- fixed holy days (same date every year)
- Kemetic calendar
- Zoroastrian calendar
- Celtic Ogham tree calendar
- Roman calendar
- 2007 lunar days
fixed holy days
These holy days are on the same day every year on the solar calendar.
Alban Arthuan:
Alban Arthuan: Celtic holy day. Celebration of the Winter Solstice, which occurs on December 22 in 2007.
Festival of Heru-Sa-Aset:
Festival of Heru-Sa-Aset: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Celebrates the Winter Solstice and the ascension of Heru Sa Aset [Horus] to the throne.
Festival of the Great Heat:
Festival of the Great heat: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Festival of the Great Heat. Some sources place this holy day on December 23.
Raising Djed Pillars:
Raising Djed Pillars: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Putting up the Djed pillars of Asar [Osiris].
Feast of Aset:
Feast of Aset: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Feast of Aset [Isis].
Yule:
Yule: Celtic, Wiccan, and Neo-Pagan holy day. In most traditions celebrated on December 22nd. Also celebrated on December 25th.
Kachina Night Dances:
Kachina Night Dances: Hopi holy day. The Kachina Night Dances begin (run through December and January).
New Year:
New Year’s Festival: Hpi and Zuni (Native American) holy day.
Capricorn:
Capricorn: Native American holy day. Astrological beginning of Capricorn, which is dedicated to Awehai, a Native American Goddess.
Birth of Horus:
Feast of the Birth of Horus: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day.
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].
Fifth Day of Saternalia:
Festival of Saternalia: Roman holy day. December 17 through December 24 are Saternalia, for Saturn, the Planter God.
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].
Posadas:
Posadas: Mexican holy day. December 16-24 is Posadas, the ritual enactment and celebration of the Yule Child, who was originally the Twins, Heru Sa Aset [Horus/Apollo] and Bast [Artemis].
holy days 2007 and 2008
These holy days are on different day each year on the solar calendar.
Night of the Yew:
Winter Solstice Eve: Celtic (Druid) holy day. The Night of the Yew, associated with the Ogham letter Idho (I) and the yew tree, is the night before the Winter Solstice (December 22 in 2007).
calendar
This day on different world calendars.
Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) information
Season of Proyet (Sowing)
Month of Mekhir (Rekh-Ur)
Day 6
Zoroastrian information
(Fasli calendar)
Month of Day (tenth month)
Day of Hordad
Day 6
The day of Hordad celebrates the Av. Haurvatat, the Wholeness (Perfection or health), who presides over the waters. 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: “(124) On the day of Hordad dig your irrigation channels.” Adarbad Mahraspandan was a famous saint, high priest, and prime minister of Shapur II (309-379 C.E.).
The first seven days (first week) of each Zoroastrian month celebrate Ahura Mazda and the Amesha Spentas (literally translated Beneficent Immortals). They are the highest spiritual beings created by Ahura Mazda.
The Fasli, or seasonal, calendar is one of three Zoroastrian calendars still in use.
Celtic (ancient Druid) information
Ogham tree calendar
Ruis (R)
Elder Moon
Day 27
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: Masculine
Planet: Saturn
Archetype: Pryderi, son of Pwyll
Symbol: raven
Folk Names:
Moon of Completeness
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Yule
Roman information
a.d. XII Kal. Ian.
12 days before the Kalends of January
Month: December
The a.d. XII Kal. designation means ante diem or twelve “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 3 in modern Western numerology. See the article on three for more information.
lunar information 2007
Moon enters Gemini:
Moon Enters Gemini: Lunar Ingress. The Moon enters the sign Gemini at 10:13 pm GMT.
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