Please join us for a special Spring online Daughters of Diana Gathering with seasonal classes by Temple of Diana grove teachers and a very special guest.

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With a special presentation with Max Dashu

MELISSAE, BEE WOMEN, AND THE ORACULAR

Classes throughout the weekend with

Cristina Pandolfo, Ruth Barrett, Julia Freya,

Caterina Nelli & Daphnehleah, and Falcon River

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Our Saturday evening will include a May Eve/Maidenfire ritual offered by Temple of Diana grove, Circle of Aradia and other Temple of Diana facilitators.

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 Opening and Closing with Ruth Barrett 

Social time with topics facilitated Ruth Barrett

 

This online event is a fundraiser for Temple of Diana, Inc.

Your donation for this entire weekend ranges from $100-$200

as you are able. Thank you for your support of the Temple!

 

With your registration you can attend the whole weekend or choose specific classes and the ritual. You will be provided with the links for each day.

 Classes will not be recorded.

REGISTRATION OPENS SOON!

TO REGISTER, CLICK ON THE ARTEMIS IMAGE

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OUR 2026 WEEKEND SCHEDULE

 

FRIDAY, MAY 1ST

      9pm-10pm Eastern (7pm-8pm Pacific)

 

OPENING AND SOCIAL TIME WITH TOPICS OF INTEREST with Ruth Barrett 

 

Ruth is a feminist spirituality foremother, ordained Dianic High Priestess, seasoned ritualist, educator, author, mountain dulcimer artist and singer. Her recordings beginning in 1980 have been among the pioneering musical works in the U. S. Goddess Spirituality Movement. She is author of Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation, and a contributor to many anthologies. Ruth co-founded the Temple of Diana, Inc. with Falcon River. Ruth teaches at conferences, festivals, and online on a variety of witchly topics. Most recently, Ruth received the 2025  Australian XX Award for her dedication to feminist female-only goddess rituals, classes, and publishing the groundbreaking anthology, Female Erasure. 

 www.guardiansofthegrove.org and www.dancingtreemusic.org

 

 

​​SATURDAY, MAY 2nd

     12noon – 1:30pm Eastern (9am – 10:30 Pacific)

 

DONNE DI FORA (LADIES FROM THE OUTSIDE) with Cristina Pandolfo

     Discovering the mysterious figures of Italian magical folklore known as 'Donne di fora' (Ladies from the Outside), these female spirits were often regarded as fairies, witches, or powerful women with supernatural abilities.

 

Cristina (Astrum Lucifera) is a native Sicilian solopreneur and creatrix of the esoteric herbal apothecary "In Lumine Lunae", as well as the founder of the Dianic spiritual organization "Templum Dianae," and the occult female society "The Ladies from Outside". She is an ordained Priestess of Temple of Diana living in the UK. Cristina is also a claircognizant (clear knowing), offering spiritual guidance and teaching, a certified myrrhophore (myrrh-bearer), esoteric herbalist and ritual perfumer, as well as a certified Plant Spirit Healing practitioner. www.astrumlucifera.com and www.templumdianae.org

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     2:30-4:00pm Eastern (11:30-1:00pm Pacific)

 

MELISSAE, BEE WOMEN, AND THE ORACULAR with Max Dashu

     This visual journey, begins with Egypt, where the temple of Neith was called House of the Bee, and with African rock art of bee swarms. In Crete and Greece, bee-women are related to ceremony, sacred dance, shapeshifting and Ariadne’s labyrinth. Melissae was a title of the Delphic oracles and the Eleusinian priestesses of Demeter, while bees were a primary symbol of Artemis of Ephesos in Asia. Greeks offered milk and honey to goddesses, and bees were said to circle stone honeypots in the Cave of the Nymphs, where they weave life itself. The Lithuanian bee goddess Austeja is also understood as a weaver. In Finland, the healer Ilmatar sent a bee to bring solar vitality to resurrect her son. And in India, the bee goddess Bhramari evokes the vibrational hum of the cosmos. 

 

Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives (1970) to research and document global women's history. She teaches with images from her collection of over 80,000 photos of female cultural heritages across time and space. She is internationally known for her expertise on archaeomythology / iconography, matricultures, orature; historical processes of patriarchalization and their entanglement with other systems of domination; medicine women, shamans, witches, and the witch hunts. Her Suppressed Histories Archives page on FB is followed by 267,000 people: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064415032446 Her books are Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Culture, 700-1100 (2016) and Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides (2023). Veleda Press www.veleda.net also publishes her posters and DVDs (Woman Shaman: the Ancients). Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970, to research and document global women's history. She teaches with images from her archive of over 80,000 photos of female cultural heritages across time and space. She is internationally known for her expertise on female iconography, matricultures, patriarchy and systems of domination; medicine women, shamans, witches, and the witch hunts. 

