The Forecast for Friday, 5 November 2021
Friday is governed by Venus. Below are its corresponding energies as well as the current transit chart for the witch’s perusal. ~ et incipit magia
Magickal focus: Venus governs; compassion, love, harmony, attracting a partner, partnership issues, female sexuality, fertility, healing, friendship
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: neutral – Further recommendations and a look at the rest of the week are both available here.
Correspondences
- Element – Water
- Direction – West
- Power – To Dare
- Color – Green, rose
- Crystal – Turquoise, lapis lazuli, beryl, rose quartz, coral
- Resin – sandalwood, ambergris, musk, orris root
- Herbs – apple, rose, myrtle, bugloss (alkanet), burdock, feverfew, lilac, marshmallow, vervain, valerian, thyme, coriander, pears, elder, pomegranate, passionflower, raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, vanilla, yarrow, violet, plantain
- Life Path – 3 – this number describes a life path or destiny involving creativity, interactions with others, and imagination
- Day – 5 – adaptability, responsibility, freedom, and change
- Challenges – taking a self-determined path and managing sociability with others
Rune Divination: Wunjo (ᚹ), Nauthiz (ᚾ), and Uruz (ᚢ) comprise today’s rune divination where you overcome self-imposed restrictions to seek fellowship with others. Wunjo makes your wishes come true and fosters harmony and joy with others. Nauthiz and Uruz involve the energy to manifest with Uruz shaping your perceptions, while Nauthiz, the Norn rune of the future, uses the inner will to enable you to forgive yourself and others. In other words, the inner strength is present to let go of perceptions that hold you back from expressing joy with those you love and who love you.
Energetic Influences
Polarity: The feminine (receptive) polarity is strongest today suggesting that compassion and empathy for others provide the strongest influence.
Elemental Influence: Water (emotions, compassion, empathy) provides the strongest influence today with Earth (material concerns, physical presence) next in strength. Fire (will, creativity, motivation) and and Air (intellect, reason, justice, interaction) follow and are in relative balance with each other.
Ray Influences: The increasing strength of the 1st Ray of will and power suggests that self assertion may be more easily expressed today.
The 4th and 5th Rays decrease in strength somewhat, however, scientific knowledge may still be understood and agreed upon. The strong influence of the 4th Ray indicates that finding common ground may be more easily achieved today.
The 2nd Ray’s significantly lower impact indicates that expressions of compassion, empathy, and wisdom may be difficult to express or will have little impact on your interactions with others. And now that the 6th Ray is also at the same level as the 2nd Ray, this suggests that the expression of ideology may also be less today. This could also indicate that trust and loyalty may not be as strong.
The strength of the 3rd Ray of active intelligence signals that information may become more easily understood and integrated into your overall perspective.
Lastly, the 7th Ray’s impact on balancing higher self with ego suggests that awareness of the greater picture may still not resonate enough to influence self-expression and decisions.
Lunar Phase: New on 4 Nov 2021 at 2:15 PM PDT at 12°Sc40; 1st Qtr on 11 Nov 2021 at 5:47 PM PDT at 19°Aq20
Mansion of the Moon: 19th – Exaula (The Sting) – 21°S25′; tail of Scorpio; fosters attacking cities and towns, forces people to leave their homes, destroys sailors and prisoners
Significant aspects or patterns that may inspire or inform magickal workings
General Patterns – Your emotions tend to influence your self-esteem, particularly at work or where authority figures may influence your success or achievement, and you may benefit from a ritual or daily routine that involves balancing your emotions such as meditation or yoga. Let go of control so that agreements made today are based upon compromise with others so that support is preserved.
Lunar position: Moon in Scorpio until Sagittarius at 5:53 PM PDT – While Scorpio is still influencing your emotions, you may need to exercise restraint should your focus become too intense. If feeling triggered at all, remember that those triggers arise from your own past experiences and provide a space for understanding and healing. Honor your feelings and put them into perspective. 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 and partnerships of all kinds could be impacted by unexpected circumstances stimulated by an opposition with retrograding Uranus. A trine with retrograding Pallas suggests the need to understand the overall picture, while a semisquare with Juno suggests this might center on interactions with partners.
Specific Aspect patterns
Thor’s Hammer – MC/Moon/Vesta/Chiron R – your emotions influence your self-esteem, particularly at work where authority may influence your success or achievement; a ritual or daily routine that involves balancing your emotions is favored.
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Additional Aspects (Goddess planets, Lilith, Nodes, and Ascendant aspects are in their own categories)
- The Sun (1st/Scorpio) opposite Uranus (6th/Taurus R) – although you prefer an unconventional approach, you would be well advised to seek a more realistic expression with others to avoid unnecessary conflict
- Mercury (12th/Libra) sextile Venus (2nd/Capricorn) – compromise is favored today so that agreements are easily made and supported
- Pluto (3rd/Capricorn) quincunx The Midheaven (25°Le06) – it may be necessary to reevaluate how you express power or authority with others and to let go of the need to control every outcome
Goddess-oriented Planetary/Fixed Star Aspects
- Jupiter (3rd/Aquarius) square Vesta (1st/Scorpio) – counsels you to avoid a fanatical focus that cannot allow for let alone respect the opinions of others
- Jupiter (3rd/Aquarius) square Vesta (1st/Scorpio) – self-confidence is strong and you approach life with optimism and grace
- Saturn (3rd/Aquarius) trine Ceres (7th/Gemini R) – you easily support and feel supported by others today
- Pluto (3rd/Capricorn) sextile Vesta (1st/Scorpio) – your focus on what’s hidden may intensify 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) sesquisquare Ceres (7th/Gemini R) – indicates a transactional approach to supporting others with expectations of give and take more important than simply offering support without any agenda
- Pluto (3rd/Capricorn) square Eris (6th/Aries R) – describes potential hidden agendas by others, or inner woundings that may impact self-mastery
- Chiron (5th/Aries R) sesquisquare Vesta (1st/Scorpio) – suggests that past wounding are affecting or in some manner challenging your well-being; a different focus may be necessary to uncover the truth and begin the healing process
- Chiron (5th/Aries R) sextile Ceres (7th/Gemini R) – you express strong support others today and they benefit from your insight
- Pallas (4th/Pisces R) square Ceres (7th/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
- Ceres (7th/Gemini R) semisquare Eris (6th/Aries R) – suggests reflection on the strength and power of the feminine within to express support and nurturing toward others
- Ceres (7th/Gemini R) conjunct Aldebaran at 10°Ge05 – describes success in your relationships by expressing integrity
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Black Moon Lilith: 7th 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 7th House of partnerships this may be challenging with Lilith’s darker side affecting expectations and 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. You 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.
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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)
References
- Erickson, Jan. Herbal Magicka. 2021
- Erickson, Jan. Witch Notes. Kindle. 2019.
- Erickson, Jan. Shifting Perception. Draft2Digital. 2020.
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