Celtic Calendar 2007
Warm wishes to all for the season!
Since Samhain there’s been a surge of Google searches for calendar
info for 2007, and that prompted us to get the Celtic Calendar 2007 up
for presentation. As you all know, CA acknowledges the Beltaine
beginning of the Celtic year as told in Fennian legend, and that the
Julian/Gregorian Irish month cet-Samhin is the cultural continuance of
Celtic Gaulish Samon. We also acknowledge Pliny’s information that
reveals that the months are marked from the First Quarter, Caesar’s
information that the days begin at sunset and Plutarch’s information
that the 30 year cycles begin when Saturn is aligned in Taurus. With
this wealth of information, we are pleased to present the 2007
calendar, beginning with the intercalary month of Ciallos on April
24th 2007. A point of interest is that this month’s name is found in
Irish, meaning ‘understanding’ or ‘the knowledge’, and its direct
Welsh equivalent is Pwyll, a name instantly recognised from the Mabinogi.
We’ve included a presentation within each of the months of 2007/8
called Celtic Dawn: 503BC. This is made courtesy of the CyberSky
virtual planetarium. In that year, corresponding to the beginning of
the great Celtic flourish that lasted until the Conquest (and indeed
beyond), Saturn aligned with Aldebaran, such that Beltaine of that
year began what may well have been the very first Celtic Calendar
year, developed over the 200 years of Hallstatt period. Why that year
stands out is because it does correspond to the start of the La Tene
culture, the classically Celtic culture, and that year also aligned on
the dawn horizon were all the other visible planets!
Reciporacal links with a wide range of sites in Australia and around
the globe has brought about a new Link area on CA, called Pagans in
Australia. From these links are found a breadth of thought and a
diversity of interest from the pagan community in Australia. If you
know of any sites that should be included, please point us to them!
Links to the new area are:
Celtic Calendar 2007:
http://caeraustralis.com.au/celticyear2007.htm
Southern Calendar 2007:
http://caeraustralis.com.au/southernyear2007.htm
Pagans in Australia:
http://caeraustralis.com.au/paganoz.htm
Of course, feedback & comments are always welcome.
Hwyl,
John & Rhys