Pagan Spirit Gathering:

"Tribe & Spirit Through the Ages"

Celebrate Summer Solstice June 17-24, 2012
at Stonehouse Park, near Earlville IL

The gate opens in

About PSG

The Pagan Spirit Gathering (PSG) is one of America's oldest and largest Nature Spirituality festivals. Since its inception in 1980, PSG has been bringing together hundreds of people from throughout the United States plus other countries, to create community, celebrate Summer Solstice, and commune with Nature in a sacred environment. Sponsored by Circle Sanctuary, PSG is open to long-time practitioners as well as newcomers of a wide range of Nature religion traditions, including Wiccan, Contemporary Pagan, Druidic, Heathen, Celtic, Baltic, Greco-Roman, Isian, Shamanic, Hermetic, Animistic, Egyptian, Native American, Afro-Carribean, Taoist, Pantheistic, Ecofeminist, and Nature Mystic. PSG is an opportunity for personal renewal, networking, education, and cultural enrichment.

Throughout the Gathering, there are hundreds of program activities including rituals, concerts, workshops, panels, meetings, intensives, revels, dancing, drumming, firespininng, and bonfires. There are also a variety of youth program activities including specific programming for children, tweens, and teens. In addition, there is leadership training for Pagan ministers and other leaders through the Pagan Leadership Institute.

Stonehouse Park in north-central Illinois offers a large renovated 3-bay barn where we hold indoor concerts. No more sitting in the sun for noon concerts! And you need not haul your chairs around, as there are plenty of picnic tables! There is also a beautiful courtyard for gathering right outside of the barn.

The camp features a remodeled camp store with a large covered deck, great for sitting and chatting with friends or reading your favorite book. The camp store has phone service, wireless service, indoor restrooms and all the snacks and forgotten necessities you may need!

There is a wonderfully-large shower house containing 3 shower stalls on both the mens' and womens' sides - - and flush toilets! Behind the shower house is a large sink for for scrubbing dishes or clothes.

Attached to the shower house is a covered pavilion overlooking the wonderful swimming pond and sandy beach! Bring your rafts and lounge chairs and enjoy!

As in past years, PSG's spiritual community emerges as participants arrive on opening day, set up camp, meet and greet others, and create a Pagan Town together which lasts the entire week of the Gathering. The Sacred Fire is lit during the Opening Ritual, and is kept burning throughout the Gathering to symbolize the Solstice Sun and Spirit of the PSG community.