Our Lady of the Earth and Sky invites all to join us for Concentric Circles 2024!
Join us for a day of rituals, workshops, networking, and celebration!
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2023 — 1:00 pm to 9:30 pm PST
Where: 23301 NE Redmond-Fall City Road, Redmond, 98053 (see directions below)
In person at the Longhouse in Redmond
Event information and schedule on this page will be updated by mid-February. Content below is from 2023 to give a sense of what to expect.
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Founded in 1998, Concentric Circles is an annual, all-day, public event where OLOTEAS invites other regional Pagan groups to present workshops and rituals. Concentric Circles is a wonderful opportunity to sample the Pagan possibilities in our broader regional community.
To raise funds to support future OLOTEAS events, we are holding a drawing for several door prizes. One ticket is included with admission, and additional tickets are available for $5 each. The drawing will happen during the dinner break at 5:30 and the ticket must be present to win.
A Healing Temple is open in the Shrine building from 1:30– 8:30 pm. This is space available for rest, refreshment, and calm throughout the event.
OLOTEAS is an inclusive, welcoming, family-friendly, queer-and-trans-friendly, and anti-racist space.
See below for the grid schedule and ritual/presentation and presenter/organization descriptions.
Thank you to our participating ritualists and presenters!
Join us for a day of rituals, workshops, networking, and celebration!
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2023 — 1:00 pm to 9:30 pm PST
Where: 23301 NE Redmond-Fall City Road, Redmond, 98053 (see directions below)
In person at the Longhouse in Redmond
Event information and schedule on this page will be updated by mid-February. Content below is from 2023 to give a sense of what to expect.
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Founded in 1998, Concentric Circles is an annual, all-day, public event where OLOTEAS invites other regional Pagan groups to present workshops and rituals. Concentric Circles is a wonderful opportunity to sample the Pagan possibilities in our broader regional community.
- For Concentric Circles, requested donation is $15 for each person 13 years and older, none requested for 12 and under, and waived if you are a ritualist or presenter. Thank you!
- Pool and hot tub are open. The pool area is clothing-optional. Please bring your own towels, the Longhouse can no longer provide them.
- Please bring food for yourself -- There will NOT be a potluck during Concentric Circles.
Albertson's and a Subway sandwich shop are across the street. There is a half-hour dinner break in the schedule, but please eat when you like. Refrigerator available on the back porch of the kitchen – you may want to write your name on your food. Please note you cannot prepare meat on kitchen counters (pre-cooked meat ok). No alcohol on site. - Doors open with Opening Circle at 1pm.
To raise funds to support future OLOTEAS events, we are holding a drawing for several door prizes. One ticket is included with admission, and additional tickets are available for $5 each. The drawing will happen during the dinner break at 5:30 and the ticket must be present to win.
A Healing Temple is open in the Shrine building from 1:30– 8:30 pm. This is space available for rest, refreshment, and calm throughout the event.
OLOTEAS is an inclusive, welcoming, family-friendly, queer-and-trans-friendly, and anti-racist space.
See below for the grid schedule and ritual/presentation and presenter/organization descriptions.
Thank you to our participating ritualists and presenters!
Workshop/ Ritual Blurbs (Chronological)
1:00 – 1:20 Doors open, Opening Circle (Stone Circle)
Laura, OLOTEAS
Join us for site and schedule orientation, and a ritual to welcome and create sacred space to hold the day.
1:30 – 2:30 Workshop: Practical Daily Rituals (Library)
Janice Van Cleve, Women of the Goddess
Practical daily rituals which connect the spirit worlds and the mundane worlds for more productive, meaningful exercise of energies in both worlds. Perfect for solitaries and as a daily practice for presenters of public rituals for their private practice. Janice Van Cleve is a priestess of the Women of the Goddess Circle. She has been presenting at Concentric Circles for many years.
