1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻2d ago
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `Labbacallee is aligned to the setting sun at the #equinoxes. On these days, given favourable weather conditions, the setting sun shines directly into the chamber and illuminates it with a beam of light.`
`The folklore behind the Labbacallee wedge tomb, as the translation "Hag's Bed" suggests, is that a hag lived at the site. She has been associated with the 'Cailleach', a hag goddess from #Celtic tradition.`
Sources: Christy Roche and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labbacallee_wedge_tomb
dark habitsJul 16, 2025

I have been making zines about the eight #sabbats and 4 #equinoxes in the #WheeloftheYear

In this #grimoire we look at #SpringEquinox #Ostara

Info

each zine is 4 £/$/€ + shipping
if you would like to make a purchase, contact me at: [email protected]

I regularly attend zine festivals and will always make sure to announce when I will be tabling at the next event!

#darkhabits #darkhabitszines #queerwitch #queerwitches #queerwitchcraft

link:

https://www.darkhabits.net/post/spring-equinox-ostara-grimoire-zine

dark habitsJul 15, 2025

I have been making zines about the eight #sabbats and 4 #equinoxes in the #WheeloftheYear

In this #grimoire we look at #Imbolc

Info

each zine is 4 £/$/€ + shipping
if you would like to make a purchase, contact me at: [email protected]

I regularly attend zine festivals and will always make sure to announce when I will be tabling at the next event!

#darkhabits #darkhabitszines #queerwitch #queerwitches #queerwitchcraft

link:

https://www.darkhabits.net/post/imbolc-grimoire-zine

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Sep 23, 2024
#MythologyMonday: `#Loughcrew is connected in legend to the great hag, the #Cailleach, and its #Irish name means “mountain of the hag” (Sliab na Cailleach). One cairn at #Loughcrew opens to the dawn of both #Equinoxes.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and Folklore`
Loughcrew, photocredits: 1. Neu-Kelte
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Sep 17, 2024
#FairyTaleTuesday: `#Loughcrew is connected in legend to the great hag, the #Cailleach, and its #Irish name means “mountain of the hag” (Sliab na Cailleach). One cairn at #Loughcrew opens to the dawn of both #Equinoxes.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and Folklore`
Loughcrew, photocredits 1. Neu-Kelte
SoniaMRompotiMar 17, 2024

Discover the magic of solstices and equinoxes in witchcraft! 🌞🌙 Uncover their significance, rituals, and how they guide the witch's year. #Witchcraft #Solstices #Equinoxes #WheelOfTheYear #NatureMagic #SacredCycles

https://soniamrompoti.com/2024/03/17/solstices-and-equinoxes-their-significance-in-witchcraft/

Solstices and Equinoxes in Witchcraft: Celebrating Nature's Sacred Cycles

Explore the deep significance of solstices and equinoxes in witchcraft, how they shape rituals, and their role in the Wheel of the Year. Discover the spiritual connection witches have with these astronomical events through seasonal altars and practices.

Sonia M. Rompoti, MSc, Bsc
KatzedecimalMar 20, 2023

Happy #equinoxes to those who celebrate!

#LathaNaCaillich sona dhuibh! Whether you celebrate her today or on the 25th.

#pagan #witch

Show threadInfrapink (he/his/him)Dec 31, 2022

But, as we now know, the #JulianCalendar's mean year is about 11 minutes 15 seconds longer than the #TropicalYear, and by the 4th century AD, the dates of the #solstices and #equinoxes had drifted from their official dates by several days.

In the 16th century, #Pope Gregory XIII used his authority as #PontifexMaximus to reform the calendar again, because that is something #popes can do.

Show threadJust Matthew 🙏Nov 24, 2022

@Gila I've a similar attitude to all #holidays that are #culturally or #socially sanctioned.

#Solstices and #Equinoxes I give a hoot about: they are definitive physical manifestations of our little blue and green ball flying round the fireball sun.

They mark the seasons; planting, growing, harvesting, hibernating.

Random picture:

Khurram Wadee ✅Mar 28, 2022
I had one of those “Why didn’t that ever occur to me before?” moments. The time between the #Equinoxes is not symmetrical. It’s about 186 days between the #March and #September equinoxes and about 179 days from September to March. This is because the speed of the #Earth in its #orbit varies as it’s #elliptical rather than circular. I never bothered to count the days and yet it’s “obvious” when you look at the calendar. This gives an eccentricity of the orbit to be around 0.015.