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Holiday Packets by Waverly Fitzgerald
Try before you buy! Click here to download a PDF file of sample pages from the Harvest Packet! These are new pages as of September 2003 and are not included in the original packet.
Send the gift of holiday packets year round!
We will send either the email or the print version of our eight holiday packets — Candlemas, Eostre, May Day, Midsummer, Lammas, Harvest, Halloween & Yule — to the email or mail address you provide, at least 30 days before the holiday, along with a seasonal gift card (or email) to announce your thoughtfulness. Please provide the address of the recipient(s) in the comments field when you place your order.
All 8 Holiday Packets, $90.00!
For an email version, sent as a Word attachment: only $60.00!
Candlemas/Imbolc Packet:
A packet of ideas for celebrating Candlemas, Imbolc and other holidays of early spring. This illustrated, 30+ page portfolio includes:
- Ancient holiday customs for the early spring festivals of Candlemas, Imbolc, Groundhog's Day, St Brigid, Chinese New Year and Tu B’Shevat
- More rowdy customs from the early spring full moon festivals of Lupercalia, Valentines Day, Purim and Mardi Gras
- Recipes for fritters, doughnuts, Hamantaschen, Agatha's breasts and other rich pastries of the season
- Instructions for creating Brigid’s Crosses and candles
- Lyrics for Candlemas songs, including the Ash Grove and a song to Brigit
- And much more.
The packet is available in two versions: sent email as a Word attachment or as printed pages sent via regular mail in a portfolio. Order quickly if you want to receive your packet in time to prepare for your Imbolc celebration.
$15.00, includes US shipping/handling
For an email version, sent as a Word attachment: only $10.00!
Eostre (Spring Equinox) Packet:
This illustrated portfolio contains over 35 pages of ideas for celebrating the joyous mid-spring feast also known as Nawruz, Easter, Passover, St. Joseph's Day, Spring Equinox and Hilaria. It tells you how to:
- Make tansy pies, bread bunnies, Paskha and other traditional Eostre foods
- Decorate eggs the Ukrainian way, using symbol and ritual
- Use food items and plants to create natural dyes
- Play traditional games like cracking eggs, egg rolling and pace egging
- And much more.
The packet is available in two versions: sent email as a Word attachment or as printed pages sent via regular mail in a portfolio.
$15.00, includes US shipping/handling
For an email version, sent as a Word attachment: only $10.00!
May Day Packet:
Over 40 pages of ideas for celebrating May Day and its related holidays (Beltane, Walpurgisnacht, Floralia), compiled in one reference you can use every year. Includes:
- instructions for creating a Maypole and dancing around it
- recipes for May wine and traditional May foods
- the language of the flowers and the plants of May Day (hawthorn, woodruff and lilies of the valley)
- ideas for May Day gifts
- and much more!
$15.00, includes US shipping/handling
For an email version, sent as a Word attachment: only $10.00!
Midsummer Packet:
This illustrated portfolio contains over 40 pages of ideas for celebrating Summer Solstice, also known as Midsummer and Litha. It tells you how to:
- gather and use magical Midsummer herbs like St John's Wort
- prepare a picnic of traditional Midsummer foods
- make wreaths to throw into the Midsummer bonfire
- praise the Sun with songs
- make Gardens of Adonis
- honor the goddesses of Midsummer, like Kupalo and Anahid
- and much more
Read an excerpt from the packet, “Making Wreaths”!
$15.00, includes US shipping/handling
For an email version, sent as a Word attachment: only $10.00!
Lammas Packet:
Over 30 pages of ideas on how to celebrate the obscure and mysterious Lammas. This illustrated, 30+ page portfolio includes:
- Ancient Celtic and Anglo-Saxon traditions of Lughnasad and Lammas
- Tales of Lugh and Ceres
- Transformation mysteries of beer and bread
- Recipes for mead and methlegyn, medicinal and fermented honey beverages
- Instructions for creating wheat weavings and lavender wands
- Lyrics for Lammas songs, including Brigg Fair and John Barleycorn
- And much more.
$15.00, includes US shipping/handling
For an email version, sent as a Word attachment: only $10.00!
Harvest Packet:
Over 30 pages of ideas on how to celebrate the Autumn Equinox. This illustrated, 30+ page portfolio includes:
- Ancient celebrations of Harvest and Michealmas
- The meaning of the Harvest Moon
- The September Full Moon holidays of Mid-Autumn Moon and Sukkoth
- Transformation mysteries of beer and wine
- Recipes for gingerbread, ginger beer and other traditional Harvest foods
- Instructions for creating a corn dolly and making a basket to honor Demeter
- And much more.
$15.00, includes US shipping/handling
For an email version, sent as a Word attachment: only $10.00!
Halloween Packet:
Over 40 pages of ideas on how to celebrate Samhain, Halloween and Days of the Dead. This illustrated, 30+ page portfolio includes:
- A panoramic review of how Days of the Dead has been celebrated
- How this holiday evolved — a history of our alienation from the ancestors
- The last of the autumnal transformation mysteries: making cider
- Divinations for this particular crack between the worlds
- Recipes for traditional foods like dead man's bones and soul cakes
- Instructions for making skulls and masks
- And much more.
$15.00, includes US shipping/handling
For an email version, sent as a Word attachment: only $10.00!
Midwinter Packet:
Over 40 pages of ideas on how to celebrate Yule, Hannukah, Christmas, Midwinter, Saturnalia, Winter Solstice and all the other Festivals of Light. Includes:
- Celebrating Advent and the Twelve Days of Christmas
- Recipes for traditional foods, including porridges and beverages
- Instructions for making luminarias and pomanders
- Traditional Winter Solstice games
- Mysterious giftgivers of the winter nights, including St Lucy & the Frauen
- Lyrics for ancient and pagan Yuletide carols
- And much more.
$15.00, includes US shipping/handling
For an email version, sent as a Word attachment: only $10.00!
Download two PDF files of supplemental material to the Midwinter Packet!
Celebrating Midwinter
Midwinter Poems
ORDERING DETAILS:
You can order online with a credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express) through PayPal by clicking on the PayPal buttons next to each product. (Did you know that you can pay with your credit card through PayPal without signing up for a PayPal account?) Or, you can send funds from your PayPal account to: waverly@schooloftheseasons.com
You can also send a check or money order to:
Waverly Fitzgerald
School of the Seasons
1463 E. Republican #187
Seattle, WA 98112
Your money will be refunded if you are not satisfied.
Email us if you have any questions. Thank you!
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DETAILS:
You can order online with a credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express) through PayPal by clicking on the PayPal buttons next to each product. (Did you know that now you can pay with your credit card through PayPal without signing up for a PayPal account?) Or, you can send funds from your PayPal account to: waverly @ schooloftheseasons. com
You can also send a check or money order to our mailing address!
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