BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Healing with Spirit with Laura - ECPv6.17.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Healing with Spirit with Laura
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://laurahealingwithspirit.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Healing with Spirit with Laura
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20250101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261101T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261101T190000
DTSTAMP:20260902T140531Z
CREATED:20260902T135708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T140531Z
UID:5499-1793545200-1793559600@laurahealingwithspirit.com
SUMMARY:Samhain Community Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Join us for community\, song\, fire\, food\, prayer\, and offerings as we mark Samhain together honoring the ancestors and the turning of the wheel toward the dark half of the year. \nIn LIEU of a $35 donation to cover expenses\, we ask that you bring: \n\nAn offering for the fire\nA log for the fire\nHealthy food to share\nOptionally\, something to offer the circle – a song\, a story\, an experiential piece\, or an activity related to Samhain or ancestral remembrance. Let us know in advance so we can weave it into the gathering.\n\nIf you’re NOT able to bring these\, a $35 donation is welcome instead. This is a community-building event\, and helping with setup/breakdown also earns a free ticket. \nTo RSVP:  Contact Laura via text 857-880-0365 or via contact page \nADDRESS:  Because this is a private residence\, exact address given upon RSVP.  If inclement weather\, the address will shift to the Healing With Spirit studio space in Hingham. \n\n\n\nSamhain from the Irish Perspective\nSamhain (pronounced SOW-in) marks one of the four great fire festivals of the Irish agricultural and spiritual calendar\, alongside Imbolc\, Bealtaine\, and Lughnasadh. Falling around November 1st\, it marked the end of the harvest and the beginning of the dark half of the year … the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead was believed to grow thin\, allowing spirits\, ancestors\, and the Sídhe (the Otherworldly folk) to move more freely between realms. \nHistorically in Ireland\, Samhain centered on communal gathering rather than solitary observance. Households extinguished their hearth fires and relit them from a shared communal bonfire …often kindled at hilltop sites … binding the community together for the coming winter. The Hill of Tlachtga (in County Meath) is one of the most significant sites associated with these Samhain fires\, believed to be the origin point from which the ritual flame was distributed to hearths across the land. \nOfferings of food and drink were left out for the dead and for the Sídhe both as a gesture of respect and as protection\, placating spirits so the household and livestock would be safe through winter. \nDivination was common too: this liminal night was considered especially potent for seeing into the future\, through apple peels\, nuts thrown into the fire\, and other folk methods. \nSamhain was also a time of storytelling and communal reckoning such as tales of the ancestors\, the harvest\, and the dead were shared around the fire\, reinforcing lineage and continuity even as the visible world grew darker.
URL:https://laurahealingwithspirit.com/event/samhain-community-gathering/
CATEGORIES:Guest Appearances/Events,Spiritual Enrichment
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laurahealingwithspirit.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/samhain_1761998423.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR