03/08/2025
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🕯️ 1. Imbolc (Feb 1–2)
• Marks the first signs of spring
• Honours Brigid, goddess of fertility, healing, and poetry
• Symbolism: purification, new beginnings, hope
🌱 2. Ostara (Spring Equinox – around March 20)
• Day and night are equal
• Celebration of balance, fertility, growth
• Associated with eggs, hares, and planting
🔥 3. Beltane (May 1)
• Festival of fire, passion, fertility
• Celebration of life, love, and sensuality
• Often celebrated with bonfires, maypoles, and handfastings
🌞 4. Litha (Summer Solstice – around June 21)
• Longest day of the year
• Peak of sun power, abundance, strength
• A time to celebrate the fullness of life and manifestation
🌾 5. Lammas / Lughnasadh (August 1)
• First harvest, especially of grain
• Time to give thanks for abundance
• Symbolic of the sacrifice that sustains life
🍁 6. Mabon (Autumn Equinox – around Sept 21)
• Day and night are equal again
• Second harvest, time of balance and gratitude
• Prepare for darker months
🕸️ 7. Samhain (October 31 – Nov 1)
• Witches’ New Year
• Veil between worlds is thinnest
• Honours ancestors, death, and transformation
❄️ 8. Yule (Winter Solstice – around Dec 21)
• Longest night of the year
• Rebirth of the sun
• Festival of light, renewal, hope