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Ritual Calendar: 2008
Please note that not all cults observe all holidays. Dates with significance to individual groups, like leaders’ birthdays, may also be celebrated. Those groups that utilize numerology mark dates whose numbers add up to ‘‘power numbers’’ or dates with repeating numbers, such as August 8, 2008.
S = satanic P = polytheistic N = nazi
January
1/1 S New Year’s Day
1/5 P Shivaratri (night of Shiva creator/destroyer)
1/5 or 1/6 S Twelfth Night
1/6 S? Epiphany
1/8 S New Moon
1/6 P Dionysian Revels
1/6 P Kore gives birth/manifestation of divinity
1/6 S Epiphany
1/7 S Eastern Orthodox Christmas
1/7 S St Winebald Day
1/12 N Birth of both Rosenburg and Goering, nazi leaders in WWII
1/17 S Feast of Fools (Old Twelfth Night) /satanic and demon revels
1/18 S Old Epiphany
1/18 – 1/22 P Dream Festival (Pleiades)
1/22 S Full Moon
1/20 S St. Agnes’ Eve
1/21 N Martin Luther King Day
1/22 N TuB’Sheva (Jewish celebration of spring)
1/26 S? Australia Day
1/30 N Hitler named Chancellor of Germany
February
2/1 – 3 P Mysteries of Persephone
2/2 S Candlemas (Imbolc): Lughnassad Southern Hemisphere
2/5 S Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
2/6 S N Ash Wednesday (beginning of Lent)
2/7 S New Moon
2/7 S Annular solar eclipse: annularity only over Antarctica: partial eclipse over New Zealand and parts of Australia
2/12 S Lincoln’s Birthday
2/14 S N Valentine’s Day
2/15 P Lupercalia (she-wolf mother of Romulus and Remus: honoring of Pan)
2/18 S Washington’s Birthday
2/20 S Presidents’ Day
12/20 or 12/22 S Washington’s Birthday
2/21 S Total lunar eclipse visible in most of the Americas, Africa, and Europe
2/21 S Full Moon
2/ 21 – 2/22 P Feralia/Terminalia (Roman All Souls’/boundary day)
2/29 S Leap Year Day
March
3/1 S St. Eichstadt
3/7 S New Moon
3/ 9 P Festival of Ishtar (Astarte, Aphrodite, Venus)
3/10 S Eastern Orthodox Beginning of Lent
3/15 P Ides of March: Rites of Cybele and Attis (begins twelve day death and resurrection ritual)
3/16 S Palm Sunday
3/17 S ? St. Patrick's Day
3/18 S P Sheila-na-gig (Sheelah’s Day, Sheelahis Day (Celtic Creatress): Jacques De Molay Day (Knights Templar)
3/20 S N Spring Equinox
3/20 S N Maundy Thursday
4/20 S N Full Moon
3/20 - 3/22 P Pelusia, Invocation of Isis (Hindi) Holi /Tubulustrum Roman purification/Shab-i-barat. Night of Forgiveness (Islam)
3/21 N Purim
3/21 S Good Friday
3/21 S Full Moon
3/22 S Holy Saturday
3/23 S N Easter
3/24 S P Feast of the Beast/‘‘Bride of satan’’/Feast of Priapus/Festival of Isis)
April
4/1 S April Fools Day
4/6 S New Moon
4/8 S Day of the Masters
4/20 S New Moon
4/19 – 4/27 N Pesach (Passover)
4/20 S N Full Moon
4/22 – 4/29 S Preparation for sacrifice in some satanic sects
(third week of April)
4/26 – 5/1 P Corpus de Baahl
4/27 S Eastern Orthodox Holy Friday
4/27 S Eastern Orthodox Easter
4/29 S N Walpurgisnacht (May Eve)
4/30 – 5/5 S Grand Climax/Da Meur/Beltane
4/30 N Anniversary of Hitler’s death
4/20 S? Queen’s Day (Netherlands)
May
5/1 S N Beltane (May Day), Samhain (Southern Hemisphere)
5/1 S Ascension Day
5/2 N Holocaust Remembrance Day
5/5 S New Moon
5/5 S ? Cinque de Mayo
5/8 N V-E Day
5/ 9 – 13 P Lumeria (three days Roman All Souls)
5/11 S Mother’s Day
5/11 S Pentecost (Whitsunday)
5/13 S All Soul’s Day in New Zealand
5/19 S Full Moon
5/19 S ? N ? Armed Forces Day
5/19 S? Victoria Day (Canada)
5/26 S Memorial Day
June
6/1 S? Republic Day (Ireland)
6/3 S New Moon
6/5 S Eastern Orthodox Ascension Day
6/6 S Queen Elizabeth’s birthday (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
6/6 N D-Day (invasion of France in WW2)
6/9 – 6/10 N Shavuot
6/13 S Friday the Thirteenth
6/14 S ? Flag Day
6/15 S Father’s Day
6/18 S N Full Moon
6/21 S Summer Solstice
6/23 S St John’s Eve
6/24 S Lighting the Midwinter Bonfires in New Zealand
July
7/1 S Canada Day
7/1 S Satanic and demon revels
7/3 S New Moon
7/4 S Fourth of July (US Independence Day)
7/14 S Bastille Day
7/14 S ? Parents’ Day
7/18 S N Full Moon
7/24 S Pioneer Day (Mormon)
7/25 S St. James’ Day/Festival of the Horned God
August
8/1 S Total solar eclipse beginning in northern Canada and moving through Greenland, Siberia, Mongolia, and central China. A partial eclipse will be visible throughout most of Greenland, Europe, and Asia.
