 Favorite Ireland Memory? |
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Posted: 09-Jun-2006, 05:31 PM
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My favorite memory of home was spending the Winter Solstice on Tara.
I arrived there at ten in the morning, after a half hour hike from the bus stop. Saw the ravens of the Morrigan flying next to me along the road. Didnae' even realize that I was on Tara until I was near the top, thinking that I'd see her off to the side somewhere. Tend to forget how huge she is. Stopped in at the gift shop and cafe there, decided to go ahead and treat myself to a solstice meal. Ordered a chicken melt sandwich, a carafe of coffee, and a double chocolate brownie with REAL fresh cream for dessert. The place was beautiful, the meal heavenly. I finished around noon, got up to go pay, and was told that it was on the house, in honor of the Solstice. A local told me a few moments later of where I could find the Well of the Sacred Cow. I found the well, with the cows watching over it. I prayed, yelled out so the Fae could hear me, and found my way past the fences onto Tara's summit.
I walked through the Stones in the cemetary, walked around the Mound of the Hostages, stood in awe before the "Lia Fail" several times during the day. There was fog and clouds constantly around the top of Tara, and crows and ravens flew in continually all day. It felt separated from the world and like home. I talked with plenty of people who came and went there. I even found out where the faerie tree was and left a gift. I traipsed the Banquet Hall, walked through the Rath of the Synods, strolled by Grainne's Enclosure, hid among the Sloping Trenches, talked with the trees, laughed with the sheep(and there were a lot of them), and enjoyed my visit home.
My whole intent was to wait for the evening solstice gathering, since I had missed the morning one. I saw glimses of the Otherworld that will remain in my memory. but I wove magick anyway, to give a gift to Tara for the experience given. Night came, with fog and mist still around, and most people went home. For a time after it got dark, I was the only one alone on Tara, till first one man, and then another, came to where I stood by the Lia. Like me, they were there for the evening service.
We stood, sat, talked and walked around the Lia for the next two to three hours. the stars appeared above and disappeared in the mist several times, and the mist, when it came in, always smelled like oranges and cinnamon, and maybe a few berries here and there. Which we thought was strange for it being winter of '05. Just as it turned 8, a peculiar couple came along from out of the mist and talked with us awhile, wove some magick of their own, and talked some more. I had seen them earlier in the day. They told us something profound: "Tara is for everyone. after a little while, they went back the way they came, and disappeared.
About a quarter hour later, the soltice group came for the evening service. We greeted them at the gate, the three of us, and participated in their opening service,... but we didn't stay. We agreed that whatever we were meant to do, whatever it was, we did it long before the group came. One of the guys gave me and the other a ride to the bus stop in Navan, bade us farewell, and drove off. We then caught the bus back to Dublin, said our farewells, and went our seperate ways into the city centre.
I call them my brothers to this day, even though I may never see them again.
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On my grandmother's side the land grants were for rewards in serving with George Washington in the French and Indian Wars. My grandfather's family land grant is in Elon North Carolina and my grandmother's family's land grant is Barnwell South Carolina. I have discovered some family in Ulster. 
