Twilight Covening October 9-12, 2026
Applications for Twilight Covening are full, we have a waiting list here.
In the twilight of the year, we gather together to set time apart from our daily lives for study, reflection, dreaming, and seeking visions.
A time apart.
Feel the current of change
As the season turns.
Flow with the tide.
Find yourself held in community,
Honoring the spirit of the Earth.
Breathe in the cool crisp air
Cross the bridge from autumn
Into the dark of winter.
Step into a three-day ritual of deep spiritual connection, learning and magic.
Twilight Covening is a continuous 3-day ritual which holds and shapes an intensive learning experience of Earth spirituality. It is a time for exploring ways to deepen Earth-centered spiritual practice, and a time to develop our collective wisdom in a shared sacred space as we move into the dark time of the year.
Each year since 1986 (including one year online), members of the EarthSpirit Community gather to reach deep into ourselves, and into communion with this time of year and with all of Nature. We explore the depths of a range of spiritual practices, learn new skills together and experience the joy and power of a living community ritual. We invite you to join us.
Twilight Covening is held in the autumn during the strong natural transition taking place all around us from light into dark, summer into winter, and outward focus to inward contemplation. During the gathering, we use this current of change, along with our focused practices, to find inspiration and insight that can feed us in the dark months to come and motivate us to make changes that we can use to deepen our own spiritual practice.
The intensive work of Twilight Covening takes place in practice-specific Clans of 10-15 people and in full-community rituals that flow together through the weekend.
The rituals include:
- Releasing Fire Ritual on Friday night,
- Rituals for Dreaming, Healing and Trance on Saturday night,
- A Visioning Ritual on Sunday night
- Four Attunements each day which mark the solar quarters of the day
Many participants have found that Twilight Covening provides a model for maintaining an earth-centered practice on a daily basis and is a wonderful opportunity for developing strong and lasting connections with others on a similar path.
PLEASE NOTE: Twilight Covening is a demanding physical experience. The schedule is intense, the terrain rugged, the weather unpredictable and the facilities limited in creature comforts. Many Clan activities and community rituals will take place outdoors. Please bear this in mind when considering whether attending is the right choice for you. We suggest that everyone bring extra warm layers and good rain gear (tops and pants), just in case.
We do our best to make the event as accessible as possible, but we cannot accommodate all needs. If you are planning to attend and have accessibility needs or mobility concerns, please be sure to answer those related questions on the application form so that we can communicate with you about what accommodations may or may not be possible. We cannot guarantee lower bunks in heated spaces. You will need to prioritize one or the other. We recommend that people with mobility challenges NOT request heated space. Regular cabins closer to the dining hall are central to the camp and avoid the hills. If you have specific questions about whether you should attend given your particular situation, please e-mail us at tcreg@tamelinproductions.com.
Wellness Protocols
Please do not come if you are sick or if you know you have been exposed to COVID, flu, norovirus or RSV within the past 5 days. If you develop significant respiratory or digestive symptoms on site, we reserve the right to ask you to go home. We hold each other by paying attention to our own and others’ safety - by washing hands and asking before close contact, like hugging. Masks will be optional in indoor settings during the event. Please bring your own masks with you if you want to use one. Some disposable back-ups will be available.
The Director
Deirdre Pulgram Arthen
Deirdre Arthen (she/her), a witch for over 45 years, and an Elder of the EarthSpirit Community, loves creating different kinds of gateways along the boundary between the seen world and the unseen and sharing the experience of passing through those gateways with her community. Deirdre is the Executive Director of EarthSpirit and partner in Tamelin Productions with Andras Corban Arthen. She coordinates Twilight Covening, selecting and overseeing all of the Clan Leaders and shaping the ritual content for the weekend.
Twilight Covening Application
Admission to Twilight Covening is by pre-application only. One fee includes the cost of the program, lodging in either a regular cabin or your own tent, and a total of 8 meals, starting with dinner on Friday night through breakfast on Monday.
- Online Registration closes at 11:59pm ET on Sunday, September 19
- Payment by check must be postmarked by September 19
The early rate is $350, all inclusive.
