Temple of the Goddess Logo
 
Temple of the Goddess
Hallows Eve Ritual and Celebration
pumpkins
 
Join us on November 3rd and re-connect with the cycles of life and the seasons of the Earth. The theme of our 2007 Sabbat rituals is reclaiming Mother Earth. We were never kicked out of the Garden but were given the divine edict to be caretakers of this wonderful living planet. As the nights become longer and the Sun recedes into winter, we tend the Garden of Mother Earth, and harvest our own Garden of Dreams, Goals, and Ideas.

November 3, 2007

Temple of the Goddess Hallows Eve Celebration & Ritual

Samhain or Hallows Eve is the new year, the time when the veil between this world and the spirit world is at its thinnest. It marks the onset of a darker, more introspective time of year. The theme of Hallows Eve is honoring darkness, memory of the dead, communication with the spirit world, and purification for the future.



~~~~~~~~~~~

Newcomer's Meeting
6:45
Before the Ritual

If this is your first Temple of the Goddess Ritual or you just have questions, meet with Kamala in the lobby before the ritual. Bring your questions, fears, hopes, and desires.

Newcomer's Meeting in Lobby at 6:45pm, before the ritual.


Samhain Ritual & Celebration

Saturday
November 3, 2007
7:30 PM
Doors Open 7:00

Neighborhood Unitarian Church, Pasadena

 

 

NOTE: Families with children, please come early for a seat down front so your children don't miss anything!



Autumn's Last Sigh
 

The veil between the worlds is thinnest at Hallows Eve. It is the time when we honor the ancestors who have moved on to the spirit world. Throughout this year we have planted and cared for the growing plants with water, weeding, and pruning. We harvested our bountiful crop at Fall Equinox and took with us the precious seeds which we will keep safe, dream upon, and nurture in the darkness of winter. We are sated, healthy, and ready to move into the dark in order to see more fully. As we cross the veil and move into the dark of winter, we come face to face with our deepest fears, those things that would hold us back from nurturing our dreams into reality.

Our evening of myth and ritual theatre opens with a dance to honor our ancestors. As the veil between the worlds at Samhain dissolves, we cross over to the in-between world of Spirit. We look into the mirror of self, face the fears from deep within while Kali, the Creator Destroyer, dances endings and beginnings. Through song and dance, Kali calls us to step onto the bridge of time where past meets future in the eternal now.

As our Hallows myth and enactment unfolds, the Maiden of spring has journeyed through the seasons of the Wheel. Now grown from childhood and beset with the demands of her emerging adulthood, she runs away from home. As she seeks to escape the chaos and confusion of her changing world, Bone Mother, the dark Crone of Winter points her towards the Great Crossroads to confront the Guardians of Time. In the place of shadows, the Maiden gathers the bones of her true self and remembers the power that is hers as a Divine Child of the Universe.

Journey with the Maiden as she, and we, seek the counsel of the Custodians of the Crossroads and learn to weave the memories and lessons of the past with the hopes and dreams of the future to create a life of happiness and fulfillment in the present.

Join us as we honor the dark and connect with our ancestors this Hallow's Eve. We ask the ancestors for guidance for the Earth, ourselves, each other, and community, through dance, song, and sacred enactment. Bring musical instruments to be joyfully played during the ritual enactment. DON'T FORGET: For the altar, bring a jar candle and, if you wish, a photo of a loved one, an ancestor you would like to honor at this time of the year.

Painting: Autumn's Last Sigh by
Helena Nelson-Reed


 
 
 
 


Celebrating the Seasons: Hallows Eve
Saturday, November 3, 2007, 7:30 PM

Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church
301 N. Orange Grove Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91103
818-771-5778
Website:
www.TempleoftheGoddess.org

Temple of the Goddess offers seasonal celebrations for families and community at the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena. Multi-media ritual theater combining , music, myth, visual art, dance, liturgy, spoken word, and participatory theater which fuses drum and dance with personal enactment to re-connect us to the seasons and the Earth.

For more information, download flyer at
www.templeofthegoddess.org/events


 
 
 
 


Those who are dead are never gone:
They are there in the thickening shadow.
The dead are not under the earth:
they are in the tree that rustles,
they are in the wood that groans,
they are in the water that sleeps,
they are in the hut, they are in the crowd,
the dead are not dead.

Those who are dead are never gone,
they are in the breast of the woman,
they are in the child who is wailing
and in the firebrand that flames.
The dead are not under the earth:
they are in the fire that is dying,
they are in the grasses that weep,
they are in the whimpering rocks,
they are in the forest, they are in the house,
the dead are not dead.

Untitled by Birago Diop


 
 
 
 


leaf border


 
 
 
 

   



 

Forward email

This email was sent to director@templeofthegoddess.org, by
director@templeofthegoddess.org


Temple of the Goddess | P.O. Box 660021 | Arcadia | CA | 91066-0021