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Join Corr réisc Grove for our celebration of the festival of Samhain!
10:30-12:00 GMT Sunday 1 November
For more information and to register to attend, please see the Eventbrite page for this event.
Due to current Government advice, this event will be held online and a Zoom link will be provided via Eventbrite. Please ensure you have downloaded Zoom and are able to use it, prior to this event starting.
A week before the event takes place, the workings of the ritual will be set and an offer of volunteers for various roles within the ceremony will be made. At this point, we will communicate what preparations need to be made before the ceremony, including any items to procure.
If you would like to take part in creating the ritual, please leave a comment below or contact us via our email address: cambridgedruidry@gmail.com.
About Samhain
The word Samhain is pronounced Sow-Inn, and is sometimes written in the Old Scottish Gaelic form as ‘Samhuinn’. It is said that at this special time of Samhain the veil that separates the worlds is at its thinnest. So our world, the world of Faerie, and that of the dead, blend as one. It is no wonder then that this night has become so wrapped in superstition. It is a night of wonder and magic. (from the OBOD website)
As the weather grows colder, the evenings falling earlier and chilling winds sweep leaves across the land, the journey to within our homes and hearts, for the winter period, begins.
This is the time of the third and final harvest of the year, an opportunity to give thanks for the hardy and sustaining root vegetables, of parsnips, turnips and squashes, that will ground and nourish us in the coming months.
We recall our ancestors, those that are no longer with us and the ever-abiding presence of the great crone, the Cailleach and invite their presence into our magic working. This is the time when the veil between our world and the realm of the Fae is thinnest: the distant sound of hooves beyond the hills marks the start of the Wild Hunt...
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