If Today is Your Birthday: July 27

You are intensely curious and have a great hunger for knowledge. Your intellect is sharp, and you can be a pioneer or natural leader. You possess organizational savvy and could do well in various media careers. Idealistic in love, it can take some time for you to find what or who you want. You are drawn to people who are strong, dynamic, and also responsible. While you can be self-sufficient and independent for the most part, you are also quite emotional and moody, and you have a great love of, and interest in, people and how they “work”. You are intimidating to some but admired by most. Famous people born today: Norman Lear, Peggy Fleming, Maya Rudolph, Taylor Schilling, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julian McMahon.

Your Birthday Year Forecast:

Your birthday occurs around a Third Quarter Moon this year, and you are reaching an important turning point regarding personal growth. You may be more emotional this year, and should watch for unnecessary conflicts and for making hasty decisions as a result. Pride can get you into some trouble if not kept in check. Otherwise, this is a year of greater understanding and a strong desire to take care of business. This should be a busy, dynamic period in your life.

This is a good year for creating and discovering, and if you can work at your own pace, you’ll be in good shape. Otherwise, you may feel constrained by routines. You prefer to make your own decisions. Original thinking is at a nice peak and can lead to rewarding projects. Communication and learning new things both flow well.

This can be a good time for updating your electronics and technology in ways that open up new avenues for communication or ease. Wonderfully creative ideas can fill your head this year. You are able to find new insight into old problems, and your thinking processes during this period are likely to be especially original. A subject or even a person can be especially inspiring, prompting you to explore new perspectives. New or improved friendships are very likely.

The year is strong for physical therapy and healing, as well as for having a real sense of mission.

This can be a good year for dabbling in the arts, furthering a creative hobby or craft, and exploring new artistic interests.

There may be an on again, off again relationship in love or friendship during this period, or there can be complicated feelings experienced in a key relationship.

Certainly, spontaneity is an important ingredient in your personal relationships this year. You quite readily embrace all that is new, unusual, and out-of-the-ordinary with regards to romantic involvements as well as financial undertakings. You have a taste for the offbeat this year, and this energy can bring sudden or unexpected romance into your life.

Your unique manner of expressing and asserting yourself is in focus and appreciated this year. Suppressed anger is more effectively released in creative ways. Physical healing can help inner healing, and vice versa.

You have both vitality and realism on your side this year, maximizing your chances of success. New interests and experiences figure strongly and keep you stimulated. This is a strong year for enjoying new ideas and for connecting with others with similar interests.

2016 is a Number Seven year for you. Ruled by Neptune. This is a year of preparation, chance, and refinement. It is not a time of dramatic changes. Instead, it’s a year when reflection on the past is helpful, and when refinements to your life path should be made. It’s a good year to study and analyze. Unexpected twists to your life story and “chance” meetings are probable. Advice – take stock of your life in order to prepare for more exciting years to come, examine the past and plan for the future, get in touch with your deepest needs and uncover your personal power, don’t strain yourself or actively try to expand.

2017 will be a Number Eight year for you. Ruled by Saturn. This is a year of power and accomplishment. Actively seeking to expand, taking educated risks, and moving forward are highlighted. This is a year of opportunity, particularly in the material and business world, and opportunities need to be seized. It’s generally not a year to find a new love partner, simply because the focus is on the material world and your place in the world. This is a problem-solving year in which you can expect real, tangible results. Advice – take action, plan ahead, seize opportunities.

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Cafe Astrology

Your Daily Love Horoscopes for Wednesday, July 27th

By Marie DeSimone

Part of the Daily Insight Group

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Your Daily Horoscopes for Wednesday, July 27th

Aries

This is a potentially strong day for recognizing the power of living in the moment, dear Aries. Slowing down or simply moving at a steady pace is appropriate now with the Moon in your earthy solar second house. Emphasis is on matters of comfort and security. With the Moon’s connection to Jupiter today, there can be particular enjoyment of work and health pursuits. Jupiter is a month and a half away from moving out of the sector of your chart that rules these things, and it’s a good idea to make the most of this transit that boosts your work prospects and attitude towards taking care of yourself through rewarding, healthy daily routines. While there may be some misunderstandings this morning, today is strong for activities related to work, career, and money.

