SAMHAIN “Riding the Fire of the Ancestors”

Samhain is often seen as the “end of the year” in the Pagan calendar. A time when the bridge between the physical and spirit dimensions of this world is felt to be the most “open”, it is a celebration of connection and honoring of our beloved ancestors. This is a potent time for ancestral honoring and healing work, and an important opportunity to contemplate our own role and standing as ancestors of the future yet to come. In this ceremony, we will honor the ancestor energy we hold and bring to the world. We invite you to bring a small offering for the fire that represents or honors an ancestor you wish to acknowledge as part of the ceremony.

Plan to arrive by 3:30pm so you have time to park and arrive before the ceremony begins at 1pm. Children are welcome!  

The Stone Circle with Eyal Amiel and Jodi Bailey

For many thousands of years, humans from land-honoring spiritual traditions have aligned their sacred ceremonies with the natural seasons and cycles of the Earth, the “Wheel of the Year” according to modern Pagan traditions. The Stone Circle at Rootstock honors the deep history of many of these traditions in which sacred sites of “standing stones’ mark spiritually significant locations and the potent Earth energies therein to hold space for sacred ceremonial work. In 2024, we launched our first Wheel of the Year offerings at Rootstock and celebrated the passage of the seasons in community, honoring the Earth and ourselves in the process, forming relationship with the seasons, and building deeper connection with the land through ceremony. 

In the third year of this series of offerings, Eyal and Jodi, in partnership with the Rootstock community, invite you to join in the cultivation and tending of a living spiritual “Stone Circle”, which we will build and hold through our ceremonial gatherings during the important seasonal transitions of the Wheel during 2026. This year, our ceremonies will be guided by the theme “Riding the Inner Fire” through 8 seasonal rituals where we will honor the energetic gifts of the seasons of the Earth and in our own Beings. We will be honoring the energy of Inner Fire in this year, in honor of new beginnings, opening portals, and sacred transitions happening around our planet. Participants are invited to bring curiosity, a reverence for the natural world, and an open heart to our gatherings, which are designed to be family friendly and inclusive for people from all backgrounds and beliefs. Inspired by the spiritual practices and teachings of the modern Druid tradition, we will come together in ceremony across the year, to honor and celebrate the natural rhythms of the Earth and invite the ebbs and flows of the natural world to speak to our Spirit, and guide and hold us in our own inward growth and evolution.