An Ancient Story lives in our blood and souls:
Up before the sun, bundled in thick layers against the frigid cold, you stoke last night’s coals to a crackling good morning. Water set to boil, you go about rechecking the things gathered to go with you on the journey. You loaded the wagon last night as the sun set and the night breezes sent shivers through you, now you check over them to be sure it’s all in order; shocks of dead weeds, spent crops and molded thatches of roof removed and repaired. All things to be offered to the fire as they no longer serve the flow of your sustenance. Along with these is a bounty, packaged with delicate care; the excess of your crops that cannot be preserved to survive the winter, the four sheep and one pig you know you won’t be able to feed through to spring are together in a separate pen from the rest of the stock, gifts of wool, grains and craft. All of this excess is coming with you to the gathering of Samhain, not because it does not serve, but because it is the bounty with which you have been blessed and now have the honor to share with your ancestors and tribe through feast and through gift.
-Questions and Challenges:
With what bountiful blessings have you been graced since last you faced the dark, cold reflection of frigid winter’s iced embrace? What sufferings have you wrought, endured; what losses plague you still? as now you approach the full-turned wheel to find you face the fall-thinned veil? Reflect now and acknowledge what new ancestors have been created in the passing of this year, what new allies of Spirit and of Power have been gained through the loss, the pain, the forever-gone of friends once flesh now passed on to the wisdom and peace of life beyond.
Examine your load…What load? you hear you ask. That load that without which we would be nothing in particular and therefore everything Now -- that load that is the game you call your Life and worries, your goals, priorities and concerns, your blah blah blah ….. it sits on our shoulders so perfectly perched that we often forget that we choose to carry it. Take it off for a moment and become present to your grudges, your fears, your beliefs, your preconceived’s, your heartsongs, your hurts, your pains, your joys, your sorrows and gains, and hold them to the light of loving examination. Among all of this hubbub are gems of both discord and of harmony, things that hinder you and things that help. Open yourself to the beauty of all that comprises ‘you’ and prepare to share as you are part of your bounty.
Now is the time when the Earth Mother offers the opportunity to recognize that which does not serve and to recognize those blessings of which we have joyous excess, to honor these and to share them with her, with our ancestors, and with each other. A sacrifice is not just made of things we do or do not like, it is of anything whose space we need to clear up so as to allow for further growth in its stead. Identify and Honor your Ancestors, both the newly acquired and those of old, for they are our allies of wisdom and council as we craft the worlds. Clear the way to pure magicks and divine your intentions. Prepare your Self and hereby find that you are cordially, profanely and sacredly invited to join hands and breath to craft together a Circle of Magick Folk; of Fae, of Ghoul, of Witch, of Human, of Mutant, of Man, of Beast, of Goddess, of Corporeal and Spirit allies, of lovers, of strangers, of family, and of friends. Come to the Land that welcomes our conSpiracy and our Circle, come Home to celebrate Samhain, the year’s final harvest, the thinning of the veils, a homecoming of Ancestry and memory. Join hands together as our laughter rings amidst our tears and we step through the Door to the Dark.
“we are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother earth; our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all perish.”
-Dates and Registration:
You’re calendar is just dying to know, so here they are: Samhain will be held SatyrsDay 10/28/06 through Thursday 11/02/06. You are invited to arrive and make camp Friday 10/27, ground, join in dinner, and sleep to be rested for opening Circle on Saturday (this is not yet coordinated, so if you have inspiration and would like to pitch in to craft opening circle, have your piece ready when you arrive. We make this gathering)
Pre-Registration is highly encouraged as it helps us to get the abundAnce flowing for the gathering, starts to give an idea for how many guests the Land can expect in the first few days. Suggested donation is 35 dollars a day (More if you can. Less if you can’t. No one turned away for lack of funds). Give early, give often. The gathering we are creating is formed and funded by those of us who attend it, the money we give supports our needs while at the gathering and supports the needs of the Land that is hosting our reveries. Don’t be shy about giving what you have, money or otherwise. We make this gathering. A printable pre-registration form is at the end of this call, you can mail your registration with any pre-gathering donations to Kyle Diesner, 2213 SE Stark St, Portland, Or, 97214 (no really, it’ll make it to the Land). Any more information you need regarding the Sanctuary (contact info, etc) can be found at www.nomenus.org
-We protect the Lands
It’s recently been discovered that the land surrounding the sanctuary is under threat of logging. It has yet to be auctioned off to a specific company but the time is short and the time is now to act if we are to prevent this. There will be a circle held at the gathering to discuss ritual and other possibilities of action. We are invoking the spirit of Spotted Owl to make its presence known in those lands as our ally in protecting the forests. We will also be walking the perimeter of the Land and marking our property lines in a spell of protection and compassion. Any resources you may have to help this process are welcomed and appreciated.