Taurus

This can be a wonderfully comfortable day for self-expression, dear Taurus. Despite possible (and minor) misunderstandings with family, the day supports your efforts to express your creative side as well as entertaining or romantic activities and expression. People are cooperative, you are coming off as wise and generous, and feelings are hopeful. Words may not be as successful as actions taken to show your affection right now. Today and this week, you may feel as if it’s easier to put difficult elements of the past, guilt, or worry behind you.

Gemini

Areas of your chart that rule your inner world and your emotions are in focus and well-supported today, dear Gemini. It’s a good time for connecting with deep needs, desires, and feelings. This morning’s energies are slightly tricky – it’s important to pay particular attention to your choice of words, especially in public and professional settings, as there is a tendency to come off the wrong way. Otherwise, the day is quite favorable for attention to your personal life, family, intimate relationship, and/or private time. Operating under the radar may very well help you today.

Cancer

Jupiter is on its final leg of its yearlong journey through your communications sector, dear Cancer. It will spend another month and a half here before moving on to bless and expand home and family matters. Take advantage of this time to enjoy learning, writing, studying, and making connections. Today’s energies are particularly useful for reaching out or throwing yourself into projects you enjoy. While this morning can involve a misunderstanding or missed connection, the day favors your social life in general.

Leo

You can feel especially comfortable in the role of manager today, dear Leo, whether you are managing others or your own life. Taking care of business feels right and even enjoyable. Ideas are rich and imaginative. The day is also strong for personal attraction, as many days are in recent weeks. While ticking off items on your to-do list can be satisfying now, you can also thoroughly enjoy activities that take you outside of the routine. People are latching onto your ideas, and you’re especially attentive and gentle with others, who appreciate your special touch.

Virgo

This can be a creative and possibly romantic day, dear Virgo. You’ll find it easy to express yourself in satisfying ways through various channels, and others tend to allow you the freedom to do what you want. The Moon in your adventure sector reaches out to Jupiter in your sign, and this can serve to inspire self-confidence and optimism. Jupiter is in its last leg of its journey through your sign – it has just over six weeks left of its transit of Virgo. Aim to take advantage by exploring new personal interests or doing something you’ve always wanted to do but lacked the confidence.

Libra

Your personal life and inner world of emotions are in strong focus today, dear Libra, and are highly favored as well. It’s a great day for observation and strategy. You might have a “eureka” moment on an emotional level as you gain insight into a previously confusing matter related to your own psychology or to the motivations of someone you care deeply about. There may be an emotional breakthrough, or an intimate or family relationship can reach a new level of bonding. Jupiter is spending its last six weeks in your privacy sector before it moves into your sign and brings its blessings of confidence and optimism to your personality. Take advantage of this time to get in better touch with what you truly want.

Scorpio

You’ll find that your ability to get along well with others in many ways determines the success of the day, dear Scorpio. It’s a beautiful day, in fact, for making negotiations, compromises, and agreements. People tend to be supportive of you, and you of them. Attraction is easy and natural. Mutually beneficial situations can figure strongly now. Friends or group connections and networking can open doors for you. Some of you can be making a new friend or reconnecting with someone you’ve connected to in the past.

Sagittarius

Good energy is with you for practical matters today, dear Sagittarius, with a positive emphasis on your houses of substance. You’ll benefit from taking care of business now. You will want to manage the smaller details of your life, as you may feel out of sorts if things are out of place. You might also enjoy some level of service – helping others or simply doing your best in your work. Jupiter is spending its last six weeks in your sector of career and reputation, and it’s a good idea to take advantage by throwing extra energy into your work and making improvements that you can be proud of.

Capricorn

You’ll find that you’re more comfortable than usual on a personal level today, dear Capricorn, and you’re expressing yourself more fluidly and confidently as a result. Creative, romantic, and adventuresome activities are favored. Learning and sharing are also in good shape, although there may be a missed connection or misunderstanding experienced this morning. Jupiter is on its last leg of its journey through your solar ninth house now. In the coming six weeks, aim to take advantage of this positive energy by learning as much as you can and connecting with those subjects you truly enjoy. From the first week of September forward, you’ll be at a career peak, and preparing for that period makes a lot of sense.

