What holiday were you born on?

[Élistariel]

According to http://www.owlsdottir.com/calendar/august.htm
I was born on August 8:
BURRYMAN FESTIVAL. A man in tight-knit suit & mask is covered from head to toe with burrs & strolls the streets of Linlithgow, collecting tribute from housewives. No one knows why.
http://www.widdershins.org/vol1iss3/l12.htm
The Seeker's Quest, 7 p.m.
Tij day, on which Nepalese women celebrate themselves as Goddess
That's all I've found so far. I don't even know what they mean (yet).

[Melysande]

I was born on Tuesday (a day of grace) June 21, 1977. The Summer Solstice. At 10:35 p.m. in Salem, MA. :)

[Yvonne Belisle]

According to that site I was born on the festival of the bards.

[Vildvittra]

I was born on St Bridget's day
That's soo cool!
Yay!
Vildvittra

[Flaire-FireStar]

Feb.1

Imbolc; Candlemas Eve

February 1 - Imbolc Eve



Brigit, the Celtic Earth-Mother and Goddess of fire, wisdom, poetry and sacred wells is honored on this day. In Ireland, offerings of yellow flowers are made to the Goddess at sacred wells dedicated to her.

A folk-custom still practiced in many countries, is to place a lighted candle in each and every window of the house, beginning at sundown on this date, and allowing them to continue burning until sunrise.



:)

[Azure]

December 13th - St. Lucy's Day, a major festival that's part of the Christmas season in Scandinavia, that may carry over from Viking traditions.

[Wicce]

March 20th - Ostara, Vernal Equinox.

[AradiaSupernova]

August 30

St. Sabina's Day (Frigga) (patron of housewives)

[Blu Heather]

September 3rd
according to the first site:
St. Gregory the Great's Day (invented
Gregorian Chant; patron of music
(St. Gregory the Great's Day. This day is in honor of the inventor of Gregorian chants)

according to the second:
Rowan Tree Church Sunday circle, 1 p.m.
Stress management class, 6 p.m.

[cherrywind]

May 6
The Cat Parade is celebrated in Belgium on this date in honor of felines.

[Amethyst Rose]

:(

I wasn't born on any holidays. I feel so ordinary. :(

To make myself feel better, I went to a different website and found out that these holidays are on my birthday...

Feb. 8

Ha-Ri-Ku-Yo (aka Mass for Broken Needles, day of rest for needles; Japan)
Kite Flying Day (Korea)
Boy Scout Day
Narvik Sun Pageant Day (Norway)
Eidul Fitr (Breakfast Festival)
St. Jerome Emilani's Day (patron of orphans)
Iraq's February Revolution Day
Snow Festival begins (Sapparo, Japan)
National Molasses Bar Day
St. Meingold's Day (patron of bakers, bankers, millers, miners)
Hold Onto Your Head Day
St. Theodore's Day (Greek)
:D

(if anyone's interested, the site I found is: http://www.dailyglobe.com/day2day.html )

[cherrywind]

Oooh, that one had a ton more stuff.

Holidays:
Enlightenment of the Buddha
National Homebrew Day
International No Diet Day
Beverage Day
Eyvind Kelve (Norse)
Feast of the Fiery Flying Roll
Shepherd's and Herdsman's Day (Bulgaria)
Nurses' Day
Sixth Day of May (Fairy)
St. Ava's Day (patron of children learning to walk)
National Crepe Suzette Day

Events (the neatest ones):
Sack of Rome (1527)
Refrigerator invented
Hindenburg dirigible exploded (1937)
Babe Ruth hit his 1st Home Run (1915)
Hitler Diaries announced as fakes (1983)

[WtchyChick13]

Well, this is certainly an appropriate topic for my family!!!

My father was born on Lincoln's Birthday.

My mother was born on Memorial Day.

I was supposed to be born on Veteran's Day but held out until Friday the 13th of November.

According to that third site, I was born on "Actor's Day" (very appropriate for me.) LOL

I also share a birthday (though not the same year) as Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Noth (yum) and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Also on that date in 1940, Disney's "Fantasia" premiered!

Pretty Cool!!! :) :D :) :D

[Flaire-FireStar]

Wow..... :o


Freedom Day
Brigmid (Druid Festival)
Cross-Quarter Day
St. Brigid's Day (aka St. Bridget; patron of dairy workers, dairy maids, poultry raisers, Ireland, Wales, Australia, New Zealand)
Serpent Day (Celtic)
Candlemas Eve
Spring Mother Celebration (Norse)
Be An Encourager Day
St. Severus' Day (patron of hatters, milliners)
Women's Heart Health Day
St. Ives' Hurling of the Silver Ball (Cornell, UK)
National Enrolled Agent's Day
Robinson Crusoe Day
St. Bride's Day
National Baked Alaska Day
St. Pionius' Day
BEE-Day (Philippines)
Perchville USA begins (Tawas Bay, Michigan)

[jelly.belly]

:eek:
I'm born on January 5
Holidays:
Eve of Wonder
Mungday (aka Hung Mung's Day; Discordian)
Festival of Pyrotechnics
Twelfth Night
Bird Day
Glastonbury Thorn
Night of Increase (Syria)
Night of the Magic Camel (Southern Syria)
Carnival begins (Old Bohemia)
Fair Deal Day
Nones of January
St. Simeon Stylites (patron of shepherds)
Apple Howling Day
National Whipped Cream Day
Discordian Festival of Blssed St. Hung Mung
Old Christmas Eve
Epiphany Fair (Italy)
St. John Nepomucene Neumann's Day (1st male US Saint)

hehe! National Whipped cream day!!! :D
And it says that i was born on the day the Fellowship entered Moria! :boing:

[Witchy Cowgirl]

Closest to THE GREAT HORN FAIR --- In parts of Britian when the wonderous powers of nature and fertility are celebrated.

[Psyche Ague]

Workaholics Day
Anxiety Day
Tynwald Day (Isle of Man)
Peace & Unity Day (Rwanda)
Fiesta do Tapuleiros begins (Portugal)
Cape Verde Independence Day Family Day (Lesotho)
St. Athanasius of Athos' Day
Algeria Independence Day
Festival of Cargo Cults
Venezuela Independence Day
St. Anthony Zaccaria's Day
National Apple Turnover Day
St. Rosalia's Day
Fighter's Day (former Yugoslavia)
Taholah Days begin (Taholah, Washington)

Neat events:
1st Bikini appeared (Paris; 1946)
US Secret Service established
1st Speed Limits imposed (2 mph; 1865)
Salvation Army established (1865)
1st Checks with perforated edges made
Truth of Consequences debuted
Seinfeld Chronicles pilot show debuted (1989)
1st US Soldier killed in Korean War (1950)
French captured Algiers (1830)
1st British Ambassador to US appointed (1791)
Venezuela declared independence from Spain (1811)
Church of England voted to allow ordination of women priests (1988)
American migrants met at Champoeg, Oregon to adopt constitution (1843)
Lagunitas Brewing Co. bottled its 1st bottle of beer (1995)
Cape Verde became independent (1975)
Rolling Stones gave free concert in Hyde Park as memorial to Brian Jones (1969)
Dutch Fort Hope seized by English-Connecticut colonists (1653)
Oliver North fined only $150,000 for his part in the Iran-Contra affair (1989)
17th US Amendment passed (allowing direct election of senators; 1913)

[Rubi Waters]

since my birthday is the same as Psyche Ague's see above post. :)

[SpikesPet5150]

Here's me...

June 30

It's the Burning of the Three Fires in Thann, France today, which celebrates three 'stars' which moved to a spot over the forest in the 12th century and then stopped, marking the village's foundling. We celebrate this holiday in the Green Rose tradition as the day where we recognize and know our place of power.

~Bree

[Mithrea]

I got nothing. :confused:

[Emaleth]

February 6
Day the dragon raises its head

Mid-Winter's Day

Ah, nothing special, I'm disappointed:( .

Blessed Be

[Amethyst Rose]

Originally posted by Mithrea
I got nothing. :confused:

Did you try the website that I suggested in my earlier post? It's bound to have something for your birthday. :)

[Grey]

where can I find november??

[Blu Heather]

ooo...I just went to that site http://www.dailyglobe.com/day2day.html
Sept. 3rd
Skyscraper Day
Lost Day
Feast of Atqksak (Baffin Land)
San Marino Independence Day
Running of the Sheep (Montana) :lol:
St. Marinus' Day
National Welsh Rarebit Day
Cromwell's Day
South Carolina Applefest
Qatar Independence Day
Day of Universal Alarm (Fairy)
St. Gregory the Great's Day (invented Gregorian Chant; patron of music, popes, singers, teachers, school children; against plague)

haha...the Muppet Show debuted :lol:

[*~SilenT~*]

um...i not a holliday for me but i was born in the 13th of Feb. The 13th ooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww lol

[Earthsprite]

Hmm...I wonder what event happens on October 22nd...;)

[Aurora_Rain]

I was born on December 26th....The first day of Yuletide...or Boxing Day. yay me.

[Alphyna]

I was born on Mother's Day, and was the first child born to my mother. My first child, first grndchild too, was born on Grandparents day. Neat!
Sarah

[Eirwen Hartsock]

April 15th,
Tax day in the USA
Titanic sank on that day in 1912

first web page:
Festival of Bast

[Koehnae]

The only thing to celebrate on July 2 is my birth. :tongueout

[Old Witch]

http://www.owlsdottir.com/calendar/july.html
July 26..........

[WtchyChick13]

I just went back to that site and this is what I found:

November 13

The thirteenth day after the Witches' Sabbat of Samhain was considered a day of darkness, evil, and misfortune in Medieval times.


Oh freaking joy. :rolleyes:


:lol:

[Cev'aq]

October 7, a day sacred to Pallas Athena

[13thChylde]

In Sweden, the Sun Goddess Lucina is still honored with a traditional festival of light on St. Lucia's Day (also known as Little Yule) each year on this date. At daybreak, the first-born daughter of the house wears a candle crown in obvious reference to the Pagan symbols of fire and life giving light, and serves her family cakes. There are processions and treats. Young girls often wear white dresses and many of the men dress as elves, who are known as Lucina's helpers.

Oh, that's on December 13th by the way, which was on a Friday the year I was born!

[aefentid]

Febuary 2 - Imbolc

[Theres]

Mabon!

[WtchyChick13]

Oh, that's on December 13th by the way, which was on a Friday the year I was born!


Hey! I was born on Friday the 13th!!! :D


(Explains sooooooooooooo much eh???) :lol:

[Lunacie]

Well, I don't think I was born on Thanksgiving Day, but occasionally it does fall on my birthday. Which is way nicer than what happened on my 13th birthday... President Kennedy was murdered.

November 22

[WandererInGray]

*grins* Apparently I was born on the Norse festival of Sommersblat, which is celebrated annually on or around the 25th of April to welcome Summer.

*puzzled look* Seems a little early for summer...but maybe that's just me.

[Nymph]

I was born on July 4th, the fireworks are for me!! :)

Or that's what my parents told me as a child!

[Flar's Freyja]

Wow - and all these years I've been p*ssed about missing Beltaine by one day:

May 2

This day is sacred to the Goddess Hecate in her anglicized form as Helen. She is the Goddess of the holy road, more particularly the four royal roads of Britain. In Wales, the causeways and roads called Sarn Helen are her holy, old straight tracks.

According to the old folk calendar, summer BEGINS on May Day and ends on Lammas (August 1st), with the summer solstice, midway between the two, marking MID-summer. This makes more logical sense than suggesting that summer begins on the day when the sun's power begins to wane and the days grow shorter.

