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Welcome to Winter.  With Yule just around the corner I felt it necessary to bring the season home.  A new Wordpress theme for our blog with some nice simple features.  A changeable background image that can be set to the season, Sabbat or other special event or time of year.

We just got dumped on here in Ottawa so I guess we’ll have snow for Yule this year.

Seasons Greatings from SacredKiln.com

Samhain marks one of the two great doorways of the Celtic year, for the Celts divided the year into two seasons: the light and the dark, at Beltane on May 1st and Samhain on November 1st.

Samhain is also a time to think about, love, celebrate with, and make peace with the ancestors that have passed over before us.

All of us are left with baggage from childhood, whether your family was dysfunctional or not. We grow up with our parents or other family members. We learn their values, morals and ethics. Sometimes these values, morals and ethics hinder us in ways that can take a lifetime to repair, if we are lucky enough to recognize them at all.

If you did not have the chance to do it before they passed over, it is now that you have another oportunity to make peace with those that left you with this burden. Invite them into the safety of your circle, celebrate and love them. Know that they too were left with the same burden from their forefathers and are just as much the “victim of nurture” that you are. Make your peace, heal and move forward in love and light.

A Blessed and Happy Samhain!

Greetings and I hope you all had a wonderful Beltane this spring! I’m sorry to be a little late in wishing you a Happy Beltane but better late than never. I was a little later getting our newsletter out for Beltane as well since I didn’t want to put it out until after the software upgrade was done to the store. As you may have noticed past newsletters are filled with errors now when it comes to finding the right page for product links and the image format has changed for the upgrade as well.

The Sabbat Missive for Beltane is out and has been sent to our subscribers but you may view a copy of it on the store. Just click Beltane.

Ostara is the Sabbat festival of the Vernal or Spring Equinox, the First day of Spring. The themes for this Sabbat are Balance or Equilibrium; Fertility and New Beginnings. Light and darkness are in perfect balance and the light is growing daily - This is a Solar Festival.

The symbols of Ostara are the Hare or Bunny and the Egg. The Egg as a symbol of rebirth or renewal, and the Hare a symbol of fertility.

The trees start to bud, the grass will turn green again, birds sing and waters start to flow again. The promise of coming Spring given to us at Imbolc is now upon us.

As the Wheel of the Year turns from Imbolc to Ostara, the Goddess returns to us youthful again and Her Eternal Flame melts the snow and ice, freeing the God from the hold of cold and darkness. Her Flame also attracts the attention of the God and the courtship begins.

View our Ostara newsletter here

Creating a Foundation for Your Spiritual Beliefs & Practices

by Raven Grimassi

This book is intended for those that are interested in creating their own Wiccan Path or Tradition. Eclectic Wicca is growing and Traditional Wiccan methods, ritual and practices are being changed to suit the individual. While all this is fine in a religion that professes that “whatever works for you is okay” Tradition should not be cast aside so hastily before examining the reasons they’re there in the first place.

Grimassi teaches us or reminds us that Tradition has been there for a reason and shares those reasons with us so that we can choose to save those traditions and make them our own or choose to change them, mold them into something more meaningful to ourselves without loosing the core of Wiccan Tradition.