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 2012
- 1: Pomona's Day
- 1: Day of the Dead
- 2: Festival of Woden
- 3: Feast of the Einherjar
- 5: Bonfire Night
- 11: Veteran's Day
- 11: Martinmas
- 13: New Moon - Solar Eclipse
- 16: Night of Hekate
- 21: Sun enters Sagittarius
- 22: Thanksgiving day (United States)
- 25: Elder Tree Month begins - Celtic Calendar
- 25: Stir Up Sunday
- 27: Feast of Ullr
- 28: Full moon - Mourning Moon - Lunar Eclipse
- 30: St Andrew's Day
- 30: Festival of Hecate Trivia (The night of the crossroads.)
- 1: The festival of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. Poseidon is also the god of rebirth.
- 4: Bona Dea
- 5: Faunalia
- 9;: The festival of Ops, the Roman goddess of harvest.
- 11: The Septimontium
- 11: Agonalia
- 13: New Moon
- 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 or Yule
- 21: Litha (Southern Hemisphere)
- 21: Divalia - Angeronalia, festival of Angerona, the Roman goddess of secrecy.
- 22: Sun enters Capricorn
- 23: The Larentalia (Larentinalia), festival of Acca Larentia the Roman goddess who gave the early Romans their land.
- 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 Holle, Germanic goddess
- 26: Boxing Day
- 28: Full moon - Big Winter Moon
- 31: New Year's Eve
- 31: Festival of Hogmanay
- 1: New Year's Day
- 1 - 3: Kalends of January
- 2: Advent of Isis
- 3: Festival of Pax the Roman goddess of peace.
- 3: Snow Day
- 4: Evergreen Day
- 5: Festival of Lares Compitales - Roman guardian deities of crossroads.
- 5: Twelfth Night
- 6: Epiphany
- 6: Festival of Kore
- 7: Feast of Sekhmet, the Egyptian New Year's Day.
- 7: Distaff Day
- 8: It's Midwives' Day
- 9: The Agonium, festival of Janus, the Roman god of gates and doors, beginnings and endings.
- 10: Plough Monday
- 11: New Moon
- 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: Blessing of the Waters
- 21: Sun enters Aquarius
- 24: Feriae Sementivae - blessing the seeds
- 24: Gold Rush Day
- 25: Up Helly Aa - Scottish Viking celebration
- 25: St Paul's Day
- 26: Full moon - Wolf Moon
- 30 - Feb. 2: Roman celebration of Februalia
- 31: Disfest/Disablot
- 31: Hecate's Feast
- 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: Setsubun, celebration - Japan
- 4: Disting - The Charming of the Plow
- 4: King Frost Day
- 5: St Agatha's Day
- 5 thru 17: Fornacalia - The Day of the Ovens
- 6: The Aphrodesia, feast day of the goddess Aphrodite
- 7: Day of Selene
- 8: Festival for the Broken Needles
- 10: New Moon
- 10: Chinese New Year (Year of the Snake begins) dates vary from year to year
- 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.
- 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
- 25: Full moon -- Quickening Moon
- 28: The epic poem, Kalevala, is celebrated by the Finns with parades and readings from the poem.
- 1: Matronalia, the Festival of Women
- 1: New Year's Day in the old Roman calendar.
- 1: Saint David's Day
- 1: Mother March
- 2: Holy Wells Day, the day of Ceadda, the Celtic goddess of healing springs and holy wells.
- 4: The Anestheria - Greek festival of flowers
- 4: Feast of Rhiannon (Welsh)
- 8: Pancake Day
- 8: Birthday of Mother Earth (Chinese)
- 10: Mothering Sunday - 4th Sunday in Lent
- 10: The Daedala
- 11: New Moon
- 11: Hercules' Day (Greek)
- 11: Russian Butter Festival (date varies year to year)
- 12: Marduk's Feast Day
- 13: Purification Feast (Balinese)
- 14: Feriae Marti - Festival of Mars
- 14: The Diasia to ward off poverty - Greece.
- 15 Ides of March (Roman)
- 16: Whale Festival
- 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
- 17: Damballah's Day
- 19: Ides of March
- 19: Festival of Anna Perenna, the Roman goddess of the circle of the year.
- 19: Day of Aganyu (Santeria)
- 19 - 23: The Mivervalia and Quinquatria, main festivals of Minerva, the Roman goddess of war, wisdom arts and trades.
- 20: Ostara - the Vernal Equinox
- 20: Festival of Isis
- 20: Mabon (Southern Hemisphere)
- 21: Tea and Tephi Day (Irish)
- 21: Festival of Salii
- 21: Sun enters Aries
- 22: Hilaria
- 23: Summer Finding (Norse)
- 23: The Tubilustrium (also celebrated May 23)
- 26: Plowing Day (Slavic)
- 27: Full moon Crow Moon
- 27: Ascent Of The Christ Of The Gypsies - Holy Wednesday
- 28: Birthday of Kwan Yin
- 29: The Delphinia, or Artemis Soteira, of Artemis in Greece
- 29: Good Friday
- 29: Expulsion of the Demons of Bad Luck
- 29: Festival of Ishtar
- 30: The Festival of Salus, the Roman goddess of public safety and welfare.
- 30: Day of Bau (Babylonian)
- 31: Easter Sunday
- 31: Festival of Luna, the Roman goddess of the moon.
- 1: Dyngus Day - Easter Monday (date varies)
- 1: Egg Rolling Day (England) - Easter Monday (date varies)
- 1: April Fool's Day / Loki's Day
- 1: The Veneralia, the festival of Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty.
- 3: Passover begins at sundown (date varies)
- 4: Ching Ming - Tomb Sweeping Day (China) - sometimes falls on April 5
- 4 - 10: 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
- 10: New Moon
- 12: Chhau Festival - India
- 12 - 19: Ludi Cereales
- 13: Songkran - Thailand
- 15: Fordicia, the festival of Tellus, the Roman earth goddess
- 16: The feast day of St. Bernadette.
- 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
- 22: Festival of Ishtar
- 22: Earth Day
- 23: St George's Day
- 24: Peppercorn Ceremony - Bermuda (date varies year to year)
- 25: Full moon -- Wind Moon - Lunar Eclipse (partial)
- 25: The Robigalia, the festival of Robigus, a Roman corn god.
- 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: Beltane
- 1: Beltane - Mayday
- 1: Festival of Belenus, the Celtic god of fire and the sun.
- 1: Samhain (Southern Hemisphere)
- 1: Bona Dea
- 5: Humane Day - United States - 1st Sunday in May
- 5: Cinco de Mayo
- 6: Durdevan - Feast of St. George
- 8: The festival of Mens, the Roman goddess of mind and consciousness.
- 8: The Furry Dance
- 9: New Moon
- 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.
- 10: Solar Eclipse
- 12: Mother's Day
- 13: Hawthorn Moon begins - 6th month of the Celtic Calendar
- 13: Festival of Cats
- 15: Festival of Mercury, the Roman god of merchants and travellers.
- 20: Sun enters Gemini
- 23: The Tubilustrium
- 24: The Thargalia
- 25: Full moon -- Hare's Moon - Lunar Eclipse
- 25: Festival of the Holy Marys - Gypsy festival and pilgrimage
- 27: Frigga Blot
- 30: Memorial Day - Einherjar Day
- 31: Flores de Mayo
- 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
- 8: New Moon
- 9: Festival of Vesta, the Roman goddess of the hearth.
- 10: Oak Moon begins - 7th month of the Celtic calendar
- 11: Festival of Mater Matuta, old Italian goddess of the dawn.
- 12: Zeus' Day
- 14: Birthday of the Muse
- 14: Vidar's Day
- 16: Night of a Teardrop
- 16: Father's Day
- 17: Ludi Piscatari
- 21: Summer Solstice - Litha
- 21: Yule (Southern Hemisphere)
- 21: Sun enters Cancer
- 23: Full moon - Honey Moon
- 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
- 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: New Moon
- 8: Holly Moon begins - 8th month of the Celtic Calendar
- 9: Day of Unn 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: 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: Full moon - Buck Moon
- 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: Birthday of Isis
- 31: Birthday of Nephthys
- 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: New Moon
- 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
- 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
- 20: Full Moon -- Corn Moon
- 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
- 2: The Sign of the Vine begins - 10th moon of the Celtic Calendar
- 5: New Moon
- 5: Labor Day
- 9: Double Ninth Day
- 9: Chrysanthemum Day
- 13: Friday the 13th
- 19: Full Moon --Harvest Moon
- 19: 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)
- 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: New Moon
- 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: 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.
- 18: Full moon -- Blood Moon - Lunar Eclipse
- 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
- 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).
- 1: Samhain
- 1: Beltane (Southern Hemisphere)
- 1: Day of the Dead
- 1: Pomona's Day
- 2: Festival of Woden
- 3: New Moon - Solar Eclipse
- 5: Bonfire Night
- 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
- 17: Full moon -- Mourning Moon
- 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: Stir Up Sunday
- 27: Feast of Ullr
- 28: Thanksgiving day (United States)
- 30: Festival of Hecate Trivia (The night of the crossroads.)
- 1: The festival of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. Poseidon is also the god of rebirth.
- 2: New Moon
- 4: Bona Dea, a Roman fertility goddess
- 5: Faunalia
- 9;: The festival of Ops, the Roman goddess of harvest.
- 11: Agonalia
- 13: Friday the 13th
- 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: Full moon - Long Nights Moon
- 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.
- 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: New Year's Eve
- 31: Festival of Hogmanay
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