Suggested Celebration Planning: Observe anytime the Monday before, November 7 (also exact Samhain) after the moon enters Taurus at 12:15 am until exact opposition with the Lunar Eclipse at 6:02 am Tuesday morning. Suggested Celebration Timing: Observed that day after the moon enters Libra at 12:43 pm until exact conjunction at 5:55 pm.

I like to find ways to connect with Nature in my area and incorporate the spiritual intentions each pagan holiday represents. This can be a simple meal with a loved one, meditating alone with a candle, journaling, or simply walking outside.Suggested Celebration Planning: Wait until the first sunshine after entering Cancer, so Mon. June 21, 2021 or the following weekend (June 26-27). Grand Sabbats are the solar equivalent of working with the moon during the waxing phase through Full moon. Lesser Sabbats are the solar equivalent of working with the new moon to set new workings into motion for that cycle. The Pagan Wheel of the Year turns through many significant dates and festivals. The highlights are the eight seasonal Sabbats, and the thirteen Esbats which we celebrate each Full Moon.

Suggested Celebration Planning: Narrow window of observance on night of Monday, July 31 after moon enters Aquarius at 11:58 pm and during 2 hours 34 minutes before exact full on Tues. August 1, 2023 at 2:32 pm. The summer solstice, or Litha, is when the days are the longest. Nature is at it’s peak and the sun is at the highest point in the sky. Pagans give thanks for all of this and at this time, ask for a rich harvest. For Wiccans, this is also when the god is at his full power. Suggested Celebration Timing: Best observed Tuesday night, August 15, 2023, during 13 hour window prior to exact dark at 5:38 am Wednesday, August 16. Along with The Pentacle Path, the Ostaratide begins after our celebrations of Imbolc are concluded. We tap elemental air’s powers of knowing, to learn what is already understood about the subject of our great work intention. Then at Ostara we start asking new questions, releasing expectation, opening our minds to experimentation so that we gain first hand knowledge, tapping elemental air’s powers of wonderment. Spring Season – Germination Spring’s Gate: Spring Equinox: Ostara Sabbat Suggested Celebration Timing: Very brief window of time to observe between the moon entering Sagittarius at 3:16 pm and exact conjunction 5:57 pm.The spring equinox ( Ostara) is a holiday of renewal and abundance. For Wiccans, this is when the Goddess represents her Maiden aspect and when the god has become a young man. It’s a great time for planting seeds and celebrating the fertile spring. Spring Season – Germination 2022 Wheel of the Year – Spring – Heron Michelle Spring’s Gate: Spring Equinox: Ostara Sabbat

Imbolc is the time of the beginning of beginnings, the time to consider carefully what you will do with the year stretching before you. Imbolc brings the awakening of the life force when the first green shoots of bulbs appear. Life is stirring again and this marks the Goddess recovering after giving birth while the newborn God is depicted as a small child nursing from his mother. The God is growing, spreading sunshine all around causing things to grow. It is a time to honour the feminine and get ready for spring. At lmbolc, the Australian forests are bright with the colour yellow, the Acacia trees coming into full flower. Until fairly recently, the 1st of August was “Wattle day” in Australia (it has now been moved to the 1st of September).

High Summer, Lammas Sabbat

Suggested Celebration Planning: Night before on Tuesday, Oct. 19 while moon is still waxing in Aries. Suggested Celebration Timing: Observe early that day between 2:36 am when the moon enters Leo until exact conjunction at 1:55 pm. They were left with six holidays which felt irregular, so they added the equinoxes to create a harmonious balance. This is why you’ll see the equinoxes with additional names (Ostara and Mabon), but I’ll go more in-depth for each holiday listed below. Suggested Celebration Planning: Best observed at night on Thursday, May 4, before exact full fwith Lunar Eclipse May 5, 2023, at 1:34 pm The Equinoxes are the balancing points in the cycle of the seasons, when the day and night are of equal length, reminding us of the harmony of the whole. Buds of flowers and leaf, all manner of eggs and just-born life are celebrated in decorations and imagery as Pagans rejoice in the Earth’s reawakening. The urge of spring is to do, create and bring in the new. Here light overcomes darkness with lengthening days bringing the magic of new growth. Ostara is associated with childhood and new life, and the God and Goddess are perceived as children, personifying youth and innocence before their entry into adulthood. The Goddess, as the Maiden, covers the earth with flowers and love while the God grows to maturity. This is a time to honour the masculine and to celebrate everything that is great about being alive.