October
The October moon is known as... Blood Moon, Harvest Moon, Shedding Moon, Winterfelleth (Winter Coming), Windermanoth (Vintage Month), Falling Leaf Moon, Ten Colds Moon, Moon of the Changing season.
Oct 7: Sumerian New Year in honour of the goddesses Ishtar and Astarte
Oct: 11-13: Greek 'Thesmophoria' Women only festival in honour of Demeter and Kore
Oct 12: Roman 'Fortuna Redux' celebration for happy journeys. Birthday of Aleister Crowley
Oct 13: Jacques de Molay and other French Templars arrested by order of King Phillip IV 1306
Oct 14: Nepalese and Indian 'Durga Puja' honouring the victory of the Great Mother Durga over evil
Oct 15: Roman purification of the city
Oct 16: Indian 'Lakshmi Puja' (Diwalii, Festival of Light)
Oct 18: British 'Great Horn Fair' in honour of the Horned God
Oct 21: Slavonic 'Day of Orsel' (Day of Ursula) moon goddess
Oct 22: Mesoptamian 'Day of willows' in honour of Belili or Astarte
Oct 25: Chinese 'Festival of Han Lu' Moon and Harvest goddess. Jacques de Molay first interrogated after Templar arrest 1306
Oct 26: Egyptian 'Festival of Hathor'. De Molay and 31 other Templars confess to herasy, all these confessions are later recanted 1306
The late October moon is known as... Blue Moon, Moon of the dead, Hunting Moon, Ancestor Moon, Hunters Moon.
Oct 28-Nov 2: Egyptian 'Isia' celebrating the search and recovery of Osiris
Oct 29: Iroquois 'Feast of the Dead'
Oct 30: Mexican: 'Angelitos' In memory of the souls of dead children
Oct 31: Celtic 'Samhain' (Celtic Feast of the Dead). Egyptian 'Feast of Sekhmet and Bast'. Indian 'Festival of Dasehra' celebrating the battle of Rama and Kali against Ravana the demon.
