Samhain

[athenamsb]

Samhain

In Honor of the Ancestors

At Samhain, we celebrate our Honored Dead and the God Cernunnos, Horned God, Keeper of the Ways.

Samhain is the biggest grove rite of the year for Three Cranes, in terms of participant numbers, and this year was no exception.

Before the rite, we lit a circle of luminaries for light. Skarlett walked around the circle

Comments

[chronarchy]

The runes were Pertho, Nauðiz, and Berkano. Different kind of fertility :)

[athenamsb]

Thanks. All he said was "fertility." I always read Berkano as growth. Interesting... That changes things a little, doesn't it?

[chronarchy]

A bit, yes :)

Birch
leafy twig
and little tree
and fresh young shrub.

Or:

Birch has the greenest leaves of any shrub;
Loki was fortunate in his deceit.

Or:

The Birch bears no fruit; yet without seed it brings forth suckers,
for it is generated from its leaves.
Splendid are its branches and gloriously adorned
its lofty crown which reaches to the skies.

(selections from three rune poems)

[athenamsb]

I changed to entry to include the "real" omens. I still find we are being called to resist stagnation during this time, but Berkano suggests more of an emphasis on internal growth than outward fertility: "the birch bears no fruit," yet the "lofty crown" still reaches the skies.

Grow, my pretties!