BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Misc X-WR-CALDESC:UK Pagan Calendar from pagancalendar.co.uk druid wiccan witch celtic heathen asatru festivals and moon and astrological data CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060202 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=2 DTSTAMP:20061025T215232Z UID:tLiEPNyWPfSk9jnG2nTQZ5VFecrW CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Saint Brigid of Kildare or St Brigid of Ireland (Brigit\, Bridget\, Bridgit\, Bríd or Bride) (Naomh Bhríde in Irish\; fl. 451- 525) is the secondary patron saint of Ireland\, after Saint Patrick. St Brigid was an abbess and the foundress of a number of convents. Her feast day\, 1 February\, is the traditional first day of spring in Ireland. pagancalendar.co.uk STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:St Brigids day URL:http://www.pagancalendar.co.uk/event.php?id=1271 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061106 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=11 DTSTAMP:20061025T215232Z UID:8yQwTPp7qmQ63yomDK1jMeTHxu9l CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Bonfire " Guy Fawkes night pagancalendar.co.uk STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Bonfire night URL:http://www.pagancalendar.co.uk/event.php?id=226 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061231 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070101 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=12 DTSTAMP:20061025T215232Z UID:yzB1jZCWbm2bs9Y6upyGCdeAQzj6 CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Hogmanay is the Scots word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year (Gregorian calendar) in the Scottish manner. It is\, however\, normally only the start of a celebration which lasts through the night until the morning of New Year's Day (1 January) or\, in some cases\, 2 January which is a Scottish Bank Holiday. pagancalendar.co.uk STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Hogmanay URL:http://www.pagancalendar.co.uk/event.php?id=7689 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070106 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 DTSTAMP:20061025T215232Z UID:xnsFhHyC4DwOeZn2CrI2PNn18hkY CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Twelfth Night is a holiday in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany\, concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas\, and is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of the fifth of January\, preceding Twelfth Day\, the eve of the Epiphany\, formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking".[1] pagancalendar.co.uk STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Twelfth Night URL:http://www.pagancalendar.co.uk/event.php?id=1263 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070107 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 DTSTAMP:20061025T215232Z UID:SjLeFfkb9WyTDpW0Peic93rlzlzR CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:ε\;π\;ι\;φ\;ά\;ν\;ε\;ι\;α\;\, "the appearance\; miraculous phenomenon") is a Christian feast intended to celebrate the "shining forth" or revelation of God to mankind in human form\, in the person of Jesus. The observance had its origins in the eastern Christian churches\, and included the birth of Jesus\; the visit of the Magi\, or Wise Men (traditionally named Caspar\, Melchior and Balthasar) who arrived in Bethlehem\; and all of Jesus' childhood events\, up to his baptism in the Jordan by John the Baptist. The date of the feast was fixed on January 6. Ancient Liturgies speak of Illuminatio\, Manifestatio\, Declaratio (Lighting\, Manifestation\, Declaration)\; cf. St. Matthew's Gospel (iii\, 13–17)\; St. Luke's (iii\, 22)\; and St. John's (ii\, 1–11)\; where the Baptism and Marriage at Cana are dwelt upon. The Christian Churches have traditionally also talked of a "Revelation to the Gentiles"\, where the term Gentile meant all non-Jewish peoples. The Biblical Magi represent the non-Jewish peoples of the world. pagancalendar.co.uk STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Epiphany URL:http://www.pagancalendar.co.uk/event.php?id=1264 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070108 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 DTSTAMP:20061025T215232Z UID:9ueCgsJlEfywbXNxBwqUB206jhiO CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Thirteen days after Western Christmas\, on January 7th\, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates its Christmas\, in accordance with the old Julian calendar. It's a day of both solemn ritual and joyous celebration Grandfather Frost brings presents on New Year's Eve\, and these are opened on the same night. However\, after the Russian Revolution\, Christmas celebration was banned in that country from 1917 until 1992. Even today\, throughout the U.S. and Europe\, several Christian denominations\, notably the Jehovah's Witnesses\,[50][51] Puritans\, and some fundamentalists\, view Christmas as a pagan holiday not sanctioned by the Bible. pagancalendar.co.uk STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Russian Christmas URL:http://www.pagancalendar.co.uk/event.php?id=1265 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070126 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 DTSTAMP:20061025T215232Z UID:a66nTCBlI9acVqUgUomRTOZng2Sr CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Robert Burns (January 25\, 1759 – July 21\, 1796) was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland\, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best-known of the poets who have written in the Scots language\, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect which would have been accessible to a wider audience than simply Scottish people. At various times in his career\, he wrote in English\, and in these pieces\, his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt. pagancalendar.co.uk STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Burns Night URL:http://www.pagancalendar.co.uk/event.php?id=1266 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070402 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4 DTSTAMP:20061025T215232Z UID:tmuf4sZO3i4lNju6z9t4gg1GKyM9 CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day\, though not a holiday in its own right\, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. It is sometimes called Lokis day amongst heathens though this is not a historical name for this event. