Sabbats

By Gil VanWagner

Here are the words of Sabbat. Words for your journey. They are for you. Just in case you need them. Whenever you might need them. Written to touch during the season, the Sabbat, and meant to arrive right on time. The words are of self, yet from somewhere else. They were pushed through me. I am but the messenger.
Sabbats are words of inclusion, positivity, self-sufficiency, sharing, and connection which honor the many spiritual paths that lead to Truth and Light. Inspirational writings for those that coexist. The words are written for, and shared with solitary travelers who seek to know and become part of their own Tribe and Herd. Those beings of Light which embrace their human and primal nature that is life in this realm. Perhaps they were sent for you?
May they be of comfort to you when you need it, a companion to you on days of quiet solitude, or perhaps, that hit upside the head that reminds you you can (and should) do better. May they be exactly what you need them to be, exactly when you need them to be.

Read. Enjoy. Share. Then read again in next cycle and feel the messages anew. Print them out, write your own inscription, and give them away as a gift of something that matters to you...to those that matter to you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gil VanWagner
• Release date: Jan 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466043121

Gil VanWagner

I have been lots of things and am lots of things. My core is slave to writing, healing, sharing, believing, doing, including, and dancing in joy. Know me through my words...as I learn me through my deeds. Welcome. Born and raised in New Jersey, twenty-eight years traveling the world in the USAF, ten years in corporate America, several years running my own business, and ended up in Utah. Now I write, share, life coach, and do whatever feels right to be a self-sufficient global citizen.

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Introduction

Here are the words of Sabbat, words for your journey.  They are for you.  Just in case you need them, whenever you might need them.  Written to touch during the season, the Sabbat, and meant to arrive right on time. The words are of self, yet from somewhere else. They were pushed through me.  I am but the messenger.

Sabbats are words of inclusion, positivity, self-sufficiency, sharing, and connection which honor the many spiritual paths that lead to Truth and Light.  Inspirational writings for those that coexist.  The words are written for, and shared with solitary travelers who seek to know and become part of their own Tribe and herd.  Those beings of Light which embrace their human and primal nature that is life in this realm.  Perhaps they were sent for you?

May they be of comfort to you when you need it, a companion to you on days of quiet solitude, or perhaps, that hit upside the head that reminds you you can (and should) do better.  May they be exactly what you need them to be, exactly when you need them to be.

Read.  Enjoy.  Share.  Then read again in next cycle and feel the messages anew.  Print them out, write your own inscription, and give them away as a gift of something that matters to you...to those that matter to you.

Sabbats

Why Sabbats? Is this book for Wiccans? Yes. It is also for anyone that feels the seasons. Anyone that moves through the circles and cycles linked to all that was, all that is, and all that comes. It might be for you, someone you know, or someone else. What happens next is your choice.

Many things separate us. Even more things connect us. You might call it Autumn, someone else Fall, another Harvest, while even another says Samhain. We could discuss, debate, dissect, and disagree on what it is called. We could also celebrate the feel of it all. Connect because the changing colors and crispness in the air makes us all think about walks in the woods. Smile as we feel as well as hear leaves in our hands. Yes, there is much that can bring us together…once we realize how alike we all are.

That begins growth, community, kindred, kind, and, most important of all in these and all times, healing. You picked up this up for a reason. You read this for a reason. Perhaps because you embrace Sabbats. Maybe you wonder what Sabbats are. It might be because it was recommended or gifted to you. Could be happenstance on a rainy day with you between books and wondering what to read. Whatever brought you here, you are here. That is enough. Evidently, the time is exactly right. After all, that is how the flow of all things works. Enjoy.

What is When

Yule 21 December

Imbloc 2 February

Ostara 20 March

Beltane 1 May

Litha 21 June

Lammas 1 August

Mabon 23 September

Samhain 31 October

SOURCE

SOURCE is mentioned many times in this book. SOURCE is my higher power.   SOURCE is all the good I knew from religions.   The Jesus I know and honor is SOURCE.   All the angels and saints are SOURCE.  SOURCE is Buddha, Mother Teresa, Francis of Assisi, Gandhi, Elvis, Buddy, and more and more.  SOURCE is everywhere and in everything.

Before I knew life, SOURCE was there.  Before humans knew life, SOURCE was there.  Long beyond life as we know it, SOURCE is already there.  SOURCE is beyond time and space.  In our darkest dark, It holds the candle in wait.  In the brightest light, It waits even brighter.  Before we get to where we are going, It is there.  When we look back at where we were, It waves to us.  SOURCE is everywhere.  SOURCE speaks in the silence and silences the noise.

