Wheel of the Year

May is another name for Hawthorn and this Beltaine Eve I've collected flowers from my Hawthorn Trees in my Garden to decorate my home and Altars. It's an old tradition to bring Hawthorn into the house at Beltaine and it was also once used to decorate Maypoles. It was said to be bad luck to bring it into the house at any other time of the year, and maybe that's because Hawthorn is one of the Fairy Triad of treees "Oak, Ash and Thorn" and upsetting the Fairies was something no

This festival marks the height of Spring; the threat of frost has passed and the fertility of the land has been confirmed by the new growth returning to the trees, hedgerows and land, and the new births of farm and wild animals. Farm animals that have been housed overwinter are sent to pasture as there is now enough grass to feed them without supplementation. In earlier times they would have on the way to the fields been driven between bonfires with herbs smoking to free the

We have passed the Spring Equinox and now that the days are lengthening, our attention is turning outwards – more daylight and better weather makes it a pleasure to go outside and the pace of life is quickening. Here in the UK we move into British Summertime on the 30th March and the evenings start getting noticeably brighter for longer and all around us Mother Nature is showing her return. Those of us with gardens are beginning our preparations for the summer. Although the t

The Spring Equinox which is also known as Eostre, Ostara, or Festival of the Trees, is the time when Day and Night are of equal length...

The month of February has a rich history for such a short month and it is all thanks to the Ancient Romans. Originally they only had 10...

This festival marks the approximate midpoint between Yule and Spring Solstice - it varies slightly each year because the Equinoxes and...