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September & October

GUARDIAN ANGELS OF PEOPLE
BORN UNDER THE SIGN OF LIBRA:

Element: Air

https://www.spellweavingpoet.com/Libra_Angels.htm

September 24 to 28:

ANIEL - One of the numerous angelic
guards of the gates of the West wind.


ALSO>>


Found a fun place to find out what's being celebrated and a little info about it too. Sharing some of it.
https://www.novareinna.com/constellation/libraevents.html
SEPTEMBER 24
Around this date, ancient Egyptians marked the approach of planting
season by commemorating the death and rebirth of the God Osiris. The
rites included music, dancing and the ceremonial planting of crops.

SEPTEMBER 25
Beginning approximately on this date and continuing for roughly two
weeks, at a time astonomically determined, the people of India celebrate
Durga Puja to honor the ten-armed Goddess Durga, the Divine
Mother of the Universe. In Indian lore, Durga conquered the
thousand-headed King of Demons known as Mahisasura. This festival is a
time of joy, when children express their respect for parents and adults
settle quarrels with friends and neighbors. During Durga Puja, many families hold their annual reunions and celebrate family life.

SEPTEMBER 26
It is said that the real Johnny Appleseed...John Chapman...was born on
this day in 1774. As a young man, Chapman suffered a blow to the head
that resulted in what he believed to be a vision of Heaven. Chapman
later reported that the home of God was distinguished by an abundance of
blooming apple trees. Following this ephiphany, Chapman made it his
mission to plant apples and preach the Christian scriptures. He wandered
the American prairies sowing seeds and reading from the gospel. His
earthly reward was a place in American folklore.

SEPTEMBER 27
One of the most joyous events of the Chinese Year...the Moon Festival or Chung-Ch'lu...falls
on the Full Moon of the eighth month of the Chinese Lunar Calendar.
This is also known as the Autumn Harvest Moon. As the climax of the
growing season, the Moon Festival is a time to give thanks for a
bountiful harvest. Because the Moon in Chinese thought symbolizes the
female principle of Yin, the rites are performed by the women of each
family. Special altars are arranged in the courtyards of houses. Upon
each altar, a picture is placed (and sometimes, a small figurine) of the
Moon Hare, a creature that in Chinese mythology inhabits the Moon. When
moonlight fills the courtyard, the ceremony begins. The women set
offerings upon the altar...five platters of different varieties of fruit
and thirteen "mooncakes," which are small, spicy, circular cakes
representing the thirteen months of the Lunar Year. On occasion,
offering of beans are also included since beans are believed to be a
particular favorite food of the Moon Hare. Incense is lighted and one by
one, the women of the household approach the altar and bow. Then, the
picture of the Moon Hare is burned in order that its soul be freed to
return to the Moon.

SEPTEMBER 28
Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher and moral teacher, is believed
by some authorities to have been born on this day in 551 B.C.

This is also approximately the time of Yom Kippur,
a solemn day of rest, prayer, fasting and ritual purification ending
the Ten Days of Pentinence that begin with the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. Much like Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur occurs on movable dates determined by Moon phases. In ancient times, a
scape-goat (symbolic sin-bearer) was turned out into the desert to carry
away the sins of the people during Yom Kippur.

SEPTEMBER 29
This date is the Festival of Saint Michael's Day, also known as
Michaelmas. Many customs are associated with this celebration and it is
the day Christians set aside to honor Saint Michael, Chief of the
Archangels, who chased the devil Lucifer from Heaven. In England, people
once refused to pick blackberries after this date, believing that the
devil (who was said to have landed on a prickly blackberry bush when he
fell from Heaven) cursed the berries by either spitting or urinating on
them each Michaelmas. On the Scottish Isle of Saint Kilda, familes still
bake and eat a special cake on Saint Michael's Day to ensure the
Saint's protection during the coming year.

SEPTEMBER 30
On this date in 1955, James Dean died at the age of twenty-four in a car
crash. However, this popular actor continues to live on as a
supernatural cult hero. Some thirty thousand fans gather each year in
Fairmount, Indiana (where Dean grew up and is buried) to mark the
anniversary of his death. Many such devoted fans believe Dean speaks to
them. One woman reported that he told her via Ouija to go to a certain
road. There, he appeared to her briefly in his "Eastof Eden outfit."
Another fan is said to have heard Dean's booted feet "walking back to
his grave." Police were once obliged to evict eight academics holding a
seance by Dean's headstone. Nevertheless, Fairmount appreciates the
attention...to say nothing of the money spent by the visitors each
year...and has made the anniversary into a three-day festival.

