Linda's List of Pagan Festivals

Linda's List of Pagan Festivals

Compiled by Linda Kerr

PLEASE NOTE: This listing is only for Pagan festivals! All festivals listed here must be Pagan/Wiccan/Asatru in nature; not herbal workshops, not psychic fairs, not Renaissance Faires, not pirate fests, not camping parties, etc.

I primarily list Pagan festivals happening in the Southeast, but you can list your festival here, regardless of where it is. email the information to Linda Kerr! (Please put List of Festivals in the comments section.)


Updated: 7-26-23

2024 Festivals
2023 Festivals
2022 Festivals

Southern Pagan Events on Facebook

Groups/sites that have regular festivals:
Roxanna, site near Auburn, AL
Four Quarters Farm, site in Artemas, PA
Earth Spirit, organization in Williamsburg, MA
Brushwood, site in Sherman, NY
Midian Festivals & Events, a site in Springville, IN

2024 Festivals

CONVOCATION

February 22-25, 2024
Dearborn/Detroit Doubletree by Hilton, Detroit, MI
ConVocation is a convention of the many mystical spiritual paths and faiths and the people that follow them who desire to teach each other and promote fellowship among all esoteric traditions. Since 1995, this 4-day event has brought together over 100 classes and rituals presented by local instructors, internationally renowned guest speakers and authors. Along with workshops, ConVocation offers over 35 tables of merchandise in our Merchant Room, an Art Show and the largest indoor Drum Circle in the Midwest.


PAGANICON MIDWEST CONFERENCE

March 15-17, 2024
Hosted by Twin Cities Pagan Pride
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West Plymouth, 3131 Campus Drive, Plymouth, MN
The 9th annual Paganicon is a Pagan conference with workshops, panels, discussions, social space, live music, a ball, vendors and more. In its ninth year, Paganicon is organized by Twin Cities Pagan Pride and a host of volunteers to provide an educational and social venue for Pagans, Wiccans, Heathens, Druids, and other folk, craft, indigenous or magickal traditions. Discover programming items that challenge you to think in new ways, make new connections, and renew or inspire your religious and spiritual life. Come and get your mystic on! (We also add in some great food, lots of chances to hang out and talk, an art show, and much more.) More information about our Guests and the event can be found at our web site.


SPRING MYSTERIES FESTIVAL

March 28-31, 2024
Fort Flagler State Park, Nordland, WA
The festival is always the Thursday through Sunday over Easter Weekend. Spring Mysteries Festival is the longest running recreation of the Eleusinian Mysteries in the modern world. For millennia before Christ, and for hundreds of years after his worship, the Cult of Demeter facilitated histories longest running pilgrimage. The Aquarian Tabernacle Church has devoted a lifetime of scholarly work and production into bringing these mysteries into today.


TRILLIUM SPRING GATHERING

April 18-21, 2024
Organized by Grove of the Seven Hills, ADF
Thor's Hollow Retreat, 2058 Morgan Frederick Grade, Cross Junction, VA

Come out and enjoy Spring together in the beautiful Virginia Highlands with us! Over the past 15 years Trillium has offered outstanding workshops, becoming a favorite way to shake off the Winter blahs and welcome the renewing Earth in Western Virginia. We bring together some of ADF's most dynamic folks for 4 days of games, workshops, ritual, dancing and the celebration of our abiding fellowship. This year we'll focus on magic in workshop and ritual, test our mettle in the ever-popular Circle Challenge and compete in the festival-wide Cattle Raid of the Outsiders! All paths are welcome at Trillium! Contact: registration@trilliumgatheringadf.org. Facebook group.


BROTHERHOOD BY THE BOG

April 19-21, 2024
(Virtual) First Landing State Park, Virginia Beach, VA
Presented by Hampton Roads Pagan Men and the TSC Mens' Group
9 am- 10 pm daily

Brotherhood by the Bog is an annual men's spiritual and bonding experience. The focus is primarily Pagan though all respectful seekers are welcome. We welcome men of all sexual orientations and backgrounds. This year's theme is "Brotherhood Across the Boundaries: Valuing Our Diverse Tribes." This event is open to all respectful seekers regardless of age, race, creed, path, sexual orientation, disability, political or religious affiliation.


BELTANE FLORIDA PAGAN GATHERING

April ??, 2024
Camp Kiwanis, Silver Springs, FL
Join us at the Florida Pagan Gathering for 5 days of Pagan community spirit. Held twice a year at Beltaine and Samhain, the Florida Pagan Gathering is a place of spirituality, imagination, growth, learning, rambunctious good times, artistic revelry, perfect love and perfect trust where pagans, young and old, new and current, solitaries, covens, eclectic and traditional can enjoy a community free from the mundane worries of modern society.


THE BELTANE

May 1-5, 2024
Turtle Hills Events, Inc.
Ramblewood Retreat Center, Darlington, MD
Renew, Rekindle and Restore your Passion! Beltane invites you to bring your open heart and a spirit for new adventures with you to Ramblewood Retreat Center in Darlington, MD. There, you'll find a community of like-minded people who are excited about sharing passionate endeavors with each other.
Each year pagans, polyamorists, swingers, tantra practitioners, members of the leather community and other people with a passionate attitude towards life gather together in Northern Maryland to celebrate Beltane with a variety of rituals, workshops and experiences. We embrace life and each other in an open environment full of excitement and joy. We invite you to become part of that community.


