Every other Wheel of the Year app prints the same eight fixed dates. This one computes the instant the sun actually reaches each festival’s position, for your year, your location and your hemisphere, and shows you both.
The four solstices and equinoxes are solved from the real solar position. So are the four Gaelic fire festivals, which no calendar app computes at all. Imbolc is printed on 1 February and the sun reaches it on the 3rd or 4th. That gap is what the app is for.
Features
- The Wheel — eight festivals on a drawn gold wheel, a seasonal wash graduating round the ring, and an ornate hand pointing at the sun’s real position today
- Both dates, always — the conventional date the tradition prints and the computed astronomical instant, with the drift between them shown plainly
- Sky — sunrise, solar noon, sunset, day length and the change since yesterday, with solar declination and noon altitude
- The turning year as a day-length curve, the eight festivals marked on it, and the days until the light turns
- Almanac — every sabbat computed for any year from 1900 to 2100, searchable across names, alternates, themes and correspondences
- Traditions — how Gardnerian, Alexandrian, Druid, Celtic Reconstructionist, Norse and secular practice name and date the same eight points
- A full illuminated page for each festival, with mythology, attested folklore, correspondences, foods, practice and per-festival sources
- Moon phase at each festival instant, and the nearest full moon, which several traditions use to set the ritual date
- Northern or southern hemisphere, detected from your location or chosen by hand, with the wheel turning to suit
- Home-screen widget in two sizes, carrying the next festival, its seasonal plate and the countdown
- Optional notifications with your own lead time, from the day itself out to a fortnight ahead
- Eight painted seasonal plates and eight engraved gold sigils, in the manner of an illuminated grimoire
About the Astronomy
Solstices and equinoxes come from Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, chapter 27, and land within about a minute of the published values. The cross-quarter festivals have no published series, so the app solves directly for the sun’s apparent longitude at 315°, 45°, 135° and 225°, accurate to roughly a quarter hour. The app states that accuracy rather than hiding it.
Nothing is fetched. Every instant, from solar longitude to sunrise to moon phase, is computed on your device.
About the Tradition
The eight-fold wheel is a twentieth-century synthesis, assembled through the 1950s and 1960s by Gerald Gardner and Ross Nichols out of two older cycles. Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasadh are genuinely attested in medieval Irish literature. Litha, Ostara and Mabon were applied to the solar festivals by Aidan Kelly in 1974.
The app says so, on every page, with the sources. Attested folklore is marked as attested and the modern correspondence tables are marked as modern. Nothing here is invented antiquity.
Privacy
No ads. No tracking. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No network calls. Location is used only to work out your solar times and hemisphere, it never leaves the device, and you can decline it and type a coordinate instead.
Support
Need help with Wiccan Wheel? Whether you have a question, want to request a feature, or need to report a problem:
- Ask a question — get help using the app
- Report a bug — let us know if something isn’t working
- Request a feature — suggest an improvement, a tradition or a source worth adding
You can also browse existing issues to see if your question has already been answered.