#wheel-of-the-year — Public Fediverse posts

Good morning, lovely people! June is here at last, and the shift is real and noticeable, that particular feeling of the year opening into something fuller and warmer. Monday feels like a genuinely good day to let yourself be carried along by it.

Have a wonderful one. Take care and stay safe. 💙

#BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #WheelOfTheYear #Folklore

Good morning, all!

There's a real confidence and warmth to this one that feels just right for a Friday at the end of May! The weekend is close, the world outside is looking its very best, and the year still feels full of possibility.

Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

#BookQuote #LunarWitch #Reading #Bookish #WheelOfTheYear

Good morning, my lovelies! There's a lot of quiet wisdom in this one, and it sits particularly well at this point in the year when the seasons feel less like a sequence and more like a continuous turning, everything connected to everything else with no obvious seam.

Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

#BookQuote #Bookish #Folklore #WheelOfTheYear #Reading

Good morning, everyone! There's something genuinely steadying about this idea, that whatever yesterday held, the light this morning is entirely its own. With the days at their longest and most generous right now, that feels like a particularly easy thing to believe.

Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

#BookQuote #LunarWitch #WheelOfTheYear #Reading #Bookish

The Spirituality of Seasonal Transitions

https://pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/the-spirituality-of-seasonal-transitions/

Tha an Bealltainn a' tighinn gu crìch — Beltane is reaching its end, the wheel leaning toward Midsummer. The bees keep a calendar older than empires. A carpenter bee on the wisteria does not care about the policy paper in another tab. This is what the Druids meant: the land prays without us. Today's full Gathering:
https://twp.ai/9OVuiw
#Beltane #Druid #Paganism #WheelOfTheYear #EarthBased #Gaelic #Midsummer #SeasonalLiving #Mysticism #Animism

Good morning, my lovelies! This is one of those quotes that stops you in your tracks a little when you really think about it, because it's absolutely true that every book is a kind of conversation across time, and there's something almost ceremonial about sitting down to take part in it.

Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

#BookQuote #WheelOfTheYear #LunarWitch #Reading #Bookish

Good afternoon, everyone! The days are so long and light-filled right now, and there's real comfort in the idea that even in the darker stretches of life, something steady and bright is still there, just waiting for the wheel to turn back around.

Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

#BookQuote #Bookish #Reading #LunarWitch #WheelOfTheYear

Good morning, friends! There's a lot of truth packed into this one. It's worth sitting with it for a moment, because the reading we do out of genuine love and curiosity (rather than obligation) has a way of quietly shaping us into who we actually are.

Have a Terrific Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

#BookQuote #Bookish #Reading #LunarWitch #WheelOfTheYear

Good morning, all! The year is in full swing, and May is doing its very best out there; a bit of magic and good madness seems entirely reasonable to me. Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

#BookQuote #WheelOfTheYear #LunarWitch #Reading #Bookish

Good morning, everyone! It's something I genuinely believe, that the books we read leave their mark on us in ways we don't always notice straight away, and that a really good story has a way of quietly shifting how you see things long after you've closed the cover. Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

#BookQuote #Bookish #Reading #BookLove #WheelOfTheYear

Tha Bealltainn an seo. Beltane is here. The hawthorn is opening. The earth is keeping every promise the empire breaks. Today's Gathering: the news + the herbs that hold you through it.

https://twp.ai/4hpe0I

#Beltane #Druidry #Herbalism #Paganism #WheelOfTheYear #May #Witch #Folklore #Nature

Tha Bealltainn an seo. Beltane is here. The hawthorn is opening. Today's Gathering closes with three herbs for the cross-quarter day: linden, cleavers, motherwort. The land keeps every promise the empire breaks. #Beltane #Druidry #Herbalism #Paganism #WheelOfTheYear #MayDay /|\

This Friday from 12:30pm SLT is my Celebrate Beltane maypole circle dance!
Beltane is about young love, courtship, passion, that time between youth & maturity we see in flora & fauna.
There will be 2 circle dances in tandem, one a Maypole!
Details on Friday morning. #SecondLife #WheelOfTheYear #VirtualWorlds #Beltane

My coffee roastery - Skeleton Brew Coffee (https://skeletonbrew.coffee/) - is run by two Pagans (myself included). We like to celebrate life and the #wheeloftheyear. To that end, we currently have two seasonal coffee and tea pairings inspired by Ostara and Beltane, with Litha on the horizon!

Come check us out. Not only will you support two regular people (we're not buying yachts - we're paying mortgages and utilities), but we also donate $1 for every item purchased to public broadcasting.

https://skeletonbrew.coffee/
https://skeletonbrew.coffee/collections/witches-brews

#coffee #pagan #wicca #publicbroadcasting

I’ve released a new tune for the spring equinox (as the first part of a year-long project), but given how the name of the associated neopagan festival (Ostara) is derived from the Anglo-Saxon deity Ēostre who also lent her name to Easter, It doubles up as an Easter tune. Even features chicks pecking.

#easter #WheelOfTheYear #music #synth

https://handofbrigid.bandcamp.com/track/promise

It's Lammas/Lugnasadh in the southern Hemisphere today, celebrating the harvest.

Harvest festivals always seemed to make the most sense to me when I was a kid, celebrating something important and real.

#pagan #WheelOfTheYear #Greetings #Australia

Thanks to those who joined us. It was a modest but enjoyable turnout today for Imbolc. Song topics included Darkness, Light, Imbolc, New Life, Valentine, Groundhog, Horses & Mardi Gras. #SecondLife #VirtualWorlds #WheelOfTheYear

The Sun Greets Us In The Morning

I will never crave the sunlight the way I do at Imbolc. I’m not a fan of the heat, so eventually the sun and I will settle into a grudging detente through the summer. But now, when it had been so cold for weeks, cloudy and grey, when I have been leaving the house in darkness and coming home bare minutes before the sun sinks towards the horizon, my spirit reaches out towards the sun with such yearning.

At Imbolc, the sun is up noticeably earlier in the morning, and sets around dinnertime. While the weather hasn’t changed and may not for a while yet, the lengthening days lift my spirit. I turn my face to the sun to get every scrap of light on my cold face. This winter has been a frigid one, with snow accumulating without respite. It’s beautiful, but at Imbolc, I feel how temporary it is. The Wheel continues to move. At Imbolc, the energy shifts, and I feel more alert, emerging from my winter burrow rested and ready for new adventures. I didn’t know if I’d make it to rested this winter, but for the last week or so, I’ve been bursting with energy.

It feels strange to be full of life at the same time we watch the world contain such pain. It’s strange to be just a border away from a country being pushed into authoritarianism, but heartening to see the resistance coming from people protecting their neighbours, their communities. This Imbolc-tide, I set an intention to help as I can, and to be vigilant at home to protect against our own versions of these people who want to harm and divide. I also intend to joyfully create in the face of destruction, to turn my mind to new projects and to strengthen the web of community around me. The Sun returns, and the Wheel reminds us that it always does, that change is inevitable.

Happy Imbolc!

#wheeloftheyear #Pagan #imbolc

** Monday 12:30pm SLT **
3:30pm EST · 8:30pm GMT · 21:30 CE
☆ BRIGHTEST BLESSINGS! ☆
The first spark of life in the earth marks the start of spring planting season in the Northern Hemisphere.

Join me for a Circle Dance in celebration of IMBOLC w/an eclectic mix of seasonal tunes to welcome the light.

All Ages Welcome. Any era attire. No skyclad pls.

#SecondLife #WheelOfTheYear #VirtualWorlds

🌎 your gentle breeze: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Laserlight/78/114/1002

Sunday Reflection

In the last few months, I’ve been trying to make a shift from eight pagan holidays to eight pagan seasons. The holidays are part of that, but I wanted to stop plucking them out from the Wheel and having one day stand for the whole period.

It’s filling something in my soul to be doing this. I’ve been making the mental shift into a new season about three weeks before the holiday, slightly less than the same length of time as an advent calendar in December. Three weeks gives me time to prepare, to think about how I want to celebrate this year, to sit with the season before it blossoms, observing the small motions toward it.

Then the holiday, and I’ve always had more complete celebrations for some of the Wheel of Year touchpoints, and fewer for others. After 30+ years of being pagan, I figure that there’s no year I have to have it all figured out. I can create, change or discard aspects as feels right. Imbolc for me is the time of year where you first start to notice that the sun is coming up earlier, so welcoming the expansion of sunlight grounds a lot of my celebration.

But it doesn’t end when the day is over. The season of Imbolc then lasts until three weeks before the next festival, so until the start of March. That’s a month to be present in the continuing Imbolc spirit without feeling pressure to do specific things. It’s a time to sit with where the year is, to be present in the present. It gives me space to continue to be curious about the ripples of Imbolc-tide I see when I take the time to pay attention.

#wheeloftheyear #pagan

We are whiling away the winter alternating between venturing out to see our friends, and staying inside and bundled up against the cold. Too much of either pole sends us flying to the other - after time out, we want to stay home. After time home, we crave the warmth of other people. Everything seems paused while it sits under heavy blankets of snow - yet in other parts of the world, the cold is accompanying unrest and rising authoritarianism. While the sun is returning, the state of the world is less certain. Everything feels fragile as we wait for the thaw that is, as yet, nowhere in sight. At Imbolc, we’ll celebrate in ways that remind us of warmth, of the ability to build and craft, of the community that can come from the skilful weaving of words to create connection, of the need for shared rest and healing between times of hard work.

The Wheel of the Year reminds us that no season lasts forever, that where we are now is not where we’ll be, and that is both unsettling and comforting. Soon it will be time to poke our heads outside our doors with renewed energy and engagement, and look to see if spring is in the horizon or if the winter will linger longer.

#wheeloftheyear #pagan

Weekly Reflection

One week into January and I can feel the pull towards Imbolc. When the nights started to lengthen, I welcomed the time of less sensory input, more quiet time to think. I feel like I still need that - work continues to be constant triage, no time to plan and reflect, at a time when planning and reflection are desperately needed, and an innate part of this section of the Wheel of the Year.

But I’m also tired of getting up in the dark and making it all the way to the bus for my commute before the sun even thinks about peeking over the horizon. I’m not ready for it to be spring quite yet, but I am ready for the first noticeable signs that the tide has been turned and the days are getting longer again. The time around Imbolc should be so full of rest that I start to get antsy, a little bored, craving the feeling of the sun on my face and the moment when I can shed jackets and feel the wind on my arms.

Personally, I’m still a little out of sync with that, too harried and overworked to get bored and let the drive to do things build up until it breaks the dam of winter lassitude and sweeps me into spring as new life bursts from the earth and the branches.

That’s still down the road, and in this Imbolc-tide, I still have the time to relax in the darkness and try to find my way into the rhythm of the year.

#wheeloftheyear #Pagan

Last light on the shortest day at the western edge of the continent. Happy #solstice to all who celebrate the #WheelOfTheYear #SilentSunday