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Samhain Correspondences
Other Names: All Hallows Eve, Halloween, Samhain Night, All Souls’ Eve, Day of the Dead, Guy Fawkes Night, Bonfire Night, Oidhche Shamhna, Hop-tu-Naa, Calan Gaeaf, All Hallowtide.
Symbols: Third Harvest, wisdom of the Crone, death of the God, reflection on our place in the Wheel of the Year, New Year, reincarnation, the dark mysteries, Rebirth after [...]
Samhain
October 31st
This is the beginning of the Celtic and Wiccan New Year. Samhain [...]
Local Pagans Celebrate the Plenty of Fall Equinox
As harvest season comes to a close, Pagans observe Mabon, a celebration of the richness of their lives, and begin the six-week spiritual preparation for the Celtic New Year, which begins Nov. 1.
Priestess Byron Ballard leads the rite at 7 p.m. Sept. 20 at Mystic Journeys, 333 Merrimon Ave.
Mabon is celebrated at the autumnal equinox, [...]
Mabon Basics
The Autumn Equinox or Harvest Home is also called Mabon, pronounced ‘MAY-bon’, after the Welsh god Mabon ap Modron, which means literally ’son of mother’.
Mabon appears in ‘The Mabinogion’ tale. The Druids call this celebration, Mea’n Fo’mhair, and honour The Green Man, the God of the Forest, by offering libations to the trees. The Welsh [...]
Avalonia Books - books and second editions
Avalonia Books are offering a 25% discount on pre-orders for their new book, “Horns of Power: Manifestations of the Horned God” if you order before 7 August 2008. The retail price is £12.99 but you can order now for £9.75 including postage and packing.
The book includes essays by Sorita d’Este, Hortus St Michael, Gareth [...]
On the Pagan Blogosphere
Dawn discusses Original Sin on Pagan Magic
One of the concepts of Christianity that I have never got to grips with is that of Original Sin.
Original sin is said to result from the Fall of Man, when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. This first [...]
Leading British Pagan Organisations
A list of the main Pagan membership organisations which are active in the UK today.
British Pagan Magazines
There are a number of regularly published Pagan magazines available within the UK. Most can be picked up at your local New Age or Occult store though almost all can be ordered online also.
Pentacle Magazine
http://www.pentaclemagazine.org
Pagan Dawn
http://www.paganfed.org/pdawn.php
White Dragon
http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/
The Cauldron
http://www.the-cauldron.fsnet.co.uk/
Witches Grimoire - Free Pagan Blog Hosting
We are very pleased to announce we have created Witches Grimoire, a free Pagan themed blog host.
Witches Grimoire is powered by WordPress so you have all the same features as if your blog was on wordpress.com. You get the domain yourname.witchesgrimoire.org for the blog.
You’re in charge of the content, layout, sidebar widets, outgoing links - [...]
Some Lughnasadh basics
In Wicca, Lughnasadh is one of the eight “sabbats” or solar festivals in the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. It is the first of the three autumn harvest festivals, the other two being the Autumn equinox or Mabon and Samhain.
