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the sixth month of the current Gregorian calendar, and the first month of Summer,
derives it's name from the Roman Goddess Juno. Her Greek counterpart among the Greeks was
Hera. During the month of June, the Wheel of the Year turns to Summer Solstice, one of the four Lesser or Minor Sabbats celebrated each year by Witches throughout the world. Not only is Summer Solstice sacred to Goddesses of fertility, marriage, and love, but it considered to be a time when faeries, elves, and many other supernatural beings were abroad in great numbers. |
Correspondences
Nature Spirits:Sylphs, zephyrs. Herbs:Skullcap, meadowsweet, vervain, tansy, Colors: Orange, golden-green. Flowers: Lavender, orchid, yarrow Scents: Lily of the valley, lavender.. |
Stones:Topaz,
agate, alexandrite, flourite, moonstone, pearl. Trees: Oak. Animals: butterfly, frog, toad. Birds: Song Birds: . Deities:Aine of Knockaine, Cerridwen, Sunna, Freya |
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 June is the month of the snake according to Chinese astrology |
1Waxing Moon (9:52 am EST) | 2 Start of my 5th house |
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4 Whitsunday |
5 St. Gobnatt day patroness of sacred stones and cairns. |
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| 7 Vestalia Festival |
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10 Full Moon 12:18am |
11 Beginning of Celtic tree month Duir
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17 Waning Moon (8:36 am)
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18 Dragon Boat Festival |
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20 Midsummer Eve
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| 21 Midsummer Sun enters Cancer
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23 Day of Cu Chulain New Moon 11:50 pm |
24 Beginning of my 6th house |
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29 Bamming the Thorn |
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| June 1 |
In Celtic cultures, the Festival of the Oak Nymph was celebrated annually on this date to honor all hamadryads (female natures spirits who inhabit oak trees). Neo-Pagans may choose to decorate their altar with acorns and wear oak leaves in the hair. Kiss an oak tree or place a small offering of some kind before it, and the tree nymphs who dwell within it will bestow a blessing upon you.
Monthly numerological forecast
| June 2 |
5th HOUSE - Generic Meaning
The Fifth House is also known as the House of Pleasure . It describes romance, creativity,
children, fun, talent, gambling, and enjoyment. It also rules the dramatic, and one's
artistic ability. It represents the heart and back and is ruled by the sign Leo and the
Sun in the solar chart
I have Gemini on the cusp of the fifth house and since Gemini is the sign of mental energy and the fifth house denotes creativity the fifth house become much more heavily emphasized as a mental house rather than as a house of pleasure.. With that said the right thing to do during this period is something creative. I could return to writing the book I started, I could work on theses web pages, of write something, anything to honor the energy of this period. This is would also be a good time to do spells to enhance my creativity especially during the period from the 2nd thru the full moon.
| June 4 - Whitsunday |
Whitsunday was at one time a Pagan fertility festival, and was celebrated throughout Europe on this day with a "heathen feast" signifying the death of the Winter Spirit and the birth of the Summer Spirit.
English folklore dictates that if a baby is born on Whitsunday, he or she is destined to either murder or to be murdered.
| June 5 |
The Irish saint, Gobnatt, is a version of the Goddess Domna, patroness of sacred stones and cairns. The center of Her worship was at Ballyvourney, county Cork, Ireland.
| June 7 |
The eight-day long festival Vestalia began on this date in ancient Rome in honor of the hearth Goddess Vesta. The shrine of Vesta was opened to married women at this time, but at it's conclusion, the shrine was once again forbidden to all except the Goddess' attendant Vestal Virgins.
| June 11 |
The beginning of the Celtic tree Month for Oak/Duir, the moon of strength
| June 14 |
On this date in ancient Rome, the Goddess Minerva was honored annually at her sacred festival, the Lesser Quinquatrus. Minerva was the patroness of wisdom and the arts, and also a deity of battle.
The birthday of the Muses were celebrated on this date in ancient times.
| June 18 |
The Dragon Boat Festival which in ancient times was a Summer Solstice ritual to appease the dragon Gods of the rivers, is celebrate annually on this date in China in honor of the martyred power, Qu Yuan.
| June 20 - Midsummer Eve |
The Celtic Goddess Cerridwen is honored on this day by Witches and Pagans. Cerridwen of Wales was a Dark Moon Goddess of fertility. Her symbols were the cauldron, grain, and the moon. Her sacred herb vervain is burned in small cauldrons as an offering to the Goddess. Green ribbons are tied to trees, and green candles are lit on altars dedicated to her.
In ancient Ireland, the Midsummer Eve was dedicated to the faery Goddess Aine who inhabits Cnoc 'Aine of Kerry County. Aine was a Sun Goddess of love and fertility, but also associated with the moon. She is said to have planted an entire hill of peas in one night. Torches of hay and straw were waived over crops and cattle to bring luck and increase to fields and pastures, while guarding humans against illness and infertility.
| June 21 - Midsummer |
The first day of Summer normally occurs on or near this date, and the Midsummer Sabbat or Summer Solstice (also known as Alban, Hefin, and Letha) is celebrated by Witches and Pagans throughout the world on this date. Midsummer is the longest day of the year when the Sun is at its zenith. In many Wiccan traditions, Midsummer symbolizes the end of the reign of the waxing year's Oak-King, who is now replaced by the Holly-King of the waning year (who rules until Winter Solstice). It is the ideal time for divinations, Healing rituals, and the cutting of divining rods, dowsing rods, and wands.
On this date (approximately), the Sun enters the astrological sign of Cancer. Persons born under the sign of the Crab are said to be family and home-oriented, nurturing, sympathetic, and often very moody. Cancer is a water sign and is ruled by the Moon.
| June 23 |
Pagans (especially in Ireland and Great Britain) celebrate an annual festival on this date called the Day of Cu Chulainn. It is dedicated to the legendary Irish hero of the same name and to the fertility God known as the Green Man
| June 24 |
6th HOUSE: - Generic Meaning
The Sixth House is also known as the House of Health . It is your job, routine, daily responsibilities, diet, employees, pets, and physical fitness. It also describes fulfilling your duty and obligations, and the conscious mind. It represents the stomach and intestines and is ruled in the solar chart by the sign Virgo and the planet Mercury .
In my personal chart Cancer is on the cusp of the sixth house and that means that the Cancer influence on the sixth house creates a tendency for me to become deeply and emotionally involved in work. There may be more emotional involvement in your work than in your personal affairs. I'm the type that must secure work that you like. If you are dissatisfied with what you do for a living, it will cause emotional upset and adversely affect your health. So what does this mean to me this year? One since I've not been happy at work and since my health is currently terrible it probably means I ought to do something about it.
| June 29 |
Appleton, England is the site of the centuries old Pagan tree-worship ritual known as Bamming the Thorn, held annually on this date. The boughs of a large and very old hawthorn tree are decorated with flowers, flags, and ribbons.
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