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends and neighbors\, or sending them on fools' errands\, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. In some countries\, April Fools' jokes (also called "April Fools") are only made before noon on April 1st. It is also widely celebrated on the Internet. pagancalendar.co.uk STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:April fools " Loki's day URL:http://www.pagancalendar.co.uk/event.php?id=2134 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070703 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070704 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=7 DTSTAMP:20061025T215232Z UID:oCfliihfOVWcBav367b03IlGM1Xj CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The phrase "Dog Days" conjures up the hottest\, most sultry days of summer. The Old Farmer's Almanac lists the traditional timing of the Dog Days: the 40 days beginning July 3 and ending August 11\, coinciding with the heliacal (at sunrise) rising of the Dog Star\, Sirius. The rising of Sirius does not actually affect the weather (some of our hottest and most humid days occur after August 11)\, but for the ancient Egyptians\, Sirius appeared just before the season of the Nile's flooding\, so they used the star as a "watchdog" for that event. Since its rising also coincided with a time of extreme heat\, the connection with hot\, sultry weather was made for all time: "Dog Days bright and clear " indicate a happy year. " But when accompanied by rain\, " for better times our hopes are vain." http:"www.almanac.com"redletterday"2007-07-3 http:"en.wikipedia.org"wiki"Dog_Days pagancalendar.co.uk STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Dog Days URL:http://www.pagancalendar.co.uk/event.php?id=2135 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071031 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071101 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10 DTSTAMP:20061025T215232Z UID:HqsyX2D03xZxqtG5pBdkeoRfNtsu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Halloween\, or Hallowe'en\, is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31\, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets\, fruit\, and other gifts\, called most commonly trick-or-treating. Some other traditional activities include costume parties\, watching horror films\, going to "haunted" houses\, and traditional autumn activities such as hayrides\, some of which may even be "haunted". Halloween originated under a different name ("Samhain") as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain with mainly Irish and Scots and other immigrants transporting versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Many other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late twentieth century. Halloween is now celebrated in many parts of the western world\, most commonly in the United States\, Canada\, Puerto Rico\, Ireland\, the United Kingdom and sometimes in Australia and New Zealand. In recent years\, Halloween has also been celebrated in some parts of Western Europe. The term Halloween\, and its older rendering Hallowe'en\, is shortened from All-hallow-even\, as it is the evening of"before "All Hallows' Day"[1] (also known as "All Saints' Day"). The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions[citation needed]\, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1. In the ninth century\, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset\, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although we now consider All Saints' (or Hallows') day to be on the day after Halloween\, they were\, at that time\, considered to be the same day. Liturgically\, the Church traditionally celebrated this day as the Vigil of All Saints\, and\, until 1970\, a day of fasting. Like other vigils\, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on Sunday\, although the secular aspects of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955\, although somewhat restored in the post-Vatican II calendar. In Ireland\, the name was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve)\, and though seldom used today\, it is still a well-accepted label\, albeit somewhat esoteric. The festival is also known as Samhain or Oíche Shamhna to the Irish\, Samhuin in Scottish Gaelic\, Calan Gaeaf to the Welsh\, Allantide to the Cornish and Hop-tu-Naa to the Manx. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland\, presumably named after the púca\, a mischievous spirit. Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when spirits can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent (e.g. Catalan mythology about witches\, Irish tales of the Sídhe). pagancalendar.co.uk STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Halloween URL:http://www.pagancalendar.co.uk/event.php?id=2136 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110105 DTSTAMP:20061025T215232Z UID:gpaYV0qpzfkaynm9tEEVf1cj5xGf CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Premium version of PaganCalendar released for android mobile phones. On top of the functionality of the free app\, you get a widget for your homescreen which shows the next 7 events and the pleasure of supporting the developer. pagancalendar.co.uk STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:New Android app URL:http://www.pagancalendar.co.uk/event.php?id=7692 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR