November -- the nineth month

DATE	HOLIDAY	DESCRIPTION
November 1	All Saints' Day	Christian day for honoring saints, known and unknown. A Holy Day of Obligation in the Roman Catholic Church where saints have special formal status. In general, saints are persons with reputation for unusual lives of holiness and devotion to God. This is the Christianized version of the earlier Celtic Festival of Samhain, on which night bonfires are lit on hills around the country.
November 1	Satanist High Holy Day	(related to Halloween - human sacrificed)
November 2	Day of the Dead Dia de los Muertos	Although people in the United States often associate the Day of the Dead with Halloween, there is really no connection except the proximity of the dates. The Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, a major Mexican celebration, falls on November 2, just after Halloween. It is based on traditional Aztec beliefs of death and afterlife, celebrating the rituals and traditions within both life and death.
November 2	All Souls' Day	A Christian day dedicated to all departed souls of the faithful, especially those in purgatory. This day was instituted by Saint Odilo, abbot of Cluny, France (d.1048) who ordered it to be observed throughout the Cluniac monasteries. It spread through the rest of Christendom by the end of the thirteenth century. The origins are linked to an ancient festival of the dead. In Europe it is believed that on this night the dead visit their homes and eat the food of the living. Candles are left burning and "soulcakes" are left out. In Britain, on the eve of this night "soulers" would once go from house to house saying prayers for the dead and asking for soulcakes. It was believed that the more cakes you could eat, the more souls you could save from purgatory. Also known as Day of the Dead, especially in Mexico, where families picnic at the graves of their dead relatives, and give the children toys, bread and sweets in the shapes of skeletons or caskets. The pagan origins of this holiday are mentioned in The Pagan Book of Days by Nigel Pennick. All Souls' Day commemorates departed spirits not elevated to sainthood. Before becoming a church festival in 998 C.E., it was marked with celebrations from the festival of Woden (Odin) as god of the dead: parading the Hodening wild horse and other guising including mummers' plays enacting the mysteries of life, death, and rebirth. Ceremonial soulcakes were cooked and eaten on this day.
November	Feast of Nether World	feast of the nether world, parting of the astral veil
November 1 - 3	Hallowmas	One of the year's four great midseason festivals, this one at the midpoint between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice. These days have been a critical weather marker from ancient times, as this is the week, called Hallowmas in Christian Europe, when the birds fly south, the animals migrate and hibernate for the winter, and the crops flame out in glory, yielding new food and the seeds to grow anew in the spring just before they die and decay into winter. As this moment in nature marks the onset of mortality, it has always been, in the imagination of human beings everywhere, a time of meeting between the living and the dead. These red days of autumn pass like maple leaves in the stream, and are among the most passionate times of the year for people whose emotional bodies are engaged. Among the other festivals held all over the planet at this point in the year:
November 1 - 3	Festival of Isis	Pantheist, Polytheist: This day is the traditional beginning of Winter for the Romans. On this day in 82 BCE the Romans successfully defended an attack by the Sabines at the Colline Gate. In Egypt, and many parts of the Roman Empire, this day began the three day Festival of Isis, the Egyptian mother goddess. Although a foreign deity, Isis was honored with a temple at Rome. Professional singers, musicians, and dancers, mostly female, would perform at the temple during this festival. The performance involved actors playing the parts of Isis and Nephthys in the mystery plays celebrating the death and resurrection of Osiris. These were perhaps the oldest mystery plays on earth, predating even those of Mesopotamia. This festival was preceded by the three day Isia festival. November is the ninth month (after March) and is a lucky month which is almost free of religious obligation.
November	Isia	In the Egyptian calendar, this three-day period is the Isia, the Festival of Isis, which commemorates the dismemberment of Osiris by his brother and murderer, Set, and the healing and love skills of Isis in collecting and reintegrating the King's body, and bringing Osiris back to life a second time, after having already revived him once after Set had killed him before by sealing him inside a wooden chest and thereby apparently suffocating him. The love union between Isis and Osiris after this second resurrection produces the solar falcon, Horus, the hero who will seek justice against his father's murderer, and the restoration of balance in the Realm between order and chaos, life and death.
