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The Yule Winter Solstice Gathering is a must-attend Workshop that celebrates the Return of the LightYule Winter Solstice Gathering Wheel of the Year - Alban Arthan
Join us on December 21nd 2025 from 11am to 3pm for the Yule Winter Solstice Gathering Wheel of the Year, a unique and magical workshop hosted by Kim Gutteridge (Kim Ora Rose).
I shall organise for us to go for a meal together I'll put a £10 ticket for a deposit and share the venue and menus to go at 3.30pm for a Celebration Meal together. (Crown or Golden cup in Yoxall)
This captivating event will occur at the Forest Harvest, in the serene Community Garden, Dunstall Lane, Hadley End, Yoxall. Burton-on-Trent Staffordshire, DE13 8PG
https://www.orarosetemple.com/event-details/yule-gathering-celebrating-the-return-of-the-light-2
The Yule Winter Solstice Gathering is a must-attend Workshop that celebrates the Return of the Light. Embracing the ancient traditions and wisdom of the Yule Winter Solstice this event brings together individuals over 18 years old from all walks of life. Men and women alike are invited to join us in this open and inclusive Sacred Circle, we come from different paths, druid, pagan and eclectic paths. Kim follows a Priestess path and Ovate calling, we come together to honour each festival in the Wheel of the Year.
Immerse yourself in a world of spiritual connection and discovery. The workshop will include a mesmerizing meditation with the Goddess Hecate guiding you through a journey of self-reflection inner peace and profound connection to the Holly and Oak Trees.
Indulge your senses with captivating poetry uplifting inspiration and the warm embrace of a community united in celebrating the Return of the Light.
Sacred Circle Ceremony
Option to receive an Initiation into our Grove
Meditation Journey with Goddess Hecate & Sound Healing
We are a eclectic group and welcome all paths
White Flame Blessings to ignite your Inner Light, as the Light returns
Please bring a Candle Lantern (that can be closed)
Mulled Wine and Mincepies
Winter Solstice, called in the Druid Tradition Alban Arthan [the Light of Arthur]. This is the time of death and rebirth. The sun appears to be abandoning us completely as the longest night comes to us. Linking our own inner journey to the yearly cycle, the words of the Druid ceremony ask “Cast away, O wo/man whatever impedes the appearance of light.” In darkness we throw on to the ground the scraps of material we have been carrying that signify those things which have been holding us back, and one lamp is lit from a flint and raised up on the Druid’s crook in the East. The year is reborn and a new cycle begins, which will reach its peak at the time of the Midsummer Solstice, before returning again to the place of death-and-birth.
Although the Bible indicates that Jesus was born in the Spring, it is no accident that the early Church chose to move his official birthday to the time of the Midwinter Solstice – for it is indeed a time when the Light enters the darkness of the World, and we see again the building of Christianity on the foundations of earlier belief.
In a Christian culture we really only have one marker for the year, and that is Christmas. Easter and Harvest-time used to be significant, but can hardly be considered so now, when only a fraction of the British population attend Church regularly.
https://druidry.org/druid-way/teaching-and-practice/druid-festivals/the-eightfold-wheel-of-the-year
Poetry
Calling to the Returning light
White Flame Blessing
Yule Craft Activity
Drinks and Cake provided
The venue is rustic, we use a heated polytunnel, which gets warm, wear sturdy shoes and layers.
Part of the Hawthorn & Rose Grove Events (OBOD Seed Group)
Tickets
Early Bird Price £24* sign up by 30th November for Early Bird Saving
Yule £33*
Rose Priestess - £15* (Reduced price for students on Kims Priestess or High Priestess Courses) - Current Course, if you have finished your course please book the Early Bird or Standard rate
https://www.orarosetemple.com/event-details/yule-gathering-celebrating-the-return-of-the-light-2
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From the South
Travel North on the A515 Lichfield to Ashbourne Road.
About 1 Mile North of Yoxall turn left at the Forester Restaurant. In 200 meters you come to a five-way junction, take the 2nd exit which is Dunstall lane.
Forest Harvest is 100meters on the right opposite the second entrance to Woodmill Farm the animal feed supplier.
From the North
Travel South down the A515 Ashbourne to Lichfield road.
About 1 Mile North of Yoxall turn right at the Forester Restaurant. In 200meters you come to a five-way junction, take the 2nd exit which is Dunstall lane.
Forest Harvest is 100meters on the right opposite the second entrance to Woodmill Farm the animal feed supplier.
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Forest Harvest, Burton Upon Tren, United Kingdom
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