Gathering on a beautiful cliff overlooking Long Island Sound, we will build a ceremonial stone cairn - known as an Apacheta in the Peruvian tradition - to ground our intentions for earth-honoring community and our personal visions for bringing forth our gifts in service to our communities and the Earth.

The Apacheta pictured above was created with Elders of the Q'eros people in Peru and my traveling companions in June  of 2008.

When you place a stone on an apacheta, it links you to all the other people who have placed their stones there.  An apacheta is a hub in a network of ley lines that connect all the sacred places on the Earth. It radiates healing energy into the Earth and outward.

  There are cairns all over the world that are helping to send the flow of loving energy to Pachamama and to join people together in common purpose.

Equinox is a time when day and night are equal and I love the idea of consciously being awake and in sacred space from sun-up to sundown and experiencing the center point of balance and alignment with the larger cycles around noon.

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OPEN HOUSE SCHEDULE

Sunrise Medicine Wheel Ceremony at 6:15 am

(arrive by 6:00 am) (Light Breakfast afterward)

(Click here for information on Medicine Wheel) 

Lunch / Brunch from 11:00 am -12:30 pm

Ceremony: Creating the Apacheta - 12:43 pm - Transit (Sun's Highest Point )

Family Time:  3:00 - 5:00 pm

Bring your Children to add their stones to the Cairn,

and Meet with other families.

Songs and a Short and Simple Ceremony at 4:15 pm.

Sunset ceremony at 6:15 pm at the cliff

(Newcomers can add their stones to the Apacheta,)

  followed by supper and celebration and perhaps a fire circle with sharing.  

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For those wishing to enjoy a full day retreat, there will be time for solitude on our beautiful 3 acres of woods and beach, as well as time to have fellowship and soulful conversation.

Please call or e-mail me by Sunday, September 20th, so I will know how many people to plan food for. Directions will be e-mailed to anyone who wishes to attend.  Click here to respond. Let me know what portion of the day you would like to participate in.

Come Rain or Shine - We will adapt as Necessary - Bring appropriate Clothing / Rain Gear and Be in the Moment (All weather is a blessing from Spirit.)

If you are not able to come to any part of the Open House, but would like to bring/send a stone for the Apacheta, and have your Presence in Spirit acknowledged, please call Jeanne at 298-8604.

Building the Apacheta is an on-going experience. 

See Our Communal Apacheta for details.