The summer solstice,usually on or near June 21st, one of the Wiccan festivals and an excellant night for Magick.Midsummer marks the point of the year when the Sun is symbolically at the height of it's power,and so to is the God. This is also the longest dayof the year.
Midsummer Lore
Midsummer is practically the classic time to perform magics of all kinds. Healings, love magic and protections ar especially suitable. Herbs can be dried over the ritual fire if your celebrating outdoors.Leap the fire for purification and renewed energy.
Fresh fruits are standard fare for Midsummer
A Wiccan festival celebrated on August 1st, also known as August Eve Lammas, Feast of Bread. Lughnasad marksthe first harvest, when the fruits of the Earth are cut and stored for the dark winter months, and when the God mysteriously weakens as the days grow shorter.
Lughnasadh Lore
It is appropiate to plant the seeds from the fruit consumed in the ritual. If they sprout, grow them with love and as a symbol of your connection with the God and Goddess.
Making corn dollies, visiting feilds, orchards, lakes and wells are traditional practices and activities for Lughnasadh.
Traditional foods include bread, blackberries and all berries, crab apples all grains and locally ripe produce. A cake is sometimes baked and cider is used in place of wine
On or around Sept. 21st, the Autumn Equinox, Wiccans celebrate the second harvest. Nature is preparing for winter.Mabon is a vestige of anciant harvest festivals which, in some form or another, were once nearly universal among peoples of the Earth.
Mabon Lore
Atraditional practice is to walk wild places and forests, gathering seed pods and dried plants. Some of these can be used to decorate the home and others saved for future herbal magic.
The foods of Mabon consist of the second harvests gleanings, so grains fruit and vegatables are predominate, especially corn. Corn bread is traditional fare as are beans and baked squash.
A Wiccan festival celebrate on October 31st, also known as November Eve, Hallowmas, Feast of Souls, Feast of the Dead. Samhain marks the symbolic death of the Sun God and His passing into "the land of the young" where he awaits the rebirth of the Mother Goddess at Yule. The ending of the year at Halloween is the Witches New Year.And so we end in the beginning, as we should, and the Wheel turns on.
Samhain Lore
It is traditional on Samhain night to leave a plate of food outside the home for the souls of the dead. A candle placed in the window guides them to the lands of eternal summer, and burying apples in the hard packed earth "feeds" the passed ones on their journey.
For food, beets, turnips, apples, corn, nuts, gingerbread,cider,mulled wines and pumpkin dishes are appropiate,as are meat dishes(or tofu for vegatarians).
II.Know your Craft (Wicca)
III. Learn
IV. Apply knowledge with wisdom
V. Achieve Balance
VI. Keep your words in good order
VII. Keep your thoughts in good order
VIII. Celebrate life
IX. Attune with the cycles of the Earth
X. Breathe and eat correctly
XI. Exercise the body
XII. Meditate
XIII. Honor the Goddess and God
