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Year 2009
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah
Holidays -
2009
Christian -
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition
Holidays
- 2009
Unitarian Universalist
Holidays -
2009
Muslim - Sufi
Holidays
- 2009
Baha'i Holidays - 2009
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Buddhist Holidays - 2009
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African Holidays: Zoroastrian,
Ancient Egyptian, Santeria - 2009
Native American
(Iroquois, Navajo & Pueblo)
& Meso American
(Inca, Mayan & Aztec)
Holidays - 2009
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe (Greek, Roman, Slavic, Celtic, Anglo-Teutonic & Norse)
- 2009
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Environmentalist
Dates - 2009
Social Justice /
Human Rights / Feminist
Dates - 2009
Peace /
Disarmament
Dates - 2009
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Eclipse & Helions - 2009
Meteor Showers - 2009
Visible Planets - 2009
Astrological Periods - 2009
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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 2008
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah
Holidays -
2008
Christian -
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition
Holidays
- 2008
Unitarian Universalist
Holidays -
2008
Muslim - Sufi
Holidays
- 2008
Baha'i Holidays - 2008
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Hindu Holidays - 2008
Jain, Sikh, Taoist & Shinto Holidays - 2008
Buddhist Holidays - 2008
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Middle-Eastern &
African Holidays: Zoroastrian,
Ancient
Egyptian, Santeria
- 2008
Native American
(Iroquois, Navajo & Pueblo)
& Meso American
(Inca, Mayan & Aztec)
Holidays
- 2008
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe (Greek,
Roman, Slavic, Celtic, Anglo-Teutonic & Norse) - 2008
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Deep Ecology /
Environmentalist
Dates
- 2008
Social Justice /
Human Rights / Feminist
Dates -
2008
Peace /
Disarmament
Dates -
2008
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Eclipse & Helions
- 2008
Meteor Showers - 2008
Visible Planets - 2008
Astrological Periods - 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 -
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition
Holidays
- 2007
Unitarian Universalist
Holidays -
2007
Muslim - Sufi
Holidays
- 2007
Baha'i Holidays - 2007
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Jain, Sikh, Taoist & Shinto Holidays - 2007
Buddhist Holidays - 2007
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Middle-Eastern &
African Holidays: Zoroastrian,
Ancient
Egyptian, Santeria
- 2007
Native American
(Iroquois, Navajo & Pueblo)
& Meso American
(Inca, Mayan & Aztec)
Holidays
- 2007
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe (Greek,
Roman, Slavic, Celtic, Anglo-Teutonic & Norse) - 2007
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Deep Ecology /
Environmentalist
Dates
- 2007
Social Justice /
Human Rights / Feminist
Dates -
2007
Peace /
Disarmament
Dates -
2007
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Eclipses & Helions
- 2007
Meteor Showers - 2007
Visible Planets - 2007
Astrological Periods - 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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Year 2006
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah
Holidays -
2006
Christian -
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition
Holidays
- 2006
Unitarian Universalist
Holidays -
2006
Muslim - Sufi
Holidays
- 2006
Baha'i Holidays - 2006
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Hindu Holidays - 2006
Jain, Sikh, Taoist & Shinto Holidays - 2006
Buddhist Holidays - 2006
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Middle-Eastern &
African Holidays: Zoroastrian,
Ancient
Egyptian, Santeria
- 2006
Native American
(Iroquois, Navajo & Pueblo)
& Meso American
(Inca, Mayan & Aztec)
Holidays
- 2006
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe (Greek,
Roman, Slavic, Celtic, Anglo-Teutonic & Norse) - 2006
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Deep Ecology /
Environmentalist
Dates
- 2006
Social Justice /
Human Rights / Feminist
Dates -
2006
Peace /
Disarmament
Dates -
2006
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Eclipses & Helions
- 2006
Meteor Showers - 2006
Visible Planets - 2006
Astrological Periods - 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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Year 2005
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah
Holidays -
2005
Christian -
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition
Holidays
- 2005
Unitarian Universalist
Holidays -
2005
Muslim - Sufi
Holidays
- 2005
Baha'i Holidays - 2005
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Hindu Holidays - 2005
Jain, Sikh, Taoist & Shinto Holidays - 2005
Buddhist Holidays - 2005
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Middle-Eastern &
African Holidays: Zoroastrian,
Ancient
Egyptian, Santeria
- 2005
Native American
(Iroquois, Navajo & Pueblo)
& Meso American
(Inca, Mayan & Aztec)
Holidays
- 2005
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe (Greek,
Roman, Slavic, Celtic, Anglo-Teutonic & Norse) - 2005
