November 20

Colour: Yellow
Moon Sign: Cancer
Incense: Parsley
Children's Day - USA
Día de la Revolución (Revolution Anniversary) - Mexico
Surin Elephant Roundup - Thailand
Teacher's Day - Vietnam
Totensonntag (Deaths' Sunday) - Switzerland

Feast day of Praetextatus and Paulina, Pagan activists, Roman Empire Praetextatus and Paulina, husband and wife, were guardians of the Eleusinian mysteries. In 364 CE they resisted the order of the Christianemperor Valentinian I to suppress these already ancient Greek pagan sacred rites ...

1936 Spain: Buenaventura Durruti y Domingo (b. 1896), the Spanish anarchist, accidentally shot in the lung the previous day, died at 6am... Durruti's body was taken to Barcelona, where he was buried in a ceremony attended by over a quarter of a million people ...

1952 According to Polish-born American and unsuccessful sci-fi novelist, George Adamski (1891 - 1965), he met a 'Venusian' called Orthon in the Mojave Desert near Desert Center, California. Perhaps even more remarkably, a lot of people believed him ...

October 9

Colour: Lavender
Moon Sign: Taurus
Incense: Chrysanthemum

Columbus Day - observed
Army & Navy Day Azerbaijan
Columbus Day Dominican Republic/Spain
Dia de Communidad Spain
Independence Day Uganda I
ndependence of Guayaquil Day Ecuador
National Dignity Day Peru
Thanksgiving Day Canada
Leif Erikson Day United States of America
Han'Gul / Korean Alphabet Day South Korea
Sukkot Judaism

Day of Felicitas. A festival celebrating the ancient Roman goddess of luck and good fortune was held annually on this date in many parts of Italy. For many Wiccans and modern Witches it is a time for spellcasting and making amulets to attract good luck or to end a streak of bad luck.

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The Wicca Book of Days by Gerina Dunwich
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October 8

Okunchi - Japanese
Colour: Orange
Moon Sign: Aries
Incense: Sage

On this day an annual good luck festival called Chung Yeung Day ( theFestival of High Places ) is celebrated in China. Traditionally good omen kites are flown to carry away evil spirits. The festival also commemorates an ancient Chinese scholar names Huan Ching who upon heeding the warning of a soothsayer escaped with his family and friends high into the hills and thereby avoided a mysterious plague of death which swept through the village below killing every living thing in sight.

Llewellyn's 2006 Magickal Almanac &
The Wicca Book of Days by Gerina Dunwich

August 12th

Fiesta of Santa Clara
Colour: Black
Moon Sign: Pisces
Incense: Lilac

The Lychnapsia (Lignapsia; Aset Webenut; Isis the Luminous One), ancient Egypt The Egyptian Lychnapsia, or Festival of Lights, was over the centuries transformed into the Christian day of St Clare of Assisi (whose feast day was formerly August 12, but moved by the Catholic Church to August 11, qv). - It is a day for the lighting of candles, like Candlemas (February 2), or Imbolc as it is known in the Celtic tradition. - In the case of the Lychnapsia (the Graeco-Roman term for what the Egyptions called Aset Webenut, or Aset the Luminous One), the candles were to help Isis find her husband, Osiris ...

Solar alignment at Teotihuacan, City of the Gods - The city of Teotihuacan, Mexico, settled in the 2nd Century BCE, was ancient when the Aztecs found its ruins. - -They named it 'place of the creation of the gods'. The entrance of a ritual cave there was aligned to a point on the western skyline where the sun set on August 12 and April 29 ...

1851 Before the invention of the sewing machine, clothes making and mending consumed the lives and eyesight of countless millions of women worldwide. (Of course, sewing machines have reared another monster, as adults and children in sweatshops in the majority poor countries now make most of the clothes worn in the West.) - Before the sewing machine, a single shirt required many thousands of stitches to be made. Something had to be done about it, and it was pretty clear that there was a buck to be made. - On this day Isaac Merritt Singer (1811 - 1875), former actor and founder of the Merritt Players, polygamist, patented his sewing machine. Many almanacs refer to this date as the patenting or invention of the first sewing machine, but this does not in fact seem to be the case. The first American patent had been issued to Elias Howe (1819 - 1867) some five years earlier, and Singer´s machine was so similar to Howe´s that the earlier inventor sued Singer for patent infringement, and won. - Howe eventually became a multi-millionaire just as Singer had. - The story of this great labour-saving device, one which helped free women from some of the drudgery of the time, began long before Howe and Singer´s rivalry, however, and numerous machines had been invented over the preceding century in various parts of the world ...

