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#SeasonalRhythms

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cohan

In Latvian tradition the November Cross-quarter Day #Mārtiņi (November 6ish) between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice (root of #Samhain, #AllHallowsEve, #Halloween, #Divali etc) marks the beginning of winter and end of the Time of Spirits. Time to remember and welcome, celebrate lost loved ones before the veil between our world and theirs 'closes' again.
Blog post and video from last year.
cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/202

youtu.be/ZI81KOBZcBc?si=mE9P_C
#pagan #animist #Latvian #SeasonalRhythms #OldCalendar

Near sunset, looking across a pasture with low grazed grass in front, some of it lightly covered with snow. Farther back a lone of low dark willows, some taller trees visible farther away. In the distance blue foothills and hazy mountains rise, above them an area of gold sky with scattered gilded blue clouds and above a bank of darker blue-grey. from last year.
looking toward a wooded area with low willows in front, a mix of bare tamarack with scattered spruce and bare poplars behind againsta blue sky with a bit of low white cloud mass behind the trees in centre. All the foreground adn lower trees are coated with snow. The text: "May you see the beautiful light of the season, May Snow Mother brighten your days and nights " is superimposed on the image in light blue script. Image has a white border and black frame.
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cohan

Sunday- day of the #AutumnEquinox was a bit rainy off and on, so I didn't do my main seasonal/remembrance altar (that was yesterday instead, posts yet to come!). Instead, I went for a bit of a #SlowWalk and made an impromptu altar with some odds and ends I picked up along the way-added to a bench that had bits of wood I kept aside from last winter's woodcutting. More pics on the blog
cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/202
#animist #pagan #SeasonalRhythms #nature #CountryLiving #Alberta #Canada

close view of rocks and leaves on wooden bench. The bench is grey brown with prominent grain. Two elongated oval willow leaves are laid across the stones, still medium green, though one is overturned showing the whitish leaf back. One of hte sontes is a light warm grey quartz, not quite smooth with some fine crystal visible, and slight ridges from past breaks partly smoothed over time. The other is a nearly flat somewhat oval shaped grey stone with lighter (surface deposits?) and darker bits showing. tones and leaves are shiny wet.
Close view of rocks and leaves on wooden bench. There is a red willow stem with next year's buds in the leaf axils., and another willow stem with a handful of narrow leaves of bright gold with patches and spots of orange, red, and brown. The leaves overlap a rough nearly black stone which is an irregular rectangle shape, and not quite flat, and aand to one side a piece of weathered grey wood- a chunk from a large branch, barkless with lots of linear texture including a deep groove with slight bark remnants and a bit of debris in it. Stones and leaves are shiny wet, and the wood bench surface has a a thin layer of water reflecting bright highlights from the grey sky.
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cohan

1-As we enter Autumn, here's a look back to fresh, green mid-summer. I've just finished pulling together videos + photos for a Summer Solstice blog post. Here's the link cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/202
it has all the video links, Youtube + Spectra/Peertube plus more photos. I'll link all the videos here, too, in a thread (all short, some actual 'shorts').
#pagan #animist #Latvian #Alberta #SummerSolstice #BloomScrolling #SeasonalRhythms #garden

Cover art for a blog post, framed like a classic photo frame: black frame with with white border inside. Text over image: Mid-summer Suite: (lavender, script) birds bees flowers & and altar Slow walk on the farm & rain (semi-bold yellow-green) photos and videos (matches first text, smaller) Summer Solstice (larger, bold, yellow-green) cohan magazine (semi -bold lavender, small) image is a single corally orange flower head of Paintbrush/Castilleja still young, not much expanded only a couple of the small flowers poking out of the bright bracts. Green somewhat pleated looking leaves below, background blurred green-grey shadow with dots of blue from other flowers.
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cohan

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 but I'm posting #December 21 so Blessed and Happy Solstice to all! This date is what all the mid-winter holy days/festivals are really about in the Northern Hemisphere - Sun has reached the maximum of her southward journey, and will begin the slow return. We celebrate the anticipated return of #light but also should take some time to reflect on the darkness: #sleep #blood #soil #death #regeneration #SeasonalRhythms #pagan #animist
Happy mid-summer to Southern friends!

looking across a snowy pasture in dusk light with dry grass and thistle stems showing through, with a wooden board wind fence not too far away, followed by more snowy fields, distant trees, and dimly seen snowy mountains on the horizon with a mostly cloudy sunset above. A little way above the mountains there are some gaps in the clouds, allowing the golden sunset glow to come through, and turning the clouds above from blue grey to purply with an orangey glow right above the hidden sun. The words Blessed Solstice! in an orange taken from the sunset cross the image.
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cohan

#FotoMontag #PhotoMonday Tomorrow is the #CrossQuarterDay between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice- this is the real reason for all the end of October/ beginning of November cultural/religious celebrations that have developed in various places. Traditionally for northern Europe this is the beginning of #Winter. It's been pretty accurate here in recent years- late Oct or early Nov has seen lasting #snow for us. this year it started Oct 23 #pagan #animist #Alberta #SeasonalRhythms #BorealForest

View from the road not far from my house, looking out over a wetland area on the farm, with a patch of dark mesic mixed woods with lots of large spruce at the back. Foreground/middle are small and medium tamaracks/larches, which are bare of needles for winter, plus small willows and dwarf birch etc, all bare also, with snowy ground between. The sky beyond is mostly blue with a few white clouds low down.
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There is, though, beneath or beside the colour of the season, another feeling: loss. Even as the colour reaches it peak, it is beginning to fade. Growth slows and stops for the year, nature prepares for winter. Life is locked into stem and root and seed, humans harvest, other animals feast and store fat and food, many birds prepare to leave and chilly mornings remind us there are cold hard days ahead.
#WinterIsComing #Autumn #Fall #SeasonalRhythms #BorealForest continued-

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