Stone Soup Community Circles- Spring Equinox and the Aries Will to Exist

Join us for this month's Stone Soup Community Circle!

Note the change in venue. Due to the closure of our beloved Haven, this circle will be held in the downstairs community room at Tandem Squared Rolled Ice Cream and Coffee Cafe in Old Town Fort Collins, as we celebrate community spaces to continue our spiritual endeavors.

*Circle will be an inclusive, supportive, non-judgmental place in order to practice the high sensation of being seen. All are welcome and all expressions will be celebrated!

Ahhhh, the Vernal Equinox, bringing fresh beginnings and a sense of equilibrium to this tumultuous world. During the Spring Equinox, we celebrate the balance of dark and light, day and night, cold and hot, death and life. It's easy to view our inner and outer worlds with the hopeful freshness of new possibilities. We release what no longer serves us and look forward to the future courageously, with a renewed zest for life.

Our Astrological Year refreshes too, with the Sun sliding into Aries at the moment of the Spring Equinox, Aries Season begins a new astrological year! The Sun is reborn and the days start to get longer. Just as the tender green shoots of spring flowers push through the soil, so do we connect with our life force and emerge from the safe, cozy dark of our homes, breaking through into the sunshine. We ask ourselves, "Who am I and how do I want to show up in the world?"

This month's Community Circle arrives just past the Vernal Equinox on March 20th, and just before the Aries New Moon on March 29th. Ruled by Mars, Aries Season represents our Divine Masculine, the penetrating forces of creativity and desire, bursting our will out into the world. What obstacles can we overcome? Where can our inner Warrior bravely triumph?

Joining the Sun and Moon, Mercury and Venus are retrograde in Aries this month. Before both briefly slip backwards into dreamy Pisces, this retrograde energy allows us to reconnect with the persons, projects, and experiences that make us feel alive and to carefully strategize before acting. Adding to this Martial motivation, Neptune will be entering Aries on March 30th, for the first time in over 150 years! This intensely transformative time pushes boundaries, allows us to question societal norms, sparks spiritual growth, all leading to much needed shifts. How can we challenge our limiting perspectives on love, learning, and personal expansion?

Stone Soup Community Circles offer the perfect opportunity to show up authentically and explore the electric life-force emanating from within. <3

Here's how it works:

Each month will have a different theme, based on the above astrological weather.

Come to circle prepared to share something with the group- it can be anything- a poem you wrote, piece of artwork, a craft, baked treats, homemade incense, oracle cards, a meditation, a dream, a story, psychic synchronicities, dance, movement, breathwork, teas, tinctures, wear a costume- literally ANYTHING that your heart wants to express, related to the Astro weather. Then, you vulnerably share this in our circle. Everyone gets a chance to contribute their own "ingredient," so each circle will be different, every circle will be fun!

(**Note, we are not making literal soup. Usually. :))

We know- it's incredibly scary to put yourself out there and share part of your innermost self. The high sensations that come with showing up this way are part of the medicine- part of the magick we will create together! This is how you manifest your desires. Face your fears, and do it anyway!

(Disclaimer: We understand that you may not be ready/able to prepare and share EVERY circle. Sometimes it's appropriate to show up and say "All I have to contribute today is my presence and my witnessing." But still show up! If it becomes a habit and people are consistently showing up without contributing, admins will gently reach out with encouragement to participate greater.)

Schedule:

5:30- 5:45pm: Greetings, social time, grab a coffee or treat, head downstairs.

5:45-7:15pm: Set ritual space, circle shares.

7:15-7:30pm: Connections, goodbyes.

Cost: Free! $5 donation suggested to help pay for our space, but if the cost is prohibitive- don't let it stop you, PLEASE come anyway!

This month's venue: Tandem Squared Rolled Ice Cream and Coffee Cafe offers delicious rolled ice cream creations, coffee drinks, and baked goods. Grab something yummy and head downstairs to the community space for our circle. Tandem Squared is woman disability owned, focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.