SEASONAL WHEEL
THE OLD CALENDAR STILL TURNS. FOLLOW THE YEAR AS THE OLD WORLD KEPT IT.
Follow the turning of the year through old festivals, forgotten customs, seasonal folklore, and ritual practice. From first frost to firelit spring, each season carries its own magic—and its own ghosts.
The Cosmic Egg & the Sacred Hare: Fertility Symbols at the Root of the World
Before the Easter basket, there was a much stranger and more serious set of objects at the center of spring. The cosmic egg of world mythology held the universe in its shell before creation began. The hare — wild, moon-running, never underground — was the force that cracked it open. Together, they are the oldest spring symbols there are.
Ostara: Spring Equinox, Fertility Symbols, and the Return of Balance
Twice a year, for one precise and fleeting moment, the world holds itself in perfect balance — day and night equal, light and dark neither winning nor losing. The ancients built monuments to this moment. They decorated eggs, watched the hare run wild in the March fields, and planted seeds into ground they trusted would warm. Ostara is the festival of the world making its great decision: to begin again.
“The old calendar still turns beneath the modern world.”
— Ancient Proverb
ADVENTURE AWAITS ELSEWHERE
Submit to the Archive
If you would like to suggest a topic or share a lead worth investigating, submit it to us for review. Click Here