Leather Master Of Key West
Festival Calendar

Our Festival Calendar includes traditional holidays, with historical roots in Bronze Age religious festivals of Europe, the Far East, and Asian Cultures. These cultural traditions can be observed in many modern day holidays, celebrations and festivals, characterized by costumes, fantasy symbols, religious practices, and traditional celebrations.

In pre and post Christian times, holidays, festivals and rituals celebrated the planting and harvest times, the passing of the seasons, to mark the passing of time, and to acknowledge the cycle of birth, life, decline and death.

Modern day culture reflect these historical traditions in the form erotic apparel, sexual expression, fetish and fantasy practices. Sexual fetish, expressed as role playing, dominance, submission, restraint, bondage, punishment and discipline are rooted in historical traditions and various religious practices.

Leather Master of Key West promotes sexual awareness, and practices of healthy and safe erotic expression. We offer a myriad of products, including fantasy costumes, dungeon equipment, and adult toys such as vibrators, perosnal lubricants, and various stimulators and enhancers.

Some examples of historic festivals, recognizable in modern-day culture include:

Samhain - Winter
5-10  November

• Other Names: "Halloween", "last/Blood Harvest", "Ancestor Night", "Feast of the Dead", "Noson Calan Gaeaf"
• Considered the most important of the four annual festivals, 'Samhain' is a celebration of lives past. Ritualized as "The Festival of Darkness", the spirits of the departed, are invited to attend the festivities.

IMBOLC or CANDLEMAS - MidWinter Solstice
2-7 February

• Other Names: "MidWinter", "Yule", "Cuidle", "Alban Arthan", "Winter Rite", "Mothers Night"
•      A celebration of the rebirth of the "Great God", this festival symbolizes as the newborn solstice sun.
       One of the four Wiccan "fire festivals", this is a traditional Wiccan Sabbat, for initiations, re-dedication and pledges for the coming year.

Vernal Equinox
21 March

• Other Names: "Ostara", "Easter"
• This festival celebrates the rejoining of the Mother Goddess to her lover-consort-son - returning from winter "death" months.  Other representations include the regaining of strength and youth, and return to "maiden" status.

Beltane - Summer Begins
Traditional: 4-10 May
Neo-Pagan: 1 May

• Other Names: "Beltaine", "May Day"
• One of the four "fire festivals", this holiday symbolizes fertility, and celebration of of the departed, are invited to attend the festivities.

Lammas - Autumn
Traditional: 3-10 August
Neo-Pagan: 1 August

• Other Names: "Lughnasadh", "Mabon"
• First of the three autumn harvest festivals, symbolized by baking a bread in the figure of god, then a symbolic sacrifice in eating of the bread.

Autumnal Equinox
21 to 24 September

• Other Names: "Harvest Home", "Feast of the Ingathering", "Thanksgiving" Second of the three Autumn Harvest festivals, this is a ritual of recognition and thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth, and acknowledging the need to share the fin order to secure blessings from the gods.