Wheel of the Year Live Classes

In the eight-part Wheel of the Year series, educator, ordained minister, and self-taught eclectic Pagan Meagan Angus provides tools and guidance toward reconnecting with these natural rhythms and reclaiming our relationship to ourselves via the Pagan sabbats. During the lively two-hour classes in a relaxed setting held at Mortlake & Co. in downtown Seattle, students come away with a better understanding of the sabbats observed by Pagans, Witches, and Heathens through lectures on the cosmic interplay that occurs during astrological, astronomical, and meteorological shifts, the effects these events have on us, and the common threads in traditional observances around the world, both modern and ancient.

There is no beginning nor end to The Wheel -- it spins eternally.

By learning how to mark these eight cyclical celebrations along the rotation, we also mark our own life cycles as well as gain an empathetic view for each other. The Sabbats covered in the series are:

Imbolc - The Quickening
Ostara - Into The Light
Beltane - Witch's Night
Litha - Midsummer
Lughnasadh - The First Harvest
Mabon - The Witch’s Thanksgiving
Samhain - The Underworld Journey
Yule - The Long Night

Each class includes a 16+ page book containing lecture points regarding the covered Sabbat. This book also includes a seven-week Wheel of the Year calendar of concurrent international observances (Pagan and multi-denominational), recommended Tarot for meditation, advice on establishing the holiday in your own life, and a bibliography for further reading.

But the work isn't done after one night! We'll take a look at what we can expect for the coming 6-7 weeks of each season, learn how you can observe this time of change for yourself or with your community, and get ready to Do The Work.

Topics covered in the lecture, generally:

A look at the history of the holiday from a modern Pagan/Witch/Magickian standpoint
Comparison of concurrent holidays in other religions and traditions, with a heavy emphasis on myths, deities, archetypal themes, and symbolism
The significant astrology of the season, especially lunar
Your astrological sign, and the season, archetypes, and holidays connected to it
Astronomical and geological events concurrent with the season

As well, we’ll discuss ways to bring this information into your personal spiritual practice, including:

Suggestions for creating an altar
Common and traditional forms and methods of observance
Meditations for ritual use
Correlating herbs, crystals, Tarot, colors, and more

Within the class setting, there will be an altar set up relating to the Sabbat for demonstrative purposes as well as participatory. You are encouraged to bring items to add to the altar to energetically charge.

Started in 2015, the Wheel of the Year classes taught by Meagan are currently held at the beautiful Mortlake & Co. esoteric bookstore and art gallery, in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square. Enjoy extremely easy access to public transportation and free parking.

Mortlake & Co. is a lovely occult bookstore and art gallery run by the Heirophant William Kiesel, the wizard behind Seattle's Texts and Traditions Occult Conference and Book Fair. It is near dozens of bus lines as well as the light rail.

While the space is not "scent heavy", there are used books, original works of art, as well, I will burn incense made from natural resins, offer sprays with essential oils, and often use scented candles (again, only essential oils) real foods and real flowers, herbs, or other vegetation on the altar.

There will be water available. There is a bathroom in the building. The bookstore is ADA accessible, but there is a 4" step up into the gallery area where the lecture is. You can see and hear everything from the bookstore side.

please contact contact@meaganangus.com if you have any questions.

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