1:30 – 2:30 Presentation and Ritual: Thelemic Pagan Devotional (Block House)
Entelecheia, Horizon Ordo Templi Orientis
Liber Astarte is a short work by Aleister Crowley which describes a method by means of which a person may unite themselves with a particular deity by devotion. We will give a brief overview of Liber Astarte and its methods, and then we will show how these methods work in practice by performing a ritual invocation of a deity.
2:30 – 3:30 Ritual: Druid Triskelion Ritual (Stone Circle)
Circle of Coll, Seed Group of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids (OBOD)
The Circle of Coll Seed Group offers a Druidic Triskelion Ritual. This ritual is blessings of the Land, Sea and Sky with seeds of healing, growth and wisdom, as we emerge from Winter.
2:30 – 3:30 Workshop: One World, Many Faiths (Library)
Lawrence Lerner, Puget Sound Pagan Pride
Part workshop, part roundtable discussions. Join a Pagan leader who, after 30 years, came out of the broom closet in 2017. Together we’ll work through the nuances of staying in and out of the broom closet, one foot in or entirely in. We’ll explore what it means to live an authentic Pagan life while being part of the larger secular community and in business. What will this mean when discussing it with your family, friends, and others? We'll also touch on your Title VII rights in the workplace. Please come with questions and prepare for an interactive discussion of living your authentic Pagan life.
2:30 – 3:30 Young Adult & Occult Discussion: What is Magic? (Block House)
Magickal Miscreants
Young Adult & Occult is a space for Pagans in their late teens and early twenties (roughly 15-25) to build community and learn together that is held monthly at OLOTEAS events (and sometimes offsite). At this month's Young Adult & Occult, we will have a group discussion about the different ways we can conceptualize magic.
3:30 – 4:30 Presentation: History and Principles of Alchemy (Library)
Robert Allen Bartlett, Pacific Northwest School of Alchemy
Learn the history and principles of Alchemy from Egypt to the present time. How to prepare powerful tinctures potions and medicines using the principals of the three essentials of spagyric techniques taught by Robert Allen Bartlett, author, lecturer and world-renowned Alchemist.
3:30 – 4:30 Kids’ Class: Elements (Block House)
Magickal Miscreants
At this month's Growing Up Pagan we will learn about and create our own symbols for each element.
4:30 – 5:30 Presentation: How to Visit a Shinto Shrine (Library)
Ashley Yakeley
Shinto, the Way of the Kami, is the indigenous religious tradition of Japan, with shrines throughout the country that anyone can visit to pay respects to the kami, as well as one here in Washington State. Ashley will talk about the Shinto worldview, core themes of Shinto, the nature of kami, shrines and the proper etiquette for visiting them, and more.
4:30 – 5:30 Presentation: Practical Astrology for Wiccans (Block House)
Doc, Canis Cosmos
A discussion on the intersection of Astrology and Wicca through a discussion of using the planets and zodiacal signs in magic.
5:30 – 6:00 Brown bag dinner/snack break (bring your own food - NO POTLUCK)
This is designated time to break for some food. Bring your own brown-bag dinner – there will NOT be a potluck. Reminders: You can store food in the refrigerator on the back porch of the kitchen – you may want to write your name on your food. Please note you cannot prepare meat on kitchen counters (pre-cooked meat ok). No alcohol on site.
6:00 – 7:00 Ritual: Healing Circle (Stone Circle)
Amy, Asherah's Grove
We will cast a circle invoking the Goddess Asherah, and within that circle invoke healing for various parts of ourselves that we have neglected or left behind. As part of this, Amy will share techniques of soul retrieval as guided meditation. There will also be some leeway for the Goddess herself to take this in particular directions depending on who shows up and what that group needs. But do arrive prepared to look at retrieving strengths and releasing trauma, in a short format.
6:00 – 7:00 Workshop: Intro to Astral Projection & Visiting the Akashic Records (Library)
Richard Benack, Cascadian Sean Ciall Sword Circle
Astral projection is the phenomenon where your astral body separates from your physical one and transcends the boundaries of the physical universe in order to travel to higher astral planes or different realms of consciousness. With Astral projection, all physical limits can be crossed, and you can see the world and your own physical body from a distance.
