Sabbats: Wheel of the Year
From Grimoire for the Green Witch: A Complete Book of Shadows by Ann Moura
Sabbats: the Wheel of The Year
YULE — WINTER SOLSTICE [12/21]
1. God as Oak King is born of the Goddess.
2. God as Holly King prepares to depart.
3. Goddess is Mother of the Sun God.
4. Goddess is Crone of Winter.
IMBOLC — PURIFICATION AND FIRE [2/1]
1. Goddess is cleansed and purified.
2. Milk flows for lambs and for the baby God.
3. Quickening of the Earth.
4. Goddess is preparing to return to Maiden.
OSTARA — SPRING EQUINOX [3/21]
1. Goddess is Maiden/brings Spring.
2. God and Goddess encourage animal fertility.
BELTANE — FERTILITY AND FIRE [5/1]
1. God Youth and Goddess Maiden unite in love.
2. May Day flowers, romps, and bonfires.
LITHA — SUMMER SOLSTICE [6/21]
1. God turns from Youth to Sage.
2. Marriage of God to Goddess.
LUGHNASSADH — BREAD HARVEST [8/1]
1. God enters the Earth in marriage, giving his energy into the grain; now his body
2. First Harvest/Bread Harvest—grains.
MABON — AUTUMN EQUINOX [9/21]
1. God gives his spirit into the vines, fruit, and barleycorn, wine, cider, whiskey, beer, and mead are now his blood— He rules Underworld.
2. Goddess alone and pregnant with the God.
SAMHAIN — DEATH AND REBIRTH [10/31]
1. God within the Goddess, yet also Leader of the Wild Hunt.
2. Veil between the worlds at its thinnest, Crone and Hunter [Lord of Shadows] reign together.