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The calendar New Year does not often feature in pagan festivities, yet it a liminal time; a threshold is crossed and thresholds, as we know, are thin places of transition, magic and manifestation. 

In Ireland, however, the whole period from Solstice/Yule through to Nollaig na mBan (Women's Christmas/Epiphany) has a pagan quality.  Unless you are actively associated with devout, practicing Christians, Ireland often feels to me the best place to celebrate the winter holidays.  You don't have to be celebrating with self-identified pagans or out of the broom closet witches either. It all seems to happen organically. Maybe Spirit is just pagan in the Irish air.

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  • Bee Smith
    Bee Smith says #
    The Cailleach has been throwing down lightening and thunder snow here. And it all feels just as it ought to of be as we move towar
  • Francesca De Grandis
    Francesca De Grandis says #
    Your remark about the lightening and thunder and Brigid's festival makes experiential gut sense to me. Major mojo!
  • Bee Smith
    Bee Smith says #
    A friend on artist retreat in Taos has commented on the weather synchronicities we have experienced over many time zones. It all f
  • Francesca De Grandis
    Francesca De Grandis says #
    Have a wonderful new year! I look forward to seeing what it's going to be like for us.

Posted by on in Studies Blogs

“Liminal” is a concept that Pagans and especially Witches use frequently, but it’s not so well known to non-Pagans, at least not by name. A liminal time or space is the transition between one thing and something else. This time of year is an example of liminality in the overculture. How do you experience that? Do you use it for magic?

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  • Cynthia Savage
    Cynthia Savage says #
    Liminal time occurs daily-one doesn't need to wait until the end of the calendar year! The Celts of Ireland and Scotland (the Scot
  • Literata
    Literata says #
    It is wonderful when the cycles coincide like that!
  • Lizann Bassham
    Lizann Bassham says #
    Lovely this time of liminality and how it magnifies our magic. I am particularly excited by the overlap of the lunar cycle and th

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