Earth Spirit Gathering & Ceremony at the Burlington Earth Clock
Sunday, April 15th 11:30AM
Come together as community and honor Nature and the Earth and their importance in helping us move forward to create the future we want to see.
This is the culminating event for the Earth Spirit Conference.
ALL are welcome!
May Day/Beltane Ceremony at the Burlington Earth Clock
Saturday, April 28th at 3PM
Please call Jeanette at 802-363-8287 for more information
Vernal Equinox/Ostara Ceremony on Saturday, March 17th at 3PM
Burlington Earth Clock
Drums and other music makers are welcome. Feel free to bring family and friends. Children are very welcome.
Please call Jeanette Bacevius at (802) 363-8287 if you have questions or need more information
Imbolc Ceremony at the Burlington Earth Clock
Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 1PM
Please feel free to bring friends and family.
Bring a drum or other musical instrument if you feel inspired to do so.
For more information call Jeanette at 802-363-8287
Winter Solstice Sunset Ceremony, Sunday, 12/18/11
At the Burlington Earth Clock with the Green Mountain Druid Order
Sunday, December 18, 2011,
3:00pm until 5:00pm
Come join our sacred circle to embrace this time of
fertile darkness and the rebirth of the light!
Bring a candle lantern, a small piece of wood for the fire, an evergreen bough, drum or other percussive instrument, and warm festive clothes.
Please carpool if you can.
We hope to see you there!
Fearn, Ivan and the Green Mountain Druid Order
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11-11-11 Birthday Celebration 10:30 am
Celebration of new beginnings.
We will dance, sing and as a group move through a double spiral labyrinth and exit to the sound of BELLS!!
This is the party for The Earth Clock’s 5th Birthday
Clean your closets before you come – The future doesn’t need our baggage.
Bring a Bell – Tibetan or otherwise
Samhain Ceremony at the Burlington Earth Clock
Sunday, October 30, 2011, from 3-5PM
Autumnal Equinox Ceremony with Double Spiral Labyrinth at the Burlington Earth Clock, Saturday 9/24th at 3PM
All are welcome! Feel free if you are able to bring harvest gifts for the center of the circle (apples, acorns, pomegranites, pinecones, dried seeds, pumpkins, squash, gourds, etc.) Bring drums and other music makers if you feel inclined.
Saturday, July 30th @ 1PM Lammas Ceremony and First Harvest Feast at the Burlington Earthclock
*Please bring gifts from the first harvest (vegetables, fruit, flowers, wheat…) to be blessed and then shared at the end of the ceremony.**
Please bring homemade or bought fresh baked breads as well as this is traditionally the time of blessing and celebrating the wheat harvest.
Drums and other music makers welcome!
Invite friends and family!
Children and babies very welcome.
Dogs are welcome if they are well behaved.
*Please bring your own reusable plates, silverware, napkins, and drinking containers.*
What is Lammas?
Lammas is a celebration of the First Harvest
Also know as: Lughnasadh or Loafmas
Traditionally, Lughnasadh marks the beginning of the noticeable descent of the Sun into the darkness of winter. From the connection between the Earth (female principle) and the Sun (male principle), the marriage of the Sky Father (Sun God) with the Earth Mother we celebrated at Beltaine, emerge the fruits of the first harvest of the year. Lughnasadh is a time of joy about the first fruits. It is also a time of tension, because the dark days of winter are coming nearer, and most of the harvest is not brought in and stored away yet.
The God of the harvest is the Green Man (also known as John Barleycorn). He sacrifices himself every year in order to enable human life on Earth. In some areas his death is mourned with wreaths decorated with poppies or cornflowers.
The grain is cut, part of it goes into bread and nutrition, another part is stored away and used as seeds next spring, to create new life. Looking at that, thoughts about sacrifice, transformation, death and rebirth are also part of Lughnasadh.

