Wic-Can Fest 2001 Trip Report
This festival is a smaller, about 300 or 400 people, family oriented festival. It's held in a lovely UU Church camp in Redicville, Ontario, Canada. There is a meal plan with a great fest on Saturday evening!
I presented three workshops there, "Dragons and Faeries and Giants, Oh
My," "The Way of the Trees," and "What is ADF." There
were many other good presenters and many interesting workshops on subjects ranging
from plant lore and herbalist to Egyptian magic and divination.
One of the other feature speakers was Diana Paxson. She was presenting a seven-session
lesson teaching people how to do Oracular Seidh, a Norse divination ritual.
I took the training, along with Linda Demissy the preceptor of our Seer's Guild,
and was very impressed by it.
My personal highlight of the festival came on Friday night. I had a chance to participate in a Fire Walk ritual. It is definitely a transforming experience to walk across a bed of red-hot coals 15' to 18' across! About 20 people built a large fire, worked through two pathworkings to contact their inner guide, and then, about 3 hours later after the fire had burned down to coals, walked across them.
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ADF info booth and my campsite for the festival.
Big top workshop site and the small fire pit.
This is the main beach where the firewalk was held.
This is what was left of the ashes from the firewalk the next morning with a full size shovel for scale!
The brown area was completly covered in red-hot coals and was the area we walked across.
This is the small ritual area on the island.
And this is a view of the lake from the island.
The Green Woman in the main field with vendors behind her.
This is the large fire dancing area in the lower section of the camp.
One of the vendors - Nathan's great dijeridoo's!
Last updated 6/29/01.