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    Harvest

    March 20, 2021

    Harvestide (also known as the Autumn Equinox, the Feast of Avalon or the Witch’s Thanksgiving) takes place when the harvest is winding down. Scarecrows, harvest queens and nut-gathering occur at this time. The fields are nearly empty, because the crops have been plucked and stored for the coming winter. The seasons are dramatically changing, as the leaves turn to brilliant oranges, reds and yellows, the tang of frost enters the air, and animals start to migrate. There is a sense of hurrying in the air for humans and animals alike — a time to gather root vegetables, dry herbs, collect seeds and seed pods for your storehouse, stack the woodpile and make the house ready for the snows and winter gales that are soon to arrive.

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    Happy autumn season and New Moon in Aries! As the Happy autumn season and New Moon in Aries! As the first sign of the zodiac, Aries ushers in the beginning of a new zodiac year. For many, this means kick-starting new beginnings and projects. The sign of the Ram (butting head-first into the world!) and ruled by Mars (bringing courage and determination), Aries' cardinal fire energy lights up our passion and creativity, and ignites our desires. This, then, means that your quarter-year psychic reading is due! Are you late for a forecast? Facing an emotional block? Standing at a crossroads? Frustrated by one area of your life that just won't flow smoothly forwards? This SATURDAY 17 APRIL I'll be conducting readings on FaceTime / Skype / Zoom / in person all day (a rare opportunity, as I usually only work about one Saturday per year!) If you're a 9-5 worker, this is your chance to nab a rare Saturday appointment. If you'd like a spot this Saturday (or even just a regular weekday spot!) then email me (rebeccadettman@wishingwell.love) First come first served 🙃 Photography by wild.sight
    A little snippet from yesterday’s SACRED CIRCLE A little snippet from yesterday’s SACRED CIRCLE webinar, “Celebrating Autumn Equinox”. If you wish to view the full recording, please visit https://wishingwell.love/sacred-circle/ 🍂 Happy Harvest!
    This weekend we welcome 🍇Harvest🍁 (a.k.a. th This weekend we welcome 🍇Harvest🍁 (a.k.a. the Autumn Equinox or Mabon). During the Middle Ages, autumnal customs included the preparation of a meal of goose which had been fed on the stubble of the fields following the harvest (called a stubble-goose), to bring good luck for the rest of the year. There was also a tradition of preparing special larger-than-usual unleavened loaves of bread, and St. Michael’s bannocks (oatcake). Here in the Adelaide Hills I am enjoying the changing colours, ripening chestnuts and hazelnuts, pumpkins, quinces and hawthorn berries. This is the time for bottling, pickling, preserving, stewing and jamming. This year I am curing olives in salt brine and making apple pie. I'm also reflecting upon the themes of letting go, acceptance, surrender -- last week we enjoyed a New Moon in Pisces (the last sign of the zodiac, associated with unexpected endings). Here in the Southern Hemisphere, the deciduous trees begin to shed their leaves as autumn ascends. Mother Nature is signalling a time of letting go with gentle loving kindness. For more ritual, meaning and sacred teachings on this beautiful time of year, join me tomorrow afternoon on Zoom (or afterwards via recording) for SACRED CIRCLE: The Festival of Harvest https://wishingwell.love/sacred-circle/
    🍂Harvestide🍁 (also known as the Autumn Equin 🍂Harvestide🍁 (also known as the Autumn Equinox, the Feast of Avalon or the more recently dubbed Mabon, the Witch’s Thanksgiving) takes place when the harvest is winding down. The fields are nearly empty, because the crops have been plucked and stored for the coming winter. The seasons are dramatically changing, as the leaves turn to brilliant oranges, reds and yellows, the tang of frost enters the air, and animals start to migrate. There is a sense of hurrying in the air for humans and animals alike — a time to gather root vegetables, dry herbs, collect seeds and seed pods for your storehouse, stack the woodpile and make the house ready for the snows and winter gales that are soon to arrive. It was also a time for making wine. Harvestide falls on the Autumn Equinox, which means “equal night” — the time when there is an equal amount of day and night, a balance between light and dark. People came together to celebrate the gifts of the earth, but also to accept that the crops were brown and going dormant. Warmth was behind them; cold lay ahead. The Sun’s strength diminishes, until the moment of Winter Solstice in June when the Sun grows stronger and the days once again become longer than the nights. Join me this Sunday as we celebrate the Autumn Equinox with beauty, ritual, candles, meditation, psychic messages, magic cards and Sacred Feminine teachings: https://wishingwell.love/sacred-circle/
    Happy International Womens Day! Here are three har Happy International Womens Day! Here are three harvest queens to symbolise the upcoming Autumn Equinox and Thanksgiving season. Mother Earth is worshipped for her unlimited, unconditional abundance and generosity, and this time of year shows it best: our gardens and markets are bursting with ripe fruit, vegetable, nut and vine produce. Great love on this day to the Sacred Feminine 🙏🏻💜 #goddessworship #harvestqueen #wiccanwitch #wytchesmarket #strawdoll #divinefemininity #paganaustralianetwork #internationalwomensday2021 #autumnvibes🍁
