| date: | Sunday | March 29, 2009 | |
Moon: | waxing crescent | 1st Quarter | in Taurus |
Mercury: | Direct until May 7 | ||
Venus: | Retrograde until April 17  | ||
Saturn: | Retrograde until May 16 | ||
- fixed holy days (same date every year)
- 2009 lunar days
- 2009 astrological
- Kemetic calendar
- Zoroastrian calendar
- Celtic Ogham tree calendar
- Roman calendar
- 2008 lunar days
- 2008 astrological
fixed holy days
These holy days are on the same day every year on the solar calendar.
Festival of Ishtar:
Festival of Ishtar: Babylonian holy day. A planting and fertility festival. Dedicated to Ishtar.
Cutting Sobek’s Tongue:
Day of Cutting Sobek’s Tongue: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. It is the day of the cutting out of the tongue of Sobek. (from the Cairo Calendar)
Birthday of Artemis:
Birthday of the Goddess Artemis Soteria: Greek holy day.
lunar information 2009
| Moon: | waxing crescent | 1st Quarter | in Taurus |
 Next Waxing Quarter April 2 |  Next Full Moon April 9 |  Next Waning Quarter April 17 |  Next New Moon April 24 |
First Quarter in Taurus:
First Quarter: The moon is in the first (1st) quarter (waxing crescent) in Taurus.
Planting: The Moon makes this day excellent for planting.
Taurus Rewarding: This day in 2009 is rewarding for those who are Sun sign Taurus because the Moon is in your Sun sign.
Scorpio Challenging: This day in 2009 is challenging for those who are Sun sign Scorpio because the Moon is in the sign opposite your Sun sign.
astrological information 2009
Moon Sextile Mars: The Moon is sextile Mars at 1:10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT).
Moon Trine Saturn: The Moon is trine Saturn at 11:03 a.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT).
Moon Square Jupiter: The Moon is square Jupiter at 2:18 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT).
Moon Sextile Uranus: The Moon is sextile Uranus at 10:39 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT).
Magick Color:
Gold: The magick color for this day, based on planetary influences and the day of the week, is gold. You may want to burn a gold candle or wear some gold this day.
Magick Incense:
Catnip, Eucalyptus, Marjoram: The magick incense for this day, based on planetary influences, is eucalyptus. The magick incense for this day, based on the day of the week, is marjoram or catnip. You may want to burn catnip, eucalyptus, or marjoram incense this day. You may substitute a similar incense if you don’t have or don’t like catnip, eucalyptus, or marjoram.
See also the article on incense. An American source for high quality incense is Mountain Rose Herbs. A British source for incense is Pagan Magic. Another American source for incense is Pagan Shopping.
calendar
This day on different world calendars.
Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) information
Season of Semut or Shemu (Harvest or Summer)
Month of Pachons or Pakhon (Khonsu)
Day 14
Zoroastrian information
(Fasli calendar)
Month of Frawardin (first month)
Day of Adar
Day 9
The day of Adar celebrates the Av. Atar, Fire. Special prayers from the Khorda Avesta are recited in honor of the day’s spiritual being.
Activity for the day from the Counsels of Adhurbadh, Son of Mahraspand: “(127) On the day of Adar (Fire) go for a walk and do not bake bread for it is a grievous sin.” Adarbad Mahraspandan was a famous saint, high priest, and prime minister of Shapur II (309-379 C.E.).
The second seven days (second week) of each Zoroastrian month celebrates light and nature.
The Fasli, or seasonal, calendar is one of three Zoroastrian calendars still in use.
Celtic (ancient Druid) information
Ogham tree calendar
Faern (F)
Alder Moon
Day 12
The Celtic calendar started out as a moon calendar, but was aligned with the solar year during antiquity. Robert Graves proposed the Celtic tree calendar described here. While widely used by Neo-Pagans, many critics dispute the authenticity. The Beth-Luis-Nion calendar (the one used here) starts with New Year on the Winter Solstice. The Beth-Luis-Faern calendar starts with New Year on Samhain.
Each Celtic tree month (or moon) is named for a Celtic Ogham letter (first line above) and a tree (second line above). All of the Celtic months also had additional folk names (folk names for this month listed below).
Polarity: Masculine
Planet: Mars
Archetype: Bran or Arthur
Symbol: pentacle
Folk Names:
Moon of Utility
Moon of Efficacy
Moon of Self-Guidance
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Lenting
Roman information
a.d. IV Kal. Apr.
4 days before the Kalends of April
Month: Martius
The a.d. IV Kal. designation means ante diem or four “days before” the Kalends (first day or New Moon) of the next month. When counting days, the Romans included both the start and end day (in modern Western culture, we skip the start day). When the Romans switched to a solar calendar, they continued to use the lunar day names.
The Roman month of Martius is named for Mars. March was sacred to Mars, Roman God of war.
The earliest Roman months were lunar. According to Roman mythology, the ten month solar calendar aligned to the vernal equinox was introduced by Romulus, the founder of Rome, around 753 BCE. In Romulus’ calendar, Mars (the first month) had 31 days. Numa Pompilius, the second of the seven traditional kings of Rome, added two more months, for a 12 month year. In Numa’s calendar, Mars had 31 days. Gaius Julius Caesar, as Pontifex Maximus (supreme bridge-builder, a religious title), reorganized the calendar on the first day of 45 BCE. In Caesar’s calendar (the Julian Calendar), Mars had 31 days. Caesar’s calendar was calculated by Sosigenes, an Egyptian astrologer/astronomer. In 8 BCE, Augustus Caesar fixed errors by pontiffs after Julius’ death and made other minor modifications, resulting in the modern Western calendar. The modern Gregorian Calendar, named for Roman Catholic Pope Gregory the Thirteenth, was a realignment in 1582.
numerology
Today totals 2 in modern Western numerology. See the article on two for more information.
| date: | Monday | March 29, 2010 | |
| Moon: | Full Moon | ||
lunar information 2008
Third Quarter in Capricorn:
Third Quarter: The moon is in the third (3rd) quarter (waning gibbous) in Capricorn.
Moon Enters Fourth Quarter:
Fourth Quarter: The moon enters the fourth (4th) quarter (waning crescent) in Capricorn at 5:47 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Fourth Quarter in Capricorn:
Fourth (Last) Quarter: The moon is in the fourth (4th) quarter (waning crescent) in Capricorn.
Planting: The Moon makes this day excellent for planting.
astrological information 2008
Moon Conjunct Pluto: The Moon is in conjunction with Pluto at 1:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Moon Trine Saturn: The Moon is trine Saturn at 4:08 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Sun Square Moon: The Sun is square the Moon at 5:47 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Fourth Quarter.
Moon Opposite Mars: The Moon is in opposition with Mars at 6:14 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
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