SPIRIT OF THE MARSH - BELTANE CAMP AND GATHERING

May ??, 2024
Presented by Spirit of the Marsh
Arklow House Farm, Rotten Row, Theddlethorpe, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England

Three days camping in the beautiful countryside of Lincolnshire, a family gathering united in keeping ancient and spiritual traditions alive. This event is packed with excellent talks, workshops, music, meditations, Pagan and spiritual ceremonies, lots to keep the children entertained, and, of course, the Beltane fire. The limited ticket price includes camping, access to talks, workshops, meditations, music & various forms of entertainment provided. For more info about the Gathering, and to pay via. paypal, please see our website or join our facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/spiritofthemarsh.


MOONDANCE 2023

May 23-27, 2024 (Memorial Day Weekend, Thursday-Monday)
Roxanna, Auburn, AL

CAPPED AT 85! Moondance celebrates the dance of the seasons, and will include classes, workshops, a pot-luck feast, a group ritual, and drum circles.
The festival is at a primitive camping site; i.e., plenty of camping space, hot showers, a pavilion, but no cabins. There are hotels within 30 miles. Pets allowed ($35 fee), clothing optional.
IMPORTANT: Moondance is LGBTQ-friendly. We do not tolerate implicit, implied, verbal, emotional, or physical violence towards our LGBTQ friends.


CHRYSALIS MOON

June 6-12, 2024
Chrysalis Moon on Facebook
Sponsored by Pagan Educational Network Inc.
Rising Sun Camp Ground near Knox, IN

Six full days of Pagan activites! The best pagan mini-fest in the Midwest, offering an eclectic mix of rituals, workshops, drumming and concerts. Join us as we create a magickal family atmosphere for spiritual growth and relaxation. We welcome all faiths including Asatru, Native American, Druidism, Faeri, Paganism, Wicca, Ceremonialism, and all other natural spiritualities. The site offers tent, pop-up, or trailer camping. Electric and water are available. This is a pre-register event only! Also, we are not allowing pets and/or familiars. Event begins on Wednesday at noon. Register before June 1st for discount rates. Join our Yahoo group ChrysalisMoon1 for information and registration forms, or you can email us at chrysalismoon1@yahoo.com for more info.


ST. LOUIS PAGAN PICNIC

June 1-2, 2024
Tower Grove Park, Grand & Magnolia, St. Louis, MO
10 am- 5 pm daily

Join us for the 24th Annual Pagan Picnic. This year's theme is "Community Connections" Saturday's events are from 10:00 to 7:00; Sunday's events are from 10:00 to 5:00. As always, we are located in beautiful Tower Grove park. This don't-miss-it event features more than 50 vendors, a dozen performing groups from belly dancers to bands and solo singers, workshops for adults and children, and rituals. This is the biggest event of its kind in the United States, and it's all free and open to the public! Come join us for a day of music, conversation, and renewal.


SUNFEST

June 20-23, 2024
Ffynnon, Portland, OR
A four day camping festival celebrating the Summer Solstice. You are invited to join us for rituals, workshops, Sacred Fire in the Dionysus Grove, children's activities, a raffle:, a Tantric Temple, a potluck dinner on Saturday evening, a potlatch gift exchange, dancing and drumming around the main fire, hiking on the numerous and beautiful trails around the site, and a Sunday brunch.
Facebook event page.


CALIFORNIA WITCHCAMP

June 23-30, 2024
Mendocino Woodlands, Northern CA

This is an extraordinary event for extraordinary people. Share in a week of Reclaiming style, earth based spirituality and magic. Come and study magic and ritual in a week long Intensive. Witchcamp is offered to all genders at all levels of experience. Newcomers can learn the basic skills of magic and ritual, working with the elements, movement, sound and the mythological and historical framework of the Goddess Tradition. Advanced classes offer the chance to apply the tools of ritual to personal healing and empowerment, or a focus on taking the Craft out into the world, creating public ritual, ongoing groups, and healing issues surrounding leadership and power. This event is a deeply moving, life changing week and also a constant experiment in temporary village life. We will also look at ways of bringing this work and inspiration into our everyday lives. Creating powerful, joyful times. This intensive is not a festival. It will expand your unconscious awareness, push your edges and likely change your life. The intensive is sequestered for the entire 7 days. Please plan to attend the entire week. Also, we don't allow children due to the intensity of the week.


WHERE WOMYN GATHER

June ??, 2024
Northeast Pennsylvania

Join us for a new journey among familiar traditions this year. We will continue to honor the Triple Goddess with many paths toward experiencing a deeper dimension of yourself. The SacredFire, Lakota Inipi SweatLodge and Red Tent await you. You are invited to participate in enthralling rituals, experiential workshops, drumming and singing circles. There is Gyrlspace for the young and a marketplace for all to enjoy the creations of craftswomyn.


STARWOOD FESTIVAL

July 9-15, 2024
Wisteria, in Pomeroy, OH
Starwood is a HUGE festival which has been running for over 35 years. Starwood Festival is a celebration of diversity and alternative belief systems. A six-day, five night clothing-optional camping event with over 150 workshops, lectures and performances covering many fields,disciplines and cultures. A family-friendly event with co-op child care, a Kid Village, concerts, parades, merchants, bonfires, drumming, dancing, jamming and parties.


THREE GATES GATHERING

August 30-Sept 1, 2024
West Plains, MO

Three Gates Gathering ~ A Mystery School. Purpose: To provide information on particular topics through the free exchange of ideas in a discussion format; To provide an atmosphere of love, acceptance, and tolerance; To support the spiritual practices of all groups that follow the mandate to Preserve the Craft and/or Be At One with the Earth. With Special Musical Guests.


SAMHAIN FLORIDA PAGAN GATHERING

October 23-27, 2024
Retreats by the Lake, 2819 Tiger Lake Rd., Lake Wales, FL 33898
Honoring Our Ancestors: Welcome to the Forest! Set up camp, commune with nature, relax, visit the vendors, attend workshops, and evening events.


