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Summer Solstice Pride Gathering 2025Saturday, June 21st | 1PM–4PM
Kirby Park, Wilkes-Barre – Pavilion 3
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Join us for our fifth annual Summer Solstice Pride Gathering (formerly “Pride of Midsummer”)—a vibrant, family-friendly Pagan event celebrating Pride Month and the turning of the wheel at Midsummer.

This year’s event includes:
✨ Free Activities & Offerings
  • Games and field activities for all ages
  • Face Painting
  • Drum Circle (bring your own or borrow one of ours!)
  • Divination: free tarot, rune, and oracle readings
  • Community Rituals honoring Queer Pagan Deities
    • 🔥 Loki Blot: a Heathen-style ritual for our genderfluid trickster
    • 🍷 Dionysus Ritual: led by Eric Peisel, invoking the spirit of ecstasy and liberation 
🎁 Donations WelcomeWhile attendance is free, we are collecting optional donations for local queer organizations uplifting trans and gender-diverse lives across NEPA, including:
  • NEPA Trans Health
  • Eastern PA Trans Equity Project
  • Queer NEPA
  • Rainbow Alliance
    More orgs will be announced soon—your generosity helps sustain critical work in our region.

🌈 What to Bring
  • A drum or percussion instrument (if you have one)
  • Offerings for Loki or Dionysus (flowers, words, art, food, etc.)
  • Covered dish for the community food table (label all ingredients)
  • Your full, authentic self
DRUM CIRCLE:A drum circle is a celebration of life, community, and music-making in the moment. Many of the chants used can be found in our chant library

Please bring hand drums, shakers and other hand percussion. A few small percussion instruments will be available if you do not have your own.

Video Source: Clip of our drum circle at Summer Solstice in 2023
FOOD: We will be grilling hamburgers and hotdogs. There will be vegetarian options available upon request. Those they are able may bring a covered dish to share at the community food table. If you do bring a dish, please label it with the ingredients so that people can make healthy to them choices.
FACE PAINTING: Face painting will (hopefully) be available again! 

DIVINATION: We have members doing free tarot, rune and oracle readings. Feel free to bring your own divination tools to share.

BLOT TO LOKI: A blot is a heathen ceremony honoring a Heathen God. We are holding a Blot to Loki in honor of Pride Month. Loki is sacred to many Pagan LGBT+ because of his genderfluid nature. During the blot, participants will be able to give an offering (words of praise/thanks, flowers, candy, food, non-alcoholic beverages, etc.) that wish to.

In 2022, our Blot was the largest Loki ritual in the country!

These were the chants we used in 2024. We are currently planning our 2025 rituals for the Gathering so the chants we use are subject to change. 
"Pagan Family Chant" by Unknown
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I am a strong Spirit, I am a loving Spirit
I am empowered and my soul will never die

I am a strong Spirit, I am a loving Spirit
I am empowered and my soul will never die

We are an old family, We are a new family
We are the same family stronger than before ​

We honor you, we empower you To be who you are
​We honor you, we empower you To be who you are

"Song of the Faery Seer - We are remembering"
​by Orion Foxwood

We are a people of the Earth
We are a people of the Sky
We are a people of the Heart
​We are remembering...
We are remembering...
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This is an all-inclusive event. It is our calling to help facilitate inclusive Pagan spaces that are safe and welcoming to all. We are stronger together. We believe the Gods call whom they will, and Paganism is for everyone, regardless of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, body type, ability or disability. If you take issue with this, this is not the space for you. Racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, white supremacy, and bigotry of any kind will not be tolerated.