July 15

fixed holy days

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

Birth of Heru:

    Birthday Feast of Neter Heru: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Birth of Heru (Horus the Elder). Words to be said:

    “O Heru of Letopolis. The name of this day is Powerful is the Heart.”

Hekatombaion Noumenia:

    Hekatombaion Noumenia: Greek holy day. The first day of the Greek month of Hekatombaion. According to Plutarch (Mor. 828A), the Noumenia (the first day of each Greek month) are “the holiest of days”.
    According to Jon D. Mikalson (in “The Noumenia and Epimenia in Athens”, The Harvard Theological Reviews, Vol. 65, No. 2, April, 1972, page 291), “In an ordinary year there were twelve Noumeniai, and thus they form a large and important series of “holy” days. There is no indication in the sources that the religious activities on the Noumenia of one month varied from those of another month, and therefore the Noumeniai may be treated as a single homogenous group.
     “The strictmess with which the Athenians preserved the sanctity and the independent identity of the Noumenia is striking. No annual religious festival is attested to have occurred on the Noumenia or to have included it. Not one of the positvely dated meetings of Athenian legislative assemblies such as the Ekklesia, the Boule, or a tribal organization is attested to have occurred on the first day of a month.”


lunar information 2008

Second Quarter in Sagittarius:

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

Void of Course:

    Moon Void of Course: The moon is Void of Course (V/C) starting at 10:44 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.


astrological information 2008

         Moon Square Uranus: The Moon is square Uranus at 9:19 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

         Sun Quincunx Moon: The Sun is quincunx the Moon at 11:16 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

         Moon Sextile Neptune: The Moon is sextile Neptune at 11:34 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

         Sun Quincunx Neptune: The Sun is quincunx Neptune at 2:50 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

         Mercury Sextile Mars: Mercury is sextile Mars at 5:11 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

         Moon Conjuct Pluto: The Moon is in conjunction with Pluto at 10:44 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Moon Void of Course (V/C).


calendar

This day on different world calendars.

Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) information

Epagomenal Days
Birthday of Her Ur [Horus the Elder]

Zoroastrian information
(Fasli calendar)

Month of Tir (fourth month)
Day of Asman
Day 27

    The day of Asman celebrates the Av. Asman, Sky. 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: “(145) On the day of Asman (the Sky) set out on a long journey so that you may return safely.” 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

Tinne (T)

Holly Moon
Day 8

    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: Earth
Archetype: Danu
Symbol: flaming spear
Folk Names:
Moon of Encirclement
Moon of Polarity

Asatru (ancient Norse) information

Month: Haymoon

Roman information

Id. Quin. or Id. Ivl.
the Ides of July
Month: Quintilis or Quinctilis or Ivlivs or Julius

    The Ides was originally the Full Moon on the early Roman lunar calendar. The Latin word idus means “half division” of a month and comes from an older Etruscan word meaning “divide”. The Ides occurred on the 15th day of March, May, July, and October, and on the 13th day of all other months. The Romans considered the ides to be a particularly auspicious (good) day, dedicated to Jupiter, the Roman King deity.

    The Roman month of Quintilis (or Quinctilis) is named for quin, because it was originally the fifth month of the Roman solar year. In 45 BCE, the Roman Senate renamed the month Julius (July), for then Roman Emperor Julius Caesar. July was sacred to Jupiter (Ivppiter), Roman King of Gods.

    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, Quintilis (the fifth 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, July 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), July had 31 days. The Roman Senate changed the name of the month Quintilis to Julius (July) in honor of the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar. 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 6 in modern Western numerology. See the article on six for more information.


lunar information 2007

Moon enters Leo:

     Moon Enters Leo: Lunar Ingress. The Moon enters the sign Leo at 2:43 am GMT.


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