-Logistics
The kitchen is the heart of the gathering and is yet not being focalized. If you are called to focus the kitchen for a night, for a day for the week, please make this known when you register. We all do our part to construct this gathering.
Arrive with the knowledge that it is up to *all* of us to co-create this gathering. Arrive prepared to engage and participate. Arrive with the willingness to instigate community. ritual, meals, art, sex, laughter, cohesion, magick, it’s OURS to make…..
Pack it in, Pack it out. Earth Mother loves you, pick up your own mess.
Rain Happens, bring tarps and rain gear.
It’s fucking cold! Bring layers, plenty of bedding, less attachment to getting laid and more to making friends and staying warm. (sex during the day and by the fire, gleefully encouraged)
The Zombie Nurses, while a good idea, have had a struggle to maintain momentum. All of the supplies are available, all that’s wanting is a willing and able coordinator(s).
If you have felt the pull to coordinate something at a gathering in previous years but have not been sure of how to go about it, or whether you would be “up to the task”, find an ally who you see leading, talk to the ones you “know” can do it and step up to your own yearnings. The gathering happens cuz we make it, there are no designated or voted-in leaders or facilitators, we all choose our roles and are supported as we create our support. Gathering, like Life, is best done Actively. Your participation is highly encouraged.
Come prepared to camp. Special needs space is for faeries who required an in indoor sleeping arrangement for medical purposes, and is limited. Please contact the Land to raise awareness to your special need.
The Land, and the Gatherings held there, honor a consensus-based decision making process. Over the past many years the gathered communities and the community on the Land have reached agreements, through consensus, regarding “a few items that you should please not bring with you to the Sanctuary”. They are as follows:
-Speed, of any kind, in you or on you (that includes your car)
-Violence or Intolerance
-Pets or Familiars*
-Synthetic body care products (the drains empty into the creek and into the soil, please help keep them clean
(*”please leave your pets at home” is a restriction commonly ignored or, for some, impossible to comply with. If you dissent to this request, feel oppressed by this request, or are made indignant by this request; it is further requested that you bring your dissent by way of communication, by calling a circle and bringing the issue about in a venue in which it can be addressed and shifted to best suit all present. Please honor the process by which we honor ourselves and do not bring your pets to the sanctuary during the gathering. If it is impossible for you to leave your pet behind, a kennel is available in Merlin, the next town south, at which you can board your furry loved on for $10/day. It is called Creekside Boarding, Donna is the lady’s name who runs it and the number is (541) 471-7144. Thank you for helping the gathering to flow peacefully and smoothly)
-Whispered rumors of things to come:
Dinner Daily and Deliciously prepared (by us!, that means you, which is us!), Faery-Tale Tea (bring your stories, memories, traditions to share over a cup of tea), Intentional Libations Night, kNOw Talent Show (hosted by the fateful Rock, Paper, Scissor Sisters), the construction of a Community Ancestor Altar (bring tokens, talismans, pictures of ancestors that you would be willing to have on a community altar out in the weather), Samhain Ritual, an Interactive Community Divination EXTRAVAGANZA!!! (bring your decks, runes, card, and oracles that are comfortable being touched by community hands)…..
The time has come, autumn is upon us and the time to celebrate the cold, the dark, the cozy, the rotting, the fuzzy, the dead, the bouncy, the burning, the moist, the coming of the night is here. Bring your love, your Sight, your intention….
See you at the Fire….
Bliss,
-This Year’s Conspiracy to Call a Samhain Gathering
(Printable Registration form)
--------------------
Registration Form
Samhain, A Welcome Home Celebration to Ancestors and Fae-Kin
Saturday 10/28-06- Thrusday 11/02/06
Faery Name: ____________________________________
Former Faery Name:______________________________
Future Faery Name:__________________________________
Name your Parents Call You:________________________
Mundane Name: _________________________________
Address (If you want): _____________________________
Email Address: ___________________________________
I'm planing to be at the gathering from _______ to _______, for a total of ______ days.
I know you are asking $35/day (more if you can, less if you can't, No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds),
so I am enclosing $________
I would love to help with (circle away!):
Opening/Closing Rituals, Collecting & Cutting Firewood
Cooking a Meal Queening the Kitchen
the Know Your Talent Show, A Workshop/Ritual
Coordinating Rides for _______________ (city name)
Other _____________________
Remember, this is YOUR Gathering, and is created with the collaborative effort of everyone attending.
What is your intention for the Samhain Gathering at Wolf Creek?
