Friday is Freyja's day etymologically. Freyja is an ancient Norse Goddess associated with love, beauty and fertility. The Germanic languages including Dutch, Old High German, Modern German, Old Norse, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian all name this day of the week after Freyja.

The Goddess Freyja coincidentally (or not so) resembles the Roman Goddess, Venus, also principally associated with love, beauty and fertility. The word venus stemming from the verb "venerari" which means to try to please. So Venus, the Roman Goddess, was the archetype of veneration and was venerated therefore. The Romance languages; French, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Corsican and Romanian, all name this day of the week after Venus.


In most Indian languages, Friday is named Shukravar, which is the Sanskrit name for the planet Venus.

The astronomical symbol of the planet Venus is the symbol used for the female sex. The planet Venus is visible from earth, and undergoes cyclical visual phases like our moon, often called the Morning Star and then the Evening Star within another part of it's planetary journey. Originally, the many cultures whom studied this planet's path movement through the heavens, believed it to be two separate planets. The Greek eventually realized that the planet was one in the same and named the single planet after their Goddess of love, Aphrodite. It is my belief that it is Venus's original separate nature, becoming one in human consciousness that earned the planet the archetype of love. The Romans obviously are responsible for renaming the Goddess, the planet and the day of the week for their Goddess of Love, Venus, which we still adhere to today.

Venus and the Earth are almost identical in size and mass. Often, they are called "sister" or "twin" planets. Which I find very loving as well:-) The Mayans based their religious calendar in part on Venus's motions, looked towards this planet for propitious timing of important events.

Today must be important. Because it was Friday. The day of the week related to love, beauty and fertility. The planet I am aligning myself with today is Venus.

I can't choose green for the color of Venus energies, when pink is so obviously more potent. The heart chakra is a definite spinning focal point and Peach essential oil embodied my focus on pure beauty in a scentual manner. Noteworthy markers for this day of the week included getting an extreme amount of unrest due to noise from my neighbors last nite and feeling exhausted all day long at rehearsal because of it. I forwent my usual ballet barre warm up, my vocal warm up, and my food preparation, too. I usually exercise, stretch, do sit ups and push ups during down time at rehearsal, and go over what I learned the day prior, but again, I found myself mostly retreating to the floor, with my feet up and closing my eyes as much as possible during down time. It was a really hard day energetically. But my mind still took in a massive amount of new material and I did not feel agitated due to exhaustion, but rather passive and in general; slower. I did not work for either of my companies on my lunch break. I did receive interest in a really cool commercial booking, though - a project I really hope I can be a part of and accept a booking for this weekend. I also received two scripts for my consideration today, which I am anxious to read: one for the tv pilot I am shooting next week and one an original screenplay by a valued friend. I'm going to bed early.

As vulnerable as I felt today, I have to honestly say that the Venus energy allowed me to not resist, but find peace in that enervated state. And the brief, meditative experience at the onset of my day, when still in bed with sheets warm from my own body surrounding me, I placed three drops of Rose spagyric magestery under my tongue, was the most impacting moment of the entire day. Communing with these magesteries has become a vital centering moment of my mornings. A spiritual commitment before dream residue has evaporated into Beta waves. In the shamanistic sense of the term, alchemical spagyrics have become medicine for me. Plant-perfected teachers, teaching what I intend to learn.

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