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Spinning The Wheel
by Meagan Angus
Spinning the Wheel is The Pagan Wheel of the Year, but it is so much more than just 8 holy days. We take a look at how Pagans, Witches, Heathens and other polytheists, ancient and modern, celebrate their holy days, and we also take a look at what everyone else is doing, developing our connection to our own path, as well as deepening our empathy for our fellow humans.I have been teaching this material for over 20 years, but this podcast is still in its experimental stages, and so is a little rough around the edges, but ya gotta start somewhere! Learn more at www.meaganangus.com. Blessed Be!
Episodes
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2026 Litha - A Six Week Guide to Midsummer
Summer Solstice is here! Welcome to my 2 hour class/workshop/lecture/sermon on the powerful symbolism, history and Witch's Work we find here as the Northern Hemisphere steps into Summer. We will take a deep dive into Pagan/Heathen/Animist traditions ancient and modern, as well as other spiritual...
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2026 Imbolc Season Waning Moon in Scorpio Lunar Week 52
Another end, and another beginning. Aquarius and the first half of Imbolc are over, and we approach the New Moon, the start of Pisces, and the start of the New Lunar New Year. As we pass through this portion of the Wheel, we pass through some very important fixed stars. This collection of stars...
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2026 Imbolc - A Six Week Guide to Candlemas with Meagan Angus
The Wheel of the Year continues to spin with Imbolc, also known as Candlemas in some traditions. Join my Patreon to get a 20 page workbook (link below) with a ton of info including astrology transits for 2026, journaling suggestions, ritual pieces, and more! This year's class is def more theory…
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2026 Imbolc Season Waxing Moon in Taurus Lunar Week 50
This Moon is going to bring into sharp focus the compromises we are forced to make to live in Western capitalist society. In what ways have you been required to sell your dreams or your ethics when it comes to survival and physical resources? This Moon is going to help us - with discomfort - to…
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2026 Yule/Imbolc Season New Moon in Capricorn Lunar Week 49
Whoops! A lil late with this one, so much for organized and responsible! Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Pluto all snuggled up with the Moon and Sun this week. In the broadest context this is our feelings and our sense of self/purpose, feeling in alignment with the current zeitgeist, which is of course...
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2026 Yule Season Waning Moon in Libra Lunar Week 48
The straightforward symbolism of the massive protests happening this weekend against the backdrop of the Waning Moon in Libra is profound. This Moon lights up the cardinal axis in a grand cross and all at once we might feel a need to be direct and purposeful in the world for our self, our…
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2026 Yule Season Full Wolf Moon in Cancer Lunar Week 47
Happy New Year! Cancer Full Moon energy wants to nurture. What if we nurtured our cities? What if we treated our community like our family? What if we treated our neighborhoods like they were our sacred lands? Wealth, power, and how to keep it, is the concern of Capricorn. The commonwealth is the...
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2025 Yule Season Waxing Moon in Aries Lunar Week 46
This week's Moon and astrology are spicy! Some difficult information may come to the surface disrupting our peace and stirring up old wounds and drama. Do what you can to find peace and posi vibes. We cross over the liminal threshold marking one year from the next - don't carry old beef into the...
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2025 Samhain/Yule Season New Moon in Sagittarius Lunar Week 45
"Tell me what will you do with your one wild and precious life?" -Mary Oliver My dear Heathens, Winter Solstice and the Big Dark are upon us. What wool shall you gather as you stare into the heart of the Abyss? What arrows are you sending into the future? What is the Light you carry in the world?...
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2025 Imbolc Season Full Moon in Leo Lunar Week 3
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” But a loving reminder, dear Heathens, it does not bend by itself. Our deeds are the force that bends it, or not. This is a great star to contemplate the arc from your foolish youth, to your present…
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2025 Imbolc Season New Moon in Aquarius Lunar Week 1
The Wheel turns, and The Wheel turns. Here we go again, for the first time! Our New Moon in Aquarius always kicks off a Lunar New year, but this year, it's also in alignment with Imbolc. This is a Sabbat and season of fog, dreams, abstraction, and breaking up the old forms to make way for the…
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2024 Samhain Season New Black Moon in Sagittarius (Part 1)
Our Witches Work this week asks us to be big-hearted and push ourselves out of our comfort zones. Can we face the painful experiences of our lives with faith? Can we find the medicine in the poison? Can we remember that after the Destruction comes Rebirth? Join my newsletter and/or send me…
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2024 Samhain: Witch's New Year - Third Harvest
The dark is here. The shift in the Sun's path is undeniable as the days shorten and the weather grows darker and colder. The Cross-Quarter holiday Samhain (pronounced "sow-wain") is possibly the most well-known of the Sabbats. Americans celebrate it as Hallowe'en. Samhain is the true tipping…
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2024 Mabon Season Super Full Hunter’s Moon in Aries
This moon asks us to find something meaningful to fight for and/or to turn our swords to ploughshares. Witness the fullness of your process around your sacred warrior energy, the difference between being self-centered vs centered in Self. Where can we light lamps and curse the forces that would...
