On this holy day, we honor the the learned and beloved Celtic Saint and Goddess of smithcraft, the creative arts, and of healing and medicine.

Each year’s numerology corresponds to a Major Arcana card, setting the global agenda. This is an eight year, which means this is a Strength year.

Happy New Year! Everything you do today can set the tone for the coming year, so make sure you encourage good fortune and avoid the bad. Here’s how!

New Year’s is a time of very old magic. Prepare by knowing that everything you do on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day is loaded with power.

Today is the final candle lighting if you’ve not yet done it. Advent is over, the promise is kept, the birth has come. Peace and joy to all.

For our friends counting down to Christmas with their candles, here is the info for the last two. Also included today is my annual magical money tale.

We are facing some of the darkest times ever seen. But we’ve made a global, holy circle that cannot be broken. Rejoice! The Child of Promise is born.

Even If you’ve struggled to observe the Halcyon Days’ pause and quiet, this night is a gift for us. Heed the counsel of the Great Dark Mother.

By bone and stone, seed and flower, from darkest caves to highest mountaintops, we light candles of Joy for the sweet Earth and coming birth.