Calendar of the Sun
13 Lithemonath
Feast of Epona
Colors: White, black, brown, grey.
Element: Fire
Altar: Set upon a green cloth many figures of horses, iron horseshoes, and a burning candle.
Offerings: A basket of hay and apples.
Daily Meal: Vegetarian. Horse-shaped cookies.
Invocation to Epona
Hail, Mother of horses!
Hail, Lady whose children
Are the embodiment of the wind
And come like fire and thunder
Across field and plain.
Carry us, Lady,
As you carried our ancestors
Across rivers and continents,
As you carry our dreams
And nightmares,
Carry our wishes and hopes,
Bear us to adventure
And safely back home again,
And may we never stop running
Toward the far horizon
Of possibility.
Song: Song for the Horse Goddess
(The ritual for this day consists entirely of a drum circle, which can go on until the end of
Sponde. The drums invoke the horses' hooves. Those who do not wish to drum can circle-dance
around the drummers.)
[Pagan Book of Hours]