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The fourth lunar day is generally counted as the third day from the new moon. More information on the Lunar Days can be found here: The Thirty Lunar Days.
The fourth Moon Day bears contradictions when it comes to different lunar traditions. According to the Avesta and Vedic beliefs, nothing promising will happen today but it is ideal to eliminate differences and old fashioned practices. You should also not begin any new endeavors if you stand to receive anything out of this.
The opposite is advocated by the European tradition that states that today is ideal to begin new things, especially in the event of locating a missing object. Anyone dealing with business that has something to do with water will experience fortune.
- Symbol: Tree of Knowledge
- Stones and Minerals: Sardonyx, Amazonite, Green Jade.
- Aromatherapy: Mandarin.
- Chakra Activation: During the 4th lunar day the Vishuddha chakra is active (throat).
Overall Forecast
The symbol is a tree, a tree of knowledge, a choice between good and evil. According to Albert the Great, this day refers to the fall of man. It is marked to make a choice between good and evil deeds. Unfortunately, such a day is the first among the unfavorable, but at the same time is endowed with a dual characteristic. It is both a positive and negative day.
At this time, do not take quick decisions, it’s better to think about something ten times, and then make an immediate decision. Teamwork is not recommended. Do not cut trees or tear flowers. A walk in the forest, or somewhere in nature is advisable on the fourth lunar day.
The first half of the day is favorable. You will find peace of mind, and the ability to communicate will increase. Also this day will positively affect trade, and the chances of successfully carrying out risky activities. But the second half of the day, may begin to slow down the positive trends. If you have enough diplomacy, you will be able to avoid the machinations and conflicts of rivals.
Recommendations
This is a day of choice between good or evil, in actions and in thoughts. Solitude is advisable. Gardening, housekeeping, walking, relaxing, and communicating with the elements is recommended. Group work is not suggested; do not make hasty decisions. Be attentive to sudden provocations and temptation.
- Continue projects you’ve already started
- Analyze financial matters which were started on the 2nd and 3rd lunar days
- Try and find weak points in order to correct them
- Collect, accumulate and process new information
- Improve your business methods
- Increase productivity
- Do any trading, mostly during the first half of the day.
Weather Forecast
If the fourth lunar day is clear, then the whole month will be clear; if it’s raining, then all month long it will be raining.
Influence on Health
Neck and vocal cords are active. Chanting of sacred songs is advisable. Diseases that begin on these lunar days are usually severe. Vulnerable today cervical spine, Adam’s apple, larynx. It is good today to prepare and treat with infusions, broths and other herbal remedies.
- Nutrition tips: Delicate, substantial food like vegetable ragout, salads, boiled vegetables are preferable.
Sedative herbal tea can bring a favorable effect. Use melissa, chamomile and mint. Make a bakery dough for bread and custard pies.
On the 4th lunar day, it is better not to change anything in your life, especially the length of the hair, as this will be followed by an anxious condition, an unreasonable longing and a fear of everything, and also the appearance of sore throats or diseases of the oral cavity.
Warnings
It is not recommended to:
- Start new business.
- Do any trading after noon.
- Wait for financial income.
- Give into provocation, argument or conflict the second half of the day.
Dreams
Dreams this lunar day can come true, especially if the dream is in color. If last night you saw anything tangled, for instance, thread, hair or some confusing intersection of roads, it is advisable to analyze your existing plans, revise or even reject them.
If you met your parents or relatives there, it means you need to analyze problems you might have inherited from them and start working to solve them. If you had a dream about some kind of threat – it is a warning to be extra careful and mindful about your behavior in your actual life.
The images you saw last night specify the weak points in your inner world, your spiritual self. Today you may find out where the majority of your energy is collected on the tree of good and evil. If you recognize that in your real life, accept it as a call to action.
Aromatherapy
The scent of Mandarin removes fears and irritability, relieves stress, helps with depression. Restores energy and peace of mind. Encourages spiritual creativity. The aroma of Mandarin is good for productive and sublime intellectual communication. A great remedy for obesity and cellulite.
Housework
The fourth lunar day is the most appropriate for solving everyday household problems, but pay the most attention to woodworking.
