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Inbetween these doorways were the quarter celebrations of Imbolc and Lammas while the four Albans or the festivals at the equinoxes and the solstices rounded out the year. Samhain (Samhuinn, Summer's End) from October 31st - November 1st was a festival when the Celtic year began at the time of the rising of the Pleiades. Samhain (Samhuinn, Summer's End) was a time of summer's concluding and completions, as well as, the first day of winter, when the veils between worlds were at their thinnest and the ancestral keepers of wisdom and traditions were honored. Samhain (Samhuinn, Summer's End) was a time to use the open doorways to communicate with the spirit worlds to contact the sidhe, the Gods, and the Goddesses.
A magical gateway between
seasons and threshold passageways, Samhain (Samhuinn, Summer's End) was also a
favorable time for Druidic fortune telling and predicting probable futures.
Samhain (Samhuinn, Summer's End) was celebrated with sprigs of holly symbolizing rebirth, and jack o'lanterns (carved out pumpkins with lighted candles inside them), symbolizing Awen /|\. Yule (Winter Solstice) from December 21st - 22nd was a time of regeneration and new beginnings (Alban Arthuan; Light of Arthur) occurred when the light reentered the world and the days first started to lengthen again. The shortest day of the year, it was a time of regeneration and new beginnings. In the stillness of the darkness of the void, inspiration dawned, and burning sparks of creativity became the fire seeds of fertilized power. According to legend, King Arthur was born at Castle Tintagel in Cornwall on the Winter Solstice. Yule (Winter Solstice) was a festival of peace and waxing sunlight, it was celebrated with greenery, holly, ivy, pine cones, and by burning Yule logs.
Yule (Winter Solstice) was
a time of resolution and release of held negative emotions, of learning from
prior mistakes and then moving forward with renewed hope...
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