Samhain is the final harvest festival in the Celtic Wheel of the Year. In villages not so long past, the folk had completed their harvest and were prepared for the coming dark season — they had time now to honour and celebrate their dead. This point between the light and the dark was the Celtic New Year — a time of thin veils between the realms and the witch’s Auld Lang Syne. And so on this night, we remember our ancestors – those of our own blood, those who have died in service to truth, and those who have no others to remember them.
As the Earth dies back for the coming winter, the Samhain Goddess is the Crone, the Wise One, the aspect of the Goddess who teaches us to let go when we need to change and grow. In letting go, we make room for something new. She is often depicted as the Goddess of war and death as well as the Goddess of new births. She of a Thousand Names across cultures has been known as Morrigan, Cerridwen, Hekate, Kali, Erishkagel, Baba Yaga, and Grandmother Spider among many more. This is a time to remove obstacles, leaving room for your own new works this coming dark season. This is a night of death and rebirth, hope and new beginnings, remembrance and change.
In our ritual this year, we will welcome the Elements and the Goddess. We will create altars and give honour to our long Beloved Dead and our Recent Dead. We will take a drummed trance journey to the Shining Isle to dance with our ancestors. We will raise our energy with a Spiral Dance and release our intentions to the World. Come prepared to move — physically and spiritually.
Time: Doors open at 6:30 pm … Doors close at 7:00 pm – no entry after 7pm.
Age: 12 years and better
Bring: Photos of Beloved Dead, Water Bottle, Blanket for sitting
Wear: Costumes welcome
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