If, on this lunar day, the waxing Moon is going through the Pisces, Cancer or Scorpio signs, it is better to only mop the floor with a mildly dampened rag. It is advisable to put into order things such as books, notebooks, photos albums and take extra care with your wooden surfaces including doors and curtain rods.
Take care of your natural fabrics as well. Give special attention to wooden family heirlooms. You may work on the restoration of any wood. It is good to bring wooden items into the sunlight to dry and to fill them with sun energy. It is good to oil kitchen cutting boards or care for your painting tools and pictures.
Fill your house with fragrances of wood and flowers. Before you decide to throw something away, take some time to think about it. In general, the fourth lunar day is an ideal time for solving all domestic issues.
Weddings and Relationships
The energy of this day can evoke hesitation, mixed feeling, inability of compromise. Therefore do not plan a wedding ceremony this day. You might want to cancel the romantic dates this day if you expect important results.
Also, the fourth lunar day is absolutely not suitable for a romantic date, especially if you place great hopes on him. The fact is that on this day people tend to apathy. Therefore, the inattention of a person to your person can cause you irritation and resentment.
The fourth lunar day is not the best of days for private life, but on this day it can be analyzed. If you work, it is difficult, and you are constantly experiencing the burden of the accumulated problems, you can visit a psychologist, psychoanalyst, psychotherapist. Of course, no one will solve our problems for us, but experts will help to understand the causes of the turmoil, and awareness is already 90% of their solution.
On this day it is best to refrain from marrying, otherwise the couple will always remain in a dual state – the spouses will never be able to find a compromise satisfying them both, they will constantly quarrel and be at variance with each other. It is even possible that partners in such a marriage will often change each other, and their family happiness will always be on the verge of collapse.
In this lunar day, lovers would be better served to once again weigh all the pros and cons of their union.
Conception of a Child
The 4th lunar day is one of the most special and difficult days for conception. It is a mystical day. There is an opinion that if you conceive a child on this day, then with it, one of your ancestors returns to your family. However, this opinion is not an axiom, you can agree with it or not. But there is an indisputable fact: the child conceived on this day will be loved by the whole family, others will be pleased with him.
He is one of those to whom people’s hearts are drawn. And for this he does not need to use all kinds of artificial methods, manipulate and weave intrigues. Such a person attracts attention, love and respect due to the distinctive features of his character – affection, kindness, tenderness, tranquility.
Born on this Day
It is said that people who were born on this lunar day have some kind of cosmic mystery, there are many rumors about them, not everyone is given to understand them.
The main danger of the people of this day is the power of melancholy, a little apathy. They often go deeper into self-examination and sad memories. These people know a lot about the world and constantly replenish their knowledge. They often do not know how deep their knowledge is of the hidden. Often they are drawn to reveal secrets.
Starting a business, they can return to the starting point, and this is their main problem. They need to move on. It is very important not to lose contact with their parents and ancestors. Alcohol is harmful, for that herbal infusions and teas are useful. Rest is important quiet, in silence, alone with yourself.
It is important to control every word you speak, because it can quickly come true. You can not wish evil for yourself, as if you wish to be fulfilled, nor to other people, because you will have to pay brutally for a senseless expenditure of energy.
Business and Money
During this period we may see the effects of our actions, this is a time when things are not set in stone and mistakes can be easily corrected.
Financial receipts on the 4th lunar day are the most often delayed or the amount may be what you expected.
In this period it is recommended to refrain from buying, especially if the desire to purchase a particular product has arisen spontaneously. Today, hasty decisions do not lead to a positive result, and first of all it concerns the purchase of expensive things. Better devote the fourth lunar day to thinking about whether to spend money or not.
The exception to this rule is only small purchases related to hygiene items.
Moon Day Four Meditations
- Chanting mantras, prayers and sacred sounds.
- “AUM” chanting is favorable today.
Interaction with nature is advisable. You may chant mantras for all your three bodies: mental, astral and physical. Be extra careful with your words.
Go outdoors. Walk in the park for a while and try to take in all the life energy: plants, birds, animals; feel the fresh breeze, see the beauty of the sky and clouds. Accumulate the natural energy by breathing in its beauty and freshness. If possible, sit by a campfire and feel its power. Say a prayer, chant a mantra or sing your favorite song.
