Monday's Child
The energies of the day of the week on which we were born have a subtle and all-pervading influence on our pathway through life and our approach to it. Apart from helping us to find a better understanding esoteric matters, astrology can also be applied to mundane things like the days of the week. Everything on the Earth and in our life is affected by the stars, the same as we are. I wonder whether the writer of the well-known nursery rhyme was aware of this.
Sunday – Sun
Monday – Moon
Tuesday – Mars
Wednesday – Mercury
Thursday – Jupiter
Friday – Venus
Saturday – Saturn
Monday’s child is fair of face – it may have the typical round Moon features, with a clear and somewhat milky complexion.
Tuesday’s child is full of grace – the only day that appears to show more than a touch of poetic licence. Although I know two people who were born on a Tuesday and are good looking, grace is not at all what springs to mind in connection with Mars. A love of action, energy, an abundance of creative ideas, leadership, assertiveness, aggression and argumentativeness would be much more appropriate.
Wednesday’s child is full of woe – Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo. Each time we pass through one of these signs the analytical and critical aspects of our nature are practised and developed some more. As people born into them detect the tiniest flaw in everything, they may develop into the whingers and whiners of the zodiac. Incessantly grumbling and complaining about something can eventually take anyone into bouts of deep depression.
Thursday’s child has far to go – Jupiter’s energy brings long distance travel and expansion of horizons in mind and spirit, as well as of physical girth.
Friday’s child is loving and giving – Venus brings an enjoyment of beauty, harmony and love into our lives.
Saturday’s child works hard for its living – everything we want in life under Saturn’s influence always has to be worked for exceedingly hard. If Saturn is strongly configured in our lives, we are happy and willing to oblige.
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day is bonny and blithe and good and gay – the Sun gives an optimistic and outgoing outlook to life, a sunny disposition, although it would be unrealistic to expect anyone born on a Sunday – or any other day – to act that way, at all times.
It has been an interesting exercise to check the days of the week within the circle of my friends and family. To my astonishment, their characteristics – which were also reflected in their birthchart – were much in keeping with the energies of the day of the week they were born. To me, this is more evidence that nothing on the Earth plane happens perchance or is a coincidence, and of how all of us are influenced by everything that is in the whole of Creation, the same as we are affecting it.
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The above is a chapter from ‘The Astro Files – Technical Aspects’.
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