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Sunday,
December 6 at 4:00 pm
Bay Area Spark
Collective Ritual Circle
Presented by
James
Bianchi
415-824-4220
Come enjoy the FireDance
community and find another home in the Bay Area for
your heart songs, your dance, your poetry, your
music. You do not have to be a good singer. You do
not have to know a
single chant. Just bring your enthusiasm and your spark. The
Bay Area Spark
Collective is a new flame, kindled from embers carried home from
fire circles around the country
─ an intentional
community group that meets monthly to celebrate spirit, community,
and each other. Pot luck
supper begins at 4:00 pm. The sacred circle opens the doors at
6:30 pm. Participants introduce themselves and share their
magic; the four directions are called in; a chant is sung; and a
sacred play begins. From here on out, anything can happen:
drumming, a song, a poem, dancing,
magic, drawing, writing, massage, deep trance. As participants take their turns
around the circle, they stir the container and mix in their magic to create a
synergistic miracle in the space. Everyone listens to what the moment needs. Around 9:30 pm the energy of the circle rises to a fever pitch and then sweetly
winds down. The circle is closed with a chant, an "Om," that releases the four
directions
─ and plenty of hugs!
Planting Justice
would like to invite you to our very first end-of-year
fundraising celebration!
We are so excited to celebrate the hard work and quick
progress we have made creating tangible change
throughout the Bay Area. Today we're on our way to
providing a more just and sustainable urban food system
for the Bay Area. Please come enjoy an evening of
delicious catered organic food by
Pachamana Cafe
and entertainment by the finest local performers.
Our festive program includes a Bollywood dance
performance and performances by
CommuniTree,
Mariee
Sioux,
Dascrybe,
and more. All proceeds go to support our green
jobs program and our projects at San Quentin State
Prison, middle-schools and high-schools in Oakland, and
various backyards and front yards that are helping
community members grow healthy food right where they
live.
Join this sacred and
participatory circle of women for a celebration of darkness and
the return of the light. The Goddess Lucina returns,
birthing light from the dark and reminding us of the holy spark
of creativity within each of us. We dive deeply into the
gifts of the Sacred Dark ─
rest, stillness,
contemplation, germination ─
while celebrating the
return of the sun!
Sing and dance in safe space as we joyously welcome the return
of the sun and bask in the warmth of each other’s offerings.
You are invited to contribute a song, poem, story, dance,
blessing, invocation, or other offering that relates to the
themes of the season. Newcomers are most welcome.
These are ideal events for women new to earth-based and
women-centered religion and for women who yearn to contribute
wisdom and creativity to ritual space.
Carolyn Hunt,
a Wiccan priestess, will be your gentle hostess. Please
bring:
a vegetarian dish to share;
plate, utensils, cup;
and bring a
candle in a votive or other protected holder. Children are
welcome too, and drums and rattles!
Come join the
New Reformed Orthodox Order of
the Golden Dawn (NROOGD) and help turn the
wheel of the year!
Everyone's invited! NROOGD
will be conducting their Yule ritual to bring back the light right after the winter solstice,
the longest night of the year. They will call on the goddess
and the god to bring in the light and participant witches will do
their magic also to aid the light's return. Ritual guests too
─
and everyone is welcome ─
lend their energy in
aiding the return of the light.
Please bring food that you love to eat and love to share for the
potluck after the ritual. Bring your children too ─
this is a child-friendly occasion. There will be an exchange
of gifts for the cauldron;
but it's not necessary to bring gifts ─
there will be plenty on hand ─
and please do not pay more
than $10 for any gift. This will be the time to turn the wheel
with NROOGD and proceed from darkness to light with the greatest
appreciation!
