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Once In a Blue Moon How You Can Wish On a Blue Moon

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Blue Moon Rises Bringing Important Wishing Occasion

Once in a blue moon…

As with most, if not all old sayings, this one too has ancient supernatural roots that have thankfully come to light just in time for the blue moon on July 31.

20150727-132009.jpgAs you know, the saying once in blue moon, means things that very seldom happen.

In other words, things that you wish would happen more often but don’t happen in the general business of ongoing life. The blue moon, itself a change in the usual order of business, can bring about a rare exception, just as the saying suggests.

It’s a fact that was recently brought to light here on the site  by a survivor named Ravenwillow. And further research into the matter validates her experience and reveals long tradition of wishing on the blue moon. (Just one of many tips and contributions made by survivors here on the site that keep me keeping on as a supernatural survivalist.)

Don’t let the moon set on this excellent wishing opportunity! Read on and get ready to make your own blue moon wish.

How To Wish On a Blue Moon 3 Easy Steps

1. Select Your Blue Moon Wish Wisely

Whether it’s a genie in a lamp or a leprechaun-owned wishing well this is always good advice. However in the case of a blue moon, it’s not a matter of be careful what you wish for! life-or-death.

No, in this case it’s just a matter of maximizing the blue moon potential by understanding the nature of the blue moon. As the second full moon in a single month, blue moons are rare but regular and predictable occurrences – but not in and of themselves supernatural events despite their ability to temporarily suspend the usual order of business in the world.

Your wish should reflect this. It’s not an occasion to wish for something that has never happened before. It’s an occasion to wish for something you wish would happen again.

2. Write Your Wish In Stone

Your cave wall would be an ideal place. At least that’s what the ancients did. Granted this used to be easier. If you no longer live in a cave, find a smooth rock or stone and write on it with a decent marker instead.

Just make sure your rock is big enough – or your wish small enough – to fit on the stone you select or you could end up with only half a wish, in other words a wish that almost-but-not-quite comes true. And research shows the only thing worse than not hitting that home run in the ninth inning of a tie game with loaded bases is almost-but-not-quite making that epic catch in the ninth inning of a tie game with loaded bases.

3. Bury Your Blue Moon Wish Rock

Two key words here, timing and location. 

Timing

First, the rock must be buried at the height of the blue moon. Normally this means when the moon reaches its fullest height and certainly if you suspect that you are a Blue or Silver Werewolf  you need to be aware of this. But for blue moon wishing, the key timing here is precisely midnight on the last day of the month.

What if you bury it well before midnight? While reportedly not optimal, research reveals that a before-midnight wish-rock burial is not wholly ineffective like an after-midnight wish burial. So erring on the side of caution here is not out of the question. If you can’t make a midnight date with the blue moon, better to make it before than after.

Location

Anywhere the moonlight falls will work. Now this gets tricky if it’s a cloudy night. Tricky but not not devastating. Not if you pick your location with careful observation and weather research well in advance of the blue moon.

Now I’m not saying there aren’t other valid ways to wish on the blue moon but the research suggests if you follow these three steps your wish has historically corroborated odds of coming true. We can quibble about numbers all day, whether that means 99.98 or 99.00 percent – and I freely admit to not testing my research yet –  but hey, wouldn’t this time be better spend in preparing for the blue moon instead? Nothing here involves burying a dead animal or risking your eternal soul or inviting a maliciously playful fey being into your life forever. And you don’t need a whole wishing team.  So where’s the risk?

I know I’ll have my wish ready.

Star or Angel On Which Will You Wish?

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O Wishful Night

As the Geminids light up the night sky this week, you like me may be preparing your wish for what is arguably the wishfullest night of the wish calendar year –  December 24.

Will you wish on a star or an angel this Christmas Eve?
Get Your One Wish Ready

(And no I’m not talking about Santa Claus. Not after that nasty letter he sent me about our Krampusnacht coverage here on SOS. That guy is on my naughty list, let me tell you.)

No I’m writing about that most ancient secret of Christmas Eve, when survivors of yore would remember to tuck one wish for the coming year at the very top of the tree to see it come to light with the returning sun. That’s because a true tree wish given to your angel or star by midnight on Christmas has special powers.

