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The Beginner’s Guide To The Summer Solstice

Posted in Wheel of The Year, tagged All News, Culture, Events, History, Holiday, Inspiration, Life, Lifestyle, Litha, Midsummer, National, Nature, News, Spirituality, Stonehenge, The Longest Day, The Summer Solstice, The Wheel of The Year, Top Stories on June 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »

You can call it Midsummer, The Longest Day, Litha or The Summer Solstice. Whichever you prefer just click the link to read all about it in our popular guide to The Wheel of The Year festivals…

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The Beginner’s Guide To Beltane

Posted in Wheel of The Year, tagged Beltane, Culture, Events, Festival, History, Holiday, Inspiration, Life, Lifestyle, May Day, National, Nature, Photography, Spirituality, Wheel Of The Year on April 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »

How will you celebrate your May Day bank holiday weekend? You could always get married, jump over a broomstick or get naked and paint yourself red like these folks.

You can discover the origins and traditions of the Beltane festival by clicking the link below for Lily Wight’s Beginner’s Guide To The Wheel Of The Year.

https://lilywight.com/2013/05/01/beltane-the-beginners-guide-to-the-wheel-of-the-year/

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The Beginner’s Guide To Ostara

Posted in Wheel of The Year, tagged Culture, Easter, Events, History, Holiday, Life, National, Nature, Ostara, Solar Eclipse, Spirituality, The Spring Equinox, The Vernal Equinox, Top Stories on March 19, 2015| 3 Comments »

Ostara is an Anglo-Germanic fertility festival celebrated at The Spring Equinox. This year’s festival coincides with a rare solar eclipse on Friday 20th March. Click the link to read all about it in Lily Wight’s Guide To The Wheel Of The Year.

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The Beginner’s Guide To Imbolc

Posted in Wheel of The Year, tagged Brighid, Brigid, Candlemas, Celtic Festivals, Culture, Events, History, Holiday, Imbolc, Inspiration, Lammas, Life, Lifestyle, Nature, Religion, Spirituality, Spring on January 30, 2015| 3 Comments »

The Celtic Fire Festival, Imbolc is celebrated on the 1st of February. Click the link to read all about it in Lily Wight’s Guide To The Wheel Of The Year.

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Yule ~ The Beginner’s Guide To The Wheel Of The Year

Posted in Wheel of The Year, tagged 2014, Arts, Christmas, Culture, Events, History, Holiday, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Nature, New Age, Pagan, Spirituality, The Shortest Day, The Wheel of The Year, The Winter Solstice, Yule on December 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lily Wight

Updated 18/12/2014

There are four Solar Quarter Days (two equinoxes and two solstices) on The Wheel of The Year calendar. Yule or The Winter Solstice is celebrated during a twelve day period from December into January.

Yule commemorates the demise and rebirth of the sun’s powers because The Wheel continues to turn and daylight hours begin to lengthen again beyond The Shortest Day.

The name “Yule” is thought to derive from the Old Norse ” jólnar” – a collective term for the gods or “Yule Ones”. Jólfaðr (Yule Father – interchangeable with All-Father) is one of many names attributed to Odin. In Old Norse poetry names and terms for Odin are frequently synonymous with celebration and feasting. Odin The Gift-Giver is undoubtedly the origin of our Santa Claus.

The Midwinter period between the last harvest (Samhain)…

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Samhain ~ The Beginner’s Guide To The Wheel Of The Year

Posted in Wheel of The Year, tagged 2014, Art, Culture, Events, Halloween, History, Holiday, Life, Lifestyle, Nature, Religion, Samhain, Spirituality, Wheel Of The Year on October 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lily Wight

Samhain – pronounced “sow – inn” and known presently as Halloween – is celebrated from sunset to sunset on 31st October to 1st November. It is the most important Fire Festival or Sabbat on the ancient Wheel of The Year calendar.

“Samhain” has been variously translated as “first frost” or “Summer’s end”: opposing suggestions with the same meaning. It is the name for November in ancient and modern Gaelic.

Samhain lies between The Autumn Equinox and The Winter Solstice. It marks the death of the year and the end of the annual agricultural cycle. Many ancient cultures throughout The Western Hemisphere regarded Samhain as their New Year’s Eve.

Samhain is the third and final harvest on The Wheel of The Year calendar. After Lughnasadh (grain and cereals) and Modron (fruit and vegetables) herding communities drove livestock back from…

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Modron, The Autumn Equinox ~ The Beginner’s Guide To The Wheel Of The Year

Posted in Wheel of The Year, tagged Apples, Art, Autumn Equinox, Candy Apples, Culture, Events, History, Holiday, Inspiration, Life, Lifestyle, Mabon, Modron, Mother Goddess, Mythology, Nature, Photography, Spirituality, The Wheel of The Year on September 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lily Wight

Updated 23/09/2014

The Wheel Of The Year calendar comprises four Celtic fire festivals interspersed with two solstice and two equinox celebrations. September’s Equinox denotes the height of the Autumn season.

The Autumn Equinox is named variably as Modron (Mother Goddess) or Mabon (Divine Son) – deities from Welsh Mythology who can be found in The Legends Of King Arthur.

Modron is a harvest and fertility goddess who shares characteristics with the Roman Ceres. On the agricultural calendar Lughnasadh (August) is The First Harvest (grains and cereals) and The Autumn Equinox (September) is The Second Harvest (fruits and vegetables).

At the Equinox the year wanes, yet the harvest is plentiful. The ancient tribal people of The Western Hemisphere believed their Mother Goddess entered the third trimester of her pregnancy whilst her…