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Hern’s Tribe has been facilitating gathering for own rituals in woods for 8 years, and also facilitated many open rituals for other festivals & groups. Here are some of the recent ones (Gallery coming soon).
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 Hern’ Tribe London Events
Spring Equinox Ritual & Earth Hour Gathering
New Comers & Beginners All welcome!
Saturday 23rd March 2013
Event 1 : Spring Equinox Ceremony Gather at Tram stop between 3pm- 3.15pm. Bring food & drinks to share. We’ll come and meet you). Join us for outdoor Spring Equinox Ritual & Eco-Magic. Actual ritual will take place between 4pm-5pm. After ritual, we will be starting a small camp fire to keep warm during feasting & socials, songs and drumming.
Event 2 : Earth Hour Observance Gather at Tram stop 7.45pm-8pm. We’ll come and walk you to the ceremony site through the woods. It will be dark by then. Bring torch lights or candles in lanterns. Actual Earth Hour observance is between 8.30pm- 9.30pm.
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Special Ritual in January 2013:
Journey of the Fool. Ritual based on the first major arcana card of Tarot (The Fool) - which symbolises new beginnings and ventures. We will be doing this ritual outdoors in one of the park/ woodlands of London (tbc) - creating a Talisman and consecrating it at each of the quarter-gateways of the elements. Saturday 12th January 2013
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Hern’s Tribe: Samhain Ritual 2012 Once sacred space is created, we will be taking a pathworking to our Ancestral Tribes, using our bloodlines as a psychic link. The purpose is to become better empowered. There will also be divination work, and also Cauldron magic (for wisdom and insights).
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Mid-Winter Solstice (Yule): Outdoor Ritual in London
A special ritual to mark the end of one Mayan cycle and beginning of another. Join us for the Journey of the Fool, and quest through the 4 Elements to consecrate a magical Talisman. Anoint the Yule-log (yes a real one) with your wishes & hopes for 2013, and place it in the ritual fire. Then feast with home made bread, mulled Wine.. some woodland tribal cooking. Don’t forget the Mistletoe!
There will be Wiccan elements to this ritual.
Date: Saturday 22nd December 2012.
Please wear warm clothing. No matter what you think, it will get cold as you stay in one spot, and being cold can ruin your enjoyment of the ritual. Please ensure any young people/ children attending with you are suitably clothed. Thank you.
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 Hern’s Tribe Autumn Gatheringl Date: Saturday 29th September 2012. Time: Gather at LLoyd park Tram stop at 2pm, or get to `Coach House Cafe’ area of Coombe Woods by 2.30pm. Please don’t be late, as we are unable to wait at tram stop.
NEW Venue1: Coombe Woods (meet by the Coach House Cafe. Entrance on Conduit Lane. Nearest Trams are either Llloyd Park, or Coombe Lane. Then about 10min walk). Venue 2. If time & weather permits, we’ll be walking to Coombe Lane, to our usual spot in the other woods, for a small fire & drumming session around about 5pm.
Please bring food & drinks to share. Directions: Google map for Coach House Cafe : http://goo.gl/maps/fN3Kf Google map for Coombe Woods: http://goo.gl/maps/ACgIX
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 Hern’s Tribe Midsummer Ritual: Swearing on the Horns Ceremony
This is an old English tradition that used to take place in High gate woods. Few years ago, Hern’s Tribe re-enacted this in Queen’s Woods, and this year we are planning to do the ceremony again!
Date: Saturday 30th June 2012. Please bring food & drinks to share.
Magical preparation: Think carefully of an oath or promise you like to make upon the Horns, towards a noble, worthy, world or community serving cause(s). This is the oath you can swear upon the Horns of Hern, which shall be a binding promise you make to the Gods!
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Hern’s Tribe: Yule Celebrations
Family-friendly event. All welcome. Sunday 18th December’11. 2.30pm- 6pm. (Pick-up from `Coombe Lane’ Tram stop around 2.30pm).
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Hern’s Tribe: Samhain Ritual. Saturday 29th Oct’11. 5pm-8pm. Meeting point: 5pm at ` Coombe Lane’ tram stop (From outside `East Croydon’ station, take the `New Addingon’ branch of the Tram line. Our woods are 3 stops away from there!).
Due to magical preparations & organising (we’ll be in the woods), we will be out of phone communication on the day.
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HT: Hunters Moon Ritual. Sunday 9th October'11.
Gather at Coombe Lane tram stop (Croydon) at 5pm. We'll be walking upto high point in Woods to watch Sun-set and Moon-rise. Then return to ritual space for ceremonial fire, socials and a ritual honouring `Hern the Hunter' and `Diana the Huntress'.
