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- Fourknocks - Passage Tomb
- Samhain at Tara
- Site of the first Halloween Bonfire? Hill of Ward aka Tlachtga
- Samhain - Night of Joy and Merriment
- Winter Solstice
- Imbolc
- Spring Equinox
- Bealtaine
- Summer Solstice
- Lughnasadh
- Autumn Equinox
- Celestial Celebrations
- Moon Celebrations
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Feast Days & Festivals
- Ember Days - 3 days at the start of each season
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January to March
- New Year's Traditions - Kirkwall Ba' & Handsel Monday
- When is Twelfth Night?
- 6th January - Chalking the Door
- 6th January - the Feast of the Epiphany
- 6th January - Oiche Nollaig na Mban
- 6th January - La Befana and Twelfth Night
- Early January - Plough Monday
- 11th January - Burning the Clavie
- 13th January - Saint Knut's Day & Lohri
- 15th January - St Ita’s day
- 19th January - Popcorn Day
- 19th January - Timkat
- 25th January - Burns Night
- 25th January - St Dwynwen’s Day
- 27th January - Feast of Lí Ban, the Irish Mermaid Saint
- 28th January - Up Helly Aa - lightening of the year
- 29th January - St Bláth or Bláthnaid of Kildare
- 31st January - Bridget’s Eve - Brat Bríd
- Chinese New Year - Lunar New Year - Spring Festival
- end January - Thorrablot
- end January - Dísablót
- First Lunar Month - Losar Tibetan Festival
- Pancake Tuesday and Ash Wednesday - the start of Lent
- 1st February - St. Seiriol
- 2nd February- Candlemas
- 3rd February - Feast of St Blaise
- 11th February - Feast of St. Gobnait
- 14th February - St. Valentine's Day
- 29th February - Leap Year Day
- First Full Moon of March - Holi
- Mardi Gras
- 1st March - Saint David's Day
- 5th March - St Piran’s day in Cornwall
- 8th March - St Sennan
- 15th March - Ides of March & Anna Perenna Goddess
- 17th March - St Patrick’s Day
- 18th March - Sheelah's Day
- 19th March - St. Joseph's Day
- 22nd March - Feast of St. Darerca
- 24th March - Old Feast of St Gabriel
- 25th March - Latha na Cailliche
- end March - Earth Hour
- end March - Time to Spring forward
- end March - Mother's Day
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April to June
- New Moon - Ramadan & Laylatul Qadr - Night of Power
- Blackthorn Winter
- 1st April - April Fools' Day
- 5th April - Saint Becan of Emlagh, the priest and the Devil... and bog butter
- 14th April - St. Lydwina
- 15th April - St Ruadhán's Day
- 23rd April - St George's Day
- 25th April - St Maughold, patron saint of the Isle of Man
- 30th April - Walpurgis Night
- The days of the Three Ice Men
- Palm Sunday
- Holy Week
- Easter and Hocktide
- Ascension Thursday
- Taurus Full Moon - Wesak
- Whitsuntide
- 16th May - St. Brendan the Navigator
- 19th May - St Yves, patron saint of Brittany
- 27th May - Saint Melangell
- 29th May - Oak Apple Day
- 3rd June - St Kevin of Glendalough
- 9th June - St Colmcille
- 27th June - Seven Sleepers
- 29th June - Feast of St. Peter and Paul
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July to September
- 5th July - Tynwald Day, Isle of Man’s National Day
- 15th July - St Swithin's Day
- 16th July - Macdara’s Day - Féile Mhic Dara
- 3rd week of July - Swan Upping
- 21st July - St. Mullin's Pilgrimage
- 24th July - St. Declan of Ardmore
- 25 July - St Christopher the Martyr
- 26th July - Feast of Saints Anne and Joachim
- 28th July - Domhnach Crom Dubh
- Last Sunday in July - Reek Sunday / Domhnach na Cruaiche
- Early August - Puck Fair
- Mid August - Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival
- 10th August - Feast of St Lawrence
- 15th August - Lady Day, Slane
- 15th August - Lady’s Island Pilgrimage, Wexford
- 19th August - St Mochta
- 24th August - St. Bartholomew's Day
- 30th August - St Fiacre
- 31st August - St Aidan of Lindisfarne
- August Bank Holiday - Llanwrtyd Wells Bog Snorkelling Championships
- September - Crying the Neck in Cornwall
- mid- September Mooncake Festival
- 4th September - St Cuthbert
- 9th September - St Ciaran's Day
- 18th September - St Joseph of Cupertino
- 25th September - St Finbar
- 29th September - Michaelmas, Feast of St. Michael
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October to December
- 2nd Sunday in October - Canadian Thanksgiving Day
- 12th October - Nuestra Señora del Pilar - Our Lady of the Pillar
- 21st October - Apple Day
- October to Mid-November - Bhai Dooj
- 31st October - Hop-tu-Naa, Isle of Man
- November - Diwali
- 1st November - All Hallows' Day, All Saints Day.
- 2nd November - All Soul’s Day
- 5th November - Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night
- 8th November - St Cybi / St Cuby
- 10th November - St. Grellan
- 11th November - St Martin's Day
- 11.11
- 16th November - Hecate's night
- 17th November - St Hilda of Whitby
- 20th November - St Edmund's Day
- 21st November - World Hello Day
- 25th November - St Catherine's Day & White Ribbon day
- 4th Thursday in November - American Thanksgiving
- Last weekend in November - Stir up Sunday
- 30th November - St Andrews Day
- 4th December - St. Barbara
- 5th / 6th December - Feast of St. Nicholas and Krampus
- 7th December - St. Ambrose
- 8th December - Feast of the Immaculate Conception
- 12th December - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Nuestra Señora de Guadalup
- 13th December - St. Lucia's Day
- 17th December - Sow Day on the Orkneys
- 18th December - The Festival of Epona
- Halcyon Days
- 21st December - Feast of St Thomas the Apostle
- 26th December - Hunting the Wren and Boxing Day
- 31st December - New Year's Eve
- Welsh Tradition in December - Mari Lwyd
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Blog
- Aprons and Stones
- Celebrating the Directions
- Celebrating the Elements
- Crafts
- Creating a Labyrinth
- End of Summertime - energies of darkness and light
- Flowers & Plants in ceremony
- Genus Loci
- Inspirational Writing
- Magic of the Land
- Mandalas in the Landscape
- Mardi Gras in Louisiana
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Meditation
- Intentions
- Why Meditate?
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Meditations we have shared
- Breathing exercises
- Christmas meditation and Nativity Play
- Life Affirming Meditation
- May Love Heal our World prayer
- Memories of meditations at An Tobar
- Menitation - Meditation and Mens Mental Health
- Pre - Autumn Equinox 2019
- Summer Solstice 2020 Monday meditation
- Walking Life's Tightrope
- Yoga Nidra Meditation
- Brain & Body Activity During Meditation
- Leading a Meditation? Guidance notes
- Previous Monday Meditation Venues
- Music
- Pagan Forms of Pleasure - Banned
- Recycling Ideas
- Spirit Healing
- Symbols and the Seasons
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Fáilte go dtí Tara Celebrations - celebrating the 8 fold year with ritual and meditation
