SHF 2004 is history,
. . . and we think it was the best ever.
Harmony Tribe also thanks our entertainers this year,
Fairy Dust, Mystik Melange, and Sparky T Rabbit!
We want to thank the many members of Standing Stones, and all our new friends from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Sioux City, Iowa and the Wild Women Camp for their attendance and contributions.
We thank all our tribe this year for attending, giving of their hearts, talents, and magick. You made this one of the largest and yet most intimate and magickal Festivals ever!
Sorry, but you missed it ! SHF 2004 is history.
Read a festival review at the Witches Voice
Have time to think about your experience at SHF 2004? Has your shadow self spoken or changed. Please write about your thoughts for our Tribal Journal
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Want to help with next years festival? Contact Harmony Tribe !
We were sooooo.... excited about this past
years
2004 Sacred Harvest Festival !
As an organization we have grown in membership and experience to the point of offering our community two national guests of prominence this year. One from each coast! Macha is familiar to some of you through her COG work and recent Mpls. visits. Ivo is new to the Midwest and has a rich Wiccan backround as well as broad song and chant knowledge. A perfect match for our area.
Our recent organizational work has brought us to the point of having a full experienced staff, a stable membership, and a dedication to out vision. Expect to reap the benefits of a SHF to remember this year! We still need you, to attend, to teach, to share, to vision our community. What better time than now?
Our theme is difficult this year. Inner work is not associated with large group or festival experience. It is a daunting task to pull this off as both a rewarding spiritual experience and as a festival. Festivals are all about renewal for the year, and we plan some interesting program changes for this theme to work.
We have a food vendor plus Nichole's coffee shop this year; some professional entertainment to squeeze in, and Foxfire plan's to light up the night with fire this year. All this and our rates will remain the most reasonable around!
Announcing two great performance groups this year: Funk-N-Faerie Dust and Mystic Melange
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 " Dark Moon Mysteries "
... seeking the shadow self
Aug 10-15th, 2004
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Announcing two great performance groups this year: Funk-N-Faerie Dust and Mystic Melange
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~~ Sparky T Rabbit ~~
Sparky is a nationally known singer, bard, ritualist, and pot stirrer. This year he graces us with a concert, children's workshop, and more!
His recording "Lunacy", done as a duo, is still one of the most prized pagan recordings of all time. You've probably heard the intense upbeat song version which includes the chant: "They called her Isis, Estarte, Diana,....
This year Sparky returns to SHF, renewed, and offering his talents in our panels, and workshops as well as performing. A great chance to learn from a master ritualist the tricks of leaping from theater to the spiritual plane!
Song Title: Lunacy
Lyrics by: Sparky Rabbit and Greg Johnson
And the full Moon is a vagina spread wide
And the full Moon is a vagina spread wide
With the wild realm of all possibilities
Every possibility pouring out
And the old Moon is a woman who weaves
And the old Moon is a woman who weaves
The heart promises whispered by the shadow bride
She will take you by the hand into the night
....[snip]
And the old Moon is an eye in the dark
And the old Moon is an eye in the dark
And the sleeper wakes the illusion fades away
As the spider spins here comes another day
....[snip]
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~~ Mystic Melange ~~
Presents
Dreamweave:
A journey of the senses through music, dance & fire.
Renate Sparkle-toes:
A multi-cultural vocalist, dancer, sitarist, didgeridoo, poet, percussionist, fire spinner & vibrational healer.
FoxFire:
Heathen hillbilly fire magician
Djembe, doumbek, didgeridoo, native flute & spoken word poet.
Dhanni "Lightning" Boldt:
Embarked on the drum under the late conga master, Malik Delmar. Two years later switched skin and studied tabla with rhythm wizard, Marcus Wise. Music is the bridge between the conscious & the unconscious.
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What is the Shadow Self?
"The shadow, according to Jungian psychology, is the dark, rejected part of the psyche. It consists of all those qualities that we, as influenced by the values of our culture, do not feel are desirable or acceptable to express as part of our personalities. The shadow contains what we do not like about ourselves, what we find threatening, shameful, and inaddequate, as well as certain valued and positive qualities that we are pressured to repress and disown. Individually and as a culture we reject these denied and devalued parts of ourselves, exile them to the unconscious, and do not allow them to flourish as part of our conscious identity. The shadow is also the messenger of the unconciouswho, through dreams and images, reveals the workings or our inner being that operates beneath the threshold of the conscious mind."
"Mysteries of the Dark Moon" / Demetra George
"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is
embodied in the individual's conscious life,
the blacker and denser it is.
At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag,
thwarting our most well-meant intentions."
"It is everything in us that is unconscious, repressed, undeveloped and denied. These are dark rejected aspects of our being as well as light, so there is positive undeveloped potential in the Shadow that we don't know about because anything that is unconscious, we don't know about."
"The Shadow is an archetype. And what an archetype simply means is that it is typical in consciousness for everyone. Everyone has a Shadow. This is not something that one or two people have. We all have a Shadow and a confrontation with the Shadow is essential for self awareness. We cannot learn about ourselves if we do not learn about our Shadow so therefore we are going to attract it through the mirrors of other people."
"The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves."
- DR. CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Want to add your "Shadow Insight" to our tribal vision? Submit your thoughts to the Tribal Journal!
Read essays regarding the Shadow Self
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