Welcome To Autumn!

Yesterday marked the autumnal equinox for those of us here in the Northern Hemisphere. Autumn is my favorite season, and the onset of Fall is a pagan holiday that I celebrate with great joy. Here is my "Autumn Altar," with lit candles to help the waning sun provide light, a bit of Sake to warm the heart, and the Old Farmer's Almanac to remind me of where we are in the rolling year.

Last evening's holiday meal is fit for a pagan (and a heart disease patient): red kidney bean curry served over brown rice with asparagus spears drizzled with olive oil and Naan bread. For dessert: Lemon pudding.

Jim

Happy Ember Week!

From Wiki:

"In pagan Rome
offerings were made to various gods and goddesses of agriculture in the hope that
the deities would provide a bountiful harvest (in June), a rich vintage (in
September), or a productive seeding (in December). Others point to much more
specific Celtic origins, linked to the
Celtic custom of observing various festivals at three-month intervals: Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh
and Samhain."

Of course, some Christians coopted these special days and made them into Christian religious days, but I celebrate them they way they were originally intended, as pagan festival days. This week's ember days are Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

Jim