About The Magickal Day of Friday

 

Friday falls at the end of the work week for many of us, and that means we get a chance to relax for a little bit! Mark your Fridays with colors like pink and aqua, and metals such as copper. This is a day ruled by the planet Venus, so it should be no surprise that Venus and Aphrodite – goddesses of love and beauty – are associated with Fridays. This is a day named for the Norse goddess Freyja, so be sure to take a moment to honor her as well.

Gemstones associated with Friday include coral, emerald and rose quartz, and plants like strawberries, apple blossoms and feverfew are also related. This is a good day to do spellwork associated with family life and fertility, sexuality, harmony, friendship, growth. Take advantage of Friday’s correspondences and plant a seed, make something grow, and enjoy your blessings

*Note: There are a lot of disputes as to the origins of the word Friday, because there is still a great deal of discussion as to whether it was named for Freyja or Frigga, and whether they were the same deity or two separate ones. Some scholars believe that while they may have eventually become two distinctly different goddesses, they could have had their origins in a single, common Proto-Germanic deity.

 

Author

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

 

The Goddess Book of Days for Friday, March 10th

Feast of the Year Goddess, Anna Perenna, Rome. Other sources date March 15 or January 1. Other Year and Fate Goddesses are: Ana, Danu, Don, Aine, Aida Wedo, Cat Anna, the Morrigan and the Fates, Fortuna. Also day of Ishtar (Sumer): Astarte, Aphrodite, Venus, Erzulie, Oshun, Venus, Mawu.

Source

The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein

On Friday, March 10th, We Celebrate……

Daedala (Greece)
HERA

Themes: Love; Romance; Forgiveness; Humor

Symbols: Oak; Myrrh; Poppy

About Hera: Hera rules the earth, its people, and the hearts of those people. Using passion and creativity, Hera nudges star-crossed lovers together, chaperones trysts, and helps struggling marriages with a case of spring twitterpation!

Legend tells us that Hera refused to return to Zeus’s bed because of a quarrel. Zeus, however, had a plan. He humorously dressed up a wooden figure to look like a bride and declared he was going to marry. When Hera tore off the dummy’s clothes and discovered the ruse, she was so amused and impressed by Zeus’s ingenuity that she forgave him.

To Do Today: Ancient Greeks honored Hera and Zeus’s reconciliation today, often in the company of old oak trees. Small pieces of fallen wood are collected to symbolize the divinities, then burned on the ritual fire to keep love warm. To mirror this custom, find a fallen branch and burn a small part of it as an offering to Hera. Keep the rest to use as a goddess image year-round, burning a few slivers whenever love needs encouragement.

Present someone you love or admire with a poppy today to symbolically bestow Hera’s blessings on your relationship. If you have a loved one away from home, burn some myrrh incense in front of their picture so Hera can watch over them and keep that connection strong.
 

Source

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

 

Today Is Friday, March 10th

 

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 Nuin (Ash) – (February 18 – March 17)

The Runic Half Month of Tyr (February 27 – March 13)

Goddess of the Month of Moura – (February 20 – March 19)

Source

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

 

A Little Conjuring for Your Friday

Friday – is associated with Venus

Candle colors – Green, Red, Blue, White, Purple

Magickal intentions should be toward – Love, Marriage, Money, Attraction, Luck, Healing, Prosperity, Change, Road Opening work, Bring Peace, Relationships, Power and Success
 

—Old Style Conjure Wisdoms, Workings and Remedies
Starr Casas

 

The Sky This Week for March 10 to 12

A full Moon, the spring triangle, and other bright, beautiful things to look for in the sky this week.

By Michael E. Bakich

 

Friday, March 10

Around 6 p.m. EST, Leo the Lion’s brightest star, Regulus, lies only 0.8° north of the Moon. In fact, observers with clear skies located in southeast South America, South Georgia, Queen Maud Land, and the southern tip of South Africa will see the Moon pass in front of Regulus. Astronomers call such events occultations. By carefully observing many of them, researchers can more accurately map the variations (caused by mountains and valleys) at the lunar edge.

