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Year 2008
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah Holidays - 2008
Christian Holidays:
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition - 2008
Unitarian Universalist Holidays - 2008
Muslim - Sufi Holidays - 2008
Baha'i Holidays - 2008
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Buddhist Holidays - 2008
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Asian Holidays: Zoroastrian - Sikh - Jain - Taoist - Shinto - 2008
Native American -
Meso American - Hispanic Holidays - 2008
African Holidays: Santeria - Old Egyptian - 2008
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe & the Middle East (Celtic, Norse, Greek, Roman,
Egyptian, etc.) - 2008
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Solar & Lunar Cycles & Eclipses - 2008
Meteor Showers - 2008
Visible Planets - 2008
Astrological Periods - 2008
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Environmentalist -
Deep Ecology Dates - 2008
Feminist - Human Rights - Social Justice Dates - 2008
Peace - Disarmament Movement Dates - 2008
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Experiential Meditations
(for lunar cycles throughout the year)
Empowering Meditations
Action Offerings
(to help the environment
& further social justice)
Art as Meditation
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Year 2007
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah Holidays - 2007
Christian Holidays:
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition - 2007
Unitarian Universalist Holidays - 2007
Muslim - Sufi Holidays - 2007
Baha'i Holidays - 2007
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Hindu Holidays - 2007
Buddhist Holidays - 2007
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Asian Holidays: Zoroastrian - Sikh - Jain - Taoist - Shinto - 2007
Native American -
Meso American - Hispanic Holidays - 2007
African Holidays: Santeria - Old Egyptian - 2007
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe & the Middle East (Celtic, Norse, Greek, Roman,
Egyptian, etc.) - 2007
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Solar & Lunar Cycles & Eclipses - 2007
Meteor Showers - 2007
Visible Planets - 2007
Astrological Periods - 2007
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Environmentalist -
Deep Ecology Dates - 2007
Feminist - Human Rights - Social Justice Dates - 2007
Peace - Disarmament Movement Dates - 2007
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Experiential Meditations
(for lunar cycles throughout the year)
Empowering Meditations
Action Offerings
(to help the environment
& further social justice)
Art as Meditation
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2006 Calendar Photos
Year 2006
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah Holidays - 2006
Christian Holidays:
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition - 2006
Unitarian Universalist Holidays - 2006
Muslim - Sufi Holidays - 2006
Baha'i Holidays - 2006
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Hindu Holidays - 2006
Buddhist Holidays - 2006
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Asian Holidays: Zoroastrian - Sikh - Jain - Taoist - Shinto - 2006
Native American -
Meso American - Hispanic Holidays - 2006
African Holidays: Santeria - Old Egyptian - 2006
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe & the Middle East (Celtic, Norse, Greek, Roman,
Egyptian, etc.) - 2006
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Solar & Lunar Cycles & Eclipses - 2006
Meteor Showers - 2006
Visible Planets - 2006
Astrological Periods - 2006
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Environmentalist -
Deep Ecology Dates - 2006
Feminist - Human Rights - Social Justice Dates - 2006
Peace - Disarmament Movement Dates - 2006
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Experiential Meditations
(for lunar cycles throughout the year)
Empowering Meditations
Action Offerings
(to help the environment
& further social justice)
Art as Meditation
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2005 Calendar Photos
Year 2005
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah Holidays - 2005
Christian Holidays:
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition - 2005
Unitarian Universalist Holidays - 2005
Muslim - Sufi Holidays - 2005
Baha'i Holidays - 2005
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Hindu Holidays - 2005
Buddhist Holidays - 2005
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Asian Holidays: Zoroastrian - Sikh - Jain - Taoist - Shinto - 2005
Native American -
Meso American - Hispanic Holidays - 2005
African Holidays: Santeria - Old Egyptian - 2005
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe & the Middle East (Celtic, Norse, Greek, Roman,
Egyptian, etc.) - 2005
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Solar & Lunar Cycles & Eclipses - 2005
Meteor Showers - 2005
Visible Planets - 2005
Astrological Periods - 2005
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Environmentalist -
Deep Ecology Dates - 2005
Feminist - Human Rights - Social Justice Dates - 2005
Peace - Disarmament Movement Dates - 2005
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Experiential Meditations
(for lunar cycles throughout the year)
Empowering Meditations
Action Offerings
(to help the environment
& further social justice)
Art as Meditation
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2004 Calendar Photos
Year 2004
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah Holidays - 2004
Christian Holidays:
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition - 2004
Unitarian Universalist Holidays - 2004
