06/12/2026
Here is your ORDERLY ALMANAC for Friday, the 12th Of June, Anno Deae Nostrae MMXXVI
All times are given for New Orleans, Central Daylight Time, where the humidity has already been elected to high office and is governing with the usual incompetence.
The Sun rises at 5:58 AM and sets at 8:01 PM, giving us a lavishly overextended day of light, suitable for ambition, vanity, and all other forms of socially acceptable possession.
The Moon is in Ta**us all day, waning toward the New Moon of June 14, a balsamic lunar condition excellent for cleansing, banishing, cutting cords, ending habits, quiet prosperity work, body magic, beauty rites, and the gentle removal of any person, condition, or opinion that has mistaken itself for permanent residency.
The next Void of Course Moon begins early tomorrow, June 13, at 2:31 AM CDT, ending when the Moon enters Gemini at 8:06 AM CDT, so today is mercifully free of lunar vacancy - a rare thing in polite society.
Lunar Condition 🌕
The Moon in Ta**us is earthy, sensual, stubborn, devotional, acquisitive, and inclined to regard haste as evidence of poor breeding.
This is the Moon for money bowls, uncrossing baths, sweetening work, protection of the home, consecration of jewelry, herbs, oils, candles, statues, and anything one wishes to endure longer than a guest who does not know when to leave.
The Moon makes two principal contacts today:
At 9:26 AM, the Moon sextiles Mercury in Cancer - excellent for petitions, letters, prayers, spoken charms, ancestor messages, dream interpretation, business wording, and the art of saying exactly the correct thing while pretending it simply occurred to you.
At 1:38 PM, the Moon conjoins Mars in Ta**us - powerful, but not especially delicate. Use this for protection, courage, boundary work, energetic house-clearing, and the destruction of obstacles.
Do not use it for soothing conversations unless one’s idea of soothing involves rearranging the furniture with a battle-axe.
Planetary Weather 🌝
The Sun remains in Gemini, presiding over speech, trade, gossip, intelligence, signage, and all those little verbal daggers people call “just asking.” Mercury is in Cancer, making memory, emotion, family, house matters, and ancestral speech unusually potent.
Venus and Jupiter in Cancer favor devotion, blessing, hospitality, family protection, altar work, and any magic involving the blessed audacity of wanting to be cherished.
Mars in Ta**us gives force to matter - slow, heavy, practical, and absolutely unwilling to be rushed, which is either magical power or a committee meeting, depending on who is holding the wand.
Saturn and Neptune in Aries continue their grand experiment in making everyone believe they are either founding a religion or quitting one.
Pluto retrograde in Aquarius quietly examines collective systems, friendships, politics, technology, and the terrifying modern habit of confusing attention with intimacy.
Void of Course Moon 🌘
No Void of Course Moon occurs during the ordinary working portion of Friday, June 12 in New Orleans.
The next Void begins tomorrow at 2:31 AM CDT and ends at 8:06 AM CDT. Therefore, do your meaningful work today, and leave tomorrow’s early morning void for sweeping, filing, washing, and not texting that person. Especially not that person.
Favorable Magical Times 🧹
5:58 AM - 7:08 AM - Hour of Venus
For love, beauty, adornment, attraction, reconciliation, friendship, money-drawing, and the consecration of perfumes, powders, oils, jewelry, and charm bags.
A fine hour for glamour work, provided one remembers that glamour is not self-deception - it is merely self-presentation with better lighting.
8:18 AM - 9:28 AM - Hour of the Moon
A superior hour for household blessing, dream work, psychic opening, devotional offerings, baths, divination, and petitions to mothers, saints, ancestors, spirits of place, and the great subterranean powers who know everything and say very little.
9:26 AM - Lunar Sextile to Mercury
The sharpest petition window of the day.
Write names.
Speak prayers.
Compose letters.
Dress candles for communication, reconciliation, intuitive clarity, clients, students, readers, and messages that must arrive without sounding desperate, which is the entire civilized art of magic.
10:39 AM - 11:49 AM - Hour of Jupiter
For prosperity, business growth, patronage, legal blessing, spiritual authority, protection of institutions, temple prosperity, expansion of client work, and anything that requires dignity rather than merely enthusiasm.
1:38 PM - Moon Conjunct Mars
For protection, courage, uncrossing, severing, warding, removing enemies, destroying obstacles, strengthening one’s will, and telling cowardice to collect its hat and leave by the back door.
2:09 PM - 3:20 PM - Hour of Venus
A second Venus hour, softer and more theatrical.
