Summary
Over the past few months the incoming cosmic energies have become incredibly powerful. The March Equinox triggered an energetic reset, which created a cosmic storm of epic proportions. This storm has been cleansing, clearing and purging all that is no longer required from us collectively and individually. As a result a cycle of intense and honest self-reflection ensued which has forced you to move within and discover how you are living, or not living, your soul’s truth.
In this time you have been purified and emptied; your entire energy field has been filtered and refined as the entire history of your existence (this lifetime and previous lifetimes) is being cleared. The very foundations of your life have shifted. How and in what way you have built your life has been tested. You have been called to follow the paths of your inner world, to peel away the veils of suffering and darkness so that you may bring to light the dreams, prayers, hopes and visions you have denied, rejected and suppressed. You have journeyed into the Great Mystery and called forth the reunification of your soul and the full activation of your divine template.
The waves of powerful cosmic energy coursing through our galaxy and flooding our planet have significantly increased the frequency of the earth’s vibration. This increase has shifted and transformed the energetic structures in and around the earth, affecting all of life on the planet. Human consciousness, individually and collectively, is rapidly expanding. Your human personality is evolving now to align with your soul and your soul is evolving and reassembling to activate your divine template within your human form.
Until now it has been almost impossible to reassemble all aspects of your soul and fully activate your divine template. The energetic imprints of disconnection, fear, trauma, pain and suffering held in the energetic structures in and around the earth have been too great. The incoming cosmic energies have been working to cleanse and clear these energetic imprints. At the same time your physical body and energy field is being purged and transformed to create space for the reassembling and reformation of your soul. Once this process is complete your divine template will activate enabling you to fully manifest the light of your soul into this world.
It is your soul, in partnership with the Divine Creator, that decided how it would manifest experiences needed to heal, grow and evolve in human form. Your soul, on its journey to earth, birthed itself from the heart of creation, travelled through the galactic core and moved through the earth’s energetic atmosphere to arrive on the planet. As your soul moved through the energetic atmosphere it encountered the energetic imprints of life on earth. These imprints contained all the energy and memoires of separation, disconnection, imbalance, trauma, fear, suffering and pain. Moving through this toxic energy triggered the fragmenting of your soul energy and the disconnection of your divine template.
The divine template contained within your soul is a map of creation, which reveals the infinite, expanding field of all life and your soul’s highest potential. It possesses the energetic imprints of healing, reconnection, balance, unity, compassion and divine love. It contains your original essence, which has been woven together with your soul to reflect the divine within you. It is activated via your heart and directs you on how to birth the infinite, expanding field of creation within yourself and this world. Once it is activated its power and energy will ripple through all of creation merging together the Divine Creator’s light to form a field of oneness and unity. As this field expands and grows it will infuse all of creation and remind us of the original spark of love that exists within every living thing.
For centuries humanity has explored what it means to be in duality and separation. Beliefs, emotions and feelings have been suppressed and denied which has divided all of creation. Now it is time to step forward consciously focus your attention on the reunification of your soul and activation of your divine template. Energetic pathways will reopen within you to support this process. Many of the closed facets of your heart, brain and energy system will awaken to help you reform your soul and activate your divine template within your physical body.
However, before you can get to a place of unification and embody your divine template you will go through a profound period of purification. The cellular structure of your physical and energy bodies must be cleared of lifetimes of stored pain, trauma, suffering, disconnection and imbalance. These distorted energies where created over many, many lifetimes and will not just disappear over night. Your physical / human self is increasing in energy vibration to support your soul in its unification process. Physically there are signs and symptoms that this is occurring. For example unexplained aches and pains especially in the joints; heart palpitations; insomnia; exhaustion; deep despair; fear and anxiety. If you are experiencing sever symptoms or would like to accelerate the clearing of your energies it is suggested that you contact an energy healer who can help to release any stubborn blockages. Remember that inner work is required before your external environment changes.
Once this process of clearing and cleansing is complete you soul will take dominion over your human aspect. All choices, decisions and actions you take will then come from the loving guidance of your divine self. This is how you will heal the world.
