Summer Solstice 2026 "Fire is the holiest of all things. Walk three times round a fire on St. John's Eve, and you will be safe from disease for all that year." - Lady Wilde, Irish Cures, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions (1887) The 21st of June is the longest day of the year, the point where the l...

June 2026 "Thanks and praises and Glory be to You, God, and to your Holy Good Mother for your gifts and graces to me all this day and night." - from a folk prayer in the Schools' Collection, National Folklore Collection, UCD. June is the month when the year's growth becomes something you can actu...

June (free post) "until heaven and earth may be mingled together, and until sun and moon may be mingled together." - from Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland June brings a different quality of strength, not the sharp kind that pushes through resistance, but the steady kind that accumulates q...

24 May 2026 'Certain hags in Wales, as well as in Ireland and Scotland, changed themselves into the shape of hares, that, sucking teats under this counterfeit form, they might stealthily rob other people’s milk.' Giraldus Cambrensis, 12th century, cited in 'The Cailleach and the Cosmic Hare' by S...

“I smite his sickness,I conquer wounds.” - from the St Gall Incantations March has an edge to it. The days are stretching, the land is waking, and the body often feels restless before the mind catches up. This is the month of hares here in Ireland, when you start to see them out in the fields, ...