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     5-6:30pm Eastern (2-3:30pm Pacific) 

 

AN INTRODUCTION TO SACRED EMBODIMENT with Julia Freya

     Central to the Dianic tradition is the Women’s Wheel of the Year and joyous enactment of the five Blood Mysteries in women-only circles. These ritual enactments reach beyond women’s conditioning under patriarchy to the deep mind where we encounter Goddess and Her mysteries.  Transformations through the mysteries are not just psychic events, however.  What are the mechanisms involved in ritually freeing the body colonized under patriarchy, and in embodying Goddess during ritually-heightened and everyday states of consciousness?  Where patriarchy has stigmatized women’s bodies, how do we restore trust and listen deeply to the body’s encoded narratives, both personal and universal?  This presentation is a cross-cultural overview of sacred embodiment practices and how Dianic ritual and magick support our awakening in the body and the natural world.  There will be time for question and answer and sharing.  Experienced and new practitioners are encouraged to attend. 

 

Julia Freya is a Dianic initiate who facilitates a new Dianic circle in Philadelphia. She is a private practice psychologist and a yoga instructor studying womb-centered and subtle body practices. Her focus as a clinical and forensic practitioner is depth psychological approaches to recovery from power-over harms, and the legal system's complicity in perpetuating violence against women and girls. Among her interests include the role of Dianic ritual and group dynamics in transforming the effects of women’s socialization under male supremacy. In addition to local rituals and introductory presentations, she assists in facilitating seasonal rituals with Temple of Diana priestesses in California and online and serves on the Circle of Aradia Spiritual Service Circle.

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     8pm Eastern  (5pm Pacific) 

 

MAY EVE/MAIDENFIRE COMMUNITY RITUAL

      Our May Eve/Maidenfire evening ritual is offered by Temple of Diana grove, Circle of Aradia and other Temple of Diana facilitators.

 

 

SUNDAY, MAY 3rd

     12noon-1:30pm Eastern (9am-10:30am Pacific) 

     

WOMEN’S MAGICAL CHANT with Ruth Barrett

     Women were the first singers of magic. Ancient women’s music was created to do something. That “something” was the power women carry to give life to a thing, situation, or a person that was intentionally sung into.  In this singing workshop focused on the magical power of the female voice, participants will learn Goddess and female-centered magical and seasonal chants for a variety of purposes while exploring chant usage to support a ritual through words, melody, and rhythm. Feel free to bring chants that you use magically in ritual or spellcraft for our discussion on why and how these chants support your intentions.

(Ruth's bio is under Friday night's Opening)

 

     2:30pm-4:30pm Eastern (11:30pm-1pm Pacific)

 

MAIDEN VISION: REDISCOVERING YOUR MAIDEN with Caterina Nelli and Daphneleah

     This seasonal class with Caterina and Daphneleah will remind you that you are divine and one with nature, expressing itself through as Goddess. You are indeed Goddess. In the season of May we know Goddess as Maiden, and She has been with you since conception. Participants will have magical, opportunities to connect with their own Maiden self. Perhaps, you’ve been in a distant relationship with Her, or you’re really close. Either way, this class will have you feeling, thinking and loving.  

 

Caterina Nelli is an ordained Temple of Diana Priestess who has been a part of Circle of Aradia/Temple of Diana since the early 90s and has been facilitating rituals since 2000.  She is also a graduate of The Spiral Door mystery school created by Temple of Diana's founders. Caterina's passion is creating rituals for various seasons and life transitions, and she annually facilitates the Community Croning Ritual at Daughters of Diana Gathering.

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Daphneleah is an ordained Temple of Diana Priestess and has served the beloved Circle of Aradia community in many ways since 1991. She was ordained in 2007, and within her ministry has created and taught girls’ empowerment classes, children’s rituals, and women’s self-awareness classes. She has created and officiated at wedding services, facilitated memorials and death midwifery, and co-facilitated COA and TOD public rituals. A graduate of The Spiral Door mystery school, Daphneleah continues to make magic in her life. She just completed her first book, Releasing Rightness: How Love Heals the Need to be Right and is looking forward to its being published.

 

     5pm - 6:30pm Eastern (2pm-3:30pm Pacific)

 

ASK FALCON… ANYTHING with Falcon River

     Women often have many questions for Falcon from being clairvoyant, the Guardian Path, growing up as a feral child in Appalachia, surviving and thriving as a butch lesbian in the South, and more. Nothing is off the table. Spend some time with Falcon and bring your questions and curiosity. And yes, there will be stories.

 

Falcon grew up in the hills of West Virginia where as a child, she was trained in traditional folk magic and medicine by her family elders to becoming a lesbian feminist activist in the mid-seventies. For more than 30 years, she was a professional bodyworker, healer, and clairvoyant working with animals and people, and helped to create and support women's ritual circles starting in 1976. Falcon is an ordained Priestess of the Guardians Path and co-founded Temple of Diana with Ruth Barrett. She teaches classes on tree lore, the Elder Futhark runes, and spellcraft through Guardians of the Grove, and teaches practical energetic and magical skills for daily life. www.guardiansofthegrove.org

Falcon’s Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DancingTreeLeather

 

     6:45 - 7:15pm Eastern (3:45 - 4:15pm Pacific)

SHARING AND CLOSING with Ruth Barrett​