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
*************
Blessed Be
Up before the sun, bundled in thick layers against the frigid cold, you stoke last night’s coals to a crackling good morning. Water set to boil, you go about rechecking the things gathered to go with you on the journey. You loaded the wagon last night as the sun set and the night breezes sent shivers through you, now you check over them to be sure it’s all in order; shocks of dead weeds, spent crops and molded thatches of roof removed and repaired. All things to be offered to the fire as they no longer serve the flow of your sustenance. Along with these is a bounty, packaged with delicate care; the excess of your crops that cannot be preserved to survive the winter, the four sheep and one pig you know you won’t be able to feed through to spring are together in a separate pen from the rest of the stock, gifts of wool, grains and craft. All of this excess is coming with you to the gathering of Samhain, not because it does not serve, but because it is the bounty with which you have been blessed and now have the honor to share with your ancestors and tribe through feast and through gift.
-Questions and Challenges:
With what bountiful blessings have you been graced since last you faced the dark, cold reflection of frigid winter’s iced embrace? What sufferings have you wrought, endured; what losses plague you still? as now you approach the full-turned wheel to find you face the fall-thinned veil? Reflect now and acknowledge what new ancestors have been created in the passing of this year, what new allies of Spirit and of Power have been gained through the loss, the pain, the forever-gone of friends once flesh now passed on to the wisdom and peace of life beyond.
Examine your load…What load? you hear you ask. That load that without which we would be nothing in particular and therefore everything Now -- that load that is the game you call your Life and worries, your goals, priorities and concerns, your blah blah blah ….. it sits on our shoulders so perfectly perched that we often forget that we choose to carry it. Take it off for a moment and become present to your grudges, your fears, your beliefs, your preconceived’s, your heartsongs, your hurts, your pains, your joys, your sorrows and gains, and hold them to the light of loving examination. Among all of this hubbub are gems of both discord and of harmony, things that hinder you and things that help. Open yourself to the beauty of all that comprises ‘you’ and prepare to share as you are part of your bounty.
Now is the time when the Earth Mother offers the opportunity to recognize that which does not serve and to recognize those blessings of which we have joyous excess, to honor these and to share them with her, with our ancestors, and with each other. A sacrifice is not just made of things we do or do not like, it is of anything whose space we need to clear up so as to allow for further growth in its stead. Identify and Honor your Ancestors, both the newly acquired and those of old, for they are our allies of wisdom and council as we craft the worlds. Clear the way to pure magicks and divine your intentions. Prepare your Self and hereby find that you are cordially, profanely and sacredly invited to join hands and breath to craft together a Circle of Magick Folk; of Fae, of Ghoul, of Witch, of Human, of Mutant, of Man, of Beast, of Goddess, of Corporeal and Spirit allies, of lovers, of strangers, of family, and of friends. Come to the Land that welcomes our conSpiracy and our Circle, come Home to celebrate Samhain, the year’s final harvest, the thinning of the veils, a homecoming of Ancestry and memory. Join hands together as our laughter rings amidst our tears and we step through the Door to the Dark.
“we are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother earth; our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all perish.”
-Dates and Registration:
You’re calendar is just dying to know, so here they are: Samhain will be held SatyrsDay 10/28/06 through Thursday 11/02/06. You are invited to arrive and make camp Friday 10/27, ground, join in dinner, and sleep to be rested for opening Circle on Saturday (this is not yet coordinated, so if you have inspiration and would like to pitch in to craft opening circle, have your piece ready when you arrive. We make this gathering)
Pre-Registration is highly encouraged as it helps us to get the abundAnce flowing for the gathering, starts to give an idea for how many guests the Land can expect in the first few days. Suggested donation is 35 dollars a day (More if you can. Less if you can’t. No one turned away for lack of funds). Give early, give often. The gathering we are creating is formed and funded by those of us who attend it, the money we give supports our needs while at the gathering and supports the needs of the Land that is hosting our reveries. Don’t be shy about giving what you have, money or otherwise. We make this gathering. A printable pre-registration form is at the end of this call, you can mail your registration with any pre-gathering donations to Kyle Diesner, 2213 SE Stark St, Portland, Or, 97214 (no really, it’ll make it to the Land). Any more information you need regarding the Sanctuary (contact info, etc) can be found at www.nomenus.org
-We protect the Lands
It’s recently been discovered that the land surrounding the sanctuary is under threat of logging. It has yet to be auctioned off to a specific company but the time is short and the time is now to act if we are to prevent this. There will be a circle held at the gathering to discuss ritual and other possibilities of action. We are invoking the spirit of Spotted Owl to make its presence known in those lands as our ally in protecting the forests. We will also be walking the perimeter of the Land and marking our property lines in a spell of protection and compassion. Any resources you may have to help this process are welcomed and appreciated.
