Saturday, February 2, 2013 Friends Meeting House 4836 Ellsworth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Doors at 6:30 PM, Ritual at 7:00 PM Join Sassafras Grove in celebrating Imbolc (or, as we call it by the Romano-British name, Brigantia) and honoring the goddess Brighid, the Patron of our Grove. Please plan to arrive around 6:30 PM as [...]

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Yule Rite and Holiday Party Saturday, December 22, 2012 Doors at 1:00 PM; Ritual at 3:00 PM The Cottage at South Park This year’s Yule ritual will draw upon three Sassafras traditions: honoring the reborn Sun, looking back at the year that has just passed, and a holding a sumble—a drinking ritual whereby participants make [...]

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Norse Blessing Rite Tuesday, November 27, 2012 7:00 PM Friends Meeting House: 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Join your local ADF Druids for a three-fold blessing rite in Norse fashion honoring Thor (Protection), Odin (Guidance) and Freyja (Passion) to help aid us through the darkest time of the year. Feel free to bring your [...]

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Sassafras Grove, ADF Autumn Equinox High Day Ritual and Celebration Saturday, September 22, 2012 Parish Hill, North Park Doors at 2:00 PM, Ritual at 3:30 PM This rite will honor the Roman Goddess Ceres as Queen and Protector of the Harvest. It has been six months since Spring Equinox when we first planted the seeds [...]

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Lughnassadh High Day Ritual Sunday, August 5th, 2012 Lakeview Grove, North Park Dear Friends of Sassafras Grove, Sassafras Grove’s Lughnassadh Ritual, warrior games, and picnic will be held on Sunday, August 5, 2010 at Lakeview Grove in North Park from 1pm to 8pm. We welcome all Pagans and Pagan-friendly people to join us for this [...]

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Blessing Rite Tuesday, July 31th, 2012 Friends Meeting House, Pgh, Pa 7:00pm The Germanic peoples honored the Earth Mother Herthe with offerings, and received blessings from her in return. Come join Sassafras Grove as we give honor in a blessing rite dedicated to the Mother of Us All on Jul 31st at 7p.m. at Friends [...]

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Brighid along with Sassafras! Taking inspiration from Three Cranes Grove’s “Yule Along with the Cranes,” this year we have decided to share a Sassafras Grove tradition with our local and ADF communities:  The Brighid “Novena.”  For each of the nine days before our Brigantia rite, we each focus on one of the nine aspects of [...]

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High Days: 2010: Brigantia, Lughnassadh, Autumn Equinox, Samhain, Yule 2011: Brigantia, Spring Equinox, Beltane, Summer Solstice, Lughnassadh, Autumn Equinox, Samhain, Yule 2012: Brigantia, Spring Equinox, Beltane, Summer Solstice   Blessing Rites: 2010: Freyja, Cerridwen, Hekate, Kindred of the Arts, Manannan, Pan-Athenaea, 2011: Bardic, Avian, Hel, Irish, Kindred of Invention, Kindred of Seership, Morrigan, Vedic 2012: Open Kindred, Hellenic, Irish, [...]

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Yule High Day ritual Saturday, December 17th, 2011 The Cottage, South Park 1:00pm   We have almost reached the longest night of the year. Soon, the sun will be returning to us and it is time to celebrate! Odin has and will continue to see us through the wasteland until the sun has returned. In [...]

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Click on the marker to get directions From Downtown: – Be in right lane going south thru tunnels… – Follow the signs to take Rte#51 SOUTH… – about 3 MILES SOUTH on Rte#51, be in the RIGHT lane… – Turn RIGHT (South) onto Rte#88-South (“Library Rd.”) – Follow Rte#88 south for about  5 (?) miles [...]

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