CA Updates

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Caer Australis Updates to 16 June 2009

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Caer Australis Updates to 18 January 2009

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Caer Australis Updates to 16 August, 2008

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Caer Australis Updates to 13 July, 2008

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Caer Australis Updates to 29 June, 2008

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Caer Australis Updates to 22nd March, 2008

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Caer Australis Updates to 14th March, 2008

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Caer Australis Updates to 3rd February, 2008

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Caer Australis Updates to 30th January, 2008

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Caer Australis Updates to Australia Day, 26th January, 2008

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Caer Australis Updates to 23rd January, 2008

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Caer Australis Updates to 16th January, 2008

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Caer Australis Updates to 1st January, 2008

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Caer Australis Updates to 22nd December, 2007

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Caer Australis Updates to 1st December, 2007

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Caer Australis Updates to 25th November, 2007

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Caer Australis Updates to 28th October, 2007

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Caer Australis Updates to 6th October, 2007

The Caer Australis forum has been specialised to provide a venue for discussions of the Celtic calendar system.

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Caer Australis Updates to 20th September, 2007

The links area updated, with iCWales added to world-wide links, and Ecstatic Earth to Australian Pagan Pages – this page now re-titled to include Sprititualism. Some links moved to this page.

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Caer Australis Updates to 7th September, 2007

The home page has been re-worked, and now the various sections of CA are introduced in pop-ups totally CSS driven. When the cursor hovers over the ‘Contents’ hyperlinked images displayed as a panel on the page, a popup displays an introduction. Ideally viewed in 1024×768 screen size, it is nevertheless effective at smaller and wider viewing screens.

Also, following the ‘Southern Cross’ hyperlinked image to the Southern Seasons Celtic Fire Feasts now effectively links to an Australian/SthHem section of CA, with the provision within the presentation of links to Australian Festival websites, Australian Celtic websites and to the Southern Seasons Celtic Calendar 2007 pages.

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Caer Australis Updates to 26th August, 2007

Celtic calendar presentation update. Over five pages, a new presentation of the Celtic calendar aniently used by the Celts has been published. Clearer, and with fuller reference to the ancient sources, the Celtic calendar section provides an understanding of the timing and workings of the complex and elegant Celtic system.

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Caer Australis Updates to 29th July, 2007

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Caer Australis Updates to 29th May, 2007

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Caer Australis Updates to 13th May, 2007

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Caer Australis Updates to 5th May, 2007

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Caer Australis Updates to 11th February, 2007

Index Page updated; Link to Conquest;
Gorsedd updated; CaerOz-l messages restricted to members only to facilitate open discussion between members – public viewing of any documents may be achieved by posting or cross-posting to Forum

Links added; Celtic Well and Magicka School Forum;

Weblinks added:

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Caer Australis Updates to 13th January, 2007

Addition of annotated weblinks:

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Caer Australis updates to 8th January, 2007

Updates to 8 Jan 2007

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Caer Australis Updates to 1st January 2007

Updates to 1 Jan 2007

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Caer Australis Updates to 10th December, 2006

Celtic Calendar 2007 presentation:
Introduction to the 2007/2008 Celtic Year – Year 1 of Cycle 2 current 30 year saeculum
Southern Hemisphere calendar and accompanying essay on SH considerations.
Individual entries for each of the thirteen months of the year, commencing with Ciallos on April 24, 2007.

Celtic Dawn 503BC: explores the morning skies for this significant year. Presented within the 2007 months of the year, the dawn images reveal the timing of stellar risings in the La Tene period, and the spectacular planetary alignment at the start of that summer.

Pagans in Australia links expanded.

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Caer Australis Updates to 21st October, 2006

Over the previous month:

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Caer Australis Updates to 10th September, 2006

Updates to 10th September, 2006

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Caer Australis Updates to 3rd September, 2006

Updates to 3rd September, 2006

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Caer Australis Updates to 27th August, 2006

Updates to 27th August, 2006

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Caer Australis Updates to 20th August, 2006

20th August, 2006

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Caer Australis Updates to 13th August, 2006

August 13th, 2006

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Caer Australis Updates to 6th August, 2006

Updates to 6th August, 2006

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Caer Australis Updates to 30th July, 2006

29th July, 2006

30th July, 2006

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Caer Australis Updates to 23rd July, 2006

July 22nd, 2006

July 23rd, 2006

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Caer Australis updates to 18th July, 2006

A new page has been added to the Arthur Project – entitled The Birth of Arthur. This page examines the magical shape-shifting of Uther Pendragon and asks whether this may represent the fostering of Uther’s son into the house of Gorlois – 14 July 2006.

A new annotated weblink was added to the Arthur Project: Legend. King Arthur and the Matter of Britain. CA had previouly linked to a former URL for this page and it is a welcome return of a great link.

A minor housekeeping alteration to the Southern Year 2006 link on the main Celtic calendar page was made to remove a typo and delete a reference to “Southern Beltaine” as the firefeast of November in Australia – the link now just refers to the reversal of the seasons in the SH.

Six annotated weblinks were added to the Feasts and Days section, two to Myths and Legendsone to Celtic Deities, and one to History and Traditions.

Short essay on the relevance of the Australian Standing Stones can be accessed from The Grove.

Link to WelshDragon.net placed on World Wide Links.

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Caer Australis Updates to 25th June, 2006

Updates

25th June, 2006

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Caer Australis updates to 13th June, 2006

Updates

11th June, 2006

An important modification has been introduced at the time of updating CA, and this how the Celtic Fire Feasts are met in the Southern hemisphere. Since inception, CA has (and continues to) celebrate the passage of the year from its waxing at the start of summer through its waning over winter and back again according to the seasons of the Southern Hemisphere. Since the seasons of the Southern Lands are half-a-year offset compared to the Northern Hemisphere, this means that in May begins the winter, August the spring, Novemebr the summer and February the autumn. The Celtic Fire Feasts very strongly emphasise the seasons, so that Beltaine celebrates the summer, etc; as a consequence of the offset seasons, CA has celebrated Beltaine in the South at November, etc. However, there is another dimension to the timing of the Celtic Fire Feasts, which is the celestial arrangement o fthe sky, and whether in the North or South, at May is the heliacal rising of Aldebaran and the Pleiades, at November is the heliacal rising of Antares, and Sirius rises in August and Capella in February – these bright stars are the signposts of the Feasts. Because Beltaine is marked at the rising of the Pleiades at the start of the northern Celtic summer, it is best to celebrate the feast under its name at May even in the Southern Hemisphere (akin to celebrating Christmas around the southern Summer solstice, etc) even though it is the beginning of the Southern Celtic winter. To acknowledge the seasonal attributes at Beltaine, the Fire of May is given a suitable name, “The Southern Winter Fire”, ie Teine Geimhreadh Deas. Likewise with the other Fire Feasts.

The following amendments have been introduced as at 11 June 2006:

In Beltaine, the opening sentences have been updated as follows:

“Beltaine,or Calan Mai, is held on May Eve and is the festival that heralds in the summer and the new Celtic year. In the Southern Hemisphere the passage of the seasons is offset by half a year to those of the north, and Beltaine is celebrated on the Eve of November.”

is replaced with:

“Beltaine, or Calan Mai, is held on May Eve and is the festival that heralds in the summer and the new Celtic year. At this time the rising of the red star Aldebaran and the Pleiades cluster at sunrise is the celestial signal for the Fire Feast. Anciently the Celtic calendar began at this time, in the month Samon “Summer”. In the Southern Hemisphere the passage of the seasons is offset by half a year to those of the north, and the summer season associated with Beltaine is met at the Eve of November. In May the Southern Lands enter the winter half of the year and the Fire Feast of May is best named there for the southern season, therefore Teine Geimhreadh Deas.”

In the other feasts, the equivalent changes have been amended.

Also, the Southern Seasons Celtic Calendar 2006 has been modified to follow the Celtic Calendar with Samon beginning in May, but with the lunations named for the season occuring in the South; the lengths of each month follows the Celtic Calendar (thus Samon, a matus month has the Giammon moon following a matus period when the actual month of Giammon six months later is an anmatus month).

The essence of all this is that one system of feasts and months is followed (for which the Southern Lands are adept at with the Gregorian calendar) while the seasonal attributes are clearly and unambiguously acknowledged.

13th June 2006