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a new wheel of the year
Topic Started: Feb 28 2013, 01:11 AM (87 Views)
geek_dragon

It's sort of soul ripping, growing up in a place where the traditional neo-pagan sabbats can be seen. At Imbolc there was frost and a threat of snow but maybe even cherry blossoms. Snow drops and crocuses were out for sure, just like the nice imbolc splash screens found on the net.

However, I will be living (for only a few years at most!) in an area of near perpetual winter. At Lughnassagh, summer seems to just have barely started, and there is no point in acknowledging the turning point between summer and fall, because Mabon type celebrations occur locally just two weeks later.
By Samhain the blanket of winter has fallen on everything, fall was over and done with as people are already settled in to the shoveling and bundling up.
Imbolc... there is still a quarter year of snow to wait through. Ostara.... still snow, though maybe there might have been a warm spell. Beltaine... is more like Imbolc.... there might be signs of spring, but probably there is still a blanket of white. Only 2 or 3 of the 8 sabbats a year are snow free!

Instead I was thinking of following plants. Celebrating based on plant signals. I know one year I waited months for the buds of daffodils to finally bloom... in June... maybe even July.

What would you do for the wheel of the year if you were in a climate that didn't mesh with our pattern of four seasons?
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Aeree
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Oh I like the plant idea.

Seasons in SC make no sense. It cools off in January and February, and never gets cold, only like 50 degrees Fahrenheit. It warms up in March and April, and then it turns to nasty 90+ weather in May. It was hitting 110+ in July of last year. It finally cools off down into the 90s in September, but until the end of December the weather makes no sense. 90 degrees one day, and then it's 40 degrees 24 hours later.

Winter doesn't exist down south, and our autumn has no consistency. I tend to skip the wheel of the year and just do things based on what the weather's doing.
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here it's been snowing or at least trying to snow every few days or so, though today we finally got above 5c which will probably last until middle of next month when we get more snow.

welsh weather is screwy, we can get snow almost any time up until may or even june (though I've only ever seen that once and it was just a fine dusting that didn't stick)

as for celebrating based on plants this is common in many places. in celtic britan beltain was considered the day that the hawthorn treee first bloomed and in japan you have hanami (flower viewing) where people celebrate the briefness of life by watching the sakura (cherry) trees bloom
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