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Beltane Ritual Gathering

  • Gemini Rising 560 South Main Street Ann Arbor, MI, 48104 United States (map)
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May 1st, or May Day, has a long history in worker's rights movements as well having very ancient roots in pagan traditions as a halfway point between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. Join us as we gather to honor resistance, fortify resilience and share resonance with a Beltane ritual. Sliding scale $15-25 per person. 

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Sometimes my IG feed is a divination tool, giving me messages on a theme that I needed to hear. This weekend’s full moon brought some deep healing work with old personal/intergenerational patterns (Saturn opposition is so real, y’all). In the words of my friend astrologer Pat Liles, “the on-going combination of Saturn, Pluto and South Node in Capricorn that has us focused (perhaps a little reluctantly) on releasing deep habits, long ingrained patterns and structures from the past.  Yes, we are releasing for our personalities, but also for our ancestors and all the patterning and learning we accumulated in the Age of Pisces as we (slowly) move forward into a New Age – Aquarius.  Hold this as an opportunity like a ritual of cleansing before entering a temple or beginning a ceremony.” Thanks for the good medicine @radicalwellbeingcenter @melanatedsocialwork @ctznwell
Spent some time by the river tonight and made up a little tarot spread... my reading kicked my butt (in a good way) so I will share. 🌕♏️ Scorpio full moon tarot spread: 1. What is the shadow work coming up to be addressed? 2. What wounds/ancestral patterns connected to this are up for healing? 3. What support is available? 4. What action can I take today toward empowerment and emotional healing?
🌸BUDDHA MOON Wesak, the spiritual festival in honor of Buddha’s birthday and enlightenment, is celebrated on the full moon of the lunar month known in Sanskrit as Vesakha, usually occurring in May. This year it takes place on a ‘blue moon,’ the second full moon of the month, on May 18/19th. 🌸The Wesak Moon, also known as the ‘Buddha Moon,’ is always celebrated on the Scorpio full moon as it occurs opposite the sun in Taurus. This year’s Buddha Moon is at 27 degrees of Scorpio, a potent location that astrologer Lorna Bevan describes as “a plutonic point of high intensity, volatility and deep emotional undercurrents. It brings an ability to heal through having walked through the dark of your own soul.” The Plutonian rulership of Scorpio uproots from the chthonic depths that which can be permanently transformed, composted, transmutated in the underworld to allow for rebirth. 🌸In honor of Wesak and this powerful Buddha Moon, I’m meditating on the Buddhist principle of ‘dying before you die.’ I recently read Mingyur Rinpoche’s profound book, In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying, which elucidates on this theme.  Pema Chodron calls it “one of the most inspiring books I have ever read” and I’m inclined to agree with her. In the book, Mingyur Rinpoche tells the tale of his ‘wandering retreat,’ in which he gives up his home and his comfortable life for over four years as he lives unhoused, begging for food, surrendering every aspect of his identity. Mingyur Rinpoche exquisitely and transparently describes the discomfort inherent in this process,  the bardo of living, letting go of attachment to ego identity. He writes, “I myself had invited death. Identity-death. Self-consciously, deliberately, i had wished to leave behind my old job and burn up external identities.” 🌸full blog post link in bio
Lifting up this beautiful brilliance 🙌🏾 Posted @withrepost • @oshunsweetnsour #repost @thestateofthings ・・・ “What has surprised me so far is purely people’s willingness to have this conversation [and] also the hunger for the conversation.” . . @decolonizingthecrone is talking about menopause with “Decolonizing The Crone.” It’s her new multi-media project that collects the stories and experiences of women over 50. . . Listen at the link in our bio to learn about why Omisade chose the title she did and about what this project will look like. . . Art by Wutang McDougal/Courtesy of Omisade Burney-Scott . . #decolonizingthecrone #blackgirlsguidetosurvivingmenopause #aging #menopause #perimenopause #postmenopause
🌸🌱🐿 “...all earthlings are kin in the deepest sense, and it is past time to practice better care of kinds-asassemblages (not species one at a time). Kin is an assembling sort of word. All critters share a common ‘flesh,’ laterally, semiotically, and genealogically.” ~Donna Haraway, ‘Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin’
