue Moon culminates @ 4:02 am PDT/ 7:02 am EDT/ 11:02 am GMT. It is conjunct the Galactic Center, the great Black Hole or cosmic Vagina at the center of our Galaxy. This is the place the Mayans revered as a place of Cosmic REBIRTH and where the December 21st Solstice was aligned in 2012. We are three and a half years from that shift in Consciousness, we may want to take stock of how far we have come since then as well.

This Full Moon is one of alchemical change and transformation. This is a Critical time some astrologers have come out with big warnings of the chaos at his full Moon which has been building. We must stay optimistic and trust, and we must also act with SAGE wisdom. 

CHIRON in PISCES, the wounded healer is squaring the MOON. Yes the world is feeling very vulnerable from the recent mass shootings in Orlando. From this tragedy the world showed a unified message of love for all beings. Out of vulnerability comes wisdom and hope a Sagittarius element. Our hearts need to be blasted open over and over again to find complete PISCES compassion.

Symbols for 30 degrees Sagittarius from John Sandbach

“By time traveling, a man takes a photograph of dinosaurs. (Omega Symbol) Transforming/Inspired

(Degree Angel Name: Nithael (NIT-ha-EL) The Death of Death, Rejuvenation and Eternal Youth)

So deep are the roots of karma, sometimes when it is only cleared on surface levels it can grow back and then we find ourselves once again in an old pattern. This degree has an instinct for going deep into the self or any problem or complex of circumstances to really contact the source of it. This can give a whole new perspective on reality, and eventually loosen the energetic knot that has bound us.

Chandra Symbol “The completion of a large Persian rug.”

It is a joy to come to the end of a long, arduous task, and the truth is, every minute of our lives is just that – the completion of a process that has been going on so long that its beginnings are far beyond memory’s normal capacity. This degree carries the precious truth that every moment is complete in and of itself, and is full of the richness and abundance of a grand and tremendous history. It personifies cosmic perspective carried to the most glorious and nth degree.

Pleiadian Symbol: A man in a tall hat is reading omens in the smoke from an altar.

Azoth Symbol: People sleeping as they travel near the speed of light.

Seed degree: 27 Pisces. A spider searching its web. (Omega Symbol). By looking at what we have drawn to ourselves karmically we can perceive the depths of our own past.

A ritual sand painting. (Chandra Symbol). When we let go of attachments to permanence, we are able to do what we need to do and finish what we have started.

Fulfillment degree: 23 Virgo. A library is burning. A man therein continues to read. (Omega Symbol). When we sense the vast chain of events of which we are a part, we attain eventually an unshakable patience.”

This Full Moon takes us into Gemini/Sagittarius polarities. Gemini Sun is in the first AIR element, signifying the dawning of consciousness in the mind, a youthful awe and curiosity, of the perception of duality . Sagittarius is the last FIRE element sign, signifying the mature distilling of learning, spiritual teachings and wisdom through experience, travel and integrating many points of view.

The GRAND MUTABLE CROSS and major Asteroid Goddesses are strongly involved.

The four elements and wheel of existence from Carl Jung’s Red Book

JUPITER, Sagittarius {and Pisces} ruling planet is exactly conjunct the NORTH NODE. This is a karmic finger-pointing us to stay grounded, to listen to our bodies, to trust our gut instincts and to rely on our intellectual abilities to discern and do the math. We need to put our faith and out direction into the earth. We must stay humble, mindful and be closely connected with our literal roots and communities.

NEPTUNE is conjunct the SOUTH NODE, the past and ATHENA Goddess of strategy, the warrior Goddess, showing us to see through the veil of illusions of Hollywood, deception in the media, and the debt, fraud and to our addictions. Neptune conjunct the SOUTH NODE is pointing to the “old tyme religion” as gotta go time.

IMAGINE John Lennon’s most revolutionary and probably the most powerful song ever written shows us the Neptune South Node conjunction “imagine no religion.”  America’s addiction to guns, worshipping vacuous stars, oil, porn and violence in video games must be seen for the tools of mass hypnosis which they are and surrendered if we are to get  healthy whole and realize that humanity is in dire peril.