Muslim - Sufi Holidays - 2004
Baha'i Holidays - 2004
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Hindu Holidays - 2004
Buddhist Holidays - 2004
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Asian Holidays: Zoroastrian - Sikh - Jain - Taoist - Shinto - 2004
Native American -
Meso American - Hispanic Holidays - 2004
African Holidays: Santeria - Old Egyptian - 2004
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe & the Middle East (Celtic, Norse, Greek, Roman,
Egyptian, etc.) - 2004
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Solar & Lunar Cycles & Eclipses - 2004
Meteor Showers - 2004
Visible Planets - 2004
Astrological Periods - 2004
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Environmentalist -
Deep Ecology Dates - 2004
Feminist - Human Rights - Social Justice Dates - 2004
Peace - Disarmament Movement Dates - 2004
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Experiential Meditations
(for lunar cycles throughout the year)
Empowering Meditations
Action Offerings
(to help the environment
& further social justice)
Art as Meditation
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2003 Calendar Photos
Year 2003
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah Holidays - 2003
Christian Holidays:
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition - 2003
Unitarian Universalist Holidays - 2003
Muslim - Sufi Holidays - 2003
Baha'i Holidays - 2003
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Buddhist Holidays - 2003
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Asian Holidays: Zoroastrian - Sikh - Jain - Taoist - Shinto - 2003
Native American -
Meso American - Hispanic Holidays - 2003
African Holidays: Santeria - Old Egyptian - 2003
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe & the Middle East (Celtic, Norse, Greek, Roman,
Egyptian, etc.) - 2003
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Solar & Lunar Cycles & Eclipses - 2003
Meteor Showers - 2003
Visible Planets - 2003
Astrological Periods - 2003
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Environmentalist -
Deep Ecology Dates - 2003
Feminist - Human Rights - Social Justice Dates - 2003
Peace - Disarmament Movement Dates - 2003
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Experiential Meditations
(for lunar cycles throughout the year)
Empowering Meditations
Action Offerings
(to help the environment
& further social justice)
Art as Meditation
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2002 Calendar Photos
Year 2002
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah Holidays - 2002
Christian Holidays:
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition - 2002
Unitarian Universalist Holidays - 2002
Muslim - Sufi Holidays - 2002
Baha'i Holidays - 2002
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Hindu Holidays - 2002
Buddhist Holidays - 2002
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Asian Holidays: Zoroastrian - Sikh - Jain - Taoist - Shinto - 2002
Native American -
Meso American - Hispanic Holidays - 2002
African Holidays: Santeria - Old Egyptian - 2002
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe & the Middle East (Celtic, Norse, Greek, Roman,
Egyptian, etc.) - 2002
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Solar & Lunar Cycles & Eclipses - 2002
Meteor Showers - 2002
Visible Planets - 2002
Astrological Periods - 2002
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Environmentalist -
Deep Ecology Dates - 2002
Feminist - Human Rights -
Social Justice Dates - 2002
Peace - Disarmament Movement Dates - 2002
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Experiential Meditations
(for lunar cycles throughout the year)
Empowering Meditations
Action Offerings
(to help the environment
& further social justice)
Art as Meditation
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2001 Calendar Photos
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Interfaith Links
July 2007...
* 6/29 to 7/3: Zoroastrian celebration. * 7/1: Canada Day--Day to celebrate the union of diverse peoples, languages, and cultures into one nation. * 7/1: Day the world’s nations committed to stop proliferation of nuclear weapons (1968); vigil to protest the production and use of all nuclear weapons world-wide. * 7/1: Day endangered species became internationally protected (1975); day to celebrate all the world’s creatures. * 7/1: Day the International Criminal Court came into being to prosecute those who commit acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, international terrorism, and war crimes (2002). * 7/2: Visitation Day--Christian feast marking St. Elizabeth’s recognition of Blessed Mary’s divine destiny as catalyst for human liberation and redemption. * 7/2: Day discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, gender, and religion was prohibited in public accommodations and employment (1964). * 7/4: U.S. Independence Day--Day to celebrate the right of all peoples to exercise peaceful, democratic self-determination. * 7/4: Death day of Thomas Jefferson (1826), who ensured that the U.S. Constitution would protect basic rights and liberties. A Deist, he practiced a religion that was based on Nature, reason, and ethics. * 7/6 (8:00 p.m. EDT): Earth Aphelion--when the Earth is farthest from the Sun. * 7/6: Birthday of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. * 7/7: Tanabata--Shinto rite honoring the Kami of the Stars. * 7/7: Mindfulness Day--Zen Buddhist day for being mindful that alienation and hunger for possessions results from ignorance of interconnectedness. * 7/10: Day Pope John Paul II acknowledged the evil of sexism and apologized for the