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Autumnal Equinox with Hearth Cville
September 22, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
5:30-6:30 pm Monday September 22, 2025
Autumnal Equinox
Botanical Garden of the Piedmont
Join Hearth Cville, Charlottesville’s Wild Church, welcomes all who experience spirituality in nature. Their gatherings are co-created spaces where you are welcome to share as much or as little as you like. Their main purpose is to listen with nature, so they spend most of the time in semi-solitary wandering and communing with the more-than-human world. You are welcome to come just as you are.
They will gather in the high, flat area next to the parking lot with the option to move to one of the lower gathering areas along the path, as available.
- Bring a chair or something else to sit on.
- Dress weather- and movement-appropriately.
- Bring your own water/tea/snacks if you wish.
- Option/invitation to bring a brief reading, song, or other artwork to share.
- Option/invitation to bring something to place on the altar during our ceremony
Sketch:
- Allow yourself a few minutes to arrive and settle.
- We will begin at 5:30 p.m. placing any items on the altar.
- After a brief practice and opening words, folks who brought art/reading/song will be invited to share.
- The majority of our time together (~30 minutes) will be spent in semi-solitary communion with nature, so dress for whatever amount of sitting, walking, crawling, lying down, etc. you may wish to engage in.
- We will close with an invitation to share experiences/reflections/observations.
You are very welcome to be as active/social or as passive/introverted as you like throughout their gatherings.