cohanOct 14, 2024
I'm not that excited about mainstream holidays, but Thanksgiving
is not a bad concept- daily gratitude
has been shown to be very beneficial. This altar( https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/09/autumn-equinox-apjumibas-altar-to.html ) was prepared for the Equinox but works now too! Giving thanks for all the bounty of #Nature #GreatMother
A Beautiful Season to All!
#Thanksgiving #pagan #gratitude #SeasonalRhythms
Autumn Equinox Apjumības: an Altar to Bounty, Colour, Remembrance of Loss and a Twin God

  I mentioned in my previous post that Autumn Equinox is a significant time for me. Firstly, the season itself- living in a northerly climat...

Show threadWillow (she/her)Oct 14, 2024

@cohanf Thanksgiving is one I have wrestled with. Because I loathe the whole colonial thing, settlers are bad, it's uncomfortable.

And yet a harvest festival to pause and spend time with loved ones and focus on what is bringing joy is SO up my ally as a hearth witch. And ppl usually have extra time off this weekend, so it makes it easier to gather.

Show threadcohanOct 15, 2024
@MsHearthWitch Yeah, I'm not sure if has as much association with the earliest settlers in Canada as it does in the U.S.? ( I should look up the full history of the occasion in Canada..). I slightly look at the harvest part of it (though really I'm more focussed on the Equinox, and the ancient harvest celebrations etc as I mentioned in my posts a few days ago). Mostly Thanksgiving I take at its name- a moment to pause and be grateful.--cont
Show threadKatzedecimal
@cohanf @MsHearthWitch
It does & it doesn't. Canadian Thanksgiving has its roots with privateer Martin Frobisher, not Christopher Columbus. Frobisher & his crew had a meal (of their own rations) to give thanks for reaching shore safely after a violent storm, on one of their attempts at the Northwest Passage. Frobisher wasn't great to the Inuit people either, though, took some as slaves.
Indigenous People's Day in Canada is in June.
Oct 15, 2024 at 5:24amWeb
Show threadcohanOct 15, 2024
@Katzedecimal @MsHearthWitch Interesting, I don't think I'd ever heard that! Thanks for the info.