August 26 2018 is a full Moon in Pisces. Water sign Pisces Moon is time to be in touch with emotions, spirituality, and intuition. Emotions are strong yet stable from a sextile to Saturn that keeps feelings balanced. Plus a sextile to Uranus for developing your own spiritual path.

Five planets are in Earth signs, with a fortunate grand Earth trine of Sun in Virgo, Saturn in Capricorn, and Uranus in Taurus. During the next two weeks as the Moon wanes, it’s easier to focus on practical, useful, and down-to-earth matters. There can be a good balance of old and new. People can conserve their energy and not become scattered during this exciting and interesting Monkey month.

Relationships can get testy with Venus square Pluto, and Mars square Uranus. Venus in Libra is peaceful, but squaring Pluto can become unbalanced or overly nostalgic during a Pisces full Moon. Mars square…

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The Lightning Rod of Magical Power: A Brief Introduction to Wand Lore

As Joseph H. Peterson (2005) notes, Plato, in his Alcibiades (1.122), and his Classical Greek contemporaries saw magic (mageia) as referring to “the Magian lore of Zoroaster.” The baresman (Avestan) or barsom (Phl.) was the prototype to the Graeco-Egyptian singular wand, but unlike the one-piece wands found in the PGM, the baresman was composed of a “bundle of twigs,” traditionally made of sticks cut from the tamarisk tree (Peterson, 2005). Indeed, for the Zoroastrian Magi, the baresman was a ritual tool that enabled the channeling of Divine Power, the execution of divination, and the energetic communication between the material (getig) and spiritual (menog) realms (Peterson, 2005).

Zoroastrian Magi holding a baresman.

Peterson (2005) goes on to explain the Ancient origins and later grimoiric manifestations of the ‘wand principle’ in rich detail, revealing…

Aug. 9 The Moon is in Mothering nurturing need to be needed Cancer. Stomachs rule. Need to eat for emotional anxiety is strong always under Cancer Moon’s but what with Mercury-Mars Uranus Neptune Pluto and Chiron all Retrograde now until August 18th it’s totally understandable and opposed to Pluto the planet of control early in theA.M.

The Moon goes VOID-of-Course at 7:21 am all day in EDT and PDT. 

Although in the heat of a Rocky Mountain summer it might be difficult to discern, the festival of Lammas (August 1st) marks the end of summer and the beginning of fall. The days now grow visibly shorter and by the time we’ve reached autumns end (October 31st), we will have run the gamut of temperature from the heat of August to the cold of October.

“Lammas” was the medieval Christian name for the holiday and it means “loaf-mass”, for this was the day on which the loaves of bread were baked from the first grain harvest and laid on the church altars as offerings. It was a day representative of ‘first fruits’ and early harvest.

Lammas marks the middle of summer and the beginning of the harvest season. Lammas is considered a time of thanksgiving and is the first of the three Pagan harvest festivals. The Sun’s strength begins to…