“How do I celebrate *insert any sabbat here* with my kids?”
This question is asked every other month around the entire year. Individuals without children ask it as well, but being an educator and mother, I’m going to address the child aspect of the sabbats. For those unaware, popularized by the Wiccan Wheel of the Year, most nature based and pre-Christian traditions observe eight nature-based holidays. They are the solstices (yule & midsummer or simply solstice), the equinoxes (Ostara and Mabon) and the four cross quarters, the times between the equinoxes and solstices, which are Imbolic, Baltane, Lammas and Samhain. These holidays revolve around the season and agriculture where as the Abrahamic holidays tend to revolve around days of remembrance (Jesus’s Birth, the giving of the Torah etc.). I believe that many parents struggle with making the sabbats feel special for two reasons, and I’ll address each in length.
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