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Yuletide is a celebration of the return of the light, the promise fulfilled of light birthing out of darkness. It is a time to share love and celebrate with our community of family and friends.

Traditionally the veils between the worlds are at their thinnest now. Boundaries dissolve and all is laid bare. It is time to honor and offer hospitality to, our ancestors.This is the time of the descent into darkness, of pre-conception, out of which new life, new ideas, will eventually emerge.

It is time to complete projects, to clear out and let go that which is no longer wanted or needed as we prepare for descent, so that the winter can offer a time for reflection and peace. And it is time to plant seeds of new ideas and hopes which will lie dormant but nourished in the dark, until the return of Spring.

Lammas is the celebration of this first, Grain Harvest, a time for gathering in and giving thanks for abundance. It is a time of change and shift. Active growth is slowing down and the darker days of winter and reflection are beckoning.

At the turning point of the year, Litha is longest day and the shortest night. The Earth is awash with fertility and fulfillment and this is a time of joy and celebration, of expansiveness and the celebration of achievements.

Beltane represents the peak of Spring and the beginning of Summer. Earth energies are at their strongest and most active. It is about sexuality and sensuality, passion, vitality and joy. And about conception. A brilliant moment in the Wheel of the Year to bring ideas, hopes and dreams into action.

Ostara is the time for the hopes of Imbolc to become action. The energy is expansive and exuberant. It is the first day of Spring! The Ostara goddess was traditionally honored in the month of April with festivals to celebrate fertility, renewal and re-birth.

Imbolc, in the Celtic seasonal calendar marks the beginning of the lambing season and signals the beginning of Spring and the stirrings of new life. It is the promise of renewal, of hidden potential, of earth awakening and life-force stirring. It is time to let go of the past and to look to the future, clearing out the old, making both outer and inner space for new beginnings.

Yuletide is a celebration of the return of the light, the promise fulfilled of light birthing out of darkness. It is a time to share love and celebrate with our community of family and friends.

Traditionally the veils between the worlds are at their thinnest now. Boundaries dissolve and all is laid bare. It is time to honor and offer hospitality to, our ancestors.This is the time of the descent into darkness, of pre-conception, out of which new life, new ideas, will eventually emerge.

It is time to complete projects, to clear out and let go that which is no longer wanted or needed as we prepare for descent, so that the winter can offer a time for reflection and peace. And it is time to plant seeds of new ideas and hopes which will lie dormant but nourished in the dark, until the return of Spring.

Lammas is the celebration of this first, Grain Harvest, a time for gathering in and giving thanks for abundance. It is a time of change and shift. Active growth is slowing down and the darker days of winter and reflection are beckoning.

At the turning point of the year, Litha is longest day and the shortest night. The Earth is awash with fertility and fulfillment and this is a time of joy and celebration, of expansiveness and the celebration of achievements.

Rest in Peace, Bernard Hill (1944–2024) THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)