| Wednesday 7 |
Celtic Festival of Taranis, God of Thunder, usually represented as a bearded god with a thunderbolt in one hand and a wheel in the other
Celtic Tree month of Oak ends |
| Thursday 8 |
Celtic Tree Month of Holly begins
Traditionally held on the second Wednesday of the month, in the North Devon town of Holsworthy, the Pretty Maids charity gives money to a 'young single woman resident in the parish, noted for her good looks and church attendance'. |
| Saturday 10 |
Dark Moon
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| Sunday 11 |
Omphalos moot, Bath - 14:00 St. James Wine Vaults, Prof Ronald Hutton will be giving a talk on Fairies. £5 on the door.
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| Tuesday 13 |
Birth date of John Dee (13 July 1527 - 1608 or 1609) a noted mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He also devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy.
Burnham on Sea Moot - temporary change of venue to the Dunstan, details on Facebook. |
| Thursday 15 |
St. Swithin's Day ~
"St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain. St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, for forty days 'twill rain nae mair". |
| Tuesday 20 |
St. Margaret's Day. Said to be the daughter of a Pagan priest, who threw her out of the house when she converted to Christianity. She became a shepherdess, underwent various tortures and was swallowed by a dragon, emerging unscathed when it burst. In the Middle Ages, women who invoked her name were said to be spared the pain of childbirth.
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| Wednesday 21 |
Celtic festival of the Forest Spirits
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| Friday 23 |
Neptunalia, the festival of Neptune, the Roman god of the sea
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| Sunday 25 |
Celtic Festival of the fertility Goddess Macha, who died in childbirth after being forced to race the King's horses. Though possibly a triple goddess herself, she is often seen as one aspect of the Irish triple goddess of battle and sovereignty, the Morrígan.
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| Sunday 25 |
The Roman festival of Furinalia, instituted in honour of Furrina, the Roman goddess of robbers.
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| Monday 26 |
Full Moon
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| Friday 30 |
Celtic Day of Silence
Lammas Eve
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Dog Days....anywhere between 3 July and 11 August, the timing of this period is difficult to calculate as it depends on the latitude and whether the calculation is based on Sirius or Procyon, but it refers to the time when the Dog Star rises coincidentally with the sun, which was believed to be the hottest, and therefore most unwholesome time of the year. A time of illness and malign influences.
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