[FaerySong]

I was born on December 7th, how depressing :wah: lol 8O


(Pearl Harbor...just in case u didn't know..you have no idea how many people don't know that... T_T)

[Mistiblue]

Mine is August 1st,...Lughnasadh.

I Love a Festival. :)

[Rian]

I wasn't born on any holiday... I'm so distraught now!

But the day I was -supposed- to be born on is a holiday!

<i>March 23

The Norse festival of Summer Finding is observed annually on this date. The festival celebrates the Finding of Summer (i.e. Spring) when the light of the sun and the Goddess Sunnu becoming more powerful than darkness.

Nature constantly renews itself and the message of Summer Finding is one of rebirth. The new Spring has come. It is a time when new life has burst forth from the death of Winter. Humanity as part of nature can see divinity in this law of death and rebirth. It is a time of purification (many ancient customs are based on this). The eggs (of Easter), the "Easter Bunny" (Ostara's sacred hare) are symbols of new life and fertility. The Sun wheels of "hot cross buns" are symbols of the burning out of Winter. A rebirth of Summer - a time of joy and purification.</i>

[WynnJera]

Mine is the Ides of March if you look at it a certain way .... not from William ...

Mine is March 13th

Okay, now listen carefully. The Romans did not count the days of the month from 1 through 30. Instead, three days in every month had names:

the Kalends fell on the 1st
the Nones on the 5th or 7th, according to the rhyme
the Ides on the 13th or 15th.

:)

[Fairywolf]

Feast of the ancestors

Air Dragon Day -

This day honors all Dragon's of the air and always falls on the last Saturday in the sign of Libra. Today hang out a windsock with a dragon image on it and if the wind is strong enough take your children out to fly a dragon kite. Dragon's love children and this is a day to honor that relationship.



And to think I was supposed to be due on halloween!!! But my mommy had complacations so I was born on the 20th instead!

[Theres]

Well, I don't think I was born on Thanksgiving Day, but occasionally it does fall on my birthday. Which is way nicer than what happened on my 13th birthday... President Kennedy was murdered.

November 22

damn, you're older than i am!

[Crystal_Raye]

I was born on June 23rd, the day of the Flaming of the Rose. This day is a special one for the spiritual warrior. It is a day for honoring the inner fire and the dragon Nywvre.

[Kaylara]

July 17The last day of the festival of the midnight sun

The Dog Days, ruled by the Dog Star, Sirius (http://owlsdottir.com/calendar/festivals/sirius.htm), and called Loki's (http://owlsdottir.com/astrology/fixed_stars_of_the_northern_trad.htm) Brand (http://owlsdottir.com/astrology/fixed_stars_of_the_northern_trad.htm) in Northern Traditions begin today. It is considered the hottest part of the year and it lasts until August 28th.

[SilentStarWolf]

I was born on December 30. The Feast Of Sekhmet.

[Phoenix Blue]

I wasn't good enough to get my own holiday. . . :p but I was born the day after a Feast of Sekhmet and the Purifying Flame, for what that's worth. :)

Edited to add: Just how many Feasts of Sekhmet are there, anyway?

[DixieWitch]

I was born Feb. 24, or Rose Monday.

~~Rowan

[Lunacie]

damn, you're older than i am!


:fishsmack Well, thanks for that little hit. **snort** Good thing I've already come to terms with being a Krone, eh? Otherwise you'd be croaking like a little Pagan froggie now. Mwhahahahahahahahaha

[WtchyChick13]

I was born on July 4th, the fireworks are for me!! :)

Or that's what my parents told me as a child!


My mother was born on Memorial Day and her parents told her that the parades were held in her honor. :D

[shiloki]

November 2:

All Soul's Day in England. Small offerings known as soul cakes are traditionally set out for the dead every year on this date.

La Dia de Muerta in Mexico (day of the dead), too....

[Thorferrer]

Born on St. Patrick's Day

[Pan]

Born the day after May Day/Beltane.

aka. May 2

[DayDreamer]

October 19, 1968 at 11:45 p.m.

According to the first site, nothing special on my birthday :(