This month the incoming energies are bringing assurance that your soul’s quest is in fact divinely inspired and you are awakening into the light of a new day and a new era. Your inner journey is slowly coming to an end and yet you may still be finding it difficult to direct your life, or even understand the purpose or reason behind your life to this point. You may know and feel that change is necessary but lack the energy, desire or ability to attempt this.
With the support of the energies this month your internal focus will move to your external world. All the changes and movements you have experienced on the inside are suddenly going to start manifesting on the outside. Staying in the present is what will enable you to align with this process. Going with the flow and trusting your intuition is key. Clarity will come but patience and surrender are required.
The seeds of wisdom and guidance are germinating within you and will birth a new realization soon. Surrendering to the energy of the universe is the best way to manage the energies of this time. Avoid taking any action until you feel strongly called to do so. Things may still feel a little all over the place all you can do is rest your mind and follow the wisdom of your soul.
Rooting yourself in your heart enables you to access your soul’s wisdom and truth. The guidance your soul contains will enable you to build a solid foundation in this world of unavoidable change and uncertainty. It is time to gain strength from within and ready yourself for a new journey, a new life. As you continue to unify more of your soul and activate more of your divine template different situations and challenges will arise. The purpose of this is for your reassess your life direction, review your choices and shift your reality. All that is out of alignment with your soul is being brought to your attention to be changed and or transformed. For some this may mean a lifestyle change, for others relationships changes and for many a basic overhaul of their life.
Every layer, level and aspect of your existence has been drained and prepared to enable the birth of your soul’s light into the world. This is why you have chosen to incarnate during this time. As difficult, as painful and as downright awful as much of this journey has been nothing less than the full activation of your soul’s divine template will do. Peace and tranquillity will arise after this raging storm and out of your deepest, darkest fears a new life will be born.
Peace and Blessings,
In the June Energy Forecast Titled Complete Freedom, we began to explore the opening that was becoming available for humanity in regards to experiencing complete freedom.
We are now in uncharted waters when it comes to our experience of freedom.
The reason being is that for thousands of years, the human psyche has only known how to exist within a third-dimensional reality that includes a form of oppression and/or conditional agenda behind it.
This linear reality operated mostly in states of cause and effect, where it becomes a challenge to experience real freedom.
As a result of the millions of Lightworkers, Wayshowers, Healers and Empaths around the world who have been consistently nurturing their inner healing and spiritual journey for decades, the world is evolving at lightning speed.
Whatever we see happening on the global stage, is a direct reflection of what has been taking place within each of us whether we desire to admit it or not.
For example, it can be easy to focus our attention on blaming and vilifying people, groups, and organizations outside of ourselves that are ‘not doing what we think they should be doing.’
However, when we blame others, we actually create a karmic debt with them that requires us to give them all of our power. This karmic debt attaches us to these people, groups and organizations that then requires us to learn difficult lessons in order to eventually get to a place where we can finally be free of these debts.
What really is happening when we participate in this kind of behavior is that we are just contributing more to the matrix of fear rather than choosing to enter the matrix of love.
At the core by blaming others, we are really just blaming ourselves rather than actually making a positive impact in the world.
This is a form of mind-created distraction that puts us into an energetic ‘hamster wheel’ where we become stuck in a world of separation where freedom is scarce.
To begin moving out of this hamster wheel, we can ask ourselves the following two questions:
“How does it serve me to continue blaming others, and ultimately myself for the things I don’t like in the world?”
“Who am I when I no longer occupy myself with the need to blame?”
Questions like this will begin to open up new neurowaves in the mind that begin shifting our inner dialogue we’ve had on repeat keeping us on the hamster wheel.
However, with all of this being said… as a result of the million who have been doing their inner spiritual work, and moving past blame… something very special has started to anchor itself in our collective third-dimensional reality.
The tide is turning much faster than originally anticipated.
It is now becoming crystal clear that the energy of fear no longer has the same effect as it once had over the collective consciousness.
People from all walks of life are putting aside their seeming differences of gender, race, religion, culture and backgrounds and realizing that at the core we are all family, and desire to coexist in peace.
The days of allowing fear and intimidation to control the masses, and hold us back are coming to an end.
See, Eons ago, we decided that we needed to experience the fear in the ways that we had, so that we would eventually evolve past it.
