Gypsy Magic: November 2010

Here is a quick and extensive listing of pagan, wiccan, roman, magical, and other holidays for November 2010 through December 2011. The dates of the new and full moons are also listed. As you can see there is a reason to celebrate just about any day of the year. Some of the more obscure holidays have short explanations. As we post about the various festival days and celebrations, links will be updated, so be sure to bookmark this post.

Note: some of the holidays are different depending on which side of the equator you are on. Also the dates of some festivals and feast days vary from year to year.

November 2010

6: New moon
11: Veteran's Day
16: Night of Hekate
21: Full moon - Mourning Moon
21: Sun enters Sagittarius
25: Thanksgiving day (United States)
30: Festival of Hecate Trivia (The night of the crossroads.)

December 2010

5: New moon
17: Beginning of Saturnalia
20 - 21: Full Lunar Eclipse
21: Full moon - Big Winter Moon
21: Winter Solstice or Yule
21: Litha (Southern Hemisphere)
22: Sun enters Capricorn
25: Christmas Day
25: Feast of Frau Holle, Germanic goddess
31: Festival of Hogmanay

January 2011

2: Advent of Isis
3: Festival of Pax the Roman goddess of peace.
4: New moon
5: Festival of Lares Compitales - Roman guardian deities of crossroads.
5: Twelfth Night
6: Festival of Kore
7: Feast of Sekhmet, the Egyptian New Year's Day.
7: Epiphany
7: Distaff Day
8: Midwives' Day
9: The Agonium, festival of Janus, the Roman god of gates and doors, beginnings and endings.
10: Plough Monday
11 and 15: The Carmentalia, festival of Carmenta, the Roman goddess of childbirth
16: Festival of Concordia, the Roman goddess of harmonious relations
17: Good Luck Day, the festival of Felicitas, the Roman goddess of good luck
19: Full moon - Wolf Moon
21: Sun enters Aquarius
24: Feriae Sementivae - blessing the seeds
25: Up Helly Aa - Scottish Viking celebration
25: St Paul's Day
30 - Feb. 2: Roman celebration of Februalia
31: Disfest/Disablot

February 2011

1: Festival of Brigit, the Celtic goddess of healing, fertility, and patroness of smiths.
2: Imbolc - the Celtic festival marking the period of lactation of the ewes.
2: Lammas or Lughnasadh (Southern Hemisphere)
2: Candlemas
3: New Moon
3: Setsubun, celebration - Japan
4: Disting - The Charming of the Plow
5 thru 17: Fornacalia - The Day of the Ovens
12: Festival of Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt
13-21: The Parentalis - festival to honor the spirits of the ancestors.
14: Valentine's Day
15: Lupercalia - the festival of Lupercus, the Roman god of flocks and fertility.
17: Festival of Quirinus, god of war, storms and thunder.
18: Full moon -- Quickening Moon
21: Feralia - an ancient Roman Day of the Dead
21: Sun enters Pisces
22: Caristia - Roman holiday of family reunions
23: Festival of Terminus, the Roman god of boundaries and border markers.
24: Flight of the King - Regifugium
28: The epic poem, Kalevala, is celebrated by the Finns with parades and readings from the poem.

March 2011

1: Matronalia, the Festival of Women
1: New Year's Day in the old Roman calendar.
1: Saint David's Day
2: Holy Wells Day, the day of Ceadda, the Celtic goddess of healing springs and holy wells.
4: New moon
8: Pancake Day
9: Ash Wednesday
12: Marduk's Feast Day
14: Feriae Marti - Festival of Mars
16 - 17 : Bacchanalia - The festival of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine
17: Liberalia, the festival of Liber and Libera, a Roman fertility god and goddess
17: St Patrick's Day
19 - 23: The Mivervalia and Quinquatria, main festivals of Minerva, the Roman goddess of war, wisdom arts and trades.
19: Full moon Crow Moon
19: Ides of March
19: Festival of Anna Perenna, the Roman goddess of the circle of the year.
20: Ostara - Vernal Equinox
20: Festival of Isis
20: Mabon (Southern Hemisphere)
21: Festival of Salii
21: Sun enters Aries
22: Hilaria
30: The Festival of Salus, the Roman goddess of public safety and welfare.
31: Festival of Luna, the Roman goddess of the moon.