November 4	Diwali	Hindu Festival of Lights symbolizing the human urge to move toward the light. Gift exchanges, fireworks and festive meals
November 4	Satanic Revels	(sexual orgies and sacrifices - oral/anal/vaginal. use females age 7-17)
November 5	Guy Fawkes Day	Memorializes the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605 in which Guy Fawkes and others attempted to blow up the King and Parliament. At the time Catholics who refused to attend services of the Church of England (recusants) were considered traitors and persecuted. When James I accended the throne the Catholics were hopeful, for he had promised not to collect the fines against the recusants, but instead of keeping his promises he continued to execute the severe laws against them. Fawkes, who was Roman Catholic, joined with veteran conspritors Robert Catesby and others in a plot to blow up the whole Parliament, king and lords included. A vault directly under the House of Lords was conveniently for rent, and Fawkes took it. They filled it with 36 barrels of gunpowder and waited for parliament to meet, which was delayed several times and finally set to be November 5th. In the mean time disagreements broke out among the conspirators because the Catholic lords and members of parliament would be killed in addition to the king and other intended victims. Ten days before Parliament opened, a Catholic lord who was friend to several of the conspiritors received an anonymous tip not to attend, for "they shall receyve a terrible blowe this parleament". He relayed his message to the king. Despite warnings that all was found out, Fawkes remained determined to see the plot through, but was discovered on the day of the planned plot. To reveal the names of his partners, Fawkes was tortured in accordance with the King's letter which said, "If he will not otherwise confess, the gentlest tortures are to be first used to him, and so on, step by step, to the most severe, and so God speed the good work." All the conspirators were hanged if not killed in the act of being taken, and the laws against recusants were made more severe. The fifth of November was ordered to be a day of Thankgiving by an Act that lasted over two hundred years. The eve of this day is known in some areas of England as Mischief Night, and is a night that young people make pranks. Nigel Pennick writes in The Pagan Book of Days about the custom of burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes on this night. Guy Fawkes Night, celebrated by the burning in effigy of a would-be regicide, continues the earlier tradition of burning effigies of the evil spirits of the past old year. By cremating them, along with outworn hurts and grievances, the new year may be faced in a purer way, free of unnecessary and unhelpful psychic leftovers.
November 8	Mania	Dionysian, Pantheist, Polytheist: On this day, sometimes referred to as the Mania, the rite of mundus was performed for the final time of the year. In this ceremony an effigy representing the sky was placed upside down in a pit and covered with a large stone called the lapis manalis. Three times a year, including today, the stone was removed to allow the spirits of the underworld access to the upper regions of the earth. This day is sacred to Ops, or Cybele or Rhea to the Greeks. Ops was the mother of Ceres and Zeus by Cronus (Saturn). Ops was considered a successor to Gaea (Gaia) as the mother earth goddess. She was deeply revered at Rome as the unceasing producer of all plant life and fertility. She had an affair with a youth named Attis who proved unfaithful and provoked her violent anger. His subsequent suicide left her in mourning. In commemoration of this event her priests and priestesses, called the Corybantes, held an annual orgy involving violent (i.e. S&M) activities.
November 8	Michaelmas	Michaelmas, Christian feast of St. Michael the Archangel, celebrated in the Western churches on September 29 and in the Eastern (Orthodox) Church on November 8. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is the Feast of SS. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, archangels; in the Anglican Church, its proper name is the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels. The cult of St. Michael began in the Eastern Church in the 4th century and spread to Western Christianity by the 5th century; the date of May 8 commemorates the dedication of a sanctuary to St. Michael at Monte Gargano in Italy in the 6th century. Because of St. Michael's traditional position as leader of the heavenly armies, veneration of all angels was eventually incorporated into his cult. During the Middle Ages, Michaelmas was a great religious feast and many popular traditions grew up around the day, which coincided with the harvest in much of western Europe. In England it was the custom to eat a goose on Michaelmas, which was supposed to protect against financial need for the next year. In Ireland, finding a ring hidden in a Michaelmas pie meant that one would soon be married. (Greek, Armenian, & Coptic)
November 9	Krystalnacht	Beer hall Putsch rebellion, the date Hitler declared the Nazi party the leaders of Germany. A few years later, in 1938, Krystalnacht, (the Night of Broken Glass) happened on this date.
November 10, 2004)	Laylat el qadr	Islam
November 10	Deepavali	Deepavali is celebrated during the seventh month of the Hindu calendar. Hindus celebrate it by decorating their homes with dozens of lights or oil lamps, called vikku. These represent the triumph of light over darkness, of good over evil. Hindu celebration - a five day festival of lights marking the end of the Hindu year. First day is observed as a holiday by many Hindu people.
November 10	Diwali	Diwali occurs fourteen days after the full moon of Asvina. That is, it falls near a new moon in October or November. It is a celebration commemorating Ram's return from exile, and in some parts of India it marks the beginning of the Hindu New Year [on the following day, Vikram Samvat/Goverdhan Puja]. It's alternate name, Festival of Lights, comes from the tradition of lighting thousands of oil lamps and electric lights throughout India. On this night the goddess of prosperity, Lakshmi, is honored, and in Eastern India and Bengal the goddess of strength, Kali, is honored. Statues of Kali are dipped in the river as a sign of respect. Diwali is celebrated in India, Sri Lanka, Guyana, Mauritius, and Singapore. Also known as Deepavali.
November 11	Guru Nanak's Day	Sikh honoring of the birth of the first Sikh teacher who lived from 1469 -1539 c.e. Sacred readings, prayers, hymns, meals together.
