#sumer solstice

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Summer solstice celebration with my loves

Featuring the fava bean harvest

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[soulmatepsychic]

Solstice Brings Intense Energy & Renewal

Solstice is a wonderful time to celebrate the light. The first day of Summer in the Northern hemisphere is on June 21st, 2023. In the Southern hemisphere, it’s the first day of Winter Solstice.  Solstice is the time for love. Both Seasons are the opposite of each other, and they EQUALLY BRING THE SAME SPIRITUAL ENERGY WITH LOVE. It’s the longest day of the year as many of us know and the…

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Summer Solstice 2024: The Ultimate Viewing Guide on Veh's World w/Nevaeh Cable.

This Friday on Veh's World her new video on Summer Solstice. The summer solstice happens between June 20 and June 22, depending on the year and your time zone.

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[ohmerricat]

mischievous faerie imp era? woodland pixie era?? trickster sprite of the city park at blue hour??? whirling about on the open lawn to unsettling banjo bluegrass

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Sumer is Icumen in

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Strawberry Moon Sumer Solstice Spectacular.  Day 2. Here we go. $70 color sketches.  picarto.tv/RAINRAINRAIN THAT MEANS TODAY,  6/22/24 AT 2:00PM PST

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I’m not religious but astronomy is the closest thing to god that I believe in. for thousands of years people looked up at the sky and saw something so beautiful it could only be divine. mosques hired astronomers to calculate the precise times of prayers. al-Biruni believed that studying astronomy was an act of worship and was a timekeeper for a mosque. Egyptian coffin lids were decorated with star clocks. Kepler sought order from the seemingly incomprehensible orbit of Mars because he believed god made everything with a purpose, and nothing was random. Mayan astronomers timed religious rituals and celebrations with celestial events, and their calculation of the length of the year remains one of the most accurate pre-modern estimates. the Big Horn Medicine Wheel was constructed at least 600 years ago and still aligns with the summer solstice to this day. we name our planets after gods and we see our myths in the shapes formed by stars. all 5 of China’s lunar missions so far are named after the moon goddess Chang’e. the golden record includes greetings in 55 languages, wishing the listeners peace and happiness. the greetings begin in Akkadian, spoken in Sumer six thousand years ago, and end in Wu, a modern Chinese dialect. the church I haven’t gone to in months has a mural on the ceiling depicting the night sky, with the stars in the exact positions as they were on the day construction began.

[story-weavr]

A Study in Astrology:

Arising from its ability to indicate the seasons and their respective natural activities, astrology has played a massive part in human cultures.

The importance of them even goes as far as to indicate what a person is like when they are born.

Rather than the stars being determinators of a person’s character, I believe astrology is a tool that God gave us to be more introspective of ourselves.

To honestly look inside ourselves and see who we truly are and what we need, whether it’s to enhance our strengths or address our flaws.

Below is how I interpret the planets and the stars. I highly encourage the reader to use this as a tool for their own interpretation of or investigation into astrology.

Planets:

I am only considering those planets that would have been visible to the naked eye as they would be the ones that would indicate events. I will also include which Babylonian god rules them.

The first three are what is considered the inner world of a human

Sun ☀️ _the ego, consciousness _ Shamash

Moon 🌙 _ Emotion, unconsciousness _ Sin or Selardi

Rising/ Ascendant/ 1st House ⭐️ _ expression _ as it the constellation that is rising from the horizon at one’s birth

The following are how one interacts with the world

Mercury ✍️ _ communication, logic _ Nabu

Venus ♥️_ expression of love _ Ishtar

Mars 🔥 _ passion, drive_ Nergal

The next two planets are both about growth as indicated by their brightness & must always be considered together.

Jupiter 💼_ ambition, “to reach” _ Marduk

Saturn 🧙‍♂️_ wisdom, experience_ Ninurta

Descendant/7th House/House of Balance_ the shadow self, the part of a person one doesn’t realize that they have_ the star sign which setting on the horizon at the time of one’s birth

Stars

Each constellation and their symbols are tired very closely with the mythology of different ancient cultures: Babylonian, Egyptian, and Greek just to name a few.

