CA Updates
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Caer Australis Updates to 28 October 2011
- An additional contribution included in the Celtic Calendar section, describing the timing of the Paschal fires in AD 433, when the spring equinox and a full moon co-incided: if this was not used by Patrick as the ecclesiastical full moon, then the following FM on April 20, at a time of a heliacal rising of all five visible planets was occurring, and co-inciding with Laoghaire’s Feast of Tara that year, will have determined Easter at the very time the Life of Patrick describes the Paschal fire he lit in defiance of Laoghaire, so marking the triumph of Christianity in Ireland: see The Suppresson of Beltaine: The Paschal Fire of Patrick in AD433
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Caer Australis Updates to 4 October 2011
- The poem ‘Enlaith betha…’ (Birds of the world…) from The Martyrology of Tallaght added to the Insular calendar area within the Celtic calendar page – implications to the months Cantlos and Cutios noted – these months may be representing birdsong and migrations.
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Caer Australis Updates to 25 September 2011
- Having obtained a PO Box again, added it to each page: PO Box 590 Randwick NSW 2031. Also tidied up the link to the contact form on each page.
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Caer Australis Updates to 31 July 2011
- Entered the Insular calendar to the Main Celtic calendar page – compare and contrast provided
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Caer Australis Updates to 31 May 2011
- As a part of our connection to the local community, we have sought and obtained permission to display the logo of the Beast magazine, which we happily display on the index page beneath our copyright and links to our LinkedIn profiles. We include the following: “For a view of what’s happening in our part of the woods, visit The Beast, the premier monthly magazine for the beaches and bays of Sydney’s east. The Beast takes a look at everything going on in the local area, with news and interviews, and a variety of articles from light-hearted prose to hard-hitting opinion pieces. You can also subscribe to The Beast’s weekly email blast! We do!!!” Thankyou Dan at the Beast
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Caer Australis Updates to 29 May 2011
- On reading the Celtic Year presentation at Tairis the excerpt of the Quatrains on Beltaine were recognised as an additional point to include in our Fire Feast and Calendar presentations. From the quote provided in Tairis, from Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson’s Studies in Early Celtic Nature Poetry, the original sixteenth century sources at Bodleian Library Oxford Ms. Rawlinson B 512, and British Library Ms. Harleian 5280 were tracked down, foe which links are provided: University College Dublin’s Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae: follow the internal link to the Irish or translations. CA’s presentation uses the Kuno Meyer quote in Jackson as the basis for presenting the quatrains on the Fire feast, Grove and Calendar sections, with the replacement of a few words as used on THL and the feast names as per the MSS. Further, links to the main THL and Oxford Manuscripts index pages are shown on the Celtic Resources.
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Caer Australis Updates to 28 May 2011
- A link has been added in our list of Australian pagan sites on the Southern fire page, as a reciprocal to the one to CA on that site: This link is to: Sacred Circle of the Inner Flame
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Caer Australis Updates to 15 May 2011
- The the reflections of Ausonius have been incorporated into the brief outline of the suppression of the druids of Gaul, providing context to the calendar. This information is gathered from the Loeb library edition of Ausonius, located at http://www.archive.org/details/deciausonius01ausouoft
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Caer Australis Updates to 17 April 2011
- The Celtic Calendar site has been again updated, fine tuning information regarding the potential co-incidence within days of the paschal and Beltaine fires. 2011′s late Easter and early year 5 of cycle bring the Easter Sunday and Trinox Samoni dates within 3 days of each other! The Celtic Calendar 2011 page providing the correspondences between Gregorian and traditional Celtic dates has been published in time for the first day of the year, 10 April 2011.
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Caer Australis Updates in 2010
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Caer Australis Updates to 16 June 2009
- Celtic Calendar introductory page has been edited, with a view to advance concepts of the calendar in a more logical and readable manner. A look at the solar year, correlations with Celtic fire feasts and the Celtic new year is dealt with here.
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Caer Australis Updates to 18 January 2009
- Goddesses in the Grove has been added. A range of excerpts as per The Grove format, covering the Celtic tripartite goddesss throughout the ages.
