Current Gatherings
Winter’s Dream
Winter Ceremony ✷ January 2024
Bare branches reach toward the bright sky as birds hop and fly about, singing and ruffling their feathers. Far below, under frost-covered leaves, the Earth dreams. Within this season’s benevolent embrace, we too may undergo deep repair and open our innermost ears toward that which the Earth longs to tell us. In times of darkness, the veil thins between our lives as we know them and the wisdom offered by our ancestors, our allies, and the land. Winter, sometimes despaired for its cold and darkness, can be a time for astonishing communion, listening, and receiving.
To hear Winter’s dream for us within the depths of this season lends clarity and purpose to our year ahead. Whether it’s a guiding image or feeling, a transition asking to take place, or a project wishing to be affirmed and continued, we can trust that what dreams us into aliveness during Winter longs to be born come Spring. Like the tree’s bare yet living branches, what shows up during Winter is vital, not just for us, but for all of creation.
In reverence for the beauty and gifts of this season, we invite you to join us in community and on the land. We will gather during the liminal stretch of time between the holidays and New Year’s to listen with the Earth as she dreams.
Past Gatherings
Autumn Moon
Autumn Ceremony ✷ September 2024
Autumn arrives with cooler mornings and vibrating colors, offering us permission to slow down, tend to our hearts, and release old layers of self, so that we may begin to listen to the whisperings of Winter in connection with our fullest truth. Autumn can be energizing, exhilarating, and sometimes challenging, as the falling leaves reveal those parts of our lives that ask to be held, felt, and offered up to the bonfire of this glorious season of release. Join us in the waning glow of September’s Harvest Supermoon to step across the threshold between seasons and venture solo on the land, gazing into the great mirror of nature and seeking counsel and witness amongst a special group of friends.
Midnight Sun
Summer Ceremony ✷ June 2024
The sky opens as we approach the Summer Solstice. Above the arctic circle, the Midnight Sun sinks low but never sets, casting water and rock and trees in a dreamy, dark gold haze. In these lengthening days, solar energy is at its most abundant, feeding and resourcing the land and charging the entire cycle to come.
We wholeheartedly invite you to join us in the Sierra Nevada foothills for a guided journey as we step across the threshold from Spring into Summer.