For the Friday, June 30th, Full Moon Labyrinth Walk and Drum Circle, we’re offering a hybrid experience to manage the air quality issues in our region. The smoke is supposed to be moving out of our area today with the air quality warning ending at midnight. By that logic, we should be in the clear by 8:30 (the start of the Labyrinth walk) if the winds do what the meteorologists say they will. In order to keep the community safe and supported, we plan to set up both Labyrinths (indoors in the Chapel and outdoors in the Labyrinth Courtyard). Depending on the air, drummers can choose to play inside in the Atrium or outside in the Labyrinth courtyard. The Margot Adler Library will be available for browsing and divination practice is welcome.
Month: June 2023
Labyrinth Clean-up Canceled
Unfortunately, we are canceling the Labyrinth clean-up due to an air quality warning in our region (smoke from Canadian wildfires is making its way into Maryland). Hopefully we’ll be able to get in a little early on Friday to tidy it up before the walk.
June with Frederick CUUPS
The official start of summer is on the horizon as we roll into PRIDE month! Frederick CUUPS is offering wonderful ways to connect, deepen, learn, and transform! This month we’re featuring programming from amazing local LGBTQAI+ presenters and forgoing our traditional Litha ritual in order to volunteer at and attend Frederick PRIDE. From workshops to services to crafting circles, there are so many ways to Pagan it up this month. Scroll down for individual event listings. See you soon! An up-to-date listing of events is always available at www.FrederickCUUPS.com as well as on the Events section of our Facebook page. Scroll down to see everything on the calendar this month.
Donation Yoga for Advancing Beginners
Mondays at 1 PM (no class 6/14)
At the UUCF
One of the best ways we can stay resilient and healthy is to exercise and cultivate mindfulness. These donation classes with E-RYT 200 Irene Glasse are open to individuals fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (two weeks past their last vaccination/booster). At this time, masks are optional. An Advancing Beginners class is most accessible to people who have some basic familiarity with yoga and are able to comfortably take low lunge (lunge with one foot forward and the back knee touching the mat), tabletop, warrior two and other foundational yoga poses. Previous classes can be viewed here.
A Rainbow of Gods
Saturday, June 10th, 12 PM
At the UUCF and on Zoom
Join Brielle for a celebration of queerness in ancient and modern Hellenism. It’s a cultural cliche that the Greeks were “really gay.” But the ancient world had a different set of binaries, and the stories of queer women and trans folks have often been sidelined. Part UPG, part history lesson, and part discussion, this workshop explores how we can empower our community by queering our understanding of the Sacred.
Recommended donation: $10
To make a donation for the class, go to: http://www.frederickuu.org/about/Support_UUCF
Click: To Donate Click Here
Scroll down to Adult Spiritual Enrichment. Type in your donation amount, then write “FC – Gods” in the memo box.
Earth Centered Spirituality Service
Sunday, June 11th, 12 PM
At the UUCF
Join members of the Frederick CUUPS community for our monthly Earth Centered Spirituality Service. This time provides an opportunity to focus on the Sixth Source of Unitarian Universalism: “Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.”
Recommended donation of $5. Please either bring cash to the Earth Service or donate online.
To donate, visit http://www.frederickuu.org/about/Support_UUCF
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Scroll down to Adult Spiritual Enrichment. Type in your donation amount, then write “FCUUPS” in the memo box
Stitch-n-Witch Crafting Circle
Mondays 6/12, 7/24, 8/21 at 5 PM
At the UUCF
Grab your yarn and knitting needles, your crochet hooks or embroidery, your paints or markers or WHATEVER you like to craft with and join the Stitch-n-Witch. Hosted by Eira at the UUCF, this group meets monthly for crafting and conversation.
Got some crafting supplies you know you’re not going to use? The Stitch-n-Witch also offers space for craft supply swapping.
Donations welcome but not required.
Shadow Work Circle
Second Tuesday of the month at 7 PM
At the UUCF
Join Renee and others who are doing their own Shadow Work in a safe space for sharing and learning from each other. The Shadow Work Circle meets once a month in a facilitated but not heavily structured meeting. Come prepared to discuss your own work or just to listen and be in community.
Recommended donation of $5/session.
Crafting Queer Ancestor Talismans
Friday, June 23rd, 7 PM
At the UUCF
In this workshop participants will learn about different ways to work with Queer Ancestors, including a short guided journey. Following the journey, participants will work to create tokens, talismans, and amulets to commemorate our shared community ancestors. These mementos can be placed in the home, given as gifts, incorporated into a personal queer spiritual practice, or carried the next day during Frederick Pride.
Participants are encouraged to bring an item to place on a Queer Ancestor community altar for the duration of the workshop.
Recommended donation: $10. Please bring cash or donate online.
To make an online donation, visit https://www.frederickuu.org/give
Click on “To Donate, Click here”
Select “Adult Spiritual Enrichment”
Type in the amount, select “once, now” for the Frequency, and type in “FC- Queer Ancestors” in the Note section.
Bio:
Ron Padrón (he/him/his) is a gay Cuban-American folk witch from the swamps of Florida now living in the mid-Atlantic with his husband and their small cryptid dog. He has been a member of the pagan community for two decades with specific interests in divination, Queer Ancestor veneration and necromancy, hedge witchery, and social justice activism. He is the creator of White Rose Witching through which he manages a blog sharing Queer Ancestor Spotlights and rituals, and hosts workshops across a variety of topics. He has presented at the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival on spiritual activism, locally at Hallowed Homecoming discussing working with Queer Ancestors, and as a guest speaker for local pagan groups, historic sites, and small museums discussing colonial witchcraft politics and queer history.
So many of our board members and community are volunteering at or attending Frederick PRIDE that we are making it our focus for Litha this year. Our beloved LGBTQIA+ community needs love, support, action, and healing right now. Join the rest of the Frederick CUUPS Community at Frederick Pride on Saturday, June 24th, from 10 AM – 6 PM at the Carroll Creek Linear Park in Frederick, MD.
June Labyrinth Clean-up
Wednesday, June 28th, 6 PM
At the UUCF
Our next Labyrinth walk is Friday, June 30th, which means it’s time to tidy up the Labyrinth! If you would like to help, please join us. This service to the community is not glamorous, but it is absolutely vital. With four volunteers, it only takes an hour to do.
Remember to wear clothes you can get dirty in and sunblock/bug spray if you need it 
The most effective way to clear the stones of the Labyrinth is with a string trimmer. If you have one you can bring along, that would be awesome. We also have a few that are available for use. Spades and shears can also be useful for tidying the beds in the Labyrinth courtyard and clearing dirt where it’s piled up on the stones of the Labyrinth.
Late June Full Moon Labyrinth Walk & Drum Circle
Friday, June 30th, 8:30 PM
At the UUCF
Come enjoy the beauty and peace of the Labyrinth by the light of the full moon! If the weather is good, this will be an outdoor, drumming walk. In the event of rain, we take our labyrinth practice indoors, into the Chapel and our canvas labyrinth.
The first half hour will be a quiet walk, the remainder drumming, so feel free to bring hand drums and other percussion instruments.
If you haven’t walked a Labyrinth before, there is no ceremony or ritual. A Labyrinth Walk is safe, open Sacred Space for personal exploration. Please plan to arrive by 9 pm to allow enough time for your walk. For an in-depth article on Labyrinths and what to expect at one of our open walks, visit this link: https://pinkpaganpriestess.wordpress.com/…/an…/
Recommended donation of $5. Please help support Labyrinth Walks at the UUCF.
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