November 24

As the Season Turns

Ffern

Arts

4.9 • 846 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In November's episode we mark the old festival of Samhain, and the end of the harvest - while in our ancient woodland the animals, too, are saying goodbye to autumn. We explore the fire folklore that abounds at this time, from Guy Fawkes to Will o' the Wisps, and The Breath sing 'All That You Have Been', a song for this dark month. To lighten the dark Lia tells a tale of spiders and fire, traditional to the Hopi Nation. 'As the Season Turns' is a podcast created by Ffern in collaboration with the nature writer and author of the Seasonal Almanac, Lia Leendertz. Lia is joined by novelist Zoe Gilbert and folk musicians Ríoghnach Connolly and Stuart McCallum of The Breath. Geoff Bird produces and Catriona Bolt is Ffern's in-house production coordinator. Each episode, released on the first of the month, is a guide to what to look out for in the month ahead - from the sky above to the land below. Ffern is an organic fragrance maker based in Somerset. You can learn more about Ffern's seasonal eau de parfum at ffern.co

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns.
0:11.3	Released on the first of each month, the episodes follow the changing landscape of the seasons,
0:17.2	from the moon and the stars to the tides and the trees. I'm Leah Landerts, author
0:23.2	of The Almanac, a seasonal guide. And this podcast is a collaboration between myself and Fern,
0:30.1	makers of small batch organic perfume. I love wearing Fern. In my quest to live in tune with the
0:37.2	seasons,
0:38.2	applying the season's perfume is a lovely little ritual
0:40.8	that reminds me to use all my senses.
0:45.1	We hope that this brief guide to the month ahead
0:47.9	will awaken you to the rhythms of the year
0:50.3	and help you to settle deeper into the seasons.
1:01.4	Names for November The pre-Christian Celtic year began on the 1st of November, the 9th month in the old
1:08.7	Roman calendar, with the festival of Saoen, one of four fire festivals of the Celtic year, the others being Imulc, Beltane and Lunasa.
1:19.7	Saoen marks the beginning of winter and was the time the cattle were brought in from the pastures to their winter quarters.
1:27.2	The word may be derived from the proto-Indo-European Sam, meaning together.
1:34.1	Saoen was considered a time when the spirits of the dead could return to the earth,
1:38.8	with the veil between the living and the dead especially thin.
1:42.4	Referring to this festival,
1:48.3	the word for November in Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic is Sowan,
1:52.1	while the Manx name, Mejuni, is derived from it.
1:57.3	The Welsh Tachwed takes a different direction and means slaughter,
2:04.0	much as the Anglo-Saxon or Old English word for November, was blot monath, meaning blood month.
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