Homemade Pomanders from Holiday Oranges

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Create these sun symbols to bring nature and festivity into your holiday home.
Create these sun symbols to bring nature and festivity into your holiday home.
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"The Magical Year: Seasonal Celebrations to Honour Nature's Ever-Turning Wheel" by Danu Forest.

In the Celtic calendar, the Winter Solstice is the eighth festival, a time of stillness and rebirth, when the wheel of the seasons completes its turning only to begin again. The eight Celtic festivals are celebrated in author Danu Forest’s book The Magical Year. Ancient rituals and traditions are skillfully revived, helping you weave a more soulful, nature-centered way of living into your everyday existence. Here, Danu explains a small way to bring one of these traditions into your home, creating a wonderful festive scent and atmosphere.

Oranges, or other citrus fruits, can be made into scented decorations using the sun wheel symbol (a cross within a circle) by pinning cloves into the fruit in this pattern. Symbolic of the sun, these pomanders look beautiful hung on a tree or placed in a painted bowl on a table. If you plan to prepare several pomanders, consider wearing thin gloves, as pinning in cloves can make thumbs sore.

You will need:

• Oranges
• Whole Cloves

  • Published on Nov 7, 2017
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