Beginning on September 1, the rate will be $360.00
Heated sleeping space is an additional $60. (Rooms hold 3-6 people each on upper and lower bunks)
We expect that we will reach capacity before the application deadline. If we do, we will begin a waiting list in case any spots open up due to cancellation - Clan choices will be limited. (In past years, almost everyone on the waiting list was able to attend due to cancellations)
If you want to apply after the deadline, and we are still able to accommodate you, Clan choices will be limited and a $25 late fee will be added to the cost of application.
A $25 service charge will be applied to all refunds and bounced checks.
Clan assignment is made on the basis of multiple factors, including application date, personal qualifications and the best arrangement for the entire gathering. If clans fill early, they may be closed to further registrations, so applying early will provide the widest set of choices. All applications received during the first week will receive the same priority level for assignment, so there is no need to hurry to get yours in the first day.
Twilight Covening Housing Choices
Standard cabins have eight to thirteen beds each. All have electricity, with shared bathrooms and a shower-house nearby. There are also heated sleeping spaces available in rooms for between 4 and 12 people which cost an additional $60 per person paid at the time of application. Double or single rooms are not available.
Most people will choose a cabin or room in the category you have selected when you arrive. Heated space and other specific cabins will be preassigned. Some Clans will share a cabin and others will have identified space where Clan members may choose to sleep if they prefer. If you would rather share a cabin with a group of your own choosing, please be sure that we know in advance and that you include an adequate number in your group to fill a cabin (usually 8+ for standard cabins, or 4+ for heated space). Plenty of grassy tenting space is also available if you would prefer to be on your own.
Twilight Covening Confirmation
Confirmation of registration, with directions and the clan assignment, will be sent out no later than September 30. E-mail is by far the most efficient means of communication. If you have changed your e-mail or mailing address from the time of your application you need to let us know asap so that your information can reach you in a timely manner. Send us an e-mail at tcreg@tamelinproductions.com with the subject: “Covening address change”.
Given the atmosphere we create at Twilight Covening, the number of people we can accommodate is limited. Please apply early to ensure admission. If cost is an issue and paying in installments will help you attend, please go ahead and apply to pay by check and also e-mail us at tcreg@tamelinproductions.com as early as possible and we will try to help. Some partial-scholarship assistance may be available through the Morwen Two Feathers Scholarship Fund, and a few work exchange positions are available for individuals who can lift and carry things, especially at the end of the event. If you are able to contribute to the scholarship fund and help someone else attend, we truly appreciate it. There is a place on the application form to do so.
Donate to the Morwen Two Feathers Scholarship Fund
Anyone can Donate to the Morwen Two Feathers Scholarship Fund to help other people attend Twilight Covening.
Apply for Twilight Covening online
To apply online, click the link below. You will receive a confirmation e-mail with your application number. If you do not receive that, your application has not gone through and you may try again. Please do not apply more than once if you do receive the application email. (If you are unsure if your application has gone through please contact tcreg@tamelinproductions.com before attempting to apply again.)
If you have questions, additions, changes, or cancellations, e-mail us at tcreg@tamelinproductions.com. Online payment options are: credit card (via PayPal), check, or money order. If you choose PayPal, you’ll be taken to the PayPal site at the appropriate time in the registration process.
If you choose check or money order, (Thank you!) please write your application number on your payment and mail it to: Tamelin Productions, PO Box 340, Williamsburg, MA 01096. Checks must be postmarked no later than September 19.
Important: Please check to make sure you have included all of the information required for application to Twilight Covening. Your application will be processed more rapidly with your help. – Thank you
If you have not received your assignment by October 1, please contact the Tamelin Productions office at tcreg@tamelinproductions.com.
Refunds
If you are not able to attend Twilight Covening and would like to receive credit for another event, you must request it in writing by September 19.
If you need to have your money refunded, let us know before September 10. After that date, your application money is committed toward the rental of the site, food purchases, and other expenses for which we have to pay in advance whether you attend or not. Please do not ask us for a refund or credit after September 19.
COVID-19 Exception: If you have tested positive for COVID or have been closely exposed within 5 days of the event, please do not attend Twilight Covening. You will receive full credit for another event valid for one-year.
You can mail your payment (and make checks out) to:
Tamelin Productions
PO Box 340
Williamsburg, MA 01096
or Apply and Pay On-line
A $25 service charge will be applied to all refunds and bounced checks.
