Women’s Story & Song Circle
Monthly Around the Fire
Tuesday Evenings
at The Center for Conscious Living and Dying
in Swannanoa, NC
Dinner provided.
5.30pm - 8pm
Gather with us
Women have always gathered together to share the songs and stories in their hearts.
This time around the fire is for listening, remembering and connecting to each other in the context of the changing seasons - of the land and our bodies.
We use the Celtic wheel of the year and a corresponding map of thirteen core women’s archetypes to guide us as we travel through the seasons.
Offering stories and songs carried in the oral tradition of the British Isles and Ireland, along with original creations, selected monthly, we facilitate personal reflection and community sharing.
We hold a safe container, crafted for deep connection.
Your Circle Guides
Katherine Parker PhD
Wilderness Rites of Passage and Ancestral Guide Katherine enjoys creating spaces for deep personal and cultural transformation. She carries stories from the British and Irish oral tradition as an honoring of her own ancestors and as medicine for the cultural troubles of our times.
Jennifer Armstrong
Storyteller, musician and tradition-bearer, Jennifer has been featured at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro. Born into a family of singers and tellers she has been performance since she was five years old.
We believe that connecting with the old stories and songs in the context of the changing seasons in one way to bring the medicine of our ancestors into our daily lives.
We offer this circle for women as a safe space to be heard and to explore the mysteries of the feminine.
Throughout the year we follow both seasonal lore and that related to thirteen core women’s archetypes - one map for understanding the multitude of ways we can all express our womanhood.
These archetypes, organized developmentally from birth to death, include discussion women’s blood rites: menses, first sex, child birth and death, menopause and death.
This monthly circle is an introduction to these rites, not a ceremonial practice
Women’s Archetypes & Monthly Honoring
February - Imbolc: The Daughter
March - Spring Equinox: The Maiden (Menses)
April - The Blood Sister (First Sex)
May - Beltain: The Lover
June - Summer Solstice: The Mother (Child birth and death)
July - The Midwife
August - Lammas: The Amazon
September - Autumn Equinox: The Matriarch
October - Samhain: The Priestess
November - The Sorceress
December - Winter Solstice: The Crone
January - The Dark Mother
These are the twelve archetypes we explore as we travel together around the wheel. The thirteenth, always present at the center of the wheel is The Transformer, the Divine Feminine in her most primal, undifferentiated, from. This is the place of deep personal re-birthing. The place where nothing makes sense and we feel lost, confused, stunned, grief-torn, and overwhelmed. This one is always present.