17/10/2006
Hilde will be leading a ceremony at Youth’s house.
To prepare for this ceremony, please think about three things you would like to let go of this Winter: a personal thing, a thing in the wider world, and an aspect of the old London Grove. If you could find and bring a small combustible something to represent each of these things, that would be great. I expect to do a longish talking stick session and be ready to begin the ceremony just after sunset.
Youths house is at
34 Wandsworth Common North Side
SW18
Map
If you’re driving:
This road is part of the South Circular, where it is the A3 (continued from the A205). Wandsworth Common North Side is only a short stretch. Youth’s house is somewhere between Spencer Park (white road on map) and Battersea Rise. I am told you can park outside on a Sunday.
Walking from Clapham Junction:
Go out through the shopping centre. Turn right onto St. John’s Hill. Follow this road, crossing at some lights and passing shops. Turn left into Spencer Road and right at the end into Wandsworth Common North Side
Youth’s house is a beautiful Victorian detached house. His front door is on the left hand side of the building (the door on the right belongs to someone else). We are grateful to be able to use it for your Samhain ceremonies.
3/9/2006
We will get together somewhere close to the Thames to brainstorm ideas for meetings and ceremonies in the coming year. Daniel will choose a venue, and will let you know closer to the time.
26/11/2006
I thought our meeting at Queen Elizabeth Hall yesterday (25th November) was very positive. Thank you Daniel for incubating it. The egg produced several fledglings and a few new eggs as well. I’m inspired by the idea of producing a piece of textile art for the Tameisis Seedgroup, for example.
Welcome to Chris, and I hope you’ll be able to bring your guitar and whistle to rituals Chris. (Or have I imagined the whistle?)
Our impromptu invocation of the river created a fitting conclusion to the afternoon. Some of us remembered standing in the same place on the Charing Cross Millenium Bridge in the bright light of late summer. Yesterday it was twilight, the river in full flood. I was sad that I couldn’t hear all the invoacations and blessings. There were the sirens and engine noise of boats, conversation of passers-by, the rumble of trains and the solitary saxophonist whose music distracted me. But the river has always been freighted with busyness and business so this was only fitting and I hope our lady of the river heard each one of us.
So, gods, goddesses and devas willing we will meet again in various configurations in 2007. Blessings and love to you all as we approach the solstice.
I have added all the events to the calendar. If you are organising something, please go to your event (click on ‘Events’ above or browse through the calendar on the right) and see if you agree with the date and starting time in particular. If you want to change anything, or add more detail to your event, please add it as a comment or e-mail me.
It is good to have the details completed for the three upcoming events that are listed under the calendar in the right hand column, so if you’re organising one of them, please let me have those as soon as you can.
A big thank you to everyone who volunteered to organise something. Your contribution is very important to our group and much appreciated.
Hilde