If this is not among your supernatural seasonal survival tactics yet, read on and learn.

5 Tips To Make Your Tree Wish True

1. Prepare Your Tree

If you haven’t already set your seasonal tree using the SOS tried and true tips for dark season decorating, you need to get popping! As every survivor knows, your tree is the key to surviving the season with dark spirits.

I would advise you to follow the link above for a quick review but in case your finger is broken here’s the highlights – a true survivor’s tree needs to feed the spirits of the season. Altho some people go for garlands of gumballs and colorful suckers, as everyone knows I’m an advocate for more hale and hearty spirit munchies like popcorn and marshmallow strings, traditional Christmas baconsil and the occasional hanging apple or muffin. (Just don’t drape your bacon directly over the lights or things could get drippy and your spirits smelly. Smelly spirits are not nice.)

And whatever you choose, don’t skimp on the stuff. You need enough in your tree to keep the spirits up – high up – in the branches, not roaming hungrily around your home.

2. A Traditional Tree Topper

Now I’m not going to wade into the angel or star? debate.  In my book, either will work. The important factor for a true tree wish tradition is to ensure that whatever symbol you place at the top of your tree, it needs to have a hiding place inside it. That’s where the wishes go by midnight Christmas Eve, tucked inside the hidden hollow.

3. Prepare Your Wish

Trickier than it sounds. Unlike a wish fountain you can’t just toss in your lucky coin and look for a collecting leprechaun to (maybe!) honor the deal. But you also don’t need an entire wishing team like for falling stars, so that’s good news. But your wish does need to be written by hand,  by you, the wisher, on a scrap of paper or paper like substance, just big enough to fit in the handy hole in the base of your ornamental star or angel.

That’s the easy part. The hard part is choosing your wish. That’s right one wish and one wish only for the coming year. A true wish.  An important wish. Not the kind you entrust to Santa’s wish machine but the kind of wish that will help you and yours to survive and thrive in the year ahead.

So choose your wish carefully and write it down.

4. Wishing Deadline is Midnight

Wishes must be delivered to the top of the tree by midnight, Christmas Eve in your time zone. There is no known exception to this rule, short of hopping on a plane and travelling halfway around the world or backward in time.

So don’t wait, get your wish done early and on top of your tree well before the clock strikes midnight. You may need help getting it up there so make sure if you’re using a ladder that you have a reliable ladder holder. Falling off a ladder to place your wish can quickly cancel the positive effect of wishing  – not to mention the black cat threat from below which I won’t even go into today.

5. Look For The First Light

When you wake on Christmas morning, if you can tear your eyes away from the bounty beneath your tree – or the lumps of coal as the case may be – look for the first rays of the new sun to touch the top of your tree for a sign.

What will you see? What kind of sign, you ask?

Unfortunately that remains unknown. Some say your angel will stir and come to life long enough to hand off your wish to a messenger of the light. Others say the star will shine blindingly bright for a brief moment and send it up in a burst of stardust. Me, I’m not sure on account of my love of sleeping in late – which is also an important survival skill.

All I know for sure is this. In 364 days when you look back on the year that was and think about your true tree wish, you will find that it did indeed come through for you. Maybe not exactly the way that you thought it would, but close enough to be true.

Get Your Wish Team Ready These Stars Fall Fast

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Get your wishes and your wish team ready if you are observing National Screen Free Week because the night sky is preparing a light show to reward you, that is, if you can wish fast enough.

Can you wish fast enough for the Eta Aquarids?
Can you wish fast enough for the Eta Aquarids?

Wishing on those firey meteors we have traditionally referred as falling stars is an powerful ancient practice that has changed many lives throughout history. Far from a just a primeval paranormal reflex from your animal amygdala, true wishing is a scientifically proven precursor to great change and power.

(And falling stars are 55% more effective than wishing wells which are often just secret leprechaun portals.)

In actual fact, many major natural and historic events have been correlated to these falling stars, including volcanic eruptions to earthquakes and the birthing of several gods and subsequent human religions. So if you want to birth a god or a religion tonight, or even just see a ghost pepper, then this could be your lucky week as the Eta Aquarid meteor showers rain burning ice chunks for your wishes.

