Coll, the hazel is symbolic of wisdom and druidry. It signifies the art of regeneration through the use of words, the power of meditation, and-through its use by water dowsers–divination of hidden or lost things.
The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick
Friday is the day of Venus. It takes it 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: Taurus/Libra
Planet: Venus
Tree: Apple
Herb: Vervain
Stone: Sapphire/Chrsolite
Animal: Bull/Serpent
Element: Earth
Color: Yellow/Violet
Number: 7
Rune: Peorth(P)
Celtic Tree Month of Coll (Hazel) – August 4 – September 1
Runic Half-Month of Thorn (defense) – July 29 – August 12
Goddess of the Month of Kerea – July 11 – August 8
The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick
Friday – is associated with Venus
Candle colors – Green, Red, Blue, White, Purple
Spellcrafting Associations: Love, Marriage, Money, Attraction, Luck, Healing, Prosperity, Change, Road Opening work, Bring Peace, Relationships.
Old Style Conjure Wisdoms, Workings and Remedies
Starr Casas
by Jane Lyle
Venus enters Virgo: Maiden Voyage
Venus in Virgo is stylish, witty, and a cautious, yet chatty flirt. Venus here knows how to hold back, sometimes out of shyness and sometimes out of a need for mental space. She’s a harvest queen, and a domestic goddess.
A Virgo Venus is often great company, and can be a very kind and helpful friend. There’s often something very sexy about this earthy Venus, even though traditional astrology emphasises its modesty and tendency towards sexual inhibitions and anti-bacterial hand gel. Yet when this maiden goddess lets her hair down, she reveals a wild imagination.
Virgo is a discriminating sign, giving this Venus an eye for precise detail in clothes, art, music and finances. Sometimes that discriminating tendency goes too far, and Virgo Venus criticizes and analyses their friends and partners more than they realise.
Financially, Venus in Virgo is risk-averse, careful, and at worst parsimonious. Usually, Venus in Virgo is practical, and sometimes possesses a real gift for making money.
You may have Venus in Virgo if your Sun sign is Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, or Scorpio, depending on the year you were born.
Who’s got Venus in Virgo?
Sun in Cancer, Venus in Virgo: Robin Williams, 21st July, 1951; Angela Merkel, 17th July, 1954; Jack White, 9th July, 1975.
Sun in Leo, Venus in Virgo: Robert Redford, 18th August, 1936; Mick Jagger, 26th July, 1943; Charlize Theron, 7th August, 1975; J. K. Rowling, 31st July, 1965; Cara Delevigne, 12th August, 1992
Sun in Virgo, Venus in Virgo: Leonard Cohen, 21st September, 1934; Sophia Loren, 20th September, 1934
Sun in Libra, Venus in Virgo: I found a big group of celebrities with this lively, sometimes challenging combination. Here’s some of them:
Kim Kardashian, 21st October, 1980; Catherine Zeta-Jones, 25th September, 1969; Eminem, 17th October, 1972; Simon Cowell, 7th October, 1959; Gwen Stefani, 3rd October, 1969; John Lennon, 9th October, 1940; Kate Winslet, 5th October, 1975
Sun in Scorpio, Venus in Virgo: Julia Roberts, 28th October, 1967
By Richard Talcott
Friday, August 5
A slightly fatter crescent Moon stands 1° below Jupiter in this evening’s sky. Look for the soft glow of earthshine — sunlight that has reflected off our planet to the Moon and then back to our eyes — on the 90 percent of Luna that the Sun is not illuminating directly. Jupiter shines brilliantly at magnitude –1.7 and remains a beacon in the western sky after sunset all week. When viewed through a telescope, the giant planet shows a disk that measures 32″ across and features two dark equatorial cloud belts.
Saturday, August 6
The variable star Algol in Perseus reaches minimum brightness at 5:33 a.m. EDT. If you start watching it late yesterday evening (it rises in the northeast around 10 p.m. local daylight time), you can see its brightness diminish by 70 percent over the course of about five hours as its magnitude drops from 2.1 to 3.4. This eclipsing binary star runs through a cycle from minimum to maximum and back every 2.87 days.
Sunday, August 7
Although Saturn reached its peak about two months ago, it remains a lovely sight. You can find the planet nearly due south around 9 p.m. local daylight time. Saturn shines at magnitude 0.4 and appears far brighter than any of the surrounding stars in southwestern Ophiuchus. When viewed through a telescope, the planet measures 17″ across while its dramatic ring system spans 39″ and tilts 26° to our line of sight.
The Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 101.87° ESE
Sun Altitude: 42.69°
Sun Distance: 94.291 million mi
Next Equinox: Sep 22, 2016 9:21 AM (Autumnal)
Sunrise Today: 6:03 AM↑ 68° East
Sunset Today: 7:57 PM↑ 292° Northwest
Length of Daylight: 13 hours, 53 minutes
The Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 92.42° E
Moon Altitude: 11.68°
Moon Distance: 244715 mi
Next Full Moon: Aug 18, 20164:26 AM
Next New Moon: Sep 1, 20164:03 AM
Next Moonset: Today9:39 PM
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 8.1%
The world to me is like the sea,
as the waves of life move majestically.
So if you live in a state of frown,
the waters of life will cause you to drown.
So learn to swim in the waters of life,
cause if you don’t you’ll have nothing but strife.
Learn now the tides of your Spirit,
as the rhythm flows for you to hear it.
Now when you achieve what’s stated above,
you will have entered a world of love.
Now that you have the sea at bay,
it’s time to move on to a brighter day.
Author Unknown
Originally Published On Pagan Library
Good Friday Morning, my sweets! Can you believe it, two days in a row now, gee! We might tired from working so much and need to take a vacation to get over working so hard. Sure, right, we are so rested now, you ought to hear the place. It is a madhouse.
Anyway, you didn’t come here to hear that, you came here to see who won the raffle. We had the drawing first thing this morning. We now have a winner. I have tried to come up with a way to announce the winner without giving too much personal information. I should have told everyone to put your I.D.’s on the PayPal comment section but I didn’t. When the winner is announced, if we do not give enough info, we will contact you tomorrow by email. If you do recognize yourself, then please contact us sometime today. You do this by using our email, witches_of_the_craft@outlook.com. Again, if we do not hear from you today, we will be in touch tomorrow. And now for the winner of our Winter Survival Raffle…..
I am a security freak these days. You can never be too careful. I think this is enough information that this individual will recognize themselves. If you recognize yourself now and are here, let us know. I should add, please let us know which item you would like and your complete address. When we receive this, we will contact you with a confirmation email.
Thanks to all of you, Winter is no longer a problem. I can’t say it enough, we love you all. We are very proud to call each of you our brothers and sisters!
Thank you again,
We Love You!
Lady A
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