Thursday. Thor's day. Thor is a Norse god derived from a Proto-Germanic god of thunder, Thunaraz. Germanic languages Danish, Norweigan, German, Dutch and Swedish all name this day after Thor, the god of thunder.

The Romance languages - Italian, French, Spanish, Catalan, and Romanian name this day of the week after Jupiter, also the god of thunder.

In the Hindu religion, this day derives from the word Guru, the Sanskrit name for Jupiter, the largest of planets.

Jupiter, the planet, is special in our solar system because it is the largest of them all - visible in daylight, even, when the sun is low. It has a whopping 63 moons and even more exciting, is that our solar system's largest planet is composed not of solid matter, but of about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium. In astrology, I've often wondered why Jupiter correlates to "expansiveness", "prosperity", the "urge for freedom and exploration" and general merrymaking. I can see now why the largest planet composed of ever-shifting gasses would exert quite an expansive energy towards us on the earth planet. And hey, the word jovial is the adjective form of Jupiter, which means to be "happy" or "merry".

This is not new stuff here. We just walk around calling it Thursday. Maybe there is something deeper going on.

But in contradiction, let me also assert that the 7 day calendar is not the only calendar in use. The 7 day week is indeed arbitrary, as Ancient Egypt had a 10 day week, Nigeria's Igbo have a 4 day week, ancient Celts had a 9 nite week and as I mentioned before, I have a current lunar calendar that has no weeks at all, just a spiraling month composed of 28 days. I prefer this calendar very much to my right-angle boxed, lined up day iCal calendar, let me tell you. Consciousness needs more spirals.

So it is today (isn't it everyday?). And we call today Thursday. I am relating Thursday to Jupiter in order to take notes on any patterns Thursdays, or Jupiter, holds for me. My goal is to create a new magickal language.

Blue is the suggested color of Jupiter's magickal correspondence, but for some reason, my gut feels it should be green. Green seems like the most expansive color to me. Or maybe I'm just a nature idealist, but everywhere I look, green is a blessing, it is a "go", it is the color of our paper currency, it is the mineral-rich food that enters my body. So I kept both blue and green at hand today, wearing blue, meditating with peacock ore on my crown chakra and juicing oodles of kale, dandelion, and blue-green algae on this ultra-sensitve last week of my four week cleanse. I even chose to palm a marble, rather than a rock, all day today because it was blue and green and made to look like a little Earth. I held the world in my hands today:-)

I took the alchemic spagyric Jupiter magistery under my tongue and watched my thoughts - very playful, very exploratory - wander from idea to idea. I was well received at an audition today - in fact, I got a call back session in the same day! I felt really at ease out and about today, as if I could just drive up the Pacific Coast Highway for hours or just as much head home and nude sunbathe and lie down for a needed nap. Which I did. Of note is my reaction to a disagreement I had with a loved one: instead of fighting and getting all "loud" and "aggressive" as I do most of the time, I let it go. Not the emotions, but the subject. It seemed so much easier to just let it go. As if moving on would be the path of least resistance. This is notable because I am a fighter and almost always push a little harder in order to "make things right".

I am truly exhausted, though, on this cleanse, not having solid food for this entire week. Hey, maybe that's a lot like being a planet not having a solid center! I'm so Jupiter, I feel like anything is possible. Even likely.

That feeling is worth the study alone. There is something so peaceful in freedom. My lingering question for today's study, though, is what does thunder have to do with expansiveness?

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