April 2011

1: April Fool's Day / Loki's Day
1: The Veneralia, the festival of Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty.
3: New moon
3: Mothering Sunday - 4th Sunday in Lent
4: Megalesia - Celebrates the accuracy of the Sibylline oracles
5: Lady Luck Day, the festival Fortuna, the goddess of good fortune
6: National Tartan Day
8: Hana-Matsuri - Japanese Flower Festival to honor the Buddha's birthday.
8: Geranium Day - England
9: A-ma Festival - Portugal and China
12 - 19: Ludi Cereales
12: Chhau Festival - India
13: Songkran - Thailand
15: Fordicia, the festival of Tellus, the Roman earth goddess
16: The feast day of St. Bernadette.
18: Full moon -- Wind Moon
19: Festival of Ceres, a Roman corn goddess.
20: Furukawa Matsuri - Japan
21: Palilia (Parilia), the festival of Pales, the Roman goddess of sheperds and flocks. This is also the legendary founding date of Rome.
21: Sun enters Taurus
21: Ascent Of The Christ Of The Gypsies - Holy Wednesday
22: Festival of Ishtar
22: Earth Day
22: Good Friday
23: St George's Day
24: Easter Sunday
25: Dyngus Day - Easter Monday
25: The Robigalia, the festival of Robigus, a Roman corn god.
27: Peppercorn Ceremony - Bermuda
28 - May 1 The Floralia, the festival of Flora, Roman goddess of fruitfulness and flowers.
29: Tako-Age - Japan - Kite Flying Day
30: May Day Eve - Walpurgisnacht
30: Beltine, on this Caileach Beara, a Celtic goddess, turns to stone. She is reborn on October 31, Samhain.

May 2011

1: Beltane - Mayday
1: Festival of Belenus, the Celtic god of fire and the sun.
1: Samhain (Southern Hemisphere)
1: Bona Dea
1: Humane Day - United States - 1st Sunday in May
3: New moon
5: Cinco de Mayo
6: Durdevan - Feast of St. George
8: The festival of Mens, the Roman goddess of mind and consciousness.
9: Mother's Day
9, 11, 13: Roman festival - Feast of the Lemures - in honor of the Lemures, the spirits of dead family members who wander the earth on these three spring nights.
13: Hawthorn Moon begins - 6th month of the Celtic Calendar
13: Friday the 13th
15: Festival of Mercury, the Roman god of merchants and travellers.
17: Full moon -- Hare's Moon
20: Sun enters Gemini
24: The Thargalia
25: Festival of the Holy Marys - Gypsy festival and pilgrimage
27: Frigga Blot
30: Memorial Day - Einherjar Day
31: Flores de Mayo

June 2011

1: New moon
1: The festival of Carna, the Roman goddess of bodily organs.
2: Festival of Juno
3: The festival of Bellona the Roman goddess of war.
3: Pharmakos
4: The Rosalia
9: Festival of Vesta, the Roman goddess of the hearth.
10: Oak Moon begins - 7th month of the Celtic calendar
11: Lunar eclipse - total
11: Festival of Mater Matuta, old Italian goddess of the dawn.
12: Zeus' Day
14: Birthday of the Muse
14: Vidar's Day
15: Full moon - Honey Moon
16: Night of a Teardrop
17: Ludi Piscatari
20: Father's Day
21: Summer Solstice - Litha
21: Yule (Southern Hemisphere)
21: Sun enters Cancer
23: Day of Bad Omens
23: Rousalii
24: The festival of Fata, the Roman goddesses of fate and chance.
24: Saint John's Day - Feast of the Dews
24: Sânziene - A Romanian Midsummer Festival
29: Feoh - First day of the Rune Cycle

July 2011

1: New moon
2: Feast of Expectant Mothers
3 thru Aug 11: Dog Days of Summer
3: Festival of Cerridwen
4: Independence Day
5: Poplifugia
7: Festival of the Handmaidens - Nonae Caprotinae ("the nones of the wild fig")
7: Tanabata
7: Rumilia Festival
8: Holly Moon begins - 8th month of the Celtic Calendar
9: Day of Un the Wise Person
10: Day of Hel
10: Festival of Knut the Reaper
10: Lady Godiva Day
11: Naadam Festival
13: O-Bon Festival - welcoming the spirits of the dead
14: Uruz - The second rune cycle begins
15: Full moon - Buck Moon
15: St. Swithin's Day
15: Day of Rauni
16: Feast of Our Lady of Carmel
17: Festival of Amaterasu - Shinto Sun Goddess
17: The Maidens Fair on Hen Mountain
18: Day of Bad Omens
19: Feast of Kuan Yin
19: Lucaria
20: Moon Day
21: Sun enters Leo
22: Feast of Mary Magdalene
23: Neptunalia - the festival of Neptune, the Roman god of the sea.
23: Sign of the Sunflower Begins
23: Saint Anne's Eve
25: Furinalia
27 - 31: The Five Epagomenal Days
27: Birthday of Osiris
28: Birthday of Horus
29: Birthday of Set
30: New moon
30: Birthday of Isis
31: Birthday of Nephthys