The creation of all things comes from SOURCE.  All things destroyed return to SOURCE.  SOURCE walks inside of us and with us.  SOURCE brings the dead life anew.  SOURCE transcends limitations, illness, and obstacles.  The very concept of limitations of space and time and physicality are human things.  Things we are to experience and then defy by moving closer and closer to SOURCE.

SOURCE is in everyone we meet and everything we experience.  SOURCE is the deer, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the wind that washes over us, every rock in every stream, every fish in every sea, and every sea on every planet.  SOURCE is that and more.  SOURCE is all.

When we look for It, It is there.   When we do not, It is there.  Open and It is there.  Close and It waits.  SOURCE knows…before you do....when you do not.  SOURCE knows.  We can know.  SOURCE includes.  SOURCE forgives.  SOURCE heals.  SOURCE provides.  SOURCE trusts.   SOURCE is your SOURCE and my SOURCE and SOURCE of all things.  SOURCE is all we need. 

                SOURCE is my Higher Power.  SOURCE is God of my own choosing.  SOURCE is yours as much as it is mine.  SOURCE is us.

Yule

The return of the light. Solstice..when the darkest time comes and we mark the return to light. It comes in the coldest time and celebrates the warmth. Celebrated with the fire of the Yule log as well as the green of the Holly leave, this is the time to know the coldest time has gone and we come back to the light.

Yule has be claimed by many. Many of its traditions rolled into other traditions and then those into other traditions. It is all that it was and more thanks to this synergy that spread it wider and further in what is felt and loved about Yule. Embrace what you have learned to the best of all things this time of year and spice it with the seasoning of your gifts that are to be shared with the world.

Yule 1

Believe.

Yule 2

Let this Yule link with what others call it. Let it link to Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, Ramadan, Festivfus, Equinox, and dozens of other names that are commonly themed to the truest Yule. The Yule that asks the truest question of the truth of all of these days. What did you give for Christmas? It is time to take back this holiday from the money changers just as the one for which it is named took back the temple in a very human rampage against the wrong message in anyone’s name.

Christmas. Joy. Giving. Love. Peace. Who picked that this is but one day? A season to brighten but one month and then be packed away for 11 months? Who?

Learn that giving is all the time. Learn that the more you sacrifice to and for others, the more you have. Lead by example in this each and every day. Move to those that link what you do this day to what will be remembered of you long after you are of another existence. Let this Yule be the one that opened you to ultimate gift you can give to others. Give yourself and all you are so that others will taste the intensity of your love for all humanity.

Yule 3

Look at the day that was designated as the right one and see what remains even just moments after. The joy in the preparation was but for a moment in the joy in the opening and then there was relief. Yes, there are exceptions when gifts meet needs and show the consideration of the giver to the receiver. Yet, far too much was expended for moments of smiles sandwiched between the stress of the preparation and the impact of the aftermath. Yet this is done each time and then vowed to be corrected with a resolve that fades quicker than the pine needles on a dying tree.

The joy of Yule should be deep and long as the love from a parent to a child. Yule is the key to linking what is needed here to what is possible there. Giving of self in unconditional love is the magick that moves you from mere giver to one that makes a difference. This cannot be bought with coin of this realm for it must be purchased within yourself with the gift you were given as you use that gift to help others. This is not of one day but of everyday. Yule should drive you through the cycle of all time. Let this be the day that happens so that tomorrow and tomorrow’s tomorrow is as joyous as any Yule and as every Yule should be.

Yule 4

Pack not this Yule away in a box. Take it inside your heart and carry it forth so that Yule shapes each of the seasons that follow. Yule is the key to open the door to your own happiness as you connect to those that move far beyond the gift of now. Link to those that know of you and your gifts. Each act then multiplies and more will hope to feel the energy of Yule that you live each day.

Celebrate each season but shape each celebration with the Yule truth that giving of self is the greatest gift….to others and to the givers as well. Give and see the ten-fold return. Then give again. Then again. Yule fuel ignites flames of passion and belief. In self and in hope of what you can do. Yule is the gateway to destiny.

Yule 5

A rose in the snow draws the attention of all around since it seems out of place. That one rose will draw more to it than the field of roses in spring for the field is lovely but also right as and where it should be. Merely another aspect of the wonders of spring that blends so beautifully with millions of other wonders common to that time. Common things in uncommon settings or different times become wondrous.

Yule 6

The Yule is of children. All children. That is why all crave Yule for all seek the child they were and always would be. Look inside of yourself and see the child that you were in the fourth and fifth year. This is your own child of Yule. This is the child that shapes what you long to be. This is the child that defines what makes you happy and how you see the world and those in it. This is the child that must be fully known for you to live your destiny.

The time between then and now was the journey to destiny. To gather resources. Knowledge. Skills. Understanding. Then to return to a place where that child can be brought forth again and use all that was learned on the journey