Meanderings along Ancestral Polytheist Paths: Three Stones of a circle located on Machrie Moor

22 April 2011

Three Stones of a circle located on Machrie Moor

A picture taken on a tour of the west of Scotland with Megalithic Tours in 2010. One of the many stone circles of Machrie Moor on the isle of Arran.

2 comments:

Seren said...: Arran's just down the road from me, I can't believe I've never been! Beautiful.; 23 April 2011 at 08:23
Potia said...: One of my favourite places. Don't get there as often as I like but Arran is a wonderful place.; 23 April 2011 at 10:41

Festival Calendar

Là Fhèill Brìghde ~ A time to celebrate the end of winter, welcome the beginnings of spring, and the start of new life (and love), usually by the cleaning and purifying the home, and the blessing of animals and children.

Bealltainn ~ The start of the season of fertility.

Summer Solstice ~ A personal celebration wherein I "sit out" all night in contemplation of my ancestors, and how they might have viewed this time of the year, as the days now become shorter, and the nights longer, but the weather warmer.

Lùnastal ~ A time to contemplate blood, family, and honour and the coming harvest.

Samhainn ~ The end of summer and the beginning of winter; a time to honour the ancestors, of the family, older clans, countrymen, and pagan forebears.

Winter Solstice ~ A personal celebration wherein I "sit out" all night to ponder how my ancestors might have endured, and considered during the longest night and shortest day of the year.