    Blackberry season is almost over, the Michaelmas d Blackberry season is almost over, the Michaelmas daisies are blooming, olives almost ready for picking, garden and flower harvests continuing to bring bounty as we head towards Autumn Equinox and the Second Harvest in the Old English almanac 🍂🌜 #harvestide #paganisme #blackberryinsta #autumnallyear #gardenharvests #changingweather #equaldaysandnights
    🌾HAPPY LAMMAS!🌾 Today is ‘first harvest’ 🌾HAPPY LAMMAS!🌾 Today is ‘first harvest’ in the Southern Hemisphere, a time classically celebrated by our Anglo-Saxon forebears with feasts, fairs and merry-making. The fields are yellow, fresh loaves are baking and dried flower garlands adorn churches and cottages. Lammas is a time to reflect on both abundance (gathering in nourishment and prosperity, the fruits of your labour) and also loss (as the reaper cuts down stalks in the fields, symbolising death). This Lammas Day, ask yourself: what is ending in my life right now... and what is beginning? #lughnasadh #lammasblessings #oldrituals #anglosaxonhistory #celticpaganism #flowerfairies #sunnyfields #harvestime
    Lammas/Lughnasadh marks the end of summer and the Lammas/Lughnasadh marks the end of summer and the coming of autumn, the days slowly becoming shorter. Around the time of every Lammas festival (1-2 Feb in the southern hemisphere), I traverse my country neighbourhood collecting the dried grasses, pods, seeds and wildflowers that fill the fields and hedgerows. Dried bouquets are the result — my own rustic 'corn dolly' capturing the spirit of the fields. They're lovely to set aside in a corner to keep the sweetness of summer present all winter long. Harvest is, I believe, a time to be grateful. Having a gratitude practice is a beautiful ritual for Lammas, for abundance and gratitude are its guiding principles. That’s why Lammas is often a deeply healing and transformational journey – how many of us can say we are truly comfortable with this dance of abundance? To explore this festival's themes of riches/receiving, and reaping/endings, please join me this Sunday 31 January for SACRED CIRCLE, a 60min online women's webinar that combines ancient  grandmother wisdom with modern insights and soul journeying. Receive it here: https://wishingwell.love/sacred-circle/ #sacredcircle #lammastide #paganism #harvestfestival #joinus #oldcustoms #oldengland #kernbaby #harvestqueen #naturewalks #latesummer
    I've been studying Old English customs (consciousl I've been studying Old English customs (consciously and unconsiously!) since childhood. Now that I'm 41 years old, my goal in providing this information to others is not to simply preserve forgotten rural traditions, but to ferret out how to truly celebrate the spirit of each season. Late summer for the ancients meant the first of the three Harvest Festivals, a time for mowing hay, drinking barley beer and baking bread. Corn Dollies or Kern Babies were made of the last stalks of corn to be harvested (the corn shucks symbolising sunbeams). Sometimes these dolls were full-sized and decorated with ribbons, streamers and even articles of clothing. People believed that the corn goddess lived in the corn and would die when the corn was harvested unless some of it was saved. So to make sure the corn goddess stayed alive until next spring sowing, a plaited straw ornament or Corn Dolly was made from the last sheaf of corn for the corn goddess to rest in until the next. For more forgotten customs combined with 21st century psychic insights, women's support and guidance, join my Sacred Circle webinar this Sunday 31 January: https://wishingwell.love/sacred-circle/ #lammas #lughnasadh #kernbabies #corndolly #harvestide #latesummerritual #firstthanksgiving #barleybeer #johnbarleycorn #australianwiccan #oldenglishcustoms #breadbaking #paganpractices
    Summer activities: basket weaving, cherry picking, Summer activities: basket weaving, cherry picking, twilight walks, lavender harvesting, jam making, hammock swinging, seed collecting, wildflower gathering. Sometimes I feel that with everything going on ‘out there’ this peaceful green corner of the earth I live on is The Shire. I have no interest in venturing offshore to expose myself to the horrors of Mordor! #midsummermagicmonth #januarydays #grapevinecrafts #herbharvest #simpleliving #hobbiton #solsticecollection #pagancommunity
    ☀️ Happy Summer Solstice! ☀️ If you missed ☀️ Happy Summer Solstice! ☀️ If you missed yesterday's SACRED CIRCLE on the symbolism of this ancient festival, interwoven with folklore, my 2020 wrap-up and a Mary Magdalene meditation, get your recording here: https://wishingwell.love/sacred-circle/ #paganismisnotdead #summersolstice #midsummercelebration #onlinewomenscircle #sacredcircle #stjohnsday #oakking #whitsunday #ancientteachings #oldritualists #aussiepagans #druidrydownunder