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2024 Mabon Season New Micromoon Solar Eclipse in Libra
Hello Heathens. Lets ground into the energy of Autumn, Mabon, and the work presented by the eclipse New Moon. As we call in the energy of the Vine and the Grape, we must consider the Seed and the Harvest. Celestial deities like Vindemiatrix and Porrima point to the labor and the oracular voices...
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2024 Litha Season Waxing Moon in Libra, Lunar Week 22
Wake up Witches, no more time for sleeping and drifting in the phantasms of the Empire. It's time to get to The Real. And, it's time to get in touch with our inner Sun and shine like the badasses we are. Our Primordial Mother Goddesses are standing by ready to help us birth the next world, here…
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2024 Beltane Season Waxing Moon in Virgo
Witches! We are officially in the last 7 days of Gemini, Beltane, and Spring! The Waxing Half Moon is a Moon for adjustment and friction, both with an eye for progress and creation. Virgo is intense about organization, accounting, and getting our work done - but it can also go overboard with...
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2024 Beltane Season New Moon in Gemini
The New Moon in Gemini is a time to engage authentic communication with the people around us. It’s a time to learn from our community, as well as be ready to share and teach our skills to others. Gemini covers the last four weeks of Spring and is focused on finishing up the work of Spring and...
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2024 Beltane Season Waning Moon in Pisces
This portion of the lunar process, and in particular this Pisces phase can be a tough moment. We may have some experiences this week, or witness somethings in the world that really shows us the shitty side of humanity. Or in particular how the illusions of the American Dream, Capitalism, The…
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Beltane Season Full Dyad Moon in Sagittarius
This Full Moon in Sagittarius is an invitation to consider our results, ramifications, and reflections around: self-righteous, dogmatic, and zealous behaviors and beliefs; where we are trusting blind faith or holding onto delusions for comfort; our excessive, irresponsible, wasteful behaviors…
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2024 Feb New Moon in Aquarius, Lunar Week 44
NEW MOON IN AQUARIUS - Initiating and seeding a new intellectual, focused view of the future. Spotlight on friend groups, and revolutionary, communal, progressive, group-oriented work. What is holding us back from living our most authentic life? Where are we hiding behind outdated fears and...
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2024 Jan New Moon in Capricorn, Lunar Week 40
Welcome back! Happy New Year, and all that. Our Witch's Work this week is guided by the New Moon in Capricorn. Are you creating and feeding structures and systems that actually support the future you want and want to pass on to future generations? Where can you initiate sustainable magickal...
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Samhain Season Waning Moon in Leo Lunar Week 31
This week is a mixed bag of astrology. Helpful and stabilizing at the beginning, ominous and explosive as the week goes on. If you are feeling lost, ground into your values, and get real with yourself about where you need more education. Get real with yourself around whatever privileges you may...
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Samhain 2023: Witch's New Year
The dark is here. The shift in the Sun's path is undeniable as the days shorten and the weather grows darker and colder. The Cross-Quarter holiday Samhain (pronounced "sow-wain") is possibly the most well-known of the Sabbats. Americans celebrate it as Hallowe'en. Samhain is the true tipping…
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Mabon Season Waxing Moon in Capricorn Lunar Week 29
What a heavy time to be alive on Earth. These moments of turmoil have been building for decades, centuries. Witches we must challenge ourselves to simultaneously not doom scroll, and also not turn away. Our astrology this week ramps up the tension. Our fixed stars this week point to where, when…
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Mabon Season Waning Moon in Cancer Lunar Week 27
Witches! We are smack-dab in the middle of this Sabbat-Season, and this week is more of the same - Harvest, Ancestors, Wisdom work. We are passing through the holy days of the Eleusinian Mysteries, witnessing the transformation of Kore/Persephone from a Maiden of Flowers to The Queen of the Dead....
