“In ancient days, the cultures that Man created often celebrated great festivals, times when the community would come together in a collective act of worship, of joy and of symbolic ritual.

The early festivals were nature oriented. They were geared to the two equinoxes of spring and autumn and to the solstices of winter and summer, and in each of these festivals recognition was made of the particular quality of characteristic which that period of time represented in the cyclic and rhythmic life of Earth and its natural kingdoms.”

Words by David Spangler. Extracts from Autumn: The Festival Of Transformation, from the ebook Festivals In The New Age.

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