Samhain, Rathcroghan, and standing at the threshold with Douglas Gordon
Rathcroghan was for centuries the meeting place of the Western Tribes, an equivalent to Tara and Uisneach. Its monuments stand scattered across fertile limestone country, land that fed generations of ordinary, productive life. The otherworld opened here not in some remote waste, but in the middle of daily living.
In this episode, Douglas joins Jackie to talk about Samhain and Rathcroghan: Queen Maeve’s fort, the Cave of the Cats, and what it means to stand at a threshold once a year when the veil wears thin.
Part mythology, part preparation, part conversation on thresholds.
A note on the dates
Samhain has more than one reckoning. The folk calendar keeps it on 31st October, the solar calendar places the midpoint between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice in early November, and the lunar calendar follows the dark moon. This year the dark moon falls on the night of 8th to 9th November, the same new moon as Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas.
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