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Greek New Year

September 01, 2013 by Ember Grant
Color of the day:  Yellow
Incense of the day:  Juniper
 
This is the day when the Greeks celebrate their new year, symbolized by the start of the sowing season. Seeds are blessed and wreaths are made of seasonal plants, fruits, and nuts, while the old wreaths from the previous year are thrown into the sea. The new wreaths are dipped in seawater, and, in addition, water and stones are colected for protection; tradition says one should gather forty pebbles and water from forty waves.
While this may be harvest time in many areas, it's also a time to plan ahead for the next year. Celebrate this cycle by making your own seasonal wreath, blessing seeds or bulbs to be planted now for spring bloom, or by gathering stones and water for protection.
Use this chant:

"Hope and promise future holds, seed to fruit, young to old.
Then we plant the seed again, circles, cycles, never end."
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About Ember Grant
Ember Grant is a full-time English professor and teaches writing, poetry, and literature. She has been writing for Llewellyn for more than twenty years and is the author of numerous articles and four books: Mythology for a Magical Life, The Book of Crystal Spells, The Second Book of Crystal Spells, ...
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