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Fall Equinox (Mabon) 2023: Witch's Thanksgiving
WITCH'S THANKSGIVING SECOND HARVEST The Wheel of the Year continues to turn for Pagans with the Quarter Sabbat MABON, also known as Fall Equinox. The high point of the Sun's arc over The Wheel is done and with that completion, we see the fullness of The Harvest come to fruition at Mabon. We have...
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Lughnasadh / Mabon Season New Moon in Virgo Lunar Week 24
Witches! This is our last New Moon of Summer and Lughnasadh. This lunar cycle will carry us into Fall and Mabon, and eclipse season as well. New Moon in Virgo and Mercury stations direct, just before we cross the Threshold and enter the Other half of the year. The Dark face of the Unknowable...
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Lughnasadh Season Waning Moon in Gemini Lunar Week 23
Witches! Another week offering recalibration, reorientation, and reconfiguration before we head off into the Dark Half of the Year. This portion of our Virgo journey is overseen by Great Goddesses like Yemoja, Aset/Isis, Mother Earth, The Holy Sophia, Gauri, and Venus Genitrix to name a few. How...
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Lughnasadh Season Super Full Blue Moon in Pisces Lunar Week 22
Witches! The Goddess is alive and magick is afoot!! This week we travel through multiple Holy Days dedicated to Goddesses as embodiment of Mother, Producer, Gateway, Threshold. We have a beautiful Super Full Blue Moon to guide us as we approach the transition point of Summer to Fall and from the...
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Lughnasadh Season Waxing Moon in Sagittarius Lunar Week 21
Witches! This is a great week for looking at the long view and setting the blueprint, or "fixing" the year into the shape you want. Of course we're gonna take a 3 week detour (re:organizing) with Mercury RX, but if we can reach out with the assistance of deities like Fortuna, Minerva, and Thoth…
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Lughnasadh Micro New Moon in Leo Lunar Week 20
Are you ready to step into your Power? Me neither, but here we are, being handed the brass ring, the silver scepter, the golden crown. Lughnasadh Season challenges us to accept our badassery and then further challenges us to wield that badassery for the greatest good. Our astrology this week…
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Lughnasadh Season Waning Moon in Taurus Lunar Week 19
This Week's Witch's Work takes us through a harrowing path around the lip of the Underworld as celebrations past and present invite back the Blessed Dead, our Holy Ancestors. Horus and Set oversee our travels through the Light and the Dark. Our Moons this week ask us to think about where we put…
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Lughnasadh Season Full Sturgeon Moon in Aquarius Lunar Week 18
Happy Lughnasadh Witches! How auspicious that we have a Full Moon on Lammas this year, perfect for backyard parties, firepits by the water's edge, and all manner of night-time romps and adventures. This week celebrates the fire, power, and passion of many pantheons, as we hum with buzzing...
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Lughnasadh 2023: The First Harvest
LUGHNASADH -THE FIRST HARVEST The Wheel of the Year continues to turn for Pagans with the great Cross-Quarter Sabbat Lughnasadh, also known as Lammas. Named for the Irish God Lugh, this holiday marks the 1/2 way point between Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox. Lugh is a Storm and Sun God with…
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Lughnasadh Season Waxing Moon in Scorpio Lunar Week 17
Witches! Just a shorty this week to cover our astrology as we will be discussing the holy days and other magicks of this week and season in the upcoming Lughnasadh class July 26 2023 6pm pst. We are still dancing (fighting? both?) with the Pluto/Nodal square and tensions may be running high....
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Litha Season New Moon in Cancer Lunar Week 16
My Good Heathens, Witches, and Pagans. The astrology of this week is wild af. This week is asking us to get supremely clear on our values, our relationship to responsibilities, and our relationship to Power and power structures. We may see some funky stuff go down in community, let's try our best...
