For Pondering

Okay, so, in pretty much every culture, an eclipise is a very powerful event. Solar, of course, being more powerful, but lunar just as important.

I live in Ontario, and trust me, we rarely get to see eclipses, we get lunar ones. Sometimes.

My question for pondering is: you can get lists of eclipses, solar and lunar, all over the world for the upcoming year(or years). Even if I can't physically see the eclipse, can I still perform eclipse-specific rituals and harness the power of the eclipse? Would it help if I had a live feed on the internet of the eclipse, or can I just visualize it? Or, is it a bad idea?

Anyway, any thoughts would be appreciated!

Creating a Solar Charged Infusion

If you can depend upon consistent warm, sunny weather, extremely powerful infusions may be created via solar power. These infusions contain the power of the sun as well as that of botanicals.
You need at least two weeks of sunny, warm weather. Weather is unpredictable, so check your local forecast. If one day out of 14 it rains, it's not the end of the world, but as long as it's mostly sunny and mostly warm, you're good to go.

1. Place the botanicals inside a jar with a tight-fitting lid
2. Pour oil over them (make sure the botanicals are completely covered)
3. Add one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
4. Leave the jar to sit exposed to warm sun all day and in a warm cupboard (or exposed to moonbeams, if it’s warm) all night, for two weeks. Strain through cheesecloth until all the botanicals have been removed

Magical Days: Sunday

Sunday
Ruled by The Sun

Rules health, prosperity, strength, leadership, joy, and protection

Use for magic involving happiness, money, and power, to attract happy people to your life, to heal, to rejuvenate, to charm; builds confidence, useful in persuasion; gives energy and intelligence to make proper decisions in financial fairs, healing, power, leadership, ego, authority figures, father, husbands

Energy: Male. The day of the Sun God. Power magic, this day is used for rituals involving employment, friendship, vitality, money and career. It provides excellent energy for efforts involving general success, business partnerships, job promotions, business ventures and professional success. Magical work involving friendships, and mental or physical health also benefit from this influence. To attract happy people to your life, to heal, to rejuvenate, to charm; builds confidence, useful in persuasion; gives energy and intelligence to make proper decisions in financial affairs.

Yellow is used to gain insight into problems, attract others, obtain knowledge and facilitate retention of learning.

Fragrances: Cedar, Clove, Cinnamon, Frankincense, Rosemary

Planetary Attributes

This is a little handy reference list about planetary influences. By using the power of the planets, spells and rituals can become much mroe powerful.

Sun: Illumination, energy, action, hope, self-expression, motivation
Mercury: Wisdom, intelligence, opinion, fear, debt, nervous tension
Venus: Love, desire, harmony, constancy, friendship, unity, beauty
Moon: Enchantment, dreams, wishes, moods, plans, habits, ways
Jupiter: Law, honour, expression, humour, wealth, adventure, bold quests
Saturn: Peace, divination, change, ambition, progress, patience, loss

Some examples of spells you can do with...
Sun: weight loss motivation spells
Mercury: Studying/school spells
Venus: Love magic (this stuff is tricky)
Moon: Help remembering dreams
Jupiter: money spells
Saturn: Making peace with friends/family