This is where we are today. We are evolving past the fear that once held us back, and are waking up to the realization that on the other side of fear is a complete and ultimate freedom that only our Spirit Self has known.
The human part of ourselves (the mind) has not experienced this kind of freedom for such a long time, so it forgot that it was even possible.
On a personal level, we are being asked right now to strip away anything that comprises our ability to be fully honest with ourselves and others.
Our desires are the Universe choosing to expand.
These next few weeks are an excellent time for us to check in to see if we are truly living the life we desired most for ourselves. If we are, then that is amazing.
However, if we are not feeling like we’re living the life we desire for ourselves… this is the time to ask ourselves if we have been making outside circumstance decide what kind of life we are choosing to lead?
For the most part, those who know that they are the true Creator of their lives, are actually the ones who are giving themselves permission to live their lives they desire for themselves. And if they aren’t, they know how to make the adjustments that get them back into the flow of their desired reality.
If we are someone who is still identifying with the energies of fear, pain, struggle, or lack… it’s simply because we are still giving our power away to outside circumstance and letting them decide what kind of life we are choosing to lead.
With this realization, we can then accept and embrace the fact that our mind has chosen to give our power away in this way. It’s when we can fully accept and embrace that this was happening, that we can actually heal the need our mind has of continuing to identify with this pattern.
This is the time to be honest with how we are choosing to live our lives, and if this is the way we desire to continue as we move forward.
On a global level, it will be very much of the same thing. There are many big changes that have occurred evolving us past fear-based control. If we are paying attention, we know exactly what these changes are…however in consideration of the heightened collective emotions at this time, I will not go into specifics about what they are.
On July 30th, in Los Angeles, CA at 10:10am Pacific Time / 1:10pm EST / 6:10PM GMT Hundreds of Lightworkers, Way-showers, Empaths, Healers and Heart-centered friends will come together for a global healing activation where we will see that every corner of the planet including all of the oceans, nature, animals, and people being drenched with a pristine healing light. This light will nourish, love, and heal everything it comes in contact with once and for all.
If you would like to receive and take part in this free global healing activation, simply connect with us on July 30th at 10:10am Pacific Time.
Miracles happen when we two or more gather in unconditional love.
During this time, please pause for a few minutes and send a clear intention to the Universe that your presence be included in the global healing and activation of unconditional love and light that will be taking place at that time, for all of humanity.
Each global healing activation is helping to elevate the consciousness of humanity, and we get to co-create this together.
If you are in the Southern California area and would like to attend this free event in person, please visit
http://emmanueldagher.com/home/specialevent for the details.
Please share this far and wide with your friends and family, so we can make sure everyone who wants to experience and contribute to greater peace, joy, love, healing, and abundance for all, has the opportunity to do so now.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
With love always,
Peace and progress,
Emmanuel
Calendar of the Moon
Oak Tree Month
Color: Black
Element: Earth
Altar: Upon a black cloth place the vase of oak branches, a hammer, a metal lightning bolt, a sun symbol with the rune Sigil upon it, and a Green Man with an oak-leaf face.
Offerings: Give thanks for personal victories.
Daily Meal: Serve salad with each meal, arranged in the circular pattern of the Green Man.
Duir Invocation
Call: Now is the time of the Sun’s height.
Response: Now is the time when the leaves reach to the heavens.
Call: Now is the time when the Oak King spread his arms.
Response: Now is the time when we reach with him for the Sun.
Call: Now is the time when we return to the ancient grove of the Druids.
Response: Now is the time when we witness the Sun’s sacrifice.
Call: Now is the time when we go forth in glory.
Response: Now is the time of the turning of the year.
Call: Hail to the wren, soul of the Oak King!
Response: Hail to the sky, crown of the Oak King!
Call: Hail to the Earth, bed of the Oak King!
Response: Hail to the Sun, lover of the Oak King!
Call: Hail to the guardians of the door!
Response: May they guard us well, O oaken beams!
Call: We have no need to guard ourselves….
Response: For the Gods will guard us.
Call: We have no need to hide behind bolted doors….
Response: For now is the time to be open to the Sun!
Call: Like the Green Man, we speak through the oak!
Response: Like the Green Man, our voice is the strength of the earth!
Call: Like the Oak King, we do not fear the lightning!
