January 1
New Year's Day in the Gregorian calender
January 2
Advent of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of love.
January 3
The festival of Pax the Roman goddess of peace.
January 5
The festival of Lares Compitales, the Roman guardian deities of crossroads.
January 6
Feast of Kore, the celebration of Kore's, the Egyptian of fertility and grains, return to earth after six
years of exile in the underworld.
January 7
Sekhmet, the Egyptian New Year's Day.
January 8
Festival of Justitia, the Roman goddess of justice.
Midwife's Day (Hecate, the Divine Midwife; Greece, Macedonia)
Elvis Day, as celebrated by Lauranz of the Zee, whos description of the day follows.
My daughter and I invented this one. Foolishment galore! It's a day of bad taste, excessive enthusiasm, too much money and too little good sense. Elvis represents to me a metaphor
and a caricature of the fact that we don't just see "reality", we
actively form it by our act of perception through a particular nervous
system, as a transaction between our senses and whatever raw data exists
"out there". The Elvis phenomenon takes this to an extreme. I have a
swell Elvis Necktie which I wear on the first Elvis Day of the year.
January 9
The Agonium, festival of Janus, the Roman god of gates and doors, beginnings and endings.
January 11 and 15
The Carmentalia, festival of Carmenta, the Roman goddess of childbirth.
January 16
The Festival of Concordia, the Roman goddess of harmonious relations.
January 17
Good Luck Day, the festival of Felicitas, the Roman goddess of good luck.
January 20
Grandmother's Day, Baba Den (Bulgaria)
January 21
Alternative date for the Celtic New Year, the first day of the month of Luis (Rowan) in the Celtic Tree Calendar.
First Day of Spring, as celebrated by Lauranz of the Zee, whos description of the day follows.
I decided in 1979 that winter was just too damned long, so I proclaimed that spring would begin in January. Unfortunately I usually cannot get the weather to co-operate with me.