Magick for Moon Day Four
Use divination methods that require only one-syllable answers. Here’s a link to some great yes and no divination techniques. as well as some multiple choice divinations.
In addition, as in the past lunar day, it is good to study ancient magic texts, to obtain theoretical information. During this period, it is good to communicate with your mentor, guru, teacher or with a person who is your authority in the art of magick.
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This little-known festival was celebrated at the Temple of Edfu. It doesn’t sound like a Goddess festival, but it is, for the Hand of the God was called Iusaas or Iusaaset. This Goddess, honored in the city of Heliopolis wore a scarab beetle on her head, the symbol of transformation. She was the counterpart of the god Atum, literally his hand.
In the Pyramid Texts an early genesis story recounts how the divine All, the androgynous Atum, created the world from the substance of himself it reads:
“Atum was creative in that he proceeded to masturbate with himself in Heliopolis; he put his penis in his hand that he might obtain the pleasure of emission thereby, and there were born brother and sister ~ that is, Shu and Tefnut.”
Like Isis with whom she is sometimes identified, Iusaaset (whose name means “She Comes While She Grows Large,” a name underscoring the masturbation motif), had a sister called Nebet-hotepet, who is linked with Nephthys. Nephthys name probably means The House of Offering” perhaps referring to the womb of the All which is offered for use during the conception, gestation, and birth of the world.
It is no accident that the Feast of the Hand of the God occurs between two other birth festivals (The Birth of Horus the Younger and the Pregnancy of Nut). It is, after all, a season near the vernal equinox when light has returned to the sky and the days grow in length. It is a time when the world is made new again, when the Hand of the God brings forth life from the waters of chaos. It represents the union of masculine and feminine energies to create and sustain life.
Festival Celebration Ideas
It is unclear how the festival was celebrated in ancient Egypt. Some historians suggest that there might have been sexual rites or ritual marriages. This might be a good time for sex magick, if that is something that you enjoy.
In the Temple of Dendera, which has been called the Castle of the Menat, The Feast of the Hand of the God might have been a day in which all pregnant, including the wives and concubines of the pharaoh, might come to the temple to be blessed. Perhaps the day began with a sunrise devotion to the goddess as Mother of the All.
Perhaps amid the strains of beautiful music, the priestesses touched each pregnant woman’s belly and breasts, or anointed their faces with perfume, or even milk, whispering words of welcome to the unborn children, saying the same words priestesses used to great the nomarch Senbi, “for your spirit, behold the menat of your mother, Hathor. May she make you flourish as long as you desire.”
Hymn to Isis
Enchantress and wife, she stamps and spins.
She raises her arms
to dance. From her armpits arises a hot perfume
that fills the sails of boats along the Nile.
She stirs breezes that make the sailors swoon
and opens the eyes of statues. Under her spell,
I come to myself; under her body I come to life.
Dawn breaks through the diaphanous weave of
her dress. She dances and draws down heaven.
Sparks scatter from her heels and on earth tumbles
forth an expanse of stars…”
Activities For Today
Here are some ideas you might want to explore today. They can, of course, be done at any time.
- Get Creative
The act of creation can be playful, fun, colorful, and messy. Do a Google search and you will find a lot of simple ideas for how to make art with hand prints. This is a fun activity for kids, and the child within.
- Journaling
In your journal, explore what it means to you to be a cocreator of the universe with the Divine.
- Make a Collage
Gather some magazines that you feel free to cut up. Leaf through them, searching for images that appeal to you. Perhaps the images hint at where you focus your energies or where you will focus your energies in the future. Cut out the images and lay them aside. Outline your hands on a sheet of paper.
Slowly, meditatively, begin to trim, sort, and paste the images onto the image of your own hands. You might use the right hand for things that you already create and the left hand for things you will create in the future. Around the edges of these hands, write a myth of yourself as the creator of this world.
- Make a Physical Connection
Our bodies are instruments of our connection to the physical universe. Reestablish a connection to your body’s natural wisdom. With crayon, outline your body on a long sheet of butcher paper.
Begin at the top of your head and record what each part of your body remembers: your hair, your cheeks, your nose, etc. Try to list both joys and sorrows. When you find a part of your body that holds many strong memories, make not of it.
Later, return to that spot and write a dialog with that part of your body.
Source: Feasts of Light
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