We have to decide how this will look, although I have a feeling that The Ancient Order of the Impeccable Moose has a lot to do with it! Over the summer, probably at the Druid Camp, we will be holding some envisioning sessions, and will decide, as a group, where to go from here. We are living in exciting times!

During every full moon period from April onwards I will be holding a Steamlodge (It is the same as a Sweatlodge, but I call it ‘Steamlodge’ in respect of the Native American culture) at Dreamland. We ask for a suitable donation, and there is a potluck afterwards. Please email me if you would like to be placed on our mailing list. This applies to all of my teaching activities. When you contact us, please specify in which subjects you are interested.

We are starting a new Druid Training in April in 2008. My intent is to facilitate a new class every year. It is time for trained Druids to take up their positions and help facilitate the changes that are already starting to happen on Earth. Whatever actually happens, we need to be capable of remaining centered in our deepest, most balanced Spirit selves and usher in the special times we have been dreaming of for so long. Nature, and Gaia Herself, will guide us if we are capable of hearing and understanding her. This is a time of deep rejoicing, and celebrating the fulfillment of the prophecies.

My life is so full and intense at the moment that I have decided not to lead a year’s Shamanic Healing course in 2008. Instead, I have integrated it into the second (Ovate) year of the Druidic Training. I feel this is a good thing, as the first (Bardic) year prepares the student for the deep plunge within, and I now have three years to facilitate this shamanic transformation instead of one. In addition, it will separate out the truly serious and committed students. Life isn’t like simply flicking a switch into enlightenment; it is a multiple-year life process.

In February Fearn and I spent a week in Colorado and got to know a pagan community there. What a wonderful, actively caring and dynamic group! We were looked after and treated like family by Michael and Kata and friends – thank you so much. We shared our knowledge and energy there, and it was received with great enthusiasm. Inspired by this group, and due to the vast distances involved, we have decided to create a Home Study course for people who live far away from Vermont, or who, for various reasons, cannot physically attend our trainings. Our intent is to have it ready by Summer Solstice 2008. My hope is that whole communities throughout the USA, similar to this one in Colorado, will be interested in studying at home. Fearn and I could visit a central place in each area once a year, leading workshops and getting to know the individuals in the community, helping those interested to study and build Druid Groves of their own. In this way participants can study by themselves, yet can spend time in a magical group of their peers, meeting regularly, getting to know and support each other, and learning to share ceremony and other activities together.

In October I have been invited to the Toronto area of Canada. I have been there a few times in the past and have got to know the people and nature there. I have had the great honor and pleasure to have built two stone circles, and have got to know the devas of the landscape. What a wonderful and powerful place! I hope to contact a community of like-minded people who would also like to study Druidry, and gather together regularly.

Fearn and I have started to lead Geomancy/Healing seminars together. At last! We both have effective skills in our own right, and the atmosphere we generate is awesome. We both look forward to practicing and sharing, our healing talents with people, and the Earth, on a regular basis.

It looks as if I will be building a large stone circle near Amherst, in Western Massachusetts, starting in the summer of 2008. Please get in touch if you are interested in helping. Men and women are both equally needed, as there are all sorts of roles to go round. I will probably be teaching while we build the stone circle, and some workshops are being designed to dovetail with our stone-moving sessions.

I am also part of a project with Rob Roy and friends to erect a 50-ton standing stone, in New York State, by 2010. We have located the stone; it is a beauty, 33 ft long and 9 ft wide at the base, tapering up to a point. We need to drag it 500 feet, and then we intend to raise it by hand. When it is secure, we will (with the help of an excavator) scoop out the land surrounding it, and divert a stream to fill the area with water. At first we thought of leaving the stone on an island, but then decided to leave a thin peninsula out into the lake so that visitors can walk up to, and interact with, the stone without getting their feet wet!

The Burlington Earth Clock stone circle manifested in November 2006, and in the spring of 2007 the area was landscaped. It now stands proudly awake, on the shores of Lake Champlain. We held a wonderful Winter Solstice ceremony there in 2007 and had over 70 enthusiastic people in our circle. This is the start of a tradition! Once again it will be the focus of the ‘Wake the Lake Festival’ at Summer Solstice 2008. I’ll be there ’ maybe we’ll meet!

My new book ‘Path with Heart’ is nearing completion, and I am very proud of it. I am hoping to find a publisher soon, and midwife it effectively into manifestation. It is intended to describe my understandings and teachings on Toltec shamanism and healing, and to provide accurate, highest-energy options for anyone, however experienced or inexperienced they are, on their unique, unfolding spiritual journeys through life.

There is much appearing in the creative cauldron. There are dreams with no certain shape yet, projects already seeded and acquiring form, and some almost manifested. Life is so pregnant with promise, with dreams dancing their way into an earthy reality! I feel an almost overwhelming gratitude for such a wonderful, magical, meaningful life, and the extraordinary people I am associated with. What a destiny, to be a steward of dreams such as these!

I look forward to meeting, and maybe traveling together with you along a shared spiritual path awhile . . .

With love and blessings, Ivan.

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