- fixed holy days (same date every year)
- Kemetic calendar
- Zoroastrian calendar
- Celtic Ogham tree calendar
- Roman calendar
- 2007 astrological
fixed holy days
These holy days are on the same day every year on the solar calendar.
Feast Day of Sekhmet:
Feast Day of Sekhmet: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Feast Day of Sekhmet. This feast day typically includes the drinking of red beer. Sekhmet is Goddess of Endings, but in the ancient calendars this feast was celebrated in the middle of the month of Mekhir. Did the ancient priestesses know that this would be the end of the year in our modern calendar?
Aset Awakened:
Aset Awakened: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Aset [Isis] awakened by Ra.
Heru saves His father:
Heru Saves His Father: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Heru [Horus] saves His father (Asar).
Lucky Day of Sokhit:
Lucky Day of Sokhit: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Lucky Day of Sokhit.
Faery of the Van:
Faery of the Van: Welsh holy day. The Faery of the Van, a golden haired water spirit in a golden boat.
Strenia:
Strenia: Sicilian holy day. Strenia, for the gifts of Pandora.
Dame Abonde:
Dame Abonde: French holy day. Dame Abonde
the Norns:
the Norns: Scandinavian holy day. The Norns
Fire Dance:
Fire Dance: Samoan holy day. Fire Dance, for Fire Goddesses (such as Pele and Mehuea and Fuji).
Feast Day of Yemaya:
Feast Day of Yemaya: Brazilian holy day. Feast Day of Yemaya, canelaria ceremony at the ocean’s edge.
Wishing Night:
Wishing Night: Mexican holy day. Wishing Night.
New Year’s Eve:
New Year’s Eve: Western holiday. New Year’s Eve, traditionally celebrated by getting drunk on champagne and watching a big mirrored ball drop in Times Square, New York City.
An old British magick tradition states that if you leave a loaf of bread and a penny on a table overnight on New Year’s Eve, that you will have plenty of food throughout the coming year.
Feast Day of St. Nicholas:
Feast Day of St. Nicholas: Christian holy day. Feast Day of Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra (in Asia Minor) during the 4th century of the Common Era, patron saint of children.
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].
holy days 2007 and 2008
These holy days are on different day each year on the solar calendar.
Maidyarem:
Maidyarem: Zoroastran holy day. ‘mid-year’ or winter feast, one of the seven obligatory feasts of Zoroastrianism and one of the six gahanbars (or gahambars). The gahanbars date back to the pre-Zoroastrian agricultural people of the Iranian Plateau and mark the changing of the agricultural seasons. The gahanbars were absorbed into Zoroastrianism as religious holy days and are celebrated with feasting and fun.
Maidyarem celebrates Vohu Manah, the creator and protector of all animal life, one of the seven male emanations of Ahura Mazda. There are also seven corresponding female emanations of the deity Ahura Mazda.
In the Fasli (seaonsal) calendar, Maidyarem is celebrated from December 31 to January 4. In the Shahanshahi (or Shenshai) calendar, Maidyarem is celebrated from June 1 to June 5 during the years 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. In the Qadimi (ancient) calendar, Maidyarem is celebrated from May 2 to May 6 during the years 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
calendar
This day on different world calendars.
Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) information
Season of Proyet (Sowing)
Month of Mekhir (Rekh-Ur)
Day 16
Zoroastrian information
(Fasli calendar)
Month of Day (tenth month)
Day of Mihr
Day 16
The day of Mihr celebrates the Av. Mithra, Yazad of the Contract. 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: “(134) On the day of Mihr, if you have been wronged by anyone, stand before Mihr (Mithra) and ask justice of him and cry out aloud (to him).” 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
Beth (B)
Birch Moon
Day 8
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
prid. Kal. Ian.
(pridie) eve of the Kalends of January
Month: December
The pridie Kalends is the eve of the Kalends (first day of the next month). Pridie (abbreviated prid.) is Latin for “the evening before”.
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 4 in modern Western numerology. See the article on four for more information.
lunar information 2007
Waning Quarter Moon:
Waning Quarter Moon: Lunar. Occurs on this day in 2007.
astrological information 2007
Mars enters Gemini:
Mars retrograde Enters Gemini: Planetary ingress.
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