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Caer Australis Updates to 16 August, 2008
- The Gorsedd has been completely re-thought and reworked. It now plays host to our articles inspired by Celtic history and myth. Thus the concept is that the Grove explores poetry and song, whereas the Gorsedd provides thoughts and ideas.
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Caer Australis Updates to 13 July, 2008
- Lughnasa has been added to with an exploration of the annotation Devos Lug Rivri on the ancient celtic calendar
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Caer Australis Updates to 29 June, 2008
- Connecting Celts is a new forum for Celtic Discussion recently established in Australia, and a promo and link has been added to the Home Page. This online community and forum is a great place to share all sorts of Celtic interests.
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Caer Australis Updates to 22nd March, 2008
- In the ‘Samhain is not the Celtic New Year’ section, a poem fitting O’Curry’s February beginning description published on Liam O Caiside’s Fada ‘s Farsaing (Far and Wide) webpage, and material from the Kuno Meyer translation of Tochmarc Emer has been added. These enhance information previously included in this introductory essay to the section.
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Caer Australis Updates to 14th March, 2008
- A new section, Rowan Berries in the Grove has been added to the Grove that looks at the magical transformations found in Celtic myth, which may indicate the use of soma by the Celts. Links to publications that explore this more fully, as well as mycological sites to advise of the dangers of poisonous mushrooms, are provided. In this section, the examples include myths of Britain, and so expands upon the repertoir in research already provided on Irish examples.
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Caer Australis Updates to 3rd February, 2008
- The The Celtic Calendar complex for 2008 has now been uploaded. This covers the period following Beltaine 2008, and does not expire the Celtic Calendar section of 2007. However, since the year commences in May, many people have been searching for ‘Celtic year 2008′ and this new complex will take them through the entire Gregorian 2008 period. The url designations have been made such that in future the same pages can be used and updated, rather than new complexes re-written. This will help maintain search rankings built up over the year.
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Caer Australis Updates to 30th January, 2008
- The CA Home Page has been updated to include a Contents Guide. In list form, it provides links to the Grove, Fire Feasts and Celtic Calendar areas. It allows at a glance the visitor to see the range of articles presented on the site.
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Caer Australis Updates to Australia Day, 26th January, 2008
- The Grove has been re-worked to completion into a more enjoyable format with formerly individual pages merged into thematic pages, namely Articles, Summertime, Wintertime and Saints – this will allow discovery of additional material while visiting a single page and also allow search engines to more easily locate material relevant in key word searches.
- The Sitemap has been updated.
- The individual Articles have a useful Grove menu to allow navigation
- The Celtic Fire Feast section pages have selections of seasonal poems that now link to them within the newly formatted grove.
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Caer Australis Updates to 23rd January, 2008
- The Grove continues to be re-worked into a more enjoyable format with formerly individual pages merged into thematic pages, namely Summertime, wintertime and Saints – this will allow discovery of material on the same page and also allow search engines to more easily locate material relevant in key word searches.
- The updated Welcome to the Grove page provides a launch point to the thematic pagesSummer in the Grove, Winter in the Groveand Saints in the Grove.
- At this stage, the Articles are in old format, and an introductory page for them to be prepared. Also, somewhat annoyingly,all the side-bar links on other pages to poems remain linked to the old individual pages. The latter are in the process of being updated.
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Caer Australis Updates to 16th January, 2008
- The Grove is in the process of being re-worked into a more enjoyable format with formerly individual pages merged into thematic pages, namely Summertime, wintertime and Saints – this will allow discovery of material on the same page and also allow search engines to more easily locate material relevant in key word searches.
- So far, the main Welcome to the Grove page has been updated, and the thematic pages for Summer in the Grove and Winter in the Grove are presented.
- At this stage, the Articles are in old format, Saints is being prepared, and all the side-bar links on other pages to poems remain linked to the old individual pages.
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Caer Australis Updates to 1st January, 2008
- Index Page now includes image links to the forum and blog
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Caer Australis Updates to 22nd December, 2007
- Index Page now includes the current Celtic Calendar month at its foot
- Index Page edited for cross-browser similarity.
