Mehregan

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Episode 51 Show Notes:  Mehregan</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Episode #51, co-hosts Beata and Bita share about an old Persian (and Zorastrian) holiday they did not grow up celebrating personally but are excited and interested in sharing about and starting to participate in.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Main tenets of Mehregan</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Celebrated in the fall as a Persian Festival of Autumn - anywhere falling between early to mid October...this year it will be on Oct. 2nd or 3rd, 2021 in the U.S.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Thankfulness, gratitude, abundance - Give to nature and it will give back to you</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">A time to shower each other with kindness and with love</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Light over darkness; good over evil</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sofreh items for Mehregan</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">A purple or violet fabric used as a table cloth or place setting for the symbolic items</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Mirror</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Candles</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Fruit </span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Apples, pomegranate, grapes</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Nuts</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">E