Sunday December 21 2008 Winter
Solstice
Alban Arthan [the Light of Arthur)
Kamloops Ceremony Schedule
11:00am to 11:45am Gathering at 8855 Dallas Drive
Noon
Sun's Transit Ceremony
1:00pm - 3:00pm (POT LUCK) Sharing &
Eisteddfod (welsh for
sing a song, read a poem, play a instrument,
dance a jig)
This
is the time of death and rebirth. The sun appears to be abandoning us completely as the longest night comes to us. Linking
our own inner journey to the yearly cycle, the words of the Druid ceremony ask "Cast away, O wo/man whatever impedes the appearance
of light." In darkness we throw on to the ground the scraps of material we have been carrying that signify those things which
have been holding us back, and one lamp is lit from a flint and raised up on the Druid's crook in the East. The year is reborn
and a new cycle begins, which will reach its peak at the time of the Midsummer Solstice, before returning again to the place
of death-and-birth.
