Venues, Festivals and Themes - a history

Note: Refer to arrangements announced for each Celebration.

Changes in life-style due to the Covid pandemic mean that folk hesitate to meet face to face in groups and thus not all celebrations are group gatherings.

Wherever we are within the universe we can all celebrate change and acknowledge this by witnessing the continual play between light and dark.

At the start celebrations were focussed on the Hill of Tara.

That has changed over the years as it was felt that we needed to extend our horizons.

Tara Celebration's venues are generally in Meath and the eastern side of Ireland - but there is always the understanding that, as all land is sacred, we do not limit our boundaries and, occasionally, we go wider afield.

In 2019 the Covid pandemic meant restrictions were placed on meetings and the Global Spiritual Wheel came into it's own as we could not always meet face to face.

We do not seek to do what they did, we seek what they sought.

We are not repeating the gatherings of the past, but our ancestors sought to bring access to and awareness of contemporary seasonal energies and that is modus operandi now. Use of these historic processes is valuable but not necessarily to be followed to the letter.

Autumn Equinox is the last meeting of Tara Celebrations annual cycle - Samhain the conceiving of each new turn of the wheel.

Prior to 2007 there were gatherings but we only have private records of those. To view pictures and reports from 2007 to 2018 please visit the archived site - click here

Themes & Venues from 2007 to present.

Samhain 2023 - Chanting Ohm for Peace - Tara 2022 - Cosmic Web Connects All and Everything 2021 - Ancestors - Global Spiritual Wheel 2020 - Stepping out of the Shadows into the Light - Tara / Home 2019 - Celebrate Samhain - Fourknocks 2018 - Déjà vu Anyone? - Athboy (Hill of Ward), Tara, Bective (Meditation night) 2017 - Chain Reaction - Tara 2016 - Good Spirits - Yew Cloister, Gormanston 2015 - Clearing a Path for the Wisdom of the Ancestors - Loughcrew 2014 - Samhain - Rath Lugh 2013 - Beannachtai na Samhaina diobh - Dowth 2012 - Headstones - Old Mellifont Abbey, Louth 2011 - Embracing the Torquoise Self – Fourknocks 2010 - Journey towards the Sovereign Self - Tara 2009 - Samhain at Dowth - Dowth 2008 - Spontaneous New Beginning - Tara 2007 - Samhain is the Death of the Old – Tara

Winter Solstice 2023 - Rainbow clouds - Connect 2022 - Answering the Call - Connect 2021 - A Free Spirited Solstice - Global Spiritual Wheel 2020 - Alignment on Hope - Tara / Home 2019 - Celebrating the Simplicity and Splendour of Life - Tara 2018 - Goodbye Darkness, Hello Light - Dowth 2017 - Phoenix from the Cauldron, invoking the Energies of Rebirth- Tara 2016 - You Light up my Life - Fourknocks 2015 - Without Darkness there can be no Light - Newgrange 2014 - Walking the White Winter Path of Wonder - Seomra Tara (no longer open) 2013 - Rebirth of the Sun God from the Goddess - Tara Healing Centre (now closed) 2012 - Welcoming Light - Ardbraccan 2011 - Quietly Observant – Dowth, Newgrange, Curley Hole 2010 - Snowflakes – Own homes / Newgrange 2009 - Rebirth of Light and Hope – Own homes / Newgrange 2008 - Yule Celebrations – Tara 2007 - Ceremony of Light – Tara

Imbolc 2024 - Celebrating Imbolc - Loughcrew 2023 - Recharge - Connect 2022 - Start of a New Year & a New Way - All home in Global Spiritual Wheel 2021 - Exercising the Goddness Muscle, the Heart - All home in Global Spiritual Wheel 2020 - 2.02.02.2020 - Tara 2019 - Community - Bective Mill 2018 - Healing on Many Levels - Brigid's Well, Faughart 2017 - St. Brigid's Mantle - Brigid's Well, Faughart 2016 - Rise and Shine - Tara 2015 - Planting the Seeds of Our Dreams with Danu - Bective 2014 - Welcoming Spring & Returning Light - Tara 2013 - Healing Renewal Protection - Tara & Kildare 2012 - Triplicity: Comedy, Community and Creativity - Ravensdale Forest, Louth 2011 - Moving out of the Shadow into the Light - Tower of Lloyd, Kells 2010 - Uncertainty - Fourknocks 2009 - Brigid - Fourknocks 2008 - Stirring the Fire - Tara 2007 - Brigid's Cross – Tara

