Good afternoon Sisters!
For everyone I've not mentioned by name, I'd have to write a book length post to do that, but sincerely thank-you all for thinking of me and offering your sage words and help.
Belated but nevertheless warmly wished Happy Birthday Speakout another year of you sharing your wisdom and compassion on here with generosity and kindness, thank-you 
Moregarlic thanks for the rubber ball info, I'd not come across that before, it's a great analogy about work and prioritising.
Hills you have some very interesting observations on the Wheel of the Year. As speakout said, known and provable observations of solstices and equinoxes by ancient Man have been literally set in stone from the neolithic period in the form of stone circles and passage mounds (many were not tombs) and the observations of the sun, moon and stars in those days can now be calculated by complex computer programmes so we know what the ancients could see in their sky on a given day or night at their location at any point in ancient history.
e.g. www.exploreglobe.net/archaeoastronomy-overview.html
The chap who runs that site lets people know where they can observe and photograph or video events today which would actually mirror events at a given time in prehistory.
There are also people who are observing and recording the shadows which the stones erected in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages cast at different times of the year and some of their findings are very interesting. Neither of these types of observations are (yet!) mainstream archaeology, so they are not mentioned much outside more specialised interest groups.
However, the findings that both groups are evidencing for solar lunar and stellar events as well as shadows are beginning to be quite compelling. There's not just one group per category, more like several collections of interested people and solitary researchers now getting together online. Very briefly, so far it's looking as though the solstices, winter and summer, rise and set, were significantly marked at ancient sites worldwide, some in spectacular fashion like the very well-known Newgrange. It appears the equinoxes were also significant, but there's as far as has been observed at present, less visual theatrical spectacle with those, unless people just haven't seen the "right" thing at the right time and made a connection.
What don't appear to fit with these observations are the cross-quarter days. The Celtic Wheel of the Year has them at set dates, whereas the ancients appear to have a much more flexible approach.
Add to all of that the current trend for groups and public ceremonies to be held on the nearest weekend to an event and it waters down the significance for many.
Welcome BilboBercow come and join us, I see you've discovered the meaning of 'hidden in plain sight' 
TotoAnnihiliation I did a different system to the aetts when I learned so my interpretation wouldn't be the same as a classic one and I couldn't see the sigil on the first stone. A couple of tips though. Do not do divination or look for answers when you are in an emotional state, it completely fogs the issue. Ground and centre yourself as a priority, then you'll find you probably didn't need the divination anyway.
Beginners are often better off just picking one stone/card/bone as an answer and working through every aspect of that to see what's applicable in their circumstances. the more stones/cards whatever you pick, the more inferences there are and the more difficult a clear message becomes to interpret.
In byegone days, people would spend years making their own tools, learning a divinatory system, healing system or anything else, attuning to all the nuances and inferences. Nowadays these things come pre-packed in a box or bag with an explanatory book and people expect just to pick one and trust their book interpretation. honing your own insight really doesn't work like that.
Old Crone Repeated Rant, just ignore me if you've heard it before - In some ways the availability of information nowadays is a great thing, but in others, the amount of freely available dreck that should be ignored threatens to overwhelm the genuine and few people seem to be able to want to realise there's difference. Sometimes there is no instant gratification, sometimes the answers only come after a lot of hard work and effort. Sometimes whilst you're typing, the cat jumps onto your knee and misses and her claws hook into your leg so you have to stop typing and attend to your injuries 