Feeling ALL of this 🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡 Posted @withrepost • @utyxxi Card of the day: Six of Swords ⚔️ . . As this full moon in Scorpio approaches, most of us are already feeling the effects. Our bodies may be tired, sore, some of us may have headaches, or we can be more exhausted at the end of the day. Give time to yourself to withdrawal into solitude. Give yourself time to meditate. Lots of emotions are stirring up, old scars, old issues, old wounds, fears are coming back to the surface, yet don’t resist. Just let them flow. Find a safe space for you to retreat to. Protect your space & let yourself be vulnerable. No one has ever said healing is easy. Sometimes we need to travel to the dark spaces in our hearts & minds in order to put those fears to rest. Know that you have been traveling to these spaces for a long while now, you are not inexperienced. & You are not the same person as you once were. You have made great transformation through reflection, yet the work is never over. Make sure you self care this evening, or sometime this weekend. These are major growing pains, but you’re only getting stronger 💛💛💛 . . #scorpio #fullmoon #moon #magick #moonmagick #fullmoonritual #moonritual #tarot #cardoftheday #tarotreadersofinstagram #witchesofcolor #brujasofinstagram #bruja #brujx
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Great article by my @generative.somatics teacher and pleasure activist extraordinaire @adriennemareebrown ❤️ ~Posted @withrepost • @generative.somatics Don't miss an essay about politicized somatics in @yesmagazine_ this week! It's an excerpt from gs teacher, @adriennemareebrown’s NYT Best Selling book Pleasure Activism! . . It begins: "For the past nine years, I have been learning to feel, to connect with others while feeling, and to begin to understand what is possible when a collective of humans is not afraid to feel life together." . . And later on: "...the beautiful, miraculous new possibility is: I am able to stay present in my yes...We are not just our pains, not just our fears, and not just our thoughts. We are entire systems wired for pleasure, and we can learn how to say yes from the inside out." . . #Somatics #PleasureActivism . . [image description: 1) an image of the article says “What Your Body Has to Do With Social Change, Using Somatics to explore trauma can help make authentic connection and collectivity possible.” Then there is a photo of a person’s neck and collar own and shoulders. Under that it says “it turns out, being present is the most important part of every single experience in my life.” “Photo by Walter Gradauer/EyeEm/Getty Images.” 2) the cover of Pleasure Activism which says “New York Times Best Seller” “Pleasure Activism” (in red and purple font) with small drawings, and then “The Politics Of Feeling Good” “Written and Gathered by adrienne maree brown”. On top of the cover you can see the text from the Yes! article that says “Somatics works through the body, engaging us in our thinking, emotions, commitments, vision and action. (From “What is Somatics?”, Generative a Somatics).” 3) the Yes magazine logo “Yes!” In white font on red background.]
Great article by my @generative.somatics teacher and pleasure activist extraordinaire @adriennemareebrown ❤️ ~Posted @withrepost • @generative.somatics Don't miss an essay about politicized somatics in @yesmagazine_ this week! It's an excerpt from gs teacher, @adriennemareebrown’s NYT Best Selling book Pleasure Activism! . . It begins: "For the past nine years, I have been learning to feel, to connect with others while feeling, and to begin to understand what is possible when a collective of humans is not afraid to feel life together." . . And later on: "...the beautiful, miraculous new possibility is: I am able to stay present in my yes...We are not just our pains, not just our fears, and not just our thoughts. We are entire systems wired for pleasure, and we can learn how to say yes from the inside out." . . #Somatics #PleasureActivism . . [image description: 1) an image of the article says “What Your Body Has to Do With Social Change, Using Somatics to explore trauma can help make authentic connection and collectivity possible.” Then there is a photo of a person’s neck and collar own and shoulders. Under that it says “it turns out, being present is the most important part of every single experience in my life.” “Photo by Walter Gradauer/EyeEm/Getty Images.” 2) the cover of Pleasure Activism which says “New York Times Best Seller” “Pleasure Activism” (in red and purple font) with small drawings, and then “The Politics Of Feeling Good” “Written and Gathered by adrienne maree brown”. On top of the cover you can see the text from the Yes! article that says “Somatics works through the body, engaging us in our thinking, emotions, commitments, vision and action. (From “What is Somatics?”, Generative a Somatics).” 3) the Yes magazine logo “Yes!” In white font on red background.]