- Solstice marked with blog entry
- Link to on-line publication of the pursuit of the Giolla Dacker added on world-wide links, and Calendar sections where the work is referenced. The link is to Old Celtic Romances by P.W Joyce
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Caer Australis Updates to 1st December, 2007
- Poem, ‘Yr Haf’ (Summer), written in the mid fourteenth century by Dafydd ap Gwilym added to the Grove.
- Link to Dafydd ap Gwilym .net added to the worldwide Celtic links page. This is an important literary project published by the Welsh Department, Swansea University.
- Link to an on-line edition of the Golden Bough (1922) by James Frazer added to the worldwide Celtic links page. This is published by eBooks@Adelaide, The University of Adelaide Library, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005
- Index page image hover properties changed to facilitate cross browser and resolution issues
- Link to Sacred Texts: The Four Ancient Books of Wales by William F. Skene [1868], a corpus of sixth century Celtic poems, added to History and Traditions resources page
- Link to Plaid Cymru: Downloads – Policy Papers: One Wales – Coalition agreement between Plaid and Labour, added to History and Traditions resources page
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Caer Australis Updates to 25th November, 2007
- Two songs, ‘Samhain’, and ‘A Rose by Another Name’ by Ragnarok, published on-line (acknowledgement and links provided) have been included in the Grove’s Selected works area. These songs thoughtfully celebrate and lament.
- The additional material added to the Wikipedia entry on Samhain, directing readers to the Celtic calendar and Samhain is not the Celtic New Year areas on CA, had been under attack by another called Pigman, and in the end we gave up trying to keep our contributions on the Wikipedia, and took it as one of life’s ‘little lessons’! Long live free speech!
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Caer Australis Updates to 28th October, 2007
- Poem, ‘May’, written in the mid fourteenth century by Dafydd ap Gwilym added to the Grove as part of the southern beltaine summer festival.
- Additional material added to the Wikipedia entry on Samhain, directing readers to the Celtic calendar and Samhain is not the Celtic New Year areas on CA.
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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
- Poem, ‘Olwen’, added to the Grove as part of the southern imbolg spring festival.
- Over the past weeks a re-working of the Caer Australis website has been undertaken, improving presentation, readability and overall design. The updated site will be uploaded when complete in a few weeks time.
- New material has been located and added to the Celtic Calendar area as part of the overall site update
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Caer Australis Updates to 29th May, 2007
- Sitemap updated to include all sites in CA Group
- Program pdf added for Kilmore Festival
- Conquest ‘live’ at http://conquest.caeraustralis.com.au/
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Caer Australis Updates to 13th May, 2007
- Commencd moving mailing list from Yahoo to in-house
- Reconfigured Contact Form to minimise spam
- Placed Forum on hiatus
- Moved updates list to Caer Australis Blog
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Caer Australis Updates to 5th May, 2007
- Links to Celtic Year 2007 now active for both Northern and Southern
- Home Herbalist link added to Australian Herb Sites
- Link to Kilmore Celtic Festival updated
- Conquest development ongoing
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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:
- Gods and Goddesses: OBOD – Brigid: The Survival of a Goddess, Ancient History Sourcebook – Lucius Apuleius (c.155 CE): Isis, Queen of Heaven , including link to The Golden Ass
- Feasts and Days: Celtic Well: Welsh Customs for Calan Haf
- History an Traditions: Etrusia – Roman History: Why Claudius Invaded Britain, Brigantes Nation – Roman/Celtic Time Line
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Caer Australis Updates to 13th January, 2007
Addition of annotated weblinks:
- Gods and Goddesses – The Heroic Age: Brigantia, Cartimandua and Gwenhwyfar
- Feasts and Days – Caer Feddwyd: The Victory of Lugh – A short study on the meaning of Lughnasadh
- History and Traditions – British Archaelogy: Decline and Fall
- Myths & Legends – Caer Feddwyd: The Hazel of Wisdom – British and Irish Hazel Lore
- Kings & Heroes – Caer Feddwyd: The Origins of Avalon
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Caer Australis updates to 8th January, 2007
Updates to 8 Jan 2007
- Re-earthing sites pages initiated
- Australian Herb sites page initiated
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Caer Australis Updates to 1st January 2007
Updates to 1 Jan 2007
- Index page welcome message an consolidation of launch intros
