Solstice Celebrations. What Might They Mean?

Winter                                  Moon of the Winter Solstice Something new seems to be happening.  Not sure if I’m reading the rustling in the ether of our culture right, but it feels like the Great Wheel may have begun to reemerge.  Not […]

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Seasonal Pilgrimage

Fall                                           Waning Harvest Moon Each turn of the Celtic seasonal calendar I find ideas, personal reflections, astronomical or traditional lore to pass along. This time I’ll pass along one from Waverly Fitzgerald who maintains a website, living in season. She suggests a seasonal pilgrimage, a visit each turn of the year to a place that, […]

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Mabon (Fall) 2009

Fall                               Waxing Blood Moon Equinox.  Today is the fall equinox.  In spring we celebrate the shift towards yet more light and warmth as the trend toward lengthened days sees daylight overtaking the night.   Now the shift has a different, more somber direction.  At the Summer Solstice the hours of daylight began to shrink in relation […]

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