The Wheel Turns yet Once More
The Hallowstide approaches and with it, the year ebbs and flows. Most of our Coven is now back “home”, but we are still in abeyance on our meeting schedule due to the vagaries of life.
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The Hallows Approaches
It’s been quite a while since we’ve had anything to post publicly on the site. That’s part of the ennui of being a group that’s existed for a long time (in our case, since 1992 as Nemed Cuculatii, and before that as StarMist Cuveen back to 1981, Ash was initiated in 1973 and Raven in 1980.)
Continue reading →Samhain: When the Veil is Thin
Knowing how the ancient Celts might have celebrated Samhain can inform our own rituals and rites, but what’s most important is what Samhain means to us […] Source: Samhain: When the Veil is Thin from RAISE THE HORNS with Jason … Continue reading →
The Wheel Turns, it’s Samhain Once Again
After an absence of several years, Nemed Cuculatii is observing Samhain this year. Due to work scheduling and the such, our observance will be on November 4, not quite the 15th degree of Scorpio, but as close as we can … Continue reading →
The Hallows-tide Approaches
Halloween is just over a week from now. It’s odd, to not be making preparations for coven feast, and decorating the covenstead, but those activities have been in abeyance for the last few years. Life happens, as they say. As … Continue reading →
Custom demised: Cakin Night | In search of traditional customs and ceremonies
It’s always terrible to hear about the demise of custom, especially as its one which may have very ancient origins and dies out not in the Victorian times, nor after the First World War, neither the Second World War…but the … Continue reading →
HALLOWEEN AND OLD JACK
by Lady Gwen (Celtic-Trad. Wicca*) Who or What is Old Jack? Old Jack is another name for our Great Horned God of Wicca when he appears at the death of the year (Hallows) and takes complete charge over the winter … Continue reading →
It is the Eve of All Hallows
called by some Samhain, Hallowe’en and other names as well; I often refer to it as “Amateur Night”. The “end of the Celtic year” as the media informs us, along with much misinformation about its history, origins and such. I … Continue reading →
Samahin Blessings
“Listen to the voices of your ancestors tonight the Beloved Dead. Hear the wisdom that they share, take it to heart. Celebrate their lives and how they have touched yours. Tonight is the night when the Veil is thin Samhain … Continue reading →