Response: Like the Oak King, we will accept all repercussions!
Call: We have no shame for our actions….
Response: For all that we do, we do from a place of worthiness.
Call: For all that we do, we do from a place of honor.
Response: For all that we do, we do from a place of love.
Chant:
By my body I be earth
By my spirit I be fire
Call the lightning to my heart
Bring my soul what I desire
Calendar of the Sun
5 Haymonath
Aphelion Day
Color: Gold
Element: Fire
Altar: On cloth of black place a single gold sun, flanked by five golden candles.
Offerings: Contemplate solitude.
Daily Meal: Fasting today, until Hesperis.
Aphelion Invocation
On this day the Sun swings far from the Earth his lover,
And the two lovers part for a time,
For in any connection there must be spaces
As well as closeness.
For even as the Sun spins far away,
We can feel its brightness
As if it had never left.
And so it is with all connections that are true:
Our loved ones and our gods,
That we feel them even when they are absent,
And that shining echo of their spirits in our lives
Gives us the hope that we need
To wait for them to draw near again,
Even as the Sun will draw near to the Earth once more
And the two smile upon each other yet again.
Chant:
Look for the spaces between our bodies
Look for the openings between our minds
Listen for the places where the wind enters
It’s the way that the Gods find their way through time.
(All sit on the floor in silence for a time, being careful to leave as much space as possible between each other, and meditate on solitude and being apart from others. For the rest of the day, work should be done alone in silence, with as little speaking as possible.)
The Moon today is in a Waxing Crescent Phase. A Waxing Crescent is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the wester sky after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. The moon is close to the sun in the sky and mostly dark except for the right edge of the moon which becomes brighter as the days get closer to the next phase which is a First Quarter with a 50% illumination.
Tools: Coffee, tea, soda, caffeine pills, anything with caffeine in it.
In order to focus your caffeine consumption, and thus your extra energy, on a specific goal, do the following:
Take your caffeine pill, coffee, soda, tea, or whatever else and set it in front of you. Hover both of your hands around it, like parentheses:
( item )
Then close your eyes and say a prayer or chant your desire, something like:
I point this energy towards (desire)!
Repeat the prayer, getting louder each time, and then down your source of caffeine.
Harnessing Elemental Magic (A Witch’s Guide to Elemental Magic)
Viivi James
Every moment of every day can be a prayer if only you allow it to your soul.
365 Days of Meditations on the Goddess
Mata Enzer
On July 5 on Tynwald Hill, St. John’s, Isle of Man, the people gather to celebrate an old Norse assembly system established more than 1,000 years ago. The ceremony still takes place on the old Norse field of assembly at St. John’s, near the center of the island, where there stands the ancient circular Tynwald Hill, 12 feet high and surrounded by four concentric steps or platforms. It is believed that the hill is atop an old burial mound that made it a place of Celtic gatherings where the Old Midsummer rites (July 5) were held during Pagan times.
From the chapel nearby, the queen’s Lieutenant Governor leads the Tynwald’s procession to the hill, on a path strewn with green rushes, a survival of offerings to the sea God, Manannan. Once at the hill, there is the reading of old laws as new ones are presented. As each new law is read, it is followed by loud shouts and cheers. This custom prevails today. Before the lieutenant governor can sign a law into effect, he must wait for the assent of the people.
One of the universal standards in ethical behavior is that you never perform Bio-Universal energy work that manipulates the free will of another person. For instance, you do not ask the Universe to “make” someone love you if the or she does not have those feelings. You do not ask that someone to leave their home or job if you know that is not their desire. This is practical as well as ethical because the power of a person’s free will is very strong. It takes a tremendous amount of personal energy to overcome the free will of another and manipulate their life. This degree of energy is also normally not sustainable, so the effect would not last very long. Typically, such manipulation is NOT in our own greatest good anyway and would ground and neutralize. The point of using Bio-Universal energy is to work on yourself and your own life; not someone else’s.
If your goal involves other people, make certain that you are phrasing you goal in such a way that the impact of the result is on you rather than on others. If you want to manifest a romantic relationship, do not center your work on one person, but rather work toward a particular way you want to feel in a relationship and a certain type of relationship you desire. If you want a better paying job, do not work toward taking someone else’s job, but instead work toward how you want to feel in your new job and the details of the job you wish to have. This also opens up more options for the Universe to bring you what you want rather than limiting its focus on one particular situation.
