The Pagan Calendar

If you are a magical practitioner you would probablyThe Sabbat of Lughnasadh or Lammas
be following the traditional Pagan Calendar. If not- andThis Sabbat deals with fertility and celebration. It
this is something that has interested you, read ondeals with harvest which in turn give practitioners the
because the following will explain the importance ofopportunity to change things in their lives that need
each key wicca and pagan festivals so that you canchanging.
plan your festivities in advance.The Sabbat of Mabon at the Fall Equinox
The Wheel of the year brings about many SabbatsThis Sabbat is a time for turnovers and harmony. It
celebrated by many practitioners throughout themarks the beginning of internal spiritual work for the
year. There are eight main Sabbats that arewinter time which comes soon.
celebrated via companionship of others or in solitude.The Sabbat of Samhain
Each festival offers a new beginning, a new passageThis Sabbat gives particular focus on creation of
and a new change for the new year. The naturalmagic and ritual. It is a particularly good time to do
world and its seasons plays an important part in thethese changes during this period.
celebrations as it marks the closeness between faithThe Sabbat of Yule at the Winter SolsticeThisSabbat
and nature.enables practitioners to celebrate the past harvest
The Sabbat of Litha at the Summer Solsticeseason and give thanks to the abundant fortunes
This Sabbat is the time for new celebration, the birththat they received from them.
of new beginnings during summer time as well asThe Sabbat of Imbolc
organising and preparing of the darkening SabbatThis Sabbat celebrates a time of renewal and
which comes ahead soon there after.celebration of new beginnings and birth.