Southern Beltaine is greeted this year with an abundance of sunshine and lifegiving rain. The oaks at Tranby House on the banks of the Swan River in Perth are thriving this year, and their green mantle of leaves mark the start of summer and the beginning of the seasonal cycles in the Southern Hemisphere. [...]
The end of October brings winter to completion in the Southern Hemisphere; while Halloween howls through the enthusiastic and care-free, its winter symbolism belies the Southern Season as we enter the beginning of the seasonal procession with the onset of the Celtic summer in the south, our equivalent of Beltaine is at hand! A walk [...]
A distinguishing feature of Caer Australis is its exploration of the Celtic calendar system. There is great scope for discussion of the Celtic calendar - our understanding of it, how we respond to it, and how it provides insight into the Celtic civilization, in all its developing forms - ancient, historic and current. There [...]