SPIRALSCOUTS signup meeting
Date- March 15th
Time 12:30-2
Where- First Universalist Society of Salem Church Salem Ma.

General meeting to discuss interest of the community in regards to having your child be a part of SpiralScouts.
This is a perfect time to sign your child up and talk about what dates/times are good for future meets.
Please join us for this meeting and if you have any questions please feel free to contact me at nehani36@hotmail.com

Wendy Rule is coming to Salem!!
April 25, 2009
Please come and join us for an intimate evening with Wendy Rule at the First Universalist Society of Salem Church where she will be performing music from her brand new cd as well as from her others.
She will be available to sign CDs and will be joining us for Beltane Ritual!

Doors open at 4 for meet and greet with light refreshments and ritual. Wendy will perform later in the evening.
Email me at nehani36@hotmail.com if you are interested in seeing her live. Performance is by ticket only which is priced at $20.00 for the entire event!

CUUPS Open Ritual-Ostara
March 21st at 6pm
First Universalist Society of Salem Church
*Enter thru Ash St entrance*

Open ritual with potluck dish of the season to be shared afterwards. Please bring with you a packet of seeds to be part of the ritual offering.
donation of $5.00 at the door to help fund future events.

CUUPS/First Universalist Society of Salem Congregational service Beltane
April 26th at 10:45am

Congregational/ritual to celebrate Beltaine. Join us in the celebration of Spring with the dancing of the Maypole along with a annual congregational celebration which will be held in Bolles Hall and in Sanctuary.

Donation is free for this event however canned goods for the food pantry would be gladly accepted.

Here you will find a complete listing of the Sabbats. Please refer to each month to learn more about each individual time in the wheel of the year.

Samhain is a Celtic holiday. The Celts divided the year into two seasons, the light half and the dark half. Samhain is a celebration of the Beginning of the Dark half of the year, and was actually considered to be more important than its counterpart, Beltane for its magickal potentials.

Samhain is considered a “cross-quarter” Sabbat, even though it always falls on the 31st, and the cross-quarter doesn’t officially occur until the Sun reaches 15 degrees of Scorpio, sometime in the 1st week in November. (Note: In 2005, Samhain actually occurs on November 2, 2005 at 6:03AM EST, on the same day as the new moon.)

Samhain also symbolizes the death of the God, the final turn of the wheel. The days become shorter, the nights longer. Also, Samhain falls between the Autumnal Equinox and the Winter Solstice, a time when the “veil between the worlds” becomes very thin. It is a time to pay homage to our elders and ancestors that have passed from this world to the next.

This time is a time much like Thanksgiving, a celebratory feast in which we celebrate the year’s bounty, and remember those who have passed. Many people of the Craft hold traditional “Dumb Suppers”, called a Feast of the Dead, in which a large meal is prepared and eaten in silence, with an extra place set in remembrance of our ancestors. Many also light a candle to bring in the “New Year”, lighting their way through the darkness of the upcoming months until Yule.