Join Black Bear Grove for a celebration of Samhain, the Celtic new year.  We'll be honoring our Ancestors (of blood, spirit, and place), remembering those we've lost, and journeying to the Otherworld to meet them.

We'll gather at 3 pm, and the pre-ritual briefing will begin at 3:30. We'll have a potluck social time after the rite ends. We will be outdoors the entire time, so dress appropriately for the weather.

Please bring an ancestral memento to place on the Ancestor shrine, a seasonal dish/drink to share at potluck, and a canned/non-perishable food item to donate to Hoosier Hills Food Bank. (No one will be turned away for lack of any of these, however.) You may also wish to bring offerings for the gods & spirits, any ritual garb/tools you like, a chair to sit on, drums or other instruments, and a good story to tell round the fire.
  


Directions to the ritual from Bloomington:

• Take Third Street east out of Bloomington toward Nashville.
• Take a right on State Rd. 446 south (there is a Bruster's ice cream shop at this intersection.)
• Drive south on SR 446 - Eventually (after approx. 8 miles) you will cross over Lake Monroe on the causeway.
• Then (still on SR 446) travel approx. 2-3 more miles and you will see a sign for Allen's Creek Boat Ramp.  You have gone too far if you see a brown sign for Hardin Ridge campground.
• Take a right onto Allen's Creek Road (just past a big blue water tower on the right).
• Follow Allen's Creek Road until it ends.
• Take a right into a parking lot, and then park.
• After dismounting from your chariot, navigate around the gate at the upper end of the parking lot.  Then continue up the hill following the old road. Once the old road bends around to the west and starts to go downhill again you will see us on the left hand side.  (Look for black bear sign.)

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If you would like to carpool to one of these events, or would like to talk with us about our group, please email the Outreach Coordinator.