Sirens are going off, again. So I hate to run but if I don’t I might be flying by your house, lol! Might as well laugh as cry. Good grief, here comes Lord Myst to drag me to the basement.

Love ya,

Lady A

Magickal Days of the Week – Thursday

 

Thursday is a day of royal blues and greens, associated with the planet Jupiter and metals like tin. When it comes to deities, look at leader type gods like Thor, Zeus, and Jupiter. Gemstone correspondences for Thursday include turquoise, amethyst and lapis lazuli, and plant associations can be found in honeysuckle, cinquefoil, and even oak trees.

This is a day for honor, fealty and family loyalty, as well as harvesting, success, and prosperity.

Take advantage of Thursday’s different aspects and do spellwork that brings abundance to you, declares your allegiance, and embraces prosperity.

Author

Patti Wigington, Paganism/Wicca Expert
Article published on & owned by About.com

The Goddess Book of Days for Thursday, July 7th

 

In China, the day of the Chih Nu, the Feast of the Milky Way, when Aquila the Herd Boy and Vega the Weaver Maid meet. Vega is daughter of the Sun. (Neith, Hathor, Nut, Mut, Star Girl, Galatea, Sothis, Tou Mou, Sirius, Hecuba, Isis, Maera, Canicula, Al Shira, Vena, Ishtar, Astarte, Mayauel, Omphale.) In Japan, the day is called Tanabata or Tanabata-Hime.

 

The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

The Pagan Book of Days for Thursday, July 7th

 

The Consualia/Caprotina?Feriae Ancillarum/Nones of July?Celtic tree month of Duir ends
The Roman festival of the Consualia commemorates Consus, the god of harvests, presaging a good harvest later in the month. Today is also the Feriae Ancillarum, the Festival of Handmaids or the maids’ day out, when the maids of Rome were beyond the control of their mistresses. Fig trees were venerated on this day, with feasting beneath them in honor of Caprotina, an aspect of the Goddess Juno.

 

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

Thursday, July 7

Thursday is the day of the planet Jupiter, dedicated to Thunor(Thor), God of thunder and agricultural work. His parallels in various European traditions are Zeus, Taranis, Perun, Perkunas and St. Olaf. The faith of the Northern Tradition holds Thursday sacred, just as Islam reveres Friday, Judaism the Sabbath(calculated from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday), and Christianity, Sunday. This is why almost all adages about Thursday are positive, such as “Thursday’s child has far to go,” “Sneeze on Thursday, something better,” or “Cut nails on Thursday for wealth.” Thursday rules controlled optimism, energetic growth, physical well-being and material success.

Deity: Thor

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn/Pisces/Sagittarius

Planet: Mercury

Tree: Oak

Herb: Henbane

Stone: Turquoise/Bloodstone/Topaz

Animal: Fish/Goat/Aurochs

Element: Fire

Color: Brown/White/Orange

Number: 3

Rune: Thorn

Celtic Tree Month of Duir(Oak) – June 10 – July 7. Oak month is a time for protection and strength, fertility, money and success, and good fortune.

Runic Half-Month of Ur (primal strength) – July 4 – July 28

Goddess of the Month of Rosea – June 13 – July 10

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

Spellcrafting for Thursday, July 7

 

ñ Prosperity
ñ Wealth
ñ Growth
ñ Luck
ñ Male energy
ñ Debts
ñ Finances
ñ Development
ñ Legal issues

 

Source

A Spell Crafter’s Compendium
Terri Paajanen

 

The Sky This Week for July 7 to July 10

Jupiter shines bright like a firework, Saturn dazzles, and Mars enters its autumn season.
By Richard Talcott

Thursday, July 7

• Today marks the peak of Pluto’s 2016 appearance. The distant world reaches opposition, which means it lies opposite the Sun in our sky and remains visible all night. It glows dimly at magnitude 14.1, however, so you’ll need an 8-inch or larger telescope with good optics to spot it visually. Pluto currently lies in northeastern Sagittarius, some 0.3° west-southwest of the 3rd-magnitude star Pi (p) Sagittarii. See “The quest for distant Pluto” in the July Astronomy for complete details on finding this world.

Friday, July 8

• The Moon passes 1° south of Jupiter tomorrow morning, unfortunately after the two objects have dipped below the western horizon. But the view this evening is nearly as nice. The waxing crescent Moon stands 3° to 5° (depending on where in North America you live) to the planet’s lower right. Tomorrow evening, a slightly fatter crescent Moon will appear about twice as far to Jupiter’s upper left.

