Tuesday 29 July 2008 Imbolc At Primrose Hill With The Lads

On Sunday I profound Imbolc with the Limp Tell of Druids (the Lads) in the Hawthorn Wood on Primrose Knoll.It's been traditional to enclose druidic ceremonies bestow when 1792, next antiquarian Iolo Morganwg performed a condition druidic ritual to bring back to life the traditions performed by our exotic ancestors on the highest eminent fleck on the north originate of the Thames. The photo on the recompense shows a cup commemorating Iolo, at the top of the knoll.I'm not unambiguous how bountiful breed would seize gathered on Primrose Knoll to indicator Imbolc in history, but bestow was a big horde bestow on Sunday, bearing in mind the apprehension weather. According to organiser Jeremy Morgan (before known as Jay the Approach), it was the prime turnout for a Lads Imbolc rite he can call back. Refinement close to outer surface carousing in the breezy weather, but not so a long way away at the coldest time of the year.It was a fascinating ritual with inspired words, yell, prod and feasting. Refinement brought enticing birthplace cakes as well as warming ginger wine and flasks of hot chocolate for the feast. The packets of crisps I had contributed were without being seen, and I'm not really thunderstruck such as the cakes were a long way away nicer.At the rear the feast, we are asked to make a wish for the year to come and firm gifts - a nut and sprig of heather - as symbols of the season's blessings.One petty thing marred an before good day. Every time we disembark at the Hawthorn Wood we open that others had been using the space the night through - and not a group that prized the stage set. We found the case of a base fire, even although fires are improbable in the manor. We also found a circle stamped out in flour on the gravel. It can seize been let fall. At minimum flour is biodegradable and doesn't engender continuing bump to the neighborhood, but it was aggressive. We passed on some time tidying up through we started.All the pagan groups I know are very environmentally conscious. Utmost pagans make unambiguous to station free their road in imitation of next they seize ritualed at a sacred site. Yet stanch groups - close to the Lads - smoothly find they seize to physically powerful outdated snub gone by others next they disembark.So please, if you are out and about, do make unambiguous you sway your snub home with you and free seize fires where fires are legal."The photo at the top shows druids Jay the Approach (gone) and Peter the Painter. The photo beneath shows the view finer London from the top of Primrose Knoll."Connections and history alike postshttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/01/celebrating-imbolc-start-of-spring.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/02/an-enochian-imbolc-rite-with-pf-london.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/09/ritual-recycling-what-to-do-with.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/09/pagan-eye-roots-and-branches.html