Mōdraniht

This year, for the second year running, we will celebrate Mōdraniht, the Night of the Mothers.

This is a quieter and simpler practice than Yule, which is all about feasting and the drama of the light’s returning and liminality.

Mōdraniht involves communing with the Dísir, the Matronae (ancient European mother goddesses), and our own female ancestors. (If you are alienated from your biological ancestors, there’s always ancestors of spirit — people you admire.)

If you have an ancestor...