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Special Days and Aspects for
November 2002
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that day.
November 1, 2002
Moon enters Libra
Mercury SemiSquare Pluto
All Saints’ Day: Celebration of the lives of
all Christian saints, celebrated since the fourth
century.
National Author’s Day: Write to your
favorite author, says the granddaughter of the schoolteacher who got
this day declared a holiday in the United States.
Day of the Enlighteners (Den na Buditelite):
A day of thanksgiving to honor the patriots, writers and
revolutionaries who helped bring Bulgaria to
nationhood.
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November 2, 2002
All Soul’s Day: The day in the
Christian tradition that continues the long practice of early
civilizations of honoring the dead, particularly the recently
departed, in November. The day is celebrated in Mexico with an Aztec
flair, as El Día de los Muertos - the Day of the Dead, which
includes giving gifts of sweets that look like skeletons and other
signs of death.
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November 3, 2002
Moon enters Scorpio
Uranus goes Direct
Mercury Sextile Chiron
Bunka-no-Hi (Culture Day): Rationalism,
civilization and enlightenment are celebrated in Japan, and the
government awards medals in the arts and sciences. The day also
celebrates the birth of a past emperor.
Feast of St. Hubert de Liège: A white
stag with a crucifix between his antlers appeared to Hubert, turning
him from hunter to saint. Somewhat ironically, Luxembourg celebrates
by making St. Hubert’s Day the first day of hunting season.
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November 4, 2002
New Moon
Mercury Conjuct Venus
Venus Sextile Chiron
Diwali: India’s Festival of Lights! The
celebration runs November 2-6 this year, but this is its main day.
Read the full story at Diwali - India’s Festival of
Lights! .
Mischief Night: English kids
traditionally run wild on the eve of Guy Fawkes
Day.
Will Rogers Day: The birth of America’s
“cowboy philosopher” is a state holiday in
Oklahoma.
Yitzchak Rabin Memorial Day: Israel
honors the prime minister who shared in a Nobel Peace Prize before
being assassinated at a peace rally by a nationalist Israeli on this
day in 1995.
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November 5, 2002
Moon enters Sagittarius
Mercury Square Neptune
Sun Sesquisquare Saturn
Día del Puno: Indians in the Andes of
South America honor their Incan ancestors by playing out the story
of two brothers sent by their father, the Sun, to found the nation
on an island in Lake Titicaca.
Guy Fawkes Day: Remembers the discovery
of the Gunpowder Plot to kill King James I and his government in
1605 England. Macabre fun is made of the executions of “the guy” and
his co-conspirators.
Election Day: Attention Americans! Get
out and vote.
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November 6, 2002
Sun SemiSextile Mars
Ramadan begins: The holiest period of
the Islamic Year, Ramadan begins on the new moon of the ninth
Islamic month and lasts a month, until December 6 this year. It
commemorates the Prophet Mohammed’s reception of the divine
revelation recorded in the Koran, and devotees fast from sunrise to
sunset.
Gustavus Adolphus Day: Bonfires on
Reindeer Mountain and parades are part of this Swedish holiday in
honor of a 17th-century king who reformed many of the country’s
systems and was killed in the Thirty Years’
War.
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November 7, 2002
Moon enters Capricorn
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November 8, 2002
Sun SemiSextile Pluto
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November 9, 2002
Sun Square Jupiter
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November 10, 2002
Moon enters Aquarius
Mars Sextile Pluto
Mercury SemiSextile Pluto
Remembrance Day / Poppy Day (U.K.): The
commemoration of the November 11, 1918 armistice that ended World
War I is celebrated in the United Kingdom on the second Sunday in
November. The United States and Canada hold the same observance
tomorrow. The British Legion distributes red paper poppies on this
day, as the American Legion does the following day, in remembrance
of those who died in “the war to end all
wars.”
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November 11, 2002
Moon - 2nd Quarter
Mercury SemiSextile Mars
Mercury Square Jupiter
Mars Sextile Jupiter
Armistice Day / Veterans Day / Remembrance Day / Poppy Day (North America): The U.S. and Canadian holiday
(observed yesterday in its U.K. version) in remembrance of those who
fought and died in wars. The holiday originally celebrated the
November 11, 1918 armistice that ended World War I, and the paper
poppies symbolic of the day still reflect John McCrae’s poem about
poppies blowing above the graves in Flanders, a site of heavy
fighting.
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November 12, 2002
Moon enters Pisces
Birth of Baha’u’llah: Baha’i
celebration of the birth of their teacher and
Messiah.
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November 13, 2002
Venus SemiSquare Pluto
Sun SemiSquare Chiron
Mercury SemiSquare Chiron
Sun Conjuct Mercury
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November 14, 2002
Moon enters Aries
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November 15, 2002
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November 16, 2002
Mercury Square Uranus
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November 17, 2002
Moon enters Taurus
Sun Square Uranus
Mercury Quincunx Saturn
Shichi-Go-San (Seven-Five-Three Festival): A celebration of young children, this is an
ancient festival in Japan. On the Sunday nearest November 15,
parents take kids of these ages to Shinto shrines for special
blessings.
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November 18, 2002
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November 19, 2002
Full Moon
Mercury enters Sagittarius
Moon enters Gemini
Mercury SemiSextile Venus
Mon Lunar Eclipse
Sun Quincunx Saturn
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November 20, 2002
Venus goes direct
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November 21, 2002
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November 22, 2002
Sun enters Sagittarius
Moon enters Cancer
Sun SemiSextile Venus
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November 23, 2002
Mars Trine Uranus
Mercury SemiSextile Chiron
Labor Thanksgiving Day: Japan’s
Thanksgiving Day, a legal holiday, is also the country’s Labor
Day.
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November 24, 2002
Moon enters Leo
Mercury Sextile Neptune
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November 25, 2002
November 26, 2002
Moon enters Virgo
Mars Trine Saturn
November 27, 2002
Fourth quarter Moon
Mercury SemiSquare Mars
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November 28, 2002
Thanksgiving Day:
The fourth Thursday in November is the traditional day in the United
States for the American version of the autumn harvest celebration
and feast.
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November 29, 2002
Moon enters Libra
Sun SemiSextile Chiron
Mercury SemiSquare Venus
St. Andrew’s Eve: In Poland, girls
break dry branches from cherry trees, place them in wet sand and
tend them for the next few weeks. If the branch blooms by Christmas,
the sign is that they will marry within the year. Other methods for
predicting romance are also tried, such as pouring wax into water to
read the shape and looking for letters in apple peels tossed over
the shoulder. Collectively, these charms are called Andrzejki, named
in honor of the “manly” St. Andrew.
Quds Day: Islamic time of proclaiming
solidarity in support of oppressed Muslim people.
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November 30, 2002
Mercury Conjuct Pluto
Sun Sextile Neptune
Mercury Trine Jupiter
Chanukah begins: The Jewish Festival
of Lights commemorates the Maccabean recapture and rededication of
the Jerusalem Temple in 165-164 B.C. Special readings and songs of
praise for Chanukah often focus on freedom. The traditional
observance includes lighting the candles in an eight-branched
Menorah over the course of the eight nights of the holiday, which
ends December 7.
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