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Our Family Ostara

We started following the traditional wheel of the year many years ago after a rather harrowing Christmas season. We do a kind of cross-over, or what I call ‘seasonal celebrations’.

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The Fall Equinox - Second Harvest, The new Thanksgiving

Amidst a potential second wave of Covid, an international racism crisis, kids going back to school (or not) and extreme weather events, we move into the Autumn Equinox season, 2020. Here’s some ways to immerse and observe it.

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Celebrating Samhain With Kids

I’ve always believed in ghosts, spirits, elementals and in the basic animistic nature of our world – everything is alive. But it wasn’t until I had my own child that I began to step up and practice molding my life around those beliefs. Here’s a bit about Halloween and kids.

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How Solstice Was Magic This Year

This year, in the beginning, the usual winter holiday festivities felt staged to me. A little barren, a little rote. We had more cash to buy gifts than usual, but this actually made everything a tad more stressful (shopping) and left me feeling hollow. Here’s how to find the magic inside the consumer-driven madness.