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Started 2 months, 1 week ago (2009-10-14 21:16:40)
by kittykatvegas
Imbolc/Candlemas/ Brigid's Day Imbolc is the Witches' Festival of lights. It's the beginning of spring in our Wheel of the Year. Although actual spring is a couple of months away, Imbolc represents the beginning of the end of winter, if you catch my drift. Brigid is the Goddess traditionally associated with Imbolc , the Goddess of healing, inspiration, and fire...
Started 3 weeks, 2 days ago (2009-12-03 22:44:38)
by kittykatvegas
Imbolg (Pronounced Im - ol- Guh) Also known as Candlemas This was a day originally set aside to honor the Goddess who was slowly turning the Wheel of the Year back to spring. Winter was a very harsh season for our ancestors, during which many died of disease and malnutrition. Most of the customs surrounding this Sabbat are designed as acts of sympathetic magick ...
Started 1 month ago (2009-11-26 04:23:32)
by enirellav
Sabbats and Esbats There are 8 Sabbats each year - - 4 major Sabbats and 4 minor Sabbats. The major Sabbats are: Candlemas, Beltane, Lughnadash (aka Lammas), and Samhain. The minor Sabbats are: Spring Equinox (Ostara), Summer Solstice (Midsummer aka Litha), Autumn Equinox (Mabon), and Winter Solstice Winter Solstice (Yule): It is the height of winter, the...
Started 1 month, 3 weeks ago (2009-10-31 23:59:29)
by Lilac Earth Fire
A besom is a broom used by some Witches, especially for Handfasting and Candlemas rites. Because we hope to offer information here that is not readily available elsewhere, we won't Go into all the basics about the besom. This page is to provide you will lesser known trivia about the besom that you might find interesting: Many of us know about the classic uses of brooms in sympathetic ...
Started 2 months, 1 week ago (2009-10-19 10:26:00)
by SuYoG
Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) ride out high surf on blue-ice icebergs near Candlemas Island in the South Sandwich Islands For trees that grow on mountaintops near Cape Town, South Africa , wind can be a magnificent sculptor. Trees that can handle the wind's effects best will alter their shape to deal with the load of the wind. Silhouetted by the sun, the Hand...
Quote: Originally Posted by cathar Dear 1977,I guess what I'm trying to say is to lump KING JESUS in with "all these alternative histories" IS BESIDE THE POINT!!!!!!!!This book,which is what this thread is about,is rock solid,ground breaking HISTORY....it's not about religion....so to put it in the same category as "THESE ALTERNATIVE ...
Started 2 days, 17 hours ago (2009-12-24 13:23:00)
by Joe Fortuna
ScienceRules wrote: "Christians complain about secularists, atheists, and liberals trying to undermine Christmas, but...history indicates that religion has been slowly stripped from Christian holidays... and by Christians themselves. Michaelmas: on Sept. 29 to celebrate St. Michaels victory over Satan. All Holy Eve and All Saint's Day: On Nov 1, a feast for Christian martyrs. The night ...
Started 3 days, 12 hours ago (2009-12-23 18:25:00)
by Tracy[_2_]
Virginia Tadrzynski wrote: All of my horde is in the old liturgical Christmas season......Starting with eldest daughter and youngest son, who SHARE the same birthday of Dec. 1 (Advent Sunday sometimes hits this).......Hubby is Dec. 29, eldest son is January 6 (Epiphany) and youngest daughter is Feb. 2 (Candlemas)....mine falls inbetween on Jan. 29. Funny, my son's ...
Started 5 days, 14 hours ago (2009-12-21 16:09:00)
by carlee
LIST OF SATANIC HOLIDAYS Satanic holiday dates change annually according to the regular calendar and differ from cult to cult Date Celebration Type Usage Age Jan 1 New Year's Day Druid Feast Day 15-33 Jan 7 St. Winebald Day blood animal and/or human sacrifice and dismemberment (male, if human) Jan 17 Satanic Revels sexual oral, anal, vaginal 7-17 female Jan 20-27 Abduction...
Started 5 days, 16 hours ago (2009-12-21 14:23:00)
by Dunkirk101
For those that recognize these type of things, Happy Solstice Day Winter Solstice -- Longest Night of the Year Winter’s solstice, also known as midwinter, is an, and also cultural event. In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice may fall anytime between December 20 and December 23 (the event happens between June 20 and June 23 in the southern hemisphere). ...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-12-18 21:12:07)
by Follow Your Bliss
Imbolc (February 2nd) Imbolc is one of my favorites - it was the first ritual I did by myself. Imbolc, (pronounced "IM-bulk" or "EM-bowlk"), also called Oimealg, ("IM-mol'g), by the Druids, is the festival of the lactating sheep. It is derived from the Gaelic word "oimelc" which means "ewes milk". Herd animals have either given birth to the first offspring of the year or their wombs are ...
Started 4 days, 7 hours ago (2009-12-23 00:00:00)
by anonymous
Cryptic signatures that prove Shakespeare was a secret Catholic A parchment bound in leather and kept under lock and key may prove the theory that Shakespeare was a secret Catholic. An exhibition at the Venerable English College, the seminary in Rome for English Catholic priests, has revealed cryptic names in its guest books for visiting pilgrims, suggesting that the playwright ...
Started 3 days, 7 hours ago (2009-12-23 23:56:00)
by Peter Dierks
New sophisticated sub for launching intercontinental ballistic missiles to arrive early 2010 By Toby Westerman December 23, 2009 Construction of a Russian missile submarine carrying the name of Saint Nicholas, a revered religious figure in both Western and Eastern Christianity — the real person behind Santa Claus — will begin in early 2010 . Citing an anonymous source, the online version...
Started 17 hours, 32 minutes ago (2009-12-26 13:29:00)
by ForestChav
Quote: Originally Posted by Liparus At last someone who knows when it really ends. Candlemas . Quote: In the Church of England, however, Christmastide includes Epiphany and ends at Candlemas in early February, which celebrates the Presentation...
Started 4 days, 9 hours ago (2009-12-22 21:20:00)
by Zil
1 Shakespeare caused an air crash There was an American Shakespeare fan called Eugene Schieffelin, a drugs manufacturer in the 1890s. He decided that he wanted New York to be home to all the songbirds mentioned in Shakespeare's plays, so released skylarks, thrushes and starlings. The starlings stayed on Manhattan for about six years, nesting in the eaves of the Natural History...
