- fixed holy days (same date every year)
- Kemetic calendar
- Zoroastrian calendar
- Celtic Ogham tree calendar
- Roman calendar
- 2008 lunar days
- 2008 astrological
- 2007 lunar days
- 2007 astrological
fixed holy days
These holy days are on the same day every year on the solar calendar.
Loch-mo-Naire:
Loch-mo-Naire: Scottish holy day. It is believed that on this day each year that the waters of Scotland’s Loch-mo-Naire are charged with magickal (miraculous) healing powers. Drinking the water or bathing in the lake on this day is supposed to grant healing. An ancient pre-Christian custom is to toss a silver coin into the lake as an offering to the benevolent Celtic faerie spirits that live within the lake.
Vigil of Oswald:
Vigil of St. Oswald: Anglo-Saxon holy day. Commemorates the death of King Oswald. On August 4th, 642 C.E., the Anglo-Saxon King Oswald of Northumbria died in the Battle of Maserfield. In the Anglo-Saxon royal tradition, the king’s body was dismembered and its parts dispersed in honor of Woden. Each part became the focus for miracles of healing.
Sobek Offering Stolen:
Sobek Offering Stolen: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. It is the day the offering to Sobek was taken away. Do not eat any mehyet-fish today.
calendar
This day on different world calendars.
Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) information
Season of Akhet (Inundation)
Month of Tot-abet or Djehuti (Djehuti [Thoth])
Day 17
Zoroastrian information
(Fasli calendar)
Month of Amurdad (fifth month)
Day of Srosh
Day 17
The day of Srosh celebrates the Av. Sraosha, Yazad of “Hearkening” (paying attention). 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: “(135) On the day of Srosh ask a boon of the blessed Srosh for the salvation of your soul.” Adarbad Mahraspandan was a famous saint, high priest, and prime minister of Shapur II (309-379 C.E.).
The third week (eight days) of each Zoroastrian month celebrates moral qualities.
The Fasli, or seasonal, calendar is one of three Zoroastrian calendars still in use.
Celtic (ancient Druid) information
Ogham tree calendar
Tinne (T)
Holly Moon
Day 28
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: Earth
Archetype: Danu
Symbol: flaming spear
Folk Names:
Moon of Encirclement
Moon of Polarity
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Harvest
Roman information
prid. Non. Avg. or prid. Non. Sex.
(pridie) eve of the Nones of August
Month: Sextilis or Avgvstvs or Augustus
The pridie Nones is the eve of the Nones. Pridie (abbreviated prid.) is Latin for “the evening before”.
The Roman month of Sextilis is named for sex or sext, because it was originally the sixth month of the Roman solar year. In 8 BCE, the Roman Senate renamed the month Augustus (August), for then Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar. August was sacred to Ceres, Roman Goddess of grain.
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, Sextilis (the sixth 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, Sextilis 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), Sextilis had 30 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 (including expanding August to 31 days), resulting in the modern Western calendar. The Roman Senate changed the name of the month Sextilis to Augustus (August) in honor of the Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar. The modern Gregorian Calendar, named for Roman Catholic Pope Gregory the Thirteenth, was a realignment in 1582.
numerology
Today totals 4 in modern Western numerology. See the article on four for more information.
lunar information 2008
First Quarter in Virgo:
First Quarter: The moon is in the first (1st) quarter (waxing crescent) in Virgo.
Void of Course:
Moon Void of Course: The moon is Void of Course (V/C) starting at 8:16 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Moon enters Libra:
Moon Enters Libra: Lunar Ingress. The Moon enters the sign Libra at 10:28 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
First Quarter in Libra:
First Quarter: The moon is in the first (1st) quarter (waxing crescent) in Libra.
Planting: The Moon makes this day excellent for planting.
astrological information 2008
Moon Conjuct Mars: The Moon is in conjunction with Mars at 5:13 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Moon Opposite Uranus: The Moon is in opposition with Uranus at 8:02 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Moon Quincunx Neptune: The Moon is quincunx Neptune at 9:56 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Moon Square Pluto: The Moon is square Pluto at 8:16 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Moon Void of Course (V/C).
lunar information 2007
Moon enters Taurus:
Moon Enters Taurus: Lunar Ingress. The Moon enters the sign Taurus at 11:15 pm GMT.
astrological information 2007
Mercury enters Leo:
Mercury Enters Leo: Planetary ingress.
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