Aquarius

This is a good time for attending to your inner world, dear Aquarius, as well as activities that emphasize bonds with loved ones. You’re in an excellent position to understand your needs and feelings, as well as to see what others need from you more clearly. Bonding can occur now. At the very least, your improved relationship with yourself can ultimately benefit many different life departments, including your relationships. You have no interest in repeating past mistakes or tired ways of interacting – you’re more interested in making improvements. It’s a strong day for self-improvement efforts or for quitting a bad habit.

Pisces

This is a good time for partnering up with someone special, or for teaming up with others, to accomplish your goals, dear Pisces. You are expressing your affections in especially unique ways, and others are seeing you in a special light. You’re very willing to negotiate, compromise, and maintain a comfortable level of harmony. Your wisdom is evident to people today. You have no interest in repeating past patterns if they haven’t worked for you – you’re ready to change things up in order to improve your life.

Astrology of Today – July 27, 2016

• The Moon is in Taurus all day (until Thursday, July 28th, at 2:16 PM).
• The Moon is waning and in its Waning Gibbous phase until 6:59 PM, after which the Moon is in its Last Quarter phase.
• The Last Quarter Moon occurred yesterday, and the New Moon will occur on August 2nd.
• Mars is direct and in its post-retrograde shadow until August 22nd.

The Lion’s Gate 2016

a message from Celia Fenn

To read more of Celia’s insight, please visit her website, Starchild Global With Celia Fenn

The “Master” Cycle that Commences

The Opening of the Seventh Dimension on Earth

Beloved Family of Light, when you began this year of 2016, we did say to you, with much love, that 2016 would be a challenging year, and that you would need to embody your Mastery in a powerful way.  As the Lion’s Gate of 2016 approaches, you now prepare yourself for a New Beginning and to initiate your first major cycle of creation as an embodied Master and Alchemist.

What does this mean?  It means that you will take what is of low frequency and you will transform it and turn it into Golden Light!  Even though you may be surrounded by people who are filled with fear and anger and other low frequency emotions and who are making choices based on these emotions, you will make your choices from Love and Compassion and you will be the Diamond Light that shines clearly and magnificently.

Beloved Ones, now is not the time to give up or to step back.  Now is the time to fully embrace who you are, who you have become, and to step forward into the Emerald Light as a fully embodied Master, a Creator and Alchemist of Light.  In this time of chaos and challenge as the old falls away and the new is still to manifest, it is you who are here to hold the energy of the New, to be the New Earth, and to embody the Power and Empowerment of the New Earth Soul.

The Lion’s Gate and the Planetary New Year : A New Cycle of Time and Creation

On the 26th of July, you will enter into the Planetary New Year. This is the Time celebrated by the Ancient Egyptians and the Mayans, as the moment when the Planet begins a New Spiral of Galactic evolution in alignment with the Great Central Sun and the Divine Cosmic Heart.  It marks the opening of the Lion’s Gate Star Portal, which allows for a powerful influx of Light Codes that will shape the form of experience in the coming year.  These Light Codes will lift you into another level of evolution and experience if you allow this process, but if you are not aligned or you are in a low frequency of anxiety and fear, you will simply continue to create at this same level again.

Beloved Ones, be open to this grand influx of powerful Light and Blessings that is coming to you as this Star Portal begins to open on the 26th  July, and culminates on the 8th of August on the 8/8, and then closes on the 12th of August.  Here is a “window” of Light and Opportunity for each one of you to step up and into a new level and phase of your personal evolution on Earth..

There will be many distractions in the outer world.  Many disasters and conflicts will occur that will ask for your attention and will ask you to align your energy with theirs.  Beloved Ones, it is enough to be aware of what is happening, but to focus your energy and attention rather on your inner processes and on the need to initiate a New Cycle of personal Creation that will express a higher level of your Soul and your Soul Essence on the Earth.

Decide for yourself who you are and what you will create in your life and on the Earth, and then focus on that.  Do not be drawn by the energies of anything that is not in alignment with what you wish to create.

Time Cycles and the New Cycle

Beloved Ones, in your Earth space of the Fifth Dimension in transition, you have experienced two creative cycles of 8 to 9 years, and you are beginning another now.

From 1999 to 2008 you created together as the first wave of awakened souls on Earth, together with the Indigo and Crystal children.  This period included the 9/11 event and the economic collapse of 2008.  Both events were aimed at distracting attention from the creation of the New, and keeping people on Earth focused on the same old creations of fear and lack that allows them to be manipulated and controlled.  Then, from 2008 to the end of 2016, you have been in the second cycle, where there has been a continuation of low frequency fear based “events” that are aimed at keeping humanity at a low frequency and preventing them from progressing to freedom and empowerment.

