Waiting for Spring: Metenis, New and Old Pagan Celebrations, Fire and Snow It’s one of those times again- a marker on the solar calendar. This time it’s halfway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. I pause t...

#CrossQuarterDay was a few days ago- mid-way between Winter Solstice + Spring Equinox. #Latvian #Metenis /Meteņi : 'Waiting for Spring' is Feb 06. Masking, feasting, bonfires are usual things - blog post here: cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2021/02/wait...
A Blessed Season to all!
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Waiting for Spring- Halfway to Equinox More or less halfway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox- I've recently learned more about the calculation of Cross-quarter Days, and it's not that straightforward! There are traditional dat...

🧵7 rest of #Spectra links #OpenSource
#nature #BorealForest #PaganSky #SeasonalRhythms
5 -25C/-13F Walk in the Frosty Woods
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6 Winter Sun-Waiting for Spring- Halfway to Equinox
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#GetOutside #Canada #Metenis #Imbolc #Alberta #Latvian 📷❄️

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6 Winter Sun-Waiting for Spring- Halfway to Equinox #Metenis #Imbolc #Alberta #pagan #Latvian #CrossQuarterDay #WitchSky
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3- Setting sun glows fire orange through a stand of bare poplar trees on the right rising out of shin to knee deep snow with tufts of thigh high dried gold grass and dried brown clover poking through, along with many young poplar suckers, to the left and beyond the trees. Farther on we can see the same pasture, wind fence and dugout as in photo 2,and beyond that sunset coloured clouds above the horizon in gold and coral blended with grey. Farther up bands of pastel cloud thin and mix with faint blue.

4- similar setting to photo 2 in previous post, but later, at sunset and this one is zoomed and cropped so we just see a bit of shadowed snowy pasture, low dark willows with some frost highlighted, then the hazed mountains, a few fluffy clouds above them, linear cloud above that. This is the sunset zone and the entire band of sky we can see is pinky orange blending to red-violet with darker lines and paler bands, the mountains blending in to these colours- as if an orange filter were put on the photo over a blue, grey and violet background.

🧵3 of my #CrossQuarterDay posting #metenis #imbolc Wishing you all a beautiful season ahead and may you find some respite- in nature (even if your only nature is the sky, urban trees and houseplants- take it!) in art, in beauty, in kind friends like so many here 🙂 #BeKind #SolaceInNature #PaganSky

Happy Cross-quarter! Sometime over the last/next few days (calculations/traditions vary) is the mid point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. #Imbolc in Celtic tradition, #Metenis in the Latvian- Waiting for Spring. Here's a short #video I made #Pagansky #nature youtube.com/shorts/ktwTV...