This Weekend’s Love Horoscope: Love, Sweet Love

Your love horoscope for the weekend of August 25-27, 2017

Get ready to celebrate romance in the most extraordinary way! This weekend Venus will move into Leo and remains here until September 19. The very best of summer love potential is about to step forward. Lucky you! It’s time to cherish every drop.

Last week a powerful Solar Eclipse fell in Leo, and Mars is also in this sign. With Venus, the planet of love, joining the party, you’re sure to have the most romantic fun possible this weekend — and for the rest of the summer!

This Weekend’s Romantic Rating*

Your Cosmic Calendar For 25th August to 26th August 2017

Western Tropical Planetary Positions

Overview

While you will long for better opportunities, things may not really work out for you, according to the Cosmic Calendar. Disputes with seniors are possible. Businessmen will be tempted to take risks. On the romantic front, you will act on instinct, but if you are not clear about what you want, you might get into trouble. You will be highly sexed up, which may lead your partner to think that you are being too aggressive. On the relationship front, it is likely that a person who enters your life now may cause problems later. Impulsive behaviour can harm your married life. Financially, you will be in a hurry to make a quick buck but must remember that haste makes waste. Cutting corners now will backfire as per the Cosmic Calendar.

Career And Business

According to the Cosmic Calendar, you may have a strong desire for gaining bigger and better opportunities. Important discussions and negotiations may not bear desired fruits. There will be issues surrounding communications and agreements at your workplace. Confrontations are very likely to surface with seniors. This period will give you the courage to follow through on new business ideas. There will be more of a tendency to take risks in your business as per the Cosmic Calendar. Caution should be applied since the planetary influences will also cause disputes with the law enforcement agencies.

Love And Sex

You will be acting on your feelings but it might get you into troubles if you are not aware of what you want according to the Cosmic Calendar. You can be misled or might misunderstand an overall situation in your love life. Some childish or impulsive reactions during this period may cause problems in your love life. Your partner might find you too aggressive when it comes to expressing your feelings. Tremendous sexual energies will come bursting forth as per the Cosmic Calendar.

Relationships And Compatibility

Someone who enters your life at this time may cause problems in future as per the Cosmic Calendar. Your romantic impulses will be more forceful and pressing at this time. Some level of competition will be witnessed in your interactions with beloved ones. The desire to enjoy life, for comfort and pleasure will be stimulated according to the Cosmic Calendar.

Marriage And Children

As per the Cosmic Calendar, impulsive, rash and aggressive actions may disrupt the harmony of your married life. You will not accept opposition to your ideas and will come on too strong with your opinions, which your beloved ones might not receive well. Issues surrounding children may bother you as per the Cosmic Calendar.

Personal And Confidential

You may have raw physical energy as opposed to the creative energy at this time according to the Cosmic Calendar. Sexual activity will increase and can be part of the picture now. You will be proactive, and willing to put your ideas into action as per the Cosmic Calendar. Accidents may take place due to sudden careless actions.

Wealth And Property-Finance

According to the Cosmic Calendar, you need to remember that ‘haste makes waste’ as the period may provoke you to take ambitious steps for quick gain. Your tendency to make a quick decisions or to take shortcuts may backfire. Traps of overconfidence, arrogance, or taking on too much of risk can be detrimental to your financial health. Expenses will rise on health issues as per the Cosmic Calendar.

With Ganesha’s Grace,

Tanmay K. Thakar

The GaneshaSpeaks.com Team

Calendar of the Moon for Friday, August 25th

Calendar of the Moon
Coll Invocation

Colors: Blue and Brown
Element: Water and Earth
Altar: Upon cloth of blue place a goblet of spring water, the figure of a leaping salmon, and three blue candles; next to them on cloth of brown place a musical instrument, a pen, and fresh flowers.
Offerings: Poetry, songs, art, writing.
Daily Meal: Either fish (for the Salmon), poultry (for the Duck) or salads.

