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September 2020
Wellness Weekend Kildare Town
Kildare town is hosting a World Wellness Weekend on 18-20th September. Solas Bhride is delighted to support and be part of this event. In response to the enormous challenges that Covid 19 has brought, the event aims to provide a huge array of activities and therapies that offer people of all abilities and interest an opportunity to participate. The programme aims to address all four pillars of wellness, physical, mental, spiritual and environment. The festival has invested a lot of…
Find out more »Autumn Equinox
September Tuesday, September 22nd: Autumn Equinox “No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face.” Elegy IX: The Autumnal by John Donne Septmber 22nd is the autumnal (or fall) equinox, the day when the sun crosses the celestial equator and the earth has the same amount of daylight as darkness.Equinox time is a time of equilibrium and balance, of harmony and stillness. For us in the Northern Hemisphere the autumn equinox marks the…
Find out more »October 2020
A Celebration of Samhain: All Saint and All Souls
€10.00
“The edge is a holy place, or as the Celts called it, “a thin place” and you have to be taught how to live there. To take your position on the spiritual edge of things is to learn how to move safely in and out, back and forth, across and return.” Richard Rohr Samhain marks one of the two great doorways of the Celtic year, for the Celts divided the year into two seasons. The light at Bealtaine on May…
Find out more »December 2020
Winter Solstice: Darkness into Light
€10.00
It is here between the darkness And the light, That we wait... Ruth Patterson “This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of, and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.” Margaret Atwood More information nearer date.
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