This festival fell on the 14th of May in Australia in 2010. (For information on the Southern Wheel of the Year, click label at end of post.)
I have been sick for months and, during those months, all my festivals and their rituals have been very cut down and simple.
This year, as last year, I had a special dinner for my ancestors. I lit a candle for them and set an empty place. I recited the names of all my deceased relatives that I know of and told them what they meant to me when they were alive and what I knew about the ones I had never met.
The ritual itself was fairly simple. I lit a candle for the dying god and thanked him for dying at Samhain so he could be re-born at Winter Solstice and so renew the cycle of life.
Then, within the ritual, I extinguished the god’s candle and it will remain on the altar until it is relit at Winter Solstice.
The Southern Wheel & the Wuruma Wheel
The next festival on the Wuruma Wheel is Wuruma Samhain on the 31st of May.
The next festival on the Southern Wheel is Winter Solstice on the 21st of June.
Wuruma Wheel explanation & dates
Southern Wheel explanation & dates
