For many years I would travel to Wisteria for Pagan Spirit Gathering. From 2001 until 2008 I spent my Summer Solstice at Wisteria at PSG and loved it. The community was phenomenal and the energy amazing; however, in 2009 PSG moved to a different location. Ironically, just as I was going through a divorce it would seem the PSG also went through a divorce with Wisteria and the festival moved to a different venue. I loved the sense of community that I felt at PSG, but I was also very much in love with the land at Wisteria. It had a magical and mystical quality for me.
When my father died in 2004 I made a pilgrimage the following year to Wisteria's Faerie Shrine, a location at Wisteria that wasn't part of the PSG programming, and made an offering of my father's US Navy dog tag. In 2008 I attended Between the Worlds Festival at Wisteria and while there I attended a ritual at the Faerie Shrine honoring our ancestors and sacred dead. When I enter the Faerie Shrine I can feel my father's presence and the love he has for me as one of my sacred ancestors. The Faerie Shrine at Wisteria always had an ethereal quality for me that added to the magical and mystical quality of the overall site. My connection to the land is real and has meaning for me.
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