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.
Spring Blooms & the Earth Awakening: The First Flowers and What They Meant
The first flowers of spring do not wait for spring to arrive. They bloom before it, through frozen ground, in advance of any reasonable expectation — because the earth's awakening begins underground, in the dark, long before anything is visible. Ostara's blooms are not decoration. They are the earth speaking, after a season of silence, in the first language it learned.
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.