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Samhain, honouring our ancestors and becoming elders
Following the Celtic Wheel, we now arrive at Samhain, which begins at sunset on the 31st October and runs into the 1st November. This is the Celtic new year where one growth cycle ends and a new one begins, the trees dropping their leaves and seeds onto the forest floor, the new life cycle growing out of the decay and death of another. The roots of Halloween reach back into the traditions of Samhain and in the Christian calendar this time is marked by All Souls Day and All Sa
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4 days ago


Imbolc, Tending the fire in the belly
I am stirring in your belly which knows exactly what you are capable - and that it's time the world found out. I am the fire within...
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Jan 30, 2025


The Winter Solstice, Embracing The Darkness And the Light
To Know The Dark by Wendell Berry To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and...
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Dec 18, 2024


Bright Fire - Harnessing the energy of Beltaine
In his inauguration Speech in 1994, Nelson Mandela, quoted Marianne Williamson’s poem ‘Our Deepest Fear', stating, “Our deepest fear is...
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Apr 28, 2024
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