They will be listed according the Babylonian New Year, which began in March-April

Aries ♈️ _ Babylon_ Agrarian worker -> ram due to association with Dumuzid, god shepherds & agriculture, 1st husband of Inanna, -> Canaanite = Adon -> Greek Adonis

Dumuzid spends half the year in the underworld and the other half above with his wife -> his yearly death brings hot dry summers

Egypt_ Amun-Ra = ram, fertility, creativity; Greek _ the ram who saved innocent children; Chinese _ cattle sacrifice, harvest

Bringer of plenty, self-sacrificing, adaptive to changing situations

Taurus ♉️ _ bull, related to “Seven Maidens”; spring equinox;

Heavenly Bull_ Sumerian-Inanna (divine wrath) & Egypt (sacrifice for sake of spring)

if provoked frightening

Gemini ♊️ _ the twins,

Babylon- minor gods guarding doorways or specifically Underworld or representations of major god Nergal, plague and pestilence & King of Underworld (warlike but necessary for protection of the peace)

opposing traits (peace & war, life & death) working in conjunction

Cancer ♋️ _ Greek-Hera’s crab, Egypt-Scarab (immortality/rebirth -Sirius), Babylon- snapping turtle (death, passage to underworld) + Enki,

initiate summer solstice

basically will justifiably bite a bitch; literally what turtle does to get rid of Nergal and summer; shell protects inner soft bits

Leo ♌️ _ lion, Egypt-Sekhmet or Sumer’s Inana

- protection, regality, Sun

- fierce hunter, passion, aggressive

Virgo ♍️ _ female (maiden or mother)

Demeter &numerous Greek maidens

Egypt = beginning of harvest

Babylon-Shala war of grain

Libra ♎️ _ Greek- Scales (Themis-justice); Babylon-claws of scorpion & the balance/ scales (Shamash- Sun, truth, justice)

Scorpio ♏️ _ Babylon = the Scorpion with Libra as its claws = scary guardians, serve higher beings

Sagittarius ♐️ _ centaur firing a bow & arrow

Babylon_ Nergal the chimera-centaur; Sumerian _ Pabilsag, elder/Chief & warrior/hunter; Greek _ centaur or satyr

The cunning intelligence of man and wild instinct of animal

Goal oriented, fierce

Capricorn ♑️ _ sea goat, Babylon- Enki = water+earth, fertility, hope

- stability, creativity

- high expectations, ambitions, standards

- sensitive and emotional;

- wary and kind(nurture in others/ survival)

Aquarius ♒️ _ water carrier, Babylon-Ea or Sumerian-Enki,

flood of water- positive or negative depending on region

Pisces ♓️ _ Greek - 2 fish, Babylon - 2 constellations: “the great swallow”(dove?) & “the lady of heaven” (Inanna?), Egypt - great fish who saved Isis

plentiful bounty _ the sun, wisdom, helpful

I hope this guides you on your journey of introspection, both of yourself and those around you. 🌌 🔮

If you want to find you’re birth chart, use the following site:

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d200 Single Word Starship Names

