The Wheel of the Year 🌀 Beginner's Guide to the Pagan Calendar 

In Wales we once celebrated the liminal times, the equinoxes, they were known as the great spirit nights - Nos Calan Gaeaf for the evening before the 1st of November (Halloween) and Nos Calan Mai for the evening before the 1st of May. Due to the celestial positions at this time they have always been used for otherworldly connection, as well as avoiding these otherworldly passageways.

Thanks for describing The Wheel of the Year as a Celtic/Germanic Mashup. That pretty much sums up the state of many folks heritage and my current state of spirituality. It’s a great way to mark the seasons and focus on each part of the cycle of nature and of our lives.

The wheel of the year was the first thing I encountered when I got into wicca and witchcraft and it opened up a beautiful magical world to me. It doesn't matter if it's not ancient or a mash up of different traditions. All these traditions contain a small piece of wisdom from the Cosmos and I think it's beautiful that they came together and created what is known as the wheel of the year . I love celebrating each Sabbath.

Being new doesn’t make something invalid. Modern neopaganism is a living practice, so we should be able to adapt while respecting our roots.

Nice to have an English lass on youtube also no distracting background music.

Really looking forward to listening to this! It's also hard to conceptualise what the sky looked like for them, especially here in the UK. The sky would have been an entirely different world, full of colours and endless stars!

..thankyou sister! I love your wiccaness You in nature is Paradise! Lovely

At 13:09 in your video the sun sits nicely above your head, it looks like a “Halo”, absolutely stunning. 😇🌅☀️

I find this to be very wonderful information coming from a Lassy like yourself from England / Ireland makes for a more authentic sense to it all.

Part 1: Your video is so interesting and full of wisdom that I am dividing my comment and viewing into two parts. I think like the ancient people by emphasizing seasons as mainly winter or summer. Spring and autumn are gentle transitions, which I also like, but they are not so important. The contrast between Celtic and our modern Gregorian calendar reminds me of the Arabic calendar called Hijra. The Hijra is also a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. This makes a Hijri year about 11 days shorter than our modern Gregorian calendar which is used in most parts of the world today since 1582 when it was issued by Pope Gregory XIII who introduced it as a modification and replacement of the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar is still used today as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts of Oriental Orthodoxy and by the Amazigh people who predate the Arabs. Your topics are very interesting . They take me deeper and deeper into the wisdom passed down from our ancestors.

Thank you for explaining, great video

As far as I can remember, Halloween/Samhain has always been my favourite time of year.

loved the deep dive into the wheel of the year...thank you

Thanks for talking about this, really appreciate the info 💯

Fantastic video and very informative! 🌙🤍

You videos are so informative, I really appreciate it

Luna, did u wash ur hair from the dew of a hawthorn tree? U are a Pegan godess in my eyes. I'd have feasts over u lol. This was great. It helped me to remember that time is a creation of people coming together. There's a lot "they" don't want us to know

Lovely video Thanks so much Luna 😊

Delightful to listen to you Dear sister May the oak shade your way

Fabulous work,thank you for all you do!

Thank you for sharing. I always enjoy your videos, find them accurate and thought provoking. I value traditions and historical accuracy, but i also see how history shows us the fluidity and evolution of human spirituality - so why would that fluidity and evolution end with our era? People 5000 years in the future will view us as ancient people too. Perspective i try to maintain for balance discernment.

I think it's quite interesting about Ostara and Mabon not really having and origin. It makes me rethink the sabbats. Thank you so much for the historical aspects of your vlogs, I greatly appreciate it. I always enjoy your videos ❤

I take Sabbats/Solstices off work - most countries can count them as religious holidays. Plenty of festivals happen in most countries of the world so get out there and celebrate.

Love your video! Where did you get that Wheel of the Year? Thank you

Great video. Thank you, Luna. 🙏🌚🌞

The way you pronounce that old mothers night thing makes it sound a bit like "middernacht", the Dutch word for the middle of the night. And because old English and old Dutch is so related, I do wonder if there is a relation.

I know harvest is a part of the wheel of the year, at least that's what I'd read somewhere

Very interesting look into the history and historicity of the wheel of the year. Why do you have such an interest in the traditional wheel of the year? Do you value tradition and people of history as being sources of truth or authority? Or, would you say that even if certain times like Ostara have almost no historicity, you still want it to be part of the wheel?

In norwegian, måne = moon, måned = month. It is strange that we never learn something as basic in school. That a month is more or less a moon cycle.

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Is that a Dormouse, in Litha, 23.05 minuten? 🐻‍❄️

I live in the Southern Hemisphere. So everything is six months out of synch to the Northern Hemisphere.

It’s not new. Stone circles.

Amazing video! Cheers 🙏🌞