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 Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:30 am
Right now I'm at a state where I don't really recognize any holidays, aside from gathering with family for the major American holidays. I'm just not sure what holidays mean something to me, if they should mean anything, and how I should celebrate them.
What holidays do you all participate in and how?
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:01 pm
I attend family get togethers for most American holidays, Christmas and Easter, as my parents, grandparents, siblings ect are all Christian(ish)
As for my personal beliefs, I celebrate the Solstices and Equinoxes. (This makes sense to me because they are celebrating the Sun, and its cycle of the seasons) I also celebrate the Full Moon each month.
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:58 pm
I currently celebrate the eight Sabbats, plus some Heathen observances like Thorrablot. Lately I've been trying to celebrate the Sabbats as Heathen festivals on their traditional date and as personal, Neo-Wiccan based holidays honouring the Lord and Lady on their astronomically correct dates. It means I can actually fit in all the festivals I want to fit in xd so it's quite handy really.
I'd like to work more Greek into my practices but at this point I don't know enough about Hellenic practices to be comfortable doing that. But I miss some of the Greek deities I used to work with.... so later on I may be celebrating Greek festivals as well.
I'm also looking to incorporate Esbat celebration into my worship, but I'm not sure how exactly. That's something I'll have to work out. I think I might celebrate New Moon rather than Full Moon.
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:46 am
International Talk Like A Pirate Day (TLAP Day, the past two years biggrin lol), Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas, Birthdays, New Year's Eve, Easter...oh, and St. Patrick's Day. That's all my family celebrates.
I'd like to know more about traditional celebrations (I.E. - pagan celebrations like Samhain, Lughnasa, etc.), but even if I knew how to celebrate properly, I'd have no one to celebrate with. All my pagan friends live far away now! sad I'll come on Gaia and celebrate them in this guild, though. biggrin There's an idea, have holiday celebrations here? Maybe?
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:16 pm
Now Samhain is a holiday that I was looking into in the past, but I'm afraid I have the same problem as you: no one to celebrate with. *shrug* Sounds like everybody's got a lot of different styles. I hadn't considered celebrating moon cycles before. That's an interesting idea.
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:45 pm
Viscerim: Weren't we talking about celebrating the holidays together as a guild? question I think we should. I think it would bring us closer together and whatnot. We should probably post separate threads about each holiday and describe what they are, what they mean, etc. Comments? Suggestions?
~Tsual heart
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:27 pm
There's an idea.
I'll look into these holidays in depth.
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:45 pm
Totally wicked awesome! That would be great. I actually found, at the back of my book on my new fortune cards (The Hidden Path, still considered new to me biggrin ) there was a list of the holidays and how you could celebrate them yourself, like by yourself, with all sorts of ideas. The only one I read so far has been Samhain, but that's because that's the closest one (I think) and I probably will celebrate it.
A idea to add to this - we can take pictures of decorations! If I decided to make a mural/shrine/table altar thing or just plain decorations, I'll take some pictures and post them here! Add some color to spice up life! biggrin I think it would be a great idea!
... do I sound too excited about this?
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:02 pm
Mistreena The only one I read so far has been Samhain, but that's because that's the closest one (I think) and I probably will celebrate it. The next one for the Northern hemisphere is the Autumnal Equinox, also called Mabon. The next one for the Southern hemisphere is the Vernal Equinox, also called Ostara.
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:46 pm
Mistreena
... do I sound too excited about this?Excitement is good! ^^ ~Tsual heart
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:48 pm
Sanguina-chan Mistreena The only one I read so far has been Samhain, but that's because that's the closest one (I think) and I probably will celebrate it. The next one for the Northern hemisphere is the Autumnal Equinox, also called Mabon. The next one for the Southern hemisphere is the Vernal Equinox, also called Ostara. Thank you, Sanguina-chan. biggrin You seem to know a lot about this. (Correct me if I'm wrong?) If you do, you could help a lot with the information part, if you're willing. ^^ Could you please tell us the dates of the Equinoxes? ~Tsual heart
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:45 pm
Tsual Alaghierz Sanguina-chan Mistreena The only one I read so far has been Samhain, but that's because that's the closest one (I think) and I probably will celebrate it. The next one for the Northern hemisphere is the Autumnal Equinox, also called Mabon. The next one for the Southern hemisphere is the Vernal Equinox, also called Ostara. Thank you, Sanguina-chan. biggrin You seem to know a lot about this. (Correct me if I'm wrong?) If you do, you could help a lot with the information part, if you're willing. ^^ Could you please tell us the dates of the Equinoxes? ~Tsual heart Sure ^_^ The Equinoxes are part of the "Quarters" (the other two holidays are the Solstices). They occur when day and night are of equal length and therefore have no "traditional" date like Samhain does, for example. The dates vary from year to year. Typically they'd be within the 20th and 23rd of the month in question. You have to check the date yourself each year. Personally I love this website; it provides the date and the exact time, if you're into that, as well ^_^
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:37 pm
Sanguina-chan Tsual Alaghierz Thank you, Sanguina-chan. biggrin You seem to know a lot about this. (Correct me if I'm wrong?) If you do, you could help a lot with the information part, if you're willing. ^^ Could you please tell us the dates of the Equinoxes? ~Tsual heart Sure ^_^ The Equinoxes are part of the "Quarters" (the other two holidays are the Solstices). They occur when day and night are of equal length and therefore have no "traditional" date like Samhain does, for example. The dates vary from year to year. Typically they'd be within the 20th and 23rd of the month in question. You have to check the date yourself each year. Personally I love this website; it provides the date and the exact time, if you're into that, as well ^_^ Thanks. biggrin I'll check that site out. ^^ ~Tsual heart
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:25 pm
Hello! I'm new to the guild ^_^
As far as holidays, I follow my faith's calendar (I'm Asatru). So on top of holidays based on the cycles of the earth, we also tend to have a lot of days of remembrance for historical figures that played an important part in the Nordic history. I'm pretty sure we celebrate the solstices and equinoxes, but I'm not too certain on the cross-quarters.
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:34 pm
Ultraviolett1127 Hello! I'm new to the guild ^_^ As far as holidays, I follow my faith's calendar (I'm Asatru). So on top of holidays based on the cycles of the earth, we also tend to have a lot of days of remembrance for historical figures that played an important part in the Nordic history. I'm pretty sure we celebrate the solstices and equinoxes, but I'm not too certain on the cross-quarters. Lesse... **puts on librarian glasses** Freyfaxi and Charming of the Plough are cross-quarters, and I know you celebrate Beltaine because the Norse brought the Maypole to the British Isles... plus you've got Walpurgsnicht or however it's spelt the night before Beltaine. There's no real equivalent to Samhain, but there is a holiday at some point after the Autumnal Equinox. I forget what it's called. But it's like the first really cold night or the onset of cold winter weather or something. Winternights? It's either Winternights or Winterfinding, I forget which. But it's a date that moves around a lot. wink But from what I can tell much of the Asatru calendar appears to be almost optional, except Yule of course. And then there's Thorrablot which is on the full moon some time after Yule... and Disting, and um... yeah. And us Lokeans have apparently all come to the independent conclusion that April Fools Day is a Lokablot wink
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