Coll Invocation:

Call: Hail the month of the Hazel Tree!
Response: Hail the month of the nuts that nourish us.
Call: First tree of the harvest, you give forth wisdom.
Response: Last tree of the summer, you chant our memories.
Call: The fading warmth follows you,
Response: And we feast on the fruits of your knowledge.
Call: This is the month of words and song.
Response: This is the month of the search for the mysteries.
Call: This is the month of the sacred pool,
Response: Wherein swims the Salmon of Knowledge.
Call: We fish for the gleams of divine light on the surface,
Response: We dive for the truths that lie deep in the Well.
Call: Our intuition is the hazel-twig held before us.
Response: We shall search out the underground streams.
Call: We shall find the hidden treasures.
Response: We shall spread them forth in words of power.
Call: We shall bring them forth with our hands in works of art,
Response: We shall gift the Gods and the people with our songs.
Call: Our voices will find their way across the land.
Response: Hear us, O Gods, as we sing your praises!
Call: This is the month of the bard’s silver tongue,
Response: This is the month of the golden door of autumn.
Call: As the Hazel Tree stands with words of peace,
Response: So shall we stand between the warring parties.
Call: So shall our Rule spread Justice and Peace,
Response: So shall our words spread beauty and harmony.

(As this is the month of the Bard, one or more shall stand forth and sing before the others, or read what words they would, to bring gladness and knowledge to the hearts of those who listen.)

[Pagan Book of Hours]

Calendar of the Sun for Friday, August 25th

Calendar of the Sun
25 Weodmonath

Opiconsivia

Color: Green
Element: Earth
Altar: Upon a green cloth lay a chalice of wine and baskets of the day’s harvest.
Offerings: Fruits of the harvest, fed to the livestock.
Daily Meal: Food from the garden.

Opiconsivia Invocation

Hail to the Goddess Ops Consiva,
Lady of Plentiful Sowing!
Hail, Daughter of Terra Mater!
Hail, Lady Omnes Opes,
Goddess who supplies all resources!
Hail, lady of the full storehouse!
Hail, lady of the fattened herd!
Hail, lady of the well-earned gold
Given in fair trade for the work of one’s hands!
Bless this household with prosperity
Throughout the many years.
Bless this household with contentment
When prosperity cannot be found.
Bless this household with survival
When contentment cannot be found.
Let us always have enough resources
Not only for ourselves, but also to share,
For we shall never cease to share
Even our most meager supplies,
So you must make allowances
For our generosity, as we take you
As our first example.
Hail, Ops Consiva,
Lady of Plentiful Sowing,
Bless that which sustains our bodies
For as long as those bodies may live.

Chant: Ops Consiva Omnes Opes

(The wine is passed and the remainder is poured out as a libation. The vegetation is carried ceremoniously into the barn and fed to the livestock.)

[Pagan Book of Hours]

The Pagan Calendar for Friday, August 25th – Opiconsivia

The Pagan Calendar for Friday, August 25th

Opiconsivia

Summary	Opiconsivia
Calendar	Roman
Date	Aug 25 Every year
Description	On August 25, the Opiconsivia (or Opeconsiva or Opalia) Roman festival was held in honor of Ops. Opiconsivia was also a surname of Ops herself. And this name was also given to December 19, on which day the Opalia were celebrated, also in her honor (some mention also August 10 and December 9). The Latin word consivia (or consiva) derives from conserere (“to sow”). Hence, the word Opiconsivia may be interpreted as meaning “the sowing of crops”, since Ops ultimately means “crops” in the sense of “riches, goods”. This word is also related to Consus, the male counterpart of Ops as “the seeder”. Both Ops and Consus were deemed chthonic (underworld) deities which made the vegetation grow. Since her abode was inside the earth, Ops was invoked by her worshippers while sitting, with their hands touching the ground, according to Macrobius (Saturnalia, I:10). Consus seems to be an alias of Saturn in the chthonic aspect, since he is also held to be the husband of Ops. Ops, the Earth Mother, was also considered the Great Mother of the Gods. As such, Ops is an alias of Rhea, Cybele, Demeter, and so on, impersonating the earth as the giver of riches. The festival of Consus, the Consualia, was celebrated twice a year: once on August 21, after the harvest, and once on December 15, after the sowing of crops was finished. The Consualia was instituted by Romulus, and commemorated the rape (and insemination) of the Sabine women by the Romans. The festival was superintended by the Flamines of Quirinus (Mars), helped by the Vestals. The main priestess at the regia wore a white veil. A chariot race was performed in the Circus Maximus, under the direction of the pontifices. Horses and mules, their heads crowned with chaplets made of flowers, also partook in the celebration. Consus was eventually identified with Neptunus Equester, the alias and counterpart of Poseidon Hippios. Poseidon (Neptune) had been associated with the animal since archaic times.
References	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiconsivia

