Join us for the first harvest festival of the year.
Bring something local and fresh from your garden or local market for feast at 6pm.
After dinner we will have a special evening of live traditional music and a gratitude toast to the Earth.
Do you have a traditional song or tune you would like to share? Get in touch to get on the playlist!
This event is full and now in process.
A Wisdom Journey
A Sacred Rite of Passage Ceremony for Peri/Menopausal People
Hear the Call. Plans are afoot for a Sacred Rite of Passage ceremony, by and for peri/menopausal people that identify as women.
We will walk into and through a passageway together, joining hands with all those that have come before us in this role, and those that came before them, honoring ourselves as the weavers, the magic makers, the mystery holders; as the ones that sing to the dark as it descends, and to the light as it appears again, pulling down the mists to find the deeper, hidden meaning within our lives.
Physical setting and covid safety protocols: This event will now be taking place in both an indoor and outdoor setting. The indoor setting will be a wood stove-heated yurt, which will mean participants will need to provide proof of vaccination before the event and will also be required to wear a mask for this portion. The outdoor portion will be in a rural field and woodland setting, with some walking on a rough road and/or paths, with some minor uphill and downhill walking, at dusk and in possible darkness for the final portions of the event.
Registration/$33 – $113 donation/scholarship attendence/waiting list: We are no longer taking active registrations for this event, but please reach out soon if you’d like to be placed on a waiting list or to take one of the scholarship spots we’re holding. Anyone placed on the waiting list will be contacted in the event of a cancellation before the event. Non-scholarship participants will be asked to contribute more, up to a total of $113, if they feel moved and able to do so, in early November.
Registered participants will begin preparing for the ceremony on the New/Dark Moon of November, 11/4, a month before the ceremony takes place. These details will be shared with you in early November.
We plan to repeat this offering in years to come, so, if any mobility/accessibility or covid safety protocols leave you choosing not to participate, we hope you’ll join us in the future for this wisdom journey then, when we’re hopeful we’ll be able to do this with more flexibility.
Auntie Bear, Carolyn Hooper and Genevieve Drutchas
We have some very special things in store for ceremony this year…
You are welcome to leave anytime after 5:30….
3pm- arrive and orient. Potluck dishes in yurt. Walk labyrinth, meet and greet.
3:30 ceremony begins in Dragon Temple
5:30pm potluck feast begins
7-9pm fire circle- Eisteddfod jam All are invite to participate!
*something to sit on outside
*a potluck dish to feed about 6
*instruments or inspiration for our fireside jam
*festive attire for outdoor fun in all weathers!
*donation $
*kids, friends, partners
Or get in touch to volunteer for a role in ceremony!!
with Fearn Lickfield, Archdruid of the Green Mountain Druid Order & Director, Dreamland Sanctuary
& Orion Foxwood, Eco-magical Activist, Author, Founder and Director of the House of Brigh Faery Seership Institute
Our relationship with this wisdom gave us purpose and a sense of being home- a harmonious state woefully lacking in the modern world over-run by a feeling of homesickness and isolation. The cure is just beneath our feet. In this
workshop, we will visit that salve of the soul and receive knowledge to bring us home including:
● Romancing the Land- Cultivating a living awareness of “the Life that Runs Through all”
● Life in the Shenandoah Valley and the Moonridge center experience.
● Places may hold in trust a part of your souls-the Moonridge experience
● The “Original People” are inside all people
● Wherever we are is calibrated by the genus loci
● Communicating with human imprints and haunts and non-human intelligences
● Cleaning, clearing, quickening, soothing and regenerating wounded land
● Living in rhythm with the land
● Life on, in and under the land- seen, unseen and thresholds in between
● Loving the partnership, engaging the interrations, encountering the unfamiliar, respecting the private life and the concept of campuses
● Becoming re-made by the land.
● Hiraeth, the Concept of “the Sacred-Land”, “the Core-Wound”, “Mapping the Inscape- Techniques for engaging the “Living Memory of the land”
● Dreamland- my story of finding and courting this place
● Sovereignty and Humility- a balanced approach to sacred stewardry
● Honoring the ancestors of place, the indigenous history
● Holding council with Genus loci, ancestors, guardians.
● Land with mission- how to be in the co-creative process with place
● Building a bridge to our ancestral mother lands- landing and rooting fully. ● Becoming Nature, Becoming Native- weaving ourselves back into the Web
● observing and beholding ecosystem thru the seasons, the years
● knowing your neighbors and tracking earth changes.
● Mutual Protection and Care with the spirits of place
● What we know we love. What we love we protect.
● Becoming a Guardian and being guarded
● Temple building- Faerie Cairn, Stone Circle, Labyrinth (Faerie, Dragon, Serpent)
The Potent Power, Enduring Wisdom & Sacred Presence of Plants and Trees
with Orion Foxwood
“Green Fire of Joy. Green Fire of Life.
Be with Thou through the Stress and Strife.
Be with Thou through the Shadow and Shine”…
(Fiona Macleod)