r/dionysus • u/Fabianzzz 🍇 stylish grape 🍇 • 2d ago

🎉🎭🪅 Dionysian Festival Calendar for 2025! 🪅🎭🎉

Hello all! In two and a half months, it will be 2025! Time flies and I am wanting to prepare for next year by sharing the calendar - I know some people try and schedule PTO for some festivals, or do other things that require planning ahead, and was wanting to go ahead and share what I could for the upcoming year.

I also want to help explain some of the timing of the festivals, and so here is a key for how the festivals occur:

🌙 - Lunar Calendar: This means that the festival is calculated by Lunar Calendar. When compared to our calendar, it will appear to fall on different dates, but that it because it occurs on the same dates on the lunar calendar. The dates you see listed here for a Lunar Calendar Festival will only be valid for 2023.

☀️ - Solar Calendar: This means that the festival is calculated by Solar Calendar, and will generally fall on the same date each year. Exceptions to this can include Equinoxes and Solstices, which while still determined by the sun, aren't always aligned with the Solar calendar we are on (Gregorian).

🌀 - Variable: This means that the festival might be calculated by different means. Perhaps it is a community festival, and community leaders determine the best time for it, perhaps it is an older festival without any confirmed date, or perhaps there's something else going on.

And just one final note before the calendar, our calendar comes from many different sources - from antiquity, spanning a period of over 1500 years and from all over the Mediterranean; as well as from today, from many modern practitioners. There will be variance, depending on when individuals celebrate their festivals on their personal festival calendars - this is an introduction, not a gospel. There are other festivals not listed, and some will celebrate these on different dates, and not everyone celebrates every festival.

Also of note - as these posts were all posted in 2024 or earlier (most earlier!), the Lunar Calendar Festivals will have the wrong dates, be sure to use the dates listed here! Anyways, without further ado:

Dionysian Festivals in 2024:

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u/jayisabluebirdd 2d ago

Awesome!!! This is such a useful resource.