Every full moon is named for the season, and August’s is called the Corn Moon. We can thank the early Native American tribes for most of the moon names we still use today. The lunar cycles were a way for people to keep track of time without the 365-day calendar. Tribes christened the moon based […]
It’s a day of bad luck and superstition for many people in the Western world. Friday the 13th is so ominous that there are even official terms to describe the date-based phobia—paraskevidekatriaphobia and friggatriskaidekaphobia. Paraskevidekatriaphobia (say that five times fast) was coined by Dr. Donald Dossey as the medical term for the extreme irrational fear […]
Lammas (also known as Lughnasadh) is the fourth Sabbat on the Wheel of the Year. It’s the first of three harvest festivals, and Lammas falls between Litha and Mabon on the wheel. Lammas falls on August 1st in the Northern Hemisphere and February 1st in the Southern Hemisphere. What Is Lammas / Lughnasadh? Lammas, pronounced as “lah-muhz,” […]
