- fixed holy days (same date every year)
- 2008 lunar days
- Kemetic calendar
- Zoroastrian calendar
- Celtic Ogham tree calendar
- Roman calendar
fixed holy days
These holy days are on the same day every year on the solar calendar.
Birthday of Freya and Frey:
Birthday of Freya and Frey: Scandinavian holy day. Birthday of Freya, Great Goddess, and Frey, Her consort, at the Yule Festival called Jul or Jhul.
Kachinas return to earth:
Kachinas Return to Earth: Hopi holy day. The Kachinas return to earth at Soyal.
Halcyon Days:
Halcyon Days: Greek holy day. December 14-28 are the Halcyon Days, the seven days before and after Yule, a time of calm and tranquility derived from Alcyone, a Greek Goddess of the Pleiades connected with Artemis [Bast] and Aphrodite [Het Heret].
Kwanzaa:
Kwanzaa: Swahili and Afro-American holy day. December 26-January 1 is Kwanzaa, a traditional Swahili festival for the first fruits of the harvest, dedicated to the Seven African Powers. Longer explanation at December 26th.
Navidades:
Navidades: Puerto Rican holy day. December 15-January 6 are the Navidades, for the Yule Child, which is based on the older Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) Twins, Heru Sa Aset [Horus/Apollo] and Bast [Artemis].
Kemetic tradition:
Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) tradition: Everything you see today will be good.
lunar information 2008
New Moon:
New Moon: Lunar. Occurs at 7:22 a.m. Eastern Time in 2008. This is a Wiccan Esbat. See also Aphrodite New Moon love spell.
calendar
This day on different world calendars.
Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) information
Season of Proyet (Sowing)
Month of Mekhir (Rekh-Ur)
Day 12
Zoroastrian information
(Fasli calendar)
Month of Day (tenth month)
Day of Mah
Day 12
The day of Mah celebrates the Av. Mah, The Moon. Special prayers from the Khorda Avesta are recited in honor of the day’s spiritual being.
Activity for the day from the Counsels of Adhurbadh, Son of Mahraspand: “(130) On the day of Mah (the Moon) drink wine and hold converse with your friends and ask a boon of King Moon.” Adarbad Mahraspandan was a famous saint, high priest, and prime minister of Shapur II (309-379 C.E.).
The second seven days (second week) of each Zoroastrian month celebrates light and nature.
The Fasli, or seasonal, calendar is one of three Zoroastrian calendars still in use.
Celtic (ancient Druid) information
Ogham tree calendar
Beth (B)
Birch Moon
Day 4
The Celtic calendar started out as a moon calendar, but was aligned with the solar year during antiquity. Robert Graves proposed the Celtic tree calendar described here. While widely used by Neo-Pagans, many critics dispute the authenticity. The Beth-Luis-Nion calendar (the one used here) starts with New Year on the Winter Solstice. The Beth-Luis-Faern calendar starts with New Year on Samhain.
Each Celtic tree month (or moon) is named for a Celtic Ogham letter (first line above) and a tree (second line above). All of the Celtic months also had additional folk names (folk names for this month listed below).
Polarity: Feminine
Planet: Sun
Archetype: Taliesin (Celtic God of Bards)
Symbol: eagle or stag
Folk Names:
Moon of Inception
Moon of Beginning
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Yule
Roman information
a.d. VI Kal. Ian.
6 days before the Kalends of January
Month: December
The a.d. VI Kal. designation means ante diem or six “days before” the Kalends (first day or New Moon) of the next month. When counting days, the Romans included both the start and end day (in modern Western culture, we skip the start day). When the Romans switched to a solar calendar, they continued to use the lunar day names.
The Roman month of December is named for decem, because it was originally the tenth month of the Roman solar year. December was sacred to Vesta, the Roman Goddess of hearth, home, and family.
The earliest Roman months were lunar. According to Roman mythology, the ten month solar calendar aligned to the vernal equinox was introduced by Romulus, the founder of Rome, around 753 BCE. In Romulus’ calendar, December (the tenth month) had 30 days. Numa Pompilius, the second of the seven traditional kings of Rome, added two more months, for a 12 month year. In Numa’s calendar, December had 29 days. Gaius Julius Caesar, as Pontifex Maximus (supreme bridge-builder, a religious title), reorganized the calendar on the first day of 45 BCE. In Caesar’s calendar (the Julian Calendar), December had 31 days. Caesar’s calendar was calculated by Sosigenes, an Egyptian astrologer/astronomer. In 8 BCE, Augustus Caesar fixed errors by pontiffs after Julius’ death and made other minor modifications, resulting in the modern Western calendar. The modern Gregorian Calendar, named for Roman Catholic Pope Gregory the Thirteenth, was a realignment in 1582.
numerology
Today totals 9 in modern Western numerology. See the article on nine for more information.
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