Good morning to all our dear brothers & sisters of The Craft! I hope everyone is having a beautiful day. But as usual I didn’t stop our daily postings to discuss the weather. First thing first, tomorrow the mundane calendar has the Spring Equinox occurring. We have had numerous conversations about this date. First of all, tomorrow is my birthday and I know dare good and well I was not an Equinox baby. From the time of our ancestors to now, the stars and planets have moved. Perhaps they have moved enough to cause the Spring Equinox to move. We don’t agree with tomorrow being Spring Equinox let alone Ostara. So what is a witch to do? We came up with a solution that we hope you will agree with. Astronomy states tomorrow is the Equinox. We will accept that. We won’t accept tomorrow being Ostara. Ostara is one of our sacred Sabbat which is celebrated between March 20 – 21st. This is the ways of our ancestors. We will honor their ways. We will celebrate Spring Equinox tomorrow. But we will not celebrate Ostara on that date.

Our history has been manipulated by individuals that know nothing about us. If we are to reclaim our history, it is up to us to correct these wrongs. We can no longer tolerate standing by while others tell us when we celebrate this and celebrate that. We are Witches, Pagans, Wiccans and other traditions gathered here, we will reclaim our history and who better to tell it than us.

If it means separating the Spring Equinox and Ostara, so be it. We will not give in to those who know nothing about us and have manipulated our history. They have tried to wipe us off the face of this planet. They couldn’t do that, the Goddess saw to that. Now they want to move our Sabbats, no! If we are to correct the others misconceptions about us, we have to start somewhere. It might as well be with our most sacred of days, our Sabbats.

Let no person tell our history unless it is us!

Lady Of The Abyss

*Footnote* It is funny, when I was growing up, I would have given anything to have been born on the Spring Equinox. Now that I am older and the world has accommodated me, it makes me angry. Angry because once again, we have been given the shaft!

Astronomy Picture of the Day

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2016 March 17

Close Comet and Large Magellanic Cloud
Image Credit & Copyright: Justin Tilbrook (Astronomical Society of South Australia)

 

Explanation: Sporting a surprisingly bright, lovely green coma Comet 252P/Linear poses next to the Large Magellanic Cloud in this southern skyscape. The stack of telephoto exposures was captured on March 16 from Penwortham, South Australia. Recognized as a Jupiter family periodic comet, 252P/Linear will come close to our fair planet on March 21, passing a mere 5.3 million kilometers away. That’s about 14 times the Earth-Moon distance. In fact, it is one of two comets that will make remarkably close approaches in the next few days as a much fainter Comet Pan-STARRS (P/2016 BA14) comes within 3.5 million kilometers (9 times the Earth-Moon distance) on March 22. The two have extremely similarorbits, suggesting they may have originally been part of the same comet. Sweeping quickly across the sky because of their proximity to Earth, both comets will soon move into northern skies.