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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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Hindu Holidays - 2008
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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Hindu Holidays - 2003
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
May 2008...
* 4/21 to 5/2: Ridvan. * 4/26 to 5/3: Mayan Rain Festival. * 4/28 eve to 5/3 eve: Floralia. * 4/30 eve to 5/2 eve: Beltaine. * 4/30 eve to 5/2 eve: Feast of the Sacred Marriage– honoring Goddess-God as Inanna & Dumuzi (Old Sumerian), Isis & Osiris (Old Egyptian), Oshun & Shango (Yoruba/Santeria), Lada & Lado (Old Slavic). Celebrated by crowning divine images with wreaths of flowers and greens. * 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– Celebrates sacred love and the flowering vegetation by gathering flowers and dancing around a Maypole. * 5/1 (OC 6/5): Ascension Day– Christian feast marking Lord Jesus’ ascension into Heaven. * 5/1: Christian feast celebrating the sacred marriage of Blessed Mary and St. Joseph. * 5/1: Birthday of Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Catholic mystic and evolutionary who experienced the union of consciousness with all Nature. * 5/1: Day Pope John Paul II affirmed that capitalism must be tempered by social justice and restrained by human rights and environmental laws (1991). * 5/1: National Day of Prayer– Day to pray for freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and separation of religion and government throughout the world. * 5/1 to 5/4: Zuni Green Corn Dance– welcoming back the Corn Maidens, who flee the land during the Winter. * 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary--Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate. * 5/2: Holocaust Remembrance Day– Day to mourn Jewish victims of genocide and anti-Semitism, make peace, and celebrate empowerment of Jewish Americans. * 5/2 eve to 5/6 eve (5/4 peak): Eta Aquarid Meteor Showers. * 5/3: Taue Matsuri– Shinto rice-planting festival. * 5/3: Mindfulness Day– Zen Buddhist day for being mindful that everything you do, or fail to do, affects all sentient beings. * 5/3 eve to 5/4 eve: Celebration day for Muhyi ad-Din Ibn El-Arabi (d. 1240), Sufi saint who honored Deity as a unity manifested in all Nature, both genders, and countless forms. * 5/4: Birthday of Horace Mann (1796), advocate for universal nonsectarian education. * 5/5 (8:18 a.m. EDT): New Moon. * 5/5: Cinco de Mayo– Day celebrating Mexico’s struggle for independence; day to mourn Hispanic victims of exploitation (past and present), make peace, and celebrate empowerment of Hispanic Americans. * 5/5 to 5/8: Iroquois Corn-Planting Ceremony– in thanksgiving for the corn seed. Iroquois believe Awenhai/Sky Woman descended from the Sky and created Earth. * 5/6: Shepherd’s Day– Day to meditate on Deity as Lord of Animals--God as Dumuzi (Old Sumerian), Osiris (Old Egyptian), Pan (Old Greek), Volos (Old Slavic) & Shiva Pasupati (Hindu). * 5/8: Akshay Tritiya– Final day of Jain fast; day of Jain pilgrimage. Jainas practice harmlessness, simplicity, and charity to attain enlightenment and unity with Deity. * 5/8: Christian feast of St. Julian of Norwich (d. 1419)--mystic who believed Deity to be Father and Mother, everywhere in everything. * 5/8 eve to 5/9 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Eros– Day to honor love and passion. * 5/9: Day the world’s nations committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which are causing global warming (1992). Day to mourn the failure of the U.S. to reduce these emissions. * 5/10: Death day of Theodore Parker (1860), Unitarian slavery abolitionist and social justice activist. * 5/10 eve: Vigil for lost mothers; night of mourning and healing. * 5/11: Mothers’ Day– Day to give love and thanks to all mothers; day for all mothers to celebrate motherhood and contemplate their sacred duty to provide for the physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual needs of their children. * 5/11 (OC 6/15): Pentecost/Whitsunday– Christian feast celebrating the descent of Our Mother, the Holy Spirit, upon the male and female disciples of Lord Jesus; honors Her as the Paraclete--Grace, Wisdom, Justice, and Providence. * 5/12: Day the first woman was ordained a rabbi in Conservative Judaism (1985). * 5/13: Day the Humanist Manifesto was published (1933). It exhorts people to affirm life, not deny it; engage life, not flee from it; and work towards the happiness of self and all. * 5/15: Yoruba/Santeria feast of Ochossi, Orisha of Animals. * 5/17: Baha’i feast honoring the one Deity as ‘Azamat--Grandeur. Baha’is believe in the oneness of all religions. * 5/17: Day the Supreme Court concluded that ethnic-based segregation of schools violates the U.S. Constitution (1954). * 5/18: Trinity Sunday– Christian celebration of the one universal Deity as Holy Heavenly Father, Holy Spirit Mother, and Holy Christ Child. * 5/18: Feast of Old Greek God Pan, who represents the masculine in Nature and protects men throughout their lives. Men recognized the transitions in their lives and honored male fertility. * 5/18 eve to 5/20 eve: Feast of Divine Love and Compassion--source of beneficence--honoring Goddess as Isis (Old Egyptian), Oshun (Yoruba/Santeria), Aphrodite (Old Greek), Lakshmi (Hindu), Rahamin (Jewish Kabbalah) & Grace (Christian). * 5/19 (10:11 p.m. EDT): Full Moon (Flower Moon). * 5/19: Old Celtic/Irish feast in which sacred healing wells and springs were adorned with flowers in honor of Goddess Brigid, daughter of Mother Goddess Danu and Father God Dagda. * 5/19 (Ch B 5/12, Th B 5/20): Saga Dawa Duchen– Tibetan Buddhist festival celebrating the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana of Buddha Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 BCE). * 5/20: Day the Supreme Court recognized that discrimination against lesbians and gays violates the U.S. Constitution (1996). * 5/21: Beginning of Gemini (the Twins/Lovers/Partners). * 5/21: Death day of Jane Addams (1935), social worker, feminist, and peace advocate. * 5/22: Corpus Christi– Christian day for veneration of Christ Immanuel in the Host--divine immanence in the grain. * 5/23: Birthday of Margaret Fuller (1810), Transcendentalist and feminist who argued that women, as well as men, have immortal souls. * 5/26: Memorial Day– Day to contemplate all the horrors of war, mourn war’s victims, and support relief efforts for them. * 5/27: Birthday of Rachel Carson (1907), biologist who began the environmental movement. * 5/29: Death day of Baha’i Prophet Baha’u’llah (1892). Baha’u’llah believed Deity to be male, female, and beyond gender. * 5/30: Dakinis’ Day– Day Tantric Buddhists make offerings to Mother Tantra; day to unite will and power to manifest positive social change and environmental healing. * 5/31: Christian feast of Our Lady, Queen of Heaven. * 5/31 eve: Vigil for lost spouses/partners; night of mourning and healing.
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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