The goddess Isis and her search of Orisis ( her brother and consort ) is commemorated on this day by the Lychnapsia known as the Festival of Lights of Isis. Dried rose petals and vervian are burned in small cauldrons or incense burners as offerings to Isis and green candles are lit in her honour.

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August 7th

Holidays for this date include...

Bank Holiday Australia
Battle of Boyaca Colombia
British Columbia Day Canada
Civic Holiday Canada
Independence Day Ivory Coast
Labor Day Western Samoa
Natal Day Canada
New Brunswick Day Canada
Picnic Day Australia
Worker's Day Iceland
Youth Day Kiribati
Simcoe Day (Ontario) Canada
Gold Cup and Saucer Day (P.E.I.) Canada
West of Summerside (P.E.I.) Canada
Republic Day - Ivory Coast
Colour: Lavender
Moon Sign: Capricorn
Incense: Maple

In ancient Egypt, the cow-headed goddess Hathor was honoured on this day by an annual festival known as Breaking the Nile. The festival, which was also dedicated to all water and river goddesses celebrated the rising of the fertile waters of the mystical River Nile.

In ancient Greece, the annual mourning ceremony called Adonia was held on this date in honour of the dying hero-god Adonis.

1560 Elizabeth Bathory serial killer (d. 1614). The ghastly crimes of Erzbet Báthory (Elizabeth Bathory; the Bloody Lady of achtice; d. August 21, 1614) were uncovered on December 26, 1610.

Báthory was a Hungarian countess, a niece of King Stephen Báthory of Poland. Although it is difficult, if not impossible, to separate fact from fiction and legend, it has been alleged that she was a serial killer responsible for the torture and murder of over 600 peasants. It is commonly believed that her primary motive for murder was that she sought to improve her complexion by bathing in the blood of girls, but it is not known if this is a mere legend ...

1566 Large black globes were seen in the sky over Basel, Switzerland (in the Book of Days today we have a stunning woodcut of this event). The UFOs sped and turned against each other as if fighting, according to a contemporary broadsheet.

A similar phenomenon occurred at Nuremberg, Germany, on April 14, 1561 (qv) ...1876

Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle; d. 1917) Dutch-born exotic dancer who, by sleeping with top military and governmental personnel, spied for both sides in World War I. Mata Hari was variously described as a spy, an actress, a prostitute or an exotic dancer. She was executed on October 15, 1917 at the Chateau Vincennes near Paris after admitting to having given information to a German officer. She told her judge that she had received money for sex, not for secrets. Harlot, yes, but traitress, never! she said ...

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August 6th

Colour: Orange
Moon Sign: Sagittarius
Incense: Cinnamon

Holidays for this date include...

Accession of H.H. Sheikh Zayed United Arab Emirates
Atomic Bomb Day United States of America
Independence Day Bolivia Jamaica
The Transfiguration Bulgaria Hiroshima
Peace Ceremony Shinto
The Transfiguration Christianity

On this date in the year 1817, a huge creature described as a sea-serpent was spotted in the ocean near Gloucester harbor inMassachusetts. Coincidentally, on this same date in the year 1948, a similar creature was seen by the crew of the British naval frigateDaedalus.

This day is sacred to the Cherokee Earth-Goddess Elihino and her sisterIgaehindvo, the scared goddess of the Sun.

Llewellyn's 2006 Magickal Almanac & The Wicca Book of Daysby Gerina Dunwich

July 31st

Holidays for this date include...

San Ignacio Peru
Upswing of the Revolution Congo (Republic of)
Chinese Valentine's Day China
Lunasa or Lammas (Northern Hemisphere) Paganism
Oimelc / Brigid (Southern Hemisphere) Paganism
Weighing of the Aga Khan

Colour: Grey
Moon Sign: Libra
Incense: Lavender

In pre-Christian times, the Oidhche Lugnasa was celebrated by the Celts on this night to honour of their solar deity named Lugh. His annual sacrifice at the end of the harvest ensure the fertility of the corn and grain for the next growing season.

An old August Eve tradition in rural Scotland is predicting the following year's marriages and deaths by throwing sickles into the air then drawing omens from the positions in which they fall.

On this date in the year 1831, famous mystic and spiritualist medium Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was born in the Ukraine.

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