{"id":262,"date":"2015-01-11T01:15:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T01:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/?p=262"},"modified":"2015-01-11T01:15:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T01:15:41","slug":"january7-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/january7-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid January Esoteric Holidays Jan 7 to 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are\u00a0mid-January’s ancient and still-practiced holy days and their esoteric meaning.<\/p>\n

Jan 7<\/strong> – Eastern Orthodox Christmas, meaning Russian, Greek, Egyptian, Middle Eastern, etc. Christmas. Yes, they still to this day have Christmas every January 7. The explanation is because they follow the old Julian Calendar which is 13 days behind. But celebrating on January 7 is very close to the day the earliest Christians celebrated Jesus’ birthday: January 6.\u00a0 It’s nice that the Christians of the Middle East celebrate the “big day” on January 7, so close to the original date their ancestors insisted on for the first THREE centuries of Christianity. Too bad in 2015 it had to be the day the terrorists chose to attack Charlie Hebdo newspaper office and slaughter\u00a0Europeans for insulting Islam.<\/p>\n

English speaking Christians in the 1500s would bake a cake with a coin on it every January 7th — they considered January 7 to be part of the\u00a0Epiphany holiday where the Magi \/ Wisemen find the Christchild.\u00a0 Epiphany\u00a0\u00a0is now\u00a0celebrated\u00a0January 6, and in Spain to this day, the children receive their Christmas presents on the 6th.\u00a0 As for\u00a0January 7,\u00a0whoever got the piece of cake with the coin in it was hailed as King for a day (or Queen). Symbols such as a cross,\u00a0would be drawn in white chalk on the door post, lintel, or ceiling to keep dark forces out of the home.<\/p>\n

Jan 8<\/strong> – Druid New Year’s Day
\nMidwifes Day (ancient Greece)
\nJusticia’s Day (ancient Rome)
\nFreya’s Day (Norse \/ Viking holiday)<\/p>\n

Jan 11<\/strong> – Carmentalia, old Roman festival for the childbirth goddess, Carmenta
\nJuturna’s Day – ancient Italian goddess of “still waters” aka pools, lakes, ponds, Roman baths<\/p>\n

Jan 13<\/strong> – Ancient Irish Druid Feast of Brewing
\n-Saint Silvester’s Day
\n-Old Calendar New Year’s Eve (still celebrated in Switzerland with clanging of bells to scare off evil spirits)<\/p>\n

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Goddess Vesta, the Virgin and her Donkey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jan 14<\/strong> – Feast of the Donkey<\/a> (also called Feast of the Ass)
\nThe donkey saved the Virgin Mother and her child during the flight to Egypt, but few people know the donkey also saved the Roman goddess Vesta, goddess of Virgins. According to Ovid, she had fallen asleep and was almost raped by Priapus when a donkey brayed to wake her up. Ever after\u00a0donkeys were honored in her name and she is often depicted with a donkey beside her.<\/p>\n

Jan 17 – 19<\/strong> Feast of Fate – Ruler of Past, present, and Future, honoring Goddess as Moirai (old Greek), Norns (Old Norse), Coatlicue (Aztec), Pachamama (Inca), Manat (Old Arabic-Sufi) & Providence (Christian).<\/p>\n

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Here are\u00a0mid-January’s ancient and still-practiced holy days and their esoteric meaning. Jan 7 – Eastern Orthodox Christmas, meaning Russian, Greek, Egyptian, Middle Eastern, etc. Christmas. Yes, they still to this day have Christmas every January 7. The explanation is because they follow the old Julian Calendar which is 13 days behind. But celebrating on January … Continue reading Mid January Esoteric Holidays Jan 7 to 19<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[90,89],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holydays","tag-druids","tag-vesta"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lOlB-4e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}