January 7 pagan holy day calendar

fixed holy days (same date every year)
Kemetic calendar
Zoroastrian calendar
Celtic Ogham tree calendar
Roman calendar
numerology
tarot
2010 lunar days
2010 astrological
2009 lunar days
2009 astrological
2008 holy days
2008 lunar days
2008 astrological
2007 lunar days

fixed holy days

These holy days are on the same day every year on the solar calendar.

Sekhmet’s Day:

Sekhmet’s Day: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Dedicated to Sekhmet. Also known as Feast of the Decrees of Sekhmet.

Festival of Aset:

Festival of Aset: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Festival of Aset [Isis].

Decrees of Sokhit:

Decrees of Sohkit: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Decreees of Sokhit (or Sekhmet), Goddess of Justice and Law.

Izanami-No-Mikoto:

Izanami-No-Mikoto: Japanese holy day. Izanami-No-Mikoto, day of the Sun Goddess Izanami (related to Amaterasu). Day of the Seven Herbs (Nana-Kusa), for healers and healing.

Name Day:

Name Day of Day-pa-Den: Zoroastran holy day. Each day and month of the Zoroastrian calendar is presided over by a spiritual being. When the spiritual being of the day and the month are the same, such as today (Day-pa-Den and Day), the day is particularly sacred. In the Fasli (seasonal) calendar, this is the sacred day of Day-pa-Den. Day-pa-Den celebrates the Av. Dadvah, The day of the Creator before Den.

Distaff Day:

Distaff Day: European holy day. Also called Roc Day. The day that women resumed work after the Twelve Days of Christmas or the Twelve Days of Yule. The distaff (or rock) was used in spinning and was a medieval symbol of women’s work.

Rizdvo:

Rizdvo: Ukranian Christian holy day. The Ukranian Christmas Eve.

Ethiopian Christmas

    Ethiopian Nativity of Christ: Rastafari hola day. Christianity has been in Ethiopia since 330 C.E. The Ethiopian Christmas is celebrated with a vegetarian or vegan feast. Prophecy and Bible readings take place during the feast. The feast is followed by a Nyabinghi meeting.
    Includes a Nyahbinghi meeting. A Nyabinghi meeting has evolved from early roots into a live music session with music, chanting, and prayer. Dr. Leonard E. Barret, a Jamaican professor of religion, wrote in his book The Rastafarians “The term ‘Nyahbinghi’ comes to use from East Africa and refers to a religio-political cult that resisted colonial domination from the last decades of he 19th century to about 1928. The term might have been the name or title of a Ruandaise royal princess who was killed by colonalist because of her resisteance. After her death cults arose which were influenced by her spirit. The members of the cult experienced spirit possession and the medium of these cults was always a woman.
    “The Nyahbinghi is the most important meeting of the Rastafarians, involving members from all over the island. It is comparable to the movement’s convention and may last from one or three days to even a week. [At one meeting] the air was thick with smoke from the holy herb (marijuana) and the drums kept a haunting beat. … One tune continued as long as an hour and without a break before another was started and continued on and on throughout the evening until the drummer was exhausted and his place was taken by another drummer. …”

Black Nazarene Fiesta:

Black Nazarene Fiesta: Philippino holy day. Black Nazarene Fiesta in Manila, the Philippines (January 1-9).

calendar

This day on different world calendars.

Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) information

Season of Proyet (Sowing)
Month of Mekhir (Rekh-Ur)
Day 23

Zoroastrian information
(Fasli calendar)

Month of Day (tenth month)
Day of Day-pa-Den
Day 23

The day of Day-pa-Den celebrates the Av. Dadvah, The day of the Creator before Den. 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: “(141) On the day of Day-pa-Den do anything you like, bring your wife into your quarters, trim your hair and nails and clothe yourself.” Adarbad Mahraspandan was a famous saint, high priest, and prime minister of Shapur II (309-379 C.E.).

The fourth week (eight days) of each Zoroastrian month celebrates religious ideas.

The Fasli, or seasonal, calendar is one of three Zoroastrian calendars still in use.

