The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals marking the year's chief solar events and the midpoints between them. Modern pagan observances of the cycle adapt a range of folk traditi
The Witches' Cottage, where the Bricket Wood coven celebrated their sabbats (2006)
Neopagans honoring the dead as part of a Samhain ritual
Kołomir – the Slavic example of Wheel of the Year indicating seasons of the year. Four-point and eight-point swastika-shaped wheels were more common.
Painted Wheel of the Year from the Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle
The September equinox is the moment when the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward. Because of differences between the calendar year and the tropical year, the September equino
Sunset at the equinox from the site of Pizzo Vento at Fondachelli Fantina, Sicily