Free Spirit Gathering 2026 - 40th year

A blot for Frigg and her Sovereign Counsel. 
This is an alcohol free ritual.

Led by Michael Boothby, this journey offers an intimate exploration into the depths of the self, inspired by the ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses. Participants will receive a mythology card from the Classical Greek Mythology Deck, serving as a mirror to reflect their own life's journey and challenges. Michael provides insightful explanations into the symbolism and relevance of each card, setting the stage for a transformative breathwork session.
What to Expect:

• Mythological Guidance: Each participant is gifted a mythology card, offering a unique lens through which to view their personal evolution and the session ahead.
• Insightful Explanations: Michael offers a brief exploration into the stories and symbols represented by the cards, connecting ancient wisdom to modern paths of healing and self-discovery.
• Guided Breathwork Session: An hour-long ecstatic breathwork session, accompanied by a carefully curated soundtrack that moves through the chakras, invites participants to journey within, facilitated by the rhythmic power of the breath.
• Sacred Sharing Circle: The workshop concludes with a sharing circle, where participants are encouraged to share their experiences, insights, and revelations, fostering a sense of community and collective growth.

This Circle has become a mainstay at FSG for over a decade and these challenges continue to haunt so many of us in our community, and in the mundane world. I am honored to hold space for anyone who is struggling with a Loss or a Trauma that is heavy on your heart. Every Trauma also carries some element of loss, and sacred space is a compassionate place to tend to your needs.
 
As we have every year, we will be building an altar to honor The Mighty Dead, and send them our love. These can be members of the FSG community (please message me if you would like someone honored from our tribe), Elders who shaped your Path and you admired, any family, friends, teachers or creatures who have crossed beyond the veil. Bring pictures or any mementos you see fit, we will add them to the Altar. Then we will make a Circle and send them intentions. We will also have call-outs to those we think of extemporaneously.
 
This is both a remembrance and a chance for healing advice. If anyone is having challenges or triggers regarding a loss or a trauma, we can discuss those, too. Both Pagan and Mundane support will be discussed, and my grief book will also be available for purchase. Loss changes you – and Free Spirit is an excellent occasion to create new tools to help you adjust to those changes.
 
 
This class may be intense for kids – use your discretion…..

Our Seidr (“sayth”) ritual is a modern reconstruction of a Norse Divinatory Rite known as Seidr or Spae (“spau”) in the lore. Like most pre-Christian religions, we’re missing a lot of information about the mechanics of how this ritual was performed. Modern Seidr is an amalgamation of historical information, lore, and seership techniques that come from contemporary sources. This Seidr ritual includes elements from Eric the Red’s Saga, The Eddas, The Saga of Hervor (“hairvore”) and Heidrek (“heydrick”), and more.
Before the Christian conversion, Seidr or Spae rituals were performed for a community by a traveling priestess known as a Volva and her assistants. These rites were an opportunity for people to gain information. People would seek information for their communities, like how to end a famine or plague, as well as for themselves, like when they would marry or have a child. In the contemporary version of this ritual, anyone, regardless of gender identity, can serve as a seer.

Yoni Cave is a community I am in the process of creating. It is a subscription on womb healing and this would be a ritual workshop introducing people to it. This would be a ceremony where meditation, breathwork, womb massage, cupping, and sound are all used to help allow grief to move through our bodies that was trapped in the womb and bring ourselves healing. 
Every participant will receive an embodied energy womb healing at the end of the workshop  through group transmission. 

In dark times it’s vital that we find light and joy to sustain us. The Heathen tradition of ritual Toasting & Boasting is designed to do exactly that. Come raise a glass to someone who helped you when you needed it or announce your wonderful accomplishments to a community happy to raise their glasses to you. We all deserve to celebrate the good parts of life with a crowd of people who yell “HAIL!” a lot! Join Oak the Nameless to toast the ones you love and boast about your victories! Fancy drinking vessels are encouraged. Some beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be provided but feel free to bring more!

As the Moonlight Market draws to a close, gather with fellow wanderers at the Crossroads to step into a guided ritual journey beneath the night sky. We’ll begin by weaving intention together, grounding our bodies, naming what we seek, and opening ourselves to the quiet wisdom of the land. From there, we walk into the darkness, pausing along the path for reflection, presence, and moments of shared stillness. 


Our path carries us along approximately a one-mile hike with two uphill segments, until live drummers will call us further inward as we walk the spiral, guided through meditation and motion, releasing what no longer serves and inviting what comes next. We close as we began, together but changed; feet on earth, hearts attuned.


A shorter, accessible option is available for those who wish to join at the opening and closing rituals without the full hike. Please wear closed-toe shoes, full leg covering, and bring a flashlight and clothing appropriate to the weather. Come as you are, leave as who you are becoming.