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Litha Season Waning Half Moon in Aries Lunar Week 15
Hello Heathens. This week's astro is taking on a funky journey through memories and difficult stories from our past. How can you show up for yourself when it feel like the Universe is picking on you? How do we move when the poison and the medicine come from the same root? Mythic figures like…
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Litha Season Full Buck Moon in Capricorn Lunar Week 14
Witches! Our first Full Moon of Summer is here! This is a very potent time for ethical harvesting and protection magicks. But at the deep heart of our Witch's Work this week is wrangling our connections to Power and Ancestors. Family. Baggage much? Yeah, it's true for everyone that family can…
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Litha Season Waxing Half Moon in Libra Lunar Week 13
Our Islamic friends and relatives celebrate Hajj this week, the precursor to their New Year. Runic New Year also kicks off this week, and this year I encourage studying up on the Year of Aun, a Norse reconstructionist movement that is bringing back some great old traditions. Also this week we…
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Litha 2023: Summer Solstice - Wheel of the Year
LITHA - SUMMER SOLSTICE The Wheel of the Year continues to spin with the arrival of our next Sabbat, Litha, also known as Midsummer, or Summer Solstice. Litha celebrates the high point of the Sun's journey through the year. For folks in the Northern Hemisphere, we see this in long days filled…
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Beltane Season Waning Half Moon in Pisces Lunar Week 11
This week contains our last Waning Half Moon and last Balsamic Moon of Gemini, Beltane, and Spring. This week is encouraging review and consolidation of all we have experienced in this portion of our cycle around The Wheel. What needs to be embraced and carried forward? What needs to be modified…
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Beltane Season Full Strawberry Moon in Sagittarius Lunar Week 10
WE ARE GOING HARD THIS WEEK WITCHES! Soooo many Gemini and Sag oriented festivals this week. We are stepping into the rushing stream of energy that will carry us into Summer. Deities like Artemis, Bendis, Ochosi, Dano, and Jarlio oversee and guide our work, just to name a few. Our astrology is...
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Beltane Season Waxing Moon in Virgo Lunar Week 9
Adjustment is the name of the game this week. Don't get lost in the sauce, ask for help and guidance from Holy archetypes like Mary Mediatrix, Vesta, and St. Joan D'Arc, or clear thinking from the Goddess Mens. We step over another threshold into the last weeks of Beltane and Spring. Reach up and...
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Beltane Season Black New Moon in Taurus Lunar Week 8
Are you ready to FECUND? Because it's time. To. Plant!! Goddesses like Carna, St Sara la Kali, and Athena oversee our process this week. It's time to burst out of our shells and begin establishing ourselves on the physical plane. Tarot: Lovers Witch Work: Brewing, Flirting, Divination Plant...
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Beltane Season Full Blood Flower Moon Lunar Week 6
Are you still reeling from the effects of that Scorpio eclipse? You're not alone. This week we get into the festivals that honor death in the midst of returning life, as well as the forces that over see the triumph of order over chaos, for better and worse. Tarot: 6 of Pentacles Witch's Work: None
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Beltane 2023 Witches Night
BELTANE - MAY DAY / WITCH’S NIGHT - Wheel of the Year Series 2023 Spellbound The 2023 Wheel of the Year Cycle continues with Beltane, also known as May Day or Walpurgisnacht in some traditions. For many Pagans, this marks the return of The Green Man – a lusty and puckish side of The God. This...
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Ostara Season Waning Moon in Capricorn Lunar Week 4
Welcome back Heathens! Our work takes us through more gates of initiation and Pagan rites of awakening. Venus square Saturn this week may bring bummer information that needs to be integrated all the same. What are our values when in proximity to power? Witchcraft: Initiations Plant helper: Willow...
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Ostara Season Waxing Moon Cancer Lunar Week 2
Holy Healing is on the agenda this week! A Heart-Clearing conversation may find you weepy but washed clean. There's a real "suck out the poison" type vibe to our work this work, so engage in that at whatever level is healthy for you. Deities like Kybele, Attis, and Asklepios are here to assist in...
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Ostara 2023: A Guide to Spring Equinox
OSTARA - SPRING EQUINOX - Wheel of the Year Series 2023 Into The Light Uncover the deep history of this grand resurrection festival honoring the returning life of the Awakening Earth and the Increasing Sun, witnessed in religions and cultures all over the world. For Pagans, this marks the return…
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Spinning the Wheel is The Pagan Wheel of the Year, but it is so much more than just 8 holy days. We take a look at how Pagans, Witches, Heathens and other polytheists, ancient and modern, celebrate their holy days, and we also take a look at what everyone else is doing, developing our connection to our own path, as well as deepening our empathy for our fellow humans.I have been teaching this material for over 20 years, but this podcast is still in its experimental stages, and so is a little rough around the edges, but ya gotta start somewhere! Learn more at www.meaganangus.com. Blessed Be!
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