OCTOBER 1
According to one classical formulation, the faith of Islam requires of
its followers five things: belief, prayer, charity, fasting and
pilgrimage. To fulfill the last requirement, every Muslim must make at
least one pilgrimage to Mecca, where the prophet Muhammad was born.
According to the Koran, Islam's Holy Book, this pilgrimage or hajj, must be timed so the pilgrim is in Mecca on the seventh day of the month of Dhu'l-hijjah...a
date that varies from year to year on Western calendars, but which
always occurs around the beginning of October. Once a Muslim has
completed the hajj, he or she may assume the title Hajji or Pilgrim. This is a mark of high honor. Prior to reaching Mecca (a
city still forbidden to non-Muslims), the pilgrims must bathe, pray and
don special garments. When they enter the city, they go directly to the Ka'ba, a veiled shrine said to have been built by Abraham and his son, Ishmael, from whom the Arab nations descended. Over time, the Ka'ba has undergone much repair until today, only one of its building blocks
(the Black Stone in the eastern corner) is believed to have survived
from the original erection. Each pilgrim circles the Ka'ba seven
times, striving to touch or kiss the Black Stone, as did the prophet
Muhammad when he rededicated it to the service of the one God, Allah.
After paying their respects to the Ka'ba, pilgrims pass on to the
small domed Mosque of Abraham and drink from the nearbly sacred Well of
Ishmael. According to tradition, this Well sprang miraculously from the
sand to save Ishmael and his mother when both were abandoned in the
desert. Pilgrims then climb the Holy Hills of Safa and Marwa, journeying between them seven times and stopping only to recite prayers. On the eighth day of Dhu'l-hijjah comes the so-called standing, in which hundreds of thousands of
worshippers gather on the nearby Plains of Arafat to stand and pray from
noon until sunset. After nightfall, each pilgrim collects seventy
pebbles from the desert. These stones are later thrown at three ancient
pillars which represent the evils of the world. A final animal
sacrifice ends the hajj. However, some of the more pious continue
on to the city of Medina, where Muhammad fled when Mecca disowned him.
There, the travelers pray in the Mosque of the Prophet. Muhammad wrote
that one prayer recited in this mosque has more effect than a thousand
prayers offered in any other location...save the Ka'ba in Mecca.

OCTOBER 2
In 1672, Pope Clement X proclaimed this date to be Guardian Angels Day,
an occasion for people to give special thanks to the Angels and for the
protection provided courtesy of such celestial guardians.

OCTOBER 3
It was on approximately this date that the Cherokee nation once
celebrated its Cementation and Propitiation Festival, during which men
exchanged the clothes they were wearing to symbolize human union with
Cherokee deities. Celebrants later immersed themselves in running water
to wash away unseen barriers to the Gods.

OCTOBER 4
During the Jewish Harvest Festival of Sukkoth, which fall around this date, worshippers eat their meals in outdoor booths built from tree boughs. Sukkoth is a time of renewal and thanksgiving. The Festival also includes a special prayer for rain.

OCTOBER 5
On this approximate date in Lithuania, the reaping of the last sheaf of grain is marked by the Nubaigai celebration. On some farms, workers dress the last sheaf...known as
"The Old Woman"...in female clothing and dance with it for good luck.
This celebration often ends as a full-blown festival, complete with
food, drink, dancing and games.

OCTOBER 6
Each Autumn in Nepal at around this time, Hindu worshippers of the great
God Vishnu hold a nine-day religious festival to honor their
transcendant protector and redeemer. The celebration, one of the most
auspicious of the Hindu Year, includes Haribodhini Ekadasi, the
day in Hindu tradition when Vishnu awakes from his annual four-month
rest on a subterranean bed of snakes. To mark Vishnu's wakening, the
faithful bathe in sacred waters, chant the God's name 1008 times and
make secret...and thus, more truly charitable...offerings of alms by
hiding them in unripe pumpkins. Should Vishnu's followers fail to honor
him at this time, traditions holds that they risk rebirth as crowing
roosters or human mutes.

read the rest here.https://www.novareinna.com/constellation/libraevents.html

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIBRA.

 

 
 

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