First Attempt at a Calendar

[qos]

I'm continuing my efforts to bring consistency to my spiritual practice, with a combination of discipline in persistence and focus on one hand, and allowing for variety on the other. To that end, oakmouse gave me a list of seven different devotions/practices, one for each day of the week, as an example of how I could be consistent with my efforts and dedication while not boring myself with repetition.

This morning I realized that I wanted to focus specific, deliberate time on each of my household deities, and as it happens, there are seven in my current list. (Who they are and why I'm working with each is an entry I've been meaning to make but which will have to wait for more leisure.) Each deity will receive special focus on a specific day, but of course contact will never be limited to that day.

Monday - Arianrhod
Tuesday - Tiwaz
Wednesday - Yeshua
Thursday - Anubis
Friday - Freyja
Saturday - Inanna
Sunday - Isis

I'm also in the process of researching traditional holy days associated with each, as well as days devoted to other deities with whom I have connection but do not work with as closely: Hecate, Hades and Perseophone, Brigid, Athena, Dionysus, and etc.

Eventually I will have a personal holy days calendar, which I can use for private, household, and perhaps community celebrations and observances.

Comments

[oakmouse]

That's an excellent way to handle both giving yourself some variety and making sure you have quality time with each deity. I look forward to hearing how it works out in practice.

[makhsihed.livejournal.com]

<3 Anubis~ but I'm maybe biased.

One of Aset (Isis)'s chief holidays is the day of Her birth, an epagomenal day (a day not considered within the year), two days before Wep Ronpet (the new year, when Sirius rises over Egypt; this year Wep Ronpet is today! and Aset's birthday was this past Sunday).

There's also the Feast of Aset Luminous, a rather huge Aset festival geeenerally falling in late June/early July. (I'll have to look it up to see when it fell this year. July 4th, I think.) Lots of candles.

There's a Feast of Yinepu (Anubis as the Divine Child) in July... the 24th this past year, I think.

There's the Procession of Aset... I think it falls on August 18th this year. There's another Procession on October... 13th?

The Lamentations of Aset and Nebt-het (Nepthys) fall around October 21st this year; I think that's when they're mourning Wesir (Osiris)? Then again, there's another Weeping of Aset and Nebt-het in December (the 18th or so), which is more likely related to Wesir's death, since it should be roughly 70 days from then to His rebirth (symbolized by the rising of Sirius/flooding of the Nile; this is also why it's believed that it takes 70 days for someone who is deceased to go through the process of traveling to the Duat [Egyptian underworld] and the weighing of the heart and so on; so it's 70 days from the day of death before one can consider the person "dead" and "an akh" [ancestor], in Kemetic belief).

There's a "Navigation of Yinepu" at the end of December/beginning of January; I'm not sure what it refers to, I'll find out when it gets closer.

There's a Feast of Aset in early January; the 9th or so, this year? (Again, I'm guessing based on an outdated calendar and the date differential between it and Wep Ronpet this year, which means I could be way off base.)

Mid-January is the "Awakening of Aset by the Majesty of Re"; I have no clue what that is.

Late January/early February is "Aset Sees the Face of Wesir", which I'm betting has something to do with Their reunion after Wesir's death.

Starting in early March is an 18-day festival: "Festival of Aset Giving Birth" (to Heru-sa-Aset/Horus the Younger, I'd imagine - or maybe to Someone else?).

Early/mid April is the Day of the Festival of Clothing Yinepu, which if I'm not mistaken would be a day of redressing His shrine(s) and such.

Early June is the Conception of Heru-sa-Aset by Aset and Wesir. Okay, so maybe the earlier Festival of Giving Birth is not birthing Heru-sa-Aset.

And there's a Festival of Yinepu in late June.

There's more, of course, but the calendar I'm looking at right now is outdated, so I'll have to look up more accurate stuff later, if you're interested. :)

[shadowandstar.livejournal.com]

Thank-you for this!

What resources do you recommend for me to do more research?