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The Cycle of
the Celtic Year: Celtic Celebration Workshops at Hazel Hill
Wood, 2013 |
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Each of these
workshops celebrates a particular Gateway in the cycle of
the Celtic Year, and each is unique to that year. |
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Click on the titles
or the images to go to a fuller
description and booking details for that
workshop. Prices for 2013 are given in the
Calendar. |
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Yuletide,
the celebration of the nadir. Energetically,
Winter is the season of contraction. Yet it is
also the time of exploring inner space,
discovering inner light. The Winter Solstice
cele-brates the birth of the magical child of
light on the darkest night of the year. Gifts,
twinkling lights, song and storytelling – all
the things that appeal to the child in us –
belong to the Solstice.
Outside,
there is cold and dark. Inside, there is
community and connectedness, the energy of the
heart, the light that burns within all of us. |
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The
Traveller
stands
at
the
mouth
of
the
cave,
on
the
threshold
between
dark
and
light,
looking
towards
the
light.
Dark
and
Light,
inner
and
outer,
are
momentarily
held
in
balance,
and
we
can
see
both
ways.
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This
is a
"Second
Circle"
workshop.
Second
circle
workshops
draw
on a
considerable
experience
of
Tantra
and
of
working
with
the
Celtic
wheel
of
the
year.
If
you
are
interested
in
being
part
of
the
second
circle
workshops,
please
get
in
touch
with
us.
Inclusion
is
at
the
teachers’
discretion. |
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Hazel Hill
wood is
carpeted in
bluebells.
Sexual,
generative
energy is in
full flow.
In this
workshop the
invitation
is to
combine
opening to
the natural
energy
represented by the
dance of the Goddess and the Green Man
of Celtic
Tradition with connecting with
our own inner fires--the God and the Goddess
within. |
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The Summer Solstice is the
year’s Zenith. This is the
time of year when the energy
generated by the dance
between Earth and Sun is at
its height, the point when
the Sun is highest in the
sky and closest to the
Earth, and the Earth itself
teems with multiplicity.
By day it is a time of
innocence and play, by night
a time of wildness and
magic. |
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Lammas
stands at the midpoint between the summer
Solstice and the Autumn Equinox, in the "hush of summer" -- just on
the edge of the beginning of the main harvest.
Lammas is about experiencing what is -- nothing
less, nothing more. The invitation is to allow
the boundaries between inner and outer and self
and other to dissolve, to experience the now of
summer.
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The Traveller stands again at the mouth
of the cave, now facing the dark, but
celebrating the moment of perfect
balance between light and dark at the
end of the harvest. |
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This
is a
"Second
Circle"
workshop.
Second
circle
workshops
draw
on a
considerable
experience
of
Tantra
and
of
working
with
the
Celtic
wheel
of
the
year.
If
you
are
interested
in
being
part
of
the
second
circle
workshops,
please
get
in
touch
with
us.
Inclusion
is
at
the
teachers’
discretion. |
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Samhain
(Halloween) stands at the
threshold of the dark part of
the year. In traditional Celtic
society, this was the time of
in-gathering and recollection.
It marks the end of focus on
manifestation in the outer
world, and the entry into the
"dream time" -- of re-connection
with the ancestors, our guides
and guardians underground, and
of our inner journeying.
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Yuletide,
the celebration of the nadir. Energetically,
Winter is the season of contraction. Yet it is
also the time of exploring inner space,
discovering inner light. The Winter Solstice
cele-brates the birth of the magical child of
light on the darkest night of the year. Gifts,
twinkling lights, song and storytelling – all
the things that appeal to the child in us –
belong to the Solstice.
Outside,
there is cold and dark. Inside, there is
community and connectedness, the energy of the
heart, the light that burns within all of us. |
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In addition to the Eight
"Gateway" workshops, we have added a
Couples' Only Valentine workshop, which
incorporates some specifically Celtic
celebration rituals. This year we
are running this at our home on
the edge of the Dartmoor National Park
CLICK HERE
for Details. Dates for 2013 are February
15-17. |
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