Is this how the god and goddess progress through the year?

[Esiris]

Different neo-pagan paths that celebrate Wiccan inspired holidays have different stories- but that isn't what I'm familiar with, and I don't understand the months you talk about.  

[X-Yami-no-Ko-X]

I think the months are the time between each Sabbat.  

[too2sweet]

Morg's thread in the Archives forum addresses most of this I think - An Eclectic Neo-Pagan Guide to Activites for the Sabbats  

[Morgandria]

What you're describing is roughly the gist of the Wheel - the God and Goddess going from Birth to Death and then Rebirth together. The Goddess herself is ageless and timeless, where as the power of the God rises and falls with the strength of the sun, and the growth of the natural world. He will always die and be reborn, so long as she holds his seed.

The Wheel of the Year is not an old concept. It came about during the same period of time as Wicca - it really is a creation of Gardner, wherein several different cultural holiday traditions were brought together to represent both cycles of fertility, and agricultural activity in Britain. The cultures these holidays are drawn from did not celebrate 8 Sabbats. They had different holidays, and maybe celebrated up to half of what's represented on the Wheel of the year.

The eclectic neo-pagan movement also latched onto the structure of the Wheel, but without the context it holds for Wiccans, and the Wheel of the Year has thusly acquired different significance for non-Wiccans. I think this is largely due to a different focus for many: nature worship rather than fertility, the variance in Deities, whether it be to focus on non-British pantheons or regions, or to have a soft-poly approach to Deity.

Outside of Wicca, I observe and honour the seasons when they turn, regardless of a calendar date. This has more impact on my day to day life, than the ritual calendar the Wheel represents.  

[Morgandria]

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Morgandria

What you're describing is roughly the gist of the Wheel - the God and Goddess going from Birth to Death and then Rebirth together. The Goddess herself is ageless and timeless, where as the power of the God rises and falls with the strength of the sun, and the growth of the natural world. He will always die and be reborn, so long as she holds his seed.
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Do you just kind of feel when the seasons change and celebrate then?

Yes and No.

No, because I am Wiccan, and I do use the Wheel of the Year as a ritual calendar with my coven. We use the astrological dates for the Sabbats, as closely as we can, to set our ritual observances. Some groups use fixed dates for their Sabbats, rather than astrological ones. For Wicca the Sabbats are not arbitrary. They happen at particular points inside the year.

And Yes, because my personal practice is not Wicca, and I spend a lot of time practicing on my own. My own personal 'calendar' involves generally just the cross-quarters, and in between I tend to honour things whenever certain things happen (like the first snow, or the harvest of some crop, etc.) and not by a set calendar of any kind. For example, on my own I don't celebrate the equinoxes or solstices. My weather and seasonal patterns don't line up that well with them.