Beloved Ones, if you are awake and aware, you will see how these events always occur at times when a great shift is possible, so that fear and anxiety will prevent many from shifting as they are trapped in their own fears.  Do not let this happen to you!  Now, as you begin the process for the creation of the 2016/7 to 2026 cycle, focus on Higher Consciousness, Higher Wisdom, and what you desire to create for yourself and for the Earth as you assist in the manifestation process for the New Earth.

The Master that You Are and the Power that Flows through as the Seventh Dimension opens

You have everything that you need within you.  Over the past two cycles of evolution and growth, you have activated the Personal Power and Creativity that you need.  You have activated your Light Body and the 13 Chakra Energy system that you need to allow you to receive and integrate the incoming Light Codes.  You have opened your Hearts to receive the Golden Light of the Christ Consciousness with its Love and Compassion at the center of your existence.

Then, you have received the Diamond Codes that allowed you to reconnect with your Galactic heritage, and the Emerald Codes that allowed you to reconnect with Nature and the Green Heart of the Earth.

More recently, you have begun the rewiring of your energy meridians that allows you to reconnect with the powerful flows of creative and intuitive energy of the Right Brain and to balance these and integrate them with the Left Brain’s ability to organize and create narratives.

Beloved Ones, this powerful energy that is flowing into the Planet right now is a torrent of blessings and creative abundance, but unless it is received in balance and integrated into your Light Body system, it has the potential to destabilize your energy field.  This Energy flow must then be received by the Pineal Gland Gateway, and then transmitted by the Right Brain and the Left Brain and then into to the Heart.  From there it must be grounded into the Earth through Manifestation and connection with the Earth Star and the Earth Heart centers.

Those who are not grounding this energy will feel this energy running “wild” in their system, and they will become aggressive, fearful, explosive and angry.  Those who have no connection with their Soul and Higher Self will feel lost, confused, anxious and unable to find their place in the world.

The whole purpose of your evolution in the last two cycles has been to reconnect Spirit and Body, Heaven and Earth, so that your Body and Soul are One.

It is your Soul that will provide the center of your Being and your Life right now.  You are the Master, your Soul connects to your Heart Center in Love and Peace.  You manifest from Soul and Spirit into Matter, following the laws of Divine Creative Power and Balance.  You create a Garden of Peace and Creativity within your Heart and Soul that manifests around you.

Beloved Ones, do not seek for Peace and Harmony in the outside world, or in others, right now.  You are the ones who are here to demonstrate Mastery and to open the Gateway of the Seventh Dimension.  Those around you in the world are still struggling to understand the Fifth Dimensions, and the Magic of the Sixth Dimension, so they cannot at this moment be in that place of expansion where you stand now ready to move forward.

The Seventh Dimension is the frequency of the Master and is the focus and end point of the Ascension process.  For you, Beloved Ones, it means to be here on the Earth, in the midst of the turmoil and chaos, and to be in that place of Inner Stillness and Peace.  It means to be connected to the powerful Flow of Divine Creative Intelligence and to be able to direct this Flow into Magical Manifestation through Intention and Focus.  It means to live without fear, without expectations and attachments, but simply in the Flow of Love, Creativity and Divine Manifestation.

To live as a “Master” does not mean to be “perfect”.  It means to be who you are as a Soul in a Body, and to express your Soul in alignment with Spirit, in everything that you experience and manifest on Earth.

Beloved Ones, as these Gateways are opening, you are all most welcome to step across the threshold and claim your place in the Higher Dimensions of Light as they open to Earth.  These intense Frequencies of brilliant light and Luminosity will illuminate all that you do at this time.

And, as you do this, you will know and trust that you will always be safe and cared for.  Your Soul will protect you and Spirit will guide you, as you weave and create with the Divine Creative Intelligence as an Embodied Master of Light.

The Magical Gateway Opens

So, Beloved Family of Light, at this powerful New Year and Lion’s Gate, there will also be a powerful opening to the Seventh Dimension of Ascended Mastership available to you if you so desire to move forward in this way.

