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 […]
Seasonal Wisdom: Letting Go with the Fall Equinox
Seasonal wisdom shifts our attention to Mabon (pronounced may-bon), also known as the Fall Equinox, the second harvest festival of the Celtic calendar. In the Celtic calendar there are 8 high holy days that involve nature festivals. Mabon is one of the quarter festivals – along with Ostara (Spring Equinox), Litha (Summer Solstice), and Yule […]
Seasonal Wisdom: Connect to Nature with First Harvest
Seasonal wisdom tells us that we’ve reached a turning point in Summer. I know, I know, this is something that summer worshipers don’t care to admit: Solstice has come and gone, and though summer is at its zenith in the Northern Hemisphere, daylight is slowly fading. Lammas (pronounced lah-mass) sometimes called Loaf Mass, or the Gaelic, Lughnasadh (lOO-nah-sah), […]
New Moon Solar Eclipse
You’ve likely heard that today heralds not only the New Moon but an annular solar eclipse as well. What does this mean? Let’s talk scientifically first then symbolically. What exactly is an annular solar eclipse? A solar eclipse is when all three major celestial bodies line up like this: Earth – MOON – Sun. An annular eclipse […]