Mankind has always broken heavenly and natural cycles into time, assigned symbols and anthropromorphic attributes to nature, and pinpointed certain days during the year as having magical significance in their signalling of solstices, equinoxes and midpoints like Lughnasadh, or August 1st. These holy-days were celebrated as festivals with food, dancing, and plenty of light to help support the growing or dying Sun. By aligning oneself with nature in this manner, not by hugging a tree, it is sympathetically possible to become tuned to spirit in a manner where our perception changes and we are able to overcome stale material polarities. Our holidays today preserve the remnants of these traditions, while religious culture changes the past by demanding we dismiss the old religion of the country people - paganism - as evil, thereby changing the past with current action. When we finally connect with nature we can transcend the fear and obtain understanding of the natural order of the god and goddess of earth and sky.

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