Catholic Church’s past oppression of women (1995); day to mourn the continued subordination of women by the Church. * 7/11: World Population Day--Day to meditate on the social and environmental costs of overpopulation. * 7/11: Day Srebrenica, Bosnia, fell to attacking Serbs (1995), beginning a massacre of thousands of civilians because of their ethnicity and religion; vigil for true peace, justice, religious tolerance, and respect for the human rights of all in the Balkans. * 7/12: Anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1690); vigil for true peace, justice, religious tolerance, and equal rights for all in Northern Ireland. * 7/12: Birthday of Henry David Thoreau (1817), Transcendentalist and naturalist who believed in individualism and living simply in harmony with Nature. * 7/13: Baha’i feast honoring the one Deity as Kalimat - Sacred Words. * 7/13 to 7/15: Obon--Zen Buddhist festival honoring departed ancestors. * 7/14 (8:04 a.m. EDT): New Moon. * 7/14 (A 8/24): Old Egyptian birthday feast of Neter Osiris - partner and true love of Isis, and father of Horus; guide of all husbands, fathers, and judges. * 7/14 to 7/20: Iroquois Green Corn Ceremony--in thanksgiving for the maize harvest. * 7/14 to 7/25 (I 7/19): Old Norse/Icelandic Mid-Summer Althingi--Community gathering for democratic decision making. Forseti and Tyr, Gods of Justice and Self-Sacrifice, were honored. * 7/14 eve to 8/19 eve (7/28 peak): Delta Aquarid Meteor Showers. * 7/15: Secular Humanism Day--Day to celebrate all life-affirming humanist, rationalist, and scientific belief systems. * 7/15 eve to 7/16 eve: Hekatombaion Noumenia/Old Athenian New Year--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. * 7/15 eve to 7/16 eve: Remembrance day for Sufi saint Haji Bektash (d. 1337). He initiated women into his order equally with men and advocated gender equality in Islamic society. * 7/16: Birthday of Mary Baker Eddy (1821), founder of Christian Science, who honored Deity as Father-Mother God. * 7/17 (A 8/27): Old Egyptian birthday feast of Neteret Isis - partner and true love of Osiris, and mother of Horus; guide of all wives, mothers, healers, advocates, and teachers. * 7/18 (Th B 7/30): Chokhor Duchen--Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the Buddha’s first teaching. * 7/18: Day South Africa’s apartheid was internationally outlawed (1976); birthday of Nelson Mandela, non-violent anti-apartheid activist. * 7/19: Day women demanded recognition of their equality to men in the legal, political, economic, religious, and domestic spheres (Seneca Falls, New York 1848). * 7/20: Vigil for peace, justice, and respect for the human rights of all in Colombia - now in the throes of civil war. * 7/20 to 8/2 (A 8/30 to 9/12): Old Egyptian festival marking the return to Egypt of Neteret Isis, Neter Osiris, and the rains that inundate the Nile River. * 7/22: Christian feast of St. Mary Magdalen, disciple and priestess--Savior Jesus made her His priestess by purifying her seven times; she anointed Him in preparation for His sacrifice and witnessed His torture, death, and resurrection. * 7/23: Beginning of Leo (the Lion/Lioness). * 7/23: Mayan Sun Festival--honoring Sun God Ahau Kin; celebrated with devotional offerings of food, song, prayer, and a ritual procession that symbolically travels to the four quarters of the universe. * 7/23 eve to 7/24 eve: Tish’a B’Av--Jewish fast day mourning the destruction of the Temples dedicated to God-Goddess Yahweh (Adonai-Shekhina). * 7/24: Day that aggressive war was outlawed and the right to defend victims of aggression was recognized world-wide (1929). * 7/25 to 8/1: Mahayana Buddhist festival of Tara/Kuan Yin/Kannon, Supreme Goddess of Nature and Perfect Buddha of many emanations; celebrates Her enlightenment and Her vow to help all sentient beings. * 7/26: Christian feast of St. Anna, mother of Blessed Mary and grandmother of Blessed Jesus; guide of grandmothers and elderly women. * 7/26: Birthday of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung (1875), founder of archetypal psychology, which explores universal concepts of Deity and their relation to the individual psyche. * 7/26: Day discrimination against the disabled was prohibited in public accommodations and employment (1990); day to celebrate empowerment of the disabled. * 7/28: Day the Constitution’s 14th Amendment went into effect, guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all (1868). * 7/28 eve to 7/30 eve: Feast of Father Sky--honoring God as Obatala (Yoruba/Santeria), Ouranos (Old Greek), Svarog (Old Slavic), Thor (Old Norse), Taranis (Old Celtic), Dyaus (Hindu), An (Old Sumerian) & El-Elyon (Old Canaanite-Hebrew). * 7/29 (8:48 p.m. EDT): Full Moon (Grain-Harvest/Thunder Moon). * 7/29 eve to 8/17 eve (8/12 peak): Perseid Meteor Showers. * 7/30 eve to 7/31 eve: Synoikia--Old Greek festival celebrating the peaceful cooperation of states. Offerings were made to Aphrodite and Eirene, Goddesses of friendship and peace. * 7/31 eve to 8/2 eve: Lughnasadh. * 7/31 eve to 8/2 eve: Feast of the Grain Harvest. * 7/31 eve to 8/7 eve: Mid-Summer/First Harvest/Lammas.
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All Gods and
Goddesses
are aspects of
the One Deity
The One
Deity
is reflected in
all Gods and Goddesses
The One
Deity
is Deity of all
Deity is
male and female,
yet genderless
Deity is
all forms,
yet formless
Deity is
within all;
Deity is
beyond all
Deity is
all-embracing
love
With all
that
is known by all
the world's sages,
with all that
is written in all
sacred books,
with all that
is experienced
in all
spiritual traditions,
we still cannot
know
the unknowable--
Deity is Mystery
