Seasons and Sabbats

Seasons and Sabbats
Sabbats are holidays wiccan. The year of Wiccan starts after Samhain according to the Celtic almanac.

The goddess gives rise to a son, God, at Yule. Yule is one moment of the greatest darkness and is the shortest day of the year. Since God is also the sun, this marks the point of the year when the sun is Rene as well. Thus, fires of Wicca or candles light to make good reception in the light of reference of the sun. The goddess, slumbering by the winter of her work, rests after her delivery. In contemporary Wiccans it is a recall which the end product of death is rebirth.

Imbolc marks the re-establishment of the goddess after having given rise to God. The periods rallongeantes of the light awake it. God is a young person, vigorous boy, but its power is felt in longer days. Imbolc is also known while the treat of fire, day of Oimelc, Lupercalia and Brigid´s.

Ostara, or equinox of spring marks the first day of the true spring. The goddess covers the ground with the fertility, bright in front of her sleep, because God stretches and becomes maturity. On Ostara the hours of are equal day and night. The light catches up with the darkness.

Beltane marks the appearance of young God in virility. Stirred up by energies with work in kind, it wishes the goddess. They are in love, are among grasses and the flowers, and link. The goddess becomes pregnant of God. Wiccans celebrate the symbol of its fertility in the ritual. The flowers and the greenery symbolize the goddess; Polish May God. Beltane marks the return of vitality, passion and the succeeded hopes.

The middle of the summer, also known under the name of Litha, arrives when the powers of nature reach their higher point. The ground is flooded in the fertility of the goddess and God. The middle of the summer is a traditional time for the magic of all the kinds.

Lughnasadh is the period of the first harvest, when the factories of the spring soiled and drop their fruits or granulates for our use as ensuring of future harvests. Mystically, makes so much also God lose his force while the sun rises further in the south each day and the nights develop longer. The watches of goddess in the pain and the joy because it realizes that God dies, but lives above inside it as a her child.

Mabon is the achievement of the harvest started at Lughnasadh. Are again day and night equalizes it, carried balances some while God lays out to leave his physical body and to begin the great adventure in the invisible one, towards the renewal and the rebirth of the goddess. The declines of nature, draws its generosity behind, preparing for the winter and its period of the rest which the goddess inclines the head in the sun of weakening, although fire burns in its uterus. She smells the presence of God even while he weakens.

At Samhain, the good-bye of word of Wicca with God. It is a provisional good-bye. It is not wrapped in the eternal darkness, but prepares to be Rene of the goddess at Yule. Samhain is one moment of reflexion, to look during the last year, to come in extreme cases with one phenomenon of the surplus from the life that we behind do not have any order - death. The feeling of Wicca which this night separation between physical and spiritual realities is thin. Wiccans remember their ancestors and all those which went front.