8/1 S New Moon
8/1 – 2 S N Lammas/Lughnasadh
8/3 S Satanic and demon revels
8/16 S N Full Moon
8/16 S Partial lunar eclipse visible throughout most of South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
8/15 S Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
8/24 P Mania (opening of Nether World Gate)
8/24 – 8/27 P Fundus Mundi (a three day late-harvest festival)
8/28 P Feast of Nephthys (wife of Set, Goddess of Death) marks the end of Fundis Mundi
8/30 S New Moon
September
9/1 S Labor Day
9/6 or 9/7 S Marriage to the Beast (satan)
9/7 S Feast of the Beast
9/7 S ? Grandparents’ Day
9/15 S N Full Moon
9/16 S? Mexican Independence Day
9/20 S Midnight Host
9 22 S N Fall Equinox
9/23 – 9/30 P Birthday celebration of Shri Krishna
9/ 23 – 10/2 P Mysteries of Eleusis
9/29 S? Michaelmas
9/29 S New Moon
9/20 N Rosh Hashanah
October
10/2 P Last day of Mysteries of Eleusis
10/2 P Durga Puja (Kali)
10/5 P Opening of Mundus Cereris
10/8 N Yom Kippur
10/10 P Dashara (Kali’s victory over Mahishasura)
10/12 S Dia de la Raza (Mexico)
10/13 S Backwards Halloween
10/13 S Columbus Day
10/13 S Canadian Thanksgiving
10/14 S N Full Moon
10/14 – 22 N Sukkot
10/16 N Death of Rosenburg
10/19 N Death of Goering
10/20 or 10/23 N Hitler’s half birthday
10/22 – 10/29 S Preparation for All Hallows’ Eve
10/24 S? N? United Nations’ Day
10/28 S New Moon
10/31 S N Halloween/Samhain/All Hallows Eve/ Hallowmas/All Souls’ Day
10/31 P Preparation for The Isia (ring of six (Isis, Hathor, Nepthys, Horus, Thoth, Anubis) Resurrection of Osiris
10/31 S N Start of the Celtic new year, the ‘‘dark’’ half of the year
November
11/1 S All Saints’ Day
11/1 – 11/6 P The Isia: six days ritual drama search for pieces of Osiris/feast of the netherworld, parting of the astral veil/resurrection of Osiris)
11/2 S All Souls’ Day
11/2 S Day of the Dead
11/5 S? Guy Fawkes’ Day (UK)
11/7 P Hilaria/Mania (Opening of Mundus Cereris) rebirth of Osiris
11/9 N Kristallnacht
11/11 N Veteran’s Day (Armistice, 1918)
11/13 S N Full Moon
11/27 S US Thanksgiving
11/27 S Full Moon
11/30 S? St Andrew’s Day (Scotland)
December
11/30, 12/7, 12/14, 12/21 S The Sundays of Advent
12/5 S Sinterklaas (Holland)
12/6 S St. Nicholas’ Day
12/13 S N Full Moon
12/13 S St. Lucia’s Day
12/17 – 12/22 P Saturnalia
12/21 – 29 N Chanukah
12/22 S N P Yule/Winter Solstice
12/24 S N Christmas Eve/Satanic and demon revels/Da Meur/Grand High Climax
12/25 S N Christmas Day
12/26 S Boxing Day (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)
12/26 S? St Stephen’s Day (Scotland)
12/27 S New Moon
12/31 S New Year’s Eve
last modified 03/10/08