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The Wheel of the Year

The Four Seasons are known as Solar Festivals, in that they mark a seasonal change caused by the Sun. The cross quarter days are marked by Fire Festivals and are usually celebrated as significant agricultural festivals. Together the Solar Festivals and the Fire Festivals make up the Wheel Of The Year. The Wheel Of The Year, is often broken into eight festivals, whether they are the eight Asatru Blots, Seasonal Festivals or Celtic Sabbats, and the observance of Solar energies at the solstices and equinoxes and the Fire energies on the cross quarter days, is a common theme throughout the world.

The Festivals of the Wheel Of The Year also represent the active and dormant states of nature, man and agriculture. Each of the festival days was ruled by a governing deity, whether a God or Goddess, with each region having its own associated deity. From planting to reaping to winter to summer... the seasons were of great importance to our ancestors, for their very existence depended upon good harvests, mild winters, enough rainfall.

The Four Solar Festivals

Winter Solstice - Yule - Dec 21st / 22nd
(Yule from the Anglo-Saxon 'Yula', meaning 'wheel' of the year.)

Ocurring around December 22 above the equator and around June 22 in the Southern Hemisphere, Yule marks the longest night of the year. A direct contrast to Litha, this is the Sabbat at which the days begin to grow longer again.

Spring Equinox - Ostara - Mar 21st / 22nd

Ostara: Ostara is the time of the vernal equinox, and falls around March 22 if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, (around Sept 22 for Southern Hemisphere readers), and it's a true marker that Spring has come. Ostara corresponds with the old Lady Day celebration found in the British Isles.

Summer Solstice - Litha - Midsummers Eve - June 21st / 22nd
(Midsummer, Gathering Day, Summer Solstice, Alban Heffyn, Feill-Sheathain)

Litha is the celebration of the midsummer solstice, and falls around June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, and December 21 below the Equator. It marks the longest day of the year, and the point at which the nights begin getting longer once more.

Autumn Equinox - Harvest - Mabon - Sept 21st / 22nd
Gwyl canol Hydref or Mabon: (pronounced Ma-bon).
(Also known as Harvest Home, Harvest Tide, Fall Equinox, Autumn Equinox etc.)

This fall festival celebrates the autumn equinox, and takes place around September 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, and March 21 in the Southern Hemisphere. It is often marked as the second of the harvest celebrations, and corresponds to Michaelmas on the old English calendar.

The Four Festivals of Fire (Cross-Quarter Days)

The cross quarter days of Imbolc, Lammas, Samhain and Beltane are often associated with the element of fire. Beltane in particular is known as a festival of fire, and it's not uncommon to celebrate the greening of the earth with a large bonfire.

These days marked the midpoint between a solstice and equinox. For the ancient Celts, these marked the beginning of each season, with the major two divisions being winter (Samhain), starting the dark half of the year, and summer (Beltane), starting the light half of the year.

February Eve or Brigid or Imbolc (Oimelc) - Feb 2nd Disablot / Candlemas / Imbolc.
This holiday is also known as Candlemas, or Brigid's Day. (pronounced BREED).

This celebration takes place around February 2 in the Northern Hemisphere (August 2 in the Southern Hemisphere), and corresponds with St. Brighid's Day or Candlemas. For many Pagans it's a celebration of candles and light and fire.

Originally, this day was called Imbolc (lambs' milk) because the lambing season began. It was also called Brigantia for the Celtic female deity of light, calling attention to the Suns' being halfway on its advance from the winter solstice to the spring equinox.

As the days' lengthening becomes perceptible, many candles are lit to hasten the warming of the earth and emphasize the reviving of life. "Imbolc" is from Old Irish, and may mean "in the belly", and Oimelc, "ewe's milk", as this is the lambing time. It is the holiday of the Celtic Fire Goddess Brigid, whose threefold nature rules smithcraft, poetry/inspiration, and healing. Brigid's fire is a symbolic transformation offering healing, visions, and tempering. Februum is a Latin word meaning purification -- naming the short month of cleansing. The thaw releases waters (Brigid is also a goddess of holy wells) -- all that was hindered is let flow at this season.

The Irish Goddess Brigit, Brigid or Bride (pronounced Breed), matron of artists, smiths and healers, is honoured in Druidry and WiseCraft. Her symbol is "Brigit's Cross", (shown on the right). Bride was the daughter of the Dagda (or Good God), the principal God of the Irish race known as the Tuatha de Dnaan, People of Dana, Dana being the Mother Goddess.

