Samhain - a Gathering to Honor Ancestors, Endings, and Death
Sun, Oct 31
|Hone Quarry Campground
This Celtic-inspired feast day will create a container to mark the end of harvest season and the waning light to enter the silent beckoning of winter, darkness, honoring and releasing what has been. See specifics below for how to prepare. Please RSVP!
Time & Location
Oct 31, 2021, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Hone Quarry Campground, Hone Quarry Rd, Dayton, VA 22821, USA
Guests
About the Event
The Great Fire Festival of Samhain has been a key yearly event for thousands of years throughout Celtic
lands. It marks the turning of the season toward winter, the dark half of the year, the honoring the dead, and the beginning of the Celtic new year. We will gather to listen in to this shift in the wheel of the year, honor our ancestors and those who may have recently passed to the other side, or those parts of ourselves or our lives that are asking to be released. Endings are pivotal within the cycle of life.
While the gathering may seem long, it goes quickly with several different movements that include:
Opening attunement, prayer and introductions
Silent Supper and ritual (Please bring your own meal and place settings, including cup. We won't be having a potluck. Water will be available. Also please bring a photograph of an ancestor you…