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Nature Spirits Devas
Spirituality Druidry
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. Fall Equinox (Alban
Elved, Autumnal Equinox) from September 21st - 22nd was a "Light of the Water" festival. Fall
Equinox was a halfway station on the seasonal wheel when the sun was between
summer and winter and the 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 Autumnal Equinox when day and night were equal around
the world, it was also a sacred and powerful time for magic.
Fall Autumnal Equinox was
celebrated with acorns, cornucopias, dancing, fruits of the harvest, making
outdoor shrines for the Nature Spirits, offering libations to the trees,
songs, storytelling and toasts to the ancestral Tuatha Dé Danann.
Samhain (Samhuinn, Summer's End)
from October 31st - November 1st was a "Summer's Ending" festival when the
Celtic year began at the time of the rising of the Pleiades. Samhain was a time of summer's concluding and completions; as well as, the
first day of winter.
During the time of the Samhain
festival, the veils between worlds were at their thinnest and
the ancestral keepers of wisdom and traditions were honored. Samhain was a time
when the open doorways were used to communicate with the spirit worlds to
contact the Sidhe and the ancestral semi-divine Tuatha Dé Danann.
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A magical gateway between
seasons and threshold passageways, Samhain was also a favorable time for Druidic fortune
telling and predicting probable futures. In the illustration above Fairies prepared a magical gateway for the Samhain
threshold passageway festival.
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, Alban
Arthuan, Light of Arthur) from December 21st - 22nd was a time of regeneration and new beginnings.
Yule 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, Grail 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 burning Yule
logs, greenery, holly, ivy and pine cones. 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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