Embodying the Earth’s fertility with the ancient belly dance
Originally posted on Beltane Fire Society:
Set at the beginning of Summer when new plants and animals begin to grow, Beltane Fire Festival is in part a fertility festival centred…
Category Archives: Wheel of the Year
Dandelion, A Common Spring Garden Herb — Good Witches Homestead
Taraxacum officinale Also, Known As: Blow Ball Cankerwort Dandelion Lion’s Tooth Pissabed Priest’s-crown Puff Ball Pu Gong Ying Pu-kung-ying Swine Snout Telltime White Endive Wild Endive The dandelion is a […]
Ostara: Celebrations and Rituals Now
The Spring Equinox is a time of new beginnings, of action, of planting seeds for future gains, and of tending gardens. Spring is a time of the Earth’s renewal, a […]
Ostara/Spring Equinox 2019
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Ostara How did we Celebrate??
For early Pagans in the Germanic countries, this was a time to celebrate planting and the new crop season. Typically, the Celtic peoples did not celebrate Ostara as a holiday, […]
Spring Equinox Rituals: Rituals of Looking Back and Looking Forward — The Druid’s Garden
Sometimes, when we are hiking on a trail, we are in a hurry to get somewhere–that far off vantage point, that mile marker on the map, or just seeing what […]
Ostara What Do We Celebrate???
OSTARA (pronounced O-STAR-ah) is one of the Lesser Sabbats and is usually celebrated on the Vernal or Spring Equinox right around March 20/21 (although because of its origins, may instead […]
Crafts for Ostara/Spring Equinox
Natural Egg Dyes Boiling a single onion skin with a few eggs will give you a soft orange-do this when you are cooking them in a separate pot to avoid […]
Ostara/Spring Equinox
OSTARA (pronounced O-STAR-ah) is one of the Lesser Sabbats, may also be know by these names:[ Lady Day, Alban Eiler (Druidic), Eostara (Teutonic), Oestara, Eostra, Eos (Greek), Alban Eilir (Druidic), […]
How Did We Celebrate Imbolc ??
Imbolc was usually celebrated by lighting sacred fires ( Brigit was the Goddess of Fire, the Fire of Healing and Birth). Bonfires and candles too were lit. Imbolc is variously […]
