The Forecast for Tuesday, 26 October 2021

Tuesday is governed by Mars. Below are its corresponding energies as well as the current transit chart for the witch’s perusal. et incipit magia

Magickal focus:  Mars governs, passion, manifestation, creativity, self-assertion, reducing conflict

Time

• Dawn – healing, new beginnings, study, purification
• Noon – strength, opportunity, success, protection, wealth
• Sunset – letting go, release
• Night – spirituality, aligning with Spirit, healing, dreamwork, visions

Favorable/Unfavorable for Magick: very good – Further recommendations and a look at the rest of the week are both available here.

Correspondences

• Element – Fire
• Color – Red, rust
• Crystal – Amethyst, bloodstone, lodestone, diamond, jasper
• Resin – Juniper, dragon’s blood, red sandalwood
• Herbs – Absinthe, cayenne, basil, asafoetida, rue, garlic, black pepper, nettle, wormwood, onion, mustard, leeks, ginger, wolfsbane, thorny trees (Hawthorn)

Numerology

• Life Path – 5 – this number describes a life path or destiny involving adaptability, responsibility, and change
• Day – 8 – material gain, recognition, leadership, and greater harmony
• Challenges – balancing indifference with commitment, sociability with others, and managing finances and responsibilities

Rune Divination: Uruz, Kenaz, and Laguz comprise today’s rune divination where we shape our experiences in full clarity through the loving light of Spirit. Uruz, as the aurochs, involves the strength of our higher awareness to endure challenges and to shape the outcome. But instead of the manifestation process itself, Uruz represents the primal forming essence, in other words, the higher thought process that forms the initial idea of something. From there, Kenaz, as the torch or light of Spirit, illuminates, thereby healing perceptions that cloud our ability to see the truth. Laguz increases intuition, clairsentience, and the immersion of our soul into physical form, as it purifies our perceptions and cleanses our emotional expression. The energetic impact of these runes in concert with each other makes possible our soul awareness to inform our perceptions and decisions from a higher level of strength than the reactive ego can provide.

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General Patterns – Both the past and present factor in today providing you with time to reflect on where you place your focus and whether you allow emotions to control the narrative. Are you able to step back to gain an overall understanding before arriving at a conclusion, or do you react before knowing all of the facts? Either will affect your interactions with others which may impact your relationships in unexpected ways. Make certain that you define and respect boundaries in a realistic manner as well as understand how your own inner woundings can drive your own agenda.

Lunar position: Cancer – The Cancer Moon inspires you to focus on family and friends. Also in the 9th House, you can use this period to explore new ideas or endeavors with the people closest to you. A square between The Moon and Chiron in retrograde, however, may stimulate some emotional sensitivity so take care of your own needs as well. The weekly esoteric influences are available here.

The Ascendant: Scorpio – a feminine, fixed sign that suggests an individual who may exercise some restraint before initiating something new preferring to see how others manage something before diving in. That said, when Scorpio focuses in, that focus is quite intense in its expression. You’re independent and self-reliant with a strong will that will achieve your objectives. You are also highly perceptive and, at times, secretive, and you may experience difficulty with emotional balance.

A conjunct with the Sun suggests that you have more impact on others than you may realize, while expressing the more spiritual aspects of self may be impacted by a sesquisquare with retrograding Neptune. Both may impact a close relationship resulting in feelings of imbalance or discomfort influenced by a semisquare with Venus as well as a square with Saturn.

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Significant Aspects or patterns that may inspire or inform magickal workings

Stellium – Sun/Vulcan/Ascendant – Past and present factor in today providing you with time to reflect on where you place your focus and whether you allow emotions to control the narrative

Thor’s Hammer – Mars/Pluto/Ceres R – controlling your emotions will be required in the event that conflict arises and discernment will be necessary to gain both a greater understanding of all factors involved and to express that insight to others

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Additional Aspects (Goddess planets, Lilith, Nodes, and Ascendant aspects follow in their own categories)

• Mercury (12th/Libra) sextile The Midheaven (15°Leo03) – you express yourself with clarity to others, particularly those in authority, and a new opportunity may become available
• Venus (2nd/Sagittarius) square Neptune (5th/Pisces R) – your expectations of others may be unrealistic and boundaries could be impacted

