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Thank you both for your posts, I much enjoyed the wonderings. Another aspect I’ve experienced about the days of the week is the possibility that they have been “organized” in such a way that in themselves they are meant to help us “pace” our selves. The fact that Sunday is a day of rest and prayer may not be a coincidence at all. It is as if Sunday were meant to remind us that there are other things that matter besides working and the fact that Sunday is becoming the “shopping day” in many cities does testify for an even more materialistic attachment. It is for me as if Sunday were meant to be a “living testimony” of the act of not being identified with “life” and it’s “necessities” as much as the opportunity to experience gratitude, “graciousness”.
Thank you both for your posts, I much enjoyed the wonderings. Another aspect I’ve experienced about the days of the week is the possibility that they have been “organized” in such a way that in themselves they are meant to help us “pace” our selves. The fact that Sunday is a day of rest and prayer may not be a coincidence at all. It is as if Sunday were meant to remind us that there are other things that matter besides working and the fact that Sunday is becoming the “shopping day” in many cities does testify for an even more materialistic attachment. It is for me as if Sunday were meant to be a “living testimony” of the act of not being identified with “life” and it’s “necessities” as much as the opportunity to experience gratitude, “graciousness”.
I’ve thought that Christmas might also have a similar meaning but even more pronounced. The “shopping” Christmas, together with the “shopping” for every event we wish to celebrate might have deformed the “nobleness” of the event into a materialistic indulgence but the fact that we still keep the memory of the “ritual” is “encouraging”!
Perhaps what is happening in our times is the experience of essence or an immature development precisely because the majority of us cannot consciously perceive the deep connections between our selves and the planets, the constellations or stars even though it seems that earlier civilizations were much more “in tune” with them. In “tune” with them in essence but not real I perhaps?
It’s a very long thread to ponder on. Thanks for initiating it!
There's also an interesting compilation of data in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week-day_names
In astrological theory, not only the days of the week, but the hours of the day are dominated by the seven luminaries. If the first hour of a day is dominated by Saturn (), then the second hour is dominated by Jupiter (), the third by Mars (), and so on with the Sun (), Venus (), Mercury (), and the moon (), so that the sequence of planets repeats every seven hours. Therefore, the twenty-fifth hour, which is the first hour of the following day, is dominated by the Sun; the forty-ninth hour, which is the first hour of the next day, by the Moon. Thus, if a day is labelled by the planet which dominates its first hour, then Saturn's day is followed by the Sun's day, which is followed by the Moon's day, and so forth, as shown below.....
There's also an interesting compilation of data in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week-day_names
In astrological theory, not only the days of the week, but the hours of the day are dominated by the seven luminaries. If the first hour of a day is dominated by Saturn (), then the second hour is dominated by Jupiter (), the third by Mars (), and so on with the Sun (), Venus (), Mercury (), and the moon (), so that the sequence of planets repeats every seven hours. Therefore, the twenty-fifth hour, which is the first hour of the following day, is dominated by the Sun; the forty-ninth hour, which is the first hour of the next day, by the Moon. Thus, if a day is labelled by the planet which dominates its first hour, then Saturn's day is followed by the Sun's day, which is followed by the Moon's day, and so forth, as shown below.....
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