Today is Friday, August 25th

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 5 – September 1

Runic Half-Month of As (gods) – August 13 – August 28

Goddess of the Month of Hesperia – August 9 – September 5

Reference

The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

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Ritual Influences for Friday, August 25th

Friday Venus

Perfumes: Stephanotis, Apple Blossom, Musk, Ambergris

Incense: Saffron, Verbena

Wood: Myrtle

Color: Light Blue, Pale Green

Influences: All Love Matters, Friendships, Affection, Partnerships, Money, Sex

Reference

A Book of Pagan Rituals
Herman Slater

The Sky This Week for August 25 to August 27

The Aurigid meteor shower, Asteroid 3122 Florence, and other cool things to look for in the sky this week.

By Richard Talcott

Friday, August 25

Following its meeting with the Sun earlier this week, the Moon has now climbed into view in the evening sky. Be sure to catch the 20-percent-lit crescent this evening, when it forms a pretty triangle with magnitude –1.8 Jupiter and 1st-magnitude Spica. All three objects lie in the constellation Virgo and stand well clear of the west-southwestern horizon during evening twilight. And don’t pass up an opportunity to view Jupiter through a telescope. The giant planet’s disk spans 33″ and shows a wealth of atmospheric detail.

Saturday, August 26

Venus appeared among the background stars of Gemini the Twins yesterday morning, but you’ll find it against the backdrop of Cancer the Crab today. This border crossing sets up a pretty conjunction a week from now, when the gleaming planet passes near the Beehive star cluster (M44).

Mercury reaches inferior conjunction, passing between the Sun and Earth, at 5 p.m. EDT. The innermost planet will return to view before dawn in early September.

Sunday, August 27

The constellations Ursa Major the Great Bear and Cassiopeia the Queen lie on opposite sides of the North Celestial Pole, so they appear to pivot around the North Star (Polaris) throughout the course of the night and the year. In late August and early September, these two constellations appear equally high as darkness falls. You can find Ursa Major and its prominent asterism, the Big Dipper, about 30° above the northwestern horizon. Cassiopeia’s familiar W-shape, which currently lies on its side, appears the same height above the northeastern horizon. As the night progresses, Cassiopeia climbs above Polaris while the Big Dipper swings below.

Source

The Astronomy Magazine

Moon in Libra

Creating order is the focus, not necessarily through tidying or organizing as was the case while the Moon was in Virgo, but rather through pleasing interactions with others and aesthetics in our environment. We tend to solve problems through diplomacy, and we are more able to put aside our own emotions in order to achieve the peace we crave. The tendency now is to avoid direct confrontations. Decisions do not come easily. Seeing both sides to any given situation is the main reason for hesitation. Fear of losing others’ approval is another.

The Moon in Libra generally favors the following activities: Relationship and partnership issues, activities involving teamwork and cooperation, activities that involve self-examination, activities related to beauty.

Your Astrology for Friday, August 25th

The Moon is in Libra all day.
The Moon is waxing and in its New phase until 4:56 AM, after which the Moon is in its Waxing Crescent phase.
The New Moon (Solar Eclipse) occurred on the 21st in the sign of Leo, and the First Quarter Moon will occur on August 28th.
Mercury is retrograde (Mercury is retrograde from August 12-September 5).
Saturn stations and turns direct today.

Your Daily Sun & Moon Data for Friday, August 25th

The Sun

Sun Direction: ↑ 114.57° ESE

Sun Altitude: 44.25°

Sun Distance: 93.951 million mi

Next Equinox: Sep 22, 2017 3:01 pm (Autumnal)

Sunrise Today: 6:19 am↑ 76° East

Sunset Today: 7:32 pm↑ 284° West

The West

Moon Direction: ↑ 94.75° E

Moon Altitude: -0.57°

Moon Distance: 242706 mi

Next Full Moon: Sep 6, 20172:02 am

Next New Moon: Sep 20, 201712:29 am

Next Moonrise: Today10:13 am

Current Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent

Illumination:16.8%