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    Midsummer

    December 21, 2020

    On Midsummer Night’s Eve, your ancestors observed the longest day and shortest night of the year. The sun appeared to hang endlessly in the sky, which is how it came to be known as the summer ‘solstice’ (Latin for ‘sun stands still’. Ancient stone circles such as Stonehenge were oriented to highlight the rising of the sun on this day. Old English villages celebrated this solar festival by blessing wells, picking roses, enjoying fairs and leaving gifts in the garden to appease the wee folk (fairies, pixies and elves). Young people stayed up all night to acknowledge the Midsummer Moon, or Honey Moon, named after the mead drunk during the many wedding ceremonies that took place on this day.

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    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/
    💐ADELAIDE FRIENDS!💐 Book a one hour psychic 💐ADELAIDE FRIENDS!💐
Book a one hour psychic reading with me on either Sunday 1st or Monday 2nd November and I will welcome you at a white linen table beneath my magnolia tree, with tea and scones and jam and cream, and a fresh bouquet of flowers for you to take home -- all for just the usual hourly rate of $200. I will also include a brief guided tour of my historic cottage and grounds. Only eight appointments are available, so let me know if you would like to secure a time, indicating which day best suits you. My house is located in Ashton in the Adelaide Hills, 20mins from the CBD. Happy May Day! #adelaidepsychic #gardentarot #adelaideweekends #adelaidepagans #beltanefestival #aseasonalstory #wiccaisbeautiful #mediumpsychicreading #angelreader #maypoledancing #mayday_photos #mayflowers #thingstodoinadelaide #opengardensa #adelaidehillsgarden #adelaidehillsgardenrevival
    You may hear Wiccans and pagans referring to 'Belt You may hear Wiccans and pagans referring to 'Beltane' at this time of year, but I always prefer its Old English name, May Day, even though it sounds odd to speak of a May 1 festival on November 1! This ancient ritual was enacted for centuries until the disruption of WW1 and WW2 literally wiped it out. Your great-grandmother in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales would undoubtedly have picked mayflowers (hawthorn) and danced around a maypole as part of an ancient pagan fertility rite... one of the only original agricultural celebrations upon which early Christian missionaries were not able to find a corresponding Biblical event in order to mask it! May Day, then, at its roots is all about masc/fem fertility, love-making and sexuality. Its obsession with the Maiden archetype is interesting, as the modern Western World has subconsciously so embraced this image of young, fresh-faced beauty that women of all ages now undergo painful surgeries and injections to freeze themselves in time in an effort to emulate her. All this and more will be explored in my SACRED CIRCLE: Celebrating May Day webinar this Sunday afternoon. All welcome! Tickets: https://wishingwell.love/sacred-circle/
    I walked through an Open Garden in #Stirling this I walked through an Open Garden in #Stirling this afternoon filled with so many stunning inspirations for garden design. I especially loved the medieval-style woven fence and #beehotel🐝 !
    A little visitor. #smallbeauties #hawthornflowers A little visitor. #smallbeauties #hawthornflowers #ladybugs🐞
    🌼DANDELIONS🌼 These little gems (often disreg 🌼DANDELIONS🌼 These little gems (often disregarded as weeds) are important for our friends the bees. Both the green leaves and yellow petals can be eaten (see my Dandelion Cake in the gallery above!) and when left in oil in the sun for two weeks, the dandelion heads produce a wonderful salve for healing aches and pains, and assisting blocked milk ducts in breastfeeding mothers 💛 #dandelionfever #herbalsalves #naturalremedieswork #dandelioncake #gardenlife #herblorebotanicals #cottagecraft #oldwisdoms
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