- fixed holy days (same date every year)
- 2008 holy days
- 2008 lunar days
- 2008 astrological
- 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.
Festival of Aphrodite:
Festival of Aphrodite: Greek holy day. Dedicated to Aphrodite. Includes the Feast of Aphrodite.
Feast of Heru:
Feast of Heru: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Feast of Heru [Horus] in Kemwer. Very good.
Festival Dionysos:
Festival Dionysos: Greek holy day. Two week fesitival to Dionysos from February 1st through February 14.
holy days 2008
These holy days are on different day each year on the solar calendar.
Charming of the Plow:
Charming of the Plough: Asatru (Norse) holy day. A celebration of Freya and the Disir. Held on the first New Moon in February, which occurs on this day in 2008. Approximately equivalent to Imbolc in Wicca, as one of the eight major holy days marking the wheel of the year. Some Asatru celebrate the Charming of the Plough on the first weekend in February.
Ash Wednesday:
Ash Wednesday: Christian holy day. Occurs on this day in 2008.
lunar information 2008
Fourth Quarter in Aquarius:
Fourth (Last) Quarter: The moon is in the fourth (4th) quarter (waning crescent) in Aquarius.
New Moon:
New Moon: Lunar. Occurs at 10:44 p.m. Eastern Time in 2008. This is a Wiccan Esbat. See also Aphrodite New Moon love spell. Solar Eclipse.
Solar Eclipse:
Solar Eclipse: Lunar. Occurs at 10:44 p.m. Eastern Time in 2008.
astrological information 2008
Moon Quincunx Saturn: The Moon is quincunx Saturn at 2:21 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Sun Conjuct Mercury: The Sun is in conjunction with Mercury at 1:19 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Moon Conjuct Mercury: The Moon is in conjunction with Mercury at 9:17 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Venus Sextile Uranus: Venus is sextile Uranus at 9:22 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Sun Conjuct Moon / Solar Eclipse: The Sun is in conjunction with the Moon at 10:44 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Solar Eclipse.
calendar
This day on different world calendars.
Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) information
Season of Proyet (Sowing)
Month of Pamenot or Phamenoth (Amenhotep)
Day 23
Zoroastrian information
(Fasli calendar)
Month of Vohuman (eleventh month)
Day of Day-pa-Den
Day 23
The day of Day-pa-Den celebrates the Av. Dadvah, The day of the Creator before Den. 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: “(141) On the day of Day-pa-Den do anything you like, bring your wife into your quarters, trim your hair and nails and clothe yourself.” Adarbad Mahraspandan was a famous saint, high priest, and prime minister of Shapur II (309-379 C.E.).
The fourth week (eight days) of each Zoroastrian month celebrates religious ideas.
The Fasli, or seasonal, calendar is one of three Zoroastrian calendars still in use.
Celtic (ancient Druid) information
Ogham tree calendar
Luis (L)
Rowan Moon
Day 17
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: Uranus
Archetype: Brigantia
Symbol: green dragon
Folk Names:
Moon of Vision
Spirit Moon
Astral travel Moon
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Horning
Roman information
a.d. VIII Id. Feb.
8 days before the Ides of February
Month: Februa or Febrvarivs or Februarius
The a.d. VIII Id. designation means ante diem or eight “days before” the Ides (Full Moon) of the 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 February is named for a feast of purification. Romans called February the “Month of Purification”. During the festival of Lupercalia, priests would beat barren women with a goatskin thong called a februa (“means of purification”) in the belief it would make them fertile. February was originally given over the the infernal deities, making the purification feast essential as a counterbalance to all the evil that could occur in the world. February had 28 days (an even number) because of a Roman superstitious dread of even numbers. February eventually became sacred to Juno Februra, the Roman Queen Goddess.
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, Ferbuary did not exist.
Numa Pompilius, the second of the seven traditional kings of Rome, added two more months, for a 12 month year. In Numa’s calendar, February was added to the end of the year (after December) and had 28 days (or 23 days with an extra five intercalary days in some years). The extra five days at the end of February were viewed as unlucky and not considered to be part of the normal year.
In some years, an intercalary month (Mensis Intercalaris) called Mercedinus or Mercedonius or Intercalaris, was placed into February in order to bring the year into alignment. The intercalary month followed February 23rd and then after the intercalary month, February resumed with February 24th. Plutarch wrote “Numa … added an intercalary month, to follow February, consisting of twentty-two days, and called by the Romans the month Mercedinus. This amendment, however, itself, in course of time, came to need other amendments.” Some scholars claim that Intercalaris was added to the Roman calendar in 452 BCE.
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), February was moved to after January and had 28 days, except in leap years, when it had 29 days. The extra leap day was added after February 23, rather than at the end of the month. 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 6 in modern Western numerology. See the article on six for more information.
lunar information 2007
Moon enters Libra:
Moon Enters Libra: Lunar Ingress. The Moon enters the sign Libra at 2:14 am GMT.
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