Completed List

Intrepid

Longarm

Midsommer

Protos

Worship

Calador

Philosopher

Santera

Castillo

Dragoon

Horizon

Windswept

Aurelian

Resolute

Corinth

Trimaran

Titan

Olympia

Watcher

Matador

Sleuth

Herald

Halcyon

Buccaneer

Flagstone

Respite

Monarch

Sumere

Zemnoi

Polaris

Angkor

Halogen

Pathfinder

Wildfire

Altair

Lamplight

Falchion

Vega

Archimedes

Copernicus

Helios

Hypatia

Cypress

Northumbria

Celeste

Calliope

Carpathia

Vengeance

Remembrance

Nightingale

Sidewinder

Saphrax

Terminus

Deadlock

Tuscan

Vitalis

Cascade

Acolyte

Lockstone

Malkuth

Ætheris

Kaiser

Ascent

Parallax

Saudade

Stargazer

Hephaestus

Proteus

Columbia

Silence

Panama

Harmony

Conqueror

Cromwell

Chimera

Nemesis

Emissary

Syracuse

Lancaster

Nautilus

Dauntless

Reliant

Tranquility

Remus

Romulus

Vanguard

Artemis

Firebrand

Defiance

Renault

Observer

Providence

Stalwart

Tortoise

Leviathan

Covenant

Inquisitor

Claymore

Pursuit

Facade

Bonus Names:

how would you roll Midway

Tenacity

Halacion

Trimaran

Spitfire

Magus

Ravenous

Idalia

Rutledge

Stockton

Errant

Hylacomylus

Mercator

Meridian

Cartographer

Azimuth

Vohlonen

Tyrolian

Vizier

Sahara

Alexandria

Eddystone

Aperture

Fresnel

Ambrose

Rodionov

Iikon

Roanoke

Croatoan

Terracotta

Mercurial

Thermopylae

Odessa

Sunrise

Agamemnon

Atreus

Mastiff

Demeter

Corsican

Tarascan

Gibraltar

Genoa

Ironclad

Ulysses

Malachai

Tortuga

Nexus

Requiem

Solstice

Paragon

Empyrean

Relic

Tempest

Oracle

Mirage

Nomad

Onyx

Valkyrie

Ascendant

Endeavor

Reverie

Calypso

Epoch

Apogee

Odyssey

Rasmussen

Aerostar

Convair

Clarion

Sevastopol

Aralsk

Mentor

Nautilus

Sanctity

Autumn

Primavera

Inquieto

Myrrddin

Tartan

Pendragon

Mezzanine

Troubadour

Pelican

Matador

Armstrong

Chesapeake

Strider

Eloquence

Bastille

Bastion

Algernon

Kingfisher

Evergreen

Avalanche

Sovereign

Solitude

Maktoub

Charrería

Vaquero

Sublime

[dabblingreturns]

I replied to a post from @dulcieseptimus who was feeling ingredients like they needed more ducli content.

Fair enough, ducli is an icon....

But my mind whent to locked tomb Christmas because I very much have locked tomb brain rot and it's only a few days before Christmas so its on my mind.

And I have decided that john has probably kept some sort of zombie Christmas for a few reasons

He seams like a dude who likes a excuse for a party

I dont know enough about the use that standardize holidays play in empires but I am convinced that if the powers that be don't make them them society will provide its own.

People like a good solstice festival.....I have this whole theory about how the further to the poles, a society is, the more important the winter solstice/light festival/gift giving party is. But it makes sense that if your extreme between summer and winter temperatures are big, you want to make sure everyone has a coat for the winter. The empire doesn't have seasons and john is from New Zealand so Christmas is really a sumer holiday for them. But Catholisism clearly made a huge impression on him. And he is a bitch for nostalgia just like the rest of us millennials

So now that I have incoherently argued for the existence of an unnamed gift giving holiday in a made up universe. A holiday that the author has never mentioned or even alluded to. I will provide details.

I call it risemass!

Up until the Meriadic year 99981 of the emperor undying, Risemass was celebrated by all 9 houses in thier own ways.

First house got drunk on wine and shit talked each other. Augustine cooked and fought with Mercy. Cytherea talked about dead people, John watched in amusement. G1deon, thought the magic of "im working" kept skipping out.

Second house. Involves drinking and special extra good. And when everyone is supper tosted, they sing off brand carols and drinking songs and talk about how great they all are.

Third house i imagine a special ceremony were the importortant people at court tithe more gold to the empire. Then the prince gives the people gifts. Then everyone grabbs martinis and shit and brakes off into groups to shit talk everyone elses gifts.