Spring Equinox 2024 - Neutrality - Connect 2023 - Journey of the Five Directions - Tara 2022 - Tipping the Balance - Loughcrew 2021 - Hello, Goodbye, the Light is on the Way - All home in Global Spiritual Wheel 2020 - Goodbye and Hello - Donabate Beach 2019 - Emergence - Bective Mill 2018 - Sunny Side Up - Fourknocks 2017 - Balance, Equality & Tolerance - Clogherhead 2016 - Spring Equinox - Fourknocks 2015 - Goodbye Darkness my old Friend, until we meet again - Dowth & Bective 2014 - Flourish and Blossom - Loch Ramor 2013 - Everyone is doing a Brand New Dance Now - Tara 2012 - Nothing is as it Seems - Tara 2011 - Gates of Revelation - Tara 2010 - Reformation & Rebirth - Ardmulchan 2009 - In Balance with Nature - Mullaghmeen Forest 2008 - Balance - Tara 2007 - Vernal Equinox – Tara

Bealtaine 2024 - Listening - Connect 2023 - Hidden - Connect 2022 - Set Aside - All home in Global Spiritual Wheel 2021 - Bealtaine with TC - Zurich / Home 2020 - Mother Earth - Kilmurry with others in Isolation during pandemic 2019 - Light - Dalgan Park 2018 - Blessings on Bealtaine - Lake Derravaragh 2017 - Bealtaine - Tara 2016 - Nurturing Abundance - St. Ciaran's Well 2015 - May Day - Fourknocks 2014 - Peace, Light and Love - Dublin 2013 - Where there's a Well there's a Way - St. Johns Well, Warrenstown (now closed) 2012 - The Summer Phase - Bective Abbey 2012 - 8 Sundays at the Well - Tara 2011 - Wild Wooing in the Woods - Tara 2010 - Inspired by Symbol & Poetry - Tara 2009 - Money to Burn - Tara 2008 - Arrival of Uisneach Fire - Tara 2007 – Tara

Summer Solstice 2024 - Peace within & Peace without - Tara 2023 - Creating the Lighthouse Pt.2 - Tara & Connect 2022 - Be the change you wish to see in the world - Port Beach, Clogherhead - Iceland - Donegal & Sligo 2021 - Back to Reality - Tara 2020 - Together All One - Tara / Home 2019 - Celebration - Bective 2018 - Celebrate the Sun with a Song in your Heart - Akahista, West Cork 2017 - Let the Sun Shine In - Tara 2016 - Create with Love your Journey through Life & Gratitude to Mother Earth - Bective & Tara 2015 - The Wisdom of the Sunflower - Tara 2014 - Bountiful and Gratitude – Tara 2013 - The Place you can't get to - wherever you are 2012 - Journey of the Golden Triangle – An Tobar, Tara, Navan 2011 - Cultivating Peace - Tara 2010 - Listening to the Soul of Summer – St. John's Well, Warrenstown (now closed) 2009 - Spontaneous - Tara 2008 - Abundance and Shadow - Tara 2007 - The Harp & Fairy Treasures - Tara 2005 - Tara Festival

Lughnasadh 2024 - Crossroads - Connect 2023 - Let it go to Let it in - Teltown 2022 - I Witness - Global Spiritual Wheel 2021 - Gratefully Using & Sharing Our Power - Teltown 2020 - Lughnasadh Reunion - Bective Mill / Home 2019 - Our Own Harvest Time - Ciaran's Well, Nr. Kells 2018 - The Higher Ground - Loughanleagh, Cavan 2017 - An Meitheal - Allotment garden, Fingal 2016 - A Liminal Transition - Burren, Clare 2015 - A Time of Celebration - Teltown 2014 - Long Road Home - Tara 2013 - Tar isteach agus lig do scith - Come on in and Rest Yourself - Fourknocks 2012 - Gratitude to Earth & Spirit - St. Gobnait's Well, Co. Cork 2012 - Uisce beatha, Water of Life - Ciaran's Well, Nr. Kells 2011 - Beannachtai Lughnasadh - Teltown 2010 - Pattern, Pilgrimage & Pleasure Triskele - Port Beach 2009 - Pattern, Pilgrimage & Pleasure Labyrinth - Port Beach 2008 - Healing Conflict - Tara 2007 - Name your Talent – Tara