Brigit was often depicted as a Triple Goddess. Her chief shrine was in Kildare, where her vigil fire was tended by unmarried priestesses known as Inghean an Dagha, Daughters of Fire. With the Christianization of Ireland, Brigid became Saint Brigid and her shrine was taken over by nuns. Legend tells us that the nuns continued to tend her sacred flame until the thirteenth century, when the Bishop of Kildare decreed that the custom was Pagan and must cease. However, Brigid remained a very popular saint in Ireland and Scotland until recent times and her importance rivalled that of the Virgin Mary.

Much of this day is grounded in the seasons—estimating how soon spring-like weather will come and when to plant the crops.

It was not held as a good omen if the day itself was bright and sunny, for that betokened snow and frost to continue to the hiring of the laborers 6 weeks later on Lady Day. If it was cloudy and dark, warmth and rain would thaw out the fields and have them ready for planting.

Our Groundhog Day is a remote survivor of that belief. Though we recognize animal behavior isn't always the way to judge planting dates, the tradition continues, often with a wink and a smile.

Candlemas acquired its English name from the candles lit that day in churches to celebrate the presentation of the Christ Child in the temple of Jerusalem.

Beltane - May 1 April 30th / May 1st
(Beltane derived from the Irish Gaelic "Bealtaine" or the Scottish Gaelic "Bealtuinn", meaning "Bel-fire", the fire of the Celtic god of light (Bel, Beli or Belinus).)
May Eve / Valpurgis / Cetsamhain / Roodmas / Shenn do Boaldyn / May Day

Beltane is a celebration of the greening of the earth, and is often celebrated with a big bonfire. It takes place on May Day - May 1 - if you live above the equator, and October 31 or November 1 if you live in the Southern Hemisphere.

May Day, or Beltane, was the halfway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, and marked the beginning of summer for the ancient Celts. It was a day for dance and song to hail the sown fields starting to sprout. Beltane was a time for the pairing of young couples, though not yet their wedding, which would not come until the next Cross-Quarter Day, after three months of seeing how they suited each other.

Lughnasa - August 2, July 31st / Aug 1st Frey Fest / Lughnasa / Lugnasad / Lammas

Lughnasadh was the wedding of the Sun god Lugh to the Earth goddess, causing the ripening of crops. The first loaves baked from the new wheat were offered at the Loaf Mass, which became corrupted in pronunciation to Lammas.

Lammas is the first of the harvest festivals and celebrates the reaping of the grain. In some traditions, it is Lughnasadh, and honors the Celtic blacksmith god Lugh. It takes place around August 1 in the Northern Hemisphere, and February 1 below the equator.

Samhain - October 31
(*Note: Samhain is pronounced sowen, soween, saw-win, saw-vane or sahven, not sam-hayne)
Samhain / Winter Nights / Feile Moingfinne / Halloween

Samhain is known as the witches' new year, and is a time when the veil between this world and the next is thin. It's a good time to do some fire scrying! Celebrate Samhain on October 31 in the Northern Hemisphere, and May 1 in the Southern Hemisphere.

Samhain ("summer's end"), or Halloween, marked the beginning of winter for the ancient Celts, and many historians believe that it served as the start of the new year in the Celtic calendar. It was the day when the cattle were brought in from pasture; those needed for the winters' supply of meat would be slaughtered. Since Samhain was the death-night of the old year, it came to be associated with ghosts and graveyards. It has happier associations too, such as apple bobbing, which was a form of telling fortunes for the new year.

From:
http://www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk/the_wheel_of_the_year/the_wheel_of_the_year.asp

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Faery blessings -- celeste

Two Capitols, Three Kingdoms (Goddoms)
By: Anna von Reitz
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:54:11 -0800

A few days ago I observed that there are two Gods in the Bible.

It should come as no surprise that there are also two capitols of Israel, neither one of which is Tel Aviv.

Bethlehem, not Jerusalem, is the City of the Kings.

Is it not apparent that this same little town was the birthplace of King David? And also the birthplace of Jesus?

Bethlehem is the source of all glory and honor and love and life and truth.

And what comes forth from Jerusalem? Just the opposite.

