Fellow Pagans, do you do seasonal fasting?

Question

I've been doing seasonal fasting on a very limited basis for 20 years or so. By "very limited" I mean that I make sure (when I am in charge of the feast) that the feast food for Sabbats are limited to those that would be available at that time of year, usually from the perspective of the origins of my practice (Celtic).

I've recently been thinking about expanding my seasonal fasting, and found the article linked to below to be a very good guide for that.

My questions are:

1. Do you practice seasonal fasting?

2. If you do, for how long before a Sabbat do you practice it? Or do you practice it for a whole season?

3. If you do, do you limit yourself to the seasonal foods of the place of origin of your practice, or the seasonal food of where you live?

Here's the article:
http://www.mind-n-magick.com/flexphpnews/news.php?newsid=354

Answer 1

An intriguing question!!!

I do try to use seasonal foods in my Sabbat rituals, but I haven't really thought about extending it beyond the ritual itself. I will have to look into that... thanks for the link!

For my rituals, I try to use foods that are seasonal to where I live, though I will research other resources (most of which have a Celtic background) for ideas of additional foods.

Answer 2

I do a fast for February after the Milk Feast of only foods that didn't require the death of another living thing. That is, no meats, no greens, no grains, but it's not limited to seasonal foods-though it does sort of turn out seasonal since I eat mostly dried fruit, nuts and beans which would be about all that was left of winter stores if I were truly agricultural. We do only use seasonal foods on Feast days, however.

Have you seen Cooking by the Seasons by Karri Ann Allrich? I really like Cooking by Moonlight too.

Answer 3

I don't, though I love the idea. However, I have a chronic illness that makes keeping weight on very difficult for me, and my specialist has ordered me to gain 15 pounds. I've been at it nearly a year and have managed to gain 10, so until I've got a little weight to lose, I won't be limiting my food intake. If I did that, I would probably fast based on the area I live in now, since there are a lot of foods over in Wales and Scotland (my main influences) that I just don't like.

)O(

Answer 4

Hi.....

Thank you for posting the articile. I will save it to read at a later time.

I myself do not practice any fasting, but I have been practicing Wicca for 20+ years.

Bright Blessings......

Answer 5

The Christians that say this generally are off beam. regrettably a super form of Christians tend to talk approximately something they be conscious of close to to not something if not not something approximately. i've got been Wiccan for 13 years I even have never observed that we as Wiccans could "artwork" to get closer to the Divine. i does not even call meditation "artwork".

Answer 6

Yes, it seems to come quite naturally.

It fluctuates. I don't deny myself, but I mainly eat the seasonal foods of where I live.

Thanks for the article.

Answer 7

I don't, but I never really thought about doing it...

Answer 8

No, its pointless. It won't accomplish anything at all.

Answer 9

R U JOKING?

DANN AND I DO NO FASTING

WE WEIGH 250 POUNDS

WE EAT FRIED CHICKEN, DONUTS AND MILKY WAY BARS AS A CONSTANT DIET

Answer 10

no