Astronomical Night (Patreon)

Last week  Toni Widmo and I celebrated return of the Night adding it to our Wheel of the Year celebrations. Perhaps the belief that magicians and witches are more powerful at night is just a superstition. That said, I do find that night-time is often a better time for rituals. The dark half of the year when nights are longest  tends to be when I feel more inclined to do magic. For me return of the night is therefore about celebrating this transition into the magic time.

We got ourselves a really pretty crescent moon sun catcher to mark this occasion. It stayed on our Lammas altar until the 14th of August when the Night returned for the first time this summer. Just like with our celebration of returning Astronomical Twilight last month, the Moon sun catcher will remain on the window until sometime next spring. 

Since the weather was great we also celebrated by having a fire with our Garden Trolls. Bats were flying, owls were hooting and hedgehogs were foraging in the garden. We could hear them in the bushes probably nibbling on fallen apples.