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Vernal Equinox – on or around September 21 (Northern Hemisphere) “Blessed be, by the Lady and the Lord, on this Mea’n Fo’mhair. It is the time of the second harvest, one of fruit and wine abundance. Tonight holds equilibrium of all things. Everything is in balance with one another. God and Goddess, Life and Death, Light and Dark.” Immortal Boundaries, Aubrey Jones References to the Welsh god Mabon ap Mydron (Mabon, Son of Modron, or ‘Great Son of the Great …Read more Peace Day was the brainchild of filmmaker Jeremy Gilley who began lobbying for an international day of ceasefire and non-violence back in 1999. In 2001, “member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted 21 September as an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on the UN International Day of Peace. We call that day Peace Day.” (Peace One Day website) In addition to its symbolic value, relief agencies use the one-day ceasefire to deliver much needed medical services to …Read more 
Late September – Mid-October
This week starts off the world’s largest folk festival and bier-drinking extravaganza. Oktoberfest takes place, as the name implies, in September. It lingers into October, but tourists arriving mid-month will be disappointed to find they’ve arrived just in time for the dregs. During Oktoberfest the center of Munich metamorphosizes into an amalgamation of Bier Tents, the largest of which–the Hofbrauhaus tent–holds up to 10,000 people. Germans drink their beer by the liter, not the pint, and refer …Read more 
September 19 When I tell people what I do—write about holidays every day—they inevitably ask, “So, like real holidays? Or, like Talk Like a Pirate Day?” The implication being that the latter is a “made up” holiday. Which it is. First of all, all holidays are “made up”. It’s just the ones we take for granted were made up before you were born. Second, if the age be the sole determiner of legitimacy, Talk Like a Pirate …Read more 
September 18
Live with honor or die with glory. – Bernardo O’Higgins Bernardo O’Higgins is known as the liberator and national hero of Chile, but he had humble beginnings. He was the illegitimate son of an Irish engineer and a young Chilean socialite. His father Ambrosio, had been a servant boy in Ireland. Ambrosio emigrated to Spain as a young man, then to Spain’s colonies in the Americas. He settled in …Read more 
September 17 September 17 is one of the most important dates in U.S. history. In fact, it’s known as Citizenship Day, yet most Americans would be hard-pressed to tell you why. On September 17, 1630, the city of Boston—North America’s cradle of liberty—was founded by some of the country’s first immigrants. Governor John Winthrop and the Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans christened the 780-acre peninsula after the town from which many of them hailed. Boston, Lincolnshire, in England was …Read more 
September 16
Before dawn, on the morning of September 16, 1810, townspeople of Dolores, Mexico, heard the church bells ring violently. They approached to find the parish priest, 57 year-old Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. But the speech the criollo Father shouted was far from the sermon they had in mind. Father Hidalgo had just learned that a plan to overthrow the Spanish rulers had been betrayed. Soon the Spanish would arrest all those involved …Read more 
September 15
After 300 years of Spanish rule, the Captaincy General of Guatemala cut ties with the Old World in a declaration of Independence on September 15, 1821. The Spanish colony consisted of what is now Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The proclamation was made in the capital, Guatemala City, in the northwestern corner of the isthmus. But Costa Rica, in the southeast, didn’t learn of its independence until a month later. |
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