Sanctuary of the Winds

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Welcome to Sanctuary of the Winds!

Sanctuary of the Winds offers public workshops (when time allows), open rituals, and clergy services to those in the earth religious community. Open rituals, as with all rituals within the Sanctuary of the Winds, are family appropriate. This is to ensure that all members, young and old, can enjoy the rituals and gatherings we offer. Sanctuary of the Winds also provides public education and education to those of other faiths to change misconceptions about the earth based religions.

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Sanctuary of the Winds is a nonprofit organization - and that means we need your help! Monetary, material (books, paper, ritual supplies) can be dropped or picked up, from within the area. Contact us for details.

Be sure to check back often, as we will doing regular updates to the site!!

 

 

Easter gets its name from the Teutonic goddess of spring and the dawn, whose name is spelled Oestre or Eastre (the origin of the word "east" comes from various Germanic, Austro-Hungarian words for dawn that share the root for the word "aurora" which means " to shine"). Modern pagans have generally accepted the spelling "Ostara" which honors this goddess as our word for the Vernal Equinox. The 1974 edition of Webster's New World Dictionary defines Easter thus: "orig., name of pagan vernal festival almost coincident in date with paschal festival of the church; Eastre, dawn goddess; 1. An annual Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, held on the first Sunday after the date of the first full moon that occurs on or after March 21." The Vernal Equinox usually falls somewhere between March 19th and 22nd (note that the dictionary only mentions March 21st, as opposed to the date of the actual Equinox), and depending upon when the first full moon on or after the Equinox occurs, Easter falls sometime between late-March and mid-April.

That it would be time to plant your magical gardens... or meditate on the seeds you want to grow and have ready at the first harvest.

 

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