~Wednesday July 9, 2008
~Today is the 189th day of the year with 177 days left in the year.
 
~Traditionally Wednesday is ruled by the planet Mercury. The influences of the day include:
Divination, communications, knowledge, wisdom, and study.
 
The next Full Moon will occur on July 18 at 3:59 am EDT
Old Farmers Almanac calls this moon The Buck Moon (aka Thunder Moon & Blessing Moon)
 
~The next sabbat will be Lughnasadh on August 1st (NH) and Imbolc (SH)
There will be a Solar Eclipse at 6:22 am
  
~We are currently in the Celtic Month of Holly (July 8- Aug 4) and the astrological month of
 Cancer (June 22-July 22 )
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Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight

Fair lady Isabel sits in her bower sewing,
Aye as the gowans grow gay
There she heard an elf-knight blawing his horn.
The first morning in May

"If I had yon horn that I hear blawing,
An yon elf-knight to sleep in my bosom."

This maiden had scrcely these words spoken,
Till in at her window the elf-knight has luppen

"It's a very strange matter, fair maiden," said he,
"I canna blaw my horn but ye call on me.

"But will ye go to yon greenwood side?
If ye canna going, I will cause you to ride,"

He leapt on a horse, and she on another,
And they rode on the greenwood together.

"Light down, light down, lady Isabel," said he,
"We are come to the place where ye are to die."

"Hae mercy, hae mercy, kind sir, on me,
Till ance my dear father and mother I see.

"Seven king's-daughters here hae I slain,
And ye shall be the eight o them."

"O sit down a while, lay your head on my knee,
That we may hae some rest before I die."

She stroak'd him sae fast, the nearer he did creep,
Wi a sma charm she lulld him fast asleep.

Wi his ain sword-belt sae fast as she ban him
Wi his ain dag-durk sae sair as she dang him

"If seven king's-daughters here ye hae slain,
Lye ye here, a husband to them a'."

This poem is among a group of anonymous songs that were probably written between 1200to 1700 in Northern England and Scotland.

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 Obscure Words

(Strange. Amusing. Obscure. These words aren't used much these days, but perhaps we should think about resuscitating them.)

Anililagnia: an attraction to older women.
 

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