Announcing the 2026
Pre-Conference Workshops*
*Pre-conference is an add-on to the main gathering. You must have a ticket to the main gathering in order to attend the pre-conference.
EagleSong Gardener
Pre-Conference: Coming Home - A Ritual Celebration
Thursday July 30th, 11am-6pm*, All Levels
Investment: $290**
Our Earth is calling maiden, mother & crone to gather, to ground, to enliven and celebrate our connection with her, ourselves and one another. Enter the doorway to the mother’s heart, receive her powerful energies that align us with our dreams and potential. Our day will be filled with reflection, ceremony and ritual with the earth. The day consists of building the ritual grounds for an imminent birth. Yours! You will be born of earth and will return to a sisterhood that recognizes and awaits your gifts.
Be sure to check out this video about the pre-conference.
* Class time is 6 hours + a 1 hour lunch break
** Your Workshop ticket also includes tent camping on Wednesday and Thursday nights, Lunch and Dinner Thursday and Breakfast and Lunch on Friday. Investment includes a $15 supply fee.
Ginger Janssen
Pre-Conference: Artemisia Mountain Portal: Homestead, Greenhouse & Gardens Tour & Mugwort Distillation
Thursday July 30th, 11am-6pm*, All Levels
Investment: $275**
Step through the 2026 Artemisia Portal by spending a full day immersed in Mugwort, steam, land, and ancestral craft. We travel to Basalt Mountain Homestead, Greenhouse and Gardens (35 minutes from 13 Moons - you are responsible for your transportation to/from this location and the gathering), Ginger’s homestead sanctuary, where Artemisia species grow among food forests, and medicinal beds.
You will:
• Tour homestead and tropical greenhouse, and regenerative garden systems
• Harvest mountain-grown Mugwort & Artemisia kin
• Distill a fresh hydrosol in a copper alembic still
• Learn energetic & meridian pathways with Annie (L.Ac.)
• Explore Artemisia’s role in dreamwork, and intuitive seeing
• Craft an Artemisia smudge bundle
• Drink Mugwort tea while opening the inner portal of the Wise Woman tradition
This pre-conference is rooted in hands-on practice, ancestral remembering, and deep connection to the land. Participants leave with a Mugwort hydrosol, smudge stick, and a lived sense of Artemisia as guide, ally, and threshold walker.
Accommodations are available at Basalt Mountain Gardens homestead: (Juniper Yurt, Aspen Yurt, Tiny House, and camping) for Wednesday the 29th and / or Thursday the 30th Nights. Contact basaltmtngardens@gmail.com for details and booking.
Be sure to check out this video where Ginger shares about her land and classes.
* Class time is 6 hours + a 1 hour lunch break
** Your Workshop ticket also includes tent camping at 13 Moons on Wednesday and Thursday nights, Lunch and Dinner Thursday and Breakfast and Lunch on Friday.
Ellen Evert Hopman
Pre-Conference: A Celtic Shamanism Intensive, Adults, All Levels
Thursday July 30th, 11am-6pm*, All Levels
Investment: $275**
I have been a Druid for 41 years. I am also an author and when I wrote my first novel, “Priestess of the Forest – a Druid Journey”, I was basically in a trance. The characters showed me things and said things I could not have known. One thing they showed me was a funeral featuring Artemisia.
The novel came out in February 2008. AFTER the book was published, British archaeologists announced the discovery of a likely Druid grave in April of that year, the first one ever identified. In it they found traces of Artemisia.
In this six hour intensive I will teach Celtic cosmology and basic Druid ritual form. I will also teach “scrying”; divination by looking into water, fire, etc. We will burn Artemisia in the fire and drink a strong Artemisia brew and then scry together. We will share the things we “see” in the flames, water, etc.
Enjoy getting to know Ellen and her classes in this video.
* Class time is 6 hours + a 1 hour lunch break
** Your Workshop ticket also includes tent camping on Wednesday and Thursday nights, Lunch and Dinner Thursday and Breakfast and Lunch on Friday.