Jerusalem is the place of death and reckoning and scheming, jealousy, lies, and hatred.

So how can you think that Jerusalem should be crowned? Except that you are deceived?

Jerusalem is Satan's capitol in the land of Israel.

The "New Jerusalem" spoken of in the Bible is not a re-make of Jerusalem. It is a new city, one that is not built on misery and blood.

Likewise, our capitol is Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, not Washington, DC.

Tiny Assisi is the true capitol of Italy, not Rome.

All around the world, it is the same. We have the capitol cities of the True God, and the capitols of Satan. They belong to two separate kingdoms.

This should not surprise anyone, yet it does.

Now comes a Third Kingdom, the Kingdom of Heaven.

We must learn to think with new thoughts and see with new eyes, or we will all be in a constant state of paralyzing amazement, even though everything has been foretold for thousands of years and has been here in front of us the whole time.

As the Kingdom of Earth is restored and the Kingdom of Heaven takes root and grows, the Kingdom of Satan is naturally overthrown and taken over, because Mankind is no longer deceived and makes new choices accordingly.

Suppose that we were all afflicted with some strange delusion and we all believe that dog poop is wonderful food. When that delusion ends, the truth is bound to come as a shock, but would you rather continue to suffer the delusion?

It is the same way with our condition now.

The waking up isn't entirely pleasant, but we are set free by it, and enabled to make new choices.

For many generations you have been taught that the Kingdom of Heaven comes like a thief in the night, which is true. It is already here, already taking form. There is no big thunderclap, no announcement.

Our Father doesn't talk a lot about doing things. He does them.

Soon, miracles will become common place, and the new capitols of the new kingdom will appear. Don't be surprised or dismayed; be grateful and rejoice.

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But Which "God"?
By: Anna von Reitz

I don't know how this is possible, but it is very clear that a great many people have remained ignorant about their professed religion as well as their government.

The Bible tells us explicitly and by inference that there are multiple "gods" out there plying their wares. Why say, "have no other gods before me" if there aren't other "gods" being offered to you for you to worship?

"God" is a title, not a name.

So when someone (especially the vermin) start talking about "God" you have to inquire, "Which God?" the same way you have to ask, "Which United States?"

The True and Living God we know as the Creator, whose name and title in Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic is: "Yahavah", means, "Yah, the Creator" -- or some "other" God?

Yahavah's Son is "Yashuah" sometimes transliterated as "Yeshuah" -- which means "Yah's Anointed One".

There is only one Living God.

All other gods are dead.

They are little idols, like carved wooden statues, or the coins in your pockets -- "representations" of reality, not reality itself.

"Christ" means "Anointed One" -- but again, whose anointed one? The Anointed One of Yah? Or the Anointed One of Sam Spade?

Likewise, "Christians" translates as "Followers of the Anointed One" -- but which Anointed One?

The Satanists have built a whole "parallel" religion to mirror the faith of the Apostles -- which was never a "religion" and never a "church".

They have taught us to use the name "Jesus" instead of "Yahshuah" and they have taught us to worship "God" and "Jehovah" instead of "Yahavah" and they have taught us to say "Amen" -- the name of an Egyptian deity at the end of every prayer, to make sure our prayers get dropped in the "Dead Letter Box" the moment they leave our lips.

Then we wonder why prayers go unanswered?

Instead, worship "in spirit" and "in truth" -- with your living heart and soul, not with twisted words. Just try. You will discover that you know how to pray without words. And then you will discover that "double-mindedness" vanishes and that in union with Yahavah, all things are possible.

Make good things manifest according to the ultimate and unfathomable goodness of our Creator. Bypass all the fear and ugliness and go straight home to your Father, and let the sons of the Devil go home to theirs, too.

Yah, the One, lives in you and makes you part of All. There is only one "God" -- one Creator, one Life, one Ordering Principle.

All else is deception and idolatry and just plain old hot air.

If these vermin would deceive you about "which" United States of America they are talking about, would they hesitate a moment to deceive you about which "God" they are serving?

Or which "law" they are observing?

Do you think it is amusing that cannibals want you to drink blood from your communion cup? Instead of remembering "as often as you drink (wine)" -- Yah's Anointed One?

What would happen if every time wine touched your lips, you remembered Him? And every time you had a piece of bread?

