January 10 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 holy days
2009 lunar days
2009 astrological
2008 lunar days
2008 astrological

fixed holy days

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

Geraint’s Day:

Geraint’s Day: Welsh Celtic holy day. Garient’s Day (Welsh) Arthurian hero. Call on Garient for couples and sex magick, and for love spells. — Celtic information provided by Shelley M. Greer ©1997. Sacred to Geraint, the Blue Beard of Wales, a ninth century Welsh bard.

Going Forth of Min:

Going Forth of Min: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Going forth of Min to Coptos. Aset [Isis] sees Min’s face and joins Him. According to some authorities Aset [Isis[ sees Asar’s [Osiris] face.

Day of Freya:

Day of Freya: Norse holy day. Day of Freya, Norse Mother Goddess.

Save the Eagles Day:

Save the Eagles Day: American holy day. Dedicated to helping save the eagles around the world.

calendar

This day on different world calendars.

Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) information

Season of Proyet (Sowing)
Month of Mekhir (Rekh-Ur)
Day 26

Zoroastrian information
(Fasli calendar)

Month of Day (tenth month)
Day of Ashtad
Day 26

The day of Ashtad celebrates the Av. Arshtat, Rectitude, Justice. 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: “(144) On the day of Ashtad deliver over your mares, cows, and pack-animals to their males so that they may return in good health.” 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 18

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. IV Id. Ian.
4 days before the Ides of January
Month: Ianvarivs or Ianuarius or Januarius or Janus

The a.d. IV Id. designation means ante diem or four “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 1 in modern Western numerology. See the article on one for more information.

tarot

Today’s tarot card is The Wheel of Fortune.

date:	Sunday	January 10, 2010
Moon:	waning crescent	4th Quarter	enters Sagittarius
Mercury:	Retrograde until January 15
Mars:	Retrograde until March 10

lunar information 2010

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

Fourth Quarter in Scorpio:

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

Void of Course:

Moon Void of Course: The moon is Void of Course (V/C) starting at 10:02 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 7:02 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST).

Moon enters Sagittarius:

Moon Enters Sagittarius: Lunar Ingress. The Moon enters the sign Sagittarius at 1:10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 10:10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST).

Fourth Quarter in Sagittarius:

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

Planting: The Moon makes this day excellent for planting.

Fishing: The Moon makes this day excellent for fishing.

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

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

astrological information 2010

Moon Trine Uranus: The Moon is trine Uranus at 12:29 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 9:29 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) on January 9th (yesterday). Originality and creativity spells. Time for originality. Be original and influence others. Ritual to Bast and Sekhmet.

Moon Square Neptune: The Moon is square Neptune at 3:22 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 12:22 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). Be careful — You may be gullible and your judgement may be poor. Time for serious thinking.

Moon Square Jupiter: The Moon is square Jupiter at 10:02 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 7:02 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). Beware of broken promises and impracticality. Moon Void of Course (V/C).

Moon Sextile Saturn: The Moon is sextile Saturn at 10:07 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or 7:07 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). Help those in need.

Magick Color:

Amber or Yellow: The magick color for this day, based on planetary influences and the day of the week, is amber or yellow. You may want to burn an amber or yellow candle or wear some amber or yellow this day.

Magick Incense:

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

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:	Saturday	January 10, 2009
Moon:	Full Moon		in Cancer
Mercury:	Direct until January 11
Saturn:	Retrograde until May 16

holy days 2009

These holy days are on different day each year on the solar calendar.

Full Moon:

Full Moon: Wiccan holy day. Wiccan Esbat for the Full Moon. Known as the Cold Moon, Quiet Moon, Snow Moon, or Wolf Moon.

Day of Isis:

    Day of Isis: Greco-Roman holy day. Full Moon worship of Isis (Aset in the original ancient Egyptian language). Worship of Isis spread throughout the Hellenic Empire and the later Roman Empire and beyond into Germanic, Norse, and Celtic lands, across the Middle East and Asia, and south through Africa.
    The city of Paris is named for a great ancient temple to Isis (Per-Isis) and the Notre Dame Cathedral, built on the site, still has the original Isis altar with the myth of Isis and Osiris depicted. Until the 1700s the Notre Dame Cathedral still featured a prominent ancient statue of Isis (under the claim that it was the Black Madonna). Unfortunately a French Witch stormed into Notre Dame and demanded the return of the entire site and artwork, pointing out that the statue was actually of Isis rather than Mary. Horrified Roman Catholic priests smashed the statue into rubble. The fate of the French WItch is not recorded, but probably was death by torture.
    The Day of Isis (each Full Moon) was celebrated with feasting, dancing, and singing. Along the Nile and in other locations near a river, lake, or other body of water, the celebrants would float small wooden or paper boats with lit candles in honor of Isis. In some places thousands of little boats would light up the water. Sometimes colored paper would be put around the candles to create dazzling colored light displays. Isis worshipers would put their hopes and dreams on scraps of paper on the boats, in the belief that Isis would grant these in the coming lunar month.

Poornima:

Poornima: Hindu holy day. The Full Moon Day that defines the Hindu lunar month’s unique qualities.

lunar information 2009

Moon:	Full Moon		in Cancer
Next Waning Quarter January 17	Next New Moon January 26	Next Waxing Quarter February 2	Next Full Moon February 9

Second Quarter in Cancer:

Second Quarter: The moon is in the second (2nd) quarter (waxing gibbous) in Cancer.

Full Moon:

Full Moon: Lunar. Occurs at 10:27 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) in 2009. This is a Wiccan Esbat. Also known as the Cold Moon, Quiet Moon, Snow Moon, or Wolf Moon. See also Isis Full Moon love spell.