Volunteers for final clean up are welcome as are some for pre-event kitchen work. Please indicate your desire to volunteer on your application. Do not assume that you should come early unless you hear from us directly. Please email tcreg@tamelingproductions.com to find out more.
Applications for Twilight Covening are full, we have a waiting list here.
Choosing your Twilight Covening Clan
Make sure that you read over all of the Clan descriptions carefully. There are many wonderful possibilities.
On your application form, you will need to list five Clans as possible choices for the weekend. Since Clan size is limited, there is a good chance that you may not get your first choice. Every year some Clans fill up quickly and other Clans are canceled due to lack of demand. It varies a lot year to year. Please be ready to have several first choices and to be flexible! It is important that you indicate five preferences.
Number your preferences from 1 to 5, with 1 being your first choice. Application forms which are filled out incompletely will only delay processing time, making it less likely that first choices will be available.
So that Clan Leaders can best meet the needs of all of the members of their Clan, whatever their level of experience, we ask that everyone thoroughly answer all of the questions on the application form.
All of the Clans at Twilight Covening are designed to provide deep and fulfilling experiences. Some Clans, indicated with an asterisk (*), include work that relies on past experience or is especially challenging. If you would like to apply to join one of these Clans, please let us know why it calls to you right now and include information about your training, skills and practice with this kind of work in your application along with information about the kind of support system you have in place outside of Twilight Covening (coven, teacher, therapist, etc.). If you do not include all of this information, we cannot assign you to one of these Clans.
To fully complete the ritual of Twilight Covening, you should arrive by 5pm on Friday and must plan to stay on site until Monday afternoon so that you don’t miss your Clan’s final meeting or the closing circle. Clan assignments will be finalized and mailed after the application deadline of September 19. We will have a master list in the office; please call if you have not received your assignment by October 1.
Twilight Covening 2026 Clan List
Aurochs Clan
What then is the root of poetry and every other wisdom? Not hard; three cauldrons are born in every person -- the cauldron of warming, the cauldron of motion and the cauldron of wisdom.
In our time together, the Aurochs will seek the cauldrons within, seek to grow familiar with where they sit within and how they act within us. The cauldron of warming, the cauldron of motion, and the cauldron of wisdom all offer us different potentials and possibilities for growth. To know the cauldrons is to seek the wisdom of self and the flame of inspiration.
We will practice perceiving and working with the energies of each cauldron, learning their natures and how we may use them to bolster our magical practices. No specific practice is required, although prior experience with energy work may be helpful. The clan will spend time indoors and out, and while we may move around the mountain the clan will not make use of physically strenuous activities.
Brannen, leader
Bat Clan - this clan is full
When going through a transition, we are often told to just push through it. But what if we… didn’t? There is magic to be found in liminal spaces and moments – the threshold between two worlds or states of being. Our modern world encourages us to make a decision, reach a goal, be productive. Instead – like the Bat that exists at the boundary of light and dark, underground cave and expanse of sky – we will explore the mystery that resides in the in-between, in the space of not knowing, in the “not this or that.”
From the psychopomp to the shape-shifter to the hedge-witch, mythology and earth spirituality are full of edge-workers with wisdom to impart to those who find themselves at a crossroads. Through storytelling, meditation, trance work, and other techniques, the Bat Clan will explore the magic of threshold moments and the experience of leaning into the space between. This clan is open to anyone but may be particularly useful to those who are in or are approaching a transition in their lives.
Dani Schuman and Ben Schuman, leaders
Black Dove Clan
Some of us discover a potent connection with a deity on our spiritual paths – Freyja, Persephone, the Morrigan, and many others from many traditions. These devotional relationships are nourishing and powerful as we offer up our work and our words to our deity. Black Dove Clan is an opportunity to deepen our devotional work and engage with divine love within the container of Twilight Covening.
Each of us will bring our love for and connection to a particular deity. We will witness each others’ devotion, creating a community across our different traditions. We will explore the pathways of devotion and our own connections to divine love, using tools like walking meditation, breathwork, chanting, and silence. This clan will have some late night clan work. Please be sure to share who your deity is in your application.
This clan will share a sleeping cabin.
