Holiday

Celebrating Summer's End The ancient customs of the Celtic festival Lughnasa, and how you can honor the holiday today. Ancient Celtic Fire Festival marking the height of Summer and the first of the harvest. Anglo-Saxons called it Lammas, for loaf-mass, after the blessing of bread, made from the first harvest...

Samhain (Sow-inn) is the word for November in Gaelic. The Festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season. It begins the dark half of the year. It is a time when the deceased are remembered and honored, the autumn harvest is reaped, and the preparation...