why wait to celebrate?
October 31 Pagan: “a follower of a rustic or provincial religion” from the Latin pagus, meaning a rural district. The word “pagan” goes all the way back to the Greek root pagos meaning “that which is fixed”. “Fixed” as in “staying in position”, not like, your dog. After crossing the Adriatic, the Romans used the …
October 30 At twenty minutes before eight, central time, Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars. The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the earth with enormous velocity. We now return you to the …
Vernal Equinox – on or around September 21 (Northern Hemisphere) “Blessed be, by the Lady and the Lord, on this Mea’n Fo’mhair. It is the time of the second harvest, one of fruit and wine abundance. Tonight holds equilibrium of all things. Everything is in balance with one another. God and Goddess, Life and Death, …
July 31-August 1 Today is Lughnasadh! Not to be confused with Lasagna Day. That was July 29. Also known by its more Christian name, Lammas, aka “Loaf-mas”, Lughnasadh marked the time of year villagers would celebrate the first Harvest, on or around August 1, by baking and sharing bread from the first grain of the …
May 1 I was taught in elementary school that we didn’t celebrate May Day anymore because it was a Communist holiday. Not only was this a lame excuse not to celebrate a holiday, it also wasn’t true. In ancient and medieval Europe, seasons were determined not by equinoxes and solstices, but by the days that …