Sunday, November 21, 2010

Pagan Calendar of Days for 2011

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
December 2010
January 2011
February 2011
March 2011
April 2011
May 2011
June 2011
July 2011
August 2011
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
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:20 PM

    I'm confused. (I'm just learning about the Gypsy path, so please be patient with me)

    All of those dates you have listed, do Gypsies really celebrate all of those? Are Gypsies that eclectic? I would have assumed there would be a more singular pantheon involved.

    Can you elaborate?

    Thanks!

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  2. Gypsy Magic1:14 PM

    The Gypsy path is an eclectic one - travelers that they are, the tendency was to take on parts and pieces of the beliefs and ideas native to the areas where they spent the most time. Many of the old Gypsy practices and ideas have strong Catholic overtones.

    The Calendar of Days is offered here as a sort of smorgasboard of ideas for how to celebrate the wheel of the year in a magickal way.

    To my knowledge there is no specific calendar of magickal or ceremonial days that are sacred only to Gypsies.

    Does this help?

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  3. Tasha Harris12:05 AM

    I am so happy I have found your site. I am glad there is so much info that millions of other sites don't have. I am most grateful for the yearly calendar THANK YOU SO MUCH ... I can sort out the stuff I don't want..but since I'm new I'll just add everything you have here to my calendar and then what I cant do it still all good. Thank you for helping me LEARN MORE.!!!

    I cant wait for your 2012 calendar.

    Thank you

    Tasha Harris BB~

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  4. Anonymous7:06 AM

    This page was very interesting, I am hoping that 2012 dates will be added soon.The website has been helpful to me tonight thank-you.

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  5. Shirley Twofeathers12:26 PM

    Unfortunately the 2012 Calendar was never posted... Happily, however, the 2013 Calendar is posted and has been expanded somewhat... so now I'm up to date again.

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