Sunday 20 December 10:30-12:00 GMT
To book your place, register on our Eventbrite page for this event.
Join Corr réisc Grove for our online celebration of Alban Arthan, the Winter Solstice!
EVENT DETAIL:
Due to current Government advice, this event will be held online and a Zoom link will be provided to all booked attendees. Please ensure you have downloaded the relevant app for your device and are able to use it prior to this event starting.
When you book on Eventbrite, you will also receive a link to an online sign-up sheet with information about roles that are up for grabs for during the ritual itself, as well as any items that you may wish to prepare in your space so you can take part in proceedings. Both of these things are optional, but they are provided so people can take part as much or as little as they wish.
If you would like to take part in creating the ritual, please contact us via our email address: cambridgedruidry@gmail.com.
About Alban Arthan
This time of year is very cold and bleak, which is why so many celebrations are needed to help people get through the Winter months. It is significant that many civilisations welcomed their Solar Gods at the time of greatest darkness – including Mithras (the bull-headed Warrior God), the Egyptian God Horus and, more recently, Jesus Christ. (from the OBOD website)
The cold evenings stretch on before us and almost all living creatures have disappeared into a world of slumber and dream as the calendar’s new year appears on the shrouded horizon.
Within the still heart of the frost-covered earth a single, golden note resounds: a promise of the rebirth of the Sun King, the shining light of Arthur ‘the Bear’, with his powers of rejuvenation and resurrection. The Holly King’s winter sovereignty triumphs over the Oak King’s summer reign and we search within ourselves to call forth our strength of survival in the darkest hours of enduring night.
But on the hillsides can be heard wassailing: smoky breaths singing out to the trees to beckon them into bloom and fruition as the wheel turns once more.
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