Well Come to the annual ceremony of Honoring our Ancestors. We gather on Thursday, Oct 31st at 6pm in the peace pavilion for a shared potluck with the ceremony to follow at 7:15pm. There will be a small altar for pictures of ancestors, flowers and harvest bounty. This is a new moon also! WonderfuLL moments honoring and cohesing with our ancestors in new ways, honoring it all and choosing what to carry.
There are many traditions around this Mother Earth that honor beloveds recently transitioned out of the flesh body and ancient ancestors, during the late autumns final harvest, before winter..
These festivals, rituals and sacred ceremonies are known by many names around the world…. A couple well known ceremonies of late harvest season are Samhain-Celtic New Year celebrations some say were likely to pre-date the arrivals of the Celts in Ireland approx 2,500 years ago. (1) Dia De Los Muertos- Aztec celebrated the Lady of the Dead, Mictēcacihuātl, Queen of Mictlān (the underworld) which is said to have then fused with Catholicism Spanish conquistadors.(2)
Blessings aLLways
1. Samhain-worldhistory.org
2. https://clacs.ku.edu/dia-de-los-muertos-history#:~:text=The%20Aztec%20empire%20had%20been,of%20Mictlān%20(the%20underworld).