12/5: Day for meditation on Tantric Bodhisattva Goddess Red Tara, protector against evil and harm.

12/8: Christian feast celebrating St. Anna's conception of Blessed Mary.

12/10: Day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, and fundamental rights were recognized world-wide (1948).

12/11 eve to 12/13 eve: Feast of the Immanent Feminine Divine Spirit-honoring Goddess as Maha Devi Shakti (Hindu), Allat Ruh Sakinah (Old Arabic-Sufi), Eloah Ruach Shekhinah (Jewish Kabbalah) & Holy Spirit Wisdom (Christian).

12/12 (11:37 a.m. EST): Full Moon (Snow/Fire Moon).  

12/12: First Appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of God and Mother of the Oppressed, at the former shrine of Aztec Moon Goddess Coatlicue (Mexico 1531).

12/13: Feast of the Light-bringer- honoring Goddess as Juno Lucina (Old Roman) & Lucia (Old Swedish); merged with the Christian feast of St. Lucia.

12/15 Old Egyptian festival of Neteret Amenet-Rait-Mut, the primordial Great Mother.

12/15: Death day of Fr. Pavel Florensky (1943), Orthodox Christian mystic who taught that Holy Wisdom is Our Mother, the Holy Spirit, third part of the Holy Trinity.
12/17 to 12/23: Saturnalia/Opalia-Old Roman festival honoring God Saturn (the weak Sun) & Goddess Ops (the fallow Earth); celebrated with gift-giving, revelry, and abolishment of all class distinctions.

12/18: Day the Constitution's 13th Amendment went into effect, outlawing all slavery (1865).

12/21 (7:04 a.m. EST): Winter Solstice/Solar New Year-Marks the beginning of Winter and the shortest day and longest night of the year; celebration of the darkness with dancing near the hearth fire.

12/21 to 12/25: Old Romano-Egyptian festival of Goddess Isis giving birth to God Horus.

12/22: Taoist festival honoring Wang-Mu/Empress Mother, Mother of Compassion and Wisdom, and manifestation of the Tao (Cosmic Power of Creation and Destruction). Also celebrates the peak of the feminine Yin half of the year and the Shen of Earth, North, and Winter; prayers are made for rest and renewal, and offerings are made to the Cosmos.

12/22: Tohji-Taisai-Shinto rite honoring Sun Goddess Amaterasu. Storm God Susano-o angered Her, and She withdrew into a cave until enticed out with music and dance.  

12/22: Beginning of Capricorn (the Goat).

12/22: Birthday of Lily Montagu (1873), who co-founded Liberal Judaism in 1902. She was the first Jewish woman to serve as lay minister, both officiating and preaching.

12/24 eve: Mother Night- Christian vigil for the laboring Blessed Mary.

12/25 (OC 1/7): Christmas- Christian celebration of Blessed Mother Mary giving birth to Child Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit.

12/25 to 1/5: Yule-Old Anglo-Teutonic festival honoring Freyr and Freyja (Deities of Fertility) and the new-born Balder (God of Light), son of Frigga and Odin. Celebrated with evergreens, fires, and feasting.

12/27 (7:23 a.m. EST): New Moon.

12/28: Day the first woman was ordained a Catholic priest (without Vatican authority) (1970).

12/28: Day an Islamic court ruled female genital mutilation to be un-Islamic and banned the practice (1997).
12/31: Yoruba/Santeria festival of Orisha Yemaya, Mother of the Sun and Moon.
 
Excerpted from
THE MYSTIC'S WHEEL OF THE YEAR 2008
A Multifaith Calendar Reflecting Eco-Egalitarian Spirituality