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* '''Resolution Day''' - The first day of the new year. The occasion is used to renew commitment to live the truth and vow to renounce transgression against one’s fellow creatures.
  
  

Revision as of 11:45, 1 April 2007

Winter

  • Resolution Day - The first day of the new year. The occasion is used to renew commitment to live the truth and vow to renounce transgression against one’s fellow creatures.



Spring

  • Jester's Holiday
  • Deliverance Days - Mid-Spring, there is an eight-day celebration, which families observe, marking the concepts of freedom. Each night contains a festive meal. Days are meant for meditation and reflection.


  • Beltane - Great bonfires mark a time of purification and transition, heralding in the season of summer, accompanied with ritual acts to protect the people from any harm by Otherworldly spirits.


Summer

  • Wedding Sunday - A ceremonious Sunday during which the most weddings take place - a quantity greater than any other day in the year, the last Sunday of Summer.




Autumn

  • Samhain - In observance of the 'dark' half of the year (which begins with Samhain), a festival and royal assembly are dedicated to the harvest and the dead.