Events for October 30, 2025 - October 30, 2025

We will celebrate the Winter Solstice, the Feast of the Return of the Sun, at the White Mountain Druid Sanctuary at Trout Lake Abbey. This will be a Welsh Celebration of the God Lleu Llaw Gyffes and the God Gwydion. Bydded felly! The Winter Solstice is the time of the shortest day and longest night of the year. The sun is at its weakest and darkness pervades the world. But it is also the time that the sun begins its return to strength, growing brighter and more powerful until it reaches its apex at the Summer Solstice in June.

We will be celebrating the Feast of Imbolc at Trout Lake Abbey on Saturday, January 31, 2023 at 4:30 pm. This will be an Irish pantheon rite. Bíodh sé amhlaidh! This is the rite of the first glimmers of spring, and the hope of warmer days ahead. In Ireland, this is a time when the ewes begin to show signs of lactation, and candles are no longer needed to see when milking the cows.

We will be celebrating Spring Equinox at Trout Lake Abbey on Saturday, March 21, 2026, at 6 pm. This will be a Hellenic (ancient Greek) pantheon rite. Esto! This is the rite when the days and nights are of equal length, and with the return of Persephone, Spring returns to the land.

We will be celebrating Calan Haf at Trout Lake Abbey on Saturday, May 2, 2026 at 5:30 pm. We are starting early so that we may dance the Maypole in the light. This will be a Welsh pantheon rite. Bydded Felly! This is the rite of the beginnings of summer, of fertility, and of green and growing things.  It is said that in medieval days, folks would go out into the woods and lay with whomever they came across. Welcome to the lusty month of May!

We will be celebrating the Feast of the Summer Solstice in the Stone Circle here at the White Mountain Druid Sanctuary at Trout Lake Abbey on Saturday, June 20, 2026 beginning with our potluck at 6:30 pm with the ritual beginning at 8pm. Sunset isn't until 9pm so this will let us burn the Wicker Man in twilight.

We will be celebrating Lughnasadh at the White Mountain Druid Sanctary at Trout Lake Abbey on Saturday, August 1, 2026. This will be an Irish pantheon rite. Bíodh sé amhlaidh! This is the rite of the Sovereignty of Lugh Samildanach. He manages this through the good offices of the Goddess of Sovereignty here in Trout Lake, the Lady of the White Salmon. This is also a rite of the harvest as our crops begin to ripen and the fruits of our labors are available to us all.