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Australian Esoterica/Seasonal Festivals
eopagans and Wiccans observe eight festivals each year, known as Sabbats, which commemorate the annual cycle of seasons or phases of the sun and moon. This cycle is referred to as the Wheel of the Year, with festivities spaced at approximately even intervals throughout the calendar. Traditionally the festivals mark the solstices and equinoxes, and the times for planting and harvest of crops.
The Wheel of the Year is a modern development of Wicca and Neopaganism originating from traditional holidays observed by Pagan cultures of ancient Europe. No pre-Christian European cultures celebrated all eight Sabbats of the calendar, so the Wheel of the Year comprises a modern merging of traditional festivals from all over ancient Europe, with similarities to the ancient rituals often ending at their shared names alone.
Modern interpretations of ancient practices vary widely, therefore different groups may conceptualize and celebrate the Sabbats in very different ways, but the themes and meanings are generally similar. For some, the Wheel of the Year not only describes the continuous cycles of nature and time, but also the human progression through birth, life, decline and death. For many Wiccans, it represents the cycle of life, death, and rebirth of the Horned God and fertility of the Goddess.
Inspired by Gaelic fire festivals, the Cross-Quater Days (or Greater Sabbats) mark the beginning of each traditional season (as opposed to astronomical seasons) and fall approximately half-way between a solstice and an equinox. Generally, and mostly for convenience, the Greater Sabbats are celebrated on the first day of the season.
In British and Irish traditions of the Middle Ages, Quarter Days (or Lesser Sabbats) fell close to the two solstice and two equinox holidays. These were dates on which servants were hired, rents or rates were due, and magistrates would determine debts and resolve conflicts in outlying rural regions. In England today, leasehold payments and rents for business premises are often still due on the old English Quarter Days. The timing of these Lesser Sabbats are determined by the relationship of the Sun to the Earth so their dates deviate slightly each year.
Interestingly, the Sabbats fall closely to, or on the same dates, as eight points of the 24 Solar Terms in traditional lunisolar calendars that were developed independently in East Asia.
As seasons in the Southern Hemisphere are reversed to those of the North, so too is the Wheel of the Year. In Australia and New Zealand the long familiar "Christmas in July", though not an official holiday, is fitting evidence of efforts to suitably inverse Pagan festivals for the Southern regions.
The Celtics recognised that a new day began in the darkness, so too the start of a new year. Thus Samhain, the Celtic Feast of the Dead and beginning of Winter, is generally recognised as the first Sabbat of the year. Below, are the eight festivals and their dates, conveniently inversed for Southern Hemisphere practitioners of the craft.
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Samhain [ edit | edit source ]
- 1st May (alt. 4-10 May)
- First day of ancient Winter.
- Greater Sabbat. Lunar Festival.
- A Cross Quarter celebration.
- Also known as Halloween.
Wheel Of The Year
The Wheel Of The Year (The Wheel for short) is often a confusing one for Australian Pagans. In the southern hemisphere, the dates for all of the solstices, equinoxes and seasons are inverted. For example Yule (mid winter) is traditionally celebrated in the northern hemisphere towards the end of December. Thus for us here in Australia, Yule would be celebrated toward the end of June (as shown in the image above).
The wheel of the year is how most witches and Pagans refer to one year’s worth of seasons and the festivals that mark them and the continuing cycle of life, death and rebirth. The changes that occur throughout one turning of the wheel – one year – can most easily be seen in nature, especially trees and flowering plants.
The wheel is made up of eight sabbats, or holy days, including two solstices, two equinoxes and four “cross quarter” days. During Wicca’s formative years, the equinoxes and solstices, also known as the solar festivals or the “lesser” sabbats were usually celebrated on the nearest full moon date. This didn’t change until the late fifties, and it wasn’t until these sabbats were afforded the same importance and ceremony of the cross quarter days that the Wheel of the Year as we know it came to be.
It’s important to remember that sabbat days are to celebrate a seasonal time of the year that lasts for several weeks as it fades and overlaps with the next season.
Though most pagans follow the Wheel Of The Year, not all paths and traditions do. Some only observe some parts of it, some others follow the seasons through an altogether different way.
Below is an explanation of the Wheel Of The Year for those of us in Australia, followed by description of what each festival is and means.
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