SATURN Retrograde is opposed to MERCURY in GEMINI conjunct VESTA the Goddess of money, focus and health and they are square to JUPITER and the NORTH NODE and NEPTUNE and the SOUTH NODE. Our thinking must be very serious, we must review maturely how we got to this crazy place.

The world seems to be split in two, we see the prevelance of the us and them Gemini archetype of those who want to innovate and grow and those who are in fear and can only hang onto the old outside authority systems of Patriarchal religions. We must have wisdom and Higher Spiritual Jupiterian Law, as opposed to man-made law prevail. 

JUPITER, North Node and PLUTO are in a TRINE which is extremely beneficial. Our souls and our bodies, are our real power. Pluto is power-over, control, secrets, big corporate powers, the 1% and VIRGO is the 99 %, the workers of the earth, the humble servants.  The cosmic HOT SPOT is the NORTH NODE and with the earth herself,  and with the people who work together in Community.

The SAGITTARIUS Moon is conjunct to VENUS in CANCER.  We are feeling very emotionally sensitive at this critical full Moon which swells the oceans and our emotions and we need of lots of support. We need to have the tenderest, most instinctual Motherly love at this time as our guiding light. We don’t want to stray far from home. 

The Moon trines URANUS in ARIES conjunct ERIS and CERES all at the 23rd degree. They are in square to PLUTO in CAPRICORN. The planets of chaos, sudden change, guns, the military, and initiating new revolutionary breakthroughs and inventions is conjunct the Great Mother CERES. Did you note that those poor souls who were caught in the Pulse nightclub first called their Mothers to tell them they loved them? It is the most instinctual Moon thing to do.

We must change the way we relate to the Mothering principle and give birth to a newer, stronger, independent and healthier form of the Divine Feminine. Ceres also rules the food supply of the earth. We need to address the military industrial complex and companies like MONSANTO whose GMO foods threatens the destruction of all life on earth through their inventions which are about death and control, asap. 

JUNO, the FEMININE form of GENIUS is conjunct to LILITH and they are sextiling the MOON and opposed to URANUS, CERES and ERIS  combining all of their energies into a primal Feminine uprising. Lilith refuses to compromise her principles of respecting the Feminine and JUNO has the ability to bring many disparate elements together. Women  must come out on the warpath in upholding the sacred Feminine principles. 

MARS is still RETROGRADE at 23 degrees SCORPIO inconjunct to URANUS, ERIS and CERES. The theme is very much about the MASCULINE connection to rape, control and power at any cost, is undergoing a soul searching transformation of its shadows, where those energies are being transformed. Mars, the warrior God, symbol of WAR, aggressiveness and competition, always on the defensive, is meeting the forces of deep change. The challenge is for the masculine to be willing to be with the Goddess in a new way. She has always had the power, She gives birth to all life. The Masculine denial of the Feminine is the root cause of most of the violence we think is a natural part of being human and have accepted as such.  But it is not, it is a distortion of the Patriarchal imbalance. 

The SIGN Of SAGITTARIUS is associated with the TAROT Major ARCANA  #14, traditionally called TEMPERANCE.  In the Thoth Tarot that I use its called ART or ALCHEMY.

Alchemy is the turning of LEAD {SATURN} into GOLD {The SUN}.  We are energetically practicing and going through this transformation from the basest, heaviest of metals, which symbolizes the dense material reality, the testing, limitations and obstacle that planet SATURN Lord of the Rings constantly throws at us. As the Sun is the LIGHT, Solstice is both the longest night and paradoxically the shortest one depending on where one is on the planet creating a balance between the MASCULINE and FEMININE symbolized by Temperance.

This powerful Full Moon is one of cosmic alchemical change and transformation.  We must inspire the world with Sagittarius optimism, faith in higher wisdom and faith that these momentous changes will bring balance and justice into the world. 

