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Dates for Sabbat Celebrations in the Garden at Vermont 2013

Please note that some Sabbats are now held 7pm-9pm, weekday evenings, see below ...

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Lammas – Sat 2^nd February

Mabon – Sat 23^rd March

Samhain/Halloween (Twilight Ritual) – Sat 4^th May  Midday to 7.30pm

Yule – Thurs 20th June  7pm - 9pm

Imbolg – Thurs 1^st August  7pm - 9pm

Ostara – Sat 21^st September

Beltain – Sat 2^nd November

Note:  These dates don’t necessarily coincide with the actual date of the festival – these are the closest Saturdays to the event.  For instance, Beltane would usually be celebrated on the 1^st November because the Northern Hemisphere date is traditionally 1^st May.  Having said that, it must be remembered that these celebrations are agricultural celebrations dependent on natural events and the celebration dates could vary by days or possibly as much as a week or more; so that Lammas, for instance, would only be celebrated after all the grain had been harvested and this might be sometime after the traditional date.  The dates, as we usually consider them, would only have become ‘fixed’ when they were incorporated into the Christian calendar.  Later it seems that the traditional UK Halloween celebration on 31^st October became indistinguishable from Guy Fawkes Night (Bonfire Night) which is celebrated on November 5^th. Bonfires are so named because they were part of Sabbat celebrations.