THE festival falls this year on a Friday, an awkward day for many of us to go out and celebrate ritual. Also, in my Druid culture, it’s an ‘inner’ festival – one not normally marked by open public ritual, but celebrated quietly and privately in our dark places, as the moment of turning inward to embrace the coming of winter and the thinning of the veil, and for family celebration of the Celtic new year.
My current suggestion is that we each, in our individual ways and our own special places, spend Samhuinn Eve meditating quietly, offering our prayers to The Old Ones, our ancestors, and attuning to what is shifting in our lives and in the natural world around us.
If anyone needs this, I’d be happy to make my guided meditation to meet the Cailleach and/or my telling of the story of Cerridwen and Gwion available, either in PDF form or as audio.
I am still, however, minded to offer open public ritual for Samhuinn at The Longstone, if anyone would like to celebrate this time more publicly in Grove. This would be on the day after the Dark Eve, on the Saturday – please let me know if you would like this to happen and we’ll endeavour to make it so.
What do you think?
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