Don’t go into the fear. Aim those SAGITTARIUS arrows Higher. 

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, sex, fairies,fools

JUNE 20 a MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM 

“Lord what fools these mortals be”- Puck 

Midsummer Eve by Edward Robert Hughes 1908

This evening, the night before the Summer Solstice is the Famous one Shakespeare wrote about. A day of sexual frolicking in the fields. The fairies are out in the forests. The SUN reaches his PEAK in the sky and begins to slowly wain and die.  He surrenders his power to the GODDESS the Queen of SUMMER and fertility who makes the plants grow to feed her children and to ensure new life. 

This Year Moon conjuncts Venus and JUPITER in LEO so very romantic, proud, daring, dramatic, big-hearted it will be. 

Mercury is finally over its storm period but will take till June 27 to pass its Retrograde station point.

SUMMER BEGINS in the Northern Hemisphere @ 9:37 am PDT/12:37 pm EDT/4:37 GMT
WINTER BEGINS in the Southern Hemisphere same time

The Sun King reaches the peak of his long journey begun Dec 21st. Called Litha by pagans and witches it is the Celebration of the triumph of the Light which also signifies its demise. The Light dies unto itself and sets sail into the oncoming fall. It is the Celebration of the Longest Light and Night and the Birth of the Season of Summer bringing the greatest vegetation growth.
Astrologically it is the Sun entering zero degrees of Cancer which marks the Summer Solstice. We Celebrate the Summer, romp in the Garden, Have a Solstice Celebration!

Wear a flower crown in your hair. Bonfires are built.  At Summer Solstice we state what it is we are pregnant with, nourishing, nurturing feeding,  our literal children or our creations, ideas, desires, feelings. We carry this and give birth, and the fields, flowers, produce grows, soaks up the sun’s most intense rays in Leo and is finally ready to be Harvested under the sign of Virgo the Virgin Goddess of the Grain. In agricultural societies all life depended on the food grown, the produce that would be stored, dried, preserved,for life to continue safely and securely.

The sign of Cancer rules the Mother and the mothering principle, ruled by the Moon herself. The Moon is the Goddess and women’s cycles.The earliest calendars discovered showed 28 dots on them and were created by menstruating women most likely or men following the moon’s  and women’s menstrual cycles. The moon means time.

Cancer is water,the womb, feelings, emotions, moods, instincts, the oceans, wells, home, safety, security, emotional needs, food, nurturing, safety, security, nurses, caretakers, support workers, caves, river deltas, roots, nests,the root chakra, the womb, memories, the Unconscious, your childhood, flow, the Goddess Diana, all Moon Goddesses, and all Female Goddesss pregnant with the Moon.

In the Tarot Cancer is the Sign associated with Tarot Trump # 7 THE CHARIOT

The Chariot Tarot Horse Goddess by Emily Balivet

In Ancient Egypt the Summer Sign was symbolized by the Scarab beetle before it was associated with the Crab. The scarab or dung beetle rolling a ball of dung and was seen to be like a God rolling the golden orb of the Sun across the skies. The dung beetle was the shepherd or charioteer assisting the Sun’s passage in the sky. The scarab is a symbol of immortality.  The sign of Cancer symbolized alchemy because the insect was a lowly creature, ordinary, lowly turning with its’ labours dung into worth = gold.

The esoteric meaning of Cancer is that the CHARIOT is the VEHICLE, the means of travel. The Chariot symbolizes the Body as Vehicle for the Soul.  Our Mother’s bodies were our personal chariot’s. They nurtured and carried us, gave birth to us through their vaginas, also  a road, a passageway, a tunnel to the outside world from inner earth.The Hopi Indians say they emerged from inside of the earth.

 Mother is the Universal source for all life, When we gaze at the moon we instinctively remember her womb.

So during the month of Cancer, feel your feelings and your body. Be near water, drink lots of water, feel pregnant,  swelling, expanding, bonded, needing to nest, eating well, resting, listening to your tummy.

