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Summer Solstice from June 21st - 22nd was a time of the solar zeniths, ripening, accomplishing, and strengthening connections with the Nature Spirits of the land, sea, and sky. Summer Solstice was also a time a of rebalancing mind, body, and spirit. Summer Solstice was a "Light of the Shore" festival happened on Summer Solstice (Alban Heruin; Midsummer's Day) when the Sun reached its peak. Summer Solstice was a time of nurturance and expressing dreams so that they might manifest in the world. Summer Solstice was celebrated on the longest day of the year with the most complex of seasonal ceremonies beginning with a solstice eve vigil around a bonfire, followed by a sun rising ritual, with a further ceremony at high noon, forest picnics and games. Lughnasadh from August 1st - 2nd was a time of first harvests (Lammas, Festival of Light), gatherings, contests, games, and marriages when the wheel of the yearly cycle rolls down the hill.
Lammas (Lughnasadh) was a
harvest festival or "Feast of Bread" signaled the beginning of the harvest
season as the season of Summer started its progression into the season of Winter.
Lammas was a time of harvests of first fruits, grains, herbs, and seeds, as well as, gatherings, contests, games, handfastings, and marriages. Lammas (Lughnasadh) was also a time to feel fulfilled and satisfied with creative endeavors or with child rearing achievements, to pause and to reflect, to enjoy home and family, and to open to future possibilities. Lammas (Lughnasadh) was celebrated with loafs of bread, by enjoying the fruits of family life and successful ventures, by rolling flaming wheels down hills, or by passing a wheel around the circle. Fall Autumnal Equinox from September 21st - 22nd was a "Light of the Water" festival was a halfway station on the seasonal wheel when the sun (Alban Elved, Autumnal Equinox) was between summer and winter, and colorful autumn leaves, signaled the harvest's end. As the sun began to wane and the dark half of the year drew near, it was a time to finish old business, to collect seeds for the next cycle, and to give thanks for health and prosperity. At the Fall Autumnal Equinox, when day and night were equal around the world.
Fall Autumnal Equinox was
also a sacred and powerful time for magic. Fall Autumnal Equinox was celebrated
with cornucopias, acorns, fruits of the harvest, storytelling, songs, dancing,
making outdoor shrines for the Nature Spirits, offering libations to the trees,
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