The Akashic records are a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life forms. It is believed that when one enters the Akashic Records, you can access all information about your past lives, present, and future lives and also all information about the paths of others. Visiting the Akashic records provides a way to get valuable information that can’t be found elsewhere.
The workshop will cover:
1) Introduction to Astral Projection
2) How to Astrally Project
3) Overview of the Akashic Records
4) Staying safe while Projecting
5) EXERCISE: Astral Projection to the Akashic Records
6:00 – 7:00 Presentation: Spilling the Tea on the Sídh (Block House)
Seumas Gagne, Harp and Gaelic Song
Many of the popular current ideas about and images of Fairies bear little resemblance to how the ancestors represented them in story and song. In this presentation, Seumas will share an in-depth look at several pieces of song literature and other primary sources to examine what the intact Gaelic traditional knowledge system tells us about the Good People.
7:00 – 8:00 Presentation: Explore Cherry Hill Seminary (Library)
Dana Doerksen, Cherry Hill Seminary
Cherry Hill Seminary is the leading educational institution in the field of contemporary Pagan and Earth-centered spirituality. The seminary offers a variety of programs, including degree programs, certificate programs, month-long courses called Insights on a variety of related topics, and in-person conferences and intensives. All graduate programs are taught by experienced and knowledgeable faculty with doctorates or master’s degrees appropriate to the subject and most are actively serving in their respective spiritual communities and as academics. Join Dana Doerksen, Seminary Librarian, to learn about Cherry Hill Seminary and discover what it can offer you.
7:00 – 8:00 Ritual: New Year, New You Dreamcasting (Block House)
Alitheia Mayeia, Grove of the Ancient Order
Cast your dream into the Universe and reflect in the sacredness of You for seven days and nights. Use Divine Energy from yourself and the Universe to align to bring you your dream. All materials provided.
8:00 – 9:00 A Ritual for the Community, to Work Energy Toward Our Will (Stone Circle)
Stephanie, OLOTEAS
We will raise energy together towards the wishes you have for the world, the community, and yourselves at this time. All energy raised will be for the good of all and harming none. If you have a request for the ritual, you can submit it on this public Google document (instructions in document).
Drum Circle to follow ritual
Led by Doc from Canis Cosmos and Cascadian Sean Ciall Song Circle
9:00 Clean-up begins
Please take all your belongings to your personal vehicles at this time. We appreciate help cleaning up the space at the end of our events as well.
9:00 – 9:15 Closing Circle (Stone Circle)
Stephanie, OLOTEAS
Join us for a ritual of thanksgiving for the sacred space we’ve held all day.
9:30 pm Doors close
Organization and Presenter Descriptions (Alphabetical)
Asherah’s Grove
Asherah’s Grove is a small working circle currently meeting for full moons and Sabbats. We have in the past met for first crescent moon and new moon, never all in the same month. We are eclectic but informed by some of the British Traditional material in "The Witches Bible." We incorporate creative expression in each ritual. Open to inquiries. 206-349-9198.
Ashley Yakeley
Pagan, occasional sanpaisha (shrine visitor)
Canis Cosmos, ko-fi.com/caniscosmos
Canis Cosmos is an astrological consulting service.
Cascadian Sean Ciall, seanciall.org
The Sean Ciall tradition emerged as part of the European NeoPagan revival of the late 18th century, alongside many other quasi-Druidic sects. "Sean Ciall" is, literally, the "Old Way” in Gallic, but it is also the new face of magick. We believe change is the very nature of magick, and we in Sean Ciall believe in studying the old magicks while continuing to contribute to the evolution of magickal thought. Sean Ciall Sword Circle focuses on providing security and protection (both physical & magical) to the magical community.
