UPDATE 18 April 2018 — The Google calendar is deleted. Some changes on Google’s end, and some unawareness of those changes on my end, resulted in a guest user of the calendar deleting most of the content and individual entries in order to make more closely adhere to their practice. After some discussion with them (which was generous, kind, and entirely responsible rather than malicious or tinted with argument), I decided to discontinue this calendar at this time.
I’ve made my calendar available through iCal at webcal://p04-calendarws.icloud.com/ca/subscribe/1/93f2LWSQqmS4Dj7Ei4Kmak9GWuo4MxqYuzIgVGdT1GGoGhU5eISyV0WDRa2jzQCpFoaOZv-GtCeFE8Yz0BcJ7LOeDe1HHzcTjbVQFOQobFY rather than Google, but I can’t seem to test whether or not it works… because it’s hosted on my account, and therefore my own iCal application can’t connect to it through some sort of failure of circular logic. So if it doesn’t work, please let me know.
Update 23 January 2017: This post is one of my most-visited posts, even eight years later. If you’d like to thank me for creating this perpetual calendar, please consider PayPal’ing me a few bucks, or buy a copy of Poems for the Behenian Stars on Etsy, or through Amazon (cheaper!) my chapbook/guide to the spiritual meanings of brightest stars in the northern sky.
Update 6 April 2017: FESTAE is a set of poems that I wrote organized around the pagan days of this calendar. It’s available through Amazon. THE SUN’S PACES is another collection, organized around the Greco-Roman-Mediterranean deities of the Zodiac’s subdivisions. It’s available through Amazon, as well. THE MANSIONS OF THE MOON is a collection of twenty-eight poems based around the secret Zodiac that rules the Moon’s movements in particular. It’s also available through Amazon.
I’ve been meaning to do this, and a few friends bullied/inspired me into doing it, finally. It’s the list of the various pagan/spiritual days that I tend to notice and celebrate in some fashion when they pass by. Currently, I’ve not added in the poetry associated with each day, but it is a basic guide to the 113 festival days. Hey, any excuse for a party.
Because it’s on Google Calendar, you do have the ability to add this to your calendar there. Because it’s on Google Calendar, you can download it and install it on programs like iCal and the freeware programs like Sunbird/Thunderbird. You can even download it and put it on Microsoft’s program, whatever it’s called. Enjoy.
XML: (REPORTED NON-FUNCTIONAL 4 March 2016)
http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/dcg3rk9388q6j9v74ldf8pe34s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
Alas, I’ve been unable to make the ical URL work at all. It says I subscribed but no holidays show up. I will definitely miss that calendar.
I’ll try to remake it at some point. I wrote a collection of poetry called “Festae” which are hymns for the 36-40 festivals that used to be in that calendar — it’s available as an ebook on Amazon.
It works in Google Calendar, thanks!
Thank you so much for providing this calendar! I don’t know much about any pagan holidays, and this calendar is a fabulous resource for learning. I’ve been sorting out issues with my own Google Calendar, and just noticed that it was missing.
It can be added again very easily – instructions from Google are here : https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37100 under “Add using a link.” It works perfectly with the new iCal webcal:// url. ^_^
I am so saddened that this calender was deleted. Tried using the new link but it wont work for me. Hoping you will create a new calendar soon available on your page! I need this in my life! Its just too useful!!
Dear A Jay
I am sorry that it died, too. At some point google adjusted how calendar permissions worked for public calendars. Someone deleted most of my entries before I noticed that it had happened. The two of us have talked by email at chat message, and I have forgiven this person; there was no indication that they were deleting the original calendar, rather than a copy on their own calendar.
There is good news and bad news. The good news is that most of the sacred days that I had posted in this Google calendar, are now represented by poems in an e-book available through Amazon.com called Festae, that I wrote.
I will try to post a link later today. The bad news, is that I have not yet figured out how to create a Google calendar that is both publicly readable, and not publicly editable. So I don’t know how to quite re-create what was here before. I promise to try again, but at the moment I am not hopeful. Do check out the e-book; you can find it using search terms like Andrew Watt, and Festae and poetry.
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Thank the Goddess someone FINALLY did this for those of us who could not!
Blessed be to you and thank you so so much!
This is awesome. There are many pagan pages on fb…i’m sure you could get some payments on there from users adding it…if you say that it’s only 1.99 or something. Maybe you could make a payment a prior thing before giving access to add it? Either way…this was awesome. I really appreciate it. You might could sell the calendar to Google…just some thoughts.
Hi Teya,
Thanks for the suggestions. This post for Google Calendar gets something like 500 hits a month during November through February, when people are planning their coming years — and it has for eight years. It averages 2000 visits a year. If just one or two of those folks donate something through PayPal, then I don’t need to do anything further, and it pays for itself. As far as selling the calendar to Google? I don’t think they care enough.
Thanks a lot for still posting this, 8 years later.
You’re welcome!
Hi, is there any chance that you have made a southern hemisphere version of this? I would love to add it to my calender!
Dear Bel D,
Having never lived in the Southern Hemisphere, I haven’t done the work necessary to plug Western European and Mediterranean deities into an Australian or South American timeline. I imagine it could be done, though.
I love this and really wanted all of my events and holidays in ONE place. You are so kind to do and share this. Thank you so much! x
You’re welcome. Sorry for the long delay.
Can anyone explain to me how to sync it with the google calendar app? I have it synced on my computer however it doesn’t follow up on the app.
Hunter,
Sorry for the long delay. I don’t use the google calendar app, but I know that some of the old subscription APIs no longer work; the companies no longer maintain them. That may be the case here.
THANK YOU!!!
this seemed perfect but when I clicked on the link to import it into my google calendar, I got an error 403 – Forbidden!
Hi, Kiry9. It appears that the XML version of the calendar is no longer supported; you have to use either the iCal format or the plain HTML.
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