Esbat
Sign in to saveAn esbat is a coven meeting or ritual at a time other than one of the festivals within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of contemporary Paganism.
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An esbat is a coven meeting or ritual at a time other than one of the festivals within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of contemporary Paganism.
Esbats can span a wide range of purposes from coven business meetings and initiation ceremonies to social gatherings, times of merriment, and opportunities to commune with the divine. Janet and Stewart Farrar describe esbats as an opportunity for a "love feast, healing work, psychic training and all."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Esbat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.