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Samhain
Samhain Celebration Reports
2023 - Chanting Ohm for Peace - Tara
2022 - Cosmic web connects all & everything
2021 - Ancestors - Global Spiritual Wheel
2020 - Stepping out of the Shadows into the Light - Tara / home
Stepping out of the Shadows into the Light - Samhain meditation 2020
2020 - Samhain - Cards and Messages
2019 - Celebrate Samhain - Fourknocks
2018 - Déjà vu Anyone? - Hill of Tara
Fourknocks - Passage Tomb
Samhain at Tara
Site of the first Halloween Bonfire? Hill of Ward aka Tlachtga
Samhain - Night of Joy and Merriment
Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice Celebration Reports
2023 - Rainbow Clouds
2022 - Answering the Call - Connect
2021 - A Free Spirited Solstice - Global Spiritual Wheel
2020 - Alignment on Hope - Tara
Winter Solstice 2020
2019 - Celebrating the Simplicity & Splendour of Life - Tara
2018 - Goodbye Darkness, Hello Light - Dowth
Advent Candles
Yuletide
BBC Radio 4 broadcast - Open Country - Winter Solstice at Newgrange 2016
Building the Energies to Winter Solstice
Dowth - Place of Darkness
Newgrange and Winter Solstice
Tara at Christmas
Imbolc
Imbolc Celebration Reports
2024 - Imbolc Celebration - Loughcrew
2023 - Recharge - Connect
2022 - Start of a New World and a New Way - Home
2021 - Exercising the Goddess Muscle, the Heart - Home
Imbolc 2021 - Exercising the Goddess Muscle - the Heart
2020 - 2.02.02.2020 - Tara
2019 - Community - Bective
Brigid in Ceremony
Bridget's Life, Wells and Customs
Brigid's Cross
31st January - Bridget’s Eve - Brat Bríd
Brigid the Healer
Colours of Brigid
Spring Equinox
Spring Equinox Celebration Reports
2024 - Neutrality - Connect
2023 - Journey of the Five Directions - Tara
2022 - Tipping the Balance - Loughcrew
2021 - Hello, Goodbye, the Light is on the Way
2020 - Goodbye Hello - Donabate
2019 - Emergence - Bective
Balance as understood in Equinox Ceremonies
Eggs - activities & traditions
Folklore for Spring
Vernal Equinox and Equilux - Aligned Sites
Ideas and Inspiration
Bealtaine
Bealtaine Celebration Reports
2023 - Hidden - Connect
2022 - Set Aside - Global Spiritual Wheel
2021 - Bealtaine with TC
2020 - Mother Earth - Kilmurry & 'isolation pods'
2019 - Light - Dalgan Park
Pishogues for May Eve & May Day
Visit a well
Summer Solstice
Summer Solstice Celebration Reports
2023 - Creating the Lighthouse Pt. 2 - Tara & Connect
2022 - Solstice in Louth, Donegal, Sligo and Iceland
2022 - Solstice in Sligo
2021 - Back to Reality - Tara
2020 - Own Space / Tara - Together-All One
2019 - Celebration - Bective
St John’s Eve and Midsummer
Lughnasadh
Lughnasadh Celebration Reports
2023 - Let it go to Let it in - Teltown
2022 - I Witness
2021 - Gratefully Using & Sharing our Power - Teltown
2020 - Lughnasadh Reunion - Bective Mill
2019 - Our Own Harvest Time - Ciaran's Well
Teltown, Donaghpatrick, Co.Meath
St Ciaran's Well, Castlekeeran, Co. Meath
3rd July to 11th August - Dog Days of Summer
Celebrate with a sneeze
High Experience
Autumn Equinox
Autumn Equinox Celebration Reports
2023 - Lucent - Connect
2022 - Fulfilled Mission - Global Spiritual Wheel
2021 - Labyrinth on Donabate - Donabate
2020 - On the Threshold of a Dream - Bective / home
2019 - Balance - Loughcrew
Loughcrew, near Oldcastle in Co. Meath
Celestial Celebrations
Pleiades Rising and Culmination - Samhain
Orion & Nativity - Winter Solstice
Sirius - Imbolc
Ursa Major-Spring Equinox
Meteors and Comets - Bealtaine
Milky Way - Lughnasadh
Sun and Moon - Autumn Equinox
Moon Celebrations
Chakras and Lunar phases
Current Moon Celebration
Activities for a Full Moon
Names & Astrology, Energies & Influences - January to June
Names & Astrology, Energies & Influences - July to December
Feast Days & Festivals
Ember Days - 3 days at the start of each season
January to March
New Year's Traditions - Kirkwall Ba' & Handsel Monday
When is Twelfth Night?
