Friday


Winter Solstice -  Yule
Friday, December 21, 2018 at 5:22 pm


The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year.  It was believed the Sun stood still in the sky...…then, the next day, he continued on his way, and  the days began to lengthen!

The word Solstice evolved to Middle English, from Old French from Latin solstitium, from Latin (combination of sol, the sun, and stitium, to stand still.)  


Winter
(monoprint)

  
And for me.
It is winter
and the stars are hidden.
The Pomegranate,
Evan Boland


Wednesday

October 31, 2018, 5:55 p.m.

Samhain
            …when the veil between the two worlds is most pervious.

            This third and last of the three pagan Autumn harvest festivals acknowledges a time of cleansing and preparation for the darkness of Winter.  It is the most important of the four "greater Sabbats."  

            Observance begins at sundown on October 31.

Untitled
(Photo by CDI)

I am the moon’s looking glass. 
My days are moon-dials. 
She will never be done with me. 
She needs me. 
She is dry. 
I leash to her,
a sea, 
a washy heave, 
a tide.
  
Eavan Boland, from New Collected Poems

Saturday

2018


Mabon - the Autumnal Equinox
One of the four solar holidays; the second of the three pagan autumn harvest festivals

Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 9:54 p.m.


September Sunflower
(Photo by CDI)

"The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on."


~   Emily Dickinson,  Nature 27 - Autumn  ~

Thursday


Summer Solstice – Midsummer
June 21, 2018; 6:07 a.m.

One of the four solar holidays; the turning point at which summer reaches its height and the sun shines longest.



 SURF INCOMING
(monoprint)


“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

Henry James


Tuesday


VERNAL EQUINOX

Wednesday, March 20, 2018 12:15 p.m.

One of the four solar holidays marking the beginning of spring.  The rejoining of the Mother Goddess and her lover-consort-son, who spent the winter months in death; or the Goddess returning to her Maiden aspect (e.g., Persephone returning from the Underworld.)




“I love spring anywhere,

But, if I could choose, 

I would always greet it in a garden.”

~Ruth Stout~

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