The Serpent is Calling...

Serpent Mound Retreat October 2009

Anyone need some inspiration? Of the truly heart-opening-so-the-mystery-within-shines-out, spellbinding variety?? Then this Gypsy Trip is for YOU!

Come for an enchanting weekend in the space of the Serpent Mound. Join us as we unlock more of the Mystery of the Serpent through Sacred Ceremony, Song and Creative Art. Be the Living Magick that you are as we activate deep memory and call Love further to the forefront of Life in this moment. Dissolve blocks in the supportive, safe and joyful care of Priestesses of the Goddess.

Purify through a Sweat Lodge Ceremony; allow the energy of the Ohio landscape to open your heart as it transforms itself during the season of release. Remember who you are as ancestral earth and star energy flows through private ceremony at the Serpent Mound. Attune to your heart’s voice and listen to it as it sings through your body. Reverently meet the nature spirits of the land and forge a deeper connection to your own playful spirit through hands on creative arts.

Ohio is the known as the Heartland; even the shape of the state resembles the image of the heart. The Serpent Mound in Southern Ohio is one of the oldest effigy mounds in the known world and holds many secrets. Sitting inside a crater from an ancient meteor explosion, the Serpent Mound lies on the same earth energy line that runs straight through England’s Glastonbury Tor, Stonehenge and beyond.

Join me along with the magickal Terri “Sings With Ravens” Rivera, the mystical Kellianna, the wise Ross Hamilton and the extraordinary cuisine of Persephone & George from Raw Passion Bistro, as we gather in the inspiring forested Chalets of Woodland Altars and embark on a journey of ancient remembering and new found celebration!

The Serpent Is Calling

October 2nd - 4th, 2009

Woodland Altars

33200 State Route 41

Peebles, Ohio 45660

Join Terri Rivera, Kellianna, Valarie Endemann, and Ross Hamilton, author of

The Mystery of the Serpent Mound: In Search of the Alphabet of the Gods

for a sacred weekend of music, workshops, ceremony and celebration at beautiful

Woodland Altars in Peebles Ohio.

Friday night: we will open our circle with a ritual cleansing

through each of the elements. We'll get to know each other around a Community Potluck. Later that evening we will gather for a fireside concert with Terri Rivera and Kellianna.

Saturday: experience the power of making your own Spirit Doll with Valarie Endemann. Author Ross Hamilton will join us Saturday to talk about the Serpent Mound and it's mysteries, and then later that evening we will go to Serpent Mound for private evening ceremony. There is an optional sweat lodge following the Serpent Mound ceremony, led by Terri. Our fire circle and lodge are located on privately owned land adjacent to the Serpent Mound. This sacred land is a part of the ancient Serpent Mound complex, before there were borders and boundaries, and we are honored at having the opportunity to gather here and celebrate.

Sunday morning we will gather for our closing SpiritSong circle, led by Kellianna.

We will enjoy brunch together after closing ceremony, then it's time for packing up.

We are doing something different with the food this year. We will have great organic vegan/vegetarian food prepared for us. We would ask everyone to bring a dish to share at our Friday evening Community Potluck dinner.

Breakfast will be continental style, set up in each of the cabins, and we will enjoy Saturday lunch and dinner and Sunday brunch created by our amazing cooks.

Your presenters-

Terri Rivera :

www.1111singswithravens.com

Kellianna

www.kellianna.com

Valarie Endemann:

www.spiritmagickloveart.blogspot.com

Ross Hamilton:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1880883487787875171

Food by:Raw Passion Bistro

www.rawpassionbistro.webs.com

Early Bird Registration by September 14th $199.00. Includes food, lodging and materials fee.

After 9/14 - $225.00 We are limited to 25 participants, so reserve your spot now!!!!

You can register via snail mail by

sending your payment in check or money order form to:

Kellianna

P.O. Box 902

Wendell, MA 01379

contact phone number- 978-544-3116

Or, if you prefer to pay via PayPal, please e-mail Kellianna and she will issue an invoice and payment instructions.

contact kellianna@kellianna.com

In Service, Love & Magick,

Valarie

The Wheel Turns...

...and the Sun stands still
...long enough to get our fill
...of all the light
....and all the love
....from the shining Sun above
...and all the shining in between
...all the shining hopes and dreams
...and all the remembering
...of warmth and art
...and what it means to live from your heart

WISHING EVERYONE A MOST ENCHANTING SUMMER SOLSTICE 2009!
6.21.09 1:45am EST.....

The Ariemoon Gypsy Wagon hitched up at the Wisteria Summer Solstice Festival this week, tonight is the final night- pictures up soon, but check out the video in the side bar for a look at the Wisteria Summer Solstice Festival where it's all happening now!

