Wiccan Sabbats.

YULE (Dec 21st) T'is the birth time of the new God. This day marks the begining of the New LiFE Cycle of Seasons. Although the worst of Winter is still to come, the success of the Day over Night will ensure the return of Summer, the continuance of the Hallowed Cycle.

IMBOLC (Feb 2nd) Tis a time of recovery for the Goddesses from the vigours of Birthing. The young Sun God is flexing his Powers but the healing of the Mother Earth will hold cold suffering 'til Beltane. This time is the prelude of the Earthly Birthing Season.

MAJOR ASTAL EVENT - DAY EQUALs NiGHT

VERNAL EQUINOX (March 21st) This is the first day of the Ancient Season of Summer when LiFE Spring's into action. The Sun God grows stronger with every new day. Tis time to Celebrate Earthly Rebirth. Sheep are lambing, birds are nesting & singing, fishes & frogs are spawning.

BELTANE (April 30th) This is the first true day of recognisable Summer. The God grows into maturity his Power Dominant, though inconsistent. Tis the Season of Meeting & Mating, after Hand Fastening of course. Tis the time for the Goddess to relinquish her Pain & remaining Power to the Maturing God. A Child concieved now will be born at Imbolc.

MAJOR ASTAL EVENT - THE LONGEST DAY

SUMMER SOLSTICE (June 21st) This is the longest day. By now God & Mother Nature are blooming. Tis the Season to Relax & Enjoy LiFEs Treasures. Eat, Rest, Vitalise yourself & tend for the coming Harvest.

LAMMAS (Aug 1st) At this time the mature God is at his most Powerful as "he" conspires with the Mother Earth to stubbenly reliquish Summer's Love & warmth, but it is also the time he is maturing towards his evevitable Fall from Glory. Harvest Time is here & if the Deity's have been kind, it is a time of Great Joy & Plenty.

MAJOR ASTAL EVENT - NiGHT EQUALs DAY

AUTUMN EQUINOX (Sept 21st) The Sun God has lived his life and to is the time to re-affirm his Spirit & failing Power to the Goddess to strengthen her for the coming Season. Winter beckons, but Mother Earth will Share the Warmth & Love of the Old God in her Heart till Samhain.

SAMHAIN (Oct 31st-) It is time to bid farewell to the Sun God. Give ThanksGiving Celebrations for the Years Fruits. It is the End of the Mating Season, the beginning of loneliness for the Goddess, but inside, a New God is nearing developement. There is HOPE..! Prepare now lest ye perish in the Season of Dark & Cold Water.

AND SO THE CYCLE RETURNS TO YULE.

Gemstones

AVENTURINE Creates positive attitude and creative insight. Eliminates psychosomatic ills, fear, skin diseases, and nearsightedness.

AGATE Aids strength and courage. Compels truth, promotes good manners, happiness, intelligence, prosperity, longevity, fertility, and good health.

AMBER Activates altruistic natureand realisation of the spiritual intellect. Guards against memory loss, eccentric behaviour, anxiety, inability to make decisions, thyroid problems.

AMETHYST Increases spiritual awareness, has calming and soothing influence, has ability to transmute negative into positive, very effective as a healing stone. Has ability to prophesy, and wards off drunkenness. Calming and protective, aids meditation, aids in purification and regeneration on all levels of consciousness. Calming, grounding, a cleanser and spiritual stimulator, strengthens heart, cleanses liver of toxins, excellent for lung problems.

AQUAMARINE Aids mental clarity and meditation, calms nerves. Wear to avoid fluid retention, coughs, fear, and eye problems.

AZURITE Helps one let go of old belief systems, dissolves fear and helps transform it into understanding. Opens the psychic eye. Good for dreams and improving one's psychic ability.

BLOODSTONE For healing and strength. Stimulates flow of energy for healing. Removes emotional blockages. A talisman for warding off all accidents and disease, especially suitable for men.

CARELIAN Highly favourable to health, long life, and good fortune. It's special virtue is the fulfilment of one's wishes if the stone is worn near the heart.

CHALCEDONY Stimulates creativity, guards against touchiness and melancholy.

CHRYSOLITE Inspiration and prophecy.

CITRINE Enables self-esteem. Stimulates openness and awakening of the mind. Helps eliminate toxins. Encourages healing on the emotional and mental levels, helps unblock subconscious fears, and serves as a natural relaxant.

CORAL Protects children from evil influences and safeguards teenagers during highly emotional periods. Balances physical energy and relaxes tensions. Carries the creative vibrations of the sea.

DIAMOND Enhances the dream state, helps alleviate stress, balances polarities, and increases healing ability.

EMERALD Promotes creativity, stimulates perception and insight, strengthens memory. Beneficial effect on the eyes. Transmits balance, healing and patience, increases psychic and clairvoyant abilities.

