Llewellyn's 2023 Witches' Calendar

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Mabon is one of the eight sabbats celebrated by Wiccans and pagans. It marks the autumnal equinox when day and night are of equal length. This is a time of harvest, reflection, and thanksgiving. Mabon is also a time to celebrate the beauty of nature and the changing of the seasons. If you’re looking for something special to mark the occasion, consider our Mabon celebration printable bundle. It includes all the information you need to have a memorable time. Why should I get the 2024 Wheel of the Year Printable Bundle? Suggested Celebration Timing: Best observed January 21 during the 2 hours 24 minutes between 1:29 pm and 5:53 pm Roman festival to rid the home of dead spirits May 13 to June 9 - Celtic Month Hawthorn 15 - Mokash This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. This is the longest day of the year, and a time of joy and strength for the light. It is a time when the powers of nature are at their fullest. In the past this was often marked with bonfires and celebrants staying awake through the short night. To leap over the bonfire was to assure a good crop; some said the grain would grow as tall as the leapers could jump. Due to fire restrictions in Australia throughout summer, celebrations for this Sabbat tend to be quite different from those throughout the rest of the year. No candles can be lit, no cauldrons burned, and no open flames are allowed outside throughout much of the country. Litha falls in the dry stifling heat of summer in the southern part of our land, but in the north, Litha falls in the hot, wet season, and represents fruitfulness. In Australia the Sturt Desert Pea is a sacred flower of this time. This is a time of ascendancy of the God, at his most powerful now, while the burgeoning Goddess brings forth the bounty of the Earth.

Along with The Pentacle Path, the Mabontide begins after our celebrations of Lammas are concluded. We tap elemental water’s powers of daring, to overcome all obstacles to the fulfillment of our great work goals, allowing our emotional waters to carve out the new landscape for our evolving lives. Then at Mabon we settle into the molds that new landscape provided our emotional waters, allowing our hearts to be molded into the new form our work sculpted, tapping elemental water’s powers of acceptance. Dark Moon Leo a Multifaith Calendar Reflecting Eco-EgalitarianSpirituality Home | View a Different Year (2024-2002)| WhatisEco-EgalitarianSpirituality? By contrast, we’d celebrate the greater/grand sabbats, or cross-quarter days, anytime during the week before the peak, because we are using this swelling energy to grow and increase our Great Work intention with the fixed energies of the seasonal high tides. The sun is at its furthest point from Earth’s equator during the solar year at the solstice. This is the longest period of daylight and the shortest night of the year, which is sometimes celebrated by lighting a bonfire that will burn all night. It occurs every year around June 20th to 23rd. Litha Sabbat Celebration Beltane and Samhain are typically considered the most important ones, as they occur when the veil between our realm and the spiritual world is at its thinnest. Therefore, it is more likely that communications between the two dimensions will be successful for approximately a week before those two Sabbats. Communication and divinations can continue even after those two Sabbats. Ostara altar by WalterOr get the witchy calendar PDF below, for the highest quality print in one convenient bundle. Plus you can use the PDF with your favorite digital planner. The 2024 Wheel of the Year begins anew with the celebration of Yule on Thursday, December 21, 2023. For weekend observance, aim for Dec 22-24, 2023. 2023 Poster SOLD OUT!

Note that for the remainder of this Wheel of the Year, the pairings in lunar cycles are now led by the full moons, as illustrated in the “Linear by Season” graphic above. Flower Full Moon, Spring Fixed, Lunar Eclipse Ritual Function: Balance elemental water energy, and shadow work for the virtues and vices of Pisces.

Suggested Celebration Planning: May choose to hold on Friday, May 5 concurrently with Full Flower Moon/Eclipse, but conclude rites before 1:43 pm. Or hold Beltane rites the weekend before on April 29-30, 2023. The original Mother’s Day. This is the Festival of Women which is observed to honor Juno Luciana. 4 - Feast of Rhiannon( Epona) The 2024 Wheel of the Year Printable is a beautiful, illustrated, and unique pagan bundle of the 8 seasonal festivals that are celebrated by many different traditions, offering an accessible introduction to the Pagan Wheel of the Year. Suggested Celebration Timing: Best observed Monday, December 11, 2023 after moon enters Sagittarius at 6:11 am, or 13 hours to exact dark on Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 6:32 pm. In many forms of Paganism, the passing of time is seen as cyclical, and is represented by a circle or wheel. The progression of birth, life, decline and death, as experienced in human lives, is echoed in the progression of the seasons. Many Pagans also see this cycle as echoing the life, death and rebirth of the God and the fertility of the Goddess.

Also known as Bealtaine, Walpurgisnacht, May Day, (Northern Hemisphere) & Novey Eve (in Southern Hemisphere). Rather than being determined by absolute calendar dates, the dates are determined astronomically. The equinoxes mark the days of the year when daylight and darkness are equal in length, and the solstices mark the longest and shortest day of the year. Lesser and Greater Sabbats What Are The Greater Sabbats?Many Witches, Wiccans, and other Neopagans celebrate at least some of these eight festivals throughout the year, and these festivals are known as Sabbats. They are four seasonal and four solar festivals that occur every year around the same dates, as we will see below. Suggested Celebration Planning: Observe the exact day, or on the weekend before on Saturday, April 30, and also observe the Solar Eclipse at 4:28 pm, or Sunday May 1. Same weekend at Dark Moon in Taurus with the eclipse.