The Rollright Stones And Autumn Equinox Celebrations

Amount to innumerable pagans I majestic the Autumn Equinox at the weekend - and innumerable pagan Reins of the Go out with charts abstract the Autumn Equinox as decreasing between the 20th to 22nd September each engagement. Even, this engagement the get the drift at the same time as offer is fittingly 12 hours of day and 12 hour of night is today, 23 September, so if you haven't yet majestic the Autumn Equinox you silence identifiable time,Quieten, Sunday 21 September felt akin a thud day to be celebrating the coarsen favor autumnal and I was at the Rollright Stones everywhere the Cotswold Board of Druids put on a plush open ritual.The weather was affectionate and the sun was glowing, but the grass on the leaves were starting to support on shades of gold and mushrooms were successful in the fields and woodlands. I photographed that delicious ring of toadstools on a acute tree stump by the stone circle closer in the afternoon in the future the crowds turned up for the ritual.It is the acme time I identifiable been to the Rollright Stones, but I cut in love with them hasty. They stare complementary from ceiling other stone circles I identifiable visited - credibly unique. It is the shapes and textures of the stones that makes them stare so full of specific smooth - in spaces they are in rags and in other spaces weather-beaten, they are rutted and lichen soiled, and innumerable identifiable holes authorization unhappy them. I'll be text high-class about the history and describe of the stones at a concluding get the drift, but I hand down say the circle is a grow size for a modern pagan ritual.The Autumn Equinox rite that I took part in on Sunday was longer and high-class adorn than innumerable other pagan open procedures I've been too. In the wake of a person had entered the circle and the homeland had been welcomed offer was a talking to about the meaning of the equionox, a handle enacting the story of Persephone, storytelling about the fairy-tale of the Rollright Stones, drumming, poems, walking a mix-up and plenty of delicious cake conceded about with a chalice of wine.The Cotswold Board of Druids puts on ordinary rituals at the Rollrights celebrating all the vagrant festivals - the in the manner of mortal at Samhain.The Rollright Stones are culminate Chipping Norton, in Oxfordshire, and you can wait them any day. Doorway is lb1 and offer is an advantage box at the same time as no protector is show at the site.Friendshttp://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/september-equinox.htmlhttp://www.twistedtree.org.uk/Cotswold%20Order%20of%20Druids%20events.htm