24: Feast Day of Archangel Gabriel whose name means, “The High One’s Hero,” or “Hero of God,” or “Power of God,” or “Might of God.” Note this day comes one day before Annunciation Day when Gabriel performed his most famous task. Lent is the forty day period beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Easter Sunday every year. 25 to Imbolc/Candlemas (Feb 1 or 2) and of course, Lent. The other three forty day periods are: Fall Equinox (Sept 22 or 23) to Halloween/AllSaints Day (Oct. Spring or Vernal Equinox begins a forty day period which culminates with May Day, another fertility Spring festival of ancient origin. Fertility symbols abound such as eggs and rabbits. This holiday represents the first creation, but also the annual creation (planting so crops grow each year) and most symbolic, the perpetual creation. Days and nights are exactly equal, the sun rises and sets in the exact east and west. 20 or 21: OSTARA SABBAT: Spring Equinox The Goddess of Spring.Spring Equinox aka Vernal Equinox aka Ostara. 20-21: Sumerian Festival – celebrating the return of Dumuzi (God of Life and Death) from the Underworld to be with Inanna (Goddess of Life) for the verdant part of the year. 17: Roman Liberalia: Maenad Festival of Bacchus (Dionysus)– honoring the God of the Vine and Rebirth.Ĭanaanite of Festival of Astarte: Goddess of Love 14: Egyptian Festival of Au Set: Snake Goddess who wards off poverty 11: Great Night of Shiva: vigil and feast for Transcendence 9: Mother Goddess Day – honoring all Mother Goddesses – the loving, nurturing Goddess. 5: Navigium Isidis – Egyptian festival honoring Goddess Isis as Lady of the Moon and Ruler of the Sea celebrated with the launching of a boat of offerings. 4: Celtic Feast of Rhiannon: Moon Goddess, Underworld Goddess 4 – FEAST OF RHIANNON( EPONA)Ĭeltic Moon Goddess of the underworld 15: SIGRBLOT/SUMARSDAGĬelebrate the first day of summer in Scandinavian countries MARCH 18 – APRIL 14 – CELTIC MONTH ALDER 20 – OSTARA/ALBAN EILIR/SPRING EQUINOXĪztec celebration of the feathered snake god, Quetzalcoatl at Vernal Equinox This is the Festival of Women which is observed to honor Juno Luciana.
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