Sustine modicum, ruricolae melius hoc norunt
Wait a bit: let us ask the country folk
Traditional Witchcraft
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| The Stone Stile | The Rowan Tree |
Welcome to The Stone Stile & The Rowan Tree website. The call of the wildwood and the seashore have been ever present in my life for over four decades. This calling lead me to study several pagan paths including wicca, shamanism and druidry. In 2003 I came to Traditional Witchcraft. There is more to it and it requires the investment of a lot of study time to understand the ways of the Traditional Witch - the work is harder and the rewards of knowing the path are greater than found in instant witchcraft.
Contact is welcomed from traditional witches travelling a similar path.
Blessings dark & fair,
Tradwitch Contact:
13 Moons 2012
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January 1st - New Year's Day
Always take something into the house first thing on New Year's
Day, so shall things coming into the house all the year, and not
going out of it. Traditional Folklore January 1st - First Quarter
January 5th Twelfth Day Eve Convention
Lord of Misrule
The Feast of Fools
The Haxey Hood in the village of Haxey Lincolnshire
Songs sung in the past at Haxey Hood Game;
The Farmers Boy,
John
Barley Corn, and
Drink Old England Dry-Traditional Folklore January 6th Twelfth Day
January
9th - Full Moon Plough-boys. Country-men, who go about dressed in ribbon, etc., as "Morris (Moorish) dancers on Plough Monday, perform the sword-dance, etc. One is dressed as ' Maid Marion,' and is called the witch, another in rags, and is called the fool, etc.
January 16th - Last Quarter
January 17th Wassailing the apple orchards
Celtic tree month - Rowan - Jan 21 - Feb 17
See:
The Rowan Tree and The Red Thread
January 23rd - New Moon
January 31st - First Quarter |
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Horn Moon - February
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February 2nd
Candlemas - First stirrings of light - flowering of snowdrops.
Festival of
lights, time of birth, purification and initiation.
Sacred to the Celtic and solar
Goddess Brigid.
Torches are lit in honour of the
winter Goddess.
The Goddess becomes her maiden
aspect.
If Candlemas be fair and bright,
Winter will have another flight,
But if Candlemas be clouds and rain, Winter is gone,
and will not come again.
Traditional folk-rhyme.
February 7th - Full Moon
February 14th - Last Quarter
Celtic tree month -Ash - Feb 18 - March 17
February 21st - New Moon |
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Hare Moon - March
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The sacred hare was associated with springtime and fertility in
Roman legends.
See:
The Leaping Hare Lay a scythe blade across the sill with the sharp edge upper most, as a charm to keep out the witch-hares who run by night.
March 1st - First Quarter
March 8th - Full Moon
March 15th - Last Quarter
Celtic tree month - Alder - March 18 - April 14
March 20th Vernal Equinox
Dark and light in balance - light gaining.
As many fogs as there are in March there will be frosts in May,
and on the same dates.
Traditional Folklore
March: The
Aegir at the
Spring and
Autumn Equinox.
Celtic tree Spring Equinox -Furze/Gorse
March 22nd - New Moon
March 25th Lady Day - Old New Year's Day
March 25th 1913:
William G. Gray - British Occultist, founder of
the magical order,
The Sangreal Sodality was born on this day.
March 30th - First Quarter |
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Seed Moon -April
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April showers bring May flowers.
Traditional Folklore.
This is the sowing season and the symbol of the beginning of the
new year.
1st April 1909 -
George Ewart Evans, folklorist, writer and
school teacher - born on this day. George Ewart Evans -
Sound Recordings
In April the cuckoo shows his bill;
In May he sings all day;
In June he alters his tune;
In July away he'll fly;
In August fly he must
Traditional folk-rhyme
April 6th - Full Moon
April 13th - Last Quarter
April 21st - New Moon
April 25th
St Marks Eve
April 29th - First Quarter
April 30th - Roodmas, May Eve, Walpurgis Night.
The time for handfastings - the symbolic
sacred marriage between the Lord of the Greenwood and his Flower
Bride. The maid is crowned as the May Queen with a circlet
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Flower Moon - May
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May 1st May Day - Light dominant.
Marry in May and you'll rue the day.
Lincolnshire Folklore
Hemswell Maypole, Lincolnshire May 6th - Full Moon
May
12th - Last Quarter
May
20th - New Moon
May
28th - First Quarter May 29th
Oak
Apple Day The 29th May, when school children wear oak
leaves, and nettle those who have none ; they have a rhyme.
'Royal Oak Day, Twenty-ninth of
May, If you won't gie us a haliday, We'll all run away. |
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Faery Moon - June
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June-Tide fire Faery Moon
A dripping June, brings all things in tune. Lincolnshire Folklore.
