RED TENT TEMPLE ~ November 20, 2011, Bloomfield, CT

Greetings Women!

Let us gather together at this quiet, rooting time of year, when the land pulls sweetness back into her rocks and soils, and sleep is replete with dreams and dark hours.

Let us sit in sacred circle and soak up the warmth and magic of sisterhood.

Our Red Tent Temple is:

this Sunday, November 20, 2011, from 11:00 am- 5:00 pm.

Circle from 3-5 is closed, only available to those are present. Please try to arrive before 3, as the doors are locked at 3 to protect our time.

We need more women to attend - help us spread the word! On facebook, by forwarding this link to others, using our fliers, or by bringing a friend. Thank you!

This Sunday we need women to come with:

1) Soup to share, or simple foods for the kitchen table

2) your own dishes and mug

3) your blanket, pillow, and slippers

4) a donation for the space ($5 - $30+)

5) an object for the community altar (you take this back home afterwards)

ADDITIONALLY THIS MONTH WE NEED DONATIONS OF:

6) Red Candles that are unscented and contained in a heat proof jar

7) Durable plastic storage bins with fitted lids

8) HELPERS in the morning for set up, 9am!

Please RSVP by replying to this email if your ARE attending, and if you will be able to arrive before 11 am to help with set up. (Thanks!)

Where to go: Auer Farm, Bloomfield, CT

Beauty Blessings,

Ananda--

www.spiraltraditions.blogspot.com

Red Tent Temple, September 5, 2010, CT

Dear Woman.......

You are invited.

Come home to yourself within the safe container of the Red Tent Temple.

September 5, 2010, Auer Farm in Bloomfield CT.

Bring your nesting blankets, a pillow, and something special to place on the community altar while you attend. Wear red if you like.

$20+ suggested donation (for rental fees and supplies). RSVP's appreciated.

All other "things to bring" are optional, welcomed contributions which keep our Temple running abundantly. Shared labor for set up and break down are especially needed.

Contributions to consider:

Labor
Set up time: 9-11 am
Break down time: 5-6:30 pm
Priestess (facilitate) our formal Circle
In kind volunteer time at Auer Farm, which earns towards rental fee. Call farm for details and notify us of your time spent.

Perishables
Soup, foods to share
Your own dish ware
Tea and honey

Supplies
Candles, unscented, with or in a dish/jar - not needed at this time -
*Smudge supplies (sage, sweetgrass, or herbs - no "incense") -*needed-
*Smudge feather fan to donate to the Temple
*Smudge shell to donate to the Temple
Small bells, drums, or rattles to donate to the Temple
*A new, large blank journal for the Temple community

TEMPLE SCHEDULE

~ It is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, from 11 am to 5+ pm.
~ Set up will be from 9am, ongoing throughout the morning as women arrive.
~ 11-3 pm will be free-form, organic time, where you can do what you wish in the space.
~ Formal Circle will be held from 3-5pm
~ 5-6:30 pm will be community time (farewells, hugs, networking, resting after circle..) and break down of the space.

Additional Temple notes......

Located on the beautiful land of Auer Farm we will be held in the arms of Mother Earth while we retreat safely and honor the feminine spirit. The Red Tent will happen every month, on the Sunday closest to the New (dark) Moon.

Inside the Red Tent .........you will find a space to heal and be heard. To be your whole self. To go within and tap into your divine creative source. There will be space to rest, journal, cry, connect with sisters, breathe, meditate, and reconnect with what ties us all together: being woman. Womb or not, bleeding or not, all women from all walks of life are welcome.

Suggested Donations of $10.00 to $20.00 or more are requested to help pay for the rental fee and hopefully create some funds for Red Tent supplies and future needs.

There will be a beautiful storytellers chair, a grievance altar, a community altar, herbal teas and homemade soup. It is sacred space to go within and honor your divine feminine being. A place to remember.

Young women of Menarche age are welcome for all of the day except the formal circle at 3:00 which is adults only.
Nurslings are welcome until walking age.

This vision is held in the spirit of community and collaboration. Everyone who sets this up is working on a volunteer basis, which makes your attendance and contributions integral. Please take a look at the share list below to see where you are called to collaborate to keeping this vision alive and well. On the side bar to the right, there is a donation button you can use to make financial contributions if you are not able to attend but would like to help.

It is vital to our culture and to our next generations that we reclaim our innate Spiral Traditions. We are a culture starved for authenticity and community - but we don't have to be. The Red Tent Temple is a transformational and Global movement.

RSVP's are important. We need to know how much soup to make or request, who can Priestess, and who can bring what. When you refer to the share list below - please email us on what it is you are called to bring or do, so we can keep this day organized and wonderful.

See you there!
Please forward this to other women who may enjoy attending the Red Tent Temple.

Belly Blessings
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www.spiraltraditions.blogspot.com

Red Tent Temple Dates for 2008 - CT -

This years Red Tent Temples have been scheduled for the following dates. Please check back here frequently for each month's share list, updates, and to help us keep this vision alive with your loving donations.

Thank you!

April 6
May 4
June 1
July 6
August 3
August 31 (Blue-Moon style)
September 28
October 26
November 30
December 28

Red Tent Temple ~ Exquisite Success

When women gather, magic happens. Sunday's time in our first red tent was just that. Thank you to all the women who came, participated, and engaged. The room was infused with a deep vibrancy of women's truth.

The kitchen bubbled over with pots of delicious, nourishing soups and teas. The tears bowl received the letting go, which later watered the garden. Women shared counsel, silent moments of support, serendipitous moments of meeting or reading just the right words from a book picked up. Women took time to hug, to breathe, to write, pray, and do exactly what it is they needed.

During circle, we journeyed to our wombs and took the time to communicate with her, ask her what she needed, and to welcome and honor her wisdom. We passed the talking bowl and let out the buried words, fears, angers, and hopes.

We need time to assimilate, to be inside a chrysalis. To acknowledge our womb-cycle. The world cannot benefit from more stress, only from our centered, dream-connected, charged being.

Welcome Red Tent, to the New Millennium. You've been crumbled, rejected, ignored, and discarded.

No more! Every month on or near the new moon, there will be more and more of these red rooms, these temples of timeless wisdom. Welcome Maidens, Mothers, Crones, healers, weavers, all.

Blessed Be

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This years Red Tent Temples have been scheduled for the following dates. Please check back here frequently for location, share list, updates, and to help us keep this vision alive with your loving donations.

April 6

May 4

June 1

July 6

August 3

August 31 (Blue-Moon style)

September 28

October 26

November 30

December 28

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