Today, Google is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with the triskelion, the triple spiral. I wrote about the triskelion in the Winter Solstice issue of Hag Stone Journal: Newgrange, in Ireland, is a Neolithic monument aligned with the winter solstice sunrise, and is even older than Stonehenge. Bones, grave goods, and votive offerings have been found […]
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Imbolc
Imbolc, pronounced EM-bolgk, is an ancient Irish festival marking the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Imbolc was celebrated in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man on February 1st and 2nd, or when the ewes were lambing. It is one of the four Gaelic festivals: Samhain in autumn, Imbolc in winter, […]
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