Title: Essential Symbolism Of The Four Fire Festivals

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Date Posted：01/11/2009 09:00 AMCopy HTML Essential Symbolism Of The Four Fire Festivals   Samhain:  The Feast of the Dead.  The celebration of the reign of the dark Goddess, Queen of the Underworld.  The time when the veil-between-the-worlds is thinnest.  Samhain initiates winter.   The Feast of Bride:  The rise of the child Goddess, virgin queen, Goddess of all wild things.  The time of the-waking-of-the-world.  The Feast of Bride initiates spring.   Beltane:  The Great Rite of the Goddess.  Sacred marriage to the Sun King through his rite of the hunt.  The summoning of the power of the Great Stag; celebration of fecundity.  Beltaen initiates summer.   Llughnassad:  Festival of the Goddess of Magic.  The time of enchantment's queen; the power of the initiator is celebrated here, and the passage of the sacrivice of God (initiation proper); rite of the high priestess, Goddess incarnate.  Llughnassed celebrates the light-bringer and the harvest, and it initiates autumn.     Essential Symbolism Of Solstice And Equinox   Winter:  Rebirth of the Sun God.  The boyhood and training of the once and future king.   Spring:  Symbolic and actual mating of the Sun King with the daughter and priestess of the Moon.  His initiation as both priest and king.   Summer:  Sacrifice of the Sun King, leading to the harvest of his reign.  Transformation.   Autumn:  His descent into the realms of the Underworld.  Power from the Dark Lord to the Virgin Queen of Initiation.