The Sun on April 23, 2024 // Steven Christensen

The moon dressed as Saturn.

The mystifying solar eclipse of 2024

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Apr. 8 2024 Eclipse

Credit: Victor Toth

Reblog to have something good happen at 1:42 tomorrow

The Newest & Clearest photo of Pluto.

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Fire-Ball

(all my gifs are here)

Juno in Jupiter (the images that appear the juno probe is just an illustration) +Jupiter

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

um guys?

canada is currently considering banning imidacloprid, which is apparently “one of the most widely used bee-killing pesticides in the world”. this seems pretty huge, so if you’ve got two seconds, add your name to the list! as of posting this link, they need just over 8,000 more signatures by february 21!

@allthecanadianpolitics

I DON’T CARE IF YOU’RE AMERICAN PLEASE REBLOG THIS SO THAT OTHER CANADIAN USERS CAN SEE IT

COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ME

The January Super Blood Blue Moon Eclipse is not only going to help bring resolution and closure to the last half of 2017, it is also going to open and activate a new energy that we are all going to be working with until the next round of Eclipses in July and August 2018.

Eclipses often bring turning points in our lives. They are often an instigator for change and illuminate areas of our lives that need attention.

The Moon represents our emotions and how we feel safe and secure as we move through the world. During an Eclipse, our sense of security and comfort is often shaken in some way, and we are given the opportunity to really look within and discover our fears, hopes, dreams and the truth.

Seeing as this Blood Blue Moon Eclipse falls in the fire sign of Leo, it is really going to be guiding us to take charge of our lives and to step into that role of being the King or Queen of our own jungle.

As this is Full Moon energy, most of the action we are going to have to take will include clearing things out, doing away with the past and letting things go.

blue moon magick

what makes a blue moon different than a regular full moon?

For more than 50 years, we’ve referred to the second full moon in a single month as a Blue Moon, but that’s not the original definition. This definition came about after a few misinterpretations of the Maine Farmer’s Almanac.

Originally, the Maine Farmer’s Almanac defined a blue moon as the third of four full moons in a single season. This is a little confusing - why didn’t they name the fourth full moon as the blue moon?

The Almanac utilized the tropical year (extending from one winter solstice to the next) and assigned different names to every full moon throughout the seasons. The names of the moons were determined by utilizing the rules that decided the dates of Easter and Lent. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, and had to contain the Lenten Moon, which was considered the last full moon of winter.

The third full Moon was identified as extra so that the names of the other full Moons (Moon Before Yule, Moon After Yule, etc.) fell at the proper times relative to the solstices and equinoxes.

Blue moons of both definitions are equally rare. However you define a blue moon, the extra lunar energy in a month/season can be very useful to your spellwork! The abundance of moonlight can add extra power to other spells you might cast during a full moon.

The next blue moon is this Saturday, May 21st, and it will appear in the Sagittarius constellation. Any full moon spellwork would be excellent for this particular evening, but if you’d like to utilize the energy of Sagittarius as well, spells concerning the following topics would definitely benefit from the full moon’s presence in the Archer’s portion of the sky:

by Mark Basarab