November 11	Veterns Day	The celebration of Veterans Day in America is held on this day of each year. This day is set aside to honor and remember those who have served America in any war. Veterans Day was first called Armistice Day.Armistice Day signaled the end of World War I. Congress changed the name from Armistice Day to Veterans Day in 1954.
November 11	Remembrance Day	Canadians wear poppies and gather at war memorials across Canada to pay tribute to those who died in war. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11 month, the time the Armistice of World War I was signed in 1918, we observe two minutes of silence to remember.
November 12	Birth of Baha'u'llah	Baha'i celebration of the birth of their founder and teacher. Refrain from work
November 14, 2004)	Eid al Fitr/('Id al-Fitr)	A 3 day Islamic fast marking the close of Ramadan. It is a festival of thanksgiving to Allah for enjoying the month of Ramadan. It involves wearing finest clothing, saying prayers, and fostering understanding with other religions.
November 15/28	Nativity Fast begins	The Nativity Fast (lasting until Christmas) Preparation of the Soul/forms the Church's time of preparation for the feast of the birth of God. - Orthodox Christian Read more here
November 20	Dia de la Revolución	Commemorates the 1910 Revolution. Celebrated especially in Mexico City
November 20	Feast of Saint Dasius	The Roman soldiers at Durostorum in Lower Moesia celebrated the Saturnalia year by year in the following manner. Thirty days before the festival they chose by lot from amongst themselves a young and handsome man, who was then clothed in royal attire to resemble Saturn. Thus arrayed and attended by a multitude of soldiers he went about in public with full license to indulge his passions and to taste of every pleasure, however base and shameful. But if his reign was merry, it was short and ended tragically; for when the thirty days were up and the festival of Saturn had come, he cut his own throat on the altar of the god whom he personated. In the year A.D. 303 the lot fell upoon the Christian soldier Dasius, but he refused to play the part of the heathen god and soil his last days by debauchery. The threats and arguments of his commanding officer Bassus failed to shake his constancy, and accordingly he was beheaded, as the Christian martyrologist records with minute accuracy, at Durostorum by the soldier John on Friday the twentieth day of November, being the twenty-fourth day of the moon, at the fourth hour.
November 21	Christ the King	Christian celebration of the preeminence of Jesus over all earthly authorities.
November 24	Guru Tegh Bahadur martyrdom	Sikh time of remembering the execution of Teg Bahadur by the Moghul Emperor in India.
November	Thanksgiving	fourth Thursday of November (Nov 25, 2004). Thanksgiving was designated to occur on this date by President Lincoln in October of 1863 Interfaith celebration of the created earth. Celebrated in the USA
November 25	Festival of Persephone	Pantheist, Polytheist: This day was the Festival of Persephone, also known as Proserpina, Kore, Cora, and Catherine. Persephone was a goddess associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries and was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter (Ceres). Her name means the Maid. Such was their happiness that Persephone was inseparable from her mother. Zeus, without Demeter's knowledge, gave her in marriage to Hades who opened the earth and snatched her while she was gathering flowers. In sadness at this loss and unable to get Hades to relinquish her daughter, Demeter let the crops wither. Zeus then arranged a compromise in which Persephone would spend part the year with Demeter and then four months with the grim lord. And so we have the winter when the plants will not grow. Survivors report sexual initiation rituals.
November 26	Day of Covenant	Baha'i celebration of the covenant given in the last will and testament of Baha'u'llah
November	Advent (First Sunday)	Christian time of preparation for observing the birth of Jesus Christ. Advent begins on the Sunday nearest November 30 and is the beginning of the Christian worship year. Advent is observed with the lighting of advent candles, display of wreaths, and special ceremonies. Advent also anticipates the coming again to earth of Jesus Christ. The season continues through December 24.
November 28	Ascension of Abdul'l-Baha	Baha'i celebration of the rising of the spirit of Abdu'l-Baha to the heavenly dwelling.
November 29	Quds Day	Islamic time of proclaiming solidarity in support of oppressed Muslim people.
November 29	Saint Andrew's Eve	In Poland it is popular for young women to play Andrzejki, or Andrew's games, to discover who will get married during the year.
November 30	St. Andrew's Day Feast of Saint Andrew	(Scotland)Christian observance of the coming of Christianity to the area now know as Scotland. The martyrdom of St Andrew is remembered as the season of Advent is about to begin. Saint Andrew was one of Jesus's original disciples, the brother of Simon Peter and a fisherman by trade, who lived in Bethsaida in Galilee (in present-day Israel.) He was originally a follower of St.John the Baptist until he was called to follow Jesus. After Jesus's crucifixion and subsequent resurrection, Andrew travelled widely in Greece and Asia Minor, preaching as he went and making converts to the new Christian religion. Eventually he fell foul of the Roman authorities who were trying to stamp out the new religion, which refused to worship the Emperor as a god, and he was crucified on a diagonal cross in Patras in southern Greece and buried there. Read more here

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