Land + Roots
If land-based ceremony takes a thousand forms, we have the honor of holding some small part of its shared water. The vessel we call Midnight Sun was born in the mining-disturbed earth of the Sierra Nevada foothills at a time when so much that is unresolved on the Earth and in our hearts seeks radical witness and healing. The land in these mountains holds wounds — as well as wild, queer, abundant magic.
Land
The Sierra foothills are home to a great many wild beings including mighty rivers, deer, granite, coyote, kitkitdizze, vultures, madrone and pine.
The Gold Rush of the 1800’s and the subsequent development of these lands by settlers devastated the life ways, habitats, cultures, and communities of Nisenan, Maidu, and other native people who are and were from these places. Scars are still visible in the landscape.
Like new growth after fire, strong energies of resilience and reparation now run through the communities, and through the lands and waterways themselves.
Roots
Midnight Sun ceremonies are fed by the deep headwaters of reciprocity and renewal that we and many others have found in listening to the land.
The roots of our guiding intertwine with those of many ecosystems, including deep listening, ancestral healing, Buddhist meditation, dreamwork + dream mirroring, environmental justice & organizing, music, creative writing, artmaking, ecopsychology, and wilderness rites of passage ceremony + trainings with the School of Lost Borders.
Our guides and teachers are many! Heartfelt thanks to Betsy Perluss and Debra Breazzano, whose wisdom nudged us firmly down the path of remembering.
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Our Commitments
As guides of European descent, we honor the multidimensional gifts of our ancestors while recognizing the manifold and ongoing harms of colonization and whiteness.
As we aspire to co-create spaces that invite
re-weaving with the more-than-human world, we commit to the ongoing work of unlearning, repair, and aligning with movements for justice.