The Magnolia Collective doesn’t engage with a specific ritual calendar but instead works as we see fit with a seasonal engagement of folk practices. These center around the traditional Mummers and folk plays.
These plays are Plays of Fate, often a Heros journey of Death and Rebirth. This is conceivably the most common motif in seasonal magical rituals found in Britain. Stories of Gods and Divine rulers who die or are sacrificed every year, only to rise again and bring the new year and the rebirth of life after winter have been told for millennia.
These have survived to the present day in Britain in various forms; The long sword dance, in which a captain or foolish figure is ceremoniously decapitated with a sword lock and then brought back to life shortly after, the Derby Tup, the wild obby osses and the yearly Jack in the Green celebrations, which culminate in the slaying of the green king who is then stripped of his greenery to release the spirit of summer and bring plenty to everyone. These are just a few of the forms of these that have persisted in Britain to this day.
We blend of these plays and narratives with our personal practice, to create new and contemporary rituals.