Use for attraction candles, beauty rites, love work, devotional offerings to beloved spirits, rose magic, honey jars, and sweetening the path of money and affection.
Do not, however, sweeten what should be buried.
4:30 PM - 5:40 PM - Hour of the Moon
Excellent for divination, ancestor contact, water work, bowl rituals, scrying, bath preparation, protection of the home, and offerings to household spirits.
The Moon in Ta**us gives the work roots, which is useful, since most people have plenty of opinions and very little root system.
6:50 PM - 8:01 PM - Hour of Jupiter
For temple blessing, prosperity, public favor, justice, sacred authority, teaching, leadership, business petitions, and the expansion of what has already proven itself worthy.
A splendid hour for lighting a candle and asking Heaven to send patrons rather than spectators.
9:40 PM - 10:30 PM - Night Hour of Venus
For love, charm, reconciliation, glamour, softening, erotic blessing, rose work, and the ceremonial improvement of one’s mood.
Best performed with candlelight, perfume, and the refusal to apologize for being magnificent.
10:30 PM - 11:20 PM - Night Hour of Mercury
For spirit messages, automatic writing, dream requests, divinatory questions, business wording, petitions placed beneath a candle, and all communications too subtle for daylight and too intelligent for gossip.
Candle Work Favored Today 🕯️
Green, pink, white, gold, red, and brown candles are favored.
Use green for money and growth, pink for tenderness and reconciliation, white for blessing, gold for honor and success, red for courage and protection, and brown for grounding, home, court matters, and the stubborn material world, which remains inconveniently real.
Dress candles with rose, bay, basil, cinnamon, clove, vetiver, patchouli, hyssop, rue, rosemary, or frankincense according to intention.
For Ta**us Moon work, include something beautiful, fragrant, tangible, and preferably a little expensive, because Venus does not descend for a sad tealight in a dusty saucer unless the devotion is truly exquisite… and with Ta**uses in general, try to make it edibles.
Whoops, I mean edible.
Invocation
O Flame that rises from root and crown,
O Lion of the sacred field,
O Wand that flowers though the world has burned -
come through the iron gate of the heart.
Let courage stand where fear once genuflected,
let the banner of the soul be lifted above the smoke,
let every false peace fall away like ash from the altar,
and let the holy fire answer when the called one dares to say -
I am ready.
Tarot Card of the Day - Le Prince des Bastons - Le Prince du Feu Sacré
Today’s card is The Prince of Wands, here transfigured through the martial sanctity of Jeanne d’Arc, the Maid as Prince of Sacred Fire.
She stands armored in the devastated field, not as a decorative heroine arranged for the comfort of posterity, but as the living vessel of command, ordeal, vision, and divine audacity.
Her face is youthful, solemn, and unflinching - the look of someone who has heard Heaven speak and has discovered, rather unfortunately for everyone else, that Heaven expects follow-through.
The flaming wand in her hand is not merely a staff, but the axis of inspiration itself - fire made vertical, will made visible, the command to rise.
Around it climb leaves and blossoms, suggesting that sacred fire does not only destroy; it awakens what had been sleeping in the root.
Behind her, the banner bearing Jhesus Maria unfurls like a white flame, consecrating the battlefield into chapel, tribunal, and theater.
Above her appear the visionary presences of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret, the heavenly counsel that does not merely comfort the soul, but gives it orders.
The lion at her feet speaks of solar courage, nobility, and mastered ferocity.
The lilies and fleur-de-lis bind the image to France, purity, sovereignty, and the terrible cost of being made symbolic before one has had breakfast.
The broken architecture and smoking distance remind us that revelation rarely arrives in a tidy room.
The sword at her side is disciplined force; the crown and scattered emblems below suggest worldly authority humbled before vocation.
The inscriptions - Ardor Me Ducit, Vox Dei in Flamma, Non Pacem Sed Lucem, and Ignis Vocat, Puella Respondet - declare the card’s true doctrine: fire calls, and the soul either answers or spends the rest of its life explaining why it could not.
As the card of the day, the Prince of Wands urges courage, consecrated action, inspired risk, and the refusal to become smaller in order to be more convenient.
It is excellent for beginning the brave work, defending the sacred charge, reclaiming one’s voice, and remembering that obedience to the soul often looks like disobedience to the room.
Do not confuse peace with silence today.
Do not confuse caution with wisdom.
Do not confuse the fire in your hand with a decoration.
The flame has called.
Try not to make it repeat itself.
With banners -and eyebrows- raised and wits sharpened,
Brick Talbot Bishop
-Coven Vieux Carré -
The Religious Order of Witchcraft
New Orleans Temple at Hands of Fate
