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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:45 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:57 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:45 pm
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too2sweet Azareas Aquarinus Wasn't it also the Pagan new year for some? While some do consider it to be the "new year", I typically don't see it that way. With secular holidays - like "New Year's Eve" and "New Year's Day" - it's more about a specific moment - that transition from 11:59pm of the old year, to 00:00 of the new one. While there are specific events that are honored as well, I think there are also more "seasonal"/cyclical aspects to the Sabbats as well. So while I do see Samhain as an ending of the old year, for me that transitional moment is a bit longer, and I don't really see the "new year" staring until the rebirth at Yule. That's just my personal view though, don't know if it's something that is shared by any one else.
Ah, I see. I just see it the start of the wheel turning all over again, and the year starting afresh.
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:46 pm
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Azareas Aquarinus too2sweet Azareas Aquarinus Wasn't it also the Pagan new year for some? While some do consider it to be the "new year", I typically don't see it that way. With secular holidays - like "New Year's Eve" and "New Year's Day" - it's more about a specific moment - that transition from 11:59pm of the old year, to 00:00 of the new one. While there are specific events that are honored as well, I think there are also more "seasonal"/cyclical aspects to the Sabbats as well. So while I do see Samhain as an ending of the old year, for me that transitional moment is a bit longer, and I don't really see the "new year" staring until the rebirth at Yule. That's just my personal view though, don't know if it's something that is shared by any one else. Ah, I see. I just see it the start of the wheel turning all over again, and the year starting afresh.
I have a hard time seeing the year starting "fresh" when everything around me is either going into hibernation and/or dying off for the winter.
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:38 am
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too2sweet Azareas Aquarinus too2sweet Azareas Aquarinus Wasn't it also the Pagan new year for some? While some do consider it to be the "new year", I typically don't see it that way. With secular holidays - like "New Year's Eve" and "New Year's Day" - it's more about a specific moment - that transition from 11:59pm of the old year, to 00:00 of the new one. While there are specific events that are honored as well, I think there are also more "seasonal"/cyclical aspects to the Sabbats as well. So while I do see Samhain as an ending of the old year, for me that transitional moment is a bit longer, and I don't really see the "new year" staring until the rebirth at Yule. That's just my personal view though, don't know if it's something that is shared by any one else. Ah, I see. I just see it the start of the wheel turning all over again, and the year starting afresh. I have a hard time seeing the year starting "fresh" when everything around me is either going into hibernation and/or dying off for the winter.
I kind of understand, since I kept thinking: Yule seems like the new year, because it's the celebration of light returning. The earth can't go without the sun.
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