Join Miriam, some special guests and a coven of women for a weekend of talks, workshops and practices exploring & celebrating the Witch.

OCTOBER 29 & 30

Witch: A
Samhain
Gathering.

This is an online event.

Who is 'Witch' for?

'Witch: a Samhain Gathering' is for women.... women whose lives revolve around embodiment, healing work and a love of the land. For these women, restoring the Witch as a sacred feminine archetype and learning why she was persecuted throughout the centuries is key to understanding our own womanhood. Knowing the true story of the Witch Hunts and the way their horrors have impacted the feminine psyche is one of the ways we can locate the origin story of our disembodiment, disconnection from our innate magick and severance from the land.

Samhain pronounced 'Sah-win' is a Gaelic word for the Celtic festival which marks the descent into the darker half of the year.  Samhain is celebrated from the sunset of  October 31st until the sunrise of November 1st – falling roughly half-way between Autumn Equinox & Winter Solstice. This time is marked with gatherings, feasts & story telling.  Several Neolithic passage tombs in Ireland (such as Dumha na nGiall, in the Tara-Skryne Valley in County Meath, Ireland) were built so that sunlight shines through the central passage on the morning of Samhain. It was said that over Samhain, the tombs – seen as portals into the otherworld – were open and the boundaries between the world of the living and the spirits, porous, allowing the souls of the Aos Sí (the 'spirits' or 'fairies') to move amongst the living. 

this is a virtual event

Wise woman, healer, herbalist, trouble-maker, edge walker, midwife, elder, soothsayer, crone – however we define the Witch, the charge she holds is undeniable.

it features:

Witch: A Samhain Gathering...

Talks on the History of Women and the Witch Trials; Female Sexuality; A History of Herbal Abortefecants.

Workshops on Voice Work, Tarot, Herbal Medicine.

Movement & Sacred Rest Practices.

is a celebration of the Witch, Samhain and community.

In the time known as the Early Modern period many converging factors set the scene for the Witch Hunts in Europe. Land privatisation, the advent of capitalism, and the Enlightenment are just some of them. Women were (at least) 80% of the Witch Hunts' victims and it is impossible not to consider these times as a war on women; an attempt to create a new kind of woman by way of fear: meek, servile and well-behaved. In today's strange times, the Witch holds an undeniable allure for wild women. She is a repository of our feelings about what it means to be undomesticated and free. 

Free Gift for guests of 'Witch'

When you buy a weekend ticket for 'Witch' you receive the recording of 'The Witch Wound Workshop for free. You'll find the workshop in your online portal from October 29.