You will know that you are ready.  You will feel that you have mastered the Fifth Dimension of Oneness and released the hold of Duality and the Shadow on your Life.  You will be ready to embrace the Love, Creativity and Magic of the Sixth Dimension and to flow with the powerful Light Codes and currents without Fear.  You will be ready to balance yourself between Heaven and Earth, and to step forward as a Master of these Energies on Earth.

You will be ready, when the Gateways open, to express your Soul fully on the Material Plane as a New Human of the New Earth.

July 27th and 28th

Hopi Kachina Dance

Celebrated annually, the Hopi Kachina Dances commemorate the Kachina-supernatural beings that help insure the survival of the tribe. The Kachina are believed to be ancient spirits that guide and protect the Hopi people. It is believed that the dances and accompanying religious ceremonies are what bring the rain that will heal the entire community. The ceremonies usually begin at sunrise and end at sunset, when it is believed the Kachina return to the realm of the spirit.

Daily Magickal Applications for Wednesday

To the Romans, this day was called Dies Mercurii, or “Mercury’s day” Mercury was a popular character in the Roman pantheon. A messenger of the gods, he presided over commerce, trade, and anything that required skill or dexterity. The Celts also worshiped Mercury and eventually equated him with the Norse god Odin (some spelling variations on this name include Wotan, Wodin, and Wodan). In Norse mythologies, Odin, like Mercury, is associated with poetry and music. Interestingly enough, both Odin and Mercury were regarded as psychopomps, or the leaders of souls, in their individual mythologies.

Odin, one of the main gods in Norse mythology, was constantly seeking wisdom. He traveled the world in disguise as a one-eyed man with a long gray beard, wearing an old, beat-up hat and carrying a staff or a spear (which brings to my mind images of Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings). In the Old English language, this day of Mercury evolved into Wodnes daeg, “Woden’s day,” or Wednesday.

Wednesday carries all of the planetary and magickal energies and associations of the witty and nimble god Mercury himself. Some of these mercurial traits included good communication skills, cleverness, intelligence, creativity, business sense, writing, artistic talent, trickiness, and thievery. And don’t forget all of those wise and enigmatic qualities associated with the Norse god Odin/Wodin, not to mention the goddess Athena’s contributions of music, the arts, handmade crafts, and writing. Wednesdays afford excellent opportunities for seeking wisdom, changing your circumstances, and improving your skills, be they in trade and commerce, music and art, or in communication and writing.

Source

Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

Wednesday Is Ruled By Mercury

Wednesdays are wild and wacky days. They are for communication, change, cunning, and the arts. This is a Mercury day, and just its patron god this day is full of contradictions, change, and excitement. Some suggestions for Wednesday enchantments would include:

Pulling a little Wednesday color magic into your life by wearing purples or orange

Carrying a multipurpose agate with you and tapping into its various charms

Working with magical plants such as the fern for protection. This plant will also boost the power of any other magical plants with which it is arranged.

Incorporating lavender into charms and spells for transformation

Using the charming scent of lily of the valley to improve your memory, or working with the aspen tree for communication

Calling on Athena, patron of arts and crafts, for inspiration for a new project

Fanning out a Tarot spell to increase you creativity

Calling on Hermes on a Wednesday night to bring movement and good luck into your life

The Witches Correspondences for Wednesday, July 27th

Dedicated to the Teutonic god Woden or Odin, an aspect of the “All-Father” god of knowledge wisdom enlightenment and combat, the parallel of Hermes.

Element : Air

Planet: Mercury

Zodiac Sign : Virgo / Gemini

Angel : Raphael

Metal : Mercury

Incense / Perfumes : Jasmine, Lavender, Sweet Pea

Oil: Benzoin, Clary Sage, Eucalytus, Lavender

Color : Red, Orange, Light Blue

Stones : Bloodstone,Garnet, Aventurine, Hematite, Moss Agate and Sodalite

Plants/Herbs : Almond, Anise, Cherry, Clover, Dandelion, Dill, Fern, Hazel, Hyssop, Lavender, Lemongrass, Lilac, Mace, Peppermint, Rosemary, Vervain

Magick to Work: the conscious mind, study, travel, divination, consulting oracles, wisdom, communication ,cleverness, contracts, creativity, information, intellect, memory, erception, science, wisdom, writing

The Witches Almanac for Wednesday, July 27th

Wednesday (Mercury): The conscious mind, study, travel, divination, and wisdom.

