Celebrations

Yule is the celebration of the birth of the God. It is the shortest Day and longest night we endure on this planet. Our celebrations focus on the return of light after a vigil to welcome the birth of the Sun and the change of dominance between the Oak and Holly Kings

A festival of candles and light in the darkness, Imbolc/ Candlemas is a time to celebrate the recovery of the Goddess after birthing the God and the earth beginning it’s first stirrings under the ice and cold. Symbolized through a long journey from dark into light, we see ourselves beginning to emerge from our winter enforced solitude and begin the process of assimilating back into the world outside after a focus within.

Oestara is the beginning of spring and the celebration of the first signs of the world around us awakening. WE look to the green infusing the world around us as a reminder and comfort that after the the dead and solitude of winter, the world around is is a alive and will thrive again.

Beltaine is a celebration of fertility on multiple levels. There is a freedom in the air in the warmth of the early May sun, a release back into nature for humans to embrace and interject our world with action and intent.

Midsummer celebrates the peak of power and height of the Sun. It is a day devoted to the Sun God and the world blossoming under his might. We celebrate through bonfires and dancing under the trees in celebration of his gift.

The first Harvest Festival, Lammas is a time to celebrate the reaping of wheat and the sacrifice of John Barleycorn to bring forth a greater harvest. This is a ritual focused on the acknowledgement of sacrifice and duty in providing for ourselves as well as celebrating the initial rewards of our hard work.

Mabon is the second Harvest Ritual. It is a time of giving thanks for the rewards of our hard work through the year. WE celebrate is by sharing the bounty of our harvest with one another as well as sharing something we want our next year to be full of, manifesting abundance through sharing.

Samhain (pronounced Sa-wyn) is the beginning and end of the Wheel of the Year for us. The third harvest festival, it is a time for reflection on all has transpired over the last year. It is a time for an inventory of loss and gain, as well as a time to honor the Ancestors and all that has come before us to help us move forward into the next year and cycle of growth.

Deep in the cold of January, we find stillness and reflection. The earth has frozen and animals that can are hibernating, conserving energy for the activity of Spring to come. Patience and focus on the long term is the message of this moon.

The land is frozen, but underneath life moves and is awake! The planning for awakening is in process and there is much to do as soon as the cold breaks!

The earth is awakening and the first signs of Spring has begun to arrive. There are ideas to be planted and plans to be cultivated.

The Budding Moon is a time where we look to the earth’s progressive awakening from it’s slumber of winter as Spring takes hold. We asses what will be needed to plant our seeds of growth and development and begin the planting of ideas and sewing of new habits into our lives to begin our growth and prosperity for the year.

With the Flower Moon, we begin to see how beautiful and fertile life is. We look at what we need to do to sew, manage, and fertilize the growth we seek and how we must must break our husks to push into new growth. To get what we want, we have to move beyond our former limits and allow change to happen.

The Strawberry Moon is a time of action and clarity. The days are long and hot and there is ample time for work and play. We’ve planned and then begun plan execution for the last few moons, now is the time to put those plans into action and focus on what we need to do to manifest the changes in our lives we desire.

The Buck Moon is a time to reflect on our efforts and see how ur plans have progressed and if there is need for re-evaluation of our goals and to reflect on ways to move forward without expectations of the results.

The seeds have been sewn, fertilized, weeded, and tended. They’ve been managed and all that can be done to foster our growth has been done. It’s time to accept that the course is set and that there is a need to accept our efforts for what they are, not what we feel in retrospect was lacking. Look at yourself with compassion, forgiveness, and understanding that you have done your best.

The time to reap what we’ve sewn has come. We reflect on what our bounty is and show ourselves love for what we’ve done and how we’ve manifested the change we sought in the beginning of the spring, reflecting on how our needs and desires have shifted in the time between, leaving us to reconcile desire and intent with reality.

The Beaver Moon is a time of preparation for the long winter. It’s a time of lists, planning, and conservation of resources as the world goes to sleep around us.

Winter is begun and the world around us is withdrawing into it’s places of warmth and comfort to begin to hold out till spring. During this time, we look at how we will make it through the winter in the cold enforced solitude and take time for reflection as an inward journey begins.

A Blue Moon is the second moon within a calendar month and the thirteenth moon of the year. It is a time for reflection of our world and its connection to the spiritual with little connection to time, but fully connected to ourselves and our inward journey.