Celtic (ancient Druid) information

Ogham tree calendar

Beth (B)

Birch Moon
Day 15

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: Feminine
Planet: Sun
Archetype: Taliesin (Celtic God of Bards)
Symbol: eagle or stag
Folk Names:
Moon of Inception
Moon of Beginning

Asatru (ancient Norse) information

Month: Snowmoon

Roman information

a.d. VII Id. Ian.
7 days before the Ides of January
Month: Ianvarivs or Ianuarius or Januarius or Janus

The a.d. VII Id. designation means ante diem or seven “days before” the Ides (Full Moon) of the 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 January is named for Janus (Ianvs). January was sacred to Janus, the Roman God of gates, doors, and entrances. Janus was an early Italic sky god that long predated Rome. Ovid claimed that Janus said “The ancient called me chaos, for a being from of old am I.” Ovid also claimed that after the world’s creation, Janus said, “It was then that I, till that time a mere ball, a shapeless lump, assumed the face and members of a god.” Joannes of Lydia said, “Our own Philadelphia still preserves a trace of the ancient belief. On the first day of the month there goes in procession no less a personage than Janus himself, dressed up in a two-faced mask, and people call him Saturnus, identifying him with Kronos.” The beginning of each day, month, and year were sacred to Janus. The Romans believed that Janus opened the gates of heaven each day at dawn , letting out the monring, and closed the gates of heaven each day at dusk.

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, January did not exist. Numa Pompilius, the second of the seven traditional kings of Rome, added two more months, for a 12 month year. In Numa’s calendar, January was added to the beginning of the year (following February) and had 29 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), January had 31 days and February was moved to after January. 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. The Romans avoided giving January 30 days (skipping from 29 to 31) because of a superstitious dread of even numbers.

numerology

Today totals 7 in modern Western numerology. See the article on seven for more information.

tarot

Today’s tarot card is The Chariot.

date:	Thursday	January 7, 2010
Moon:	Waning/4th Quarter		in Libra
Mercury:	Retrograde until January 15
Mars:	Retrograde until March 10

lunar information 2010

Moon:	waning crescent	4th Quarter	in Libra
Next New Moon January 15	Next Waxing Quarter January 23	Next Full Moon January 30	Next Waning Quarter February 5

Third Quarter in Libra:

Third Quarter: The moon is in the third (3rd) quarter (waning gibbous) in Libra.

Moon Enters Fourth Quarter:

Fourth Quarter: The moon enters the fourth (4th) quarter (waning crescent) in Libra at 5:40 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 2:40 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST).

Fourth Quarter in Libra:

Fourth (Last) Quarter: The moon is in the fourth (4th) quarter (waning crescent) in Libra.

Void of Course:

Moon Void of Course: The moon is Void of Course (V/C) starting at 1:07 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on January 8 (tomorrow) or 10:07 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) on January 7.

Fishing: The Moon makes this day excellent for fishing.

Libra Rewarding: This day in 2010 is rewarding for those who are Sun sign Libra because the Moon is in your Sun sign.

Aries Challenging: This day in 2010 is challenging for those who are Sun sign Aries because the Moon is in the sign opposite your Sun sign.

astrological information 2010

Moon Square Venus: The Moon is square Venus at 3:35 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 12:35 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). Time to relax with friends.

Sun Square Moon: The Sun is square the Moon at 5:40 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 2:40 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). Waning Quarter. Be patient. Good things will come at New Moon to those who are patient now. Ritual to Geb.

Moon Sextile Mars: The Moon is sextile Mars at 6:35 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 3:35 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). Exciting time. Emotions positvely in action. Ritual to Bes.

Sun Quincunx Mars: The Sun is quincunx Mars at 3:39 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 12:39 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). Short bursts of strong, dynamic action.

Moon Quincunx Uranus: The Moon is quincunx Uranus at 4:51 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 1:51 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). Sudden change in mood. Time to break-up old habits.

Moon Trine Neptune: The Moon is trine Neptune at 7:34 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 4:34 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). Time for idealism, friendship, and romance. Romance and friendship spells.

Moon Trine Jupiter: The Moon is trine Jupiter at 1:07 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on January 8 (tomorrow) or 10:07 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) on January 7 (today). Time of optimism, possibly Overly optimistic. Ritual to Ra (before Moon is void of course). Moon Void of Course (V/C).

Magick Color:

Crimson or Red: The magick color for this day, based on planetary influences and the day of the week, is crimson or red. You may want to burn a red or crimson candle or wear some red this day.

Magick Incense:

Myrrh: The magick incense for this day, based on planetary influences and the day of the week, is myrrh. You may want to burn myrrh incense this day. You may substitute a similar incense if you don’t have or don’t like myrrh.

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.

date:	Wednesday	January 7, 2009
Moon:	waxing gibbous	2nd Quarter	enters Gemini
Mercury:	Direct until January 11
Saturn:	Retrograde until May 16

lunar information 2009

Moon:	waxing gibbous	2nd Quarter	enters Gemini
Next Full Moon January 10	Next Waning Quarter January 17	Next New Moon January 26	Next Waxing Quarter February 2