Gaia Community

Join Gaia Community in Kansas City’s Theis Park to celebrate Beltane, Sunday, May 1st! Social time at 3 pm, ritual starts at 4 pm. We’ll be looking at our fears about opening up again and releasing them by burning them away in a cauldron. Then we’ll energize our hopes for ourselves and our community as we dance around the Maypole. Please remember to bring a chair and/or blanket to sit on and drums if you want to join in. If you wish, bring a picnic dinner to eat when ritual is done.

We will be meeting within sight of the west end of the The Ewing and Muriel Kauffman Memorial Garden Parking lot and ritualizing on the southeast side of Frank A. Theis Park, see link: https://goo.gl/maps/CJsCP2hsirsuDm1C8 There are restrooms inside the Memorial Garden building.

If you’d like to join us online, we will be streaming the outdoor ritual on our zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88137434129?pwd=TWNOM3FWYnlERnV5aHp5VVB5MFMyZz09
Please note: There is no online social hour today. We have limited battery on the devices we’re using to stream, and want to make sure we get through the ritual. So if you’re logging on to join us, we won’t be there until a little before 4p central. Sorry about that! Social hour will return next week!

During the past two years of isolation many of us have longed for the days when we could again work together on crafting for our Craft. While we enjoy patronizing artisans for beautiful items to grace our altars, private and public, there are times when we just can’t find (or perhaps afford) just the right tool or votive object. In this class, we will discuss, and encourage everyone to share, items that they have made, repurposed, decorated or assembled from found or unusual objects. We’ll also cover suggestions for sources, modes of embellishment, and ideas for assembling altered altar dressings. If you’ve made your own magical tools or altar items in the past, feel free to bring them and show them off! We will also provide a selection of random objects to browse through, hoping to be inspired to create something new.

This event will be held in-person and online. If you’re joining us in-person, please bring your vaccination card (and check out our other COVID safety practices). If you will be joining us from home, you will want to have a chalice available, perhaps some examples of your own creativity, and some craft materials and found objects so you can craft along with us. Here’s a link to the zoom room: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87874256640?pwd=ZE42TFplbjcrVjJqdXRvTWdKVDU3Zz09

Join Jamie and Matt as we mark the personal sacrifices we’re making as we begin the journey of multi-platform services. We’ll also be ramping up our pledge drive and thanking our members. If you’re joining us virtually, you will need a chalice, paper and pen, and the means to burn a single sheet of paper per person attending in your space. You may also want sandalwood incense.

This event will be held in-person and online. If you’re joining us in-person, please bring your vaccination card (and check out our other COVID safety practices). If you’re joining us online, here’s a link to the zoom room: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85629631819?pwd=YUc0UFJDbUdINjlTb1JEZTF1Mkprdz09

Join us for a forum to begin the process of selecting our next patron. We will be building a slate of up to 8 powers to be nominated at the forum. We will have 2 services in June in which each power’s team will get a turn to advocate for their power. After that, we will vote using Ranked Choice Voting to determine our next patron. If you cannot attend and wish to nominate a power, please contact Jamie with the power’s name, pantheon/origin, and why you think they are a good choice for Gaia Community.

This event will be held in-person and online. If you’re joining us in-person, please bring your vaccination card (and check out our other COVID safety practices). If you’re joining us online, here’s a link to the zoom room: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86561469895?pwd=OVUvV1Flam5tWTErVzFFMjFHajJKZz09

Great news – we’re going back to our old digs at 4327 Troost for Sunday services and Games Nights beginning on Sunday, April 3!

As case rates drop across the KC metro, we want to take the opportunity to see each other in person again. We recognize that COVID-19 has not gone away, though; some risks remain, especially to our disabled and chronically ill community members. We are committed to minimizing health risks at our events. We are also committed to continuing to reach those of you who need or prefer to come to us online. We ask for everyone’s help in keeping those commitments. Things may not look quite like “normal” at Gaia events, even if we are gathering in physical space again, and we ask for your patience and support as we continue to navigate this situation in accordance with our care for one another.

What does that mean? First, it means that we will continue to hold a virtual space for our rituals and other services. If distance or circumstances keep you from visiting us in person, we will still be there for you. This may be a rocky process at first as we figure out how to create multi-platform services. But over the last year, we’ve picked up some skills and some equipment to help us, and we’re going to keep learning and growing in this area.

Second, it means that we are not abandoning all our pandemic precautions in a rush to be together again. We are taking a slow and steady pace in opening up to in-person events, and things may change as conditions change. Please check out our COVID practices page for more information about what to expect.

We’re very excited about this change, and can’t wait to see you (in person or online) soon!

Join us for a celebration of new beginnings brought to us by Spring! We’ll explore renewal and rebirth in our lives, both individually and collectively. You need the following:

1. A tarot deck or other divination method
2. Writing supplies
3. A flower, plant, or other green living thing
4. A small bowl of water
5. A small snack and a drink

You may also wish to have a chalice, 4 candles for 4 goddesses, and a spring-themed altar.

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We will be holding a Sharing Our Spirits Ritual this Sunday, co-created and facilitated by those in attendance. The intention for this ritual is to create peace, and the activities of ritual will be decided during the first part of our time together (starting at 4pm, with coffee hour before), then the ritual itself held in the remaining time. Feel free to bring poetry, visual props, ideas, or just things you wish to see happen!

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Fittingly, in this year spent under the shadow of pestilence and war, we have turned our attention to the Ancestors, the Mighty Dead, to learn from those who have gone before, the secrets to surviving and thriving in, and even perhaps turning the direction of adversity.  This Sunday, we recognize that eventually, and ideally later rather than sooner, WE will be the ancestors to people who come after us.  Who will they be?  Who will we be for them?  What wisdom, what advice will we offer them?  What will be our legacy?  We will travel through time into the future and explore. You will need only a chalice, writing materials, and something that measures time: (a watch, calendar, clock, hourglass, sundial…) and perhaps something to drink and eat to ground yourself during the work.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86439985719?pwd=NjU1cDNKRmNFVGNpWnVVSTVoTmpsdz09

:Hail ye and welcome Gaians to the venerable, honorable, and execrable Rite of the Holy Day of Chaoflux, [Barbara to insert discordian date here] wherein we shall, or possibly shall not, worship the goddess Eris in a manner consistent with the Principia Discordia. [Devin, write some words here about it being an ADF ritual and they might want praise offerings] {Nah, it’s cool, I think they know-D.} To participate, we encourage you to have handy whatever you damn well please, except that you really should bring a beverage which you enjoy, which ideally shall be both pungent and sweet and if possible, orange. And a chalice, because we are not throwing out every single scrap of bureaucracy here.” General chat starts at 3, ritual starts around 4.

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This Sunday we will be discussing not only the care and feeding of the compost pile for fun and soil, but also some reasons why we as individuals/households should compost, how we already compost and may not know it, and what groups in and around the Kansas City area compost on a large scale.  If you have specific questions about composting, please send them to dscrogum at gmail dot com and we will be sure to answer them in the class!

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