Do you think it is a coincidence that churches have converted the faith of living men into the doctrine and rules of dead institutions?

That they have also mis-represented their laws as "God's Laws"?

Or that the leaders of these institutions have set themselves above you and sought to place themselves between you and Yah as middlemen and arbiters?

Do you think it is funny that they have sought to keep you from communion and placed a price on it and also sold forgiveness which they have never earned?

That they have turned your body, the House of Yah, into a bonded slave for them and called a business Joint Venture a "marriage"?

Where is your common sense?

How could you believe in, much less consent to this?

There is no end to their blasphemy and evil, their recklessness and greed -- but if you would save yourselves and save your country, you must wake up.

You must repent of all this error and discern the gaping Pit prepared for them. You must come out of Babylon and know which "God" you serve.

[ Above a certain density there is no duality, which means a balance of yin and yang, i.e. everything above a certain level is purely androgynous. Therefore, there is no "God" versus "Goddess" -- There is only God(dess) / All-That-Is / Source / Creator and all of its' creations... a whole universe full! It is "anthropomorphization" by humans, to create a "God" who looks like them, when the infinite faceless nameless source, (to me, the Great Creatrix), is vastly beyond anything like an "embodiment".
Let me further clarify between my "having been reborn with Christ spirit within one's heart+soul" versus accepting "The Bible" in toto, as i have found many errors therein, along with a lot of {psycho,socio}pathy: -- celeste ]

• Matthew 25:26 Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed.
• Matthew 25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming, I should have received mine own with usury.
  [YES usury -- celeste ]

• Exodus 22:25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
  [NO usury -- celeste ]
• Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
  [extreme misogyny -- celeste ]

• Exodus 23:8 And thou shall take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
  [ Obviously this is not true. A true free-will gift with no strings attached is the purest form of giving possible. What is actually being referred to, is a bribe. -- celeste ]
• Exodus 23:10-11 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: But the seventh year thou shall let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with they vineyard, and with they oliveyard.
  [ This is way healthier, for both the ecosystem and those eating the fruits of the field, than petrochemical fertilizers used to keep that field producing without break. -- celeste ]

• Exodus 32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
  [ This references the "shewbread", the White Powder of ORMUS Au (gold) -- celeste ]

• Exodus 35:13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels and the shewbread,
  [ This references the White Powder of ORMUS Au (gold) -- celeste ]

• [ There's a Fairy Bible? Who knew! -- celeste ]

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Adam's Punishment
By: Anna von Reitz
Wed, 5 Sep 2018 22:55:04 -0800

You remember the Book of Genesis account of the Garden of Eden story -- Adam, Eve, Serpent, and Apple?

I've brought this to everyone's attention before, but it is time to do it again --

Okay, the Serpent has worked his typical half-truth deceit, lied to Eve -- you won't die... right away... and Adam and Eve have eaten the apple and the Lord Almighty has, of course, figured out the whole situation.

It is now Judgment Day in Eden. What happens?

The snake is condemned to crawl on his belly in the dust for the rest of his days and his children and Eve's children will be enemies ever after.

Eve's child-bearing risk and pain is greatly increased. She is stuck with being attracted to that lunk-head, Adam, and forced to serve him.

Both the serpent and Eve take their lumps in silence. They accept their guilt and their punishment.

Adam is the only one that whines and blames Eve for his sin -- and God doesn't pronounce that same kind of judgment and specific punishment for him. This is because Adam punished himself.

Let me explain --

What happens when you abdicate responsibility?

You lose the rights that went with the responsibility.

Adam lost the keys to his kingdom, his peace, the balance of his mind, and his eternal life -- not because he sinned -- but because he failed to accept responsibility for his sin. He lied about it and became subject to self-delusion and death and helplessness instead.

Eve and the Snake, however, passed the test.

They both accepted responsibility and the right to rule.

So here in the very beginning of the scripture is also the end of it. It is in Genesis that the entire secret is revealed: Adam can accept responsibility for his sins. Even now.

When the men of this planet accept their responsibility for their sins all the blaming and the delusions and the unending punishment can stop.

Jesus accepted responsibility for everyone else's sinning and forgave it. Like Eve and the snake, he did so in silence, not blaming anyone.

That is how Jesus overcame Adam's sin and became the King of Kings -- not as a sacrifice, but as a ruler who accepted all the responsibilities of being King, and who earned all the rights that go with them.