Trey Moonwood and Rose Starwind, leaders
Blue Whale Clan
Giants are beings that exist on a massive scale. They may be Spirits of Nature such as mountain ranges and oceans, storms and wildfires, currents and fault lines. They may also be Ideas, Energies, and Egregores such as a cultural movement, the collective idea of a symbol, or the Spirit of a Community. These entities and energies can be overwhelming unless we know how to move with them, and when we do, the possibilities are truly magical.
Blue Whale Clan will engage in Giants Work, learning how to commune with these immense entities both to build and heal relationships with the natural world and also to move with, and even affect, the seismic energies that run rampant through our human world. Through meditative practices of journeying, energy work, and simple but powerful movement techniques*, we will meet with the Giants and learn to translate the messages we receive to create both magical and practical impacts in the world around us.
*Though we will use movement as a tool, this clan is not dance-specific or performative and is open to folks of all levels of physical ability. Experience with journeywork is highly encouraged. Shared clan sleeping cabin is optional.
Christopher Croucher Stormdancer, leader
Dark Phoenix Clan*
The Phoenix is a symbol of spirit reborn through fire arising from the ash of its own pyre. Dark Phoenix is the mirror companion, rebirthing spirit through the healing power of Darkness. It steps bravely into the night, embracing Darkness as a place of depth, mystery, and personal healing - where we hold the wild, sacred, and powerful parts of ourselves. Through courageous communion with the dark, we engage our own Dark Phoenix - seeking renewal through deliberate sacrifice.
This work prepares us for an all-night outdoor vigil, where our willing ritual sacrifice will be fully consumed by the night, knowing we are restored and reborn in the dark. In our rebirth, we greet the dawn as our individual journeys intertwine with the shared witness for each other, deepening our relationship with spirit, ourselves, and the larger community.
Facilitating this transformation, we will utilize shamanic journeying, silence, energy work, magickal constructs, and reflective journaling techniques. Due to the intense nature of Dark Phoenix, clan members must be physically capable of navigating the woods independently under low or no light in all weather conditions.
This clan will share a sleeping cabin.
Liz Porter, leader
Dragon Clan
You've been doing the work. Holding your ground, tending your people, keeping the thread of meaning alive even as the world unravels faster than you can weave it together. That's real. It's exhausting. And you are not alone. The shifts moving through our world ask something unprecedented of us. Not just endurance, but transformation. Not just surviving, but becoming agents of what wants to be born.
Dragon Clan is for those ready to do that. Dragon moves in the continuous, generative flow of the lemniscate, the living figure-eight. Always crossing through center, in motion, in relationship. Because certain powers arise only between us, in the field committed practitioners generate together. The whole is greater than its parts.
We move through four interwoven passages: clearing and tending what's been depleted; entering deep personal transformation, sensing who we are becoming; meeting at the confluence, where individual streams weave into a living vessel; and finally bringing everything into the body, into a prepared working that charges, releases, and directs our energy outward, activating community flourishing beyond the mountain.
This is co-creative work. You will not be a passenger. Your honesty, presence, and willingness to be changed are necessary ingredients. This clan will be physically active and will spend significant time outdoors.
This clan will share a sleeping cabin.
Steve Trombulak and Tatiana Lyons, leaders
Elk Clan- this clan is full
The pattern of winter draws us inward to hearth and home. Heathenry, a Northern European tradition of animism rooted in the practices of ancient Scandinavia, Iceland, and Germanic Europe, offers a path of supportive relationships between people and the spirits and land around them. In this clan, we will learn how to begin and support these cocreative relationships through ceremony, hearth-tending, altar creation, and more. We will explore the cosmology of the Heathen world including ancestors, deities, land spirits, house spirits, and the wild. We will share pathways to structure a Heathen hearth practice that will carry you through winter and out into the growing season once more. You do not need to be Heathen to join this clan; Heathen-curious people are welcome. This clan is accessible to people of all physical abilities.
Irene and Ash Glasse, leaders
Flying Pig Clan*
In Celtic traditions, pigs and boars are sacred and oracular creatures often associated with dragons, their winged counterparts. These mystical creatures serve as guides to the OtherWorld, creating and facilitating magical experiences and acting as catalysts for initiatory cycles of life, death and transformation. Diving deep into chthonic mysteries and soaring high into the celestial realms, we will follow the flying pigs to learn about and engage with the Welsh concept of AWEN, opening ourselves to inspiration from the interconnected spirals of land, sea and sky. Using Celtic myths and ancient magical traditions, we will explore divination, spell-casting, ritual work and tools for accessing the wisdom of Annwn, the Welsh OtherWorld -all of which will help to inform and enhance our own magical and spiritual practice and development.
