Sirius Rising and Starwood

This year's Sirius Rising and Starwood were sunny and hot - what a difference from the recent past! We
sweltered in our tents when there wasn't a breeze, and people wore as little as possible (there were more naked
people this year than I've ever seen). We all hung around in kilts and sarongs for the most part.

This year we took four of those garage tents and hooked them up all together under a single tarp. The tarp was
so big that we managed to cover a small pop-up tent as well which became our lanai where the smokers were
exiled. Two of the garage tents made up the living room and kitchen, and the other two tents were divided
into four bedrooms and a chapel! While we didn't get much rain this year, it worked well when it did rain!

So we became Druid Central in Druid Heights!

Gannd, Kirk and Nora drove out to Brushwood from Tucson, and Jesse and Dennis flew out.

There were great classes and wonderful parties, moving rituals and some very spiritual times.

There was a massive thunderstorm the afternoon of the Sirius Rising bonfire - and three people were hit by lightning.
Luckily, no one was seriously hurt. One of the fellows hit had it go from a tent pole through his hand and out of his foot.
He was quite thrilled about it. He says he may get a tattoo of a lightning bolt on his palm! We called him Lightning Boy. The other
three people with him in the tent, our own Jesse, Michael's friend Alex and Michael's fiance, let go of the tent earlier at Alex's
prodding. Michael wanted to save the tent! A short time after the incident, Michael tried to buy some food, but couldn't figure out
how money worked. It took a day or so for him to completely recover.

As usual, the band Kiva stayed near us and partied with us for Sirius Rising (though they didn't stay long this year).
Nancy even brought more pie!

Later in the week Starwood had a Masked Ball, and lots of people dressed up. And ADF had their ritual at 5pm
this year instead of midnight. Yay!

Medb relaxes in our living room	Skip and Gannd	Nora and Dennis	Kirk in his "throne"	The chapel at the end of the hall
Kirk shields the grill from the rain!	Dave from 'Kiva' and Gannd	Karen of 6th Night Grove and Nora also shield the grill	Lightning boy!	Dennis and 'Kiva' folks
Skip speaks to 'Lightning Boy' Michael	Just singing in the rain!	Nancy and Ariana of 'Kiva' lead the singing	Explore and Nora do their bit!	Dave the drummer
Alex and Kirk	Roofy, Midnight, Skip and Francesca at the ADF potluck	Karen and the camp cat	Kirk and the cat at the potluck	Selena Fox!
Madoc, son of Steph and AJ Gooch	Anthony Thompson (right)	Robin from NYC	Isaac and Phedra Bonewitz	Gannd in a sarong! (gasp!)
Gannd in Robin's mask	We had our own fire circle outside our tent complex!	Frog, a really dear man	Medb wears her mask!	Isaac's son Arthur in his mask
Ian Corrigan as a highwayman!	AJ Gooch on the digerido at the opening of the ADF Ritual	Nora offers to the Earth Mother	Isaac invokes Brigit of the Bards	West placates the Outdwellers
We sing for the Well, Fire and Tree	Anthony offers to the Fire	Kirk invokes the Gatekeeper, Manannan	Kirk opens the Gates SSG style!	Karen invokes the Ancestors
Robin invokes the Shining Ones	Sue and Ian make the special offerings to the Earth Mother and Manannan	The Earth Mother is specially honored	Nora and Kirk elevate the Waters of Life	Francesca reads the Omen
Isaac thanks Brigit	The Omen	Gannd in the smoke	Gannd, Nora, Kirk and Medb (Dennis had to fly home early)	Kirk at the Starwood Bonfire

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