2023 Festivals

A FEAST OF LIGHTS

February 3-5, 2023
Sturbridge Host Hotel & Conference Center, 366 Main St, Sturbridge, MA
Organized by EarthSpirit Community

A Feast of Lights is a festival of community, hope, Earth spirituality, and the arts taking place at the ancient Celtic midwinter festival of Imbolg. It brings together a wide range of teachers, performers and artists who join with all of the gathering's participants to create a celebratory, stimulating and fun weekend to kindle the fire within during the dark of winter.


PHOENIX PHYRE - A GATHERING OF PAGANS

March 15-19, 2023
Solomon Springs, Bell, FL
Eventbrite
A Pagan gathering in Central Florida. Located on I-4 midway between Tampa & Orlando. The friendliest Pagan gathering in Florida! Phoenix Phyre is located on a working ranch in Lakeland, FL, and is celebrating 20 years of festivals this year. The gathering is in open pasture land that is covered by centuries old live oaks that are full of life energy and give the land a euphoric feeling of happiness. We are very close to shopping, restaurants, and lodging, if you prefer not to camp. The main purpose of Phoenix Festivals is to build community. We try to get to know everyone that attends and make them feel that they are a part of our Phamily. We do this through community rituals, community meals, nightly drumming and dancing around the ritual fire, and other shenanigans promoting a feeling of closeness, unity, spirituality, and just plain fun away from the mundane. As with other festivals, there will be workshops, games, rituals, and drumming and dancing into the night. There will be merchants and an auction of unique items made by our own craftsmen that are unavailable anywhere else. Also, we have nightly fire spinning and are offering fire spinning workshops for those who want to give it a try. Phoenix Festivals, Inc., and the entire Phoenix Phamily would like be bid you "Hail and Welcome." Phoenix Phyre is our spring event. Autumn Meet is our fall event. You will be welcomed into the loving arms of your fellow pagans, let your hair down and be comfortable with the people who think like you. Phoenix Festivals is a not for profit corporation owned and operated by the community it serves. WRCF - Wiccan Religious Cooperative of Central Florida sponsors Phoenix Festivals.


PAGANFAIRE

March 18, 2023
Oaks Park Dance Pavilion, Portland, OR
Facebook group

SisterSpirit is a non-profit, women's spirituality circle, in Portland Oregon. We started in 1985. We are primarily Pagan/Wiccan, etc. This year the theme for SisterSpirit's Spring ritual is, "We and They are One: Dancing with Power Animals!" Come and enjoy the opening season of Oaks Park, bring your family and friends, enjoy the food stands at the park, or bring a picnic to share with your friends. Come to the fair and enjoy our talent stage, and workshops, along with seeing your favorite vendors and contributing to our alternative economy. Raffle for "Michelle's Heart," are emergency fund for women. $5 donation for adults and children un 12 are free.


BETWEEN THE WORLDS - SACRED SPACE

April 6-9, 2023
Delta Hunt Valley Hotel, Hunt Valley, MD
The Sacred Space Conference is and annual event organized by the Sacred Space Foundation. The Between The Worlds Conference is held every several years when the stars indicate that such a gathering is needed and favored. BTW is organized by the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel.


BELTAINIA

April 20-23, 2023
All World Acres, Tampa, FL
This gathering is always a favorite at AWA with plenty to offer for the entire family. The schedule of activities for this 4 day event will include several intriguing workshops presented by the many knowledgeable teachers of our community. Entertainment includes a Tom Carroll concert and an amazing Hula dance show. Other activities will include a sweat lodge, bardic circle, trade blanket, and rituals. The Body Goddess, an AWA favorite, returns featuring sacred body painting. Of course each night there will be drumming and dancing around the main fire. There will be several vendors on site for shopping.


BELTAINE

April 27-May 1, 2023
Our Haven, French Lick, IN
Welcome Home! Join us as we celebrate the coming of the rich, fertile earth, the health of earth, animals and everything around. Join us as we reconnect with old friends and build new ones. This is a time that we put the past behind us and start anew!! Join the new breath and spirit at Our Haven! Have you ever been to Our Haven for our Beltaine Spring Gathering? If you answer no, you are missing a great time with friends, family and best of all an outstanding community. If you have you know why you need to be here. Join us for the best event of the year. We look forward to seeing all of you back home at Our Haven. Children 13-17 are HALF the adult rate and as always children 12 and under are FREE with their parent or legal guardian. All Our Haven sponsored events are clothing optional after 10pm unless otherwise posted. Nestled in the beautiful rolling hills of southern Indiana's countryside is Our Haven, an 175 acre nature sanctuary of beautiful deciduous forests and reclaimed fields for all who wish to come enjoy its clear creeks, natural springs, and secluded areas. Our Haven has both private large areas as well as intimate small areas available for you and your group's or event's use.


FERTILE GROUND GATHERING

April 27-30, 2023
Prince William Forest Park, Triangle, VA
Fertile Ground Gathering is a Beltane festival created to bring together the Pagan community; helping to build and strengthen the bonds among those who walk the Earth Paths in the greater Washington DC area and beyond. Fertile Ground is family-inclusive and offers fantastic workshops and services, empowering rituals, spectacular entertainment, drum circles and dancing around nightly bonfires, cabin camping, fantastic meals, some very special guests and of course, dancing around the maypole!


