Nemeton Awenyddion
The Mistletoe Rite
The Mistletoe Ritual is performed on the sixth night after the new moon. During this phase of the moons cycle there is a balance between the moon and the sun. This time of balance also represents the Edge of our sickles. The edge is like the magical space that exists between the earth and the sky we see on the horizon at sunset or sunrise. It is a magical doorway that is open for spirits and higher knowledge to come through. It is the veil between the worlds after it has been parted. Mistletoe is symbolic of this doorway. Mistletoe is not a plant, herb, or tree. Mistletoe lives between the worlds, in a place that is not a place, in a time where there is no time. Suspended by a branch, it is Otherworldly.
* Caesar wrote that Mistletoe was collected by the ancient Druids on the sixth night of the new moon, and at Alban Hefin (Summer-- Solstice).
* Images of gray bearded, white robed, Druids of old cutting Mistletoe with a golden sickle are pretty well known.
* The Mistletoe rite is a healing ritual place of balance and harmony. With the moon in its new phase of its monthly cycle, it is a good time to focus on your healing that you want to work with in this month until the full moon. The time for you to begin the healing cycle is at the new moon. Keeping your healing growth in tune with the new moon, and new beginning helps our "letting go" let go completely, full circle. At the new moon focus on all those things that are connected to what you are letting go of, make a list. Then by the Mistletoe rites you will have a jump start in what healing you're working on this month.
* Nemeton Awenyddion celebrates this healing ritual almost on the exact day every month. As with any other rituals we do, visitors must read our
*Laws of Harmony* and agree with them before admittance to any ritual .
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