You are cordially invited to a Samhain Feast here at the herb shop! Join us for a community potluck to celebrate this seasonal marker - please bring a dish to pass if you can. Itinerary will be as follows:
1pm: A 60 minute presentation by the ever-amazing Jen Davis on The Sacred Hunt:
"The Sacred Hunt will delve into the connection between the human animal and the rest of the natural life-death-life cycle. We are all inescapably linked to the food web. As omnivores, humans have an abundance of choices about how we connect to that natural web. The choice to connect directly as an omnivorous meso-predator opens the door to a sacred practice of balancing ethics and survival, of facing death and reconciliation with its place in the food web. As animals our life-sustaining practice has within it a cost of the life of another being, animal, vegetable, or both. The hunter's mindset is a sacred right of humankind, that can be accessed through an openness to the Gaian mind. To serve us best it must be nurtured, understood, and cultivated carefully."
2-4pm: Dress up in your Samhain's finest and bring your favorite fall food dishes! We will have hot tea ready and a ritual craft station for diy smoke wands, an ancestor altar you are welcome to bring items for (to leave or take home after), plus a wind phone station will be set up by willow casket weaver Michael Marie of Hickory Nut Farmstead. A wind phone is a disconnected phone that you can symbolically speak to the dead through, to help in times of grieving and healing.
And don't forget to stick around for an after-party event!
From 4-6pm: Michigan native, author Rob Weldon, returns just in time for Samhain, following the release of his latest book, *The Soul Phone Collector*. Join him and his guest Omniscians for an afternoon of readings from the new novel, along with spiritual journeys through tarot with Madame Brute, a short lesson on ecstatic dance led by Deborah Stone and a sure-to-raise-the-hairs-on-the-back-of-your-neck short story by horror author, Dylan Dunbar. Horror D’oeuvres and beverages provided. More information can be found here.
Attendance for both events is free but there will be a small fee for tarot readings at the after party!