June 4th - Full Moon
Celtic tree month - Oak - June 10 - July 7th June 11th - Last Quarter
June 19th - New Moon
June 21st St Johnsmas-Midsummer
Peak of light. Celtic tree Summer Solstice - Heather
June 27th - First Quarter |
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Mead Moon - July
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In June and July the meadows, or meads, were mowed
for hay. When bracken is down in July it means there will be a hard winter.The White Goddess. |
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Barley Moon - August
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From the end of July until the end of August, the worts were
gathered to be dried and stored. Wort is derived from the
Anglo-Saxon word 'wyrt' meaning plant.
August 1st Lammas First stirrings of dark.
Celtic tree month - Hazel - Aug 5 - Sept 1
August 2nd - Full Moon
August 9th - Last Quarter
August 17th - New Moon
August 24th - First Quarter
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Harvest Moon - September
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Persephone, the
Greek virgin goddess of rebirth bears a sheaf of barley as a
representation of the harvest. The last load home (harvest) was
always a small one, and all available children were put on it in
the field, so as to ride home.
When the wagon got to Town Yard,
there was a hamper full of apples waiting for them.
Lincolnshire Folklore
Celtic Tree Month - Vine ~ Sept 2 - Sept 29
September 8th - Last Quarter
Abbots Bromley
Horn Dance - Mon 10th September
The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance Wikipedia
September 16th - New Moon
September 22nd -Autumn Equinox - Light and dark in balance -
dark gaining
September
22nd - First Quarter Harvest Home -24th September
Harvest-home. In Lincolnshire hand bells are carried on the
waggon ; and the rhyme runs :
The boughs do shake and the bells do ring, So merrily
comes our harvest in, Our harvest in, our harvest in, So
merrily, etc.
Celtic tree Autumn Equinox- Poplar/Aspen
Michaelmas 29th September
Harvest comes as long before Michaelmas as dog roses bloom
before Midsummer.
Traditional English weather marker September 30th - Full Moon Celtic tree month - Ivy -Sept 30 - Oct 27 |
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Hunter's Moon - October
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This moon marks the season when domestic animals were sacrificed
for winter provisions. Sometimes the Libra Full Moon was called
the Wine Moon when a grape harvest was expected to yield a
superb vintage.
Each leaf caught during the month of October (as it leaves the
tree and before it reaches the ground) means a happy month in
the coming year.
Traditional Folklore
October 15th - New moon
October 22nd - First Quarter
Celtic tree month - Reed - Oct 28 - Nov 24
October 29th - Full Moon
October 31st Hallowmas
All Hallows Eve. Dark Dominant.
Heyhow for Hallowe'en,
When all the witches are to be seen,
Some in black, and some in green,
Heyhow for Hallowe'en ! Traditional folk rhyme |
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Fog Moon - November
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In November if
there is enough ice to bear a duck.
The rest of the year will be slush
and muck.
Lincolnshire Folklore
November 7th - Last Quarter
November 13th - New Moon
November 20th - First Quarter
Celtic tree month - Elder - Nov 25 - Dec 23
November 28th - Full Moon |
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Ice Moon - December
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Ivy should be hung over the bed on New Year's Eve, whilst the
occupant of the bed is asleep, so that the ivy is the first
thing seen on waking on New Year's Morning.
Traditional Folklore
December 6th - Last Quarter
December 13th - New Moon
December 20th - First Quarter
Celtic tree Day before Winter Solstice-Yew December 21st
Yule/Mother Night - Depth of dark. Birth of the sun child.
Yule-block, Yule-clog.
A great log or block of wood
formerly placed with some ceremony upon the hall fire on
Christmas Eve.
In former times (and the custom is
perhaps still continued in some parts) the unconsumed part of
the Yule block was carefully preserved and re-placed on the fire
to burn with the new one.
Celtic tree Winter Solstice - Silver Fir
Celtic tree day after Winter Solstice - Mistletoe
Grow Your Own Mistletoe (Lincoln sourced book)
Celtic tree month - Birch - Dec 24 - Jan 20
December 28th - Full Moon
December 31st New Years Eve |
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Two Full Moons occur in August this year
sometimes known as
The Witches Moon or Blue Moon - the second Full Moon in a month,
in a different month each year making 13 Moons in a calendar
year.
See Blue Moon Wiki for a full explanation. See also The Farmers Almanac. Full Moon Names There are on average 12.37 Full Moons in a modern calendar year. Lunar Phase Observing the Moon. The Julian Calendar The Gregorian Calendar The World Clock t
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