WYLD FIRE BELTANE HUNT

April 28-30, 2023
Gryphon's Nest Campground, Springfield, LA

The Wyld Fire Beltane Hunt is a night-time ritual and party dedicated to celebrating Beltane (the Celtic fire festival of sex, fertility, and new life). A Roving group of predators will be assembled to hunt numerous prey in woods and meadows, until the May Queen is found. The predator who catches her will be crowned May King! Her capture will start our sacred bonfire ritual, and we will celebrate the union of the May King and Queen all night pool-side with drinks and hors-d'oeuvres. Overnight camping is included in admission, and the party ends at 10am the next day. Campsite is clothing-optional.
This event is hosted by New Orleans Lamplight Circle, and is a yearly fundraiser held for the Greater New Orleans Pagan Pride Day. Our group is a social, educational, and activism forum serving the community for over 8 years. We create events that celebrate Earth-centered spirituality and bring Pagans together. Please visit www.meetup.com/lamplight to learn more about us. Visit www.gnoppd.org to learn more and help support the cause!


BELTAINE AT FOUR QUARTERS

May 5-7, 2023
Four Quarters Farm, Artemas, PA
A weekend celebrating the folk traditions of Spring. Real People, Real Traditions, Real Community. Workshops on singing, crafting, Earth Spirituality, Ecology & Sustainability. Sweat Lodge with Buffalo Heart by the river and Saturday afternoon we help the Lord & Lady of Spring raise and dance the May Pole to bless the land with fertility, life and love. Beltaine is about Spring, It's about family. It's for babies and children, maids and gallants. Our aunts, uncles, mothers and fathers. Elders and Ancestors. Our joyous journey through the Wheel of the Year...and the Web of Life. Join us for our annual homecoming and celebration of the Delights of Spring. It's Beltaine at Four Quarters! A weekend of renewal!


ELF FEST

May 24-29, 2023
Lothlorien Nature Sanctuary, Bedford/Needmore, IN
Community fertile earth folklife festival open to everyone. Includes musical and theatrical performances, primitive camping, fellowship, seasonal rites and ceremonies, semi-annual Grand Council-with VP election results, kids' activities, workshops and discussion circles, all-night drumming and dancing, etc. Visit us on-line for complete and updated details. Proceeds benefit Lothlorien Nature Sanctuary and Elvin HOME, Inc. Also available: vending sites for browsing and shopping, food for a nominal fee from the cafe in the Radiance Hall and other possible dining options, hot showers, a dish washing station, drinkable water, fire wood for use at community fire pits.


RITES OF SPRING

May 24-29, 2023
Western MA
Organized by EarthSpirit Community

The EarthSpirit Community and Tamelin Productions invite you to join us for the annual Rites of Spring -- a gathering open to all who celebrate the sacred nature of the Earth. Each May since 1979, around Memorial Day our community re-emerges as 500 participants from all over the United States and abroad come together to live and learn, work and play in a setting apart from our everyday lives.


WELLSPRING GATHERING

May 25-29, 2023
Organized by StoneCreed Grove, ADF
Tredara, Bennett Rd, Madison, OH
Wellspring Gathering is an international A.D.F. event put on by Stone Creed Grove, A.D.F. for the entire community to come together in frith with friends, family and folk. It is also the site of the Annual ADF Meeting. This will be our Grand Symbel year, so bring your grove/group banners to display proudly as we install the new Archdruid along with other new Mother Grove members. As we have done in the past there will be Bardic, Brewers, Artisans & Warriors competitions, as well as a community shrine, classes and rituals throughout the weekend. Also included will be co-op childcare and children's classes.


HEARTLAND PAGAN FESTIVAL

May 25-29, 2023
Camp Gaea, McLouth, KS
Sponsored by Heartland Spiritual Alliance
Over 27 years ago, a small group of visionary pagans deliberated, planned and brought forth the first pagan festival to be held in the Kansas City area, and it has grown to become one of the largest pagan festivals in the entire country. Owned and cared for by Earth Rising, Incorporated, Gaea's 368 quiet acres hold some 1,000 to 1,300 pagans each memorial weekend. Beginning with Opening Ritual on Thursday evening and continuing through the Memorial Day closing ritual, Heartland Pagan Festival offers well-known pagan authors and performers on an up-close and personal basis to curious and interested seekers of education and entertainment. Heartland Pagan Festival always strives to offer something of interest for everyone. But Heartland is about much more than entertainment and getting your books autographed. Each year, in addition to our featured guests' presentations, our attendees offer an amazing range of workshops and rituals designed to educate, enlighten and encourage understanding and acceptance of other paths and beliefs.


PAGAN UNITY FESTIVAL (PUF)

June 1-4, 2023
Montgomery Bell State Park, Burns, TN
A three day family friendly event in the beautiful Tennessee hills with workshops, rituals, shopping and great food! We offer children and teen activities. There is some cabin space available and plenty of tent camping.


UNTAMED

June 1-4, 2023
Parrish Ranch, Berthoud, CO

The purpose of Untamed is to bring together and celebrate the diverse Pagan Faith Community with music, ritual, and workshops. There will be all-night drumming and dancing around a large fire pit on the banks of the Little Thompson River, as well as kids' activities every day and live music all afternoon on Saturday.


ISHTARFEST

June 2-4, 2023
Central New Jersey

A weekend-long Sumerian Renaissance Faire! Throw off the cares of the modern world and immerse yourself in Babylonian culture and worship for the weekend with us! Join Hands of Change Coven in Central NJ for a weekend full of workshops, classes, a full moon ritual, drum circles, kids' activities, vendors and more! This festival is in honor of Ishtar (also known as Inanna and Astarte) which introduces you to the Babylonian pantheon, helps you learn a little about our Pagan roots in the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia and fills you with festivity and delight. Come in costume and get a free crescent roll!