- Glossary and site index initiated
- A-store expanded: Suggested Reading comprises two History and Mythology selection pages
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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:
- The Gorsedd portal page added as an entry point for
- CaerOz-l Yahoo email group
- CA Blog and
- The Forum
- Links added to Worldwide Sites:
- The Brigantii Moot
- A.Gaspani’s essay on Astronomy in the Celtic Culture
- MacBain’s Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language and
- an Early Welsh Glossary
- On-line Shop book selection updated
- Pagans in Australia links section initiated
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Caer Australis Updates to 10th September, 2006
Updates to 10th September, 2006
- Updated Index page to broaden support for non-standard screen resolutions
- Updated Index page quotation
- Added on-line Shopping
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Caer Australis Updates to 3rd September, 2006
Updates to 3rd September, 2006
- Index Pages Links changed for new Season
- Index Page changed for new Month
- Project Sun Bear (Perth Zoo) link added to:
- Festival Pages
- Southern Fire Feasts Page
- Contact Form Page created (alternative to email only)
- Link to The Pagan Heart added to Worldwide Links
- Annotated weblink added to Feasts and Days
- All pages converted to global Style Sheet (implementation complete)
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Caer Australis Updates to 27th August, 2006
Updates to 27th August, 2006
- Edited and referenced Mabon ap Modron and Be Find for inclusion in Archive as pdf files
- Refined Celtic Calendar main essay page
- Linked Fire Feast to the Southern Seasons Fire Feasts
- Continued implementation & development of Global Style Sheet including (which have gone live):
- Index Page
- Fire Feasts Area
- The Grove Area
- The Celtic Calendar
- Which have all gone “live” (these areas have been further edited as required)
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Caer Australis Updates to 20th August, 2006
20th August, 2006
- Index & Search Page images redesigned
- Southern Seasons Celtic Fire Feasts page added
- Worldwide Links: Gundestrup Cauldron link added
- Resources & Links Page redesigned
- Began implementation of Global style sheet
- iiNet site redirection instructions added to iiNet Index page
- Logo redesign
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Caer Australis Updates to 13th August, 2006
August 13th, 2006
- Contents of Arthur Project added to Archive as pdf document
- Index page and Search Page redesigned
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Caer Australis Updates to 6th August, 2006
Updates to 6th August, 2006
- Links created “in text” on Index Page
- Gwern in the Fire added to Drunemeton: The Grove
- Gwern in the Fire added to Archives as pdf document
- Stations of the Sun linked on Worldwide Links
- Google Search bar replacing “Entropy Search” on Site Guide page
- Celtic blog created at http://ozcelts.blogspot.com/
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Caer Australis Updates to 30th July, 2006
29th July, 2006
- Index Page updated to relect the Feast of August
- Links added to Sacred Balance (Peter Blake and Tamara Lampard) and Summerlands (Searles O’Dubhain )
- Search engine robots excluded on Forum
- Forum membership now requires email verification for Main Boards (visitors use Guest Boards)
30th July, 2006
- To August added to Drunemeton
- Mabon ap Modron added to Drunementon (this essay has been on CA for many years, and has now been added to the new site)
- Archive created for pdf download of selected writings
- The River and the Well added to Archive
- Sitemap updated
- Why Wicca is not Celtic added as link in History & Traditions
- Drunemeton: The Grove layout altered and contents classified
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Caer Australis Updates to 23rd July, 2006
July 22nd, 2006
- Improved navigation in Fire Feast and Calendar sections.
- Editing of the four Fire Feasts
- Created and added sitemap
- W3C validation confirmed
- Added Ancient Pathways to Worldwide Links area
July 23rd, 2006
- Updated and rationalised Links area
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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
- Reviewed Australian Celtic Festival Sites and updated links and presentation
- Added contact details, including bio’s
- Revised Resources & Links and established single “head page” for the area
- Reviewed reciprocal links and updated as required
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Caer Australis updates to 13th June, 2006
Updates
11th June, 2006
- caeraustralis.com.au updated to new format; hand coded in xHTML using CSS generated on Crimson Editor 3.70;
- Caer Australis Discussion Board generated;
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
- caeraustralis.iinet.net.au updated to new format per caeraustralis.com.au;