Everyone puts thier boots at the foot of there beds the night before, and in the morning the right shoe is full of candy and the left has a new pair of socks. Everyone comes out of thier homes in there pajamas in the moring and they watch a traditional movie about risemass. But it's like a town center picnic with hot chocolate and propaganda. And they picnic all day with good food and kids running around and everyone in new socks.

In the morning everyone spends time with thier families with a special breakfast and special foods. And in the afternoon they all meet at the court or local government. And every household is given a small gift from the "emporeror" and its something they want or need. These gifts are actually from agustine, who has been running this program for 10000 years and has a loyal order of workers who are swarm to secrecy but they figure out what everyone needs and supplies it.

It's a big meal with drinking and they run debate club, we're everyone summits a topic and two randomly selected people have to go up and debate it for 5 minutes. And the watchers vote on the winner. There is a bracket. And a funny hat if you win...and your name gets written down in a book. It's seriously buisness!

Seventh house has its biggest garden show of the year. And people string trees with light. And get drunk of cider and write increasingly incoherent poetry.

Everyone fasts for 9 days before. They have religious services about thier righteous mission then everyone gets a holy religious metal or text. Its not fun per say....but it is very proper.

Every year, everyone gets together...and they orginize themselves in terms of size. And the reverend mother and father put out the new robes and shoes from the emperor. And the ninth forms a hermit crab shell line, trading clothes until everyone has robes and boots that are whole and warm and fit them. They also get to track how all the children have grown.

[brookston]

Holidays 1.2

Holidays

Ancestry Day (a.k.a. Ancestors' Day; Haiti)

Arbor Day (Ukraine)

Berchtoldstag (a.k.a. Berchtold's Day; Alsace, Liechtenstein, Switzerland)

Blacks & Whites' Carnival begins (until 7th; Colombia)

Boo Boo Bear Day

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Day

Bridge Day (New Caledonia)

Carnival Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Carnival of Riosucio (a.k.a. Carnival of the Devil; Colombia) [Every Odd Year]

Dainichi-do Bugaku (Japan)

Day of Portuguese Pavement

Drinking Straw Day

Earth at Perihelion

Fifty-Five Day

Granada Day (Spain)

Happy Mew Year For Cats Day

International Day of Police

International Stop Spam Day

Jour des Aieux (Haiti)

Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town, South Africa)

Kakizome (First Writing; Japan)

Mannam Jayanti (Kerala, India)

Mars Day Day

Miniature Golf Day

National Breast Appreciation Day

National Erika Day

National Motivation and Inspiration Day

National Science Fiction Day

New Year Holiday (Scotland) [If Sunday, celebrated on 3rd]

Nylio (a.k.a. Nyinlong; Winter Solstice; Bhutan)

Personal Trainer Awareness Day

Pet Travel Safety Day

Positive Postcard Day

Procrastinator’s Day

Reconquest Day (Spain)

Run It Up the Flagpole and See If Anybody Salutes It Day

Sam Day

Scour Day (Elder Scrolls)

Second Day of New Year (a.k.a. ...

Bank Holiday (Multiple Countries)

Day After New Year’s Day (Cuba, Japan, Mauritius, New Zealand, North Korea, Russia, Romania, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Quebec, Canada)

New Year’s Second Day (Romania; Taiwan)

Second Day of the New Year (Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Switzerland, Ukraine)

Second New Year’s Day Holiday (Russia)

Tweede Neue Jaar (Second New Year; Captain, South Africa)

Shigoto Hajime (Beginning of the Work Year; Japan)

Slate Day (French Republic)

Stop Spam Day

Takai Commission Holiday (Niue)

Thrift with Flair Day

Victory of Armed Forces Day (Cuba)

Waldmaennchentag (Germany)

World Introvert Day

World Population Control Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Buffet Day

National Chocolate Fondue Day

National Creampuff Day (a.k.a. Cream Puff Day)