This clan is best suited for those who have taken Red Dragon or White Hart Clan, but this is not required. Please list relevant experience on your application. This clan will include some walking over rough terrain.
Juniper Talbot, leader
Honey Bee Clan
In Celtic cultures, Honey Bees acted as messengers and guides, traveling between the human realm and the Otherworld–sometimes as a human soul.
Each bee has a specific function that supports their hive: building, communicating, or nourishing. Feri Tradition views the spiritual anatomy of a human being similarly: as a community of 3 distinct souls that sustain our wholeness. Honey Bee will focus on the alignment of those souls through the foundation for all magical work in Feri Tradition: The HA Prayer. This sacred breath creates clarity, focuses intention, and is a powerful tool for manifestation. Our aligned self provides access to creative honey that we’ll further sweeten by creating personalized Oracles with mixed media & collage.
Navigating layers of hidden/revealed words and images, we can better understand the messages that our souls provide to nourish us in our work as wisdom and clarity. Like the bee to her hive, your oracle can call you home to your self: becoming a tool to work with to fully explore your souls, support your alignment, and map the magic where your thoughts, words, and images become meaning.
You do not have to consider yourself an artist to work with this clan.
Tess Archer, leader
Hoot Owl Clan
Hoot Owls call loud and clear who they are and what they want, filling the woods with their voices. We will call on that power and determination to connect with each other and the greater world using the material and revolutionary patterns of Singing Resistance – which is “building a mass movement of singers to protect and care for our communities in the face of rising authoritarianism, grounded in love, nonviolence, and solidarity.”
You do not need to be “a singer,” you only need to love singing. Singing together powerfully uplifts our hearts/courage, and we will focus on learning to sustain that flame in the face of grief, fear and pain. Also we’ll root ourselves in the Earth, connecting with generative energy that fuels us and can be put to good use making the changes we choose. We’ll learn many songs together (some rounds and many harmonies) as well as practice silence and listening to delve into their magic.
You will go home with a songsheet and a link with recordings so you can bring this material into your life and community (or join Singing Resistance actions). Hoot Owls will wander to various places on the land to sing.
Sarah Stockwell-Arthen, leader
Northern Raven Clan*
The Raven has been called the Keeper of Magic and Messenger of Mystery, a channel for magical energy.
In this clan we will open ourselves to patterns and rhythms that facilitate deep transformative experience for ourselves and others. We will use breathwork, team building, energy work and extended time in shifted space, while exploring all of the roles of community ritual. Our work will culminate in active participation in either the traveling or the accessible Visioning ritual.
You must have attended Covening in person for at least 3 years to be in this Clan. Please do not sign up for this clan if you have issues around physical touch. Northern Ravens will be physically active and will spend time outdoors.
This clan will share a sleeping cabin.
Moira Ashleigh and Kaye Kittredge leaders
Octopus Clan
Octopuses are the sages of the sea; able to sense many things simultaneously, and using that insight to solve complex puzzles and see their way clear of obstacles.
In Octopus clan, we will recharge and deepen our relationship with the tarot, creating a fluid conversation in its language of archetypes and trusting the wisdom that flows through. We will open to our senses and familiarize ourselves with the insights we can discover, gaining fluency and understanding.
Bring a tarot deck and a journal, and we will seek to create a personal practice that you can use daily throughout the year to deepen your understanding of this timeless wisdom.
Sarahluna Chandler, leader
Salamander Clan - this clan is full
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. (Zen koan).
How do we perceive the world around us? What is real? As a salamander experiences life both in water and on land, moving between the two as needed, reality can also be experienced on different levels, and ritual is a method of moving between them. Beyond engagement with language, symbols, incense and chants is a kind of awareness that enables us to use those tools in a way that both intensifies the experience and makes it more meaningful and able to actually transform us. In this clan we will use tools from Anamanta to help us break out of our preconceptions about reality and practice techniques that will help us achieve and maintain that alternate awareness.
