My birthday is on a wiccan holiday?

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I'm not really sure if this is right but Halloween is the wiccan new year right? My birthday is on Halloween and someone wiccan said it was the new year so I just want to know.
And also can someone tell me what exactly it is you do on that day?  

[whiporwill-o]

HunterPunter1031

I'm not really sure if this is right but Halloween is the wiccan new year right? My birthday is on Halloween and someone wiccan said it was the new year so I just want to know.
And also can someone tell me what exactly it is you do on that day?

thats cool that your birthday is on hallowe'en [i wish mine was, i would so rock the hallowe'en parties, lol] but why put so much emphasis on the wiccan part? if i'm not mistaken, november 1st is actually Samhain, but i may be wrong.  

[Kitsune_Lunami]

To my knowledge, Samhain is celebrated on the 31st, however, whether or not this is in particular to each pagan faith, but to my recollection, Samhain is celebrated on the such and such moon (I believe the holiday originated on a culture that was using a Lunar Calendar, again, to my recollection). Although it is used by Wiccans I believe, it isn't just a wiccan holiday.

As for celebration, I'm sure it would depend loosely on the particular cultural influences and beliefs, both inside and outside of religious faith.

Again, this is all speculation, and I can't truly back any of it up.  

[whiporwill-o]

Kitsune_Lunami

To my knowledge, Samhain is celebrated on the 31st

"November 1st was traditionally known as samhain, literally translated the 'end of summer'"

source: http://goireland.about.com/od/historyculture/qt/trad_samhain.htm  

[kage no neko]

I've heard some holidays are celebrated on the eve and also the day of. I don't remember if Samhain is one of those or not though.  

[CuAnnan]

Samhain is a lunar festival.
Not a solar one.  

[whiporwill-o]

CuAnnan

Samhain is a lunar festival.
Not a solar one.

where did anyone say it was solar? did i misread something?  

[TeaDidikai]

whiporwill-o

CuAnnan

Samhain is a lunar festival.
Not a solar one.

where did anyone say it was solar? did i misread something?

October 31st is a solar calender date.

To suggest that it could possibly have been determined by a solar calender to be a specific day of that year is to ignore the calender that the Celts used.  

[whiporwill-o]

TeaDidikai

whiporwill-o

CuAnnan

Samhain is a lunar festival.
Not a solar one.

where did anyone say it was solar? did i misread something?

October 31st is a solar calender date.

To suggest that it could possibly have been determined by a solar calender to be a specific day of that year is to ignore the calender that the Celts used.

oh, i see, thank you. i am not familiar with solar vs. lunar calendar days sweatdrop  

[kage no neko]

TeaDidikai

whiporwill-o

CuAnnan

Samhain is a lunar festival.
Not a solar one.

where did anyone say it was solar? did i misread something?

October 31st is a solar calender date.

To suggest that it could possibly have been determined by a solar calender to be a specific day of that year is to ignore the calender that the Celts used.

And Samhain is a Celtic holiday?  

[whiporwill-o]

kage no neko

TeaDidikai

whiporwill-o

CuAnnan

Samhain is a lunar festival.
Not a solar one.

where did anyone say it was solar? did i misread something?

October 31st is a solar calender date.

To suggest that it could possibly have been determined by a solar calender to be a specific day of that year is to ignore the calender that the Celts used.

And Samhain is a Celtic holiday?

indeed 3nodding [see above link for source]  

[kage no neko]

whiporwill-o

kage no neko

TeaDidikai

whiporwill-o

CuAnnan

Samhain is a lunar festival.
Not a solar one.

where did anyone say it was solar? did i misread something?

October 31st is a solar calender date.

To suggest that it could possibly have been determined by a solar calender to be a specific day of that year is to ignore the calender that the Celts used.

And Samhain is a Celtic holiday?

indeed 3nodding [see above link for source]

Ooooh. Okay. Thanks. smile  

[whiporwill-o]

kage no neko

whiporwill-o

kage no neko

TeaDidikai

whiporwill-o

CuAnnan

Samhain is a lunar festival.
Not a solar one.

where did anyone say it was solar? did i misread something?

October 31st is a solar calender date.

To suggest that it could possibly have been determined by a solar calender to be a specific day of that year is to ignore the calender that the Celts used.

And Samhain is a Celtic holiday?

indeed 3nodding [see above link for source]

Ooooh. Okay. Thanks. smile

not a problem 3nodding  

[TeaDidikai]

whiporwill-o

TeaDidikai

whiporwill-o

CuAnnan

Samhain is a lunar festival.
Not a solar one.

where did anyone say it was solar? did i misread something?

October 31st is a solar calender date.

To suggest that it could possibly have been determined by a solar calender to be a specific day of that year is to ignore the calender that the Celts used.

oh, i see, thank you. i am not familiar with solar vs. lunar calendar days sweatdrop

The Celts actually used a Lunar-Solar calender, as opposed to a pure lunar calender.

See, true lunar calenders don't match up very close to solar ones, creating time shifts that over the course of years will cause dates to fall in completely different seasons.

Solar calenders orient towards the rotation of the earth around the sun, thus the seasons stay pretty much the same with really only about a days worth of shift here or there, and our modern calender makes up for this with leap year day and leap minutes.

Lunar-Solar calenders use a solar event to begin tracking the lunar phases.

In the case of the Gael, I want to say they used the Autumnal Equinox to track the first moon after as Summer's End. It's been a little while since I looked the stuff up.  

[whiporwill-o]

TeaDidikai

whiporwill-o

TeaDidikai

whiporwill-o

CuAnnan

Samhain is a lunar festival.
Not a solar one.

where did anyone say it was solar? did i misread something?

October 31st is a solar calender date.

To suggest that it could possibly have been determined by a solar calender to be a specific day of that year is to ignore the calender that the Celts used.

oh, i see, thank you. i am not familiar with solar vs. lunar calendar days sweatdrop

The Celts actually used a Lunar-Solar calender, as opposed to a pure lunar calender.

See, true lunar calenders don't match up very close to solar ones, creating time shifts that over the course of years will cause dates to fall in completely different seasons.

Solar calenders orient towards the rotation of the earth around the sun, thus the seasons stay pretty much the same with really only about a days worth of shift here or there, and our modern calender makes up for this with leap year day and leap minutes.

Lunar-Solar calenders use a solar event to begin tracking the lunar phases.

In the case of the Gael, I want to say they used the Autumnal Equinox to track the first moon after as Summer's End. It's been a little while since I looked the stuff up.

thank you. i think i get it now. biggrin

stupid question alert wahmbulance
what constitutes the difference between a solar day and a lunar day, specifically? [google was of no help...again]