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Solstice Greetings!
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I'm becoming more and more aware that the magic that happens around Christmas
magic is really fairy magic, and this time of year is a fairy festival. All
those little lights that twinkle in the dark..those are fairies! all those
elves...well they're really elves! and Santa..well maybe he's the
shaman...Solstice is a wonderful time to make offerings of milk, honey, and
song to the fairies. What kind of magic can the fairies offer you? The
Scandinavian pagans would decorate their trees to delight the fairies. For many
the topper on the tree was a fairy. this was later changed to be an angel.
Fairies...Angels...invite them in! Enjoy the magic...the feast, the celebration
of delights and lights, the light within, the turning of the seasons, and the
thinning of the veils.
On this darkest night of the year, how brightly can you shine?
Blessings from the Crow Bar,
Jan
The origins of Santa Claus should remind us that we are intrinsically part of
the cold wind whistling past our window as we huddle in front of a fire
waiting for the Invincible Sun to return. Santa should remind us that Pan, the
all encompassing Spirit of Nature, is just that, all encompassing. We, all of
us, are included within the beauty of a rose opening and seeing the sun for
the first time, or a hatchling stretching its wings, or the gentle babble of a
brook speaking to us in a language we could understand if we choose to become
still.
- Richard Sandore
2011 Fairy Congress
On the other side of the calendar, the 2011 Fairy Congress is shaping into
something...well ...magical! (Interesting how these co-creative endeavours have
a life of their own!) The dates are set for June 24 - 26, 2011. Mark your
calendars! We will be joined by Orion Foxwood and Brooke Medicine Eagle.
Workshops on nature communication, plant shamanism, going through the veils,
Faerie ritual...and more.
In 2011 we will be exploring meeting the fairies in our full humanity. How do
we need to be to forge solid vibrant relationships with the fairies? How do we
celebrate this? How do we be fully vibrant?
If you register before March 15, it's $215 for adults ...looking for that late
holiday present?
Registation Information
Workshops & Presenters
www.fairycongress.com http://www.fairycongress.com
Becoming Adepts!
The Fairy Congress and Skalitude Retreat will be offering workshops thoughout
the year in order to take what we are learning at the Congress to new depths.
Our goal is to become Adepts at Communication and Co-Creating with Nature!
The first in this series is a 5 day retreat in Weather Shamanism with Nan Moss
& David Corbin, authors of Weather Shamanism: Harmonizing Our Connection with
the Elements and CloudDancing: Wisdom from the Sky. April 27 - May 1, 2011
We are setting up a scholarship fund for these workshops. Stay tuned.
Also in the works: Vision Quest and Plant Shamanism
more info on Weather Shamanism
http://www.fairycongress.com/fc2011/2011_weathershaman.htm
On Facebook!
We keep playing with the idea of creating a directory so that everyone can
keep in touch and carry the magic forward through the year.
Until we get organized, the closest thing we have to a directory is Facebook!
Fairy Congress on Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=62076000434&ref=ts
In The News
This year, we had a number of journalists from newspapers and TV stations.
Next year, we'll have a media relations person so they don't end up right in
the middle of ritual. Saphir who was our wonderful front gate deva, handles
all the media relations for the Oregon Country Fair. (The folks on our Council
are nothing short of amazing!)
So here's what is being said about us!
Annual Fairy Congress Draws Diverse Crowd (Wenatchee World)
10th Annual Fairy Congress gathers near Twisp (KXLY News Spokane)
and in Japanese
Skalitude in the snow!
Looking for a Winter wonderland vacation. Contact Lindsey
www.skalitude.com http://www.skalitude.com
Fairy blessings from the Council!
Lindsey, Jan, Skeeter, Colby, Shoshana, Saphir, Ruth, Suki, and Burke
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes
you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who
have come alive.”
- Harold Thurman Whitman
“We resolve instead to dedicate ourselves to the terrain that has claimed
us, to meet the generosity of the land with a kind of wild faithfulness.”
- David Abram “The Spell of the Sensuous”
Weather Shamanism, April 27 - May 1, 2011, Skalitude
with Nan Moss & David Corbin
Weather Shamanism is about the shaman’s long-held, respected task of
looking after relations between the human community and the beings and
spirits of Nature. As a practice of spiritual ecology, weather shamanism is
for those who care about the viability of our planet and who sincerely wish
to work on behalf of restoration and well-being for our present times –
as well as for a world our descendants will thank us for.
more info... http://www.fairycongress.com/fc2011/2011_weathershaman.htm
RJ Stewart - The Sea Temple Retreat, March 3-6, Orcas Island, WA
It is almost ten years since our last Sea Temple retreat, held on the Olympic
Peninsula. In that decade the world has changed in so many ways and at a rapid
pace. The Sea Temple holds the gateways for planetary change from within the
deepest heart of our world...the ocean that regenerates all life throughout the
ages. It also holds the Mystery of how that planetary heart connects to the
starry cosmos.
Join us to attune to the flowing tides of compassionate change that the Sea
Temple has to offer. In ancient times, and in the esoteric tradition, it was
called the Hidden Temple, as its powers flowed in the depths of the ocean,
beneath the volcanoes and mountains of the upper world. Today we can attune to
this Hidden Temple through our unique Inner Temple methods.
The Sea Temple is the temple of the West, of love and compassion.
On the inner spiritual dimensions, we will work together to come into communion
with the powers of the Sea Temple, with the inner priestesses and priests, and
advanced spiritual contacts who reach out to us with compassionate support
during eras of great change. What we choose to contribute, our input, has a
part to play in planetary changes. We will also work directly with two powerful
goddess figures of the ocean, the inner powers of the West, and the spiritual
forces of unconditional love and transformation.
Contact Allen at [email protected] for more info
2011 Permaculture Design Course, July 10-24, Skalitude
The course covers the traditional Mollison permacultu...re curriculum as well
as local knowledge. The species and techniques will be aimed at the Inland
Northwest which includes Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, Idaho, Western
Montana and southern Interior British Columbia. Participants from other
bioregions are welcome. The main focus is learning permaculture principles
and design methodology. The principles and methodology, once learned, can be
applied and adapted to any site.
Instructors: Michael Pilarski, Andrew Millison, Josho Somine and more!
Early registration: $950 by April 10. contact Lindsey [email protected]
2011 Permaculture Design Course
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=155922884421763&index=1
Fairy & Human Relations Congress - Skalitude Retreat Center, POB 74 - Carlton -
WA - 98114
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