[Cro Dreoilin] Happy Lughnassadh!

[Charlotte Blackwood]

VERY cool reading!  Thanks for sharing this info :)  On a related
note, I just read a book about many folks (not just pagan) are
starting to return to lunar-based calendars instead of the solar-based
one.  The book mentioned that a lunar-based calendar is more accurate
(as in doesn't need to correct w/ leap-years, etc.).  Thoughts?

Charlotte

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Kelley Forbes
<forbesk at astronomytower.net> wrote:
> Actually, there is evidence for a lot of different timings.
>
> There is what we call the calendrical days, come down to us through
> folklore, both new (the firsts) and old (about 12 days later). There are the
> natural signs, like we posted about on the second. There is the
> "astronomical" date, halfway in between the surrounding equinox and
> solstice. There is evidence from the Coligny calendar that lunar cycles may
> have been involved, for at least some tribes. No doubt, practical
> considerations played a part, too. Some festivals, like Lughnassadh, were
> held over many days, and as the harvest came in at different places, people
> would travel to the games.
>
> -- Kelley.
>
> Sue Blackmore wrote:
>>
>> Christianity kind of took over all the old feasts. I heard somewhere that
>> originally they coincided with happenings in the natural world =
>> Lughnassadh
>> being timed with the harvest and not necessarily on the same calendar day
>> each year. Since we aren't as agrarian as our forefathers that timing
>> doesn't mean as much to us any more.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: community-bounces at crodreoilin.org
>> [mailto:community-bounces at crodreoilin.org] On Behalf Of Kelley Forbes
>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 10:09 PM
>> To: community at crodreoilin.org
>> Cc: Kelley Forbes
>> Subject: Re: [Cro Dreoilin] Happy Lughnassadh!
>>
>> I have seen both, but I think 1 August is more common.
>>
>> The first of the month is the default; Imbolg/Lá /Féile/ Bríde is the lone
>> exception, because it was timed coincide with the Feast of the Purification,
>> which must be exactly 40 days after Christmas, as that was when Mary was
>> considered no longer unclean after childbirth and could return to the
>> temple.
>>
>> -- Kelley.
>>
>> Greyhart wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I was surprised to get the email yesterday for Lughnassadh, because I
>>> have
>>> always celebrated it on Aug. 2nd. Just as Imbolc is February 2nd, it's
>>> counterpart across the year would be August 2nd. I never knew there was
>>>
>>
>> any
>>
>>>
>>> other date for it.
>>>
>>> Greyhart
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: community-bounces at crodreoilin.org
>>> [mailto:community-bounces at crodreoilin.org] On Behalf Of Kelley Forbes
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 4:17 PM
>>> To: community at crodreoilin.org; Kelley Forbes
>>> Subject: [Cro Dreoilin] Happy Lughnassadh!
>>>
>>> As we sit in the gentle rain and hear far-off thunder, having completed
>>> our own personal haying and having seen the bales all over the region, we
>>> wish you all a wonderful, restful natural Lughnassadh. Take a moment to
>>> appreciate the singular nature of the changing of the seasons!
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Chris and Kelley.