* 10/28 to 11/3: Isia.
* 10/31 eve to 11/2 eve: Samhain.
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Diwali[/caption]
* 10/31 to 11/3: Diwali/Lunar New Year/Festival of Lights.
* 10/31 eve to 11/7 eve: Mid-Autumn/Day of the Dead/Hallowmas.
* 11/1: All Saints Day--Day Christians remember all the virtuous dead, known and unknown.
* 11/1: World Community Day--Day for celebrating the unity behind diversity and remembering we are all one people - all children of the one universal Deity of many names and aspects.
* 11/2: Aztec Day of the Dead--Day for honoring the departed and Mictlancihuatl-Miclanteuctli, Goddess-God of the Dead. Aztecs believe all Gods are united in Great God Ometeuctli, all Goddesses are united in Great Goddess Omecihuatl, and the Great God and Goddess are united in Ometeoltl.
* 11/2: Hopi & Zuni Ancestors' Day--Food offerings are put into rivers and lakes in honor of the ancestors.
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All Souls Day by Aladar Korosfoi-Kriesch[/caption]
* 11/2: All Souls Day--Day Christians remember all the beloved dead.
* 11/2: Mindfulness Day--Zen Buddhist day for mindfully seeing and acting with compassion for the Earth and all creatures.
* 11/3 (2:00 a.m.): Daylight Savings Time ends - set clocks back 1 hour.
* 11/3 (7:50 a.m. EST): New Moon.
* 11/3 (5:04 a.m. to 10:29 a.m. EST): Total Solar Eclipse (visible in eastern North America).
* 11/3: Kali Puja--Hindu festival honoring Great Goddess Maha Devi as Kali - decay, death, and transformation.
* 11/3: Christian feast of St. Martin of Porres (d. 1639), healer and advocate of social equality and inter-ethnic harmony; guide of healers and human rights activists.
* 11/3 eve to 11/13 eve: Muharram/Muslim New Year (Year 1435) & A'ashurah.
* 11/5: Election Day--remember to vote!
* 11/10: Day for meditation on Tantric Bodhisattva Goddess White Tara, who guides the dead to Buddha Amitabha's Pure Land, where all will find salvation.
* 11/11 to 11/17: Old Anglo-Teutonic fast marking Hod (God of Darkness) unintentionally killing Balder (God of Light), and his true love Nanna (Goddess of Flowers) dying of a broken heart. The dead were honored. .
* 11/12 to 11/15: Tewa Buffalo Dance--focused on healing. Tewa rites honor Mother Earth, Father Sky, and the four directions and elements of life - air of the North, earth of the East, fire of the South, and waters of the West.
* 11/13: Kindness Day--Day for practicing random acts of kindness to strangers, and for committing to make kindness the basis for all encounters every day.
* 11/14 eve to 11/20 eve (11/17 peak): Leonid Meteor Showers.
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America Recycles Day[/caption]
* 11/15: America Recycles Day--Day to begin systematically recycling.
* 11/16: Day the world's nations agreed to protect the oceans and their creatures from pollution and over-harvest (1994); day to mourn continuing pollution and over-harvest.
* 11/17 (10:16 a.m. EST): Full Moon (Wolf/Hunting Moon).
* 11/17: Day commemorating the birth of Guru Nanak Dev Sahib (1469), founder of the Sikh faith. Sikhs attempt to merge the human spirit with the Divine Spirit by reciting Akal Purakh, one of Deity's sacred names.
* 11/20: Remembrance day for Meister Johannes Eckhart (d. 1328), Christian mystic. He taught the four ways of the mystic's journey - the creating, positive, negating, and transforming ways.
* 11/21: Fast for an Abundant World Harvest--Day to fast and commit to action to help prevent deaths from malnourishment world-wide.
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Sagittarius[/caption]
* 11/22: Beginning of Sagittarius (the Hunter/Huntress).
* 11/23: Baha'i feast honoring the one Deity as Qawl - Sacred Speech.
* 11/24: Lha Bab Duchen--Day Tibetan Buddhists celebrate the Buddha's descent from heaven after teaching the Dharma there.
* 11/27 eve to 12/5 eve: Hanukkah/Festival of Lights--Jewish festival commemorating a victory in their struggle for religious freedom and rededication of the second Temple of Jerusalem to Elohim. Menorah candles are lit.
* 11/28: Thanksgiving Day--Day to give thanks for the abundance of our land and for our food, clothes, shelter, and health.
* 11/28: Birthday of William Blake (1757), artist, poet, and mystic, who recognized the unity of all religions.
Excerpted fromTHE MYSTIC'S WHEEL OF THE YEAR 2013A Multifaith Calendar Reflecting Eco-Egalitarian Spirituality© 2012 Marija Miovskiwww.WheeloftheYear.com