Like the lotus which grows from mud, and the lowly dung beetle which rolls its ball of dung, the beautiful iridescent moon like pearl  is formed from a single grain of sand. You won’t be lacklustre during Cancer month. You can turn every irritating or single grain of sand into a beautiful pearl.

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A Midsummer Night’s dream by Julie Taymor 

 

 

 

HAPPY SUMMER/ WINTER It’s Cardinal cross Cancerian Time, astrology ceremonies Tara greene spiritual adviser

 

SUMMER ARRIVES as Sun enters Zero degrees of Tropic of Cancer creating voila SUMMER at last in Northern Hemisphere and WINTER in Southern Hemisphere!

The chart shown for my location Toronto Canada arrives at 1:20 pm.   Officially SUMMER BEGINS @ 10:17 am PDT,  1:17 pm EDT Washington DC. and  17:16 GMT

THE LONGEST DAY OF LIGHT OF THE YEAR arrives Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 1:16 AM in Beijing CHINA

Cancer solstice or LITHA to wiccan pagans is the Crowning of the Sun King who embraces the Queen of Summer and begins his slow dance of death with Her. The longest night of Light in the North! Summer harvesting begins, Revel in the Light, especially up here in Toronto which saw the wettest and coolest May on record I think, and especially after a terrifically long winter which became cold last October 2010 FGS.

Our organic garden is coming along nicely now with some heat. We;ve got purple beans, snow peas, lots of tomatoes many varieties, Brussel sprouts, cabbages, artichokes! my big experiment! cuces, potatoes, celery, 2 kinds of lettuce, chard of rainbow colours, green onion, rapini, dill, basil, rosemary, chives, tarragon has come up again very nicely and asparagus gets bigger ever year.  I love my little garden.

CANCER is all about Nurturing, nourishment, watery, emotional, sensitive, MOTHERING, MOTHER EARTH, home, security, privacy, family.

ON SUMMER SOLSTICE we always do a ceremony to mark the next main quarters of the Year. Pagans, earth/nature worshippers  mark 8 stations of the year.

SHORT CEREMONY RITUAL FOR SUMMER INVOCATION

Smudge, use incense, high quality, natural. Clear a space. Cast a circle. Begin in the EAST always. EAst is Fire spirit, the SuN.

call Spirit of the Sun to be present in your circle. Always move CLOCKWISE!  NExt to SoUTH, call in WATER ELEMENT.

MOVE WEST, call in EARTH element,add earthy adjectives,  move North call in AIR ELEMENT. – see Air ceremony below-join me Grail Springs Spa

Once centered call in the “As Above, So below, so within”  YOU.

Give thanks to Grandfather Sun for being directly overhead, for shining the longest, for casting the longest shadows on this day,

Give thanks for all things you love about summer, rapid growth, greenery, fresh food, swimming, sunbathing, relaxing long days, the cottage,

fireflies, beers, cold drinks, whatever it is you like about summer, pop songs, whatever… “In the summertime when the weather is fine….”

Deeper symbolism of Cancerian lead Summer is emotional security, safety, coming home. Cancer is water and water is emotions, why we are here on this earth plane, to feel, everything.

Imagine feeling, as Cancer is the deep security need of unconditional mother love, totally loved by the Great Mother Goddess in all her aspects but especially emotionally.

See, sense and feel the earth’s waters, her oceans as nourishing and sustaining all life on this planet. You are 70% water, the earth is 70% water.

Know that you are emotionally safe, protected, nurtured and loved. Sense this, feel it, know it as the blood flows through your heart and veins and arteries. The great mother pours through you in your blood, your tears, as sweat, as sexual secretions, urine as all bodily fluids. Your essence is love.

Now as the earths Pacific ocean is being radiated with Pluto- ruled Nuclear fuel from the Fukushima plant we need to send healing energy to the Ocean.

We must give back to the mother goddess. As Japanese Dr. Emoto shows our minds can move change and heal matter, especially water.