Donovan Arthen and Andras Corban Arthen, leaders
Sidewinder Snake Clan*
Our shapes slither and we move sideways through the shifting sands of who the world expects us to be.
In this clan we will work with the magical practice of Guising as we begin to soften and shift the way we perceive and are perceived through meditation, breath work, and moving with intention. We will disrupt patterns of our behavior and spend time exploring other ways of being embodied in the world. What assumptions do you have about who you are? What could you be? Shed your skin and move into new shapes with us.
*This clan is open to people who have been to Covening at least three times prior to this year
Katie LaFond, leader
Wood Thrush Clan
One of the most beautiful and iconic sounds of a New England forest is the song of the Wood Thrush! Its song has a melodic section and a faster rhythmic trilling section. In this clan, we will explore both the how and why of chant writing from a number of different angles. We will gather and develop tools for composition. We will listen deeply and connect with nature and with each other, channeling inspiration into music!
Lynn Mahoney Rowan and Sam Arthen-Long, leaders
Wyvern Clan*
As members of a larger community, we are sometimes called upon to lead. Finding balance between personal work while still maintaining firm footing in our other responsibilities can be challenging. Wyvern Clan challenges us to label compartments in our lives and learn to bring them into harmony to be able to better serve ourselves and others. We will take a personal inventory, discard that which no longer serves us, identify that which is holding us back, and create a Dark Eros ritual to heal ourselves while sending positivity out to the world. The clan is an extension of the work of the Gryphon Clan, and as such prior participation in the Gryphon Clan is required. Whereas the Gryphon work is about “me”, Wyvern work is about “us”. If you have touch issues, are opposed to frank discussion of human sensuality, are not ready for deep introspection, or are unwilling to be of service, this clan might not be a good fit. Additionally, since we will be doing both personal work and community work, sometimes at off hours, sometimes in rapid succession, the clan can be physically and mentally draining.
Cerillian and Dawn, Leaders
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Twilight Covening 2026 Clan Leaders
Andras Corban-Arthen (Salamander Clan) is the founder and one of the directors of EarthSpirit. Andras was made a witch in 1969 and has been teaching about pagan-related topics since the 1970s, both in the U.S. and abroad. He served on the board of trustees of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, and as president of the European Congress of Ethnic Religions based in Lithuania. Andras is originally from Galicia, Spain, but has been living for the past 30 years in a 160-acre pagan sanctuary in the Berkshire Highlands of Western Massachusetts.
Ash Glasse (they/them, Elk Clan) is a Heathen practitioner based in Western Maryland. They are the Gothar (spiritual leader) of Elk Ridge Kindred, an inclusive Heathen group based in Frederick, Maryland. Ash is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick, where they are an active CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans) member, leader, and teacher. Ash’s primary focus in Heathenry is to incorporate the practice into daily life. They try to break down the walls between the spiritual and the mundane, while keeping in touch with Heathenry’s historical roots.
Ben Schuman (Bat Clan)(he/him) is a third-degree eclectic Wiccan, itinerant musician, and occasional lawyer. He has led a training coven and brings 25+ years of experience in ritual craft, trance work, guising, and other techniques of spiritual facilitation. Ben has participated in EarthSpirit events since 2002, led several previous Clans over the past 11 years, and has spent lots of time stumbling through the woods in the dark.
Brannen (Aurochs Clan)(he/him/his) is a Polytheist, Animist, and Pagan from the South. From an early start stumbling into meditation and soul of a place, Brannen's practice has taken shape over the decades to a focus on connection and right relationships with the places, entities, and people experienced.
Cerillian (Wyvern Clan) having been fully assimilated by the south, now resides in Eastern Tennessee. Well known in the Earth Spirit Community, he has been teaching Dark Eros work for well over 20 years, has been practicing earth-based religion for 44 years, and has been attending Twilight Covening since the Clinton Administration. He is thrilled to be offering Wyvern again. Known for creating a safe and nurturing space to explore, he combines experience, empathy, and a touch of humor to provide the environment needed to do solid and meaningful work.
