Fire Festivals
Gateway to summer
Thursday, 04May2017 Filed in: celebrations & passages⭐︎ rite & ritual
While these won't be necessarily pagan, they help show that life doesn't need clothing.
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Journal 28Apr2017
Friday, 28Apr2017 Filed in: thinking by blogging
Winter begins
I've not been handling people very well this season. I'm glad that winter is finally beginning.
Wintergate is my three day WebTree High Holiday that marks the gateway between autumn and winter. The middle day (tomorrow) of the holiday is the cross quarter day or midpoint between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.
Wintergate also marks my semi-annual Hair ot the Bear. I did it myself yesterday this year. This autumn made me prickly, I've been trying not to take it out on the people around me that I care about. That includes my companions, bless their hearts. Well, my mood should start improving in a couple of days. Then I owe them both big time.
So it's with shorter hair and hot chocolate that I anticipate this High Holiday. Solar Festivals last from dawn to dawn, but High Holidays last from sunset to sunset. I still have a few hours to prepare.
And that means I need to put this entry up.
Bright & Dark Blessings, everyone.
Wintergate is my three day WebTree High Holiday that marks the gateway between autumn and winter. The middle day (tomorrow) of the holiday is the cross quarter day or midpoint between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.
Wintergate also marks my semi-annual Hair ot the Bear. I did it myself yesterday this year. This autumn made me prickly, I've been trying not to take it out on the people around me that I care about. That includes my companions, bless their hearts. Well, my mood should start improving in a couple of days. Then I owe them both big time.
So it's with shorter hair and hot chocolate that I anticipate this High Holiday. Solar Festivals last from dawn to dawn, but High Holidays last from sunset to sunset. I still have a few hours to prepare.
And that means I need to put this entry up.
Bright & Dark Blessings, everyone.
No significance
Sunday, 19Jun2016 Filed in: tellus⭐︎ celebrations & passages
Welcome to summer
Monday, 02May2016 Filed in: celebrations & passages
As my regular readers know, I don't celebrate Baltaine as such. I celebrate Summergate, a three day High Holiday that starts on sunset Tuesday. The cross-quarter day is on May 4th this year.
However, at the end of April and the end of October every year, I host small dinner parties. The highlight of these parties is the Hair of the Bear, my semi-annual haircut. I'm reserved in public, and this is one of my chances to let loose a little bit.
This year it's a bit cooler than I like. And we had scattered rainstorms, so the party was inside. Then the heat pump blower quit (on a Saturday), I built a fire in the fireplace (fire GOOD grunts Neo).
I wasn't in charge of the menu, it was a potluck of everyone's favorite summer dishes. Somebody brought catfish grilled in cornmeal. When it's done right, that's one of the most delicious things ever.
I don't think the ladies quite got the full three inches, but I can live with it. My hair is short for summer.
However, at the end of April and the end of October every year, I host small dinner parties. The highlight of these parties is the Hair of the Bear, my semi-annual haircut. I'm reserved in public, and this is one of my chances to let loose a little bit.
This year it's a bit cooler than I like. And we had scattered rainstorms, so the party was inside. Then the heat pump blower quit (on a Saturday), I built a fire in the fireplace (fire GOOD grunts Neo).
I wasn't in charge of the menu, it was a potluck of everyone's favorite summer dishes. Somebody brought catfish grilled in cornmeal. When it's done right, that's one of the most delicious things ever.
I don't think the ladies quite got the full three inches, but I can live with it. My hair is short for summer.
Just before it sparks
Tuesday, 02Feb2016 Filed in: celebrations & passages
Fireplace
Tuesday, 22Dec2015 Filed in: celebrations & passages⭐︎ rite & ritual
I joke about it, but that is the heart of it. Or maybe the hearth. It’s the center.
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Sunday, 20Dec2015 Filed in: celebrations & passages⭐︎ rite & ritual
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Winter
Saturday, 07Nov2015 Filed in: celebrations & passages
Bone, Heart, Thought, Deed, and Spirit, I choose to honor these people this season
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Tuesday, 05May2015 Filed in: celebrations & passages