Saturday, March 11

Head out tonight sometime after 10 p.m. to see a naked-eye asterism called the Spring Triangle. This giant geometrical figure is visible in the spring all night long from any location in the Northern Hemisphere. Three dazzling stars mark this asterism. The brightest is Arcturus (Alpha Boötis), which shines at magnitude –0.04 near the bottom of Boötes the Herdsman. Orange Arcturus is the fourth-brightest nighttime star overall and the brightest north of the celestial equator. Next in brightness is Spica (Alpha Virginis), the luminary of Virgo the Maiden. Spica is the very definition of a 1st-magnitude star, but its brightness isn’t constant. Its apparent magnitude varies between 0.92 and 1.04 over a period of just more than 4 days. The third Spring Triangle star is Denebola (Beta Leonis), the star that marks the tail of Leo the Lion. And although Denebola, at magnitude 2.1, is the sky’s 59th-brightest star, it’s only 36 percent as bright as Spica, and it emits just 14 percent the light output of Arcturus.

Sunday, March 12

Daylight Saving Time begins this morning. Be sure to spring forward one hour.

Full Moon occurs at 10:54 a.m. EST. The glowing orb stands in the far-southern part of Leo the Lion, between the constellations Virgo to the east and Sextans to the west. This lunar phase is the least interesting to observers because sunlight falls straight down on the Moon from our perspective, which minimizes shadow detail. So this might be a good night to observe the Moon illusion — the Full Moon appears larger when it’s near the horizon than when it stands high in the sky. But its size doesn’t change, and you can prove it with a single sheet of paper. Go out just after sunset and find the Moon low in the east. Roll the paper into a tube and change the tube’s diameter until the Moon just fills the field of view when you look through it. Tape the tube so its size doesn’t change. Then, head indoors and go back outside a few hours later when the Moon is high. Look through the tube again. The fact that the Moon will be the same size still amazes even seasoned observers. The best explanation for this illusion seems to be that when the Moon lies near the horizon, our brain compares its size with foreground objects, which don’t appear near the Moon when it’s high in the sky.

Source

Astronomy Magazine

 

Newsletter Issue #67

USA & Canada Start DST on March 12

 

Most of the United States, Canada, and Mexico’s northern border cities will begin Daylight Saving Time (DST) on Sunday, March 12, 2017.

People in areas that observe DST will spring forward 1 hour from 02:00 (2 am) to 03:00 (3 am), local time.

Standard time will resume on Sunday, November 5, 2017.

 

Brighter Afternoons

In local time, sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour later than the day before resulting in more daylight in the afternoon.

Almost all of the United States observe DST. Hawaii and most of Arizona are the only 2 US states that do not change their clocks.

None of the US dependencies observe DST. This includes American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the US Minor Outlying Islands, and the US Virgin Islands

In Canada, DST begins at the same time as in the US.

Areas that don’t use DST include most of Saskatchewan, some locations in Québec east of 63° westerly longitude (e.g. Blanc-Sablon), Southampton Island, and some areas in British Columbia.

 

US Bills to Abolish DST

Bills to abolish the yearly time change permanently have been proposed in more than 10 US states this year.

From experience, these bills don’t normally make it all the way to the state Senate, and they are usually voted down at some point in the legislative process.
Mexico DST Divided

A few northern Mexican border towns, such as Tijuana and Juarez City (Ciudad Juárez), start DST on March 12 along with the US and Canada.

However, most of Mexico starts DST on Sunday, March 26, 2017 on the same day as DST starts in Europe. A few Mexican cities, like Hermosillo and Cancun, do not observe DST at all.

Other areas starting DST on March 12 are Cuba, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Thule Air Base in Greenland.

 

Set Clocks Back or Ahead?

To remember which way to set your watch, keep in mind one of these sayings: “spring forward, fall back” or “spring ahead, fall behind.” The clocks spring ahead (= losing 1 hour) in the spring when DST starts and fall behind 1 hour (= gaining 1 hour) when DST ends in the fall.

Source

timeanddate.com

 

Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Friday, March 10th

The Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 108.09° ESE
Sun Altitude: 16.41°
Sun Distance: 92.325 million mi
Next Equinox: Mar 20, 2017 5:28 am (Vernal)
Sunrise Today: 6:12 am↑ 94° East
Sunset Today: 5:57 pm↑ 266° West
Length of Daylight: 11 hours, 45 minutes

 

The Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 312.94° NW
Moon Altitude: -27.56°
Moon Distance: 237182 mi
Next Full Moon: Mar 12, 20179:53 am
Next New Moon: Mar 27, 20179:57 pm
Next Moonrise: Today4:13 pm
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 95.4%

 

Source

timeanddate.com