Friday’s Witchery

Love magick is a perennial popular topic. However, there is more to this topic than meets the eye. There are many enchanting layers here for us to explore on this day of the week. What about creating a loving home, or producing a loving and nurturing family? What about keeping your intimate relationships vital and on track? How about promoting happy, healthy, and enduring friendships? See, there is more to be considered than just the “You shall be mine…” type of fictional love spell.

Don’t forget that many of the deities associated with Fridays are also parents. So, yes, while this is the day to work on romance, sex, and love spells, there is additional magick to be considered here, which makes Fridays a more well-rounded and bigger opportunity for witchery than many folks ever truly realize. The truest, strongest magick always comes from the heart.
 

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Book of Witchery – Spells, Charms & Correspondences For Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan

Friday

Ruler: Freya, Venus

Colors: Emerald green or pink

Power Hours: Sunrise and the 8th, 16th, and 24th hours following.

Key Words: Love, money, health

It is easy to spot the ruler of this day by its name. In the word Friday, we see the roots of the name of the Norse goddess Freya, a goddess of love and fertility, and the most beautiful and propitious of the goddesses thus the verse “Friday’s child is loving and giving.”

In Spanish this day of the week is called Viernes and is derived from the goddess Venus. Matters of love, human interaction, the fluidity of communication, sewing and the creation of artistic garments, household improvement, shopping, and party planning all fall under the aspects of Friday and its ruling planet, Venus.

Friday’s angels are Ariel/Uriel, Rachiel, and Sachiel. Rachiel also concerns himself with human sexuality and is a presiding spirit of the planet Venus.

On Fridays, the hour of sunrise and every eight hours after that are also ruled by Venus, and that makes these times of the day doubly blessed. These four hours are the strongest four hours for conducting ritual.

Check the local newspaper, astrological calendar, or almanac to determine your local sunrise.
 

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Gypsy Magic

The Pagan Calendar for Friday, April 29th

Floralia/Runic half-month of Lagu commences

Representing the flowing and mutable–yet irresistably powerful and necessary–forces of water, Lagu symbolizes the life-force inherent in all matter and the organic growth and waxing power of this time of year.

 

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The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

Friday, April 29th

Friday is the day of Venus. It takes its 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: Libra

Planet: Venus

Tree: Apple

Herb: Vervain

Stone: Chrysolite

Animal: Cat

Element: Earth

Color: Blue

Number: 7

Rune: Peorth(P)

 

Celtic Tree Month of Saille (Willow) – April 15th thru May 12. The Willow tree is associated with healing and growth. During this phase, work on rituals, involving healing, growth of knowledge, nurturing, and women’s mysteries.

Runic Half-Month of Lagu (flowing water) begins today, April 29th – May 13th

Goddess of the Month of Maia April 18 thru May 15

 

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The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick

 

The Sky This Week: April 29 – May 1

 

Friday, April 29
Last Quarter Moon occurs at 11:29 p.m. EDT. The half-lit orb doesn’t rise until after 2 a.m. local daylight time tomorrow morning, however, when you can see it climbing in the southeast among the background stars of northern Capricornus.

 

 

Saturday, April 30
Asteroid 6 Hebe currently lies among the background stars of eastern Leo the Lion, just a stone’s throw from 2nd-magnitude Denebola. The region reaches its peak in the southern sky shortly after darkness falls. This evening, 10th-magnitude Hebe lies some 4° northwest of Denebola.

 

 

Sunday, May 1
One of the spring sky’s finest deep-sky objects, the Beehive star cluster (M44) in the constellation Cancer the Crab, lies high in the west once evening twilight fades away. The 3rd-magnitude cluster lies approximately 40 percent of the way from 1st-magnitude Pollux in Gemini to the similarly bright star Regulus in Leo. With naked eyes under a dark sky, you should be able to spot the Beehive as a faint cloud. But this star group explodes into dozens of stars through binoculars or a small telescope at low power.

 

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Astronomy Magazine

 

Your Sun & Moon Data for Friday, April 29th

Sun
Sun Direction: ↑ 115.21° ESE
Sun Altitude: 50.96°
Sun Distance: 93.630 million mi
Next Solstice: Jun 20, 2016 5:34 PM (Summer)
Sunrise Today: 6:02 AM↑ 71° East
Sunset Today: 7:42 PM↑ 289° West
Length of Day: 13 hours, 40 minutes

 

Moon
Moon Direction: ↑ 236.30° WSW
Moon Altitude: 14.25°
Moon Distance: 239052 mi
Next New Moon: May 6, 20162:29 PM
Next Full Moon: May 21, 20164:14 PM
Next Moonset: Today11:56 AM
Current Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 55.4%

 

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timeanddate.com