Join the Green Mountain Druid Order and friends for a celebration of summer love, life, light and water. Bring a drum if you have one, and a flower for the lake.
Free and open to all who wish to join in safe, sacred space.
with Joe LaVasseur of Heartfire Clan
In this evening workshop, we will be exploring the unconscious mind through it’s use of archetypal patterns and imagery. We will discuss what exactly are Archetypes, where do they come from, and how are they so profusely present throughout the cultures of the world. Also, we will dissect the most prevalent viewpoints and frameworks of Archetypes and discuss how we might bring these primordial images into our conscious view. We will explore how the Archetypes of our culture and collective unconscious influence our behaviors and inform our decisions. Taking conscious hold of our own archetypes, we will begin to more clearly observe them and utilize them for individuation and self-realization.
Joe LeVasseur has been a student of the mystical arts for over 20 years, having had training and experiences from a wide variety of metaphysical systems, including Taoism, Tantra, Kabbalah/Qliphoth, gnosticism, and (most recently) Druidry. Ivy League educated in psychology, he combines the mystical with the practical, psychological, and scientific elements, providing a unique perspective to self-discovery and consciousness exploration.
Dreamland and the House of Brigh presents:
Raising a Faery Cairn:
An Educational Workshop and Immersion Experience
Led by Orion Foxwood
The Faery Cairn is a well into the living memory of the land, a meeting point of human and Faery contact & communion, a living classroom and an activated energy center for raising the original Edenic vision of the Earth for Healing and Restoration of our planet.
The Faery Cairn is is a place of offering to the Spirits of the Land and a portal for the Faery and Spirits of the land to interact, co-create, and communicate with humanity and the creatures of this realm. This is a deeply spiritual workshop walking in the footsteps of the ancients giving devoted labor and enduring form to original alliance between humanity and the Cousins, Co-walkers and companions known as the Shining Ones, the Good Neighbors, the Faery.
This event is a rare opportunity to learn the lore, history and design of the HOB Faery Seership stone cairn. This is the first Cairn raised by Orion in over 10 years and this one is a large one, built with an actual ancient well with live water at its center. Usually, the well part of the Cairn is symbolic and energetic but this one is actual which makes it very special and very powerful. Most Cairns are more like piles of stones, but this one has a specific design. There are specific techniques and practices associated with building, activating, empowering and using it. Over the last 25 years Orion has lead the construction of these cairns in Atlanta GA., Artemis PA., Norfolk VA, Beltsville MD, Portland OR, and St. Petersburg FL – each of varying sizes and states of permanence.
The event is broken down into four distinctive parts:
1) An Introduction to the history, lore, design, visionary techniques and the “Keepers of the Cairn Fellowship” to build, maintain and care for the Dreamland Cairn;
2) The physical construction of the Cairn including any last minute preparation of the soil, tamping the soil and adjustments to the contour of the landscape then forming the parts of the Cairn: (a) The rising Crown of the Queen; (b) the Well of Knowing the Faery Well) (c) the Four Roads and the Roots of the Inverted Tree; and (c) the Four Sentinel Stones as gates of Stellar, Lunar, Solar and Planetary mysteries, the 4 holy winds,the 4 provinces, haunted winds etc. The western stone is the Faery Gate to the Stars.
3) Activation and Consecration including Feeding (Libating) the Sentinel Stones to quicken the four roads and the roots of the inverted tree, “Opening the Faery Well” technique to raise the Original Vision, raising the Green Mist; and
4) Processing and integrating the experiences of the day and a brief teaching on the uses of the Faery Cairn. Then feasting and celebrating our work and the community of co-creation…human and Faery!
ork gloves, an extra wheelbarrow, and biodegradable offerings for the Faery and Dreamland.with Meri Fowler
Meri will give a 3 hour workshop at Dreamland this summer based on her research and reading of folk-magick, Witchcraft and shamanism in 17th century Scotland and discuss how it is a major influence on the practice of the Craft today. Within this topic she will examine the old faery faith as an integral part of the Witch’s way and the influences of pre-Christian shamanic technique.
Whether you are a Witch, Druid or Faery Seer, understanding where your practice and beliefs come from will deepen your connection to your spiritual work and promote insight into a profound level of nature-based reverence and partnership. Along with the talk she will be leading some exercises for the participants to catch a glimpse of another time and offer some interesting training ideas designed to enrich their own transformative work. This talk is suitable for anyone interested in the history of magic
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Bring a dish featuring the local harvest from garden or farm and a stone for the new Faery Cairn!
Join us in a ceremony of gratitude for all the gifts of this fruitful time.
6pm Potluck
7:30 Ceremony