Introduction to Wicca - Calendar

Still on the book "Wicca: A Velha Religião do Ocidente" (Wicca: The Old Religion of the West"), today I'm going to talk about the Wiccan Calendar and Holidays.

Samhain (31/10)

• New Year
• Party for the dead
• Night "out of time"
• Black, orange, blue
• Cauldron, candles, mirror, crystal ball
• Elder

Yule (21/12)

• Winter Solstice
• Reflection
• Celebration of the fire, birth of the God (the days start)
• Mother
• Red, green, white
• Holly, hera, tree, presents 

Imbolc (1/2)

• Goddess as bride of the Sun God
• Fire
• Consagration of the seeds till their planting in Ostara
• Candles, seeds, milk, flowers
• White, red, yellow, silver
• Maiden 

Ostara (21/3)

• Spring Equinox
• Balance, victory of life before death
• Generation of god
• Victory of light before darkness
• Yellow, green, pastel colours
• Egg, rabbit, violet, butterfly
• Maiden

Beltane (1/5)

• Marriage of the gods
• Frutification of Earth, fertility
• Fire
• Red and white
• Ribbons, baskets, flowers, firebonds, butter
• God and Goddes as "Kings of May" 

Litha (21/6)

• Summer Solstice
• Maximum power of the Sun God before dying
• Plenitude and abundance
• Day of initiation
• Sphere, cauldron, feathers, blades
• Green, yellow, golden
• Mother 

Lughnasadh (1/8)

• Harvest festival
• Weddings
• Grey, green, yellow, brown, orange and golden
• Agricultyure, bread, cereals, cornucopia, alchoholic drinks
• Joy
• Mother 

Mabon (23/9)

• Fall Equinox
• Second harvest festival, thanks to the Goddess, wine vintage
• God of Light defeated by God of Shadows
• Rest after harvest

 

Introduction to Wicca - Archetypes

Still on the book "Wicca: A Velha Religião do Ocidente" (Wicca: The Old Religion of the West"), today I'm going to talk about Divine Archetypes

Introduction

The divine is inherent to nature

Male and female manifestation

Aspects of the Goddess

Moon

Universal Mother, fertility and wisdom

Life and death, with transition to rebirth

Maiden

• Youth, birth, iniciations, hunting
• Diana, Artemisa, Branwen, Epona
• White, silver, pink, light yellow
• Rituals: beggining, growth, ideas, inspiration, energy, vitality, freedom
• First quarter

Mother

• Full Moon
• Creation, protection, fertility
• Growth, plenitude, sexuality, maturation, love, teaching
• Gaia, Juno, Isis, Dana, Deridwen, Selene, Aphrodite
• Green, copper, red, purple, dark-blue
• Rituals: thanks, protection, making processes, love questions, develop plants, help animals, cure, strenght, power, peace, develop intuition

Elder

• Third quarter
• Wisdom, secrets, prophecy, compassion, death, rebirth
• Hekate, Callieach, Morrigan, Kali
• Black, grey, purple, brown, blue
• Rituals: removing undesired energies, wisdom and clarividence, inverting circumstances, processes that end, justice, revenge, protection

New Moon: Plans, new begginings and new ideas

Aspects of the God

Sun

Source of creation, fecundation of the Earth

Steps through the Year's Wheel

Golden and Yellow

Apollo, Helios, Lugh, Ra

Cerunnos, Horned God or Hernes, Hunter

• Protector of wild animals, hunting
• Animal side, viril force, fertility

King of Light or Oak King

• Twin of light
• Middle of Winter till middle of Summer
• Strenght and longevity
• Expansion and growth
• Red
• Jupiter and Janus

King of Shadows or Holly King

• Middle of Summer to middle of Winter
• Twin of shadows
• Decline, dormence, rest
• Wisdom and retire
• Black
• Saturn and Chronos