{"product_id":"rose-of-the-setting-sun","title":"Rose of the Setting Sun - A Branwen Rite of Farewell, Remembrance \u0026 Letting Go","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens after you order\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou will receive \u003cem\u003eYour Rite Begins Here\u003c\/em\u003e immediately after purchase, a short digital welcome guide explaining what happens next and how your personalised work is prepared. I will then contact you personally by email to learn what you are saying farewell to, what it has meant to you, and anything you want the rite to honour before it is allowed to end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI will prepare the working individually around that particular goodbye. Your completed photographs, written account and personal materials will then be delivered digitally within the stated preparation period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhen something deserves a goodbye\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every ending needs to be fought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome things end because circumstances changed. Some were precious and temporary from the beginning. Others lasted for years before becoming something we could no longer continue. A relationship, friendship, home, role, dream, season of life or part of ourselves may be finished without becoming meaningless.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRose of the Setting Sun\u003c\/em\u003e is prepared for those moments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not primarily a rite for severing, cleansing or trying to make yourself stop caring. Nor does it ask you to decide that the past was good simply because it is over.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a farewell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA deliberate acknowledgement that something belonged to your life, that its ending matters, and that you are ready to stand at that boundary long enough to say goodbye before continuing without it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThis rite may suit you if\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou may be drawn to \u003cem\u003eRose of the Setting Sun\u003c\/em\u003e when something has already ended, or when you have made the decision that it must, but the goodbye itself still feels unfinished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps a relationship or friendship mattered deeply even though it could not continue. You may be leaving a home, workplace or community that has shaped part of who you are. A dream you carried for years may no longer belong to the life you are building. You may be retiring from a role, closing a creative chapter, relinquishing an old identity, or marking another transition where simply walking away feels too abrupt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rite can also hold more complicated farewells.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGratitude is not required. Forgiveness is not required. You do not need to bless someone who harmed you or turn disappointment into a beautiful lesson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut if love, tenderness, affection or gratitude remain alongside the ending, they do not have to be stripped away in order for you to leave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSometimes the most truthful goodbye contains more than one feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBranwen and the ending of a story\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBranwen ferch Llŷr belongs to the Second Branch of the \u003cem\u003eMabinogi\u003c\/em\u003e, a story in which relationships, separation and grief do not resolve neatly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe leaves Wales to marry Matholwch in Ireland. What follows brings humiliation, mistreatment, separation from her family, war and devastating loss. Branwen eventually returns to Wales, but the return does not restore the life that existed before. Her story closes in grief for what has happened and for everything that cannot be undone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat makes her meaningful here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot as a goddess assigned to farewell or the setting sun, but as a Welsh figure whose story understands that returning is not the same as recovering what was lost, and that some endings remain significant precisely because what came before them mattered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin this rite, Branwen is approached with respect and invited to accompany a deliberate act of farewell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Working\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore preparing the rite, I begin with what you are saying goodbye to and why this moment has become important now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe may speak about what you want acknowledged, whether there are memories or qualities you wish to honour, what you are ready to leave behind, and whether anything remains unresolved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rite is then shaped around the farewell itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBranwen is honoured within the working, and the rose becomes a focus for remembrance without possession: something that can be held, witnessed and eventually released from the role it has carried.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work does not require the past to be destroyed in order for the ending to become real.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIts purpose is simpler: To make room for a final recognition, to say what needs saying, whether aloud or privately, to give the ending a moment of its own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd then to allow the rite to close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eStandard — Rose of the Setting Sun\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Standard Rite is best suited when you know what you are saying farewell to and want a complete personalised working to mark its ending.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003epersonal consultation by email before preparation begins;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea personalised Branwen rite shaped around your particular farewell;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ean offering to Branwen within the working;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003erose symbolism incorporated into the rite;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea photographic record of the completed working;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea written account of the rite and the choices made within it;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea personalised farewell reflection for the period afterwards;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea Welsh-and-English closing blessing prepared for your work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Standard Rite does not require you to know exactly how you feel about the ending. Mixed feelings can be part of the goodbye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDeluxe — The Last Light\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Deluxe Rite is intended for farewells that hold a longer history, several conflicting emotions, or a transition whose ending deserves more room.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt includes everything in Standard, plus:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ean extended personal consultation before the rite;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea separate preparatory working;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eexpanded personalisation around the history and meaning of what is ending;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea more detailed written account of the completed rite;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ean expanded Companion Guide exploring Branwen, farewell, remembrance and the transition beyond an ending;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea personalised written farewell, prayer or invocation where appropriate;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ereflective material exploring what you wish to remember without continuing to carry in the same way;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ejournal prompts for the period after the farewell;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eone follow-up exchange after you have had time to sit with the work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose Deluxe when the goodbye cannot easily be reduced to one emotion, or when you want greater space to honour what has ended before turning towards what follows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat farewell does not erase\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaying goodbye does not make something unimportant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA relationship can be over and still have shaped you. A home can belong to somebody else and remain part of your memory. A dream can be relinquished without becoming foolish simply because it did not come to pass.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven difficult chapters may contain moments you choose to keep alongside things you are relieved to leave behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRose of the Setting Sun\u003c\/em\u003e does not ask you to decide that none of it matters anymore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt asks something gentler.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan something matter and still be finished?\u003cbr\u003eCan you remember without remaining responsible for keeping it alive?\u003cbr\u003eCan an ending be allowed to become an ending without demanding that everything before it be rewritten?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are times when moving forward begins not with forgetting, but with a proper goodbye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBefore You Order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRose of the Setting Sun\u003c\/em\u003e is a personalised digital spiritual service for adults aged 18 and over. No physical item will be shipped.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease allow 1–3 weeks once I have the information needed to begin. I will contact you using the email address supplied with your order, and your photographs and written materials will be delivered digitally after the rite is complete.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis rite is intended for a farewell that you yourself are choosing to mark. It is not performed to force another person to leave, forget you, forgive you, return possessions, end a relationship, or behave in a particular way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou do not need to be completely at peace with the ending before ordering.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSometimes the rite exists because peace has not arrived yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFfarwel, gyda cariad.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFarewell, with love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMay what mattered be remembered, what has ended be allowed to end, and the road beyond the goodbye remain open before you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElowen\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elowenspells","offers":[{"title":"Standard","offer_id":54928484172117,"sku":null,"price":395.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true},{"title":"Deluxe","offer_id":54928484204885,"sku":null,"price":745.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1066\/2857\/9669\/files\/RoseoftheSettingSun_29818f8f-f4a4-44c8-908a-876555e3d92f.png?v=1789889572","url":"https:\/\/elowenspells.com\/products\/rose-of-the-setting-sun","provider":"Elowenspells","version":"1.0","type":"link"}