A Samhain supper can be one of the most intimate ways to mark the end of October. Rather than creating a Halloween party filled with costumes and decorations, a Samhain gathering can centre around food, candlelight, stories and remembrance. It can be spiritual without...
October changes the atmosphere of the year. The warmth of early autumn begins to give way to colder mornings, darker evenings and a landscape that is visibly letting go. Leaves deepen into rust, gold and crimson before falling. Seed heads dry. Hedgerows become heavier...
Samhain arrives at one of the most atmospheric points in the seasonal year. By late October, the harvest is largely complete, trees are shedding their leaves and darkness arrives noticeably earlier. The landscape itself appears to be withdrawing. For modern pagans and...
Mabon, the Autumn Equinox, arrives at a beautifully balanced point in the year. Day and night are held in near-equal measure before the darker half of the year begins to gather momentum. The air feels cooler, the evenings arrive earlier, and the season begins to shift...
September arrives quietly compared with the boldness of high summer. The light softens, mornings become cooler, berries darken on the hedgerows and the first leaves begin to show signs of change. There can still be warmth in the days, but the landscape is unmistakably...
August feels different from the bright expansiveness of June and the ripening heat of July. The landscape is still full, but the character of the season is changing. Fields are heavy with grain, fruit is ready to gather, herbs are at their fullest, and the evenings...
July sits at the heart of summer, when the landscape feels full, warm and abundant. Gardens are producing heavily, hedgerows are thick, berries begin to ripen, and the long days invite more time outdoors. The energy of the month feels expansive, but it is no longer...
The Summer Solstice, often known in contemporary pagan and witchcraft traditions as Litha or Midsummer, marks the longest day and shortest night of the year. It is the point at which the sun reaches its greatest height before the year begins its gradual turn back...
June carries the fullness of early summer. The hedgerows are thick with growth, gardens are abundant, the evenings remain light long after the working day has ended, and the sun reaches the height of its annual journey. This is a month of visibility, vitality and...
May arrives with a very different energy from April. Spring is no longer tentative. The land is fuller, warmer and visibly alive. Hawthorn blossoms, bees move busily between flowers, the evenings stretch out, and there is a stronger sense of ripening in the landscape....