Goddess-oriented Planetary/Fixed Star Aspects

• Neptune (5th/Pisces R) trine Vesta (1st/Scorpio) – indicates that imagination and visualization are strong today
• Pluto (3rd/Capricorn) semisquare Pallas (4th/Pisces R) – step back to understand the overall picture so that you avoid an obsessive focus
• Pluto (3rd/Capricorn) square Eris (6th/Aries R) – describes potential hidden agendas by others, or inner woundings that may impact self-mastery
• Pallas (4th/Pisces R) square Ceres (8th/Gemini R) – suggests a new strategy may be needed when nurturing others
• Pallas (4th/Pisces R) semisquare Eris (6th/Aries R) – describes the need for a new strategy that reflects the overall picture before asserting your own opinion
• Juno (2nd/Sagittarius) trine Eris (6th/Aries R) – indicates that self-assertion with close partners is favored and should flow smoothly

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Black Moon Lilith: 8th House/Gemini — Interactions will flow smoothly while Lilith is in Gemini as long as you listen to the input from others. That said, in the 8th House of transformation, death/rebirth, intimacy/sexuality this may be challenging with Lilith’s darker side potentially resistant to new experiences with others. Ideally, you need to accept the wild child within, respect your intuition and perception, while balancing discernment with engaging respectfully with others. This applies to work situations as well and the need to stay focused to avoid miscommunication as well as to keep your competitive attitude under control. The way through such transformation is to trust your instincts, embrace the shadow side of self, and focus on compassion and nurturing relationships with both self and others.

Node influences: N Node – Gemini; S Node – Sagittarius describes the need for self-control and a focus on a spiritual perspective. The challenge involves understanding the viewpoints of others as well as expressing your own in a helpful and respectful manner. A quincunx between the North Node and The Ascendant counsels you to reflect on your strengths and weaknesses so that opportunities that come your way are assessed realistically.

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Lunar Phase: Waning; Disseminating (sharing knowledge and wisdom with others is desired); 3rd Qtr on 28 Oct 2021 at 1:06 PM PDT at 05°Le37

Mansion of the Moon: 8th – Annathra (The Nursery) – 1°Cancer – misty/cloudy; promotes love and friendship particularly with fellow travelers, rids area of mice, reinforces imprisonment

Retrograde: Neptune – discernment is a factor in this retrograde where you look within to determine truth from fiction and arrive at a more realistic understanding of the truths that surround you; Pallas – reassess your overall understanding of situations and observe patterns as they unfold; Chiron – reflect on inner woundings, apply their message, and then move on; Eris – time to explore and reevaluate your expression of feminine power to maximize your potential; Uranus – indicates a focus on esoteric studies and original thought; Ceres – reflect on the manner in which you extend/receive nurturing and consider whether or not your approach is balanced and respectful of boundaries, both your own and those of others.

Upcoming retrogrades to be aware of: Beginning retrograde – Venus (20 Dec – 26°Cp29); Leaving retrograde – Pallas (9 Nov – 09°Pi03′); Neptune (2 Dec – 20°Pi24); Chiron (20 Dec – 08°Ar26)

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Polarity: The masculine (projective) and feminine (receptive) polarities are in relative balance with each other today with the feminine polarity slightly stronger.

Elemental Influence: Elemental Water (emotions, compassion, empathy) provides the strongest influence today. Air (intellect, reason, justice, interaction), Fire (will, creativity, motivation), and Earth (material concerns, physical presence) follow in relative balance with each other and having a significantly lesser impact.

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Ray Influences:  The average strength of the 1st Ray of will and power suggests that self assertion may be more challenging today.

The 2nd Ray has significantly decreased again in strength, and expressing compassion, empathy, and wisdom may not resonate either within you or regarding your interactions with others. But with the continued decreased impact of the 6th Ray, the strong expression of ideology may also be kept in check.

The increased impact of the 3rd Ray of active intelligence signals that information may be well organized, understood, and expressed easily to others. Adding to that, as the 5th Ray of concrete knowledge and science continues to influence your mindset, the strong impact of the 4th Ray of harmony through conflict suggests problem-solving or finding common ground with others may be less challenging today.

Overall, the 7th Ray’s effect on balancing higher self with ego suggests that awareness of the greater picture may begin to influence self-expression and decisions.

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References

• Erickson, Jan. Herbal Magicka. 2021
• Erickson, Jan. Witch Notes. Kindle. 2019.  
• Erickson, Jan. Shifting Perception. Draft2Digital. 2020.