Saturday, July 9

• The Big Dipper’s familiar shape lies high in the northwest as darkness falls these July evenings. One of the summer sky’s finest binocular double stars marks the bend of the Dipper’s handle. Mizar shines at 2nd magnitude, some six times brighter than its 4th-magnitude companion, Alcor. Even though these two are not physically related, they make a fine sight through binoculars. (People with good eyesight often can split the pair without optical aid.) A small telescope reveals Mizar itself as double — and these components do orbit each other.

Sunday, July 10

• This should be a good night to hunt down asteroid 7 Iris through a small telescope. The 10th-magnitude object lies nearly due south and at its highest position in the sky as darkness falls. Even better, there’s a reasonably bright guide star to point you in the right direction. This evening, look for Iris 0.5° due south of the magnitude 5.0 star Lambda (l) Libr

 

Source

Astronomy Magazine

 

 

Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Thursday, July 7th

 

The Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 106.77° ESE
Sun Altitude: 57.22°
Sun Distance: 94.510 million mi
Next Equinox: Sep 22, 2016 9:21 AM (Autumnal)
Sunrise Today: 5:42 AM↑ 61° Northeast
Sunset Today: 8:17 PM↑ 299° Northwest
Length of Daylight: 14 hours, 35 minutes

 

The Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 90.15° E
Moon Altitude: 18.26°
Moon Distance: 240435 mi
Next Full Moon: Jul 19, 20165:56 PM
Next New Moon: Aug 2, 20163:44 PM
Next Moonset: Today10:34 PM
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 11.9%

 

Source

timeanddate.com

 

Another brief note, I sincerely appreciate all the nice and comforting comments about losing my beloved Willow. It was very heart breaking to see it laying out in the yard. Never, never dreamed of that. The tree has been looked at, there is no saving it. But my daughter (who I actually believe is turning into a witch just like her mother) took branches and cut and fixed them so they would root. I should have Willows all over the property. She is a good girl and I am very proud of her. I picked out one of the branches from the Willow for a staff and also a reminder of what once was.

 

I guess when I first saw the tree laying in the yard, I felt like I had lost all my childhood memories. Then I realized that was crazy. All those happy memories would be in my heart and soul forever as long as I lived. They didn’t die only the symbol I associated with them did.

 

It has been a rough two weeks to say the least. We have more storms forecast for today. So if we disappear again you know why. We also had all the other information for our Southern Hemisphere site ready to go this morning but we had a power failure and lost everything. We will still be working the kinks out of the site today. This site has to open. While Kiki was sick, I came very close to Morrighan. I begged her to take Kiki in her sleep and she did. I pledged to Morrighan anything she wanted done I would do. Shortly afterwards, I was hit with the idea there was a need for witchcraft site geared toward the Southern Hemisphere. I took this hint as being from Morrighan. So we have to open this site. I have provided you a link to our new site belong. Don’t panic when you see the graphics because this site started out to be one of my own personal sites, so that explains the graphics. But the site will be running a day ahead of this one, we had all the sun & moon data, Friday’s info and several other features ready for the southern hemisphere site and lost it in the power outage. Tomorrow, will be different. The site will be up and running. If you have any friends in the Southern Hemisphere, please spread the word about this new site. Just have a little patience with us as we find the last kinks today and tomorrow, the Southern Witches will have a new home.

Here’s the addy:

The Witches Realm

http://realmofwitches.blogspot.com/

 

You will notice this new site is not on WordPress, it is on Blogger. I have to admit we have had to fight a few battles you didn’t know about and Google stood behind us 100%. They have been after us opening a site up over there and now we have. I want this site to become like the WOTC. I want it to have a good reputation and be outstanding in the Pagan community.

As you last heard from us, we had a tornado headed our way. Just as soon as I shut down the computer in the office, Razputin let out this horrible growl-snarl. I got up and looked around the sky was pitch black and the building was starting to shake. I grabbed her and rapped my arms and legs around her, It happened so fast, we ended up in a doorway. It wasn’t a tornado, I knew that because I have been through 3 of them. This was something else, it was a micro-burst. It blew out both windows in my office. If it hadn’t been for Razzy, I don’t know what would have happened. After it was over with, we accessed the damage, nothing major. So I said the hell with it and went home.

When I got home, I got sick. My beautiful 16 year old Willow tree was down on the ground. Beautiful, perfectly health, magickal and laying on the ground, I was crushed. I planted it when we first came out here. Out of all the tree on our property, I never dreamed of that one getting hurt. It reminded me of my childhood. I grew up with a huge Willow tree that my best friend and me use to play under for hours. The beautiful sweeping branches, just watching it sway in the wind was magickal. I would go lean up against it and find comfort it in when I needed it. My daughter and her husband came out and started cutting it up. That was painful to watch. My daughter took several pictures of it, two of them are below.

 

 

Goodbye Old Friend!