See previous festival: Samhain (on the Southern Wheel)
In 2010 in Australia, Wuruma Samhain fell at the end of May. (For information on the Wuruma Wheel of the Year, click label at end of post.) This year’s Wuruma Samhain article is late because I am still quite sick.
Wuruma Samhain is Samhain as celebrated on the Wuruma Wheel, the Wheel of the natural seasons here on the NSW Central Coast, just above Sydney in Australia.
This year I discovered that my favourite local native snake, the red-bellied black snake, goes into hibernation around Winter Solstice rather than at Samhain or Wuruma Samhain and so does not make a good symbol of the dying god at Samhain.
I am still educating myself about the local native species of plants and animals and don’t yet have a good symbol for the Wuruma Samhain. It will come.
Normally my Wuruma rituals and festivals are very low-key, as seems to suit the Wuruma Wheel. This year I was laid up in bed sick so my ritual consisted of remaining awake long enough to mumble acknowledgement of the local gods and the season.
The Southern Wheel & the Wuruma Wheel
The next festival on the Wuruma Wheel is Wuruma Spring at the beginning of August. The Wuruma season (the windy season after which the Wuruma Wheel is named) also starts at the beginning of August.
The next festival on the Southern Wheel is Winter Solstice, which falls on the 21st of June in Australia in 2010.
Wuruma Wheel explanation & dates
Southern Wheel explanation & dates
