Cross Quarter Days

Celtic Calendar: What Are Cross-Quarter & Quarter Days?

Some believe that the Celts divided the year into just four major sections: Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh (what we call Cross-Quarter days).

Quarter days - Wikipedia

In British and Irish tradition, the quarter days were the four dates in each year on which servants were hired, school terms started, and rents were due.

Halloween is an astronomy holiday. It's a cross-quarter day - EarthSky

Halloween is an astronomy holiday. It's a day rooted in Earth's orbit around the sun. It's a cross-quarter day and a testament to our ancestors' deep ...

The Little-Known Link between Holidays and Cross Quarter Days

The ancient Celts celebrated a Cross Quarter Day holiday around November 1 called Samhain (pronounced saw-win.) The word Samhain means “summer's end.”

Cross-Quarter Days and The Wheel of the Year - Mabon House

The other four seasonal celebrations (Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasadh) are midpoints within a season, also known as a cross-quarter day. These four days ...

Cross Quarter Days - Mabon House

The first Cross Quarter Day of the calendar year is Imbolc, which is celebrated on February 1st in the Northern Hemisphere and August 1st in the ...

Happy Cross-Quarter Day! Er…I mean Happy Halloween!

Well, like any two points in time, there is always a day halfway between any given solstice and the equinoxes. These are the cross-quarter days.

The Celts, the Cross-Quarter Days, and Candy - Astro Daily

They are February 2 nd , may 1 st , August 1 st and October 31 st . More commonly they are known as Groundhog Day, May Day, Lammas, and Halloween, respectively.

Hey Ray: Cross-Quarter Days and Groundhog Day - CBS News

A Cross Quarter Day is the midpoint between two seasons. According to Ohio State University's Astronomy Department, The Celtic Solar Calendar and traditional ...

What are the Cross Quarter Days? - The Smart Happy Project

The cross quarter days are those that fall equally between a solstice and an equinox. Surprisingly for some these fall on days that we always seem to have ...

Imbolc (Imbolg) the Cross Quarter Day - Early February - Newgrange

The astronomically derived date is later than the traditional date of February 1st. Imbolc is often mistakingly said to be on February 1st, St. Brigid's Day.

Encyclopedia Term: Cross Quarter Days | Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.

Four of these are distinctly solar in nature: the two equinoxes, when the amount of daylight and night time are equal, and the solstices, the time of either the ...

August Cross-quarter - Naturalistic Paganism

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Autumn cross-quarter or “summer thermistice” is celebrated on August 1 as Lughnasadh/Lammas.

Equinoxes, solstices and solar cross-quarter days - Hermetic Systems

About two weeks after the Earth reaches the summer solstice it begins to speed up in its 6‑month journey to perihelion. The mean sun method calculates that the ...

Imbolc, Groundhog Day, and Brigantia All Celebrate the Coming ...

On the Gregorian civil calendar and solar calendars, Feb. 1 is a cross-quarter day, which marks the midpoint between a solstice and an equinox.

Cross-Quarter Celebration Suggestions - Novasutras

Cross-Quarter days happen around the beginning of February, May, August, and November. They mark the midpoints of the four seasons in temperate zones, and are ...

Halloween Traditionally Doubles Up As A Cross-Quarter Day

The true cross-quarter days end up falling anywhere between two days to a whole week after. The last of the four, for example, is roughly on ...

Wheel of the Year - Wikipedia

British neopagans popularized the Wheel of the Year in the mid-20th century, combining the four solar events ("quarter days") marked by many European peoples, ...

Cross-Quarter Celtic Festival Ceremonies - Sli An Chroi

Midpoint between Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox, the festival is commonly celebrated on August 1st or the three days of the first weekend of August. Named ...

cross-quarter days | Steve A. Wiggins

Cross-quarter days fall halfway between the solstices and equinoxes – the days that mark the change of seasons. Ancient Europeans believed that cross-quarter ...