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Celtic Year

New Year starts with Yule. This information is a mixing of traditions from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales...(and not 100% accurate). Purpose is to help me orient myself to the seasons as one animal amoung many. And to help describe our mental state as part of a natural cycle. Tryinig to stay in harvest mode, continually, (capitalism) does NOT work.

To see addtional flags: Celtic Year - My Flags

ImageSeasonDateMeaningSymbolsActionsDeity
Imbolc
Ground Hog Day
Febuary 1stFirst Day of Spring
Imboic means milk in the belly (for sheep), preparing for lambing
Candles, Snowdrops, Buds, Blossoms, Fire LightFresh Air. Go outside look for signs.Make Brigid Cross to invite Brigid/Spring to enter.
Ostra
Spring Equinox / Easter
March 20st/23rdMid Spring - Time of balance
More sun than Dark now.
Eggs, Hare(Rabbit), Daffodils, Tulips, Crocus, Lambs, Chicks.

Cross, for four seasons.
Up at dawn. Bonfire. Declutter. Re-balance our lives.Eostre: Spring, Dawn, Fertility.
Beltane
May Day
May 1stFirst day of Summer - marked - Celtic. Celebrate Life - walls thin. Liminal time between Winter and Summer.
May Pole, ribbons.
Flowers: Dandelion, Forsythea.
Trees: Birch, Rowan, Hawthorn.
Plant FlowersDevine Feminine & Masculing Coming together.
Litha
Summer Solstice
June 20st/22ndMid Summer - Longest Day
Watch Sunrise and Sunset.
Food: berries, fresh greens, honey, light wine.
Marry. Dancing. Visualize - manifest abundance.Oak King/Green Man at Hight of powers, is defeated; Holly King rules days of decining sun
Lughnassa/Lammas
Autumn Starts
August 1stFirst Harvests (wheat/grains)
Our shadow side. Thanks for harvest. Pray it will last through winter. Know if you have enough for winter.
Wheat, ScytheFirst sheves of grain cut. First loves of Bread made. Bake/eat bread. Thanks to Earth for harvest.God: Lugh
Mabon
Autumnal Equinox
September 21st/22ndMid Autumn. Second Harvest.
Time of balance.
Apples, Gourds, Corn, Acorns. Sage. Cinnamon.My idea: Food and drink with warm spices.The Crone. Herne the hunter. Life, death rebirth.
Samhain
Halloween
November 1stWinter Starts. Last Third Harvest
Celebrate the Dead - walls thin. Liminal time between Summer and Winter.
Pumpkins, Jack of the Lantern, Roasted Game birds. Apples. Masks worn to confuse spirits.Bonfires. Fortune teling. Interconnectedness of all things.Cailleach goddess of winter starts her reign.
Yule
Winter Solstice
December 21st/22ndMid Winter - Shortest Day
Farewell to the dark, cold and hardship.
Holly, Mistletoe.Yule Log - carved with Cailleach face/symbol, burn and keep for protection.Holly King at Hight of powers, is defeated; Oak King rules days of increasing sun.
Yule/Litha/Solstices
Additional info
StagHerne. Horned God. Sexuality. Hunting. Embodies both Oak and Holly King. Dark and Light. Beasts head and human body. Joining of divine and animals (animals includes humans)