All had a good time at the Faery and Earth Festival at Thompson Park in Watertown, NY yesterday. The vibe of the group was very positive as people came to celebrate and honor our Mother. Many got dressed up. Some created elaborate structures. Some took joy in making others happy.
Here are some pictures.
Fortunately my booth was located close to the crossroads of activity. Before the opening ceremony kids where drawing on the sidewalk.
Here are I am hugging the dragon created by the two ladies on the left. It was a labor of love that they have been adding to for 7 years. Janice Carr on the right was taking it all in. Photograph by Tim Hart.
Some made it feel as though you were at a Renaissance Festival.
These two friends were having a ball dressed as stags. They kept telling me winter is coming. They gladly posed.
Jim Wilson one of the organizers is prepping for some sort of ceremony.
The Bubble Lady was such a wonder and joy to watch. She parked herself out on a bench on the crossroads not too far from our booth. She had a large bucket of dish-liquid, or some other bubble making material and two sticks with rope attached which she would raise and let the bubbles fly.
Some of the bubbles would drift hundreds of feet through the booths.
Others would be popped before they could get too far by children running into them.
If you ever get down, depressed or discouraged look at the joy of these children running into bubbles. I regret I did not make a video.
Attend a Faery and Earth Festival near you and experience the love, wonder and happiness of those celebrating our Mother and all of creation.
Blessings,
madis
I will be at the Faery and Earth Festival Saturday August 19th, at historic Thompson Park in Watertown NY.
I will be:
- Giving a talk on Vortices, or Vortexes.
- Leading Sacred Walks to explore the mysteries and delights of Mother Earth found at Thompson Park.
- Book Signing, both Vortices and Spirals and Sacred Sites in North Star Country will be available for purchase.
It should be a fun day, There will be Entertainment (music, performers, dancers, a puppeteer) Workshops and Vendors selling a variety of Earth, Faery and Pagan items and food vendors as well.
IN THE PAST ADMISSION HAS BEEN A FOOD DONATION. I AM NOT SURE ABOUT THIS YEAR
Thompson Park is included in Sacred Sites in North Star Country and has Fields of Consciousness. It is said that it has a mysterious vortex that acts like a time portal.
A few years back the city put up a sign and designated Thompson Park an AREA 51 location. Evidently when the CIA took over Area 51 in Nevada they nicknamed it Watertown; because THE then head of the CIA Allan Dulles was from Watertown.
I am hoping to talk to Dea, the Druid about the location of the time portal. Over a decade ago at a talk I gave at Naturtyme in Syracuse several people told me that there where ghosts and much more at the park, particularly near the zoo.
As you know my feelings on these matters(ghosts/aliens) is that they are generally indicative of special aspects of Mother Earth located at a particular place. I hope to get out and re-explore once I learn more about the location of the vortex. It should make for an interesting sacred walk(s.)
If you are making the drive and wanting to make a day of it, you should consider visiting Swami Vivekananda's Cottage in the Thousand Islands Park. It is about 40 minutes away. Visiting the place where this great mystic achieved Nirvikalpa Samadhi, the highest state of Samadhi, is annual pilgrimage. I strongly encourage you to visit. You just need to make sure the hours of operation--last year the cottage was open 10-12 and 4-6. It should be still open --but again you need to check before going--it usually closes a week, or two before Labor Day.
Here is my video of Swami Vivekananda Cottage in the Thousand Islands
Thompson Park in Watertown, NY will be included as a sacred site in my upcoming book, Sacred Sites in North Star country, Place in Greater NYS (PA, CA, OH, NJ, MA, Vt) That Changed the World. There are several Fields of Consciousness located within the park.
My interest in Thompson Park was piqued about ten years ago when i gave a talk at Naturtyme, in Syracuse, NY, on sacred sites. Several people told me that Thompson Park was haunted, particularly near the zoo. I find that often people are experiencing visions, see ghosts/spirits/beings, because they are in an area with high electromagnetic energy. These are places with special aspects of Mother Earth, and occasionally contain Fields of Consciousness.
Since then Thompson Park's status as a Ghoulish, Fiendish, Paranormal, UFO site and more has grown significantly. There have been several postings on YouTube by mainstream TV News Organizations:
Thompson Park Vortex, Time Portal , in it Dayah, a Druid Priestess talks about the vortex/portal--an inter-dimensional place of passage where time changes. It is was a feature on North Country's News 50.
CNY Central (Channel 3 Syracuse) reported 2 years ago that Watertown has designated Thompson Park an AREA 51 site (aliens) and even posted a sign in the park stating it is an Area 51 site. The Parks Commissioner notes how when the CIA took over AREA 51 in Nevada it was code named 'Watertown.'
A few thoughts:
Portals: Portals do exist and you often find them at the intersection of several Spirit Lines (Ley Lines.) They are also often found close to Fields of Consciousness; particularly since so many Spirit Lines originate from Fields, so the chances that several Spirit Lines (Ley Lines) will intersect are good.
Should you slip into a portal(rare) itwill place you in another dimension, how you experience this mystical experience will vary with individuals. You may blank out, see things differently, hallucinate, feel a sensed presence,etc...
So a variety of experiences, or phenomena are attributable to portals.
It could also be that the mystical experiences people had are attributable to powerful thought forms from past generations. I see this as being a remote possibility because the vibe is not positively strong.
The Desecrating a Sacred Site. With its great views, Fields of Consciousness and other attributes of Mother Earth Thompson Park was once a very sacred site. But it is in decay; someone planted a seed that the mystical experience available there where not spiritual, or soul enriching in nature, but ghoulish and freaky. Posting YouTube videos about the paranormal and spooky, designating Thompson Park as an Area 51 site only serve to accelerate its continued decline.
Ghost Hunters and other fiendishly motivated are a pox upon our society and culture. Again think about it: What if powerful earth energy/phenomona cause you to have a mystical experience.
Do you,
a) see it as communication with the divine and a chance to spiritually grow, and feel blessed by the divine.
or do you,
b) see it as a thrill, a chance to see something freaky and unusual--as if you popped a pill, or went to a movie with good visual effects.
It seems the latter is the order of the day at Thompson Park in Watertown NY.
If you want to go to Thompson Park in Watertown and experience the Fields of Consciousness there and in the process raise your consciousness and make a better world you can access one of the Fields shown in the pictures below. The dogs and my backpack mark the highpoints in the Field.
Enter from Franklin St. and take a right and then a left and look for area of brush on the side of the hill on your left. You can also explore yourself; make sure to check out the Zoo.
