Gaia Community

We will be holding a Sharing Our Spirits Ritual this Sunday, co-created and facilitated by those in attendance. The intention 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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We’ve finished our festival of mini-rituals for 11 potential patrons (plus an argument for taking a year off from our tradition of selecting an annual patron power), and you can now cast your vote for your favorites using our ranked-choice ballot:

https://app.rankedvote.co/elections/8142/GCs-Patron-Selection-2021/8128/vote

Missed a week of mini-rituals? You can catch them all on video here.

June 19, 1865, was the day General Order 3 was given, ending slavery in Texas, the last confederate state to come under Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. While not the end of slavery nationwide, this day has been celebrated as Juneteenth in Texas, among other names such as Freedom Day, since 1866, gaining wider recognition since. This year, we will commemorate this day at our Summer Solstice ritual. Join us as we hear the words of Black Americans, both in celebration of emancipation and the fight for freedom, and in recognition of the work for freedom that still remains. We’ll call on the bright power of the Sun to shine its light upon this work and to energize those doing it. Please join us at 3pm for virtual coffee hour, with the ritual beginning at 4.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89578608329… 

Join Gaia Community as our Ritual Teams move into the next phase of our Annual Patron Selection process. We will mentally construct a temple to Many Powers as we engage in a series of small festival events to experience short rituals in exploration of the 12 Powers put forward in our Patron Nomination forum earlier in the year. This week we’ll be hearing from the temples of Isis, Phoenix, Ganesha, and Apollo.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84302004253?pwd=b3FzMERvNDFzcnQwNlpHaVMzR285dz09

Join Gaia Community as our Ritual Teams move into the next phase of our Annual Patron Selection process. We will mentally construct a temple to Many Powers as we engage in a series of small festival events to experience short rituals in exploration of the 12 Powers put forward in our Patron Nomination forum earlier in the year. This week we’ll be hearing from the temples of Ostara, Janus, Ushas, and Inanna.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81046535032?pwd=VW1WM2hRU3lvQkNoNGdXNStnWGVLUT09

This year, Gaia Community has been guided and inspired by Hermes, Greek god of travel, markets, communication, and getting one over on the system. In this ritual, we step out of our Greek myths about Hermes to honor his Roman counterpart, Mercury. The Mercuralia was a Roman festival of prosperity for merchants – we mix it up by asking for blessings on our own prosperity, the local merchants we depend on, and everyone who works and hustles to pay the bills.

For this ritual, you will need:
– your chalice or candle to light
– a small dish of water for anointing yourself, perhaps with a bay leaf or other herb of blessing added
– some currency (coins or bills are fine, so long as it’s money you can spend where you are)

You may also want:
– some incense
– something to cover your head with
– a praise offering of some sort if appropriate (we will have an open section of ritual where you can make offerings to any deity, spirit or power you need to address – this could be a physical offering, a poem, a song, an oath, or anything else you want to give)

Our online space will open at 3pm Central for social time and ritual prep, and the ritual will begin at 4.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85084771177?pwd=NVI1djNvUG5mNldQLzV5YVd1NWpDUT09

Come celebrate Beltane and the flow of life with us this Sunday. We welcomed the birds back at Equinox, now we acknowledge the busyness of bees. For this ritual you will need a small amount of honey (as an alternative, you can use any liquid sweetener), a container to store the honey in, a bowl of water, and you may want a candle to light for a chalice. Our virtual space opens for social time at 3, and the ritual will begin at 4.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86302304786?pwd=SjlzQVhES1R5YmVadkh1MGkrelRtUT09

Just what the heck is Discordianism anyway? Is it just a joke? A joke that became a not-very-serious spiritual practice? Is it Eris-centered spirituality? Join Kit and Jamie on Sunday to learn more about the history and current practices of Discordianism.
We open our virtual space for social time at 3pm central, and the class will begin at 4.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83267856273?pwd=aUhEdXN1eEhSaUNqWjVvWUxJTklyUT09

During the pandemic, the enforced reduction in human movement around the planet made a measurable difference in some of the stresses the planet faces through the burning of fossil fuels. In fact, it is theorized that the pandemic itself may at some level be due to the proliferation of human life, resulting in the continual destruction of wildlife habitat. While in some cases this leads to extinction of species, it is also possible that the new proximity of some species to humanity has facilitated the transfer of viruses to people. And, of course, now that restrictions are being lifted, human movement will resume and so will the levels of pollution.
On this 51st celebration of Earth Day, we will review all that has been achieved since 1970…and all that is still to be done; and rededicate ourselves to walking as lightly as possible on our sole, our only home.

Every Sunday we hold social hour at 3pm Central, and begin the service of the week at 4pm. All are welcome!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86841341290?pwd=bllDemxjYVczL3h4SFRVOWQ1NXNYQT09