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Facilitated by Death Doula Katie Rose Whiting
Assisted by Celebrant Demelza Mary Pearce
£21.00
Saturday 14th June 2026
5.00pm–6.30pm
Hastings Castle, East Sussex
A gathering within the Mid-Summer threshold at Hastings Castle, a place shaped by wind, sea, stone, and centuries of witnessing endings and beginnings.
Mid-summer arrives as a turning point in the year: the sun at its height, light stretched to its fullest reach, and yet already carrying the first quiet turning toward decline. It is the moment where abundance and impermanence meet. Where life is most luminous and therefore most visible in its transience.
Across many traditions, midsummer is a time of fire, celebration, and threshold crossing. The blaze of the sun mirrors both vitality and its passing nature. It is a reminder that nothing stays at its peak, and that presence itself is the art of being alive within change.
This Death Meditation and Grief Circle invites us into the heart of that midsummer paradox , fullness and fading, arrival and letting go.
We gather at Hastings Castle to sit with the turning of the light, exploring how endings are already woven into moments of brightness. Rather than resisting this truth, we will listen for it gently as something natural, cyclical, and deeply human.
Through guided meditation, breath, rest, and simple ritual, this space becomes a meeting point between grief and vitality. Not as opposites, but as companions in the same living process.
We will explore how life continues to move through us even as things change, even as we release, even as we are asked to begin again.
Through stillness and gentle ritual, we will:
Acknowledge cycles of death, renewal, and seasonal turning
Reflect on midsummer as a threshold of fullness and impermanence
Honour what is complete, what is fading, and what is emerging
Connect with the aliveness present within change itself
Rest in presence, without pressure to fix, resolve, or become anything other than what is here
A space for witnessing. For softening. For remembering that even at the height of light, we are always in motion, becoming, releasing, and returning to life again.
Facilitated by Death Doula Katie Rose Whiting
Assisted by Celebrant Demelza Mary Pearce
£21.00
Saturday 14th June 2026
5.00pm–6.30pm
Hastings Castle, East Sussex
A gathering within the Mid-Summer threshold at Hastings Castle, a place shaped by wind, sea, stone, and centuries of witnessing endings and beginnings.
Mid-summer arrives as a turning point in the year: the sun at its height, light stretched to its fullest reach, and yet already carrying the first quiet turning toward decline. It is the moment where abundance and impermanence meet. Where life is most luminous and therefore most visible in its transience.
Across many traditions, midsummer is a time of fire, celebration, and threshold crossing. The blaze of the sun mirrors both vitality and its passing nature. It is a reminder that nothing stays at its peak, and that presence itself is the art of being alive within change.
This Death Meditation and Grief Circle invites us into the heart of that midsummer paradox , fullness and fading, arrival and letting go.
We gather at Hastings Castle to sit with the turning of the light, exploring how endings are already woven into moments of brightness. Rather than resisting this truth, we will listen for it gently as something natural, cyclical, and deeply human.
Through guided meditation, breath, rest, and simple ritual, this space becomes a meeting point between grief and vitality. Not as opposites, but as companions in the same living process.
We will explore how life continues to move through us even as things change, even as we release, even as we are asked to begin again.
Through stillness and gentle ritual, we will:
Acknowledge cycles of death, renewal, and seasonal turning
Reflect on midsummer as a threshold of fullness and impermanence
Honour what is complete, what is fading, and what is emerging
Connect with the aliveness present within change itself
Rest in presence, without pressure to fix, resolve, or become anything other than what is here
A space for witnessing. For softening. For remembering that even at the height of light, we are always in motion, becoming, releasing, and returning to life again.