Our Samhain celebration on Oct 31 will be the first of a 3-day series (followed by Day of the Little Angels on Tues 11/1, and Day of the Dead on Wed 11/2) honoring ancestors and the beloved dead. Families are welcome!
The temple will remain open daily during this 3-day period, with a ceremony each evening. Materials will be available for Day of the Dead craft activities beginning the weekend beforehand, during the Southern Oregon Barter Faire at the Wellsprings (10/28-30).
These ceremonies are the last ones planned to take place in the temple dome this year, after which the temple is migrating for the winter into warm living rooms throughout the greater Ashland area. If you would like to get involved with any of these events, please contact hearthfiretender@gmail.com; your contributions are welcome!
We will also be collecting blankets, coats, and warm clothing up until 11/2 for the Warmth Project, which benefits impoverished families on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Please bring your new or clean and well-cared-for items to contribute.
SAMHAIN – Monday, October 31 – 7:30 to 9:30 pm
The veil between the worlds grows thin, as the portal opens into the Celtic New Year, and we begin our decent into the dreamtime.
Samhain is the fourth and final fire festival (or cross-quarter holiday) in the Celtic Wheel of the Year. It is a time of releasing the old, planting seeds for the coming year, deep visioning, receiving transmissions of wisdom, and communing with ancestors, faeries, and the spirit world.
We are reminded of the importance of the season of bone that follows the harvest and precludes the spring – a time of silence, of resting, of the death of all that is completed, and the incubation of that which is to come.
You are invited to join with us in calling in the energies out of which the future light will be born. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 7:30 so that those with young children can stop by after trick-or-treating.
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