This is from our 2022 Summer Solstice Ceremony, so please disregard any mention of times & dates
Hey friends! Bryan and I are making the call to postpone tonight's ceremony. With the rain coming and going as it has been, and the larger size of our group with these fires, things get more challenging if it does indeed rain. The Earth is also SO saturated at this point that I think we'll create a muddy mess, which could get slick and impede on future activities at the church.
I'm sorry @followers! We proceeded with last night's Full Moon fire despite the weather, and it worked, but it was a far smaller group.
To stay in the loop on the reschedule, watch the announcements on this page or join my newsletter at https://bethelightshamanism.com/shamanic-events#community
Also, this is not quite the same, but it should be a great time too- there's a Solstice event tomorrow at Olbrich Park. I plan to go to the drum circle at 8:15, so maybe I'll see you there! https://www.meetup.com/madison-drum/events/301083111/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link
RAIN OR SHINE, THIS EVENT WILL BE HOSTED OUTDOORS
We hope you'll join us for this unifying, unique Summer Solstice Fire Ceremony.
Bryan Sirchio, Pastor of McFarland United Church of Christ, Trish Kalhagen of Sacred Moments and I (Jessica Riphenburg of Be The Light) will weave our spiritual views and practices into this healing, uplifting ceremony.
Here’s the playlist for our 7 part series that dives a little deeper into why we wanted to co-create these ceremonies.
Many of you have asked how a Shamanic Practitioner and a Christian pastor have come together to co-create spiritual ceremonies... Great question!
To shed a little light on how this collaboration came to be, we’ve created some videos. If you enjoy them, please give a “like” and comment to tell YouTube to share the videos with others, will ya? Thank you!
BRING:
Rattle, shaker, or drum if you have one. A bottle with pebbles, dried beans, etc works well too! I’ll have many shakers for you to borrow if you don’t have one of your own.
Camping chair
Warm layers and/or blanket.
OPTIONAL: a pen and journal
IMPORTANT
To respect the sacred container of this work, please refrain from alcohol & recreational drugs the day of the event. It’s ideal, but not necessary to also refrain from both for 24 hours prior, and 24 hours after as well.
This ceremony will be hosted outdoors, and will not be canceled unless there is an EXTREME weather event. Assume that we're "on" unless I post an update in the Facebook event discussion thread the day of the event- see here.