The Wheel of the Year

The Wheel of the Year is more than just a way to mark the calender. It is a way to live within the ever changing cycle of nature and to recognise those changes within us and to harness the positive energies as we develop

Winter Solstice - Yule - 21st December

A time of celebration of death and rebirth,

of the end of the dying sun and of the coming of the light

Imbolc

The awakening of the Spring Maiden Goddess. The earth re-awakens and the energies begin to rise. Time to clear out the old and look to the new .

Spring Equinox - Ostara

A time of new growth when, in nature, the sap is rising, buds are bursting into life and the earth is awakening heralding what is to come.

Beltane - Full Moon near 1st May

Dancing and entwining, celebrating fertility

and the joining of the male and female energies

Summer Solstice - 21st June

Celebrating the peak of the sun

and the turning of the year into the coming darkness

Lammas

The height of the summer and a time of feasting. Give thanks for what has been given yet thoughts for sustaining through to the next year with the grain of this years crop

Autumn Equinox - Mabon - 21st September

Celebrating the abundance of the harvest

and of our achievements and gifts

Samhain - All Hallows Eve

A festival of remembrance when the veil between the worlds is thin and a time for acknowledging our ancestors. A time of darkness and fires.