For twenty-two summers, our Summer Solstice tribe has gathered on Earth, with the intent to celebrate the richness of Life and to share our focus for the Next Cycle of the Sun.

In 2025, we enter a spiral of a new becoming - a time when each of us is called to attune to the pulse of life and respond not only as our separate selves, but also as interrelated threads in a living universe.

This year’s gathering will be in 3 parts. 

In different ways at each gathering, Pele and FireHawk will guide us in exploring community centered questions through the perspectives of the Wheel of Illumination:

Who am I? Who are We? What are my/our Images, Attitudes, Opinions and Beliefs about Community and Belonging in a Community?

Part 1 is a potluck dinner and Stringing of the Beads at Peter and Nancy’s home in the Soquel hills.

Part 2 is a two-day ceremony on Joe RootTender and Grace’s land at Bamboo Sourcery in Sebastopol.

Part 3 is pot-luck late afternoon completion at Cat and Troy’s home in Novato.

We warmly invite you to register for all three of the gatherings below, or for any one or two that you are able to attend.

The gathering for two days at Grace and Joe RootTender's bamboo farm in Sebastopol, California is the only one that requires a registration fee.
(Attendance at both days is required to participate in Part 2.)

The $250.00 fee for Part 2 covers the cost of materials and catered meals, allowing us to spend more time together in ceremony with the land and with one another.

The other two gatherings are free community potluck celebrations which are an old and wise way to grow and strengthen community.

We also invite you to donate any amount to Center for Earth Wisdom as a way to care for exchange with Pele and FireHawk for their time and teachings.

All three gatherings require registration, so that we can plan accordingly. Please register as soon as possible.

It feels particularly important to us (Troy, Grace, WrenSong, Joe RootTender, and Cat) to create opportunities to be together in these nutty, chaotic, and mysterious times!

As we have listened together, it seems to us that there is an invitation from the universe to co-evolve the specific structures and forms of our ceremonies this year.

We are grateful that Pele and FireHawk have agreed to come and function as guides and teachers from the perspective of the Medicine. However, it will be up to the community at large to pitch in and create the ceremonial container… which we expect will be a lot of fun! 

Again, we ask that you please register as soon as possible.