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 Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 9:32 pm
 what are your holiday tradtions? Do you mix the holidays withn the tradtional calendar holidays?
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Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 6:37 pm
I had explained The Wheel of the Year in the lessons subforum.
Since I don't have any Pagan family members, I celebrate the "usual" holidays along with the Sabbats.
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Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 3:27 pm
Nerilaith I had explained The Wheel of the Year in the lessons subforum. Since I don't have any Pagan family members, I celebrate the "usual" holidays along with the Sabbats.
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 11:48 pm
I still celebrate the usual holidays, partly because the traditions are too meaningful to give up. My family is big on Christmas and Easter, and its always about food and being together and embracing our heritage. Oh man that food...It's the Polish stuff...I couldn't give that up if I wanted to xd
As far as sabbats go, I still celebrate the wheel of the year, but there are also a few days here and there throughout the year that honor the Netjer (Egyptian Patheon) that I celebrate as well.
All in all, I'm partying all the dang time.
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 4:33 pm
I definitely know about the Polish food ...
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:17 am
It seems that it is common for people to celebrate both.
I celebrate them both as well but differently. The Sabbats are left as they are, no changes. The main holidays that everyone else pays mind to: Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, are very similiar to our Sabbats of Ostara, Samhain, Lughnassadh, and Yule. Therefore I use them as ways to either prepare or re-evaluate how I have been doing since the Sabbat.
Does anyone else have a certain or special way to celebrate?
Oh! Another question: What is everyone's favorite Sabbat and or "regular" holiday?
[Since I haven't experianced all the Sabbats, I cannot say what mine is right now but, I do know that Halloween is my favorite "regular" holiday.]
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witchunterobin Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:41 am
For Sabbats, mine are Beltaine and Samhain, for Beltaine it's the Faerie Veil at it's thinnest and to celebrate the Fae, and for Samhain it's the Spirit Veil at it's thinnest, and to celebrate those who had departed.
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:17 pm
Samhain.
I have a problem redface . I think its that my favorite season is autumn, Samhain is in the middle of it (at least where I live. MI gets snow, but often not until Thanksgiving), and I just get in the state of mind. The way nostalgic people get about Christmas, thats how I feel about Samhain. Its the only Sabbat I -really- go out of my way to celebrate too. If somethings come up like work or school, I'll delay the rituals a day or two, or celebrate early. Samhains different though. One year I was down in Detroit (at my very Christian grandparents house) on it, I freakin held ritual in the basement.
I've actually (seriously) told my boyfriend to monitor my spending between now and the 1st of November. If its Halloweenish, could serve a witchy purpose, or smells like pumpkin spice, I'll probably buy it.
Yes, I know I could spell this, but in a way I don't want to. sweatdrop Like I said...its my "Christmas".
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witchunterobin Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:45 pm
So... What is everyone doing for Mabon?
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:32 pm
When I see Halloween stuff, what I look for are black cats, owls, gargoyles, and, like Meri, pumpkin. I also go nuts over pumpkin pancakes, ice cream, and muffins. I live not far from Salem, Mass., which I love to visit, but I don't want to go there on Samhain, because there's too many people crowding the city then.
I like the celebration of Samhain better than the "traditional" Halloween celebrations we have now - I don't like how some people had dedicated it as "one night of evil", how it evolved from spirits to ... serial killers and insane asylums and mass-producing scariness, with lots of blood. I don't like haunted house attractions with people in costumes popping up and scaring people (I've been to a haunted ship and haunted hayride, and jokingly heckled some of the costumed people), but I like to learn about true ghosts and haunted places. I like it better to recognize the loved ones who had departed, rather than be scared at a "haunted house", or just sit at home and do nothing ... I don't even get trick-or-treaters where I live, and I live on a main road.
As for Mabon, CUUPS is having the usual ritual and pot luck. No meet and greets this year. Last year's didn't go so well. Tomorrow's Pagan Pride Day, so, if it's not too rainy, I may go to where we in Southern New England is having it.
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witchunterobin Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:44 pm
I have a separation for Halloween and Samhain, even when I was reading about Paganism and Wicca when I was sixteen. Halloween is for the kid in me and Samhain is a time for respect, reflection, and celebration.
Halloween is where I pass out candy to the kids, dress-up myself, and enjoy the skills of how well someone can scare me. (Which by the way, is very hard to do. ;p)
Samhain is when I perform my ritual, have a dumb supper and reflect on passed relations. No screaming of children or dressing up in a goofy costume.
If I may ask, what happened at the CUUPS ritual last year?
Oh, another question, does anyone plan a month or two in advance for Sabbats and/or Esbats?
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:39 pm
Oh, that was the meet and greet I was referring to, not a ritual. A few of the elders, myself included, had went out of our way to invite Pagan communities throughout about 5 states to come to our meet and greet, that took place around Mabon last year. The theme was The Wheel of the Year. I went out of my way to not only decorate the main room of the church according to the four elements along with four Sabbats to correspond to them (I know they don't traditionally correspond but I had as follows: North/Earth was Beltaine, with the Faerie Veil, East/Air was Yule, South/Fire was Samhain, with the Spirit Veil opposite the Faerie Veil, and West/Water was Litha), I decorated brooms for each of the altar displays that were given away as door prizes, made a Wheel of the Year poster that decorated the raffle table, donated some things for raffles that represented each Sabbat (including necklaces I hand-made), and decorated smaller brooms to represent the Sabbats that had been/are being given out this year to some members who had been with us the longest. Other elders had gone out of their way to sell raffle tickets, set up tables and chairs both upstairs and downstairs, hire a DJ for dancing upstairs, make food for the gathering, donate things to the raffles, etc. We only had 15 people show up. Most of those people were members and elders. There were only a few people that weren't a part of the CUUPS chapter that came ... and one of the members complained that no one had talked to them. Pictures of the meet and greet can be found here: WOTY M&G
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witchunterobin Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:40 am
O_O Oh my... I think I would have to probably have to have a stress ball or something, I would explode.
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:48 pm
That wasn't all; on top of preparing for all those things I either was assigned to or had myself assigned to, I had jury duty during two days at that same time, and one of those nights was the night we had to go and prepare everything. The day after I was involved with this art fair downtown, where I sold jewelry I made along with used jewelry I had ... and made less than $20.
And, there were things that I had either donated or was reimbursed for that were left at the church ... and things were just thrown into the storage area under the dining room counter. These were including the small brooms I decorated to give to CUUPS members - most of those were ruined; the corn husk doll on the Imbolc broom (which thankfully I changed corn husk dolls) had half its face torn off, and flowers were missing from other brooms and such. They were a complete wreck. The poster for the event was stuck under there too, not sure how that fared. I think the Beltaine veil was stuck under there too.
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witchunterobin Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:52 pm
That's just plain disrespect. I wouldn't want to do that again if I were you.
Sometimes, those are the kinds of reasons of why I do my studies as a Solitary. Then no one can interfere or disrespect my way or items.
Back to the OT: I am planning to have a small get-together with a few like-minded friends around Mabon. Merry planning and only a few days to go! :3
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