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THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR
(AN ORAL TEACHING OF THE FAERY TRADITION OF WITCHCRAFT)
In love, the Horned God, changing form and changing face,
ever seeks the Goddess. In this world, the search and the seeking
appear in the Wheel of the Year.
She is the Great Mother who gives birth to Him as the Divine
Child Sun at the Winter Solstice. In spring, He is sower and seed
who grows with the growing light, green as the new shoots. She is
the Initiatrix who teaches Him the mysteries. He is the young
bull; She the nymph, seductress. In summer, when light is
longest, they meet in union, and the strength of their passion
sustains the world. But the God's face darkens as the sun grows
weaker, until at last, when the grain is cut for harvest, He too
sacrifices Himself to Self that all may be nourished. She is the
reaper, the grave of earth to which all must return. Throughout
the long nights and darkening days, He sleeps in her womb; in
dreams, He is Lord of Death who rules the Land of Youth beyond
the gates of night and day. His dark tomb becomes the womb of
rebirth, for at Midwinter She again gives birth to Him. The cycle
ends and begins again, and the Wheel of the Year turns, on and
on.