Summer Programs

Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
Sun Phase: before Summer Solstice
Prayer: Hope floods my heart!
Music: Connection – kuwa jasiri
Affirmation: Miracles engulf me in play!

Greetings!

Amy here! The moon is beginning to build itself up again, starting our Summer off with a blank slate. With a New Moon passing, the Waxing Crescent is a phase for the Seeds that we have planted to begin softening their shell so that they may take root and grow. Our Seeds grow mighty with nurturing, warmth, water. What are you building in this present moment? What nourishment do you require to build authentically? What makes an environment feel fertile for your ideas, energy, and giving? What softens your heart and gives you space to expand?

In our Founding Stewards’s Ghanian culture, Summer lasts from May 1 to July 31. Orienting to the seasonal shifts, I am eagerly receptive of Summer’s bountiful and bright energy. I am also working to balance this energy with shade, rest, and cool water. We are growing, we are nourishing, we are softening, we are blossoming! Take a pause. Aspects in balance with Summer’s energy are fruit, berries, beauty, vitality, outside, social, celebration, playful, silence in nature, change and transformation, Eclipse season, and the digestive system.
Energies out of balance with Summer are inside, anti-social, and serious.

ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE OFFICE

I created our 2022-2023 Annual Impact Report and this is my introduction!

We are in the midst of our Juneteenth Pride | Seasonal Fundraiser!,
Donate While You Grocery Shop and a Giving Land Reparations Campaign towards our Grassroots Multi-Cultural Care Center.

Seeking volunteer Council Members + Jelly Of All Trades Admin Paid Position

If you are willing, please nominate us/our Founding Steward, kuwa jasiri, for the International Pride Award and The Flowers Fund by June 30.

We have Volunteer Opportunities – Video Transcription + Program Illustrations.

Shop our paper zines: through Brown Recluse Zine Distro First Aide To Face Adversity, Dineh: Our Survival Is Bound To Theirs, Beautifully Brown That Is Me, Sacred Land, Birds, Bees + Beyond

Every ending is a beginning and vise versa. As I transition in, yasmine eases on out. Take a moment with us to celebration transition with yasmine! and bid them farwell.

CELEBRATIONS

We believe it is very important to take moments to notice and celebrate the positivity and growth in life, oneself, relationships and community. How do you celebrate? How do you honor the Moon and the Sun? Where do you hold celebration trauma?

We are celebrating office bearthdays and creating new receiving rituals.

• May
  • 7 New Moon
  • 19 Malcom X Bearthday
  • 23 Full Moon
  • 25 African Liberation Day
  • 26 Maio’s Bearthday
• June
  • LGBTQIA2+ Pride
  • 4 Afro Mental Health Day
  • 6 New Moon
  • 8 World Oceans Day
  • 15 Amy’s Bearthday
  • 19 Juneteenth / Jubilee
  • 21 Summer Solstice
  • 22 Full Moon
  • 22/23 Rest Saturday + Reparations Sunday
  • 26 Teach One Bonanza | Blitz Tutorials Live!
• July
  • Zine Awareness
  • 5 New Moon
  • 21 Full Moon
  • 25 kuwa jasiri BEARTHDAY!!
  • 28 New Moon + Parent’s Day

SUMMER PROGRAMS
Please apply for the below programs by messaging us.

~ Pen Pal | Dare To Care – Check out Mr. Michelle Hebron V’kno’s art at Zine Fest! and writings on Minutes Before Six.
~ Peaceful Responses | Rewilding Relationships
~ Honour & Reckoning | Reparations
~ Spiritual Coaching
~ Preconception to Postpartum Birth Coach
~ June 26 12:12 Mountain Zone– Teach One Bonanza – Online Mini Tutorial Event- topics: Summer Listening Party, Interpreting Tea | Messages from the Leaf, Root, Stem, Blossom, Navigating Our Emotions | Pick A Card & Tea Divination, Emotional Regulation Tools, Spiritual Box Creativity | Travel Edition
~ Ways To Communicate | Rewilding Relationships

Want to grab our 2 new paper zines Local Resources and Slowing Wild Water, they debut at 2 locations this Fall. in October our 2nd Community Baby Shower | Spiritual Services

Check out our Liberatory Network Resource List. We are steadily adding resources and reformatting our directory. Trans & Intersex, Liberation & Incarceration and Cross Cultural Solidarity, Grants & Scholarships, Emotional & Mental Health

COMMUNITY OFFERINGS
~ 10/05 Zine Fest Pueblo Territory, ‘Albuquerque’ Applications due June 30
~ Free zine printing for Afro creators through application
~ Afro Midwifery Scholarship program Applications close June 24
~Cape Town, South Africa, 11-15 November, the L.G.B.T.I.Q. World Conference
~ Daphne SingingTrees’ new book Circle for the Earth
~ living document with Mental Health / Emotional and Spiritual Care Resources
~ Spring Up’s free downloadable resources

Wishing the warmth of approaching summer to mirror our hearts! Salud!

BE PART OF THE SOLUTION!

Aim beyond with your giving. Joining the Seed Pod Giving Tree is an easy, flexible and the most efficient way to give your dollars. Why support our work? Other ways to contribute, volunteer, land reparations. donate supplies, Single cash donations, and/or Take Our Feedback Survey.

Together We Can!