Shaman Ariella Moon: witches and wizards

3 Ways To Boost Your Magic and Create Positive Change

11:52 AM

The moon entered Capricorn this morning, an excellent time for clear short-term goals. Given world events and uncertainty in health, economics, and politics, many healers, shamans, witches, druids, and other magical folk have been called upon to add their power to address these issues. With so many urgent concerns, choosing where to begin can be overwhelming.

1. Timing

Full Moon in Aquarius
August 3, 2020, 11:59 AM EDT

Let the moon be your guide. Between the New (Dark) Moon and the Full Moon concentrate on magic to increase. The next few days as we approach the Full Moon will be especially powerful for increasing spells. After the Full Moon and until the next New Moon, shift your concentration on magic to decrease something.

Examples of magic for increasing:

· Healing spells

· Protection spells

· Wisdom and enlightenment spells

· Peace spells

· Prosperity spells

· Flow of certain goods (like masks and other PPEs)

By shifting your focus after the Full Moon, when the moon wanes, you can turn the above concerns into decreasing spells.

Examples of magic for decreasing:

· Decrease the virus spread

· Decrease threats to a group or individual

· Decrease violence and unrest

· Decrease shortages of vital supplies

2. Narrow Your Focus

Magic and healing are boosted with focused intent. When performing distance Reiki, for example, you can blanket an individual with healing energy for general well-being. But if you know the individual has a malignant tumor, you would focus Universal Life Force Energy like a laser and beam it on the tumor to shrink the cancer and heal the surrounding tissue.

Similarly, a spell to heal all who are sick would have less chance of success than, a spell to increase the good health of a particular individual — perhaps a family member, friend, or a Supreme Court justice.

Narrowing your focus also helps you determine what unwanted consequences, including karmic repercussions, might occur if your magic works. Frame your spell carefully and specifically with harm to none.

3. Utilize Correspondences

For deep, important spell work, boost your magic by incorporating or working with helpful correspondences. In addition to the phase of the moon, consider the best day of the week.[1]

· Sunday: Utilize the Sun’s energy for magical workings for general success, business ventures, professional success, and efforts involving friendships, happiness, and mental and physical success.

· Monday: Harness the Moon’s energy for efforts concerning women, family, home, gardening, and medicine.

· Tuesday: The energy of Mars boosts magic concerning men, conflict, physical endurance and strength, surgery, and political ventures.

· Wednesday:Mercury’s energy benefits efforts regarding those in the creative arts, teachers and students, communications, and self-improvement.

· Thursday:Utilize Jupiter’s influence for workings concerning general success, prosperity, accomplishments, and legal matters.

· Friday:Venus’s warm energies benefit matters of the heart, music, comfort, and pleasure.

· Saturday:Saturn’s karmic energies assist magic concerning reincarnation, karmic lessons, wisdom, and the eradication of disease.

Other correspondences to consider include color, plants, stones, and planetary hours.

The Magical Cauldron

Recently, I was asked to think of one thing I could add to the Magical Cauldron to facilitate positive change. I ask the same of you. What is your greatest strength? What can you calmly, thoughtfully add to the Magical Cauldron to safeguard your country, your ideals, or your family?

May it be so.

[1]Dorothy Morrison, The Craft: A Witch’s Book of Shadows (St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 2001), 31-32

Have a Magical Beltane!

9:21 AM

Beltane: A Festival of Fire and Fertility

The Wheel of the Year turns once more. Ostara, the Maiden Goddess, at Beltane yields to the May Queen and the celebration of life. Beltane, also known as May Day, begins at sundown on April 30.

Beltane, an ancient Celtic festival of fire and fertility, may have evolved from the six-day Roman festival Floralia, which celebrated the goddess Flora and occurred on April 27 or 28. The Floralia commemorated the flowering of spring and included theatrical performances, and competitive games paid for by fines collected when public lands were encroached upon.

Beltane in contrast, is primarily a fire and fertility festival, and is the last of the three spring fertility festivals, following Imbolc and Ostara. It marks the halfway point between the vernal (spring) equinox and the summer solstice. In ancient times, Beltane celebrated life, the end of the dark time of winter, the beginning of summer, and the virility of the Sun God, known during the festival as the May King or Green Man.

On May Eve, Druids lit the Bel fires (bright fires, balefires) for luck and protection. Witches jumped the flames to fortify the protection spells. Cattle were driven between the balefires to safeguard the herd. Couples spent the night in the woods “A-Maying.” Married couples cavorted as well. They were allowed to remove their wedding rings, and for the night were free of the restrictions of marriage.

Then on May Day, villagers danced the Maypole. The phallic-like pole represented the god; the rainbow ribbons, the goddess. As the dancers circled the Maypole, their entwining ribbons wrapped around the pole, signifying the joining of the god and goddess.

THE BELTANE ESCAPE

Lady Fenella, Thaness of Thorburn, has no idea her fate is shackled to a powerful sorceress. She believes Merlin and the Lady of the Lake are myths, Gran’s warnings about Fairy are superstition, and Fairy was invented to make children behave. But a spell cast forward to sixteenth century Scotland finds Fenella and leads to her being branded, stolen, and betrothed. Traumatized and separated from her clan, the Highland heiress finds an unexpected ally in her kidnapper’s son. But their fragile romance is tested when the Lady of the Lake lures Fenella’s cousin into Fairy. Fenella has seconds to decide. Should she remain with Edward, or should she dive into Fairy to rescue her beloved cousin, endangering her clan, and abandoning Edward to his ruthless father?