Christopher Croucher Stormdancer ( Blue Whale Clan) is an artist, performer, healer, and witch. Over more than twenty-five years, he has woven his experience as a dancer, massage therapist, and magickal healer together with his passion for numerous artforms to create a practice that centers connection with the Self and the World through magic(k). Stormdancer has taught Movement and Magick workshops at EarthSpirit events and beyond since 2020 and is the creative force behind Letting the Land Lead, a nature-based dance practice. His first book, A Prelude to Dancing with Giants, is available now.
Dani Schuman ( Bat Clan)(she/her) A third degree priestess in the NorthStar Wiccan tradition, Dani is a hedge witch, ritualist, dream worker, and tarot reader. She is currently a candidate in the Spiritual Direction certification program through Cherry Hill Seminary. A practicing witch for almost thirty years, Dani hosts a monthly dream circle, and leads workshops and rituals in Baltimore, MD, where she lives with her family, reads a lot, talks to spirits, communes with the plants in her garden, hugs trees, and sings in a band with her husband and co-priest, Ben.
Dawn D. (Wyvern Clan) is a solitary kitchen-witch who has known she was pagan ever since reading Greek Myths in high school. She has attended Twilight Covening for over 15 years. She has been in both Gryphon and Wyvern Clans and has attended and assisted in the planning of other Dark Eros events. She also really hates writing bios.
Donovan Arthen (he/him, Salamander Clan) is a lifetime member of the Earthspirit Community and has grown through the guidance and training that its teachers and elders have offered over the 39 years of his life. He is a practitioner of Anamanta and embodies his spirituality through loosening his shape, embracing the experience of the moment, and peering into the mystery surrounding us. His deepest passions lie in building community and creating connections between individuals, fostering interdependence and a strengthening of the web of life.
Irene Glasse (she/they, Elk Clan) is a Heathen witch based in Western Maryland. She is a longtime teacher of witchcraft, meditation, and magic in the mid-Atlantic as well as a published author, blogger, and columnist. She is the cocreator and coleader of Blackfeather Mystery School, a three year magical training program. Irene is a Commissioned Lay Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick and is the lead organizer of the Frederick Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (Frederick CUUPS), offering events, rituals, classes and workshops to a large, vibrant community.
Juniper Talbot (Flying Pig Clan) is an Elder in Lenai Aine, a Celtic-based witchcraft coven, into which she was initiated in 1982. She has over 40 years of training and experience in ritual, trance and magic and has extensive scholarly knowledge of the spiritual and magical practices of the Celts, leading numerous workshops and retreats based on these subjects. As a professional dancer, Juniper has traveled often to Britain and to many of its sacred sites to teach and perform. She is writing a novel based on the fourth branch of the Mabinogi, and is also a professional Tarot reader and Dream worker.
Katie LaFond (Sidewinder Snake Clan) is a musician, educator, fiber artist, homesteader, ritualist, core volunteer, and practitioner of Anamanta and has been involved with EarthSpirit since 2000. Katie serves on the EarthSpirit Board of Directors, served on the organizing committee for Western MA Pagan Pride Day, is a Massachusetts Notary Public and a certified Death Midwife, tends the EarthSpirit Healing Shrine, organizes the EarthSpirit Family Program, and is a member of MotherTongue.
Kaye Kittredge (Orb Weaver Clan) (she/her) is an artist, animist, and Glainn Sidhr witch. She currently serves on the EarthSpirit Board of Directors, and gained deep appreciation for the mystery through her practices as a ritualist, MotherTongue member, death midwife, and mother. A frequent Clan Leader at Twilight Covening, she likes to draw inspiration from nature's patterns, and explore the many ways we can use our creativity to change the world.
Liz Porter (Dark Phoenix Clan) is an Astrologer, Manifestation Coach, Reiki Master, initiated witch, and farmer. A member of Minoan, Gardnerian, and Assembly of the Sacred Wheel traditions, Liz has been using practical magic to manifest goals into tangible reality for over two decades. She has taught at EarthSpirit festivals and intensives, Free Spirit Gathering, and Assembly of the Sacred Wheel’s Annual retreat. Liz has raised a coven of witches who are teachers and healers in their own right and is sharing this path with her partner and family, their animals, and the land.
