In Rome, the day of the Vestalia, women’s feast of the vestals dedicated to the Goddess Vesta. She is the guardian of household fires, also Hestia, Lucia, Lucina, Brigid, Befana, Perchta, Bertha, Oya, Pele, Amaterasu, and Hathor.
The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein
The day of the Vesta Aperit, the opening of the sanctuary of the temple of Vesta in Rome.
The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick
Tuesday is dedicated to the powers of the planet Mars, personified in Ares, Tiwaz, Tiw, Tuisco and Tyr. Tuesday rules controlled power, energy and endurance.
Deity: Tiwaz
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Planet: Mars
Tree: Holly
Herb: Plantain
Stone: Agate
Animal: Crab
Element: Fire
Color: White
Number: 2
Rune: Tyr (T)
Celtic Tree Month of Hauth (Hawthorn) – May 13 – June 9. Hawthorn month is a time of fertility, masculine energy, and fire. Also associated with the realm of Faerie.
Runic Half-Month of Odal(home, possession) May 29 – June 13
Goddess of the Month of Hera – May 16 – June 12
The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick
Strength
Anger
Independence
Motivation
Conquest
Action
Education
Force
Handling conflict
A Spell Crafter’s Compendium
Terri Paajanen
Saturn hits peak brightness, and Uranus makes a cameo in the sky.
Tuesday, June 7
• Observers of the outer solar system get their first good views of Uranus before dawn during June. The best time to look for it is shortly before twilight begins around 4 a.m. local daylight time. Uranus then lies low in the east among the background stars of Pisces the Fish. This morning, use binoculars to find the magnitude 5.9 planet 5° west of magnitude 4.3 Omicron (o) Piscium. A telescope reveals Uranus’ blue-green disk, which spans 3.4″.
Wednesday, June 8
• Brilliant Jupiter appears high in the southwest as darkness falls and remains on display until after 1 a.m. local daylight time. The giant planet shines at magnitude –2.0 — 0.1 magnitude brighter than Mars blazing in the southeast — against the backdrop of southern Leo the Lion. Jupiter appears equally dazzling through a telescope, which reveals a wealth of atmospheric detail on a disk that spans 36″. If you look carefully, you should notice its moon Callisto crossing the planet’s north polar regions. The transit begins at 11:02 p.m. EDT. About 90 minutes later, the satellite appears halfway across Jupiter’s disk.
Thursday, June 9
• The bright planets Mars and Saturn join with the 1st-magnitude star Antares to create a dramatic triangle in the southern sky these June evenings. A red supergiant star whose color mimics that of Mars, Antares is the luminary of the constellation Scorpius the Scorpion. Aim your binoculars a degree west (to the right) of the star and you’ll find the globular cluster M4. This object contains more than 100,000 stars and looks like a faint ball of cotton. A telescope shows dozens of stars scattered across the cluster’s face. To learn more about this constellation’s best telescopic objects, see “Target gems of Scorpius” in the June issue of Astronomy.
Friday, June 10
• Look high in the northwest after darkness falls this month, and you will see the familiar shape of the Big Dipper. The Dipper is the most conspicuous asterism — a recognizable pattern of stars that doesn’t embody a complete constellation shape — in the entire sky. It forms the body and tail of Ursa Major the Great Bear. Use the Pointers, the two stars at the end of the Dipper’s bowl, to find Polaris, which lies due north for everyone north of the equator. Polaris marks the end of the Little Dipper’s handle. On June evenings, the relatively faint stars of this dipper arc directly above Polaris.
Saturday, June 11
• A half-lit Moon hangs about 4° to Jupiter’s left in this evening’s sky. The pair becomes visible within a half-hour after sunset (though the Moon shows up in the daytime sky during the afternoon) and remains on view until 1 a.m. local daylight time. The Moon officially hits First Quarter phase at 4:10 a.m. EDT tomorrow morning.
Sunday, June 12
• For people who live near 35° north latitude, today marks the earliest sunrise of the year. Although the Northern Hemisphere’s longest day doesn’t occur until Earth’s summer solstice on June 20, earliest sunrise happens several days before and latest sunset several days after. The specific dates depend on your latitude, however. In general, earliest sunrise occurs closer to the solstice the farther north you live.
Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 73.88° ENE
Sun Altitude: 17.00°
Sun Distance: 94.351 million mi
Next Solstice: Jun 20, 2016 5:34 PM (Summer)
Sunrise Today: 5:34 AM↑ 60° Northeast
Sunset Today: 8:13 PM↑ 300° Northwest
Length of Daylight: 14 hours, 38 minutes
Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 57.60° ENE
Moon Altitude: -11.80°
Moon Distance: 232093 mi
Next Full Moon: Jun 20, 20166:02 AM
Next New Moon: Jul 4, 20166:00 AM
Next Moonrise: Today8:17 AM
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 7.8%
May God, Goddess and Universal Spirit
Open your children so we can inherit,
The love and joy and truth of living,
The blessing and goodness of sharing and giving.
May our heart be strong and protected with health
And our mind be rich with spiritual wealth.
May freedom be our true birth rite,
May truth and love be in our sight.
May we be blessed;
With the grounded wisdom of the
element Earth
With the emotional flow of the element
Water With the aspiring desire of the element Fire
And the free thought and intellect of the element Air!
So Mote It Be
––The Book of Windows
Katie Bainbridge
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Lavender
pinch of wormwood
Legba is the gatekeeper to the spirit world, known as Vilokan. Rituals begin with a prayer to Legba to open those gates so that participants can gain access to the other lwas. The veves of these other lwas are often drawn intersecting the branches of Legba’s veve to represent this.
Legba is also strongly associated with the sun and is seen as a life-giver, transferring the power of Bondye to the material world and all that lives within it.
This further strengthens his role as the bridge between realms.
His association with creation, generation and life makes him a common lwa to approach with matters of sex, and his position as a conduit of Bondye’s will makes him a lwa of order and destiny.
Finally, Legba is a lwa of the crossroads, and offerings are often made there for him. His symbol is the cross, which also symbolizes the intersection of material and spiritual worlds.
Other names:Legba is often affectionately referred to as Papa Legba.
Lwa Family: Rada
Gender: Male
Associated Catholic Saint: St. Peter, who holds the keys to the gate of heaven
Holiday: November 1, All Saints Day
Offerings:Roosters
Appearance:An old man who walks with a cane. He carries a sack on a strap across one shoulder from which he dispenses dentiny.
Alternate Personality: Legba’s Petro form is Met Kafou Legba. He represents destruction rather than creation and is a trickster who introduces chaos and disruption. He is associated with the moon and night.
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