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Almanac

Almanac

The Almanac is a resource of significant pagan events and the birthdays of important people connected to paganism/wicca.

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Almanac for February

02/02 - Imbolc

This holiday is also known as Candlemas, or Brigid's Day. One of the 4 Celtic Fire Festivals. Commemorates the changing of the Goddess from the Crone to the Maiden.

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02/02 - The Druid Network

The Druid Network is a British druidic (neo-pagan) organisation providing a source of information and inspiration about modern Druidic traditions, practices and their histories. It was founded in 2nd February 2003 by Emma Restall Orr, a leading voice in British Druidry.

08/02 - Eliphas Levi

Eliphas Levi, born Alphonse Louis Constant (February 8, 1810 - May 31, 1875), was a French occult author and ceremonial magician.

16/02 - Tomb of Tutankhamun Discovered

On 16th Feb 1923, in Thebes, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the Ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun.

17/02 - Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno (1548 – February 17, 1600), (Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus) born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited worlds populated by other intelligent beings.

He was burned at the stake by civil authorities in 1600 after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy for his pantheism and turned him over to the state, which at that time considered heresy illegal. After his death he gained considerable fame, particularly among 19th- and early 20th-century commentators who, focusing on his astronomical beliefs, regarded him as a martyr for free thought and modern scientific ideas.

22/02 - Sybil Leek

Sybil Leek (February 22, 1917 - October 26, 1982) was an English witch, astrologer, psychic, and occult author. She wrote many books on occult and esoteric subjects. She was dubbed "Britain’s most famous witch" by the BBC.

Because she rose to media fame in the 1950s, after the repeal of the 1735 Witchcraft Act in 1951, she had an effect upon the formation of neopagan witchcraft, mainly the religion of Wicca.

24/02 - Gregorian Calendar

Gregorian Calendar Introduced

24 February 1582

The Gregorian calendar, also known as the Western calendar, or Christian calendar, is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, a papal bull known by its opening words Inter gravissimas.