| WHEEL OF THE YEAR AND CALENDAR OF EVENTS |
| Samhain: the Celtic New Year, known to most as Halloween. Last of the harvest festivals. This is a time when the veils between the world are thin and it is easy to connect with departed spirits. We honor the ancestors. We cook and enjoy foods that our departed love ones enjoyed. It is a solemn time. A time of renewal. A time to remember. Yule/Winter Solstice: We decorate the Yule tree, bring evergreens into our houses to remind us that life will go on. This is the longest night of the year. We also exchange gifts, have large feasts and decorate our Holly King and Queen and our Elf Prince and Fairy Princess. Imbolc/Candlemas/Bridgid's Day/Groundhog Day: is the time of awakening. The sabbat signals that the Goddess prepares to return. Imbolc literally means Mother's Milk. This is celebrated on February 2 each year. Ostara/Spring Solstice: we celebrate on the Vernal Equinox. We dye and color eggs, stream ribbons of pink, light blue, lilac and yellow throughout the yard. We balance the light and the dark. The Goddess is awaken. Beltane/Beltaine/May Day: is the return of life and fertility to the World. Bonfires are lit to renew the strength of the Gods Goddesses and to mark the beginning of summer. May 1 is Beltane, a time to dance around the May Pole and for lovers to begin courting. Litha/Summer Solstice/Midsummer: This is the end of the Holly King's reign, and the Oak King reigns until Yule. The longest day of the year. Dancing and drumming are the norm. Also the time of marriages. The reason for all the June brides! Lughnassadh/Llamas:: Celtic's first day of Autumn. Time of the first harvest festival. Time to prepare for the coming months of darkness. Last of the sun sabbats. Mabon/Fall Solstice: the Autumn Equinox. First of the dark Sabbats and second harvest festival . The Celtic Thanksgiving for a bountiful Summer. Time for the Sun God, Lugh, to prepare to enter the Underworld to be reborn at Yule. Dried corn is hung up to attract the fairies. |
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