As with many other Traditions of the Craft, N.E.C.T.W. has adopted an eightfold “Wheel of the Year” to mark seasonal changes.
Our interpretation of this Wheel is given below.
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Yule/Winter Solstice (Festival of the Sun) – We greet the beginning of the New Year with the Yule log and decorate the altar with mistletoe, holly, pine cones and nuts.
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Candlemas (Festival of Flame) – We prepare for our Lady that she might find her way back to us after her repose in the darkness.
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Spring Equinox (Festival of the Lady) – We welcome the Goddess with flowers of spring and colored eggs on the altar.
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Beltane (Festival of Fertility) – We celebrate the time for the planting and nurturing of seeds and dance in the fields.
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Summer Solstice (Festival of the Faerie Folk) – Also known as Midsummer, a time to dance and make merry in the abundance of nature.
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Lammas (Festival of Corn) – We celebrate the harvest as the Lady prepares to take her time of rest.
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Fall Equinox (Festival of the Harvest) – We welcome Pan who has returned from the Summerland and make an offering of the harvest.
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Hallows (Festival of the Dead) – It is the time of the death of the year and a time when those departed souls can return to the earth to be with those they have left behind.