Wheel of the Year Ceremony
THURSDAY, MARCH 20: Spring Equinox Ostara Ceremony
Celebrate the Spring Equinox and Pagan Holiday of Ostara at Grandmother Cherry Sanctuary.
The balance of light and dark takes a sacred pause on this day and we will too. Join us for an evening visioning ceremony where we will work with divination tools and elemental magic. Bring your favorite Tarot/Oracle decks, journal, magical crafts, potions, and crystals. Together we will cast a magic sharing circle where we will practice a dance of giving and receiving from each other, and feeling the balance in our bodies and energy.
Herbal and root tea will be served, brewed with medicinal plants grown organically at Grandmother Cherry Sanctuary, where we will gather in the cozy Sanctuary Room. We will sing to give reverence and bless the seeds of creativity and imagination growing in the dark. We will bring awareness to the shadow and shine sides of light and dark, supporting release from binary thinking to embrace an arc, dance, and flow in our expanding consciousness.
Join us inside for our Spring Equinox Ostara Ceremony of ritual and emergence of spring within and upon Mother Earth and ourselves.
Details
The EmpowR Transformation “Wheel of the Year” Ceremony series celebrates living in rhythm with the cycles of Nature (and our bodies which are a part of nature). We practice Pagan Earth-based spirituality in community and welcome people from any spiritual or cultural background. Our ceremonies are simple and invite anyone interested in connecting with Earth-based spiritual practices to remember our land-based roots before the harms of colonization severed our relationships with land and each other. We draw from the Celtic Wheel of the Year and Norse mythology as that is the ancestry of our facilitators and welcome all Earth-based spiritual practices and traditions in our cocreative space.
Wheel of the Year Ceremonies average 6-14 people depending on the time of year and are designed to be both intimate and expansive, always with spaciousness for emergence and flow.
Age
People 16 and older are welcome. Please do a separate registration for each person over 12. Please send a message if a discount would be helpful for a second member of a family to attend. Milking mothers and their babes are most welcome.
Timing
Please arrive, park, and use the facilities by 5:45 pm so we can open ceremony at 6 pm.
Food/Drink
Please bring snacks as you feel called and a water bottle.
To Prepare
Bring and offering for the altar and your magic. Bring your favorite Tarot/Oracle decks, journal, magical crafts, potions, and crystals.
Location
We will gather at Grandmother Cherry Sanctuary in the mountains of Plainfield, Vermont. The ceremony space is on the second floor up one flight of stairs. Uley, the Sanctuary therapy dog will greet you with friendly barking (how he says hello) and will join us along with Rider and maybe Sade (witch cats) for the afternoon.
Community Wellness
Please protect your health and the health of others by taking precautions the week before the event (masking in public, hand and surface sanitizing, rest and nourishment, etc.) Please take a COVID test the day of the event and only come if you are feeling healthy (tired and rundown is okay – we hope the event will nourish you as well). Masking at the event is welcome and optional. Thanks for doing your part to keep community safe and healthy!
Directions and additional information will be provided upon registration.