Confirm if you are coming by tel : 077689-41373 on the day.
Once gathering starts, phone will be off!
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HT Open Ritual: A Midsummer Eve’s Dream. Saturday 18th June’11. 5pm-9pm. Meeting in the woods of Croydon for outdoor magic & tribal time, with Sol-fire, masks, music and more. . Rituals are light and friendly but ideal for interested people who would like to explore our shamanic ways. |
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 HT Lammas Ceremony (Richmond Park).
Saturday 6th August- 2pm-5pm. A family-friendly event focusing on the Harvest of grain and our own efforts.
Map ref to meeting point in Park (Richmond gate): http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=518578&Y=173684&A=Y&Z =110
Meeting point: 1.30pm at Richmond Station, if you want to meet us (Mani & April).Or 2pm at Richmond Gate, Richmond Park (there are car parks & cafe/ toilets here). Travel:**Tube problems** So get to Clapham and take train to Richmond.Nearest tube/train: Richmond (British rail/ district line). Then take bus 371 from outside the station (bus stop E) towards Kingston.. Get out at the stop oppsoite `American University' (on Queen's Road). Its a 2 minute walk to Richmond Gate from there! Park/ safety: Real Deers & Stags raom the park..!! So dogs on lead please. And small children should be supervised (logs, pits, ponds to watch out for). Its not rutting season, so Stags will be okay...they won;t charge at people! :-). Timeline/ Ceremony: Meet at Richmond Gate by 2pm. We'll gather and start off within 15 minutes. walk to a more private woodland area wil take 15 -20 mins. We'll do a simple shamanic sacred space set-up with fallen branches by a great forked semi-hollow Oak tree. We'll have errect antlers & Corn on a ground central altar with ritual food & drinks (no plastic please). After ceremony (20 mins) feasting...and if we have enough corn, make corn-dollies.
“Hern’s Tribe rituals are known for re-working fairytales and stories into modern day tribal ritual dramas! “
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HT-PFl Beltane Ritual (28th April’11). Hern’s Tribe continues it’s long tradition of supporting `Pagan Federation London’ (PF London), by facilitating PFl Indoor Beltane Ritual on thursday 28th April’11 (8pm rital start).
“Come join Hern’s Tribe in a sensual Beltane ritual! With blessings of Hern, we shall aid the Hero in his quest to win the heart of the Green Lady and dance fertility into the land! There will be drumming, mask, mayhem, May Pole dancing and much merriment! Hern’s Tribe rituals are known for re-working fairytales and stories into modern day tribal ritual dramas! “
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Previous Quarterly Special: Windsor Hern Ritual. Saturday 9th April’11.
 Way back in April 2005, Hern’s Tribe undertook to do annual Hern-rituals in Windsor great park, for the well-being of the land!. Little did we know, that due to the Pope dying and change of plans, Prince Charles will move his wedding (to Camilla) onto the same day that we had planned. Well, hey did their events, and so did we- on the same day (not that many people knew about ours!) We repeated that the following year, and fell into a gap. 2 years ago, HT people went to Windsor again for some `Male mysteries’ workings. And now, in April, we’re going back to Windsor, on the anniversary of our first Windsor-Hern ritual, to keep a promise to Hern. Stangely, we had planned this as way back as autumn in 2010, and a bit later, Prince William announced his wedding to Kate, to take place in April’11. Question we ask is- do you still need proof that Hern’s Tribe is onto a powerful magical stream connecting old Windsor-Hern myths and the Sovereignty of this land?
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Previous Quarterly Special:  A Mid-Winter Walk/picnic & Ritual.. sunday 19th Dec’10, at Richmond Park (SW London).
We gathered at Richmond Train station at took the bus to Richmond Park, meeting up with others. After some `snow-photos’ we began our walk to find the Deer..and it took some doing. Finally we found a group of 5 and stayed in their vicinity, attuning. We also visited the big-bellied Oak (some of us managed to get `inside’ it and toasted glasses of Champagne (Thanks Jinji!). Much mulled Wine, Mulled Cider, Coffe etc later, we walked to a special Oak and did our Yule ritual, of bringing light forth from darkness!
Photos can be seen in our `Hern’s Tribe’ facebook group.
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Hern’s Tribe & www.hern-Tribe.org Copyright (c) 2004-2012. Mani Navasothy. All rights reserved.
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Lammas Open Ritual: Trent Park. This was a wiccan style ritual, facilitated by Mani & friends. 
