Samhain - Calling the Cailleach!

The Cailleach - Samhain is the time She is known to wake from her petrified stone state, and stalk the land for the dark half of the year; bringing storms and the cold of Winter with her. She is the Veiled One, the Storm Hag, the Storm Bringer.

We gather together at Samhain to commune with our Ancestors. Like them we honor and welcome the coming season. For even as the Cailleach brings Winter - come Beltaine, the Storm Bringer returns to stone and Brigid takes up the mantle of Goddess. She brings fertility to the growing season in her coupling with the sun god. In turn she will give way again for the Cailleach at Samhain, so the circle is complete, the seasons ever change and the wheel turns.