Southern Lugnasa basks under the high summer sun, and the acorns on oaks ripen. The coined term Teine Grian Deas, the Southern Sun Fire, recognises that more than just the seasons are marked by the Celtic Fire Feasts - the constellations are just as part of each festival, and wherever we are in the [...]
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 [...]
The equinoctial season of spring has arrived in Australia and the flurry of wildflowers and the green of new growth marks the warming of the land. The lunation from 19th September is that of the Aedrini moon in the southern hemisphere, spanning the vernal equinox. Follow the southern lunations on the Caer Australis website. The [...]
September 1st is the official start to Spring in Australia, several weeks before the southern vernal equinox, and a month after ’southern Imbolg’, Teine Earrach Deas. The Celtic reckoning allows for the spectacular awakening of oaks, and here is the green mantle displayed by the Tranby oaks by the banks of the Swan.
”Oak that grows between [...]
We live on a bend of the Swan River where back in 1839 the settler Joseph Hardey built this home, Tranby House, and planted some oaks that had sprouted from acorns which he took with him from the north of Britian, having travelled via the Cape to the Swan River Colony on the [...]
Greetings to all at Imbolg and ’southern’ Lughnasa!
Over the next three months we’re going to be building a new section on
Caer Australis that will be a happy consequence of some university
units we’re sitting - an internet design subject and an ancient
history subject - and so in a similar way the Arthur Project
section, we hope [...]