#4qf

[sinwithagrin]

#4qf bound for #floweroflifefestival

[sinwithagrin]

#warrior status at #bassharvest #4quarters #4quartersfarm #4QF #festival #staff #blacklightpaint #mohawk #punk #ravepunk

[scholarlysalamander42]

Hey tumblr, I made stuff! These are my portraits of the seven planetary stages of alchemy. Every year, I stay up all night three nights in a row to help myself and others in an alchemical fire circle in south central PA (http://www.4qf.org/firesrising) It's one of the highlights of my year, and by far the best tool I've found for personal transformation. We truly turn lead to gold. Lead of the mind, things that separate yourself from yourself and others. It is a safe place for what I like to call "group therapy through immersive metaphor". This can be heavy, as lead is heavy, or as light as the light reflecting off gold, and is often both. This year I had a hard time getting my head out of the fire circle after the event, and the creation of these was a tool to help me with that. Fire burns Wheels turn Planets circle the sun Lead to gold New from old Many become One

[stillvisions]

Panoramas from the weekend. Taken with the iPhone’s panorama feature, adjustments and cropping in snapseed.

[angelamfnrockstar-blog-blog]

#tbt #beforekuds #beforeweweremarried #2007 #4QF

[otherworldreflections-blog]

blueprint: weighed down on Flickr.

[jarandhel]

Beltane at Four Quarters

I spent the weekend, Friday through Sunday, at Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary in Artemas, PA.  I was attending their Beltaine festival with my friend Raven and her mother.  

It was a very nice weekend - we got up there on Friday afternoon and had our tents set up just in time for dinner, then attended the opening ritual and the dancing/drumming etc at the Fire Circle.  Then we headed to the coffee dragons and the small bardic circle for a bit, before building a small fire of our own back at our campsite where we hung out and cooked marshmallows.

Saturday, it was cold.  Bitterly, bitterly cold, though it was just overcast for most of the day.  We grabbed breakfast, then Raven and I headed over to the artisan alley and vended our jewelry for most of the day.  We watched, but did not participate, in the raising of the Maypole.  After dinner we attended the members meeting, then went to coffee dragons for a bit to warm up with hot beverages, then headed back to our camp where I built the biggest warmest fire I could manage - we were all quite chilled, and were glad we had elected not to join the main ritual which went on for roughly an hour and a half.  The fire soon had us back in better spirits, and we roasted some more marshmallows around it until it started to rain.  Eventually we decided to extinguish the fire (the rain couldn't do it on its own, with how hot we'd gotten it) and head to bed.

Sunday, I went for a nice walk around the farm with Raven's mom after breakfast, showing her everything from the Faerie Cairn to the swimming holes to the Fox Altar and having her show me the many varieties of local plants, then I vended for a bit more until it was time to pack up to leave.  Overall, it was a very pleasant weekend and a very much needed getaway.  And it was good to see folks again - though really weird to realize that Cat was born the same year I started going to Four Quarters. o.O

Anyway, If anyone is interested in the jewelry that didn't get sold already at Four Quarters it's up on my website here: http://dreamhart.org/store/  

I still have a few new pieces that I made at the farm to add to it as well, currently my camera is charging.