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StoneGloves wrote:
Ermm, Lammas is on Friday the 7th of August. Are you all arguing over the wrong day? Have you got the National Trust, Pete GlassedUp and English Heritage all bothered over the wrong day in the calendar? Doesn't that say something about the human race, in general, and New Agers, in particular?

It's just downright sad, isn't it?

Well that depends on your point of view. The Free and Open Gorsedd will be taking place on August 1st, and as this thread was about a meeting over that weekend.... I guess it depends on whether or not you intend to go to Avebury on that weekend, and what path or trad you follow :)

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Hey ! I follow the path of the builders of the megaliths. Which has correctly become the School of Western Astrology. You can probably take degrees in it, but I'm self tort. I'm schooled in environment management, formally, and carry the ancient tradition of stone building, through oral lore. I'm the self-proclaimed last of the drystone wallers - and have probably built about a mile and a half of top quality wall over a quarter century. I taught the skill, to post-graduate students, at NU for a bit more than two years.

The calendar comes about through dividing the solar year into equal parts based on the equinoxes and solstices. Lammas is halfway between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox. This year that's on August 7th. That's the date of Lammas. If you want to tell me that New Year's Day, next year, is on January 15th, please go ahead, but the rest of us will watch the fireworks a little more than a fortnight previously. It's the same with the neo-drewids. It's like asking me to respect the lass that lives near me and touches and whispers to every lampost she passes.