So then, let us follow after Him, Our King, resolved to pass the final test and soldier on, no longer blaming anyone else, no longer being deluded, and no longer needing to deceive anyone.

We, too, can overcome.

> Feed: Paul Stramer - Lincoln County Watch
> Title: Your Car or Their Vehicle?
> Author: Paul Stramer
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:28:00 -1000
> Link: http://www.paulstramer.net/2021/02/your-car-or-their-vehicle.html
> Link: http://talkshoe.com/recording/inline/key/7b8ebf74eedb6f91beea3239091e2ad6aecdc661.mp3
>  
> By Anna Von Reitz
 
Commerce is business conducted between two incorporated (enfranchised) entities.
Are you an incorporated or enfranchised entity? Are you engaged in interstate 
commerce? 
Probably not, unless you knowingly, willingly, voluntarily, and with the benefit
of full disclosure agreed to operate in a "commercial capacity" and adopted the 
political status of a Municipal citizen of the United States. 
This basically means that you would have to voluntarily change your birthright 
political status from a free-born American to the status of a Municipal slave, 
give up all your constitutional guarantees and donate all your earthly estate, 
to a foreign commercial corporation run by the Roman Catholic Church for use as 
chattel backing their debts and investments. 
And there would have to be proof of your willing participation in this scheme. 
Instead, you are still you, and still in control of this situation if you choose
to educate yourself and make your employees come to heel. 
You are the "Authorized Representative" so long as you don't hand your Proxy to 
the Numbnutz in the US CONGRESS by registering as a "Voter". You have every 
right to authorize the DMV or other "licensed service provider" to issue private
tags for your car. 
Different State of State organizations call private plates or private tags by 
different names but they all mean the same thing --- this is a private car being
used for non-commercial purposes. 
The right to travel is an inherent and Natural Right. Nobody can stop you from 
going from Point A to Point B in your "private capacity" using your own 
privately owned car or truck on a public road, yet, as many of you can attest, 
there are plenty of highway patrolmen out there who think they can interfere and
arrest you at will. 
This is because you have mistakenly registered your own car or truck as a 
commercial vehicle, and haven't authorized the DMV to issue the proper plates 
and tags for it. 
Left to their own devices (and self-interest) they just give you what they use 
themselves as government employees--- which then allows them to presume that you
are "one of them" and are subject to all the same private corporation laws and 
must obey policies and statutes that they are subject to as a condition of their
employment. 
We don't want to waste a lot of time and effort on this "issue". It does need to
be corrected on a systemic basis. But if this is the only thing that consumes 
your interest in terms of having your rights and freedoms purloined and their 
constitutional guarantees to you evaded, go ahead and write a letter to the DMV.
Tell them that you are the Authorized Representative for JOHN M DOE and you are 
authorizing them to issue you private license plates and/or tags that reflect 
the private non-commercial nature of your car. 
 
All the State of State organizations we have dealt with have such private 
designation plates and/or "private registration" tags available. Start digging 
and asking and you will receive answers. 
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www.annavonreitz.com

Your mind will lie to you, (due to the "archontic" invasion of our ego - left-brain - text-processing - linear - logical - rational thought analyzer). You can always trust your body to tell you the physical truth. You can always trust your heart to tell you the truth of your incarnation, being a soul incarnate in a body.

If you ignore the body's messages, its painful symptoms, especially through medication, the problems only get worse as the causes go untreated. The physical body is governed by the emotional body.

If you numb your emotions, you can avoid the cause of your emotional pain.

Look to your mind to govern the emotional body. You can think all kinds of stuff, but the most useful is what validates the truth of your emotions and body. Otherwise a quiet mind is most useful, so that you can hear the messages of your soul. Seek the inner sanctum of your heart.

This journey will likely be fruitless unless your heart is open. We often close our hearts in order to not feel pain; either the pain we're afraid we're about to receive, or the pain already there. If we keep stuffing trauma and pain into the subconscious, eventually we can only feel pain when we seek heart's guidance, so we cease to go there.

It can be a chore to clean out the subconscious and catch-up to now, but once we do so, we can maintain health and harmony by following our heart's guidance.

Be willing to feel your pain so that you may stay alive!

We exist either in a rising expanding spiral, or in a falling contracting spiral. Choose the heart expanding path of rejuvenation!