Angles for May 8th, the 14th Hour.

I haven’t done any angles in forever, but I was compelled to look at a chart of This Moment, around a quarter past two. This is what I found:

Just beautiful, isn’t it?

Here, at the fourteenth hour, the moon casts reflections, and the archer draws the bow string back. Looks like he has 2 arrows, if the tip’s pointing down. Or Saturn the grip of his hand on the bow, and mars the arrow about to fly. Funny the arrow’s tip in sag. His aim comes from the moon, Jupiter and Neptune the bow’s ends. I haven’t looked at any angles in a long time, and this moment’s are striking. The triple earth trine is lovely, the dynamic squares are deeply felt.

Three of the squares’ planets in two places are retrograde, creating powerful echoes. The four-cornered square is impressive, but the Moon is only casting reflections on her way by, leaving a triad of squares, the arrow having left the bow, still in the archer’s hand. Current reality may be in opposition to one’s dreams, or wishes? (Jupiter opp. Neptune), but it’s certainly not dull, with movement (sign sag.) in both immediate actions(mars), and the long term(Saturn).

The triple trine is felt as the spirit behind the action, the person behind the bow.. and also a harmony with the springtime earth. The triad of sunny planets in Taurus really gathers earthy strength. Each of the triad’s corners have a planet in retrograde. There are an even more impressively symmetrical distribution of powerful echoes in the archer, than in her bow. But it’s not as easy to recognize the harmony of a trine as to notice the pushy, dynamic square.

Jupiter is the archer’s head. At which the red lines of tension or activation and the blue of harmony meet. That’s a serious amount of pressure, even for such a large gas giant.

Uranus touches both major dynamic angular systems, sending a bit of discord into the triple trines via Pluto, and a bit of harmony into the three squares via Saturn. Very strange. As usual. shedding a bit of light for a different perspective.

Chiron stands at the dream’s (Neptune) right shoulder, but isn’t really involved. Just a passing brush with mercury incase he needs to speak. amusing, you.

 

Magical Gifts

As a solitary hedgewitch who occasionally goes to a weeklong pagan retreat, I have received magical gifts, both from humans and spirit allies.

I received many gifts at my Naming during the retreat one year. An anklet, which had been gifted from person to person throughout the camp, for probably years. A bracelet with amethysts, which I later gave to a bride at same retreat, a couple years later.

I was given a necklace with a huge Pyrite in, for strength and energy, when I desperately needed it. It’s previous owner didn’t realize she was going to give it to me, until she did. It seemed to have the idea all on it’s own.

And like the other magical gifts I have received, I will one day give it away. Something given in a powerful moment is charged with the essence of that moment, the energy of the giver and the occasion. The essence of that time eventually will fade, it’s power may not remain and then the thing will go on to a new purpose. When something important is going on, a rite of passage -a croning, say- I take a look through these magical gifts I have received and see which one wants to move on. What object is not so powerful anymore for me, and/or which one would be better suited to the energy or situation of this new person? Put some good mojo in it for them, and send the gift on it’s way. The gifts are ephemeral, each here with me for as long as i need it, or until someone comes along who needs the energy of that thing more than I.

Even the perfectly solid, physical objects which other witches have charged with good juju are a sortof elusive thing, truely a gift to me for as long as they are here, until they become gifts for someone else. And they seem to gain strength, like a magical snowball, the more times they have been gifted.

What then of gifts given me by nonphysical, shamanic allies? Dragon gave me her wings to use as my own. They persisted for about a year, and then faded. But not before I realized strengths I didn’t know I had. My spirit guide gave me a lock of his hair- it hangs on a physical dreamcatcher in my house, seen with my mind’s eye.. when this gift is no longer needed will it fade from my inner vision? Simply be gone? Sometimes these spirit-gifts come and go, like the spirit-necklace of blue glass set in silver, though I make no conscious thought about putting it on.. Perhaps this is only needed from time to time?

Then there are some interesting grey areas.. An actual woman gave me a psychic shield, taught me how to do it. But that first time, when she did it over me, it was very bright and strong.. It took me a lot of practicing to get it as strong as when she did it that first time.. actually it still might not be. And a Forest God gave me an actual bracelet, after I composed a chant for him in an apple tree. Just looked down to get out of the tree, and there on the ground, perfectly dirt-colored and hidden, was a macrame bracelet that I hadn’t seen in all the previous days of sitting in that tree. Nor had anyone else. It was nylon or some other material that didn’t rot for however long it’d been on the ground. After washing, I could see that it was blue, much faded from weathering, but still a little bit blue. . . And it said ‘Been There Done That’. Who says the gods don’t have a sense of humor?

Whether the spirit-gifts are to be passed on when unneeded, or whether they just fade, it isn’t nearly so clear as it is with the physical magical gifts, which I am certain that they will be passed to another one day. By then, I will probably have been gifted more, and have a whole new round of them.. what goes around, comes around. But both kinds of magical gifts are certainly ephemeral, and all the moreso valuable and meaningful because of this. And each day I see, notice or wear one of these, real or ephemeral, Gratitude goes out once more to the giver and the gift and the reason for it’s coming into my possession.