Pagan Book of Hours

The Breviary of the Asphodel Tradition

This online Book Of Hours contains two rituals per day for a full calendar year, based on the lore of many different ancient cultures, as part of the Asphodel tradition. This site can be used by any Pagan who needs a quick ritual for a given day or deity. For more information about the material on this site, please check our Calendar Information and Book Of Hours FAQ. The afternoon rituals are based on a solar calendar of 12 months, given under Anglo-Saxon month names. The evening rituals are based on a lunar calendar of 13 months, given under Celtic month names. Greek month names are associated with each of these, but the way of figuring the months is not Greek. (Or Celtic. See the FAQ.) Days without a specific holiday have been assigned repeating seasonal or monthly rituals. These rituals were written by our group, and are not public domain.

You can use this page to figure out what lunar day corresponds with a given solar day on these calendars for any day between now and the end of 2010. An assortment of astronomical data is also given, and more information on those will be supplied in time. The sun rise/set and hours are calculated for our location in Hubbardston Mass (W72N42. EST), and may be wildly inaccurate for your location.

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Solar months

Wolfmonath (Jan)
Solmonath (Feb)
Hrethemonath (Mar)
Eostremonath (Apr)
Thrimilchimonath (May)
Lithemonath (Jun)
Haymonath (Jul)
Weodmonath (Aug)
Halegmonath (Sep)
Winterfyllith (Oct)
Blutmonath (Nov)
Yulmonath (Dec)
  

Lunar months

Beth (Birch) / Poseideon II
Luis (Rowan) / Gamelion
Nion (Ash) / Anthesterion
Fearn (Alder) / Elaphebolion
Saille (Willow) / Mounukhion
Huath (Hawthorn) / Thargelion
Duir (Oak) / Skirophorion
Tinne (Holly) / Hekatombaion
Coll (Hazel) / Metageitnon
Muin (Vine) / Boedromion
Gort (Ivy) / Puanepsion
Ngetal (Reed) / Maimakterion
Ruis (Elder) / Poseideon
  

Rituals by Type

Deity Days
Green Man Tree Days
Astrological Days
Traditional Holidays
Solar Seasonal Rituals
Lunar Monthly Rituals
Other Days
Alphabetical Listing
2008 Lunar/Solar Listing
2007 Lunar/Solar Listing
  

We grant permission to any person to print these rituals for personal use or free use within a religious group and to copy to freely accessible online locations, provided there is no charge for their use and they are properly attributed to:

Pagan Book of Hours
Order of the Horae
First Kingdom Church of Asphodel
http://www.cauldronfarm.com/bookofhours/

We would, of course, love to be notified if you are using our words in such a way. You may not post them and claim that they are yours, or assume that because they are on the internet they are public domain. You may not publish them in any book, magazine or other print medium for which money will be taken without our permission.

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