Lynn Rowan (Wood Thrush Clan) is a singer as a profession as well as her spirituality. She has written and published songs and chants for Windborne, Chase Hill, and other various performances and projects. She is a firm believer in the power of singing to shift energy, move hearts and minds, tell stories, and to connect to each other, to the past, to the earth, and to all beings.
Moira Ashleigh (Northern Raven Clan) (she/her) is a Glainn Sidhr Witch, EarthSpirit Board Member, and EarthSpirit Elder, she has been a featured presenter at EarthSpirit's Rites of Spring, Twilight Covening, and A Feast of Lights. She has also taught at Free Spirit, Pagan Pride, and was the primary organizer of EarthSpirit's "East" events for 20 years. Moira has a Masters degree in Theater and Dance from Emerson College, her numerous clans at Twilight Covening focused on breath, trance, ritual support, ritual roles, shapeshifting, perceiving patterns, daily practice, and the body as a magical tool.
Rose Starwind (Black Dove Clan) is a mother, green witch, perpetual student of the Earth, and hard-wired devotee since childhood. Since her time as a monastic, Rose has lived her life as a continuous act of devotion. The deities have shifted almost kaleidoscopically across six decades, but that which shines through the kaleidoscope remains Mystery. One day she followed that Mystery around the corner....
Sam Arthen–Long (Wood Thrush Clan) is an animist, environmentalist, songwriter, musician, and the producer/owner at Singing Land Studio. Sam has been presenting and volunteering at EarthSpirit gatherings for over 10 years and is the host and producer for the EarthSpirit Voices Podcast. He lives in Western Massachusetts and spends much of his time helping to raise the next generation of EarthSpirit kids.
Sarah Stockwell-Arthen (Hoot Owl Clan) (she/her) An EarthSpirit ritualist for 35 years and community song leader for more than 50, I LOVE singing. I am a Glainn Sidhr witch, activist, herbalist, death midwife and rural-dweller practicing deepening connection to home land. Working with newcomers at RoS and Sacred Land events delights me. I am a leader in Singing Resistance Western Massachusetts, and have found joy and solace in the singing and activist community.
Sarahluna (Octopus Clan) has been a student of the tarot since she was a teenager, sharing her insights first with friends and family, and then as a professional reader for over 20 years. She lives in the deep woods of the Berkshire hilltowns with her astrologer husband and her psychic cat, Tahuti
Steve Trombulak (Dragon Clan) is a conservation biologist and pagaian who works to heal the connections between community and the more-than-just-human world. These efforts have drawn him to the paths of voice, music, motion, and service for community empowerment and expression. He’s an animist, poet, woodworker, birder, scuba diver, teacher, and grandfather.
Tatiana Lyons (she/her, Dragon Clan) is a 3rd degree Wiccan High Priestess who has led covens and loves watching members grow into teachers and healers. Her magick is embodied energy work that moves the body to spark transformation, building Vision and Walking the Path with Spirit. Based in Philadelphia, she leads workshops and has led clans previously at Twilight Covening. She is a certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher with a growing love for Tibetan Buddhism. When she isn't teaching, you'll find her running half marathons (just an epic playlist and a refusal to stop), and celebrating with her beloved NorthStar elders' coven.
Tess Archer (Honey Bee Clan) is a shape-shifting Witch who makes her home at the foot of the Green Mountains. Her gifts lie in integrating her work as a Feri Priestess & Faery Seer to help others find the joy, power, and efficacy in their own magic. Tess leads clans at Twilight Covening, and has created rituals, taught workshops & intensives, and served as a volunteer at Rites of Spring for decades. She also leads public rituals and teaches classes around the Northeast. Tess is a ravenous seeker of knowledge, a mixed-media artist, wordsmith, ritualist, Priestess, teacher, Certified Death Midwife, wife, and partner. She loves nothing better than adventuring in the woods conjuring up wild magic, or painting barefoot in her treetop studio.
Trey Moonwood Black Dove Clan) (they/them) - is a hellerune witch and seeress in the Heathen tradition. They founded the Chase Hill kindred in Vermont in 2010 and served as their leader for 13 years, before turning their focus fully to the lost threads of Heathen magical practice. Trey’s work and teachings center around reconnecting with the greater-than-human world, understanding the perspectives of ancient Heathen cultures, and making space for silence and stillness to bring wisdom.
www.treymoonwood.com
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