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5 ish Pot Luck
Pot luck is an opportunity to gather and meet your friends from past festivals and new friends, too! Bring a dish to share with ingredients listed. Hot dogs, buns, and fixings will be provided.
7 Opening Ritual facilitated by Linda Kazalski
We are pleased to welcome our friends at Three Branch River Grove, ADF in leading our Opening Ritual!
This ritual, in the ADF druid core order style, creates space for making offerings to the Kindreds (Ancestors, Land Spirits, and Shining Ones/Gods) and the earth, celebrating the earth bringing us all together to open this festival.
You are invited to bring a little earth from home to be used in this ritual.
Drumming and Dancing – Led by Community
Bring out your drums and your dancing feet and feel the rhythm of the season.
11 Quiet Time
Wind down into firelight conversation.
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8 Coffee at Tree Frog
Roll out of your slumber into a hot cup of joe, tea, or just come for conversation. Please bring your own mug or we have disposable cups available with a variety of fixins like sugar, creamer, etc…
8 Meet and Greet – Led by June
Now that you are awake, meet some Green Bandannas and fellow event goers. Silly ice breaker games to get us all warmed up to spend relaxing intimate time together.
9 Qigong- Led by Jessica
Come cultivate your energy with Shibashi! Walk through of the 18 form that helps raise your vibration and calm your mind. This form can be done standing or sitting. – Wear comfortable clothes that allow movement.
10 A Quiet Moment in the Grove – Led by Raven
Our everyday lives can be hectic in our go-go-go society. Let’s take time to sit in peace and quiet with nothing to do but BE. We will meet beneath the trees in the Sacred Grove taking time to sit in the quiet of nature to relax and reconnect with nature and ourselves.
10 Intro to Mystic Awareness – Led by Cynthia Also known as Elf
It is all about making and understanding connections to the unseen energy of the universe. Our guides, our personal deities, our deeper self, and yes the tree as well.
11 Mead – Led by Dustin (and friends?)
Learn about the process of making mead, meet fellow brewers, sample some crafts that brewers have brought, and learn how they made it! Workshop is for those 21+ only and sample cups will be provided. – Chairs and water is recommended.
12 Lunch Break
Take a break and refuel.
1 Song Circle – Led by Raven
Songs and chants are a way of connecting in community. Join us under the trees in the Sacred Grove to learn & share songs & chants.
2 Candle Magic – Led by Amethyst
Candle Magic – adding enhancements to boost the energy needed to accomplish the goal of a spell using color, oils, and herbs plus other accoutrements. – Bring a chair, pen/ pencil, and paper.
3 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Energetic Cords – Led by Cynthia Also known as Elf
We all know what it is to become drained by other people, even those we love. This workshop explains what this is and what to do about it.
4 Seasonal Ritual – Facilitated by Raven
“Weaving the Threads”
Gather together as we explore thematic “threads” of Beltane—blessing the land, our community and our intentions for a bright and abundant future. We will weave these threads together by dressing our sacred fire with spring flowers, marching* in a short but jubilant Beltane parade, dancing* the Maypoles and creating a special takeaway gift.
This ritual includes activities appropriate for all mobility levels–movement is not required to participate.
You are invited to contribute flowers to our ritual for dressing our sacred fire.
5 Dinner
Feast!
7 Fire Lighting Facilitated by Sherry
If you talk of Beltane, at some point, you need to talk about desire. Rumi said “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love…” So often we learn to suppress our envy, but there are power and gifts within that longing, so long as we honor our boundaries and the boundaries of others. As we gather to light the fire, we’ll take some time to feel within for that (perhaps forgotten) voice, and welcome the wisdom it brings…
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8 Coffee at Tree Frog
Roll out of your slumber into a hot cup of joe, tea, or just come for conversation. Please bring your own mug or we have disposable cups available with a variety of fixins like sugar, creamer, etc…
9 Closing Ritual – Sacred Fire Extinguishing – Rev. Mother Fire Rose
As our festival comes to a close, we gather to reflect upon our time together, express gratitude and ritually extinguish our Sacred Fire.
9:30 Community Meeting – Led by Green Bandannas
A chance to give feedback and to let us know if you are interested in volunteering for planning roles. Also, an opportunity to volunteer for break down activities.
11 Check out time
Be safe on your journey home and we hope to see you again next season.
All dates, times, and workshops are subject to change. Please check back often to see any updates. Any views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by the workshop host(s) are solely that of the workshop host(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies, or position of Mountain Mysteries. Participant discretion is advised.
Throughout the festival weekend, you will have the opportunity to learn about and, at times, engage in spiritual practices from a variety of different traditions and individuals’ lived experiences. Participation in any and all activities during festival is purely voluntary. All things at Mountain Mysteries are an invitation not an expectation. You are welcome to participate at the level that feels right for you and It is OK not to participate or to pass on any activity at any time.
While spirituality can be an important aspect of an individual’s wellness journey, spiritual practice is not a substitution for professional physical or mental health care and other social support services. If you or someone you know is struggling, seek professional help.
Resource cards from the organization Hope For The Day are available at the festival. These cards list important crisis-intervention/support hotline numbers as well as a QR code linked to HFTD’s resource compass which lists financial assistance, food pantries, medical care and other free or reduced-cost help searchable by zip code. Please feel free to take one or a few of these cards home with you or access their Find Help resource page here: https://www.hftd.org/find-help