Might be nice to reach out to others in the same hemisphere, especially around holidays where we celebrate the opposite holidays to the rest of the 'Northerners'. Where are you from and how do you celebrate in your countries that may be different?
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I'm from the northwest region of brazil, which doesn't have all four seasons super defined. For me it was intuitive to go by the northern hemisphere wheel of the year cause the more wintery celebrations would occur during our rainy season. But then I started noticing some little things, like how despite the presence of rain, summer days are always so much hotter. And despite plants not really going brown during autumn, there are some flowers which will blossom everywhere during spring. So basically feels like nature told me to look under the surface and into myself more than to whatever else people were doing all over
That's a great insight, especially being part of the same continent but seeing different seasons. I find that really interesting. Some of the celebrations don't immediately cross over, winter never really stops things from growing here but different plants and herbs change with the seasons. Do you prepare any celebrations to tie in with your own culture?
Since I don't have a coven, for the most part I'll have my own private celebrations and during the social holidays I'll kinda create my own meaning to it
Would be nice to feel yule-ish during christmas thought
Hey! I'm a witch who now lives in the Southern hemisphere. Like Nanah, I am in a place with a rainy season in summer and not a really super defined autumn or spring. But I'm from the Northern hemisphere in a place where we get four definite seasons. I think this year my body is falling into the Southern rhythm. I'm feeling the need to do a lot of wintery things and I'm super excited to celebrate Yule.
Anyone else have good Yule plans?
Im from Southern Africa and everything is opposite here, it was very overwhelming in the beginning. before I moved from the east cost it was pretty much summer 9 months a year then mild and a couple degrees cooler for the rest. I'm more inland now and the seasons go incredibly hot-hot-warm-freezing cold. Its smack bang in winter at the moment. :)
I'm also from South Africa, and I celebrate the reverse - I've got this Wheel of the Year on my desktop for easy reference (I can't remember where I found it, so can't credit the creator, sorry).