The Order of Eternal Light, (OEL), will be observing the following holidays below.  These rituals will be taking place in the evenings sometime after 6pm.  If you work at night and plan to attend these celebrations and rituals you’ll need to ask off for the following dates.  If you work during the day, it is suggested that you ask off the day after the holiday since most rituals may last past 12am.

 

Samhain- October 31st

Yule- December 21st and 22nd

Imbolc- February 1st and 2nd

Ostara- March 21st and 22nd

Beltane- May 1st

Litha- June 21st and 22nd

Lughnasadh/Lammas- August 1st

Mabon- September 21st and 22nd

 

                                                                                              Days of Observance: Super Moons and Eclipses

 

            Super Moons, Lunar Eclipses/Blood Moons, Solar Eclipses, Blue Moons, and Black Moons are recognized as important religious observances.  The Order of Eternal Light, (OEL), will be performing rituals during these special times.  If you wish to be a part of these rituals then you may need to request off from work.  The times for the observances are different for each one.  There are additional Solar and Lunar Eclipses that will happen throughout the world but we will only be celebrating the ones that we can see from our part of the country. 

 

Blood Moon- October 7th and 8th, 2014

Blue Moon- July 31st, 2015

Blood Moon- September 28th, 2015

Super Moon- September 27th, 2015

Black Moon- October 1st, 2016

Black Moon- October 30th, 2016

Super Moon- November 14th, 2016      

Solar Eclipse- August 21st, 2017

Blue Moon- January 31st, 2018

Blue Moon- March 31st, 2018

Blood Moon- January 21st, 2019

Blue Moon- October 31st, 2020

 

There is no single accepted definition of a Black Moon. The term has been commonly used to refer to any of the following phenomena associated with the New Moon:

• Second New Moon in a calendar month: These Black Moons occur relatively often - once every 2.5 years.

• Third New Moon in a season of four New Moons: In a calendar, a year is divided into four seasons - Spring, Summer, Fall (Autumn), and Winter. Usually, each season has three months and three New Moons. When a season has four New Moons, the third New Moon is called a Black Moon.

• A calendar month without a New Moon: This can only happen in the month of February. When this occurs, January and March will have two New Moons, instead of the usual one.

• A calendar month with no Full Moon: About every 19 years, the month of February does not have a Full Moon. Instead January and March have two Full Moons each. The next Black Moon by this definition will occur in February 2018.

 

Blood Moon is a term popularly used to describe a Total Lunar Eclipse. When the Earth casts its shadow on a Full Moon and eclipses it, the Moon may get a red glow. A Total Lunar Eclipse When the Earth eclipses a Full Moon, the Moon may get a red glow.

 

A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth. The technical name is the perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system.

 

Solar Eclipse is an eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon.

 

A blue moon is an extra full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year, either the third of four full moons in a season or, recently, a second full moon in a month of the common calendar.