Samhain is the time of no time and the end and beginning of the Celtic year. For three days the doors between the worlds are open and chaos may rule.

Out of the chaos comes the new order of the new year. It is a time to re-member, to bring together again, the best of our past, individually and collectively. It is a time to remember our loved ones who have already crossed the threshold and those ancestors whose lives and work prepared the way for us to incarnate in this land.

Samhain brings the opportunity to review the past cycle of life, if we can do this very honestly we may be able to move to a new state of being – we strive towards compassion for all life, to preserve the dignity of human beings, to protect the earth and to learn to give without expectation.

The Celts recognised God in His Stag form; Cernunnos is God in His own creation, He is the hunter and gatherer of souls, in later times known as the good shepherd who forgets no one, all are brought home.