One of the fastest ways your energy grounds is by your own free will getting in the way. Let’s say you don’t have a job and you know you really need one and if you don’t get one, you’re going to be in a serious financial lurch. You engage Bio-Universal energy to get a job, but you want to stay home in bed and not go to work. If your entire will is not behind the energy you send to your goal, your energy will be divided and weakened. It is important that you do the homework, so to speak, and clear away any internal obstacles you may have to your success. Maybe you ask that a relationship be healed when that really is not what you want. You might ask to attract buyers to your house when deep down, you do not want to move. Free will choices will not always derail your energy work, but they can most certainly slow it down.
Another way that Free Will has a major impact on magical endeavors is in the practice of gambling. One would think it would be easy to go to a slot machine, roulette wheel, or a card table send some energy toward the cards or the wheel and pour out a jackpot. The problem with gambling, especially lotteries, is that you are placing your free will choices up against those of many others who all want the target just as much as you do. The free will of all of those people pulls against and balances out your own free will interests. The free will desires of the casino are also at play. In short, gambling is one of the very few completely neutral places where if a win is meant to be, it will happen.
Properties of Magical Energy: Effectively Engaging the Flow (The Bio-Universal Energy Series Book 2)
Eric Rasbold, Katrina Rasbold
Tuesday is a Mars day, and just like the god of war, this is the time to tap into magicks to call for strength and courage. This day of the week is for rebels and warriors. If you are facing a challenge of any kind, need a boost to your courage, or want to enhance your passions, Tuesday is the day of the week for you. Some suggestions for Tuesday enchantments would include:
*Wearing the fiery colors associated with this day: scarlet, red, black, and orange. Don some of the more daring and bewitching colors of your wardrobe on Tuesdays and turn a few heads.
*Carrying a bloodstone in your pocket or wearing garnet-studded jewelry to reinforce your convictions
*Working with protective and fire-associated plants such as the snapdragon, thistle, and holly to boost your shields and bravery
*Burning spicy-scented energy-enhancing candles to add a little magical aromatherapy to your home
*Cooking up a hearty meal featuring carrots, peppers, and garlic (all Mars foods and spices) to empower yourself for victory and success
Tuesday (Tiw’s-day)
Planet: Mars
Colors: Red and Autumn Shades
Crystals: Bloodstone, Ruby, Garnet, Flint, Rhodonite, Iron and Steel
Aroma: Basil, Ginger, Black Pepper, Mars Oil, Dragon’s blood and patchouli
Herb: Basil
The day of Mars. This day could only ever symbolize the sheer power of the god of war! The ideal spells to be cast on this day are that of force, power war and protection.
Dedicated to the powers of the planet Mars, personified as Ares, Tiwaz, Tiw, and Tyr.
Magical aspects: controlled power, energy, and endurance, passion, sex, courage, aggression, and protection.
This is the proper day of the week to perform spells and rituals involving courage, physical strength, revenge, military honors, surgery, the breaking of negative spells, dynamic energy, matrimony, war, enemies, prison, hunting, politics, contests, protection, victory, and athletics.
The Mood of Leo
When the Moon is in Leo, we want to LOL! It’s time to party! We emerge from the homey Cancer Moon, and want to be out where the action is. Joy for living comes up from the heart, and has us looking around for fun. We want to live large.
This Moon brings a cheery vibe, making it easier to be lifted out of the doldrums. You might want to leave the day open, and let your spontaneous mischievous child inside lead the way. There’s a lure to colorful, special places like museums, food fairs and festivals and glamourous high end boutiques. It’s a mood heightened by spectacles like parades, costume parties and children’s theme parties. There’s delight in playing make-believe under this Moon, above the mundane of life.
This is a flirty Moon, and you get away with it, because it’s all for fun. The Leo lunar vibe brings out the cocky bravado in men and the diva in women. You might spend more time with the mane and dress, in anticipation of being seen.
It’s a Moon to revel in being admired and taking pride in appearance.