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Deep Ecology /
Environmentalist
Dates
- 2005
Social Justice /
Human Rights / Feminist
Dates -
2005
Peace /
Disarmament
Dates -
2005
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Eclipses & Helions
- 2005
Meteor Showers - 2005
Visible Planets - 2005
Astrological Periods - 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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Year 2004
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah
Holidays -
2004
Christian -
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition
Holidays
- 2004
Unitarian Universalist
Holidays -
2004
Muslim - Sufi
Holidays
- 2004
Baha'i Holidays - 2004
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Hindu Holidays - 2004
Jain, Sikh, Taoist & Shinto Holidays - 2004
Buddhist Holidays - 2004
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Middle-Eastern &
African Holidays: Zoroastrian,
Ancient
Egyptian, Santeria
- 2004
Native American
(Iroquois, Navajo & Pueblo)
& Meso American
(Inca, Mayan & Aztec)
Holidays
- 2004
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe (Greek,
Roman, Slavic, Celtic, Anglo-Teutonic & Norse) - 2004
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Deep Ecology /
Environmentalist
Dates
- 2004
Social Justice /
Human Rights / Feminist
Dates -
2004
Peace /
Disarmament
Dates -
2004
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Eclipses & Helions
- 2004
Meteor Showers - 2004
Visible Planets - 2004
Astrological Periods - 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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Year 2003
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah
Holidays -
2003
Christian -
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition
Holidays
- 2003
Unitarian Universalist
Holidays -
2003
Muslim - Sufi
Holidays
- 2003
Baha'i Holidays - 2003
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Hindu Holidays - 2003
Jain, Sikh, Taoist & Shinto Holidays - 2003
Buddhist Holidays - 2003
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Middle-Eastern &
African Holidays: Zoroastrian,
Ancient
Egyptian, Santeria
- 2003
Native American
(Iroquois, Navajo & Pueblo)
& Meso American
(Inca, Mayan & Aztec)
Holidays
- 2003
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe (Greek,
Roman, Slavic, Celtic, Anglo-Teutonic & Norse) - 2003
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Deep Ecology /
Environmentalist
Dates
- 2003
Social Justice /
Human Rights / Feminist
Dates -
2003
Peace /
Disarmament
Dates -
2003
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Eclipses & Helions
- 2003
Meteor Showers - 2003
Visible Planets - 2003
Astrological Periods - 2003
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(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 2002
Calendar
By Tradition...
Jewish - Kabbalah
Holidays -
2002
Christian -
Ecumenical Mysticism/
Wisdom Tradition
Holidays
- 2002
Unitarian Universalist
Holidays -
2002
Muslim - Sufi
Holidays
- 2002
Baha'i Holidays - 2002
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Hindu Holidays - 2002
Jain, Sikh, Taoist & Shinto Holidays - 2002
Buddhist Holidays - 2002
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Middle-Eastern &
African Holidays: Zoroastrian,
Ancient
Egyptian, Santeria
- 2002
Native American
(Iroquois, Navajo & Pueblo)
& Meso American
(Inca, Mayan & Aztec)
Holidays
- 2002
Pagan Holidays:
Old Religions of Europe (Greek,
Roman, Slavic, Celtic, Anglo-Teutonic & Norse) - 2002
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Deep Ecology /
Environmentalist
Dates
- 2002
Social Justice /
Human Rights / Feminist
Dates -
2002
Peace /
Disarmament
Dates -
2002
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Eclipse & Helions
- 2002
Meteor Showers - 2002
Visible Planets - 2002
Astrological Periods - 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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Interfaith Links
April 2008...
* 4/1: Veneralia–Old Roman festival celebrating Venus (Goddess of Peace) vanquishing Mars (God of War) with love. * 4/1: Day that same-sex marriage was first legally recognized (2001). * 4/5 (11:55 p.m. EDT): New Moon. * 4/5: Shakyamuni Buddha Day–Day Tibetan Buddhists meditate on the Buddha’s teachings and strive to fulfill the Precepts. * 4/5: Mindfulness Day–Zen Buddhist day for being mindful that the joys and suffering of others are your joys and suffering. * 4/5 to 4/8: Iroquois Thunder Ceremony–in thanksgiving for the rains. * 4/6: Day the Hutus began genocidal massacres of Tutsis in Rwanda (1994); vigil for true peace, justice, and respect for the human rights of all in Africa. * 4/6 to 4/14: Navaratri/Gangaur–Hindu festival honoring Great Goddess Maha Devi as Gauri--life, growth, and fruition. Tantric Hindus recognize gender equality and reject caste. * 4/7: World Health Day–Day to pray for healing of all those chronically and seriously ill; day to advocate for adequate health care for all. * 4/7: Birthday of William Wordsworth (1770), poet and mystic who found connection with Deity while communing with Nature. * 4/7: Birthday of William Ellery Channing (1780), Unitarian who believed all concepts of Deity to be aspects of the one Deity, and preached