The evening of myth and ritual theatre begins with Inanna who like many of the divine goddesses, teaches us that just as the seeds we plant each year "die, be reborn and rise again," we too are part of the ever continuing cycle of life. Through dance and song, Inanna graces us with the wisdom she has found while on her underground winter sojourn.

As our spring story and enactment unfolds, the dark crone of winter accedes to the Spring Maiden as she begins another year’s journey around the Seasons of the Wheel. The Maiden has left the Crone’s cave where she found wisdom and guidance in the nurturing dark of winter. Now she ventures forth to find courage, plant her dream seeds, and grow her personal garden while reclaiming the Garden of the Earth. She faces East, a rising sun promising a fulfilled life, and finds a large nest where she is offered an egg to carry her precious seeds and other tokens of guidance she finds along the way. Cheered on by the archetypal fool who dares to believe all things are possible, the Maiden visits Lilith in the south, the first woman in the Garden of Eden, who offers her the fruit of self-knowledge and bids her reclaim the regenerative powers of the Serpent. She then travels west and lights a candle in the reflective pond of future possibilities before greeting the Greenman and planting her symbolic dream seeds in the Garden of Community.

Journey with the Spring Maiden as she, and we, seek courage while traveling through the Seasons, re-claiming the Earth and the power to grow the Gardens we desire in our lives.