Free Spirit Gathering 2026 - 40th year

Haven Healing Circle was part of the Haven Community run by Elspeth and Nybor and a regular feature at FSG for a number of years until health issues forced them to stop. We asked their permission to bring it back to FSG because FSG is so much about community and this ritual is community helping heal community. Please join us if you feel a need for healing, to help heal others or simply to share caring with community, clan/tribe.

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.