religious tolerance. * 4/8: Zen Buddhist celebration of the Buddha’s birth (563 BCE). The Buddha taught an eight-fold path to enlightenment--right views, right aspiration, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right contemplation. * 4/9: Baha’i feast honoring the one Deity as Jalal--Glory. * 4/11: Day Pope John XXIII called for world peace, recognition of human rights, and justice under law (1963). He recognized that peace will only be realized when social justice is realized. * 4/11 eve to 4/12 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Artemis (Roman Diana/Slavic Diwitsa), who represents the feminine in Nature and protects women throughout their lives. Women recognized the transitions in their lives and honored female fertility. * 4/12: Day the first woman was ordained a rabbi in Orthodox Judaism (2006). * 4/13: Day for meditation on Tantric Bodhisattva Deities Avalokitesvara and Green Tara, consciousness and empowerment of Compassion. Buddhists recognize the equality of all sentient beings. * 4/13 to 4/14: Ramanavami– Birthday of Hindu God Rama (avatar of Vishnu), protector of beloved wife, Goddess Sita (avatar of Lakshmi). Vaishnavas are devoted to God Vishnu and His avatars. * 4/13 eve to 4/14 eve: Feast of God Poseidon, Goddess Amphritrite, and all Old Greek Gods and Goddesses of the seas. * 4/14: Vaisakhi/Indian Solar New Year–Hindus ritually bathe in the Ganges River to purify themselves. Hindus believe all Gods and Goddesses are aspects of the limitless, attributeless, immanent, and transcendent Brahman. * 4/14: Cetacean Day–Day to honor all creatures of the sea and to meditate on Deity manifesting as sea creatures--Goddess as Delphine/Dolphin (Old Greek) & Sgana/Orca Whale (Haida); and God as Qolqalg Odai/Salmon (Haida). * 4/14: Day the Sikh Khalsa was created (1699). Men and women initiated into the Khalsa seek harmony with the Divine through introspection and service to the dispossessed. * 4/14 to 4/25 (I 4/24): Old Norse Summer Days Feast– Offerings were made to the Deities (particularly Odin, Thor, and Freyr) for success, peace, and plenty. * 4/16 eve to 4/17 eve: Day commemorating the death of Abdul Qadir Jilani (1166), Sufi saint who was renown for his compassion, particularly for the poor. * 4/17: Day Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge, who caused the deaths of more than a million civilians (1975); vigil for true peace, justice, and respect for the human rights of all in Asia. * 4/18: Day commemorating the birth of Mahavira Vardhamana Jnatrputra (599 BCE), founder of the Jain faith. * 4/19 eve to 4/27 eve: Passover/Pesach–Jewish festival recalling their deliverance from slavery in Egypt and celebrating freedom from oppression. * 4/20 (6:25 a.m. EDT): Full Moon (Corn-Planting Moon). * 4/20: Beginning of Taurus (the Bull/Cow/Calf). * 4/20 eve to 4/23 eve (4/21 peak): Lyrid Meteor Showers. * 4/21: Birthday of John Muir (1838), naturalist and conservationist. * 4/21 to 5/2: Ridvan–Baha’i celebration of Baha’u’llah’s declaration identifying himself as the New Prophet. * 4/22: Earth Day–Day to honor the Earth and to meditate on Deity manifesting as Mother Earth. * 4/22: Day the world’s nations guaranteed asylum to those persecuted in their homelands on account of their ethnicity, religion, or political opinion (1954). * 4/23: Yoruba/Santeria feast of Ogun, Orisha of Self-reliance and Industrious Labor. Yorubas/Santeros celebrate with drumming, ecstatic dancing, and possession trance. * 4/24: Day to take your children to work to teach them the value of self-sufficiency. * 4/25: Arbor Day–Day to honor trees, to plant trees, and to meditate on Deity manifesting as trees--Goddess as Helice/Willow (Old Greek), Yggdrasill/Ash (Old Norse) & Asherah/Palm (Old Canaanite-Hebrew). * 4/26 to 5/3: Mayan Rain Festival–honoring Rain God Chac and His attendant Chacmool, and welcoming the fructifying rains. * 4/27: Death day of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882), Transcendentalist Unitarian who believed in equality, self reliance, and the immanence of Deity in humans and in all Nature. * 4/28: Baha’i feast honoring the one Deity as Jamal--Beauty. * 4/28 to 4/30: Rogation Days–Christian days of prayer for bountiful crops, sustainable development, and healing of environmental abuses. * 4/28 eve to 5/3 eve: Floralia–Old Roman festival devoted to Flora, Goddess of Flowers. * 4/29: Day production and use of chemical weapons was outlawed world-wide (1997); day to mourn their victims. * 4/30: Birthday of Hosea Ballou (1771), Deist Universalist who preached that all are Deity’s beloved children. * 4/30 eve to 5/2 eve: Beltaine–Old Celtic/Welsh feast of Blodeuwedd (Goddess of Flowers) and Llew (the Oak King--God of the waxing Sun). * 4/30 to 5/4: Zoroastrian celebration of Divine Spirit Khshathra Vairya, creator and protector of the Sky. Zoroastrians worship the one transcendent and immanent Deity Ahura Mazda, who is symbolized by a sacred fire. * 4/30 eve to 5/4 eve: Mid-Spring/May Day/Walpurgis.
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THE MYSTIC'S WHEEL OF THE YEAR 2008
A Multifaith Calendar Reflecting Eco-Egalitarian Spirituality
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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