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Post by Lee on Mar 8, 2016 21:17:48 GMT -1
Personally, I dont do anything on the equinoxes. I think many if not most dont do much at those times.
So, you can do whatever you want to be honest - celebrate the emerging flowers, the start of spring getting into gear. There is very little 'Brythonic' we can find about the equinoxes.
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Post by redraven on Mar 9, 2016 6:15:47 GMT -1
So, OK, Spring Equinox coming up. What do I do? As most others have said, equinoxes "don't do it" for them and indeed, there is very little recorded information as to what, if anything, the Brythonic culture did at this time. I know of no specific Gods being honoured as such, I suspect if any were, they would have been local ones and I suspect the local populations would have been engaged in gaining the local deities and spirits of place's help in planting and animal production. As an animist, equinoxes for me, are a time to experience "the quickening". I feel the building energy within the landscape both mentally and physically. I also become aware of the local spirits interactions within that landscape. So I would suggest, if you are deity focussed, go out and see what "comes through", maybe try to open to the local spirits of place and see if anything "comes through". If any deities name does come through, just because there is no recorded historical activity around this time for that deity, I'd still be inclined to honour that deity at this time if they have made the effort to contact you. So unlike everyone else here, for me, the equinoxes are a time of experiencing changing energies and as such, are quite important to me for my practices.
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Post by Heron on Mar 9, 2016 12:07:12 GMT -1
So, OK, Spring Equinox coming up. What do I do? As others have said, we don't have a specific Equinox festival so unless this has specific significance for you then there's no need to mark the precise event (which this year occurs at 4.30 a.m.). For myself, I will, as part of my regular devotions in the following days , be acknowledging the fact that we have passed the point where the days start to get longer than the nights (in some ways more significant than the Solstices when the change in day-length is less rapid). You may wish to do this in conjunction with honouring whichever deity, spirit, or intuited presence is apparent for you as Red Raven has indicated. What about seeing how your liminal border god responds to being addressed in the context of the awakening year and reporting back to us? We would welcome such contributions.
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Post by Gwenno on Mar 9, 2016 22:30:41 GMT -1
Thanks Red Raven and Heron
OK I'll definitely do what you suggest. I would have done something like it anyway but being a bit more mindful if that's not too buddist. That's good. I need to be a bit more focused.
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Post by lorna on Mar 17, 2016 7:26:11 GMT -1
Hi Gwenno,
As others have said, we don't have any set rules for celebrating festivals. For me spring equinox is mainly about equal days and nights and local plants coming into flower. Oh and frog spawn. It's not particularly deity orientated although this year I am drawn to spring plants in marshy areas and have been connecting with a local goddess I know as the Lady of the Marsh who is a constant presence on my flower and frog spawn spotting walks. That's what spring equinox is about for me this year.
Do report back on how it goes for you.
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Post by Heron on Oct 31, 2017 15:05:54 GMT -1
Tonight is Calan Gaeaf, Samhain, Halloween, call it what you will.
But the leaves are still on the trees and roses still bloom on my bushes so there are still some to put on Rhiannon's altar.
I am not bound by the traditional date for the passing into Winter, but will wait a while until the next Dark of the Moon to mark the passing of Rhiannon into the Otherworld.
Until then I rejoice that she is still here with us though the season fades and I will also mark the traditional date with due reverence and observance.
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Post by potia on Nov 1, 2017 11:07:55 GMT -1
We had our first frosts this weekend and here in Glasgow although there are still some leaves clinging on I feel the shift has happened but then I'm a wee bit further north than you so this variation too feels right to me Blessings of the season to you and yours.
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Post by Dennis on Nov 1, 2017 21:01:34 GMT -1
I'm in central Alberta (roughly 2 degrees south of Glasgow's latitude.) Halloween, yesterday, was a cold, grey day with a bit of snow gradually washed away by rain. It snowed again during the night - not much, but enough for a blanket of white that will be here for a while, judging from the forecasts.
Our first frost was in late September. Tree leaves here all change to a single colour - yellow, and they have pretty much all fallen now.
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Post by lorna on Nov 2, 2017 11:02:17 GMT -1
October has been so very warm. Most of the leaves are still on the trees here in Lancashire too. I'm sure I saw an article saying winter has shrunk by a month in the US due to global warming a while back and guess that applies to the UK too?... I will join in speaking the prayer to Rigantona on the dark moon.
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Post by Heron on Nov 5, 2017 15:24:41 GMT -1
October has been so very warm. Most of the leaves are still on the trees here in Lancashire too. I'm sure I saw an article saying winter has shrunk by a month in the US due to global warming a while back and guess that applies to the UK too?... I will join in speaking the prayer to Rigantona on the dark moon. Good to hear this Lorna. I'll do the Dark Moon prayer on the night before the New Moon, i.e. on the night of the 17th as the New Moon is the following morning.
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