-Logistics
The kitchen is the heart of the gathering and is yet not being focalized. If you are called to focus the kitchen for a night, for a day for the week, please make this known when you register. We all do our part to construct this gathering.
Arrive with the knowledge that it is up to *all* of us to co-create this gathering. Arrive prepared to engage and participate. Arrive with the willingness to instigate community. ritual, meals, art, sex, laughter, cohesion, magick, it’s OURS to make…..
Pack it in, Pack it out. Earth Mother loves you, pick up your own mess.
Rain Happens, bring tarps and rain gear.
It’s fucking cold! Bring layers, plenty of bedding, less attachment to getting laid and more to making friends and staying warm. (sex during the day and by the fire, gleefully encouraged)
The Zombie Nurses, while a good idea, have had a struggle to maintain momentum. All of the supplies are available, all that’s wanting is a willing and able coordinator(s).
If you have felt the pull to coordinate something at a gathering in previous years but have not been sure of how to go about it, or whether you would be “up to the task”, find an ally who you see leading, talk to the ones you “know” can do it and step up to your own yearnings. The gathering happens cuz we make it, there are no designated or voted-in leaders or facilitators, we all choose our roles and are supported as we create our support. Gathering, like Life, is best done Actively. Your participation is highly encouraged.
Come prepared to camp. Special needs space is for faeries who required an in indoor sleeping arrangement for medical purposes, and is limited. Please contact the Land to raise awareness to your special need.
The Land, and the Gatherings held there, honor a consensus-based decision making process. Over the past many years the gathered communities and the community on the Land have reached agreements, through consensus, regarding “a few items that you should please not bring with you to the Sanctuary”. They are as follows:
-Speed, of any kind, in you or on you (that includes your car)
-Violence or Intolerance
-Pets or Familiars*
-Synthetic body care products (the drains empty into the creek and into the soil, please help keep them clean
(*”please leave your pets at home” is a restriction commonly ignored or, for some, impossible to comply with. If you dissent to this request, feel oppressed by this request, or are made indignant by this request; it is further requested that you bring your dissent by way of communication, by calling a circle and bringing the issue about in a venue in which it can be addressed and shifted to best suit all present. Please honor the process by which we honor ourselves and do not bring your pets to the sanctuary during the gathering. If it is impossible for you to leave your pet behind, a kennel is available in Merlin, the next town south, at which you can board your furry loved on for $10/day. It is called Creekside Boarding, Donna is the lady’s name who runs it and the number is (541) 471-7144. Thank you for helping the gathering to flow peacefully and smoothly)
-Whispered rumors of things to come:
Dinner Daily and Deliciously prepared (by us!, that means you, which is us!), Faery-Tale Tea (bring your stories, memories, traditions to share over a cup of tea), Intentional Libations Night, kNOw Talent Show (hosted by the fateful Rock, Paper, Scissor Sisters), the construction of a Community Ancestor Altar (bring tokens, talismans, pictures of ancestors that you would be willing to have on a community altar out in the weather), Samhain Ritual, an Interactive Community Divination EXTRAVAGANZA!!! (bring your decks, runes, card, and oracles that are comfortable being touched by community hands)…..
The time has come, autumn is upon us and the time to celebrate the cold, the dark, the cozy, the rotting, the fuzzy, the dead, the bouncy, the burning, the moist, the coming of the night is here. Bring your love, your Sight, your intention….
See you at the Fire….
Bliss,
-This Year’s Conspiracy to Call a Samhain Gathering
(Printable Registration form)
--------------------
Registration Form
Samhain, A Welcome Home Celebration to Ancestors and Fae-Kin
Saturday 10/28-06- Thrusday 11/02/06
Faery Name: ____________________________________
Former Faery Name:______________________________
Future Faery Name:__________________________________
Name your Parents Call You:________________________
Mundane Name: _________________________________
Address (If you want): _____________________________
Email Address: ___________________________________
I'm planing to be at the gathering from _______ to _______, for a total of ______ days.
I know you are asking $35/day (more if you can, less if you can't, No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds),
so I am enclosing $________
I would love to help with (circle away!):
Opening/Closing Rituals, Collecting & Cutting Firewood
Cooking a Meal Queening the Kitchen
the Know Your Talent Show, A Workshop/Ritual
Coordinating Rides for _______________ (city name)
Other _____________________
Remember, this is YOUR Gathering, and is created with the collaborative effort of everyone attending.
What is your intention for the Samhain Gathering at Wolf Creek?
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
*************
Blessed Be
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