BABALON RISING PAN-THELEMIC FESTIVAL

June 9-11, 2023
Camp Midian, Springville, IN
Theme: Gimel/Priestess; Ages 21+ ONLY!The Babalon Rising Festival is a place for occultists of all kinds to come together to discuss and perform magick and ritual, and to live the law of Thelema in a clothing-optional, primitive camping environment. Babalon Rising encourages self-exploration, spontaneous ritual, and lively magick.


PANGAIA FESTIVAL

June 17-18, 2023
VFW Grounds, Fair Oaks, CA
A delightful events of vendors, performers, and presenters distilled down from the best of the best of magical festivals over the past fifteen years, PanGaia Festival invites you to be a part of its fun and light-hearted festivities. Key staff members from festivals of the past came together to form the North Western Circles Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to hosting high quality magical events and raising funds for local charities.
PanGaia Festival is about the fostering of loving and joyful relationship in the magical community and working together to learn create a blessed and fun-filled event for those who wish to celebrate Litha, the Summer Solstice.
This event will include contests, raffles, a children's area, awesome food vendors, live music, authors, fabulous performers imagine a Pagan County Fair atmosphere. After the sun goes down, the energy shifts into more adult-oriented entertainment with PanGaia After Dark.


MIDSUMMER GATHER

June 18-25, 2023
Eagle Cave Resort, Blue River, WI
The Earth House Midsummer Gathering is where you can have fun with others who share Earth-reverent beliefs. This will be a week of celebration and of sharing, of learning and of honoring one another’s unique rituals and talents. Meet new people, learn new ways, and… Play like Pagans!


WISTERIA APPALACHIAN SUMMER SOLSTICE GATHERING

June 21-25, 2023
Presented by Wisteria Event Site
Wisteria Event Site, near Athens, OH
Manifesting a week-long magical village celebrating eco-spiritual culture. Community-driven activities blended with performance and ceremony create rich opportunity for personal development and group transformation. Two stages for music and performance, bonfire drumming and dancing, workshops, rites of passage, merchanting, fire-spinning, bliss, family-friendly.


PAGAN SPIRIT GATHERING

June 18-25, 2023
Sponsored by: Circle Sanctuary
Pulaski Count/Ft. Leaonard Wood Shrine Camp, near Waynesville, MO
One of the oldest and largest of the Pagan festivals, held annually since 1981, is a special week long festival that celebrates the Summer Solstice, Pagan culture, and the spiritual dimensions of Nature. PSG brings Pagans from many paths and from places across the country together to share ideas, knowledge, energy, music, rituals, friendship, and celebration with each other. Participants live cooperatively for the week within a totally Pagan community. PSG has more than 150 scheduled activities each year, including rituals, workshops, concerts, and networking meetings. Rituals will be led by a variety of facilitators in different traditions, including Summer Solstice Rituals, a Magical Gift Circle, a Candlelight Labyrinth of 1000 candles, Drum Circles, Sweatlodge ceremonies, Rites of Passage, plus Women's and Men's Rituals. Evening concerts will be performed by various nationally known Pagan artists, including Coyote Run, The One Hat Band, Spiral Rhythm, Green Grown, and Michelle the violinist extraordinare. Workshops are given daily on a wide range of Pagan topics. Previous subjects have included Wiccan Ways, Goddess Spirituality, Celtic Studies, Creative Arts, Healing, Shamanism, Chanting, Dancing, Drumming Techniques, and various Networking meetings. Special programming will include a Leadership Institute for Pagan ministers that will include an intensive on enhancing rites of passage, training for Pagan prison ministry, working with the media, and other topics of interest to Pagan leaders. Other programming will include workshops for Pagan youth, performing arts, late night ecstatic dancing with bonfires and drumming, a Pagan marketplace, and much more. PSG has always been an opportunity for spiritual renewal, networking, education, and cultural enrichment. Join us as together we create a Pagan Town and immerse ourselves in Pagan community for the week.
Contact Circle to receive the PSG Brochure, which has complete details and a registration form, or see our website. Discounts are available for early registration, and final registration closes in late May/early June. Contact: PSG, Circle Sanctuary, PO Box 9, Barneveld, WI 53507 USA; (608) 924-2216; psg@circlesanctuary.org.


FEAST OF THE HORNED GOD

June 23-25, 2023
Camp Midian, Springville, IN
Horn & Honey on Facebook
Horn & Honey on Instagram
Want to experience your first festival? Been a while and you miss them? Come join the fun! Dance or grab your drums! This is how community is spun! New friends more than welcome! Come enjoy fire, Gods, and Goddesses! Make old friends, learn new things, share old wisdom, find new family!
Horn & Honey is a place to learn, explore and share being followers of dieties of masculine and feminine power and manifestation. A place for sharing knowledges gained and experiences shared in service and exploration of Gods and Goddesses that have horns and bear fruit. A gathering of Earth worshipers, folowers of Shamanic paths and devotees of the powers manifested in the duality of feminine and masculine archetypes.
Horn and Honey is a place to celebrate new life both in the ground and in human and animal wombs. Revel in the apex of the Sun's peak of power, when the world is bathed in light for the longest of the year. Walk through the trees and dance round the fire to celebrate plowed fields and bounty awaiting.
Come join us as we look inward and outward to explore ourselves and the world around us and dance, drum and sing in praise of Gods and Goddesses.


