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Imbolc

This night was celebrated Imbolc also called Candlemass. It is the time of celebrating the return of the light as winter reaches it’s midpoint and spring hoves onto the horizon. Prayers were offered to Bright the Goddess of healing, poetry ans smithcraft.
Till next week
Starwolf 02/03/2013

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Having dealt with the seasonal holidays, my next posts will deal with the cycles of  the Moon and their importance to the Craft.

                                                      Till next week
                                                      Starwolf 

                                                       10/14/2010

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The final spoke on the Wheel of the Year comes 6 weeks after the Fall equinox and that is Oct 31, Halloween  or Samhain .
It is a 2 fold holiday. First  it is the Feast of the dead, as it is the time when the veil between the worlds is thinnest. Second it is the Meat harvest when farmers would choose which animals would be kept for Spring breeding and which would slaughtered for Winter.
                                                Till next time
                                                Starwolf

                                                 10/07/2010

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Six weeks after Lammas comes the Autumn Equinox, on or about the 21st of September. This is another “balance festivals” when neither light nor darkness holds majority. It is also the time of the Apple harvest when you can divine the name of your future mate by throwing apple peelings over your shoulder and seeing what letter forms.
                                                      Till next week
                                                      Starwolf

                                                       09/30/2010

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Following Mid-Summer is the first of the harvest celebrations, Lammas, celebrated on Aug. 2nd. This is the first of the Harvest festivals, specifically the grain harvest. Some of the customs around Lammas  include making corn dollies, abstaining from meat between sunup and sundown (Herne’s Blessing), and burning straw men.

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                                                    Starwolf 

                                                     09/23/2010

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Following Beltane is June 21st, the longest day of the year.
 Known as the Summer Solstice, it is the time when the maturing crops are celebrated and the glory of Summer exalted.
                                                    Till next time
                                                    Starwolf

                                                     9/16/2010                                                    

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The next major holiday is Beltane .
This is celebrated on May 1 and is both a solar celebration (the triumph of Spring over Winter)  and a fertility celebration (leaves are greening, crops are sown).
                                                       Till next week
                                                       Starwolf

                                                        09/09/2010

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Ostara:
 6 weeks after Candlemas, on or about March 21st, comes Ostara .
This celebrates the Equinox, the day when there are 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night, and the first day of Spring .
                                               Till next time
                                               Starwolf

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                                                09/02/2010

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The next holiday is Candlemass :
  It is celebrated on Feb 2.
It symbolises the “return of the Light” . The period of daylight  (which has been growing since the Solstice is now of a notable length.
                                                      Till next time:
                                                      Starwolf 

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                                                      08/26/2010

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Yule:
Yule is celebrated on or about the 21st of December, the shortest day in the year.  As the Wheel of the Year is a cycle instead of a line, it is both the last and the first day of the ritual year.  Symbolically it is the time of the Death and Rebirth of the Sun, when the world holds its breath  waiting to see if the Sun will rise at dawn or if eternal night will rule.

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                                                      Starwolf

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                                                      08/22/2010

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