The Wheel of the Year: Which Sabbat Season Are You?
The Wheel of the Year is the oldest calendar most of us have never been taught. Eight sabbats mark the turning of the seasons: four tied to the sun and four tied to the old harvest and fire festivals between them. Together they trace the whole cycle. Rest, spark, bloom, harvest, release. Then around the wheel again.
Everyone has a home season on the wheel. A sabbat whose energy matches how you move through the world. Some people are all Beltane, warm and magnetic and a little too much fun at parties. Some people are Samhain to the bone, comfortable in the dark and fluent in things unseen.
First, a fast tour of all eight. Then a quiz to find yours.
The Eight Sabbats in Plain English
Samhain (October 31). The witch's new year. The veil thins, the ancestors visit and divination hits different. Death as a doorway, not an ending.
Yule (around December 21). The longest night. Rest, hearth, candlelight and the quiet promise that the sun returns. The original reason for the season.
Imbolc (February 1). The first stirring under the snow. Brigid's festival of candle flame, new ideas and things not yet visible but already alive.
Ostara (around March 20). The spring equinox. Balance tips toward light. Eggs, seeds, fresh starts and the urge to clean everything you own.
Beltane (May 1). Fire, flowers and full-tilt aliveness. Passion, fertility and connection. The wheel at its most joyful.
Litha (around June 21). Midsummer. The sun at full strength. Power, abundance in motion and magic worked in broad daylight.
Lammas (August 1). The first harvest. Bread, grain and gratitude for what your effort has grown. Lammas asks one sharp question. What did you plant this year, and is it feeding you?
Mabon (around September 22). The autumn equinox. The second harvest. Balance, letting go and thanking the year for what it gave before the dark half begins.
Lammas is the next turn of the wheel, and it is a good one to work with even if you have never marked a sabbat before. You do not need a bonfire. You need bread, a candle and five honest minutes with what you have grown since winter.
Find Your Sabbat Season
Eight questions. No wrong answers. Your result comes with the season's dates, what it says about how you work magic and one tool from the shop that matches its energy.
Whatever season you land in, the cards can tell you what this one is asking of you. Christine reads for the season you are actually in, not the one you wish you were. A single question reading before Lammas is a strong way to take stock of the first harvest.