The Autumn Equinox has many names and not all are familiar to our readers: Festival of Dionysus, Fall, Mabon, Michaelmas, Labour Day, Alban Elfed, the Cornucopia, Feast of Avilon, Night of the Hunter, Second Harvest, Wine Harvest, the Witch’s Thanksgiving….
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The kids and I blow out eggs and decorate them with Celtic and spring symbology. Then we hang them on a branch, spray painted white and put in a vase of brightly colored floral pebbles. This is our “Ostara tree”….
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All of these projects were done with my four year old with materials we had on hand. We’ve decided that lights will be the only item on our tree that we don’t make ourselves, so last year we started making…
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Yule, also known as the Winter Solstice, starts when the Sun enters the sign of Capricorn and the temperature is at zero degrees (the beginning of energy). This is the longest night and the darkest time of the year. On…
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I thank the God and Goddess each and every year when Autumn / Mabon,(pronounced MAY-bun, MAY-bone, MAH-boon, or MAH-bawn) has finally arrived. It has to be my favourite season of the year – summer has finally ended and we can…
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Samhain is one of the two great Celtic holidays, the Celts divided the year into two seasons: light and dark, the light being Beltane on May 1st and Samhain on November 1st. Most of us believe that Samhain is the more…
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