"Which of the eight pieces are left out of the pie that's been cut into seven pieces?"
I know there's no direct correlation (besides the pie), but couldn't you syncretize the 7 elements into 8 holidays by having the Spirit Above aspects of the 4 elements for the light half of the year and the Spirit Below aspects of the 4 elements for the dark half of the year?
There's a few complications: Spirit Within gets represented by the practitioner, you'd have to give a light aspect to one equinox and a dark aspect to the other even though they're balanced, and I'm not sure what procession of the 4 elements would be best to use, but it seems workable.
What I can't tell is whether your response indicates that relating the SoP elements to the holidays is a pointless task, or laughingsage is just going about it in the wrong way.
This is something I've been wondering about myself, but I'm waiting for your Mysteries of Merlin to drop so I know what a year-based ritual system looks and feels like before experimenting too much.
The only year-based ritual I have now is tree meditation, since trees tend to embody the essence of the current season very beautifully.
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I know there's no direct correlation (besides the pie), but couldn't you syncretize the 7 elements into 8 holidays by having the Spirit Above aspects of the 4 elements for the light half of the year and the Spirit Below aspects of the 4 elements for the dark half of the year?
There's a few complications: Spirit Within gets represented by the practitioner, you'd have to give a light aspect to one equinox and a dark aspect to the other even though they're balanced, and I'm not sure what procession of the 4 elements would be best to use, but it seems workable.
What I can't tell is whether your response indicates that relating the SoP elements to the holidays is a pointless task, or laughingsage is just going about it in the wrong way.
This is something I've been wondering about myself, but I'm waiting for your Mysteries of Merlin to drop so I know what a year-based ritual system looks and feels like before experimenting too much.
The only year-based ritual I have now is tree meditation, since trees tend to embody the essence of the current season very beautifully.