6th January - Chalking the Door
6th January - the Feast of the Epiphany
6th January - Oiche Nollaig na Mban
6th January - La Befana and Twelfth Night
Early January - Plough Monday
11th January - Burning the Clavie
13th January - Saint Knut's Day & Lohri
15th January - St Ita’s day
19th January - Popcorn Day
19th January - Timkat
25th January - Burns Night
25th January - St Dwynwen’s Day
27th January - Feast of Lí Ban, the Irish Mermaid Saint
28th January - Up Helly Aa - lightening of the year
29th January - St Bláth or Bláthnaid of Kildare
31st January - Bridget’s Eve - Brat Bríd
Chinese New Year - Lunar New Year - Spring Festival
end January - Thorrablot
end January - Dísablót
First Lunar Month - Losar Tibetan Festival
Pancake Tuesday and Ash Wednesday - the start of Lent
1st February - St. Seiriol
2nd February- Candlemas
3rd February - Feast of St Blaise
11th February - Feast of St. Gobnait
14th February - St. Valentine's Day
29th February - Leap Year Day
First Full Moon of March - Holi
Mardi Gras
1st March - Saint David's Day
5th March - St Piran’s day in Cornwall
8th March - St Sennan
15th March - Ides of March & Anna Perenna Goddess
17th March - St Patrick’s Day
18th March - Sheelah's Day
19th March - St. Joseph's Day
22nd March - Feast of St. Darerca
24th March - Old Feast of St Gabriel
25th March - Latha na Cailliche
end March - Earth Hour
end March - Time to Spring forward
end March - Mother's Day
April to June
New Moon - Ramadan & Laylatul Qadr - Night of Power
Blackthorn Winter
1st April - April Fools' Day
5th April - Saint Becan of Emlagh, the priest and the Devil... and bog butter
14th April - St. Lydwina
15th April - St Ruadhán's Day
23rd April - St George's Day
25th April - St Maughold, patron saint of the Isle of Man
30th April - Walpurgis Night
The days of the Three Ice Men
Palm Sunday
Holy Week
Easter and Hocktide
Ascension Thursday
Taurus Full Moon - Wesak
Whitsuntide
16th May - St. Brendan the Navigator
19th May - St Yves, patron saint of Brittany
27th May - Saint Melangell
29th May - Oak Apple Day
3rd June - St Kevin of Glendalough
9th June - St Colmcille
27th June - Seven Sleepers
29th June - Feast of St. Peter and Paul
July to September
5th July - Tynwald Day, Isle of Man’s National Day
15th July - St Swithin's Day
16th July - Macdara’s Day - Féile Mhic Dara
3rd week of July - Swan Upping
21st July - St. Mullin's Pilgrimage
24th July - St. Declan of Ardmore
25 July - St Christopher the Martyr
26th July - Feast of Saints Anne and Joachim
28th July - Domhnach Crom Dubh
Last Sunday in July - Reek Sunday / Domhnach na Cruaiche
Early August - Puck Fair
Mid August - Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival
10th August - Feast of St Lawrence
11th August - Lady Day, Slane
15th August - Lady’s Island Pilgrimage, Wexford
19th August - St Mochta
24th August - St. Bartholomew's Day
30th August - St Fiacre
31st August - St Aidan of Lindisfarne
August Bank Holiday - Llanwrtyd Wells Bog Snorkelling Championships
September - Crying the Neck in Cornwall
4th September - St Cuthbert
9th September - St Ciaran's Day
18th September - St Joseph of Cupertino
25th September - St Finbar
29th September - Michaelmas, Feast of St. Michael
October to December
2nd Sunday in October - Canadian Thanksgiving Day
12th October - Nuestra Señora del Pilar - Our Lady of the Pillar
21st October - Apple Day
October to Mid-November - Bhai Dooj
31st October - Hop-tu-Naa, Isle of Man
November - Diwali
1st November - All Hallows' Day, All Saints Day.
