November

                     2: Birthday of Wiccan author Sirona Knight

                     14: Full moon (Mourning Moon) at 1:17 am)

                    27: New moon at 11:54 am

December

                  12: Full moon (Long Nights Moon) at 11:37

                   21: Winter Solstice or Yule

                  21: Litha (Southern Hemisphere)

                   27: New moon at 7:22 am

January 2009

1: Birthday of folkorist Sir James Frazier, 1854

10: Full moon -- Cold Moon at 10:27 pm

13: Last of Austria's witchcraft laws repealed in 1787

19: Birthday of Dorothy Clutterbuck

25: Birthday of poet Robert Burns, 1759

26: New moon at 2:35 am

30: Birthday of Z Budapest, founder of Dianic Wicca

February

2: Imbolc

2: Lammas or Lughnasadh (Southern Hemisphere)

9: Full moon -- Quickening Moon at 9:49 am

12: Death of Gerald Gardner in 1964

13 - 16: PantheaCon (San Jose, CA)

14: Valentine's Day

21: Birthday of author Patricia Telesco

24: New moon at 8:35 pm

March

6: Birthday of "official witch of Salem" Laurie Cabot in 1933

10: Full moon Storm Moon at 10:38 pm

20: Ostara

20: Mabon (Southern Hemisphere)

26: New moon at 12:06 pm

26: Birthday of author and folklorist Joseph Campbell, 1910

28: Death of author Scott Cunningham in 1993

April

6: National Tartan Day

9: Full moon -- Wind Moon at 10:56 am

16: Birthday of author Margot Adler

22: Earth Day

23: Wiccan pentacle is officially added to the list of VA-approved emblems for gravestones, 2007

24: New moon at 11:22 pm

30: Walpurgisnacht celebrated by German witches

May

1: Beltane

1: Samhain (Southern Hemisphere)

9: Full moon -- Flower Moon at 12:01 am

10: Mother's Day

24: New moon at 8:11 am

June

1: England's Witchcraft Act of 1563 goes into effect

7: Full moon -- Strong Sun Moon at 2:12 pm

10: Hanging of Bridget Bishop, first victim in the Salem Witch Trials

13: Birthday of Gerald Gardner in 1884

17: Birthday of Wiccan author Starhawk

21: Father's Day

21: Litha

21: Yule (Southern Hemisphere)

22: New moon at 3:35 pm

22: England's last Witchcraft Law is repealed in 1951

27: Birthday of author Scott Cunningham in 1956

July

4: Independence Day

7: Full moon -- Blessing Moon at 5:21 am

19: Rebecca Nurse is hanged in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692

21: New moon at 10:34 pm

22: Solar eclipse

August

1: Lammas or Lughnasadh

1: Imbolc (Southern Hemisphere)

1: Birthday of medium Edward Kelley, 1555

5: Full Moon -- Corn Moon at 8:55 pm

15: Birthday of Charles Leland, folklorist and author, 1824

20: Birthday of author Ann Moura in 1947

20: New moon at 6:01 am

31: Birthday of author Raymond Buckland

September

4: Full Moon -- Harvest Moon at 12:02 pm

17: Television welcomes Bewitched in 1964

18: New moon at 2:44 pm

19 - 20: Central NC Pagan Pride Day (Raleigh, NC)

21: International Day of Peace

22: Fall Equinox or Mabon

22: Ostara (Southern Hemisphere)

October

1: Birthday of Isaac Bonewits, founder of Ár nDraíocht Féin

4: Full moon -- Blood Moon at 2:10 pm

12: Birthday of occultist Aleister Crowley

18: New moon at 1:33 am

20: Birthday of Selena Fox of Circle Sanctuary

31: Samhain

31: Beltane (Southern Hemisphere)

31: Covenant of the Goddess formed in 1975

November

2: Birthday of Wiccan author Sirona Knight

2: Full moon -- Mourning Moon at 2:14 pm

16: New moon at 2:14 pm

30: Birthday of Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, founder of Church of All Worlds

30: Festival of Hecate Trivia

December

2: Full moon -- Long Nights Moon at 2:30 am

16: New moon at 7:02 am

17: Beginning of Saturnalia

21: Winter Solstice or Yule

21: Litha (Southern Hemisphere)

25: Christmas Day

25: Feast of Frau Halle, Germanic goddess

31: Full moon -- Blue Moon at 2:13 pm

31: Partial lunar eclipse

31: Festival of Hogmanay