The Pagan Calendar for Friday, April 29th

Floralia/Runic half-month of Lagu commences

Representing the flowing and mutable–yet irresistably powerful and necessary–forces of water, Lagu symbolizes the life-force inherent in all matter and the organic growth and waxing power of this time of year.

 

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

Friday, April 29th

Friday is the day of Venus. It takes its name from Frigg, the goddess of love and transformation. She rules the spiritual side of a person that manifests in the physical. Because of this, Friday is often thought of as dangerously unpredictable. This is expressed in an old East Anglian adage:

Friday’s day will have its trick,
The fairest or foulest day of the week.

 

Deity: Frigg

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Planet: Venus

Tree: Apple

Herb: Vervain

Stone: Chrysolite

Animal: Cat

Element: Earth

Color: Blue

Number: 7

Rune: Peorth(P)

 

Celtic Tree Month of Saille (Willow) – April 15th thru May 12. The Willow tree is associated with healing and growth. During this phase, work on rituals, involving healing, growth of knowledge, nurturing, and women’s mysteries.

Runic Half-Month of Lagu (flowing water) begins today, April 29th – May 13th

Goddess of the Month of Maia April 18 thru May 15

 

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

 

The Sky This Week: April 29 – May 1

 

Friday, April 29
Last Quarter Moon occurs at 11:29 p.m. EDT. The half-lit orb doesn’t rise until after 2 a.m. local daylight time tomorrow morning, however, when you can see it climbing in the southeast among the background stars of northern Capricornus.

 

 

Saturday, April 30
Asteroid 6 Hebe currently lies among the background stars of eastern Leo the Lion, just a stone’s throw from 2nd-magnitude Denebola. The region reaches its peak in the southern sky shortly after darkness falls. This evening, 10th-magnitude Hebe lies some 4° northwest of Denebola.

 

 

Sunday, May 1
One of the spring sky’s finest deep-sky objects, the Beehive star cluster (M44) in the constellation Cancer the Crab, lies high in the west once evening twilight fades away. The 3rd-magnitude cluster lies approximately 40 percent of the way from 1st-magnitude Pollux in Gemini to the similarly bright star Regulus in Leo. With naked eyes under a dark sky, you should be able to spot the Beehive as a faint cloud. But this star group explodes into dozens of stars through binoculars or a small telescope at low power.

 

Source

Astronomy Magazine

 

Your Sun & Moon Data for Friday, April 29th

Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 115.21° ESE
Sun Altitude: 50.96°
Sun Distance: 93.630 million mi
Next Solstice: Jun 20, 2016 5:34 PM (Summer)
Sunrise Today: 6:02 AM↑ 71° East
Sunset Today: 7:42 PM↑ 289° West
Length of Day: 13 hours, 40 minutes

 

Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 236.30° WSW
Moon Altitude: 14.25°
Moon Distance: 239052 mi
Next New Moon: May 6, 20162:29 PM
Next Full Moon: May 21, 20164:14 PM
Next Moonset: Today11:56 AM
Current Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 55.4%

 

Source

timeanddate.com