Pabst Blue Ribbon Day

Swiss Cheese Day

1st Tuesday in January

Finalize Your Resolutions Day [1st Tuesday]

Independence & Related Days

Cliff Island (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Georgia Statehood Day (#4; 1788)

Posaf (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

United States of Ackerman (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Advent of Inanna (Ancient Sumer)

Advent of Isis (Ancient Egypt)

Basil the Great (Catholic Church and Church of England)

Birthday of Inanna (Sumerian Goddess and Patroness of Tavern Keepers)

The Building Inspector (Muppetism)

Cassé Gateau (Voudon)

Celebrate Surviving 2022 Day (Pastafarian)

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Artology)

Day of Ekadashi (Hinduism)

Day of Victory of Love (Unification Church)

Defendens of Thebes (Christian)

Ernst Barlach (Artology)

Failure of Will Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (varies between 1.2 and 1.5; Roman Catholic Church)

Fenris’s Day (Pagan)

Festival of Fetishes

Festival of Sleep Day [begins at sundown]

Festival of Four Winds & All Sky

Gaspar del Bufalo (Roman Catholic)

Gregory of Nazianzus (Catholic Church)

Hercules (Positivist; Saint)

Isaac Asimov Day (Jayism)

Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe (Lutheran Church)

Macarius of Alexandria (a.k.a. Macarius the Younger; Christian; Saint)

Mange Loa (a.k.a. Jan Case Gateaux or Breaking of the Cakes)

Ninth Day of Christmas

Ray Harryhausen Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Seraphim of Sarov (Repose; Eastern Orthodox Church)

Slava Raškaj (Artology)

Swiss Cheese Day (Pastafarian)

Twelve Holy Days #8 (Scorpio, the generative system; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #9 (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah (Episcopal Church)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dies Ater (Unfortunate Day; Ancient Rome)

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [2 of 53]

Good Luck Day (Ancient Macedonia)

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [2 of 32]

Prime Number Day: 2 [1 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [1 of 37]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [2 of 30]

Unlucky Monday (when Cain killed Abel; Philippines) [1st Monday] (1 of 4)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [2 of 60]

Premieres

Billie Jean, by Michael Jackson (Song; 1983)

Bob Cummings Show (TV Series; 1955)

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, by The Andrews Sisters (Song; 1941)

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Novel; 1879)

Dog Pounded (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Film; 1932)

The Flying Dutchman, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1843)

He Was Her Man (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach (Novella; 1970)

Last Angry Moose, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 139; 1962)

Mind and Matter, by Erwin Schrödinger (Philosophy Book; 1958)

My View of the World, by Erwin Schrödinger (Philosophy Book; 1951)

Nine Tomorrows, by Isaac Asimov (Short Stories; 1959)

Oscar and Lucinda (Film; 1998)

A Punch in the Snoot or The Nose Tattoo (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 140; 1962)

Senses Working Overtime, by XTC (Song; 1982)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Novel; 1865)

The Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie (Mystery Novel; 1922) [2]

Wisdom (Film; 1987)

The Worm Turns (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

Today’s Name Days

Basilius, Dietmar, Gregor (Austria)

Bazilije, Grgo, Grgur (Croatia)

Karina (Czech Republic)

Abel (Denmark)

Algi, Esme, Esmi (Estonia)

Aapeli (Finland)

Basile (France)

Beatrix, Dietmar, Gregor, Makarius, Otfried (Germany)

Seraphim, Silvestros, Sylvester (Greece)

Ábel (Hungary)

Basilio, Modesto (Italy)

Ābels, Indulis, Ivo, Orests (Latvia)

Fulgentas, Gailutė, Mažvydas, Stefanija (Lithuania)

Dagfinn, Dagfrid (Norway)

Abel, Izydor, Makary, Odil, Strzeżysław (Poland)

Serafim, Silvestru (Romania)

Alexandra (Slovakia)

Basilio, Gregorio (Spain)

Svea (Sweden)