2nd November - All Soul’s Day
5th November - Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night
8th November - St Cybi / St Cuby
10th November - St. Grellan
11th November - St Martin's Day
11.11
16th November - Hecate's night
17th November - St Hilda of Whitby
20th November - St Edmund's Day
21st November - World Hello Day
25th November - St Catherine's Day & White Ribbon day
4th Thursday in November - American Thanksgiving
Last weekend in November - Stir up Sunday
30th November - St Andrews Day
4th December - St. Barbara
5th / 6th December - Feast of St. Nicholas and Krampus
7th December - St. Ambrose
8th December - Feast of the Immaculate Conception
12th December - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Nuestra Señora de Guadalup
13th December - St. Lucia's Day
17th December - Sow Day on the Orkneys
18th December - The Festival of Epona
Halcyon Days
21st December - Feast of St Thomas the Apostle
26th December - Hunting the Wren and Boxing Day
31st December - New Year's Eve
Welsh Tradition in December - Mari Lwyd
Join In
Global Spiritual Wheel - Connect
Tourists and Visitors Information
Commonly asked questions - FAQs
Venues, Festivals and Themes - a history
Bective
Bru na Boinne - Newgrange & Dowth
Faughart -St Brigids Well
Fourknocks
Hill of Tara
Hill of Ward - Tlachtga
Loughcrew
Teltown, Ciaran's Well
Resources and Links
Songs for the Soul
Contact
Blog
Aprons and Stones
Celebrating the Directions
Celebrating the Elements
Crafts
Brigid's Cross
Candles
Crystal Grid
Fire Bowl
Garden Altar
Halloween Lanterns
Harvest Dolls
Prayer Flags
Suncatchers
Talking Stick
Creating a Labyrinth
End of Summertime - energies of darkness and light
Flowers in ceremony
Genus Loci
Aes Sidhe
Colour
Crows
Cuilenn - Holly
Genus Loci - A Practical Dialogue
Genus Loci - A Place of Visions
Kynance - connecting to the genus loci
Inspirational Writing
Quote for the Day archive
Quotes from November 2018
Quotes from December 2018
Quotes from January 2019
Quotes from February 2019
Quotes from March 2019
Two videos of quotes for April, May and June 2019
Quotes for July 2019
Quotes for August & September 2019
Quotes from October 2019
Weekly Card and Quote archive
November
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August weekly cards
September Weekly Cards
October weekly message
Magic of the Land
Bettystown Beach
Boyne
Brat Bhride - blessing the land every St.Brigid's Eve
Dowth
Faery Tree - Hill of Tara
Hill of Tara and Teltown
Labyrinth at An Tobar, Co. Meath
Loughcrew
Mandalas in the Landscape
Mardi Gras in Louisiana
Meditation
Intentions
Why Meditate?
Meditations we have shared
Breathing exercises
Christmas meditation and Nativity Play
Life Affirming Meditation
May Love Heal our World prayer
Memories of meditations at An Tobar
Menitation - Meditation and Mens Mental Health
Pre - Autumn Equinox 2019
Summer Solstice 2020 Monday meditation
Walking Life's Tightrope
Yoga Nidra Meditation
Brain & Body Activity During Meditation
Leading a Meditation? Guidance notes
Previous Monday Meditation Venues
Music
Pagan Forms of Pleasure - Banned
Recycling Ideas
CDs recycled
Food
Save the Planet
Toilet Rolls recycled
Spirit Healing
Symbols and the Seasons
Tara Celebrations Logo
Quotes for August & September 2019
