~Notable Dates~

  

    

January

   

1

New Year's Day

Kwanzaa ends

Birthday of Sir James Frazer, author, The Golden Bough

3

Death of psychic Edgar Cayce, 1945

Sacred to Dionysus, Greek God of wine; feasting, pleasure and fertility.

4

Aquarian Tabernacle Church registered in Australia, 1994

6

Epiphany/Twelfth Night

Patricia Crowther's radio show, A Spell of Witchcraft, airs in Britain, 1971

1988 - the Circle Sanctuary of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, USA became the first legally recognized Wiccan Church by local government officials in the world.

8

Birth of MacGregor Mathers, founder of the Golden Dawn, 1854

Dion Fortune dies, 1946

Sacred to Freya, Norse Goddess of love and fertility, and Felicitas, Roman Goddess of good fortune.

13 Final Witchcraft laws repealed in Austria, 1787
14 Official Confession of Error by jurors of Salem Trials issued, 1696
15 Martin Luther King, Jr Birthday (observed)
16 Birthday of Dennis Carpenter, Circle Sanctuary
19

Birthday of Dorothy Clutterbuck, who reportedly initiated Gerald Gardner

Sacred to Thor, Norse God of thunder and lightning.

20 Inauguration Day
23 Sacred to Hathor, Egyptian cow-headed Goddess.
25 Birthday of Robert Burns, Scottish poet
30 Birthday of Zsusanna Budapest, feminist Witch