Sylvester (Ukraine)

Abel, Abelard, Abella, Abner, Adalhard, Adelard, Marsten, Marston, Rave (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 2 of 2024; 364 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 1 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 21 (Yi-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 21 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 20 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 2 White; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 20 December 2023

Moon: _63%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: 2 Moses (1st Month) [Hercules]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 13 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 12 of 31)

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Holidays 1.2

Holidays

Ancestry Day (a.k.a. Ancestors' Day; Haiti)

Arbor Day (Ukraine)

Berchtoldstag (a.k.a. Berchtold's Day; Alsace, Liechtenstein, Switzerland)

Blacks & Whites' Carnival begins (until 7th; Colombia)

Boo Boo Bear Day

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Day

Bridge Day (New Caledonia)

Carnival Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Carnival of Riosucio (a.k.a. Carnival of the Devil; Colombia) [Every Odd Year]

Dainichi-do Bugaku (Japan)

Day of Portuguese Pavement

Drinking Straw Day

Earth at Perihelion

Fifty-Five Day

Granada Day (Spain)

Happy Mew Year For Cats Day

International Day of Police

International Stop Spam Day

Jour des Aieux (Haiti)

Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town, South Africa)

Kakizome (First Writing; Japan)

Mannam Jayanti (Kerala, India)

Mars Day Day

Miniature Golf Day

National Breast Appreciation Day

National Erika Day

National Motivation and Inspiration Day

National Science Fiction Day

New Year Holiday (Scotland) [If Sunday, celebrated on 3rd]

Nylio (a.k.a. Nyinlong; Winter Solstice; Bhutan)

Personal Trainer Awareness Day

Pet Travel Safety Day

Positive Postcard Day

Procrastinator’s Day

Reconquest Day (Spain)

Run It Up the Flagpole and See If Anybody Salutes It Day

Sam Day

Scour Day (Elder Scrolls)

Second Day of New Year (a.k.a. ...

Bank Holiday (Multiple Countries)

Day After New Year’s Day (Cuba, Japan, Mauritius, New Zealand, North Korea, Russia, Romania, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Quebec, Canada)

New Year’s Second Day (Romania; Taiwan)

Second Day of the New Year (Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Switzerland, Ukraine)

Second New Year’s Day Holiday (Russia)

Tweede Neue Jaar (Second New Year; Captain, South Africa)

Shigoto Hajime (Beginning of the Work Year; Japan)

Slate Day (French Republic)

Stop Spam Day

Takai Commission Holiday (Niue)

Thrift with Flair Day

Victory of Armed Forces Day (Cuba)

Waldmaennchentag (Germany)

World Introvert Day

World Population Control Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Buffet Day

National Chocolate Fondue Day

National Creampuff Day (a.k.a. Cream Puff Day)

Pabst Blue Ribbon Day

Swiss Cheese Day

1st Tuesday in January

Finalize Your Resolutions Day [1st Tuesday]

Independence & Related Days

Cliff Island (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Georgia Statehood Day (#4; 1788)

Posaf (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

United States of Ackerman (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Advent of Inanna (Ancient Sumer)

Advent of Isis (Ancient Egypt)

Basil the Great (Catholic Church and Church of England)

Birthday of Inanna (Sumerian Goddess and Patroness of Tavern Keepers)

The Building Inspector (Muppetism)

Cassé Gateau (Voudon)

Celebrate Surviving 2022 Day (Pastafarian)

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Artology)

Day of Ekadashi (Hinduism)

Day of Victory of Love (Unification Church)

Defendens of Thebes (Christian)

Ernst Barlach (Artology)

Failure of Will Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (varies between 1.2 and 1.5; Roman Catholic Church)

Fenris’s Day (Pagan)

Festival of Fetishes

Festival of Sleep Day [begins at sundown]

Festival of Four Winds & All Sky

Gaspar del Bufalo (Roman Catholic)

Gregory of Nazianzus (Catholic Church)