    Tomorrow is the longest day and shortest night of Tomorrow is the longest day and shortest night of the year in the southern hemisphere -- a time traditionally associated with the Oak King / Green Man, bonfires, fairies, roses and sacred wells. My SACRED CIRCLE webinar this afternoon will examine how our gardens are 'pregnant' at this time of year, and what that metaphor means for ourselves as women and our journeys in slowness and creativity. I will also be speaking about roses and their Mary Magdalene symbolism, with a special channelled meditation invoking her energies this magical Midsummer. Join me for a little reprieve before the craziness of Christmas next week sets in, and together we'll join (virtual!) hands in a moment of stillness and sacredness. For more info, webinar details and/or a recording afterwards: https://wishingwell.love/sacred-circle/ #sacredcircle #summersolstice2020 #litha #midsummernightseve #paganslife #midsummersday #greenman #oakking #marymagdalenerevealed #sacredpregnancy #womensgathering #onlinewomen #womynempowerment #femalerising #thewheeloftheyear #wiccangirl #joinusorwatchus
    Beautiful summer solstice is almost here, and this Beautiful summer solstice is almost here, and this year I feel that a Christmas tree covered with fresh flowers is really the most relevant way for us Aussies to sensibly combine the two rituals! Those who celebrated Midsummer in bygone days did so wearing garlands or crowns of flowers, particularly the yellow blossoms of St. John’s Wort. Boisterous communal festivities took place with dancing, singing, storytelling, pageantry and feasting. Village streets were lined with lanterns and people carrying cressets (pivoted lanterns atop poles) as they wandered from one bonfire to another. Often they were attended by morris dancers, and traditional players dressed as a unicorn, a dragon, and six hobby-horse riders. Children made daisy chains, believing that they protected them from being stolen away by fairies. When the two ends of a daisy chain are connected it represents the sun, the earth, and the circle of life. For more beautiful Old World traditions and solstice magic, join my SACRED CIRCLE webinar this Sunday afternoon: https://wishingwell.love/sacred-circle/  #onlinewomensgroup #femalesupportingfemales #paganchristmastree #summeroses #wheeloftheyearkeepsturning #summersolstice2020 #stjohnsday #stjohnswort #feastingandmerriment #oldenglishroses #villagecustoms #celticrituals #pagansininstagram #midsummer #midsummernightsdream
    Wreath-making day beneath the mulberry tree 🌿 # Wreath-making day beneath the mulberry tree 🌿 #solsticecelebration #wreathsofinstagram #summerpleasures #evergreensong
    Homemade smudge sticks ~ locally grown white sage Homemade smudge sticks ~ locally grown white sage wrapped with palo santo, selenite crystals and dried lavender and rose petals from my garden ☯️ #saging #clearyourspace #smudgingritual #wiccacrafts #ritualsticks #palosantowood #whitesagecleanse
    Yule Spiced Dessert Sauce 🎄 This nectar of the Yule Spiced Dessert Sauce 🎄 This nectar of the gods has been marinating for 3-4 months now. I poured raw honey over cloves, cinnamon scrolls, star anise, cranberries and orange slices and left it in a dark place, turning it occasionally. Water is released and the honey turns into a golden liquid richly spiced with festive scents! Perfect for gifts and Christmas desserts 🎁 Holly, pine and evergreens from my garden available for sale @wishingwell.market #honeyferments #yuletidecheer #madeathomewithlove
    You bless this world simply by being alive. #magic You bless this world simply by being alive. #magiciseverywhere
    Children leave little offerings in gardens #fairyw Children leave little offerings in gardens #fairywhispers #littlefingers #prettybliss
    I'm a little late in dropping sneak-peaks from my I'm a little late in dropping sneak-peaks from my May Day webinar this time around, but here is a mini excerpt. The full hour contains a history of May Day going back to the Bronze Age, a radical feminist interpretation of what 'honouring the maiden' means in 2020, and a deep heart-opening meditation to unlock your "inner heart". Recordings here: https://wishingwell.love/sacred-circle/ #mayday #beltane #sacredcirclestories #flowerworship #flowerfestival #floralia #themaiden #madonnavswhore #mayqueen #maypole #webinarstoday #metoomovement #fertilityritual
    I'm very naughty for taking these videos while dri I'm very naughty for taking these videos while driving, but I had to share the resplendent mayflower blooming across the Adelaide Hills at this time of year. If we were to flip the calendar in line with Celtic / Old English festivals, today would be May Day, an occasion once honoured by spring fairs, parades and floral dances in centuries past. 'Mayflower' is a nickname for the hawthorn tree, long associated with folklore charms and superstitions (eg. that "bringing the may" inside the home would cause death within the year). Excavations of prehistoric burial sites near caves reveal that hawthorn bunches were tied to the bodies of the dead. Last week I picked a jar full of its pungent blossoms in my first attempt to make hawthorn sherry, which will be ready in 12 months' time... I'll report back on how it tastes! Please join my SACRED CIRCLE webinar this afternoon to celebrate and better understand the loveliness of this almost-forgotten festival, along with its sacred teachings of the 'two faces' of the Divine Feminine, and how hawthorn invites us to heal our hearts. For more information please visit: https://wishingwell.love/sacred-circle/
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