SPIRITFIRE FESTIVAL

July 5-8, 2023
New Lebanon, NY
SpiritFire Festival is a five day (Wednesday Sunday) retreat-style gathering held in New Lebanon, NY. We celebrate life and spirit through the pathways of music, movement, voice, Seva (or service), and the Mysteries, focused in the medium of the sacred all-night fire circle.
During the day, you can explore many types of artistic, expressive, and spiritual practices via workshops, affinity groups, jams, or just hanging out with new friends in the community/merchant circle. When the sun goes down, fire-spinners light up the night to the sounds of amazing drumming, poetry jams flow, chants are shared, and people rest or socialize while preparing for intentional fire-lighting ceremonies that begin an all-night celebration of the sacred in each of us.
SpiritFire provides a nourishing and inspirational environment in which drummers, dancers, chanters, poets, visual artists, and seekers of all types can both honor individual diversity yet share a common and powerful bond at the fire. Each night we acknowledge our connections in the spirit of joyous celebration, deep listening, infectious groove, and ecstatic trance!


SANKOFA FESTIVAL

July 13-16, 2023
Brushwood, Sherman, NY
Brushwood's Sankofa Festival returns to Brushwood's roots and continues to promote an open, accepting and safe environment that allows participants the freedom to have fun and celebrate the creative spirit. The festival takes place the week BEFORE Sirius Rising. The focus has been on community and frivolity, while embracing different learning paths from specialized tutors. Sirius Rising focuses on ritual and elemental aspects whereas this festival has more focus on the following three things: 1. Having fun and being creative 2. Learning different pathways 3. Sharing within our community. So whether you are interested in more focused workshop experience or simply relaxing and having fun, come and enjoy a great time with the Brushwood community. There are over 100 workshops and performances.


MYSTIC SOUTH

July 14-16, 2023
Doubletree by Hilton Atlanta Perimeter Dunwoody, Atlanta, GA

In Spring, 2016, a few of us Southern Pagans were gathered at a local festival discussing the various magical conferences and festival goings-on. Which part of the world would we be traveling to next? During that discussion, it became very clear that we all wished for a Southern-based conference – one that was not only easier to attend but also had a Southern flair and spoke of the mystic spirit of our own part of the country. Since there is no such event to meet that need, we decided to create it. From Florida to Virginia, South Carolina to Texas, From the cities of New Orleans, Charleston, Atlanta, Asheville. and beyond. From the Appalachian Mountains and the Shenandoah Valley, From the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Ocean, to the low country and plains.


SIRIUS RISING

July 17-23, 2023
Brushwood, Sherman, NY
Come participate in Brushwood's Sirius Rising festival and enjoy the opportunity to participate in creative expression and personal growth. Sirius Rising is an eclectic week-long festival that nurtures creative and spiritual potential by bringing together, involving and teaching the community. The experience encourages participation in the universal creation process, opening participants to the unique relationship between the Land, the community and the festival at Brushwood. If you are interested in participating in workshops, drumming and dancing around the fire, or simply relaxing with friends or family in the great outdoors, Sirius Rising is the place for you. Sirius Rising features over 100 workshops and hands-on activities, participation encouraged: Mind-body-spirit, arts, dance, Chi Kung, fire dancing/spinning, drumming, sacred fires, kids and teen programs. Performances all week! There's entertainment every evening on the main pavilion stage. Drum and dance all night around the Sirius Rising bonfire.


CIRCLE'S GREEN SPIRIT FESTIVAL

July 28-30, 2023
Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve, near Barneveld, WI
Lammas represents a time for honoring what you have planted and now begin to harvest. What have you planted this year? What can be birthed coming out of the pandemic in our personal lives and in our communities? What are you seeing come to fruition? What can you still plant so you can harvest it later in the year? How can we tend, water, and nourish our work with friends, family, community, clients and co-workers? Let's come together to celebrate what we have harvested!


FREE SPIRIT GATHERING

August 1-6, 2023
Camp Ramblewood, Darlington, MD
A sacred, family-friendly midsummer festival. Classes and workshops for everybody, for kids, for teens, and for adults, rituals, sweats, concerts and performances, merchants, and drumming and dancing by the lakeside fire circle. There are full kids' and teens' programming tracks, in addition to robust offerings for adults. Learn to spin fire! Reconnect to your sacred self in ritual! Drum and dance the night away! This festival is put on by the community, for the community. Pricing options range from full week to weekend to day pass, and you have your choice of shared cabin camping or private tenting on the beautiful grounds of Camp Ramblewood. Don't miss it!! Get up-to-date news on the festival via the FSA Facebook group or the FSA twitter feed.


DRAGONFEST

August 2-6, 2023
Colorado
Dragonfest is a large, regional, neopagan spiritual retreat held in the mountains of Colorado each August. People of all religions and spiritual traditions are welcome at Dragonfest, but workshops and rituals focus on various Neopagan, Wiccan, and other Earth-based spiritual practices. Dragonfest of Colorado, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation registered in the state of Colorado whose mission includes bringing the retreat to fruition.


CWPN'S HARVEST GATHERING

August 17-20, 2023
Camp Cedarcrest, 886 Mapledale Rd, Orange, CT
Harvest Gathering is a unique and magical festival that balances a strong focus on spiritual education with a fun, unplugged, and relaxed atmosphere. Enjoy a mythical adventure through workshops, classes, rituals, and entertainment. Pack your wings and be transported to the Light and Dark Faery Courts in the evenings and dine with Fae Royalty. Dance and frolic with satyrs, dryads, and goblins! Shop for magically crafted goodies from our many vendors, adorn your skin with mystical henna designs, get an insightful reading, or ease your mind and body after a long day of classes with a massage or reflexology session. Camp Cedarcrest offers a wonderful, close-knit community atmosphere that encourages a village-like setting. There are cabins and plenty of space for tenting. Look around to find some amazing spiritual spots for ritual, meditation, and hidden natural treasures. Activities: Evening fire circles, drumming and dancing, daily rituals, day and evening entertainment, rave in the light of the Faery Seelie Court, get primal around the fire of the Faery UnSeelie Court, awesome vendors, unique raffle items, henna tattoos and body art, massage and reflexology therapists, classes and workshops from world-renounced authors and community leaders: Ronald Hutton, Stephanie Taylor, Raven Grimassi, Courtney Weber, Stephanie Woodfield, Patricia Lafayllve, Bernadette Montana, Morgan Daimler, Jessica Hunter, Robert Wandell, Lisa Tonner, Cori Burke.