Hercules (Positivist; Saint)

Isaac Asimov Day (Jayism)

Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe (Lutheran Church)

Macarius of Alexandria (a.k.a. Macarius the Younger; Christian; Saint)

Mange Loa (a.k.a. Jan Case Gateaux or Breaking of the Cakes)

Ninth Day of Christmas

Ray Harryhausen Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Seraphim of Sarov (Repose; Eastern Orthodox Church)

Slava Raškaj (Artology)

Swiss Cheese Day (Pastafarian)

Twelve Holy Days #8 (Scorpio, the generative system; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #9 (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah (Episcopal Church)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dies Ater (Unfortunate Day; Ancient Rome)

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [2 of 53]

Good Luck Day (Ancient Macedonia)

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [2 of 32]

Prime Number Day: 2 [1 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [1 of 37]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [2 of 30]

Unlucky Monday (when Cain killed Abel; Philippines) [1st Monday] (1 of 4)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [2 of 60]

Premieres

Billie Jean, by Michael Jackson (Song; 1983)

Bob Cummings Show (TV Series; 1955)

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, by The Andrews Sisters (Song; 1941)

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Novel; 1879)

Dog Pounded (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Film; 1932)

The Flying Dutchman, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1843)

He Was Her Man (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach (Novella; 1970)

Last Angry Moose, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 139; 1962)

Mind and Matter, by Erwin Schrödinger (Philosophy Book; 1958)

My View of the World, by Erwin Schrödinger (Philosophy Book; 1951)

Nine Tomorrows, by Isaac Asimov (Short Stories; 1959)

Oscar and Lucinda (Film; 1998)

A Punch in the Snoot or The Nose Tattoo (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 140; 1962)

Senses Working Overtime, by XTC (Song; 1982)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Novel; 1865)

The Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie (Mystery Novel; 1922) [2]

Wisdom (Film; 1987)

The Worm Turns (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

Today’s Name Days

Basilius, Dietmar, Gregor (Austria)

Bazilije, Grgo, Grgur (Croatia)

Karina (Czech Republic)

Abel (Denmark)

Algi, Esme, Esmi (Estonia)

Aapeli (Finland)

Basile (France)

Beatrix, Dietmar, Gregor, Makarius, Otfried (Germany)

Seraphim, Silvestros, Sylvester (Greece)

Ábel (Hungary)

Basilio, Modesto (Italy)

Ābels, Indulis, Ivo, Orests (Latvia)

Fulgentas, Gailutė, Mažvydas, Stefanija (Lithuania)

Dagfinn, Dagfrid (Norway)

Abel, Izydor, Makary, Odil, Strzeżysław (Poland)

Serafim, Silvestru (Romania)

Alexandra (Slovakia)

Basilio, Gregorio (Spain)

Svea (Sweden)

Sylvester (Ukraine)

Abel, Abelard, Abella, Abner, Adalhard, Adelard, Marsten, Marston, Rave (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 2 of 2024; 364 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 1 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 21 (Yi-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 21 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 20 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 2 White; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 20 December 2023

Moon: _63%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: 2 Moses (1st Month) [Hercules]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 13 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 12 of 31)

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Back at it again

SUMMER SOLSTICE! SUMMER SOLSTICE! SUMER SOLSTICE!!! 🎉🫡

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Summer Is Coming

#summer is a coming in! Sing cuckoo! (and no stag farting in the house)

“Sumer Is Icumen In” is a traditional English round, and possibly the oldest such example of counterpoint in existence. The song’s title might is usually translated as “Summer has come in” or “Summer has arrived” – but I kind of like “Summer is coming in” since summer and the solstice is not until the 21st. But it does feel like summer is coming and some days it feels like it has already…

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Summer Solstice

Hope everyone had a blessed day! I attended a lovely ritual with a few of the wonderful pagans in the area. We made wreaths of vines and flowers, feasted, and then threw the wreaths into the river.