Overnight lows will drop into the upper-40s, with light winds, mostly clear skies, and only a small chance of fog. Because of light winds coming from the north, temperatures will only reach the low-70s, more like late September or early October than the middle of the month. As a result, this afternoon, skies will be mostly clear and sunny, with only a few clouds. As for how long the nice weather will last, find out in the video above!Ī high-pressure system is moving across the Mid-Atlantic states and Great Lakes regions today, bringing dry, stable air into West Virginia. ![]() Kendi ( Stamped from the Beginning), John Lewis ( March), and others.BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) - Today will continue the trend of fall-like temperatures and mostly sunny skies that started yesterday. This winter, I’ll be focusing on understanding history from perspectives I wasn’t taught in school, starting with the work of James Loewen ( Lies My Teacher Told Me) and moving to Ibram X. The time of outside growth is over, and it is now time to seek inner growth and balance to make it through the winter. For witches, pagans, and Wiccans, the harvest is also about observing the solemnity of the turning of the year. Those of us who are readers use the closing of the year the way many readers tend to do: as a good excuse to snuggle in with our favorite books and perhaps make a dent in our TBR pile (ha. Honestly I’m not 100% sure the symbols do any good, but creating and recreating them renews my good intentions and makes me think about what I want to protect in my life, which can only be positive in the end. My favorite resource for this kind of intention magic is Sigil Witchery. Because I think it’s hilarious, I usually put “friends only” under the “welcome” mat. I chalk symbols for growth under my flower pots and for safety under my car. Personally, I renew the sigils around my house every holy day (eight times a year). That is to say, Kelly put a lot more thought into naming the fall equinox holiday “Mabon,” after the Saxon version of Persephone, than perhaps Christians did into the word “Christmas.” ![]() In 2017, Kelly wrote a fascinating article detailing how and why he chose the dates for Ostara, Litha, and Mabon that he did, based on Saxon holidays, myths, and legends. In a sense, ALL holidays are made up, because they celebrate a thing that humans remember and want to celebrate. That doesn’t mean that the holidays are illegitimate. One of the things I learned from reading a lot of books on modern witchcraft (including Modern Witchcraft) is that most of the holidays are approximations and amalgamations based on vague descriptions of non-Christian celebrations, passed down through the years. We are actually here to discuss harvest festivals, the fall equinox, and the witch celebration of Mabon, which is a completely made-up holiday created by a Wiccan named Aidan Kelly in the 1970s. ![]() I’m calling it for the word “fall”: USA: 1, UK: 0.ĪNYWAY. Upper classes in the UK noticed that dirty plebs were using their new word, and went back to the Chaucerian term to be fancy and distance themselves from the unwashed masses. Finally, using the word “fall” for the season dates back to the 1540s and is short for “fall of the leaf,” which is a descriptive mouthful but at least still more descriptive than “autumn.”įurthermore, if the word “fall” was in regular use in the late 1500s, it would have been brought to America by the British as “new” vernacular, which is why it stays here. Second, the season was called “harvest” in English before it started to be called “autumn,” seemingly out of nowhere around the 13th century CE some sources claim that Chaucer invented the word. First, Latin predates French, so that claim is technically incorrect. However, a brief jaunt over to the Online Etymological Dictionary tells us a few things.
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