When the Moon is in Leo, there’s sparky inspiration in the air, and we may encourage each other to shine more brightly. Go ahead and hold the stage. Tell a story and make it dramatic. Make some children laugh by being a clown. Tap into your inner thespian, and make all the world your stage!
Things to do when the Moon is in Leo: tell jokes; send funny pictures on Facebook; surprise someone with a just-for-fun gift; encourage someone you love; accessorize; style your hair in a way that gets attention; wear warm colors (red, orange, yellow); smile when walking down the street; dance to your favorite music; have a girls night out; go on an adventure with a child; take a creative risk; work on your screenplay or play; decorate your home for the holidays.
The Moon sets the emotional tone as it transits through the Zodiac signs. It changes signs every 2 1/2 days. You can work with this rhythm to “go with the flow” of the Moon. You can use it to know the general feeling tone to expect.
Molly Hall, Astrology Expert
Article published on & owned by About.com
Attributes: Bold, spendthrift, ambitious, courageous, vain
Herbs: Sunflower, hops, coral resin, angelica, rue
Stones: Ruby, amber, citrine, topaz
Element: Fire
Day: Sunday
Colors: Yellow, red, orange
Planet: Sun
The Spell Crafter’s Compendium
Terri Paaganen
Tuesday (Mars): Passion, sex, courage, aggression, and protection.
Waxing Moon
The Waxing Moon (from the New Moon to the Full) is the ideal time for magic to draw things toward you.
Moon Phase: First Quarter
Moon Sign: Cancer
Cancer: Stimulates emotional rapport between people. Pinpoints need, supports growth and nurturance. Tends to domestic concerns.
Moon enters Leo 12:28 pm
Leo: Draws emphasis to the self, central ideas, or institutions, away from connections with others and other emotional needs. People tend to be melodramatic.
Incense: Ginger
Color: Red
Named for the Norse god Tyr, who was a deity of heroism and combat, Tuesday is a very martial sort of day – color associations include bright red and oranges, as well as warrior-like metals such as iron and steel.
The ancient Romans called this day Martis, after the warrior god Mars – other deities associated with Tuesday include Ares, the Morrighan, and other gods of battle and glory. Red gemstones like rubies and garnets come into play on Tuesdays, as do herbs and plants such as thistles, holly, coneflowers and cacti – you’ll notice these are all sharp, prickly plants!
One of the interesting – and more than a little amusing – aspects of Tuesday magic is that in addition to war and conflict against your enemies, this is a day also associated with marriage. You can also use this day of the week for magical workings connected to protection and initiation. Use Tuesday to assert yourself, make a mark and stake your claims.
Patti Wigington, Paganism/Wicca Expert
Article published on & owned by About.com
Tuesday is the day to work any magick that falls in the category of increasing strength, courage, bravery, and passion. All of these intense emotions are linked to this day’s energies, and spells designed around these themes will have extra punch when performed on this magickal day.
So, let’s add a little passion and conviction into your life! Break out the daring red pieces of your wardrobe, and put a little pizzazz into your day. Work with Lilith, and see what she has to teach you about personal power and sexuality. Meditate on Tiw/Tyr and Mars, and see what those ancient warrior gods will show you about new tactics, strategies, and claiming personal victories in your life. Practice conjuring up that astral weapon from the meditation and use it wisely for protection and for courage.
Create a philter for courage and protection or handcraft your own Witch’s jar to remove negativity from your home. See what other Witch crafts you can conjure up with Tuesday’s magick. Create some kitchen magick on this Tuesday by whipping up a spicy stew-add in a few Mars-associated ingredients such as carrots, peppers, and garlic. Empower the stew for success, and then treat yourself and your family to a good, hearty meal. Try working with a little aromatherapy and burn some spicy or coffee-scented candles to increase your energy level.
Check the sky at night, and see if you can find the reddish planet Mars up in the heavens. Not sure where to look? Check an astronomy magazine or search the Web for more information. Become a magickal warrior and move forward in your life with strength, courage, and compassion. Embrace the side of yourself that loves a good challenge and that is passionate and daring! Banish fear, and face your future with strength and conviction. Believe in yourself and in your dreams, work hard, and you will win every time.
—-Book of Witchery: Spells, Charms & Correspondences for Every Day of the Week
Ellen Dugan
Tuesday is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. The name comes from Middle English Twisday, from Old English Tiwes dæg, named after the Nordic god Tyr, who was the equivalent of the Roman war god Mars.
