Walpurgis Night 2017

Walpurgis Night 2017

The whole Northern Hemisphere celebrates this May 1st, the night of Beltane, for the ancient Gauls and Celts this celebration marked the beginning of the pastoral summer when the herds of cattle were led towards the green pastures and the mountains. It is the night that the fires are lit in the mountains and at the top of the hills, very similar to the eve of the Night of San Juan. The regent God of this celebration is Belenus "the most brilliant of the gods", who lives and dances in the fire of the bonfires that are lit for tonight.

But first, just one night before, we celebrated the night of Walpurgis. We have two witches' nights in each solar cycle, the Walpurgis night, every April 30th, which happens between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, and then we celebrate 'Samhain' (Halloween / The Celtic New Year) just between The Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice.

This is one of those magical days, which we know as "gate days", when the energies between different planes and worlds, converge between them, which can cause all sorts of consequences. Those days are highly charged energetically, the confluence of energy during these periods is complex and highly complete, do not miss this powerful energy to recharge your talismans and charm bags, as well as to carry out a variety of magic spells and links.

Video: Pagan Party by Mago de Oz

During these days, the ancient Germanic peoples invoked the fertility gods and honored their ancestors by sharing the consecrated fire in their homes, bringing offerings to the priestesses and conjuring up the old gods of the twilight to attract prosperity and prolong life. Just one night later, they lit the main fires to honor Belenus and celebrate Beltane, spreading the smoke of the fire consecrated by all the homes in the town to renew the spirit of each home.

The night of Walpurgis is one of the most powerful nights of the year, it is the time when witches and sorceresses conjure the forest and "call" the moon to renew their health and magic, while the shamans channel the ancestors, and attract them to thank them personally for the land they have left us and for the care they provide.

The month of May has always been dedicated to the ancestors, the Romans believed that during this month, the ancestors came back to walk among us and monitor our behavior. In Northern Europe, specifically between the Nordic and Baltic Countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, as well as the islands of Åland and Faroe Islands, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), people choose not to leave their houses tonight, for it was the night when the witches flew about on their brooms, escorted by a procession of ghosts and demons dancing with them in the woods, and through their dancing around the fires they succeeded in awakening the sleeping spirit of the forest, the god without name, guardian, and protector of the witches.

In ancient Germania, the lore tells us that witches celebrate this special date entering into ecstasy through herbal ointments and plunges into the deep darkness of the forest, being guided by their familiar spirits in the form of a black goat, A pig, a crow, a toad, or a wolf. Once they were in the heart of the forest, they were reunited with the spirit of their lovers of other lives and celebrated with them all night.

Rumors of that Witches Night

They put salt on the sheds and swept from east to west

With those old brooms consecrated to ward off evil

Jumping from roof top to roof top came to the witches dressed at night

His scandalous laughter bounces through every corner of the forest.

Among heads of oxen, pigs and rams make a feast

Fairies dance around new souls and old witches

Devils and witches dance around the fire

The fire of the bonfire dances to the beat of time

The time compasses dance around the soul of the fire gods

The circle in salt, fire, and rosemary has been forged

Witches dance, fly and sing around the old spirit of the forest

Spirits congregate around each village

Borders marked with sea salt and white pepper

Barriers made of roses and olive oil

Driving away all evil and all curse

Witches celebrate tonight dancing with the old gods

Sorcerers make love with the seductive nymphs of the forest

Elves and goblins mingle between the sweat of the feast and the joy of ecstasy

If you hear noises on the roof, attentive,

Son witches jumping between the tissues of houses

To take the momentum in your flight.

If the hot night has the aroma of herbs,

It's because the neighbor witch is cooking her ointment on the stove.

If you see shadows that move at night in the nearby cemetery,

Pay close attention, witches-lovers

Who rise from the dead

To go dancing in the woods.

Happy Witches Night and Happy Walpurgis.

© Elhoim Leafar 2017

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Tip for my regular readers: If in my previous books I wrote some simple spells and tips to celebrate the Walpurgis night, in the following, because of course I also did, in my new book 'The Magical Art Of Crafting Charm Bags' (available for preorder now HERE) includes Some other talisman to perform on these important dates, such as Walpurgis, Samhain and some solstices.

New Moon In Taurus + Magic with the Moon

New Moon In Taurus

It is time to have the opportunity to feel more secure. On Wednesday, April 26, 2017, the New Moon is produced in Taurus, a good time to commit ourselves to the personal goals that express the positive energies of the bull's sign. The new Moon is the appropriate time to meditate on a project or immerse yourself in a new process time of insight and awakening. People who are born under the moon in Taurus (as well as today), possess exceptional emotional resistance, are prudent, conservative and possessive. 

The New Moon in Taurus invites us to enjoy the simple and physical pleasures of life: savoring a good meal and activities that put us in touch with nature and our bodies.It is the occasion to stop and smell the roses, and become more aware of what makes us feel comfortable and safe. It is ideal for evaluating our relationship with money and possessions, and discovering what really makes us happy and fulfilled. With this powerful Taurus energy, we have the opportunity to make important changes in our lives.

It is the propitious phase to make some realistic and solid plans and to set the stage to reap the fruits of our new beginnings, however large or small. This moon sponsors the gastronomic projects, it is also convenient, to make queries regarding bank balances and business capital. When the New Moon happens in Taurus, we have a great opportunity to look inward and see what brings us comfort and a greater sense of security. Let's take time to examine what are the earthly activities and pleasures that give us joy.

