re-entering life after Harvest Home Gathering
Re-entering reality post experience at Harvest Home Gathering.
I could get really use to the "My Life as a Pagan Festival Roadie" or "The Gods Must Be Laughing".......it just is so apparent to me that while we humans are very attached to the concept of "it's a free will planet" there still is a master spiritual planning board that holds sway.
So, here is my review of the most recent festival we went to (Melissa, I and the ever watchful and protective AwenTree Spirits)
Harvest Home Gathering (held in CT) is a more intimate, focused Pagan Gathering held on at the lovely CT 4-H camp. The facilities were great including consistently hot showers! The land was beautiful with trails that led to magickal meadows full of dappled sunlight by day and a blanket of stars by night.
The community was very real and welcoming. While we were rather involved in our own world of vending and visiting with newly met friends (from Sirius Rising) that joined us on this trip and therefore did not get out as much to socialize, I still could sense the openness to meeting others in a connected way all around.
This a great festival for folks that really want to dive in deeper to discovering/working their Path, interested in awakening and connecting with their community. It's also local, full of good people and deserves our support as such.
The workshops and the presenters were above par. All the workshops and Rituals were not just the basic intro level material. While there is nothing wrong with offering the beginner level work, it was just so lovely to sink my energetic teeth into a deeper, wider experiences of the caliber of work being presented.
I managed to get to one of Orion Foxwood's lectures, Walking the Dark Line and wow. There is no justice I could do trying to summarize his workshop. Just suffice to say that Orion is clearly dialed in to Spirit; empowering, motivating, and kicking it till it's real. He has a Gift and we are blessed by his sharing of it.
Janet Farrar and Gavin Bones ran a Prophecy Workshop that was really great. Compelling and engaging, we sat in a large circle of folk while they work with 3 of their Priestesses that are trained as Seers. Channeling their Goddesses, the Priestesses in turn each drew down The Morrigan, Freya and Brigid. Janet was brilliant, channeling the Archetypal Force of Sybil, the Sacred Oracle. Gavin cast the Circle and worked with each Priestess. I was riveted to my seat, gripping the hands of the two very large men sitting on either side of me through the entire 2 hour Ritual, the energy was that high.
I really enjoy the freedom of timelessness and divine synchronicity that Spirit plays with when Pagans come together to share, learn, grow and embrace life.
I could get really use to the "My Life as a Pagan Festival Roadie" or "The Gods Must Be Laughing".......it just is so apparent to me that while we humans are very attached to the concept of "it's a free will planet" there still is a master spiritual planning board that holds sway.
So, here is my review of the most recent festival we went to (Melissa, I and the ever watchful and protective AwenTree Spirits)
Harvest Home Gathering (held in CT) is a more intimate, focused Pagan Gathering held on at the lovely CT 4-H camp. The facilities were great including consistently hot showers! The land was beautiful with trails that led to magickal meadows full of dappled sunlight by day and a blanket of stars by night.
The community was very real and welcoming. While we were rather involved in our own world of vending and visiting with newly met friends (from Sirius Rising) that joined us on this trip and therefore did not get out as much to socialize, I still could sense the openness to meeting others in a connected way all around.
This a great festival for folks that really want to dive in deeper to discovering/working their Path, interested in awakening and connecting with their community. It's also local, full of good people and deserves our support as such.
The workshops and the presenters were above par. All the workshops and Rituals were not just the basic intro level material. While there is nothing wrong with offering the beginner level work, it was just so lovely to sink my energetic teeth into a deeper, wider experiences of the caliber of work being presented.
I managed to get to one of Orion Foxwood's lectures, Walking the Dark Line and wow. There is no justice I could do trying to summarize his workshop. Just suffice to say that Orion is clearly dialed in to Spirit; empowering, motivating, and kicking it till it's real. He has a Gift and we are blessed by his sharing of it.
Janet Farrar and Gavin Bones ran a Prophecy Workshop that was really great. Compelling and engaging, we sat in a large circle of folk while they work with 3 of their Priestesses that are trained as Seers. Channeling their Goddesses, the Priestesses in turn each drew down The Morrigan, Freya and Brigid. Janet was brilliant, channeling the Archetypal Force of Sybil, the Sacred Oracle. Gavin cast the Circle and worked with each Priestess. I was riveted to my seat, gripping the hands of the two very large men sitting on either side of me through the entire 2 hour Ritual, the energy was that high.
I really enjoy the freedom of timelessness and divine synchronicity that Spirit plays with when Pagans come together to share, learn, grow and embrace life.
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