Southern Hemisphere Celebration Dates

[den]

Feb 2 - Lammas (sounds like a good excuse for a BBQ)
April 30th - Hallowe'en
Aug. 1 - Horse's Birthday
Aug. 2 - Wombat Day
Nov. 1 - November Day (like May Day, but... you know.)

Also

July 22 - Pi Aproximation Day (22/7 for those who do dates like that)


So Happy November Day everyone. And for my November Day wish I would like to see Bill Murray in a movie called "Wombat Day."

(oops. left out Yule and Midsummer's Day)

Comments

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Ok I know, it's a late reply, but I came in from your Happy Wombat's Day post.

One of the coolest pagan/wiccan circles/rituals I ever went to was a late fall ritual the theme of which was 'truth' and the sometimes 'flexible' nature of truth, not that truth so much is bendable, but that it's not always as black and white right and wrong as people like to think. That your truth and my truth may be different truths - but they are both equally valid and both equally true. In illustration of the point the priest pointed out that while he could say it was fall, and that we were all beginning to prepare for Yule festivals, and that was true, he could also say it was spring, and that preparations were beginning for mid-summer festivals, and that was also true. That the two might seem incongruous with each other, both points of view were equally valid, depending on what part of the world one lived in - i.e. The perspective and life experience one knew defines one's truth.

It was an important lesson, and one that has stuck with me for a long time.