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The ancient Celts were foremost pilgrim travellers embarked on a spiritual journey living a physical existence, which they perceived as one of many interconnected lifetimes, in an eternal sea of ever evolving sacred spiraling energy Knotwork and the Endless Knot were symbolic of eternal life and the flowing continuity of the soul as the Celts journeyed a path without a beginning or an ending. Similarly, trifold spiraling swirling patterns and the Druidic Celtic Calendar Festivals were used to artistically express the inspirational beauty and harmony of the Natural World, as well as, their spiritual connectivity with the Sacred Mysteries of the Tree of Life. The ancient Celts had deeply rooted spiritual traditions. For the Celts, the Earth and the Realm of Nature was alive with sacredness and with the elementals of fire, earth, air, and water who were imbued with innate divinity and purposeful beingness. During their rituals, the Celts often revered their ancestors who lived in a paradise that lied somewhere beyond the encircling sea. Celtic spiritual traditions included deeply held beliefs in an afterlife, fairy mounds, immortality, magic, nature spirits, and supernatural and mythical beings and monsters who made their home in the Otherworld.
Equinox Stone, Cairn T, Loughcrew, Ireland The boundaries between this world and the Otherworld for the Druidic Celts were adaptable, fluidic, and malleable. Everyone had the ability or aptitude to cross over the thresholds between lands and realms and to travel back and forth between them, especially during the Festival of Samhain when the boundaries betwixt and between worlds disappeared for awhile. Samhain (Samhuinn, Summer's End) from October 31st - November 1st was a festival when the Celtic year began at the time of the rising of the Pleiades. Samhain (Samhuinn, Summer's End) was a time of summer's concluding and completions, as well as, the first day of winter, when the veils between worlds were at their thinnest and the ancestral keepers of wisdom and traditions were honored. Samhain (Samhuinn, Summer's End) was a time to use the open doorways to communicate with the spirit worlds to contact the sidhe, the Gods, and the Goddesses. A magical gateway between seasons and threshold passageways, Samhain (Samhuinn, Summer's End) was also a favorable time for Druidic fortune telling and predicting probable futures. Samhain (Samhuinn, Summer's End) was celebrated with sprigs of holly symbolizing rebirth, and jack o'lanterns (carved out turnips and pumpkins with lighted candles inside them), symbolizing Awen /|\.
Imbolc from February
1st - 2nd was a fire festival and time of great joy (Oimelc), omens, of
portents, of signs, of spring buddings, of stirrings, of passion's first blush,
of the whispered bird kisses of youthful love, and of the glimmerings of future
potentials...
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