Seasons of the Witch

Seasons of the Witch 

Day of the Crows – On this day,  in Scottish Celtic traditions, many women believed the crow’s odd behaviours would be a significant aspect of the year to come.Crows storing seeds would indicate that food would need to be stored early on, etc. 

  

Hime-no-Miya – On the first two Sundays in March, the Japanese celebrate the Izanami, The Mother Goddess of Japan. Her temple at the Oagata-jinja shrine near Inuyama in central Honshu features large cleft rocks, huge clamshells and other sacred items that resemble female genitalia. At her festival, worshippers carry these items through the streets in procession.
Rufus, Anneli, The World Holiday Book, Harper San Francisco 1994

 

Carnival Sunday – In Italy, the most recently married couple of the neighborhood scoops out the first trowel of earth and plant scarli, poles big as trees, twined with garlands of heather and juniper. At the end of Carnival, the banner at the top is burned.
Field, Carol, Celebrating Italy, William Morrow 1990

 

St Chad – Born in Northumbria, Chad became an abbot in Yorkshire, founded a monastery in Lincolnshire, and a bishop of the Mercians at Lichfield. His name is associated with wells and springs that heal. He is also noted for his love of walking. St Theodore of Canterbury insisted he ride a horse because walking was beneath him.

He is often associated with St David in agricultural rhymes:

Sow beans and peas on David and Chad
Be the weather good or bad.

By Valentine’s Day
Every good hen, duck or goose should lay
By David and Chad
Every hen, duck or goose should lay, good or bad

 

Greek: The 2nd day of each month is sacred to the Agathos Daimon, the “Good Spirit” (roughly equivalent to a combination
of the Will and the guardian angel of each person).
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From GrannyMoon’s Morning Feast Archives – Various Sources: School Of The Seasons  and Earth, Moon and Sky

Remember the ancient ways and keep them sacred!