Samhain, October 31st, is considered to be the beginning of what is known as "the dark of the year", the time when nothing grows and everything sleeps. This time lasts until the first sabbat of spring, Imbolc. It is also one of two times in the year when the veil...
Beltane, the wonderful Fire Festival that falls at the start of Summer, or at the mid point of Spring (depending on what you feel the festival that falls smack in the middle of the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice is. For me, with the tradition I was trained in,...
What is Samhain? Its not Halloween. They are two separate festivals that just happen to occur at the same time. Samhain has been celebrated by different cultures in different ways around the world for centuries. Falling right in between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice, some regard it as...
Mar 21 (0° Aries) Ostara, or Lady Day is one of the four quarter days of the pagan Wheel of the Year. Many celebrate this festival on the 25th of March every year. But, if you delve back into history at all, you will know that until recently, they celebrated...
Each year on February 2nd, pagans celebrate the Celtic holiday of Imbolc, or Candlemass, also sometimes called Brigid's Day. It marks the approximate half-way point between the Winter Solstice (Yule) and the Spring Equinox (Ostara). Imbolc is considered to be Winter's "first thaw," meaning it was around this time when...