Sleepyhead Day (Finnish)

Waning Moon
The Waning Moon (from the Full Moon to the New) is a time for study, meditation, and little magical work (except magic designed to banish harmful energies).

Moon Phase: Fourth Quarter

Moon Sign: Taurus
Taurus: Things begun now last the longest, tend to increase in value, and become hard to alter. Brings out appreciation for beauty and sensory experience.

Incense: Marjoram

Color: White

Magickal Days of the Week – Wednesday

Wednesday is named for Woden himself, although the Romans called it dies Mercurii. This is a day associated with the color purple, the planet Mercury, and the metal quicksilver – which is also called mercury. See a pattern here?

When it comes to deities… yes, Mercury! However, there are a few other gods associated with Wednesday, including Odin and Hermes, Athena, and Lugh. Gemstones like adventurine and agate come in handy as well, as do plants such as aspen trees, lilies, lavender and even ferns.

Business and job-related issues, communication, loss and debt, traveling, and journeys are all tied in to Wednesday. This is a good day to do a working to open up lines of communication – especially if your own actions are preventing you from being an effective speaker or listener. Go someplace new or return to an old favorite stomping ground, step up your game, and settle up your accounts.

Reference

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

Wednesday’s Witchery

Be bold and daring today! Expand your knowledge of the Craft by working with the planetary energies of Mercury on this multifaceted day of the week. Consider the Greco-Roman gods Mercury and Hermes and all of the many lessons they have for you. Embrace change and movement, and work on your communication techniques. Conjure up a little good luck for yourself with that Mercury dime spell. Call on Athena to inspire you to try magickal arts and crafts and to be more creative in your own spellwork and witchery.

Meditate on Odin and see what you can discover about him. I wonder what sort of fabulous and fascinating magickal wisdom you will uncover? Odin is a shaman, after all; he may appear in many guises and faces. I guarantee that he will make you laugh at yourself before he is through with you, but you will learn. It’s up to you what you do with that knowledge. Will you let it shapeshift into wisdom?

Wednesday is the wild and wily day of the week, so try to go with the flow; don’t fight the quirky energies of the day. Most importantly, follow your heart, and always keep a good sense of humor, because of Wednesdays you will really need it.

Source

Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

The Witches Wednesday

Wednesday is the fourth day of the week, in the Judeo-Christian calendar between Tuesday and Thursday. The name comes from the Middle English Wednes dei, which is from Old English WÄ“dnes dæg, meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden (Wodan) who was a god of the Anglo-Saxons in England until about the 7th century. WÄ“dnes dæg is like the Old Norse Oðinsdagr (“Odin’s day”), which is an early translation of the Latin dies Mercurii (“Mercury’s day”). Although Mercury (the messenger of the gods) and Woden (the king of the Germanic gods) are not equivalent in most regards, both gods guided the souls of the dead to the underworld.

When Sunday is taken as the first of the week, the day in the middle of each week is Wednesday. Arising from this, the German name for Wednesday has been Mittwoch (literally: “mid-week”) since the 10th Century, having displaced the former name: Wodanstag (“Wodan’s day”). The Finnish name is similarly practical: Keskiviikko (literally: “middle of the week”) as is the Icelandic name: Miðvikudagur (“Mid-week day”).

According to the Hebrew Bible, Wednesday is the day when the Sun and Moon were created.
Wednesday is also in the middle of the common Western 5-day working week that starts on Monday and finishes on Friday.

In Romance languages it is derived from the name of the Roman god Mercury: mercredi (French), mercoledì (Italian), miércoles (Spanish), miercuri (Romanian), dimecres (Catalan), dies Mercurii (Latin). Similarly, the Hindi name for Wednesday, Budhvar is derived from the Vedic name for Mercury, Budh. Russian does not use pagan names but instead uses sredá, meaning “middle,” similar to the German Mittwoch. Likewise, Portuguese uses the word quarta-feira, meaning “fourth day.”

An English language idiom for Wednesday is “hump day”, a reference to making it through to the middle of the work week as getting “over the hump”. It is also informally referred to as “the peak of the week”.
Quakers traditionally refer to Wednesday as “Fourth Day”, eschewing the pagan origin of the name “Wednesday”. Most eastern languages also use a name with this meaning, for much the same reason.

