Midspring

The Great Queen finds herself reunited with the corpse of The Unknown King within the Post-Edenic Garden and revives him. It therefore celebrates the revival and marriage of the Great Queen and Unknown King, and the renewal of the Contract of Faith as a result.

Celebrates The Oldest Ones: Those Who Made the Earth, and the Ancestors Who Came Before, who gave us the fertility, health, and prosperity of the lands both cultivated and wild- as well as the concepts of community, hearth, and home themselves by proxy; a brief moment of communal joy and celebration at the opening of the year before the hard work of the Spring season begins, with a special emphasis on water in particular as the true beginning of the rainy season that will renew the land.

Inspirations

The Old Irish Imbolc (as I interpreted it regionally as an Irish Reconstructionist); Wiccan and Eclectic NeoPagan pseudo-holiday Ostara; the original Tulips-a-Bloom Festival of my hometown; Jewish Simchat Beit Hashoevah section of Sukkot, now considered defunct in most denominations outside of Israel.

Associations