Autumn Equinox 2023 - Lucent - Connect 2022 - Fulfilled Mission - Global Wheel 2021 - Labyrinth on Donabate - Donabate Beach 2020 - On the Threshold of a Dream - All home in Global Spiritual Wheel 2019 - Balance - Loughcrew 2018 - Heart and Soul : We are One - Labyrinth, An Tobar 2017 - Back to Our Roots - Bective 2016 - Underlying Balance of Harvest Thanksgiving - Tara 2015 - Sun, Moon and Me - Seomra Tara 2014 - Deireih Fhomair - Fourknocks 2013 - Review & 'way forward' - Tara 2012 - Colin's Journey, Chrysalis Phase - Dowth 2011 - Winding Down, End of the Journey - Mornington Beach 2010 - Endings & Rememberings - Dowth 2009 - Thanks to Mother - Tara 2008 - Harvest Thanksgiving - Tara 2007 - Autumn Equinox - Tara

Akahista, West Cork - Summer Solstice 1.

An Tobar, Ardbraccan, Meath - Winter Solstice 1. Summer Solstice 1. Autumn Equinox 1.

Ardmulchan, Meath - Spring Equinox 1.

Athboy (Hill of Ward) - Samhain 1.

Bective, Meath - Samhain 1. Imbolc 2. Spring Equinox 2. Bealtaine 1. Summer Solstice 2. Lghnasadh 1. Autumn Equinox1.

Burren, Clare - Lughnasadh 1.

Clogherhead, Louth – Spring Equinox 1.

Dalgan Park, Meath - Bealtaine 1.

Donabate Beach - Spring Equinox 1. Autumn Equinox 1.

Dowth, Meath – Samhain 2. Winter Solstice 2. Spring Equinox 1. Autumn Equinox 2.

Dublin - Bealtaine 1.

Faughart – Imbolc 2.

Fingal – Lughnasadh 1.

Fourknocks, Co. Dublin – Samhain 2. Winter Solstice 1. Imbolc 2. Spring Equinox 2. Bealtaine 1. Lughnasadh 1. Autumn Equinox 1.

Gormanston, Meath – Samhain 1.

Kildare - Imbolc 1.

Kilmurry - Bealtaine 1.

Loch Ramor, Virginia,Cavan - Spring Equinox 1.

Loughanleagh, Cavan - Lughnasadh 1.

Loughcrew, Meath – Autumn Equinox 1, Samhain 1, Imbolc 1, Spring Equinox 1.

Lough Derravragh, Westmeath - Bealtaine 1.

Mornington Beach, Louth - Autumn Equinox 1.

Mullaghmeen Forest, Westmeath - Spring Equinox 1.

Navan Ramparts, Meath - Summer Solstice 1.

Newgrange, Meath -Winter Solstice 4.

Old Mellifont Abbey,Louth – Samhain 1.

Port Beach, Louth - Lughnasadh 2, Summer Solstice 1.

Rath Lugh, Meath – Samhain 1.

Ravensdale Forest, Louth - Imbolc 1.

Seomra Tara, Killeen, Meath (no longer open to the public) - Winter Solstice 1. Autumn Equinox 1.

St Ciaran's Well, Meath – Bealtaine 1. Lughnasadh 2.

St John's Well, Meath (no longer open to the public) - Bealtaine 1. Summer Solstice 1.

St. Gobnait's Well, Cork - Lughnasadh 1.

Tara, Meath – all 8 festivals many times.

Teltown, Meath - Lughansadh 3.

Tower of Lloyd, Kells,Meath - Imbolc 1.

Zurich, Switzerland - Samhain 1. Bealtaine 1.