Celebrating the Equinox soon Options

Although I would not consider myself to be a witch, I am thinking about celebrating the Autumn Equinox in a couple of weeks time and would like to cook something special for it, anyone have any special recipes and rituals that they do and others might enjoy?

I recommend Cookies and a nice warm glass of Apple Cider (my owning an apple orchard having nothing to do with wanting to increase apple juice sales (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) ).

The Autumn Equinox (in my area at least) has always been celebrated with foods giving thanks for a year of bountiful harvest. Vestiges of this still can still be seen in the mainstream "Christian" world, though they are no longer recognized as such, and most of them would shudder at the roots and meaning to their various holiday fares.

Harvest foods, such as corn, potatoes, etc. Wine is a good one, a nice traditional one is dandilion wine, takes no time to make unless you want to go uber traditional, then it takes forever.

A really neat "craft" to do for that day is makie Corn Dollies from the corn husks and leave them above your front and back doors all year for protection and luck. They look very neat when they dry out, heh.

Ooooh, the begining of my favorite time of the year!! i'm so excited. Im my familly we celebrate the second harvest with the full traditional thanksgiving feast. We don't really like the traditional christian thanksgiving thing, you know, kill the native americans and steal their land and make a holiday out of it. So we have our big feast now and make hazelnut necklaces for wisdom and do a really good cleaning and purifying of the house to get ready for winter, fall cleaning if you will. i also like to start putting up fall decoration in and around the house. Lots of bright fall colors. And i change the scented oils i use in the house from florals for summer to spices and apples for fall.

Like the sound of the cookies and corn dollies - its ages since I have seen these! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I like autumn too gavriel, that is why I wanted to do something special for it.

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Like the sound of the cookies and corn dollies - its ages since I have seen these! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I like autumn too gavriel, that is why I wanted to do something special for it.

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halfway 'round the wheel again and time for another equinox - planting and fertilizing of the animals and the crops

i'm about to enter meditation for the spring equinox, but i made a trip down to birmingham, alabama (the 'magic city') to get supplies yesterday and i'm sure you've heard somewhere about the fountain where the goat is teaching the other animals from a book inscribed with a pentagram, well, here it is - left it a bit late and it was dark but the pic is ok

This post has been edited by esoterica: Mar 3 2006, 09:35 AM

Although I would not consider myself to be a witch, I am thinking about celebrating the Autumn Equinox in a couple of weeks time and would like to cook something special for it, anyone have any special recipes and rituals that they do and others might enjoy?

First off these celibrations have little to do with witches or druids. They are from Celtic Folklore and thus anyone can celibrate it who follow the celtic way. Witches, Druids and many other people just celibrate these Celtic fests...they didn't create it nor is it specifically theirs as many people make it appear. I'm not a wicca nor druid.

Soon I will celibrate Ostara. I see it as the start of the new, where light and hope enters for new beginnings. So it is time to sow which can be reaped later in the year. I shall write on a piece of paper what it is I'd like to sow. This can be anything that I would like to set in motion/achieve throughout the seasons untill Lugnassadh (when I will reap what I have sown). On the paper I shall also write any symbols that will come to me. Then I will light 4 candles, each in their own collor and corresponding with that which I have written down and place the candles in the winddirections that correlate with it. I shall sit in the middle, paper folder in front of me and then place a pillar of light around myself. Then go into a deep state of meditation about that which I have written down and how it would be to have it already and why I would want it. Also let my thoughts wander to other specific issues. When I'm done meditating I shall burn the piece of paper in my "couldron".

This is also a season to use linen to catch morning dew in order to make alchemical elixer which I shall drink and use as offerage.

After drinking the elixer I'll stop the candles from burning and clean it all up and move on with life (IMG:style_emoticons/default/13.gif)

This post has been edited by Sabazel: Mar 15 2006, 02:48 AM

Although I would not consider myself to be a witch, I am thinking about celebrating the Autumn Equinox in a couple of weeks time and would like to cook something special for it, anyone have any special recipes and rituals that they do and others might enjoy?

First off these celibrations have little to do with witches or druids. They are from Celtic Folklore and thus anyone can celibrate it who follow the celtic way. Witches, Druids and many other people just celibrate these Celtic fests...they didn't create it nor is it specifically theirs as many people make it appear. I'm not a wicca nor druid.

Soon I will celibrate Ostara. I see it as the start of the new, where light and hope enters for new beginnings. So it is time to sow which can be reaped later in the year. I shall write on a piece of paper what it is I'd like to sow. This can be anything that I would like to set in motion/achieve throughout the seasons untill Lugnassadh (when I will reap what I have sown). On the paper I shall also write any symbols that will come to me. Then I will light 4 candles, each in their own collor and corresponding with that which I have written down and place the candles in the winddirections that correlate with it. I shall sit in the middle, paper folder in front of me and then place a pillar of light around myself. Then go into a deep state of meditation about that which I have written down and how it would be to have it already and why I would want it. Also let my thoughts wander to other specific issues. When I'm done meditating I shall burn the piece of paper in my "couldron".

This is also a season to use linen to catch morning dew in order to make alchemical elixer which I shall drink and use as offerage.

After drinking the elixer I'll stop the candles from burning and clean it all up and move on with life (IMG:style_emoticons/default/13.gif)

hey - looks like OF just got blasted - 404 error

anyway the equinox is in less than a week now

2 things - ishtar (Ostara) is cool, but this time i'm more into the lunar and solar aspects of the year, celtic or not, and devoid of as much symbolism as possible, as an ancient farmer would have viewed the sprint equinox as a signal to plant, and remember he wouldn't have a calendar so his observation is backwards, lining up his life to the sky instead of the other way around - great education

i'm also trying to see the primeval meanings and association of the lunar terminator angle than changes from where it "holds water" to where it dosen't "hold water"

neat stuff - i know about rainwater but catching the dew sounds interesting - hopefully it won't soak into the linen, then how would you get it out? - and i guess the linen must be very clean if you're going to drink the runoff from it

interesting times!

E.

p.s. takes forever to load this page - so many graphics?

This post has been edited by esoterica: Mar 15 2006, 12:31 PM

Catching the dew will indeed be tricky and a multiple day task. You have to do it very early in the morning when the sun rises. First time i'll be doing it as well so curious how my own made elixer will taste (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

The farmer living his life using the sky/stars instead of a calender made me remind the druidic information concerning 13 trees and their connection to moon positions to show the months in a "year".

Catching the dew will indeed be tricky and a multiple day task. You have to do it very early in the morning when the sun rises. First time i'll be doing it as well so curious how my own made elixer will taste (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

The farmer living his life using the sky/stars instead of a calender made me remind the druidic information concerning 13 trees and their connection to moon positions to show the months in a "year".

did you see this : http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/04/clean_water_fro.php

E.

No but I did study alchemy which basically uses the same techniques (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

This post has been edited by Sabazel: Mar 15 2006, 03:12 PM