Gathering at the wellspring to share the dream of the earth
Fall 2026 Community Series
with
Becky Traptow, Gage Bock & Dan Dolquist
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““Tell me a story, a story that will be my story as well as the story of everyone and everything about me, the story that brings us together in a valley community, a story that brings together the human community with every living being in the valley, a story that brings us together under the arc of the great blue sky in the day and the starry heavens at night, a story that will drench us with rain and dry us in the wind, a story told by humans to one another that will also be the story that the wood thrush sings in the thicket, the story that the river recites in its downward journey, the story that Storm King Mountain images forth in the fullness of its grandeur.”
― Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth”
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Times are obviously challenging. Rapid global warming. AI doom. The rise of authoritarian governments. Racism. Fascism. Soul-sucking capitalism (or, as a friend calls it, “crapitalism”). And on and on and on.
One thing I know for sure that’s an antidote to this madness is community.
We need each other, obviously!
So let me cut right to it: a couple of wild guide friends and I have decided to host a number of soul gatherings throughout the end of the year.
We are opening up a space for those who are interested in being in community and conversation with other wild-hearted, earth-loving, deeply feeling, caring, soulful humans and artisans of cultural change.
The intention is to create a place for real connection and expansive conversation, engage in ceremony, to listen for subterranean soul stirrings (both ours and those of the Earth), and be in holy, wild imagination-stirring conversations that will help us fall deeper and deeper in love with the world.
We’re welcoming anyone who’s interested in this kind of conversation and community to join us for the rest of this year.
All circles are free.
To kick this off, we are hosting a Full Moon Gathering on Sunday, Oct 25, 5-6:30 pm PT.
After this, we will gather four more times in the next three months: two councils, one deepening experience, and a Winter Solstice Ceremony at years’ end.
This is an opportunity to be in community and ceremony with others who care deeply for the earth.
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Gathering Dates:
Full Moon 'Hunter’s Moon’ Gathering
Sunday October 25
5pm -6:30pm PST
The Wellspring: All Saints Day/Samhain
Sunday, November 1
5pm -6:30pm PST
Community Council:
Tuesday November 17
Tuesday December 8
5pm -6:30pm PST
Solstice Ceremony:
Monday December 21st
5pm -6:30pm PST
If there’s enough interest, we hope to keep meeting into 2027. We’re dreaming and listening for how this conversation wants to move, and what it wants to become.
One particular dream we have is to provide a place where people can drop into a ceremonial space together on a regular basis, particularly around the solstices and equinoxes, and ideally gather in the summer for an in-person retreat on the land.
Some other delicious things we have in mind are dreamwork experiences, deep imagination journeys, council, discussions on wild longings, becoming good food for the world (ie, sacred elderhood), muse art, sacred rage, and more.
Again, there is no cost for these gatherings right now except for your time, presence, and attention.
If you want to be at one or more of these gatherings, just let me know, and I’ll send you the details.
Love,
Gage