STONES RISING

August 30-Sept 4, 2022
Four Quarters Farm, Artemas, PA
A six-day ceremonial intensive that culminates with a tribe of a people, a community, raising two Standing Stones, using ropes, rollers and a lot of hard work. Join us for a Celtic inspired complex of service, ceremony, and celebration. Every hand is needed, every task important, every breath a blessing on the Great Work for our great grandchildren, Seven Generations down the line.


SACRED HARVEST FESTIVAL

August 7-13, 2023
Atchingtan in Finlayson, MN
Wholly unique and unlike any other large-scale public pagan event, Sacred Harvest Festival is a overwhelmingly friendly and family-oriented Pagan gathering hosted by Harmony Tribe, a magic tribal community celebration of earth-based nature spirituality. We are THE family-based tribal gathering of pagans in the Midwest!
Our festival held in an amazing, majestic grove of tall oaks overlooking a lake. All who embrace Nature Spirituality, Shamanism, Wicca or Pagan earth-based beliefs are welcomed to come and celebrate. This gathering includes workshops, rituals, drum circles, dancing, merchants, activities for teens and children. We will inspire and take you on a journey to find happiness and magick, and as always, add many surprises along the way!
Join us to honor the Earth, the Harvest and the blessings of the Sky, while enjoying the benefits of a tribal community. We have built Sacred Harvest Festival around that spirit you take home with you, and the bounty will grow this year!


WILD MAGICK GATHERING

September 14-17, 2023
Lothlorien Nature Sanctuary, Bedford/Needmore, IN
Wild Magick is one of Lothlorien's largest festivals, celebrating the Fall Equinox and the harvest from the summer. Vendors set up their tents to sell clothes, artwork, books, snacks and ritual paraphernalia, there are workshops ranging from drumming to herb gathering. For this fest the Long hall will be closed and not serving food. In the evening there are musical performances, and of course drumming and dancing in the Thunder Dome. This is a time to gather in the fruits of the year's work and also to gather and celebrate with each other before winter sets in.


AUBURN PAGAN PRIDE DAY

September 9, 2023
Cosmic ConneXion, Auburn, AL
Sponsored by Cosmic Connexion/Da Gallery of Auburn, AL
Vendors welcome! Please see our website for information on signing up as a vendor, or volunteering to lead a class or provide entertainment.


JACKSONVILLE PAGAN PRIDE DAY

September 24, 2023, 11 am - 4 pm
715 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville, FL
We welcome everyone to our annual, family friendly community event! Jacksonville Pagan Pride Day aims to help those of Pagan and earth-based religions foster pride in their identity as well as help the greater community better understand and accept their Pagan family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and more! We achieve this through providing accurate information about Pagan religions, aid local charities and nonprofits, support our community, and activism. Our event is rain or shine!
Join us for a fun day of educational workshops, spiritual demonstrations, local artists and vendors, Pagan groups and covens, local nonprofits, children's activities, music, charity drives, and food. The event is free to attend; however, we greatly appreciate donations for our charity drives! We are collecting food donations for Waste Not Want Not Florida and pet food and supplies for First Coast No More Homeless Pets.
Event sponsors this year are Earth Gifts, Witch School International, Olympic House of Venus Hathor, and Mystic Card. For more information, please contact Local Coordinator at admin@jaxpagan.org or visit www.jaxpagan.org.
Jacksonville Pagan Pride Alliance, Inc is coordinated by the open Pagan group, Sanctuary: Realms of Spiritual Growth. We are a local chapter group of the international 501(c)3 Pagan Pride Project. Annually, there are over 120 events held by local chapters in the United States, Canada, Italy, Peru, Mexico, Chile, Columbia, Dominican Republic and Brazil.
Event is under the Fuller Warren Bridge. Parking is at the Vystar Bank parking lot and street side parking throughout Riverside.


WISTERIA AUTUMN FIRES

October 11-15, 2023
Presented by Wisteria Event Site
Wisteria Event Site, near Athens, OH
Autumn Fires: Harvest, Halloween and Hallows. Hardy campers celebrate seasonal color with concert, feasting, workshops, Ancestor's Shrine and campfires. Seasonal event featuring community-wide pottery workshop take your art home. All night pottery pit-firing with drumming and dancing. A kid's paradise with cooperative play, crafts and other seasonal activities. Family friendly. Day pass available.


AUTUMN MEET

October 11-15, 2023
Lakeland, FL
A Pagan gathering in Central Florida. Located on I-4 midway between Tampa & Orlando. The friendliest Pagan gathering in Florida! Phoenix Phyre is located on a working ranch in Lakeland, FL. The gathering is in open pasture land that is covered by centuries old live oaks that are full of life energy and give the land a euphoric feeling of happiness. We are very close to shopping, restaurants, and lodging, if you prefer not to camp. Please see our website for directions and a map. The main purpose of Phoenix Festivals is to build community. We try to get to know everyone that attends and make them feel that they are a part of our Phamily. We do this through community rituals, community meals, nightly drumming and dancing around the ritual fire, and other shenanigans promoting a feeling of closeness, unity, spirituality, and just plain fun away from the mundane. As with other festivals, there will be workshops, games, rituals, and drumming and dancing into the night. There will be merchants and an auction of unique items made by our own craftsmen that are unavailable anywhere else. Also, we have nightly fire spinning and are offering fire spinning workshops for those who want to give it a try. Phoenix Festivals, Inc., and the entire Phoenix Phamily would like be bid you "Hail and Welcome." Phoenix Phyre is our spring event. Autumn Meet is our fall event. You will be welcomed into the loving arms of your fellow pagans, let your hair down and be comfortable with the people who think like you. Our website, phoenixfestivals.com, has our registration and other information. Save some money and register today. Phoenix Festivals is a not for profit corporation owned and operated by the community it serves. WRCF - Wiccan Religious Cooperative of Central Florida sponsors Phoenix Festivals.