FLURITE Also called "Fairy Gem". Promotes well being, enhances concentration and meditation. Powerful spirit guide. Opens and softens the way for the use of other stones. Excellent used in aquariums-provides needed minerals. Charge on windowsill at night.

GARNET Thought to assist in seeing into past incarnations. Stimulates happiness, peace, balance, patience, inspiration, and persistence.

HEMATITE Absorbs negativity, calms the emotions and promotes optimism. Worn as an amulet it confers strength . Considered to be a grounding stone. Helps maintain balance between body, mind, and spirit. Also known as the "Worry Stone".

JADE Brings good fortune and health to its owner. Stimulates practicality, wisdom, and universal attunement. Thought to provide a link between the spiritual and the mundane.

JASPER(all) Safeguard personal independence, said to bring inspirational warnings when there is danger of unfair domination from others. Balances emotions and stress. Aids in all intestinal tract troubles and infections.

LIPIS LAZULI Stimulates wisdom, truthfulness, and psychic experiences. Healing and strengthening when worn next to the skin. Strengthens mind and body to spiritual awareness.

MALACHITE Stimulates clear vision and insight, represents hope and inner peace. This stone supposedly has equal amounts of negative and positive forces, thereby adding to the balance of physical and spiritual life. Used to release repressed emotions and for physical detoxing.

MOONSTONE Aids in bringing forth memories of past lives. Reflects the wearers being and feelings and has a calming effect on emotions. Promotes unselfishness and clarity of spiritual understanding.

MOSS AGATE Aids in the restoration of energy, and is widely used in healing. Believed to bring the wearer happiness, wealth, health, and long life. Increases ability to ward off self-induced anger and inner bitterness. Moss green-balances emotional energy. Moss red-balances physical energy. Blue lace-gives tranquillity.

OBSIDIAN Protects the gentle from being abused. Used as a stabiliser. Good as a stomach, intestine and general muscle tissue healer.

ONYX Objective thinking, spiritual inspiration, control of emotions and passions, helps eliminate negative thinking, apathy, and stress.

OPAL An unlucky stone which can interfere with love and marriage unless one was born between September 23rd and November 21. To these people it will give second sight, or clairvoyance, and prevent contagion from the air.

PEARL Stimulates feminine qualities, used to focus attention, helps pull together mental and spiritual forces, and creates peace of mind.

PERIDOT Dispels fears, guilt, and depression. Used to counteract negative emotions and to promote healing of the spirit. Protection, prosperity, calm, and balance.

PYRITE Enhances mental capacity and attracts money to owner. Has protecting, shielding aspect for physical, mental, emotional levels. Shields from negative energy, strengthens circulatory system, clears oxygen in the blood. Also known as Fool's Gold.

QUARTZ Amplifies healing energy. Used to help draw out pain. Good stone for meditating on. Very potent and often worn to protect from negative vibrations. Cleanse regularly.

RHODOCHROSITE Unconditional love and forgiveness, protection from the evil eye, and helps one utilise the creative power of the higher energy centers.

RHODONITE Alleviates anxiety, confusion and mental unrest. Promotes calm, self worth, confidence and enhanced sensitivity.

ROSE QUARTZ Worn or carried for love, fidelity, peace. Aids intuition and emotional balance. Reduces stress and tension - cools hot tempers. Vibrations of universal love and inner serenity. Helps heal emotional pain, enhances love, self-love, and promotes a positive outlook.

RUBY The stone of freedom, charity, dignity and divine power. Increases vigour, renews vitality and cleanses the blood. The stone of courage. Helps banish grief for those in mourning.

SAPPHIRE Promotes spiritual enlightenment, inner peace, and acts as an anti-depressant. Said to aid psychokinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance and astral projection.

SARDONYX Increases mental self control, guards against depression, anxiety, and grief.

SMOKY QUARTZ Calms the mind. Eases depression, fear and panic.

SNOWFLAKE OBSIDIAN Teaches one the truth of oneself in relation to ones ego. Grounds spiritual energy to the physical plane. Absorbs negativity.

SODOLITE Helps intellectual understanding of a situation, awakens the third eye, and cleanses the mind.

TIGER EYE Calms emotions, protects against external stresses, mind focuser. Helps purify the blood system and restores physical energy.

TOPAZ Calms emotions, and protects against external stresses. Protects against insomnia and depression, acts as a mood elevator, revitalises and stimulates creative thinking processes.

TOURMALINE Lifts fears and negative conditions. Causes the wearer to be flexible, understanding and more objective in purpose and reason. Electric and magnetic properties. Works as protective shield, consumes negative energy without releasing it into the atmosphere, has to do with visions and ''seeing'' with compassion, teaches one to expand limited concepts of thinking.

TURQUOISE The ''Master Healer''. Protects against environmental pollutants, strengthens the anatomy and guards against all disease.