In Latin, it is called Martis dies which means “Mars Day”. In Romance languages except Portuguese, the word for “Tuesday” is similar to the Latin name: mardi in French, martes in Spanish, martedì in Italian, dimarts in Catalan, and marÅ£i in Romanian.
Portuguese uses numbers instead of pagan names and so their word for “Tuesday” is terça-feira.
The English and Scandinavian names are derived from the Nordic god Týr:
Old English: Tiw, Tew, or Tiu
Swedish: Tisdag
Danish: Tirsdag
Norwegian: Tirsdag or Tysdag
Icelandic: Týsdagur
Finnish: Tiistai (borrowed)
The German word Dienstag and the Dutch word Dinsdag seems to be derived from the god referred to by the Romans as Mars Thingsus, the god of the thing, which might also be Týr, or possibly some other Germanic god.
The Russian word for “Tuesday” is vtórnik, meaning “second”; that is, counting Tuesday as the second day of the week.
Quakers traditionally referred to Tuesday as “Third Day” eschewing the pagan origin of the English name “Tuesday”. This has also been the custom in Iceland since about the 11th century when Jón Ögmundsson changed it to Þriðjudagur, meaning “Third Day”
In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of the Fall of Constantinople) is considered an unlucky day. The same is true in the Spanish-speaking world, where a proverb runs En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques (On Tuesday, neither get married nor begin a journey). For both Greeks and Spanish-speakers, the 13th of the month is considered unlucky if it falls on Tuesday, instead of Friday.
The Hindi/Bengali/Nepali/Gujarati/Punjabi/Marathi/Urdu word for Tuesday is Mangalwar, with Mangal being the Sanskrit name for the planet Mars.
In the Thai solar calendar, the day is named for the Pali word for the planet Mars, which also means “Ashes of the Dead”; the color associated with Tuesday is Pink.
Tuesday is the usual day for elections in the United States. Federal elections take place on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November; this date was established by a law of 1845 for presidential elections (specifically for the selection of the Electoral College), and was extended to elections for the House of Representatives in 1875 and for the Senate in 1914. Tuesday was the earliest day of the week which was practical for polling in the early nineteenth century: citizens might have to travel for a whole day to cast their vote, and would not wish to leave on Sunday which was a day of worship for the great majority of them.
In business, particularly office work, studies have shown that Tuesday is usually the most productive day of the week. Some of these people consider Tuesday to be their least favorite day, because they are not as relaxed as Monday (due to the weekend preceding it), yet they still have most of the work week ahead of them.
In French, Tuesday is “Mardi”, associating it with the planet Mars. Tuesday is also associated with the dwarf planet Pluto. This marries Tuesday with ideas of strife, battles to be won and pressing issues and jobs to get sorted. It is not a day to relax. This same meaning can be seen in the Spanish “Martes” and the English “Tuesday” (“Tyr’s day.”) In India, Tuesday is called “Mangalvar”, for the Vedic planet Mangala or Mars.
Eanh is at aphelion to the Sun, furthest distance between Earth and Sun of the year. The fifth day of the Moon/month belongs to Maat, Egyptian Goddess of Truth and Wisdom. She is also Athena, Minerva, Sophia, the Shekinah, Sarasvati, Tiamat, Mater Mututa, Iduna, Matu, Eve, and White Buffalo CalfWoman.
The Goddess Book of Days
Diane Stein
Tuesday is dedicated to the powers of the planet Mars, personified in Ares, Tiwaz, Tiw, Tuisco and Tyr. Tuesday rules controlled power, energy and endurance.
Deity: Tiwaz
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Planet: Mars
Tree: Holly
Herb: Plantain
Stone: Agate
Animal: Crab
Element: Fire
Color: White
Number: 2
Rune: Tyr (T)
Celtic Tree Month of Duir(Oak) – June 10 – July 7. Oak month is a time for protection and strength, fertility, money and success, and good fortune.
Runic Half-Month of Ur (primal strength) – July 4 – July 28
Goddess of the Month of Rosea – June 13 – July 10
The Pagan Book of Days
Nigel Pennick
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