How interesting that a Japanese Dr. brought out these findings years ago almost unconsciously knowing that we would need them now.

So send your intention to heal the Ocean, the fish, dolphins, whales, krill, seaweed, all life, as all life is dependent on the ocean which we came from.

Ironically the seafood rich diet of the Japanese will protect them against some radiation. The Japanese have long been enemies of the ocean plundering fish stocks, fishing out tuna, dolphins, whales, outside of international treaty waters to supply the Japanese and the world with SuSHI. Ok now we have fish farms but the balance of life in the oceans is off, too much greed for seafood in the rest of the world now.

Honour your inner sun, the light within, the light that you are, feel the Inner fire, your inner heat, Kundalini energy,

You are a micro- sun. It is YOur turn to shine brightly now. As above so below. Your turn to En- LIGHT- en yourself!

Turn on the light to everyone else. The light bring consciousness to what is in the dark. The light brings warmth, heart.

Be thankful, be grateful. Vow to be en LIGHT ened more and more.  Light has triumphed. In the Tarot the SUN is the # 19.

Meditate on the Sun, the source of all life on this planet. Nothing could live on this planet if the Sun weren’t 83 million miles away, very close. A perfect distance.

Meditate on the perfection of the Universe, That all is Light, even the darkness is part of the Light, that the Universe is  UNI =one.

Place your hands on your heart, meditate on one Light, One LOve. Yeah yeah it’s a Bob Marley song.

I will be more conscious, as consciousness is Light, Illumination. Vow to LIVE THE LIGHT. Live  Lightly on this planet. Let your Light shine! Live your light!

BE still and meditate on Light. When finished thank the directions from East to North for being present in your ritual.

And dismiss them into their directions with love and light. Then dance, sing, Here comes the Sun, In the Summertime, Summer in the city, summertime, I like New York in June, who doesn’t like Gershwin?  etc..

Lady FAire at Grail Springs Spa Tara Greene

I will be calling in the Air element at a ceremony at GRAIL SPRINGS SPA http://www.grailsprings.com/Events-Grail-Lady-Faire  Come and Join me and hundreds of amazing women! THE ENLIGHTENED WOODSTOCK FOR WOMEN!

SUMMER SOLSTICE 2011 is CARDINAL SQUARE TIME  Be here and be square now! It’s hip to be square!

In the chart for this  super summer arrival. Sun is in CARDINAL SQUARE to Revolutionary URANUS, STODGY COSMIC COP SATURN at 10 degrees of LIBRA,

and OPPOSING  PLUTO @ 6 degrees 22 mins RX of Capricorn.

The BIg TRANSPERSONAL generational planets Uranus and Pluto with Saturn create HUGE societal ch ch ch ch changes. The big 3 were in a very famous opposition in 66-67 which was then Uranus Pluto conjunct in Virgo opposite Saturn in Pisces, which detonated, what?  WOODSTOCK, SUMMER OF LOVE, STUDENT  RIOTS, FREE LOVE, MIND ALTERING CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING, BE HERE NOW, ESALEN, THE BEATLES, TUNE IN TURN ON DROP OUT, YOUTH CULTURE, HIPPIES,  The 60’s!!!

Now 44-45 years later what begun then, was the seeding era and NOW, NOW the action begins!!! This is the mid-life or Mod { modern}  Life Crisis for all those born at that time.

We’ve already seen big changes Middle EAst, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, etc. still ongoing. THE  SCREWS ARE TIGHTENING.  something’s got to give.

Everyone is feeling super stressed from all the intense energies plus 2 eclipses and the next one  July 1st- more about that sooner.

Mars just entered GEMINI yesterday. So mars in Gemini will make mouths minds tongues fly even faster. Duplicitousness is on the rise. Fickle, upbeat, chatty, gregarious, light-hearted, Peter Pan, dual-natured, Hi projection time.

ENJOY THE summer or Winter folks down UNDER! and stay Cool