Extremely faithful Orthodox Christians observe a vegetarian / fish-only fast on Wednesdays (and Fridays) in some countries such as Greece.

According to the Thai solar calendar, the color associated with Wednesday is green.

Wednesday in Popular Culture
* The nursery rhyme states, “Wednesday’s child is full of woe”. This line was the inspiration for the ‘Wednesday’ character, the daughter, in The Addams Family comic and TV Show.

* In the 19th century children’s rhyme Solomon Grundy, Solomon was ‘Married on Wednesday.’

* A song titled “Wednesday’s Song” is on the 2004 album Shadows Collide with People by John Frusciante

* Mr. Wednesday is a main character in Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods. He is the employer of the protagonist Shadow, and is a variation on the god Odin.

Astrological Sign
The astrological sign of the planet Mercury represents Wednesday — Dies Mercurii to the Romans, with similar names in Latin-derived languages, such as the French Mercredi and the Spanish Miércoles. In English, this became “Woden’s Day”, since the Roman god Mercury was identified with Woden in northern Europe.

Reference

Pagan Calendar

Wednesday, July 27th, We Celebrate….

Niman: Hopi Kachina Dances (Southwestern United States)

NUVAK’CHIN’MANA

Themes: Ghosts (Spirits); Blessings; Weather; Winter

Symbols: Cold Items; White; Moisture

About Nuvak’chin’mana:
This goddess’s name means Snow Maiden. In the Niman festival, Nuvak’chin’Mana is a Kachina who appears to pray for the return of cold weather so the moisture in the earth gets replenished. In our lives, she comes to replenish the well of our spirits and cool any overheated tempers that erupt with summer’s heat.

To Do Today: In Hopi tradition, Kachinas are spirits that help the tribe in all matters of life. Each year the Kachinas emerge around February to remind people of their blessings and to teach the sacred rituals that bring rain. Around this time of year, the Kachinas return to their rest, escorted out of the human realms by the Niman ritual.

To bring Nuvak’chin’Mana’s coolheadedness and refreshing energy to your entire day, drink a glass of milk on the rocks at breakfast, lunch, and dinner (or anytime in between). It’s very refreshing, and the appearance of the beverage honors the goddess. If your region has been suffering from a dry spell, pour out a little of the milk and ice on the ground as an offering to Nuvak’chin’Mana so she might carry your need for rain to the nature spirits.

Last, take a moment at some point during the day to thank the Powers for all your blessings. A grateful heart is one ready to give and receive more of the Goddess!

365 Goddess: A Daily Guide To the Magic and Inspiration of the goddess
Patricia Telesco

Goddesses Associated With Wednesday, The Day of Woden

Isis, Demeter, Ceres, Spider Woman, Bona Dea, Oya, Devi-Kali, Hella, Rhiannon, Coatlique, Maman Brigette

Source

The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

The Goddess Book of Days for Wednesday, July 27th

Day of Hatshepsut in Egypt, healer queen and architect. Egyptian queens were considered to be Goddesses. Procession of the Witches in Belgium. The twenty-seventh day of the Moon is dedicated to Diana and Hecate. (Diana: Artemis, Oya, Anahit, Athena, Minerva, Hathor, Maat. Hecate: Hel, Holde, Mother Holle, Sedna, Persephone, Eurydice, Erishkegal, Rhiannon.)
The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

Wednesday, July 27

Wednesday is the day of the Teutonic deity known as Wodin or Odin, an aspect of the Allfather, god of knowledge, wisdom, enlightenment and combat, the parallel of Hermes, the planet Mercury.

Deity: Woden

Zodiac Sign: Gemini & Virgo

Planet: Mercury

Tree: Ash

Herb: Cinquefoil

Stone: Emerald & Sardonyx

Animal: Raven & Cat

Element: Air

Color: Red & Blue

Number: 6

Rune: Odal(O)

Celtic Tree Month of Tinne(Holly) – July 8 – August 4. Holly, an evergreen plant reminds us all year long about the immortality of nature. The Holly moon was called Tinne, pronounced chihnn-uh, by the Celts, who knew the potent Holly was a symbol of masculine energy and firmness. The ancients used the wood of the Holly in the construction of weapons, but also in protective magic.

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

Goddess of the Month of Kerea – July 11 – August 8

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick