Free Spirit Gathering 2026 - 40th year

All are invited to our opening ritual! We will be calling the elements and setting our magical intention for the week. Our ritual work this week will be creating an intention shrine to stay in the labyrinth field for years to come. Over the week we will be creating a temple to this 
shrine and filling it with our intentions. At the end of the week we will burn the temple and offer our magical energy to manifesting everyone’s offered intentions. 
We will open with calling the quarters and many elements along with them. Our opening ritual will introduce our intention statue and dedicate our temple. The shrine and temple will be available to visit/work with all week. 

The wild wood calls! Venture with us through the fields and trails of Camp Ramblewood to see what edible, medicinal, and otherwise useful plants we can find. Lammas is a time of transition in the Eastern Woodlands: some summer plants are fading, but others are still going strong, and the first fruits and nuts of fall are starting to ripen. We will discuss how to identify these plants, their practical uses, and the folklore surrounding them. (Note that this workshop will involve around a mile of gently paced walking over at-times-uneven terrain.)

All are invited to the main ritual field to help complete our temple work and offer our intentions to the shrine. Our ritual work this week has been creating an intention shrine to stay in the labyrinth field for years to come. Over the week we have crafted a temple and many have offered their intentions. For our main ritual we offer a formal space for those offerings. Physical offerings will be available in the form of flowers and plaques and participants will be invited to offer and share their personal intentions. Participants are encouraged to bring personal offerings as well, all are accepted. 
When the ritual is complete we will take the temple down to the fire circle, and will burn it as the opening to our Saturday Night Fire. The Temple Burn will take place after the concert. 

All are invited to help close our space. We will say our farewells to the land, the people, the elements, and this event, at least until we merry meet again.