August 12th
Fiesta of Santa Clara
Colour: Black
Moon Sign: Pisces
Incense: Lilac
The Lychnapsia (Lignapsia; Aset Webenut; Isis the Luminous One), ancient Egypt The Egyptian Lychnapsia, or Festival of Lights, was over the centuries transformed into the Christian day of St Clare of Assisi (whose feast day was formerly August 12, but moved by the Catholic Church to August 11, qv). - It is a day for the lighting of candles, like Candlemas (February 2), or Imbolc as it is known in the Celtic tradition. - In the case of the Lychnapsia (the Graeco-Roman term for what the Egyptions called Aset Webenut, or Aset the Luminous One), the candles were to help Isis find her husband, Osiris ...
Solar alignment at Teotihuacan, City of the Gods - The city of Teotihuacan, Mexico, settled in the 2nd Century BCE, was ancient when the Aztecs found its ruins. - -They named it 'place of the creation of the gods'. The entrance of a ritual cave there was aligned to a point on the western skyline where the sun set on August 12 and April 29 ...
1851 Before the invention of the sewing machine, clothes making and mending consumed the lives and eyesight of countless millions of women worldwide. (Of course, sewing machines have reared another monster, as adults and children in sweatshops in the majority poor countries now make most of the clothes worn in the West.) - Before the sewing machine, a single shirt required many thousands of stitches to be made. Something had to be done about it, and it was pretty clear that there was a buck to be made. - On this day Isaac Merritt Singer (1811 - 1875), former actor and founder of the Merritt Players, polygamist, patented his sewing machine. Many almanacs refer to this date as the patenting or invention of the first sewing machine, but this does not in fact seem to be the case. The first American patent had been issued to Elias Howe (1819 - 1867) some five years earlier, and Singer´s machine was so similar to Howe´s that the earlier inventor sued Singer for patent infringement, and won. - Howe eventually became a multi-millionaire just as Singer had. - The story of this great labour-saving device, one which helped free women from some of the drudgery of the time, began long before Howe and Singer´s rivalry, however, and numerous machines had been invented over the preceding century in various parts of the world ...
The goddess Isis and her search of Orisis ( her brother and consort ) is commemorated on this day by the Lychnapsia known as the Festival of Lights of Isis. Dried rose petals and vervian are burned in small cauldrons or incense burners as offerings to Isis and green candles are lit in her honour.
Llewellyn's 2006 Magickal Almanac & The Wicca Book of Daysby Gerina Dunwich
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Colour: Black
Moon Sign: Pisces
Incense: Lilac
The Lychnapsia (Lignapsia; Aset Webenut; Isis the Luminous One), ancient Egypt The Egyptian Lychnapsia, or Festival of Lights, was over the centuries transformed into the Christian day of St Clare of Assisi (whose feast day was formerly August 12, but moved by the Catholic Church to August 11, qv). - It is a day for the lighting of candles, like Candlemas (February 2), or Imbolc as it is known in the Celtic tradition. - In the case of the Lychnapsia (the Graeco-Roman term for what the Egyptions called Aset Webenut, or Aset the Luminous One), the candles were to help Isis find her husband, Osiris ...
Solar alignment at Teotihuacan, City of the Gods - The city of Teotihuacan, Mexico, settled in the 2nd Century BCE, was ancient when the Aztecs found its ruins. - -They named it 'place of the creation of the gods'. The entrance of a ritual cave there was aligned to a point on the western skyline where the sun set on August 12 and April 29 ...
1851 Before the invention of the sewing machine, clothes making and mending consumed the lives and eyesight of countless millions of women worldwide. (Of course, sewing machines have reared another monster, as adults and children in sweatshops in the majority poor countries now make most of the clothes worn in the West.) - Before the sewing machine, a single shirt required many thousands of stitches to be made. Something had to be done about it, and it was pretty clear that there was a buck to be made. - On this day Isaac Merritt Singer (1811 - 1875), former actor and founder of the Merritt Players, polygamist, patented his sewing machine. Many almanacs refer to this date as the patenting or invention of the first sewing machine, but this does not in fact seem to be the case. The first American patent had been issued to Elias Howe (1819 - 1867) some five years earlier, and Singer´s machine was so similar to Howe´s that the earlier inventor sued Singer for patent infringement, and won. - Howe eventually became a multi-millionaire just as Singer had. - The story of this great labour-saving device, one which helped free women from some of the drudgery of the time, began long before Howe and Singer´s rivalry, however, and numerous machines had been invented over the preceding century in various parts of the world ...
The goddess Isis and her search of Orisis ( her brother and consort ) is commemorated on this day by the Lychnapsia known as the Festival of Lights of Isis. Dried rose petals and vervian are burned in small cauldrons or incense burners as offerings to Isis and green candles are lit in her honour.
Llewellyn's 2006 Magickal Almanac & The Wicca Book of Daysby Gerina Dunwich
_http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book_of_days.html_ (http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book_of_days.html) Copyright © 2001-06, Pip Wilson, Wilson´s Almanac
_http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/copyright.html_ (http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/copyright.html)
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