SUMMMER SOLSTICE
                                                                            Mid-Summers Day
                                                                                                      By Dermot O'Hara

Solstice takes place in Winter and Summer it marks the end of the Sun Gods Lugh or the Oak Kings cycle or reign-Summer. This celebrates the Sun at the heights of its power. Solstice hails the beginning of change or rebirth. At this time people gathered
mistletoe and saint-john worth and brought it into their homes for protection.

Midsummer Day is the day we mark the completion of the Suns journey within the Celtic Wheel. From this day forward the Suns Light begins to dwindle as the days yet again withdraw with the growth of the young Holly King of Darkness. The long nights of winter prepare to slowly weave themselves around us once again.


Samhain / Halloween sees the veil between the living and the spirit world at its finest this also occurs at SolsticeThis is a time when strange events can take place.At this time we humans can have strange experiences as the wee folk of the elemetal other world of the Tuatha de Danann were seen and revered by our ancestors.In the countryside they could be seen crossing into our reality and walking around on the land. Some call it a day outside of time-a Midsummer night’s dream. Shakespeare’s play where 4 young lovers spend a night together in the forest with the wee elemental folk not knowing quite what has happened to them as they are entwined in the confusion of the two worlds of reality and non reality. In Shamanism this is knows as the dream-state or non ordinary consciousnessy.This non ordinary reality can be accessed with the Drum and Dance cross.In the Shamanic context of Healing this is a very powerful time to perform any type of Ceremony. The Celtic Festivals are a time when the channel opens to the Ancestors and Higher Beings of Light to come to earth to once again to assist us in raising the vibrations here and the Healing of our past. With this we nurture our planet and our children for the future generations.


Sun worship goes back to pre Celtic times and represents the idea of Gods and Goddesses ruling from a high vibrational dimension called the unseen world/place of the Ancestors. Through these festival times a portal exists between the earthly world and that of these higher vibrational beings or deities of light.


Solstice  is in itself a bit of a paradox as it leads the celebration of the Light or Dark into the aspects of Summer and Winter. The Summer Solstice Light celebration of the Sun Gods supremacy over the shadow of darkness heralds his demise at Summer Solstice and the heralds of the birth of the Holly King of Winter Darkness. The Holly King represents the Winter and is then reborn at  Solstice as the Oak King of Summertime is reborn at Yule time of Winter Solstice.so the tourament of light/awareness v Darl/Shadow of consciousness for those who are aware of the light of love and those who embrace  quest and the unknown as an adventure into the unknown darkness of change and the empowermet of rebirth.Together we support each other to raise the vibrations as we welcoe the renewal of light over dark.We invoke the postive chabges we need and embrace and resolve our fear allowing us to finally evolving to a new and more improved reality.It is ony when we can trylu surrender and let go that we can create the space for another bette reality to manifest.We welcome the changes required ans sek the courage to embrace and resolve our fear of new growthas we Sweat and Drum toegether as one heart in our regular Celtic Gatherings

TEACH EALLUIS CELTIC SWEAT HOUSE CEREMONY  www.irishmegaliths.org.uk/sweathouses.htm


THE SHAMANS MONTHLY HEALING
MEDITATION DRUM CIRCLE
WE  GATHER EACH MONTH TO HOLD SACRED SPACE FOR HEALING AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT 
IN RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR SPIRIT GUIDES AND TEACHERS OF THE HIGHER REALMS
NEW GROUP COMMENCING AUGUST 2013