September Almanac

Month of long shadows

& Blackberry season

Conkers drop & mushrooms pop as spiders move indoors and bees cling to the Ivy

In Anglo-Saxon Haligmonath – Holy month

1st September – Start of Meteorological Autumn based on the temperature cycle

8th Bái lù – White dew chinese lunisolar calendar

11th New Moon in Virgo

& Jewish Rosh Hashanah beginning at sunset & Ethiopian New Year

20th Yom Kippur / Jewish Day of Atonement beginning at sunset

21st International Peace day

22nd Autumn Equinox – Mabon – also known as Alban Elfed by the druids – The start of Astronomical autumn based on the position of the earth into the sun.

& The Sun moves into Libra

23rd Qiū fēn Autumn divide chinese lunisolar calendar

25th Sukkot Jewish Tabernacles beginning at sunset

26th Full Harvest Moon in Aries

29th Michaelmas – The Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels, the day st Michael fell to earth, landing on a blackberry bush & causing them all to shrivel.
Michaelmas daisies/ Asters bloom.

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