At last! An entire book devoted to celebrating Pagan festivals in the Southern Hemisphere.
The description given about each festival includes information about that time of the year from diverse viewpoints... Traditional Aboriginal lore is mixed with modern Australian activities, and Celtic customs are interspersed with snippets of information about the seasonal effects on our animals and local plants. This is followed by “Ways of Celebrating” each festival, and ideas from that section have formed the basis for many of my recent rituals.
Unlike many writers on this subject, the author doesn’t just transpose Northern Hemisphere traditions and ideas upon Southern Hemisphere seasons. Roxanne Bodsworth has taken into account the varied lifestyles, agricultural diversity, and multiculturalism that exists across the broad landscape of our country, and she integrates this knowledge into a useful patchwork of ideas for our seasonal celebrations down under.
In this book the traditional names of the “greater” festivals, have been changed, in order to differentiate them from “standard” ritual concepts. Lughnasadh becomes the “Harvest Feast”, Samhain is a “Festival of the Dead”, Imbolc is “The Quickening”, and Beltaine is “The Love Festival”.
This book is highly recommended for those who appreciate the inclusion of locally relevant ideas into their rituals and festivals.
Roxanne, a writer/poet from North East Victoria, is a regular attendee at the Australian Wiccan Conferences, and has recently been living in Ireland while pursuing her Celtic studies.
Author: Roxanne T. Bodsworth
Published by: Hihorse Pty Ltd
The description given about each festival includes information about that time of the year from diverse viewpoints... Traditional Aboriginal lore is mixed with modern Australian activities, and Celtic customs are interspersed with snippets of information about the seasonal effects on our animals and local plants. This is followed by “Ways of Celebrating” each festival, and ideas from that section have formed the basis for many of my recent rituals.
Unlike many writers on this subject, the author doesn’t just transpose Northern Hemisphere traditions and ideas upon Southern Hemisphere seasons. Roxanne Bodsworth has taken into account the varied lifestyles, agricultural diversity, and multiculturalism that exists across the broad landscape of our country, and she integrates this knowledge into a useful patchwork of ideas for our seasonal celebrations down under.
In this book the traditional names of the “greater” festivals, have been changed, in order to differentiate them from “standard” ritual concepts. Lughnasadh becomes the “Harvest Feast”, Samhain is a “Festival of the Dead”, Imbolc is “The Quickening”, and Beltaine is “The Love Festival”.
This book is highly recommended for those who appreciate the inclusion of locally relevant ideas into their rituals and festivals.
Roxanne, a writer/poet from North East Victoria, is a regular attendee at the Australian Wiccan Conferences, and has recently been living in Ireland while pursuing her Celtic studies.
Author: Roxanne T. Bodsworth
Published by: Hihorse Pty Ltd
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