Spring Greetings! Happy All Fools Day! No joking here, just gratitude.... After the destruction of Helene and a colder winter, spring reminds us that the circle of life continues no matter what. Blood root is one of my favorite spring harbingers, along with violets, and the sheer excitement of spotting your first morel camouflaged in leaf litter. With our much needed rain and warming soil it is time to start looking! Our garden sanctuary is starting to show signs of life too. The ramps are up, the goldenseal buds popping out, trilliums shooting up, the purple tips of blue cohosh, and solomon’s seal teasing the deer with their delicate tips. If you’d like to lend a hand this season in our medicinal gardens please let me know! We have a couple of events coming up this month including a volunteer day to expand our community gardens, read on below or see our calendar here for more information.
Our new Purification Lodge! Our rebuild weekend was amazing. We had 15+ wonderful humans show up over the weekend, including a few that had never been here before and took the jump! We shared hard work, meals, and a whole lot of laughter. Just as the sun was setting the lodge was completed. Many thanks to Olivia, Josh and Jack for bringing in willow! Thank you Carol Anne, Amanda, Nicole, Alex, Tia, Elin, Dale, Jimena, Kat, Jenny Jean, Taylor, Holly, Sybil, Emily, and Andrew. The lodge holds the heart space for healing here at SCL and your contribution of time to rebuild this womb space benefits all who attend ceremony over the next few years.
April 5th Honoring of an Elder This day we celebrate Dianne Vetter with her 60 year Rite of Passage. Dianne is on SCL Board of Directors, long time friend, teacher, women’s advocate, and bringer of fun and laughter. If any of you have gotten to know and appreciate her contributions to the lodge contact me to be involved or send a personal story of how Dianne has influenced your life!
April 12 - Full Moon Lodge Spring is the time of transformative change not merely because of the changing seasons, but because of the stability the earth provides. We might see springtime as the time to think about our hidden beauty. We are just like the beautiful flowering tree that births a stream of continuous beauty despite feeling perhaps we do not. We marvel at the beauty of our friends and those around us, yet often cannot see our beauty, our magic. At this Full Moon Purification Lodge, we will reconnect with our inner strength, our beauty, through ceremony, a process of balancing, to help us create the abundance we seek.
Micki Eagle Eyes – is pouring this full moon purification lodge. Micki is continuing her training and Kelly will be supporting her on fire crew. RSVP directly to Micki to attend by emailing mickikjpd@aol.com. We will gather on Saturday, April 12 at 1 pm, or noon if you are a new participant. RSVP for all the details and gifting protocols.
April 6 & 13 Community Garden Volunteer Days After Farmer Nathan created these beautiful growing beds with his expertise and a borrowed broad fork, we decided it will be worth the effort to expand the garden to feed ourselves and more of the SCL community (not the deer :) Our desire: Is the creation of a community garden in which all who lend a hand will share in our abundance. Our interdependence is part of what makes us stronger and knowing we can truly rely on one another when needed. April 6 @ 10-4pm: We will be marking the space and digging post holes for the fencing. April 13 @ 10-4pm: We will be hanging the fence and gate. Let me know if you can lend a hand. I’ll be offering food to all on our work days. RSVP Kelly for more info or directions here.
May 23-25 is our 4th Annual Eagle Dance! Our personal and collective prayers are danced to the center tree. The “tree of life” acts as an antenna to spirit as we pray for guidance from the Universe in the coming year. Drummer singers maintain the heartbeat on a pow-wow drum during the entire dance and maintain the energy for us as we dance back and forth to the center tree. The drum does not stop until we are complete! We will be fasting, and drinking water is optional and recommended. The dance is a meditative/trance experience. Dancing keeps us in our bodies and out of our head so we can receive “with care and with clarity” messages from spirit. The Dance allows prayers for manifesting a specific intent for self, the Collective, and others. We also pray to bring our beauty and purpose into the world around us. The people of Grandmother Earth need our prayers. We have chosen to be alive in this special time and humanity is calling us to participate as we bridge the old world into the new one currently emerging.
Eagle Dance is a one day Sweet Medicine SunDance ceremony. The dance is an irreplaceable experience and well worth your careful preparation. Our ceremonial land at Spirit Canoe Lodge has a lodge for teaching & cooking, communal lodging or camping, purification lodge, and Eagle Dance Arbor. There are many preparations for the dance. We will host a few craft days or connect you with an experienced dancer to guide you in the preparations of learning to make a shield and find the special regalia you need for the dance. RSVP to reserve a space and receive the prep list. See details and registration page here
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