Today is Thursday. What does that even mean?

A common theme in this COVID-19 era is that without our established productivity-driven schedules, our accepted concept of time is deteriorating. We’re accustomed to living from day to day, treating each one as merely a stepping stone to the next.

Ancient cultures, some much more reflective than our own, saw each of the seven days as possessing a unique quality of its own, like a color in the rainbow or a note in the scale. In this series, I look at the gods for whom the days were named and how connecting to these archetypes can add meaning to our daily lives.

The Day of Thor

Today is Thor’s Day (or thorsdagr in Old Norse.) To the Ancient Greeks it was hemera Dios, the Day of Zeus. And to the Romans, dies Jovis. Though Thor is distinctly different from the Greek and Roman deities, all were powerful gods of thunder and lightning. Zeus threw thunderbolts from the heavens, where as Norse lightning was caused by the sparks that flew from Thor hammer, when he was pummeling something with it.

I’m focusing on Thor because he’s the god we name every time we utter the word Thursday. Thanks to Marvel movies, I now like to start Thor’s Day with Led Zeppelin.

Thor is a protector god, and the greatest warrior of Asgard. Besides being the creator of storms, he is also a…