August 2011

1: Lammas or Lughnasadh
1: Festival of Lugh, the Celtic hero god.
1: Imbolc (Southern Hemisphere)
4: Festival of the Tooth
5: Hazel Moon begins - 9th moon of the Celtic Calendar
6: Festival of Thoth
7: Blessing of the Sea
9: Festival of Sol Indigis, the Roman sun god.
12: Blessing of the Boats
13: The Vertumnalia, the festival of Vertumnus, the Roman god of seasons, gardens and orchards.
13: Day of Hecate
13: Full Moon -- Corn Moon
15: Festival of Torches - Nemoralia
15: Herbal Holy Day
17: The Portunalia, the festival of Portunes, the Roman god of gates, doors and harbours.
19: The Vinalia Rustica
21: Festival of Consus, the Roman god of good council.
21: Sun enters Virgo
22: Sign of the Morning Glory begins
23: Freyfaxi
23: The Volcanalia, the festival of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
25: The Opiconsivia, the harvest festival of Ops, the Roman goddess of harvest.
27: Volturnalia
29: New Moon

September 2011

2: The Sign of the Vine begins - 10th moon of the Celtic Calendar
5: Labor Day
9: Double Ninth Day
9: Chrysanthemum Day
12: Full Moon --Harvest Moon
12: Chinese Moon Festival -The Festival of Chang O, on the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox, the Chinese people pay homage to the moon goddess Chang O. Some Chinese celebrate this day as the moon's birthday.
19: The Fast of Thoth, this day-long fast honors the Egyptian god of wisdom and magic.
21: International Day of Peace
21: The feast of the Divine Life, this ancient Egyptian feast honored the great goddess in her three-fold aspect as mother (creator), daughter (renewer), and dark mother (the absolute).
21: Sun enters Libra
23: Fall Equinox or Mabon
23: Michaelmas
23: Ostara (Southern Hemisphere)
27: New Moon

October 2011

1: Festival of Fides, the Roman goddess of good faith, honesty and oaths.
3: The festival of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and revelry, also known as Bacchus to the Romans.
4: Feast of Ceres
6: Day of Bad Omens
9: The festival of Felicitas, the Roman goddess of good luck and joy.
11: Winter Nights - Sacred to Freya
11: The Meditrinalia, the festival of Meditrina, the Roman goddess of healing.
12: Full moon -- Blood Moon
12: The festival of Fortuna Redux, the Roman goddess of successful journeys and safe returns from those journeys.
13: The festival of Fontus, the Roman god of springs.
19: The Armilustrium, the second festival of Mars, the Roman god of war. On this day, military arms were ritually purified and put in storage for winter.
21: Sun enters Scorpio
26: New Moon
31: Halloween
Oct 31 - Nov 1 Samhain, the Celtic festival marking the beginning of the winter and the Celtic New Year. Also the rebirth of Caileach Beara, the Celtic goddess who turned to stone on May 1 (Beltane).

November 2010

1: Samhain
1: Beltane (Southern Hemisphere)
2: Festival of Woden
5: Bonfire Night
10: Full moon -- Mourning Moon
11: Veteran's Day - Hero's Day
11: Lunantishees Day - Celtic Faery Day
11: Martinmas
13: Epulum Jovis
15: Feronia Festival
16: Night of Hekate
21: Sun enters Sagittarius
24: Brumalia
24: The feast of Baba Yaga. On the full moon of November, the supreme crone goddess of old Russia is honored with a feast day. Once honored as an important old goddess, she is now often portrayed as a wicked old witch.
24: Thanksgiving day (United States)
25: New Moon
27: Feast of Ullr
30: Festival of Hecate Trivia (The night of the crossroads.)

December 2011

1: The festival of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. Poseidon is also the god of rebirth.
4: Bona Dea, a Roman fertility goddess
5: Faunalia
9;: The festival of Ops, the Roman goddess of harvest.
10: Full moon - Long Nights Moon - total Lunar Eclipse
11: Agonalia
13: The Sementivae, the second festival of Tellus, the Roman earth goddess.
15: The second festival of Consus, the Roman god of good council.
17: Beginning of Saturnalia - festival of Saturn, the Roman god of agriculture. The most popular Roman festival, for on this day the roles of master and slave were reverted.
18: Eponalia
20: Mother Night
21: Winter Solstice.
21: Divalia - Angeronalia, festival of Angerona, the Roman goddess of secrecy.
22: Winter Solstice or Yule
22: Litha (Southern Hemisphere)
22: Sun enters Capricorn
23: The Larentalia (Larentinalia), festival of Acca Larentia the Roman goddess who gave the early Romans their land.
24: New Moon
25: Christmas Day
25: The birthday of Mithra, the Persian god of light and wisdom.
25: Festival of the Invincible Sun God
25: Feast of Frau Halle, Germanic goddess
26: Boxing Day
31: Festival of Hogmanay