Awakening Isis Festival 2005

Awakening Isis is a Pagan camping festival held at Ontario's Whispering Pines campground over the Canada Day weekend annually. CMS has attended every single one thus far and in force. CMS has also rendered its services as volunteers for various duties, lecturers for interesting workshops, and the tough and sometimes tedious job of security (even overnight). We have been proud to help and grateful for such an opportunity to share in the development and growth of this wonderful festival. The crabapple tree area near the ritual space... well... has become quite energetically ours for this festival. Weehee!

http://www.geocities.com/awakeningisisfestival/intro.html

Below are some of the photos from the festival all courtesy of Airea and her camera. The scenery was lovely... and she caught some of CMS folks unawares... but those are reserved for the students pages. :)

The first 5 pictures are of the beachside ritual space for the Medicine Wheel as this year's theme was Native American Spirituality. The ritual was co-led by the festival's leader, Anne, and one of the visiting Native elders. The 4 points on the medicine wheel of stones represent the 4 peoples of the world (white: Caucasian / yellow: Asian / black: African / red: Native Indian). The horse in the other photos is Cinnamon and belongs to the owners of the grounds. He is so very photogenic! And the last picture was an attempt at photographing someone twirling these balls of fire on the ends of chains... quite spectacular. Airea has great video clips of these somewhere on her online journal where you can also hear the incredible drumming that was going on near the main firepit that was out of sight.