Cherry Hill Seminary, cherryhillseminary.org
Cherry Hill Seminary is the leading provider of education and practical training in leadership, ministry, and personal growth in Pagan and Nature-Based spiritualities for more than fifteen years. For more information contact:
Cherry Hill Seminary
[email protected], 803-862-9088
P.O. Box 212804; Columbia, SC 29221
Circle of Coll, circleofcoll.org
The Circle of Coll, a Seed Group of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD), works with Druidry as a spiritual way and practice. It fills the desire to be fully creative in our lives, to commune deeply with the world of Nature, and to gain access to a source of profound wisdom.
Grove of the Ancient Order, https://www.facebook.com/groups/413119162083635
Grove of the Ancient Order is a collective of Druids, Pagans, and Heathens. Alitheia Mayeia is co-Archdruid.
Horizon Lodge Ordo Templi Orientis, seattle-oto.org
Horizon Lodge is a duly chartered body of Ordo Templi Orientis, established to promote the philosophical and religious system known as Thelema. We are a community of spiritual seekers united in our struggle against those entrenched ideas and beliefs that have been spread to enslave, oppress, exploit, and divide the human spirit. We recognize each individual as having their own agency, autonomy, and rights of expression and creation, so that the religious experience may remain an individual one.
Magickal Miscreants, www.oloteas.org/young-adult-and-occult.html
The Magickal Miscreants are a group of Pagan young adults who run children's programming and spiritual discussion groups for teens and young adults at OLOTEAS.
Our Lady of the Earth and Sky (OLOTEAS), www.oloteas.org
OLOTEAS is a non-denominational Pagan church. We are a volunteer-run, non-profit religious organization providing family-oriented Pagan religious services and workshops since 1995. We are dedicated to promoting religious tolerance and freedom and environmental sustainability. Email: [email protected]
Pacific Northwest School of Alchemy, www.spagyricus.com
The Pacific Northwest School of Alchemy carries forward the teachings of the Paracelsus College UT and Frater Albertus. Teaching the making of spagyric medicinals, tinctures and oils, as put forth by the ancient Alchemists stretching back to the Egyptians.
Puget Sound Pagan Pride, www.pugetsoundpaganpride.org
Puget Sound Pagan Pride is a 501c3 non-profit organization for the broader Pagan spiritual community in Western Washington. We organize regular social events (both in-person and online) and provide information and resources in service to the Pagan community.
Seumas Gagne, Harp and Gaelic Song, www.seumasgagne.com
Seumas Gagne has been playing the music of the Highland and Irish Gaels on the Celtic harp for more than thirty years. A fluent speaker of Scottish Gaelic, he competed in the Royal Scottish National Mòd in 1997 and won the Elspeth Hyllestad Trophy for Solo Clàrsach Performance. To date, he is the only American to win this award. Seumas is a founding member of Slighe nan Gaidheal, Washington’s Gaelic language and cultural society.
Women of the Goddess Circle, womenofthegoddess.godaddysites.com
The Women of the Goddess Circle is a feminist Pagan community of women in the Dianic tradition of Wicca. We mark the eight Sabbats of the year in ritual with like-minded adult women. We seek thereby to strengthen and renew our connection to the Goddess, to share this connection with others, and to celebrate the cycle of Nature as the Wheel of the Year turns. This year marks our 33rd year in uninterrupted worship. We welcome newcomers!
Directions to the Longhouse:
Take 520 eastbound to the Redmond Way/Fall City (WA 202) Exit. Turn right at the light at the end of the off ramp. Go approximately 5 miles on Redmond-Fall City Road. Driveway is on the right, 23301 (directly across from SmartStop Self Storage). If you pass Albertson's, you have gone about 100 yards too far. When you first pull into the drive you should immediately see a large wooden sign that says The Longhouse; if you don’t you are in the neighbors’ drive.
Our Lady of the Earth and Sky
Mailing address: 12345 Lake City Way NE #195 Seattle, WA 98125-5401
Longhouse event address: 23301 NE Redmond-Fall City Road, Redmond, 98053
Website: http://www.oloteas.org/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oloteas/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/oloteas/
Discord server: https://discord.gg/CJKsksmDED
Email: OLOTEAS (at) oloteas (dot) org