But can you wish fast enough? These burning ice balls from Hailey’s comet fall faster than others, leaving these super long and bright stars only once every 76 years.  If you don’t have your wishes ready and your wish team assembled, you’ll have to wait until 2061.  A classic case of dangerous wish waste.

So be prepared. If you are new to SOS or a Survivor who needs a review, you can read here about Waste-Free Wishing techniques. But please, only if you are following the links using your surgically implanted Internet feed connection please – this is National Screen Free Week.

Here at SOS we support National Screen Free Week and the cause of screen elimination and look forward to the happy day when everyone on Earth can afford a properly implanted surgical chip to access the Internet instead…

And we never ever believe anyone who tells us the sky is just a giant screen in the alien simulation game known as Earth…

(Wait. Did the moderation filter really just write that? Blame Agent R.B.)

Fight Wish Waste How to Wish on Falling Stars

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Don’t Wait to Win the Wishing Season

With falling star season upon us again, star wishers like you well wonder, what’s the winning way to wish on 60 to 100 stars per hour as they fall like fireworks from the sky all around you?

Don’t let the Season of the Wish pass you by. Be it the Geminids in September, the Draconids in mid-October and or the Leonids in November, don’t let this opportunity go to waste. Start wishing right, tonight.

Perseid Showers

1. Don’t Be Wishy Washy

It might seem fun or cute to start wishes with folksy rhymy old-timey preambles like:

Starlight starbright, first star I see tonight…

But that would be wishing wrong for so many reasons. For starters, with stars falling at a rate of 1.4 per second, how do you even isolate the first one you see?

For enders, this little rhyme effectively cuts off your ability to apply it to the 99 other stars falling around you. And don’t even get me started on:

I wish, I wish, I wish upon this star… <<insert rhyming wish here like: afar/jar/peace in Dakar…>>

Ever tried that one? And did your wish come true? Exactly my point. Be clear about your wish, write it down in the least possible words long before the sun sets and don’t worry about making it rhyme.

2. Technology Enhanced Wishing

Use NASA's Swift telescope to wish on the comet itself.
Use NASA’s Swift telescope to wish right on the comet itself.

Obviously even if you have reduced your wish to a single word with a single syllable like say, <<CAR>>, your ability to effective allocate this short wish to the shower of falling stars around you is still limited by two factors:

1. Your ability to see and

2. Your ability to speak.

And let’s face it, loftier wishes are just harder to make. It requires a lot more words to wish for peace, security, dignity and long, healthy lives for every being on the planet or even to specify what you want on that pizza. And how many words can you say in one second? Try timing it and you’ll get my point.

No, you need technology to enhance your wishing. What technology? There’s a few options, most of them not invented yet. Maybe nobody has wished for it yet. So my wish plan for tonight is this; wish at the source!  That’s right, you pin your wish right on comet  that gives birth to all those falling stars and then you can get most of that debris before it burns through our atmosphere.

Easy. Now you just need an orbital telescope. Supply is limited, call NASA now to book yours.

3. Socially Enhanced Wishing

Friends can be the right tool for any job. Just ask Graham. With more wishers involved in any wish delivery, you’ll have a better chance of hitting all the stars and therefore maximize your wish fulfilment rate, guaranteed. I recommend a wish party. At least 4 – 8 wishers should do the trick. Then at the appointed hour you must:

1. Agree on a wish. This is the hard part. Too many wishers makes a wash. Face it, you’ll never agree.

2. Assume proper wish delivery formation.

Two ways:

Marty Ness and his friends demonstrate proper formation for wishing on a meteor shower.
Marty Ness and his friends demonstrate proper wish delivery formation.
  • Laying on your backs, take off your shoes and put your feet together.*
  • Laying on your back, put your heads together and hold hands.

*Thanks to Marty Ness and his friends for this correction on wish delivery formation. Apologies to any survivors whose wishes failed as a result of the previous description. 

3. Divide up the sky. I suggest using constellations as your guide.

4. Wish away!