Lughnasadh 2023

 

Chokecherry Grove, ADF will be celebrating Lughnasadh on Saturday August 5th. Our Zoom session will start at 7 pm MDT, and ritual at approximately 7:30. This may be an indoor ritual due to possible thunderstorms.

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85896859016?pwd=alpNRzJxd3JRZEhOY01XU1RtdEFqdz09

MIdsummer 2023 - Update

 It's summer, and the roses are blooming. Chokecherry is planning on celebrating Midsummer on Saturday June 24th, and this time we will be holding it publicly for the first time in 3 years. Our location is the outdoor courtyard of the Kirk of Bonnie Brae on South Steele Street. We are planning to gather at 7pm MDT, with the ritual starting at 7:30ish, as usual, and yes, we are planning on the usual Zoom link. 

There will be picnic feasting afterwards, so feel free to bring something to share which you enjoy.

The Zoom link for those unable to attend in person:

 

Topic: midsummer
Time: Jun 24, 2023 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Midsummer 2023

 

It's summer, and the roses are blooming. Chokecherry is planning on celebrating Midsummer on Saturday June 24th, and we are making arrangements to hold it publicly. More details when we get closer, but it should be "gather at 7pm MDT, ritual starts 7:30ish" as usual, and yes, we are planning on the usual Zoom link.

Beltane 2023

 We had been hoping to have our Beltane ritual at a physically public location this year, but it hasn't worked out. We'll be trying again at Midsummer, but in the meantime, we will have our usual hybrid Zoom ritual on Saturday April 29th. It will be gather at 6:30 pm MDT, ritual starts around 7 pm -- Zoom link:

Topic: beltane
Time: Apr 29, 2023 06:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Passcode: 477101
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Chokecherry's Workshops

 We had a good set of divination workshops yesterday, and I'd like to thank everyone who participated, especially our speakers. I've sent out the Dropbox links to everyone who registered for the video and audio recordings. Now on to the planning for our Rocky Mountain October Retreat!

The photo, by the way, is of a set of ogam fews I made a few years ago. Ironically, it's the one divination method we didn't discuss yesterday!

DIVINATION WORKSHOP UPDATE!

 

 

UPDATE:

Our divination methods workshop in March 2022 was quite successful, so we are doing it again!

Chokecherry Grove will be holding  a one-day Zoom event on Methods of Divination on Saturday March 25th, 2023.The price for the whole day is only $10, and all sessions will be recorded, so if you are interested but can't attend, you can watch them later!

Our planned sessions are as follows: 

• 9:00 AM MDT: ADF'S ARCHDRUID REV. JEAN "DRUM" PAGANO will talk about his new MOON ORACLE.
  

• 10:30 AM MDT:  REV. GAARIK HAMR will speak on the Norse RUNES. He says "Runic divination, at its core, is the use of runes from one of several alphabets to determine hidden information. Hidden by whom and for what purpose? The purpose of this workshop is to explore the animistic aspect of Norse cosmology and apply it to runic practice. This workshop looks to the Rune Poems and modern scholarship for a theistic, animistic approach to runic divination and interpretation."
  

• 1:00 PM MDT: REV. IAN CORRIGAN will discuss "real-time divination w/ the spirits".

• 2:30 PM MDT: REV. D. ROWEN GROVE will speak on BONE READING. She says: "Bone reading is a system of intuitive divination in which bones and other small objects are scattered or tossed onto a surface, and omens taken from the patterns thus formed.  Historically, there were forms of bone divination used in cultures as diverse as ancient Greece, Asia, Europe, Labrador, Africa, and elsewhere. Some traditional systems have used only one kind of bone or shell, and perhaps three or four pieces, while others employed a wide variety of items, and upward of a hundred objects.  Rev. D Rowen Grove became interested in bone reading about six years ago, and has developed her own system, based on a combination of intuition and archaeological evidence."

•  4 PM MDT: PANEL DISCUSSION ON IMPROMPTU DIVINATION: WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU FORGOT YOUR TOOLS?
  

Each speaker will speak for an hour, followed by half an hour for questions. There will be two sessions in the morning and three in the afternoon. 

Note: this is a series of technical workshops; there will be no opportunity for personal readings.

The price for the whole day's series of Zoom links is $10, and the payment link is on the sidebar to your right. (If you are viewing this on your phone, scroll down to the bottom to choose "view web version" in order to see the links.)

OUR MARCH DIVINATION WORKSHOP IS BACK!

 

UPDATE:

Our divination methods workshop in March 2022 was quite successful, so we are doing it again!

Chokecherry Grove will be holding  a one-day virtual event on Met
hods of Divination on Saturday March 25th, 2023.The price for the whole day is only $10, and all sessions will be recorded, so if you are interested but can't attend, you can watch them later!

Our planned sessions are as follows: 

• 9:00 AM MDT: ADF'S ARCHDRUID REV. JEAN "DRUM" PAGANO will talk about his new MOON ORACLE.
  

• 10:30 AM MDT:  REV. GAARIK HAMR will speak on the Norse RUNES. He says "Runic divination, at its core, is the use of runes from one of several alphabets to determine hidden information. Hidden by whom and for what purpose? The purpose of this workshop is to explore the animistic aspect of Norse cosmology and apply it to runic practice. This workshop looks to the Rune Poems and modern scholarship for a theistic, animistic approach to runic divination and interpretation."
  

• 1:00 PM MDT: REV. IAN CORRIGAN will discuss "real-time divination w/ the spirits".

• 2:30 PM MDT: REV. D. ROWEN GROVE will speak on BONE READING. She says: "Bone reading is a system of intuitive divination in which bones and other small objects are scattered or tossed onto a surface, and omens taken from the patterns thus formed.  Historically, there were forms of bone divination used in cultures as diverse as ancient Greece, Asia, Europe, Labrador, Africa, and elsewhere. Some traditional systems have used only one kind of bone or shell, and perhaps three or four pieces, while others employed a wide variety of items, and upward of a hundred objects.  Rev. D Rowen Grove became interested in bone reading about six years ago, and has developed her own system, based on a combination of intuition and archaeological evidence."

•  4 PM MDT: PANEL DISCUSSION ON IMPROMPTU DIVINATION: WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU FORGOT YOUR TOOLS?
  

Each speaker will speak for an hour, followed by half an hour for questions. There will be two sessions in the morning and three in the afternoon. 

Note: this is a series of technical workshops; there will be no opportunity for personal readings.

The price for the whole day's series of Zoom links is $10, and the payment link is on the sidebar to your right. (If you are viewing this on your phone, scroll down to the bottom to choose "view web version" in order to see the links.)