Our face-to-face events are the PAN Coffee Moot (fourth Saturday of the month), talks and workshops at the Silver Road Community Centre (second Sunday of the month), special evenst, especially Boudica's Brocante in October, and, in the summer part of the year, walks. We are also restarting our on-line talks! Details below. Indeed, the silver lining to lockdown was the people who have joined us on-line that couldn't do so in person. We have been joined by people from distant parts of England, Wales, Canada, France and the USA!
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Various people have asked if Norwich Pagan Moot was going to organise a ritual for Imbolc/Candlemas. In the past, we have sometimes done a Moot ritual on the Heath at this time of year, but it is by no means an annual event like the 12th Night ritual, and it would not be feasible for us to organise something for all of the nine festivals. This year, we have decided to have simple little on-line event, which takes less organising and allows people who live far away or who have issues attending in person, for whatever reason, the opportunity to take part.
We will begin with a short chat about Imbolc/Candlemas and the history of the festival and its meaning, followed by a short ritual led by Val and Chris. The purpose of this ritual is to honour the season of renewal, of light and of new growth, to journey to meet the goddess of this time and to receive her blessings for the coming Spring.
If you are planning to attend, you could, if you wish take a speaking role by bringing an offering to present. It could be some thoughts about the season, a poem, a song, something seasonal you have made that you'd like to show us or something about one of the plants which are important at this time. Please let me know in advance if you'd like to do this so that I can make sure you don't get left out. You might also like to have close to you a representation of each of the four Elements and something to eat or drink as communion. Otherwise you are welcome to just sit and listen. There will be some slides and screen sharing during the ritual so hopefully the tech gods will be kind to us! You can download the ritual running order beforehand.
Some of our speakers have kindly provided texts or presentations from their talks which you can download here.