The moon in Taurus invites us to build solid and strong projects, always maintaining the objective search to reach a specific goal, not working to work or doing things in a hurry, only the tiredness is tired, and tired we kill our creative phase, is Moment to properly place our feet on the ground and organize our more concrete ideas on paper. This lunation gives firmness and strength to your projects in the short and long term but depends entirely on you if these projects are suitable or not.

The regent star of this lunation is Venus, take into account that Venus is in Pisces, and it is not the moment to anticipate, to accelerate the march or to make accelerated decisions, it is rather the moment to take things calmly and to plan each step with much detail. Good time for those spells and rituals linked to love, joy and beauty.

There can also be a tendency to an excessive materialistic ambition, to be inflexible in your own opinions and to behave in a selfish or resentful way. The moon in Taurus can also incline us to gluttony, laziness, and stubbornness. During this lunar period it is favorable to start solid and durable projects, especially those that require great tenacity and concretion. It is a good time to enjoy good music and food, appreciate art, start beauty treatments, cut hair to grow healthier and brighter, take care of plants, make financial investments and acquire real estate.

Magic With this Moon

(from my Books 'Wicca! Love & Soul' and 'Rites Of Happiness')

On the Moon of Earth, we conjure gnomes and elves, those tiny but wise spirits of the forest and gardens. Coffee or green are the colors for candles that we use in the ritual space during this day, and it is preferable that these magic altars face North if possible.

Moon in Taurus, is best suited to perform magic that is related to self-control and will, spells that involve making decisions, changes, competitive spirit and those rituals to balance the personality, free time, healings and physical and mental cures are issues to be addressed during the moon in Taurus and also the development of ideas and projects. During this Moon can perform trade-related magic, selling real estate, home protection, love and beauty, self-acceptance and prudence, we also perform in this Moon the proper rituals to combat materialistic greed, possessiveness, obstinacy and stubbornness, manufacture talismans channeling the power of the Earth and renewing energy.

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Calling Desires + Orpheus + Ritual

Calling Desires + Orpheus + Ritual

Channeling Our Desires

Each year, between the last weeks of April our sky is covered with stars, and just like every year, I make this humble invitation to be part of the magical ritual of the wishes that we make virtually between all.

The Myth of Orpheus

According to the popular myth of the Greeks, the King of Thrace, Eagro, and the muse Calliope had a son whom they called Orpheus. Orpheus was a great musician to the point of being worshiped as a god of the arts and songs, was the lover of Apollo, the solar god, who presented him with a lyre made by Hermes with the shell of a turtle as a present of his love.

One day Orpheus walked with his wife Eurydice by the river, during the walk Euridice was bitten by a snake that killed almost immediately. After this tragic event, Orfeo spent days singing songs so sad with his lyre that even the gods of Olympus and the nymphs began to cry and advised the young musician to descend to the Underworld to recover his beloved.

Making use of an oracle of the dead in the city of Aorno, Orpheus descended to the underworld where he softened the hearts of King Hades and his wife Persephone, rulers of the world of the dead, and these allowed Eurydice to return with Orpheus to the world of the Alive, under the sole condition that he should walk before her and not look back until they had reached the upper world and the rays of the sun completely bathed his beloved. As they ascended the world of the living Orpheus I can not stand the temptation and out of curiosity I look back to make sure that Eurydice followed him, in doing so he violated the only rule he had and the sad soul of Eurydice faded before his eyes, this time to always.

Orpheus spent the next three years avoiding any loving union and despising all the lovers who approached him, until one day the Maenads, the nymphs who served Dionysius, the god of wine and the feast, were offended by his attitude, Broke the musician and scattered his limbs by the sea, and it was in this way that the soul of Orpheus met again with his beloved Eurydice in the other world.

As a tribute to this tragic story, Zeus, the king of the Olympian gods collected the lyre of Orpheus and placed it in the sky as a constellation, to remind men that love transcends all the barriers of time even beyond life and death.

The Líridas

Now that you know the story you can understand the power of this rain of stars. Between April 16 and 25, every year, the rain of stars known as "líridas" occurs, being its maximum point the 22 of April. These high-speed meteors are remnants that come from 'Vega' the main star of the constellation of the lyre (the constellation of Orpheus), hence its name, said rain reaches an average of more than 30 meteors per hour, arriving in some Occasions to a hundred meteors, which eventually burn in the earth's atmosphere and become visible as streaks of light in the sky.

In modern astrology, the rain of 'lyrical' stars is also known as the night of desires, and it is appropriate to channel its energy which will be scattered throughout the sky as pure energy, which we can mold through our good wishes.

In the mythology of the Hopi Indians, they believe that the magic of their shamans and priests comes from this rain of stars, in fact, the Hopi also believe that they come from this star which they know as "The Eye of God".

In Sorcery and traditional witchcraft, the energy of walking stars (meteors and star showers) is often used to develop talismans and spells highly charged with very powerful energy vibrations. According to European folklore, the talismans made under a rain of stars are blessed by an almost unlimited source of energy, because the dust of stars is not only vibrationally charged with the energies of its star, but also with all the energy Which he has charged on his journey.

Even personally, I have mentioned in my own books the power of these walking stars and various ways to take advantage of them. Now I leave the link to the spell here below, it's a pretty simple spell, I have not changed a single step in the formula since I did the spell the first time 13 years ago. I hope you take it out and invite others to do it, do not forget to share the link.

Night of the wishes + Ritual

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Blessings and Happy rain of stars.

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