Difference between revisions of "Holidays and Observances"
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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. | * '''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. | ||
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===Spring=== | ===Spring=== | ||
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* '''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. | * '''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. | ||
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* '''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. | * '''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. | ||
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===Autumn=== | ===Autumn=== | ||
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* '''Thanksgiving''' - An annual one-day holiday to give thanks for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. | * '''Thanksgiving''' - An annual one-day holiday to give thanks for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. | ||
* '''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. | * '''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. | ||
Revision as of 11:56, 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.
- Carnival Tuesday - Traditionally, it is the day before Spring, this good time is for eating up the last of the rich foods that remain in house, and for having a party before submitting to a months-long period of discipline and repentence.
Spring
- Jester's Holiday - 1st of April
- 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
- All Hallow's Eve -
- Thanksgiving - An annual one-day holiday to give thanks for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
- 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.
