Seasonal wisdom shifts our attention to Beltane (pronounced bell-tain as in “rain”), a spring fertility festival. It celebrates the quickening fires of the coming summer and is the midpoint between Ostara (Spring Equinox) and Litha (Summer Solstice). In the Celtic calendar there are 8 high holy days that involve nature festivals. It includes the equinoxes and solstices […]
Ostara: Happy Spring Equinox + Ancient Seasonal Wisdom
“It is Spring again. The Earth is like a child that knows poems by Heart.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Ostara (pronounced oh-star-ah), also known as the Spring or Vernal Equinox, welcomes growth and renewal and holds a tremendous amount of seasonal wisdom. In the Celtic calendar there are 8 high holy days centred around nature festivals. Ostara is […]
Imbolc: Ancient Seasonal Wisdom + First Stirrings of Spring
Do you feel the first stirrings of Spring? In the Celtic calendar there are 8 high holy days centred around nature festivals. They include the equinoxes and solstices that demark our four traditional seasons along with cross-quarter days. Imbolc is one of these cross-quarter festivals along with Beltane, Lammas, and Samhain. These holy days are times when […]
Yule: Origins + Ancient Seasonal Wisdom
Yule (pronounced you-elle), also known as the Winter Solstice, marks the Earth’s biggest exhale of the year and holds a tremendous amount of seasonal wisdom. Yule is one of the quarter festivals – along with Ostara (Spring Equinox), Litha (Summer Solstice), and Mabon (Fall Equinox) – of the Celtic calendar with the cross-quarter festivals of Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas, and Samhain celebrated in between. […]
Halloween: Origins + Ancient Seasonal Wisdom
Seasonal wisdom shifts our attention to Samhain (pronounced sow-in), meaning “summer’s end”, which is the final of three harvest festivals. Did you know that Halloween (aka. Samhain) is a sacred time to honour the changing seasons and the ancestral realm? It is a BIG deal in the Celtic calendar (kinda like the New Year) as […]