Happy Spring Equinox!
Happy Spring Equinox, or Ostara! Of course, our spherical planet also gives us the beautiful symmetry of the Fall Equinox (& Mabon) being celebrated now by our Southern Hemisphere friends. The...
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The Vernal Equitherm (Beltane) is coming! It is the midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. For those in the Northern Hemisphere, spring is well and truly coming and summer is...
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Celebrations Life! We celebrate life today, especially life’s growth and evolutionary diversification (and which Brock just pointed out in the previous post). Just in time for Beltane, this research...
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The Summer Solstice is just two weeks away!
The Summer Solstice approaches! Ready? The Summer Solstice is known in contemporary Neo-Paganism as Litha or Midsummer. Neo-Pagan religion often marks this as the moment the sun god meets his death,...
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(Winter Solstice/Yule for those in the Southern Hemisphere) Our Universe (which we are part of), gives us unique gifts for each of our 8 Sabbats (and other days as we choose). This time, ramping up...
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The Summer Cross-Quarter (Summer Thermstice) Approaches!
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Autumn cross-quarter or “Summer Thermstice” is celebrated on August 1 as Lughnasadh/Lammas/Lunasa. How will you be celebrating it? Astronomically, the event occurs on...
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Celebrations Heat! Productivity! Strength! Growing Darkness! These and many other themes join with the baking of bread and early harvest celebrations of Lunasa. An odd tangent, but related to many of...
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The Moon Steps Aside to give us the Perseid Meteor Shower! by Starstuff,...
She thought she could now actually feel the Earth turn–not just imagine it in her head, but really feel it in the pit of her stomach. It was like descending in a fast elevator. She craned her neck back...
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The Fall Equinox Approaches!
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Fall Equinox is celebrated in less than three weeks (it is September 22nd this year in the United States, but on the 23rd in Europe) as Mabon, also called Harvest Home....
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Samhain (The Fall Equitherm) Approaches!
Got your house decorated yet? Samhain (the Fall Equitherm) is only a few weeks away! For many of us (including me), this is one of the most sacred times of the year – a time when I feel my Ancestors...
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Happy Fall Equitherm (Samhain)!
Our Ancestors reach back in an unbroken chain billions of years long, including both good and bad people, and many more. Today our Ancestors speak to us, and we speak to them. Celebrations Death, the...
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Yule (the Winter Solstice) is right around the corner!
So how will you be celebrating? There are less than three weeks left before Yule (the Winter Solstice)! This is going out a week early because for many of us, this is a Sabbat that takes a little...
View ArticleCosmic Calendar Countdown
Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar maps the entire history of our cosmos onto a single year. You can follow the entire calendar here at HP. As you imagine, things speed up considerably as the year...
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The Top 10 Blog Posts of 2018
It’s a tough task to pick my favorite posts of 2018. Luckily, I don’t have to do that. Here are the top ten posts of 2018, based on the number of views. Plenty of them show that many of us are...
View ArticleThe Winter Cross-Quarter (Winter Thermstice) Approaches!
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter cross-quarter (Summer Thermstice) is traditionally celebrated on February 2 as Imbolc. It is near the midpoint between the Winter Solstice and the Spring...
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Happy Winter Thermstice/Imbolc!
Hidden life beneath the snow and ice…… What discovery could fit Imbolc better than this? Scientists in Antarctica have discovered living bacteria, as well as animal bodies, in the permanent darkness...
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The Spring Equinox Approaches…
Daylight Though still in the depths of winter here in Michigan, the longer days are already noticeable. Because the daylight cycle leads our seasons, the days are already as long as they were in early...
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Happy Spring Equinox!
Happy Spring Equinox, or Ostara! Of course, our spherical planet also gives us the beautiful symmetry of the Fall Equinox (& Mabon) being celebrated now by our Southern Hemisphere friends. The...
View ArticleThe May Cross-Quarter (Vernal Equitherm or Beltane) is just two weeks away!
The Vernal Equitherm (Beltane) is coming! It is the midpoint between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice. For those in the Northern Hemisphere, spring is well and truly coming and summer is...
View ArticleHappy Spring Equitherm (Beltane)!
Celebrations Life! We celebrate life today, especially life’s constant growth. Some of the ways many of us are celebrating were published a few weeks ago, and at least for my family, our CUUPS Beltane...
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