By Joanna Gilar I am an unapologetic enthusiast for festive happenings; for all spaces in which we grant ourselves permission to pause in our business, turn towards cyclical time and make magic in a great concord. Even though it is the colourful earthiness of older rites to which I would be drawn by inclination; even […]
Spring Equinox
Seasonal lore: the ‘Sea Mither’ of the Northern Isles
by Sharon Blackie As the clocks sprang forward by an hour this weekend, it seems that we have no excuse (not even the dire weather) to imagine that we’re in any season other than spring. It’s official. And so, after my last post about the Cailleach and some of the other Gaelic folklore associated with […]
Celebrating spring: Spring Equinox and the Cailleach
by Sharon Blackie I often hear statements like ‘The Celts didn’t celebrate the equinoxes; they only really celebrated the four cross-quarter days’ (Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lughnasa and Samhain). But the truth is, once we try to go back beyond the past few centuries, we have no real idea what the people in these islands who we’ve […]