Companions at the Cottage...

While the wagon is hitched I thought I'd introduce you to some of the Folk and Friends that reside in the Ohi Cottage, and share some of my artwork too!

Hexalene & Twyla-Fey will be your guides today, as with anything in Faerie,

don't let their size fool you, they are very old souls..

This is Lynx, an Elven Medicine Woman. She travelled back through the bramble of Fae via a sculpting class I took with the venerable Wendy Froud. She is handsculpted polymer clay on a wire armature. Her outfit is woven from the forest floor and her apron, traditional to the healers of her class and stature, is made of deerskin donated in the most sacred and honored manner. The fox fur at her side was gifted to her by an honored member of the fox community prior to her traveling from Faerie. As anyone knows Fox is an ambassador between the worlds.

Her snakeskin underdressing is symbolic of healing and regeneration. Lynx is ready at a moments notice to provide her medicine. She wears her healing tools around her waist, magickal scissors for herb collecting, a medicine bag filled with mysterious contents, a feather for aura dusting (and perking up those wilted wings), an ancient healing stone from her land of birth, a little bottle of falling stars and the obligatory faeriedust- of course! Her crown is raw pearl and glittering crystal, as I understand it, it is to keep her thoughts always connected to the healing waters of her homeland...

The copper Goddess amulet Lynx wears at her neck was bestowed upon her when she was first initiated into her long lineage of healers. I've tried many tricks to get her to divulge exactly when that was, but all she will say is "Long, long ago..."

She loves to climb trees and has the perfect feet for it!

Caught Lynx chatting with a sunbeam...

She has so many wonderful tales to tell,

I believe this is the one about a hummingbird, a dragonfly and a mischievious flower faerie named Bluebell (it's hil-ARI-ous by the way...!)

Time to fly...but come back again for more time with friends!

In Enchanted Love & Magick... Ariemoon

Thanks for hopping by!

The Gypsy Wagon is hitched for a while and I get to settle into the spring here in my little Ohi cottage...it's not glamourous and I certainly don't live in a fancy town but I do get the best visitors!

Many blessings for many many good times! I wish you enough!

In Love & Magick!

A Gypsy Song for Beltane Eve...

...Tonight is the night
....of Faery Delight
...to dance the darkness away

....Hook and Bound
....we whirl around
...To Welcome the Queen of May

....Weave the Pole
...and dig the Hole
...and play...and play...and play..........PACHIVA!!!!

Visit Spirit-Magick-Love-Art for some Beltane musings! LOVE!

Win an enchanted Fey Wand by Ariemoon Designs!!

I''ve got a few enchanted Fey Wands idling in my stash...so when the lovelies at Mixed Media Mischief Makers invited me to contribute a prize to their upcoming blog party I immediately said "of course!"



This particular wand is just waiting to help you tune into your dreams and zap them into reality!

It is approximately 6" long, not counting the ribbon tail. It's been lovingly crafted by yours truly in a black, yellow and white Bumble-Bee theme.

I've topped it off with mini-gypsy bells (the only kind that Faeries actually like), and glittering swarovski crystals. It comes with Activation Dust (because, really, I can't have these wands sitting around charged up- who knows what would happen while I'm away!) and an instruction tag.



For your chance to win this Wand all you have to do is stop by the Mixed Media Mischief Makers blog party on May 5, 2009 and leave a comment, make sure you mention that you'd like the Ariemoon Fey Wand! Yep, that's it!! Oh My! How easy is that?? Good luck, I can't wait to see who I made this for...!

Many Blessings from the gypsy wagon, in Love & Magick!

Very Very early yesterday morning I heard a soft tapping on the Gypsy Wagon door, I threw a shawl across my shoulders and hurried to answer it. When I did, I was so suprised to find a sweet Fairy had left a little gifty for me!
This is the Renee Award and it was gifted to me by the loving and talented Vintage Nina.

This Renee award was created by Bella and Ces in honour of their friend Renee.In Bella's own words "this is a brand new award and I have the pleasure and honor of spreading the seed, watching it grow. I hope it finds it's way to those who are like Renee: the acorn, a small package becoming a tall and sturdy oak, giving more acorns, becoming tall and sturdy oaks, giving acorns..."

Now to pass it along... I am nominating some special women to whom I am so thankful every time they take some of their time to visit and comment on mine and everyone else's art. Check their work out they have so much talent and amazing creativity:
Heather's Daydreams
Ardea's Nest
Mixed Media Mischief Makers
My Hiding Place in Cyberspace

Thanks Loves!!