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Reports from 2007 to 2018 are available at our archived website - Archive Tara Celebrations

Samhain

Chanting Ohm for Peace - Tara
Cosmic Web Connects All & Everything
Ancestors - Connect
Step out of Shadows into Light - Tara
Celebrate Samhain - Fourknocks
Déjà vu Anyone? - Tara

Winter Solstice

Rainbow Clouds - Connect
Answering the Call - Connect
Free Spirited Solstice - Connect
Alignment on Hope - Tara
Simplicity & Splendour of Life - Tara
Goodbye Darkness, Hello Light - Dowth

Imbolc

Imbolc Celebration - Loughcrew
Recharge - Connect
Start of a New World & a New Way - home
Exercising the Goddess muscle, the Heart - home
2.02.02.2020 - Tara
Community - Bective

Spring Equinox

Neutrality - Connect
Journey of the Five Directions - Tara
Tipping the Balance - Loughcrew
Hello, Goodbye, the Light is on the Way - home
Goodbye Hello - Donabate
Emergence - Bective

Bealtaine

Listening - Connect
Hidden - Connect
Set Aside - Connect
Bealtaine with TC - Zurich & Home
Mother Earth - Kilmurry
Light - Dalgan Park

Summer Solstice

Peace within & Peace without - Tara
Creating the Lighthouse - Tara & Connect
Be the Change... - Ireland & Iceland
Back to Reality - Tara
Together, All One - Tara
Celebration - Bective

Lughnasadh

Crossroads - Connect
Let it go and Let it in - Teltown
I Witness - Connect
Gratefully Using & Sharing our Power - Teltown
Lughnasadh Reunion - Bective Mill
Our Own Harvest Time - Ciaran's Well

Autumn Equinox

Exploring our Options - Connect
Lucent - Connect
Fulfilled Mission - Connect
Labyrinth on Donabate - Donabate
On the Threshold of a Dream - Connect
Balance - Loughcrew

Detailed information on upcoming celebrations, including locations (often sacred sites in Ireland), dates, and activities.

Archives of past celebrations with photos, reflections, and reports on the events.

Collection of articles, links, and suggested readings related to Celtic spirituality, seasonal celebrations, and Irish mythology.

Festival Dates for 2024 Celebrations

There have been many influences in Ireland, connecting to different aspects of the turning of the year. All are mainly based on the agrarian cycles, planting, growth and harvest, the life cycles of crops and animals.


Note: Refer to arrangements announced for each Celebration.

Imbolc - 1 FebruarySpring Equinox - 20 March 03:06
Bealtaine - 1 MaySummer Solstice - 20 June 21:50 IST
Lughnasadh - 1 AugustAutumn Equinox - 22 Sep 13:43 IST
Samhain - 1 NovemberWinter Solstice - 21 Dec 09:20

However, for cross quarter days, some take the day as the mid-point between the adjacent solstice / equinox, eg. Winter Solstice to Spring Equinox with Imbolc in between. Thus we have the alternatives of 2024 ...

Imbolc - 4th FebruaryBeltaine - 5th May
Lughnasadh - 7th AugustSamhain - 6th November.
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Please read the comments here if you are interested in joining in - Tourists and Visitors Information and here - Commonly asked questions
Taracelebrations.org is a website dedicated to the organisation and documentation of spiritual gatherings and individual practices, particularly those focused on the seasonal and celestial events, such as solstices and equinoxes.

It serves as a hub for a community of like-minded individuals who come together physically or on the web to celebrate these natural cycles, often in the context of Irish traditions and sacred sites.

Who arranges celebrations?

Each Celebration event has a volunteer host, often aided and abetted by others, who calls the date, time and venue for the gathering and also the intention and focus, bringing to the fore the energies of the season.

The volunteer hosts over recent years include Danielle, Vivia, Zoey, Jean, Martin, Marta, Dana, Anne, Tom, Bernadette Mac, Susan, Bernadette C, John M, Pat, Nora J, Nora M. Others who felt the call to tune in and plan each celebration have included Anne B, Des, Eileen, John A, Mary, Mary O, Theresa, Yamann and many others, who join in body or in spirit. The website is maintained by Nora J.