SAMHAIN FLORIDA PAGAN GATHERING

October 25-29, 2023
Retreats by the Lake, 2819 Tiger Lake Rd., Lake Wales, FL 33898
Honoring Our Ancestors: Welcome to the Forest! Set up camp, commune with nature, relax, visit the vendors, attend workshops, and evening events.


DAUGHTERS OF DIANA GATHERING

October 26-29, 2023
San Bernardino, CA
A gathering for Amazons, Dianic Witches, and Goddess women. Gift yourself an opportunity to unplug in nature! Feed your senses, mind, heart and soul by joining open-hearted women in a weekend filled with workshops, rituals, archery, divination, singing, dance, drumming, feminism and community-building. The event is located at a tranquil 17-acre retreat center nestled among the trees, walking trails, labyrinth, Jacuzzi, heated cabins, hot showers and prepared meals.


MYSTICAL MINDS FALL GATHERING

October 27-28, 2023
Holiday Inn Dublin/Pleasanton, 6680 Regional St, Dublin, CA

Witches, Pagans, Paranormal investigators, psychics, mediums, metaphysical practitioners, UFO experts, cryptozoologists, mystics, and other free-thinking spiritual seekers will come together in person this fall and spring for two conventions in the beautiful Bay area of Northern California!


MIDWEST WITCHES BAZAAR

October 28, 2023
Royalty House, 8201 E 13 Mile Rd, Warren, MI

Midwest Witches Bazaar: 10:00 am-4:00 pm. Our Witches' Bazaar will be FREE and open to the public. At this time we have scheduled 27 vendors and readers to be available to all. Our artists and vendors will fill the Hall of the Met with their Magickal Marketplace, a tempting bazaar of colors, smells, textures and sounds. They offer for sale the beautiful, the exotic and the magickal. Buy your witchy gifts from that unique assortment of wares that you can only find together in one place at the Witches' Ball!.
7:00 pm-1:00 am: Midwest Witches' "Steampunk" Ball: Where Magick Meets Machine. Dress to impress! 21 and over only. Come join us later for our magickal night of music, food, and dancing with Pagans, Witches, Druids, Goths, Vamps, Faerie Folk, Magickal Folk and others who defy description.


TREE OF AVALON GATHERING

November 2-5, 2023
Silver Springs, FL
We are a family friendly festival that has something for just about everyone from children's workshops and parental supervised play, teen activities, and of course plenty of workshops, concerts, and laughter for our adults of all ages. Presented by TAG.


HALLOWED HOMECOMING: A SAMHAIN RETREAT

November 2-5, 2023
Prince William Forest Park, Triangle, VA
Join us as we connect with the Ancestors, the Divine, and each other in the woods of Prince William Forest Park! We will be offering in-depth workshops, rituals, drumming, storytelling, revelry, and great food. Come help us say farewell to the end of the harvest as we welcome the dark time of the year. Hallowed Homecoming: A Samhain Retreat is a camping 3-day retreat in the cabins and woods of Prince William Forest Park in Northern Virginia. Here, we will step in to sacred space for the weekend to celebrate the end of the harvest and the new year, to connect with our ancestors, learn, and connect as a community.


ARCADIA GATHERING FOR QUEER PAGAN MEN

November 3-5, 2023
Olymous Campground & Resort, VA

The theme of our first gathering is "Discovering Arcadia: Empowering Queer Men's Spirituality." Our patron deity this year will be the Greek god, Pan. Pan was one of the primary patrons of ancient Arcadia. He is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature, rustic music, and sexuality. Pan is known for chasing both nymphs and shepherds alike.


HAWKFEST DRUM & DANCE GATHERING

November 30-Dec 3, 2023
Maddox Rance, 2505 W. Bella Vista St., Lakeland, FL
Hawkfest is a drum and dance festival put on BY drummers and dancers! Hawkest Drum and Dance puts on two festivals in Florida: Hawkfest Yule in December and Hawkfest at the end of February. Building community and preserving old school type drum and dance. Teaching playing together and making magick around a fire out in the woods the old fashioned way!! We offer workshops, fire spinning, hooping, many drum and dance related workshops, and great vendors.


2022 Festivals

PAGAN COMMUNITY RETREAT (FORMERLY PACIFIC CIRCLE REVIVAL)

April 22-24, 2022
Angeles National Forest at Bandido Group Campground, Palmdale, CA

We have rituals, workshops, drum circles, hikes and other magical things to do as we build community across traditions. We hope you will join us as a participant and if you have something you would like to share with the community, sign up to facilitate a workshop, ritual or other event at the camp out. This is a family friendly event, children under 18 are free with their parent(s) attendance.

TWILIGHT COVENING

October 7-10, 2022
Western MA
Organized by EarthSpirit Community

Twilight Covening is a three-day institute of earth-spirituality held within a continual three-day ritual. It is a time for exploring ways to deepen earth-centered spiritual practice and a time to develop our collective wisdom in a shared sacred space.


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