What we’re about
Merry Meet to All!!! Circle of Sublime Elms is the 2nd/3rd largest & most active Pagan Witchcraft Meetup Group in the world and supports ALL of the Southeast Pagan Communities including Alliance of Savannah ~ Sublime Elm Pagan Unity.
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Circle of Sublime Elms strive to be a group of open-minded & free spirits. Sharing and embracing Perfect Love & Perfect Trust with no boundaries. A place where All Paths are Welcome!
To those who do not want to imitate or follow any specific path! Who want to reawaken and to let go any past uncertainties or worries. To Live & Learn, together!!!
We also offer seating for curious, timid individuals with an active desire to learn or to know more about paganism. Who feel more comfortable to just sit and observe the magickal circle of ritual magick!
There is never a fee to participate in our circle!!!
We also graciously educate our members with most classes, at no charge!!!
Sublime is a wonderful word and means so much >>> \
to make something pure: to make something such as an emotion finer or purer \
beautiful: so awe-inspiringly beautiful as to seem almost heavenly; \
"the composer at his most sublime"; morally worthy: of the highest moral or spiritual value, or intellectual worth. \
To elevate or exalt especially in dignity or honor; a: to render finer (as in purity or excellence) \
b: to convert (something inferior) into something of higher worth; elated; joyful.....
More info for Elm Tree: http://www.thegoddesstree.com/trees/Elm.htm \
We put together this sacred circle in 2009. Since, we have had at least two rituals per month. Celebrating the Esbats {dark & full moons} and all Sabbats!. At the Circle of Sublime Elms, some have practiced all of their life and others began practicing here. The members are all-embracing with many abilities & attributes; offering vast enthusiasm & passion to share each others paths. We go all-out to encourage participation and encourage each to prepare and promote their paths with a different theme for most every circle. Some examples are at Yule we incorporated Hanukah, January’s Wolf Moon the Tri-fold Goddess, Imbolc/Dark Moon with Native American influences, February’s full moon for Celtic Ogham tree alphabet & Goddess Diana. The March dark moon with a Draconian theme and at the March full moon focused on the Egyptian paths. This makes our circle unique for inviting all to share their wonderful gifts and pagan paths. We also offer seating for the curious who are somewhat hesitant, timid, or inexperienced to enter the Magikal circle of ritual magic!
Our main purpose is to become close friends and to do open circles. The plan is to assist each other in practicing and learning the Craft. To fulfill love, honor, and respect not only for The God and Goddess; but to Love each other and all, including GAIA ~ Our Mother Earth. \
A circle is a safe, sacred space that we create. It is "between" the worlds, the magickal and the mundane worlds. It marks a "place that is not a place, in a time that is not a time". What we mean by this is that it is sort of a nexus, a place that can touch and reach all other places and people in time and space. by Lady Bridget, © 1999
Circle of Sublime Elm membership cards are available for active participants* in rituals, classes, & outings. For a $10 bequest or $15 for a couple, you get loads of perks; including a 10% or 15% discount at Central Florida metaphysical shops, entry to Sublime Elm special events, major rituals and advanced classes.
*Cardholder must have attended at least 4 rituals and/or classes plus Ritual Etiquette Class: "Getting to know proper circle etiquette and the basics of attending rituals at SE."
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** The New Age is in fact a free-flowing spiritual movement; a network of believers and practitioners who share somewhat similar beliefs and practices, which they add on to whichever formal religion that they follow. \
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New World Order As the Age of Aquarius unfolds. This will be a utopia in which there is world government, and end to wars, disease, hunger, pollution, and poverty. Gender, racial, religious and other forms of discrimination will cease. People's allegiance to their tribe or nation will be replaced by a concern for the entire world and its people. \
Channeling is a method similar to that used by Spiritualists in which a spirit of a long dead individual is conjured up. However, while Spiritualists generally believe that one's soul remains relatively unchanged after death, most channelers believe that the soul evolves to higher planes of existence. Channelers usually try to make contact with a single, spiritually evolved being. That being's consciousness is channeled through the medium and relays guidance and information to the group, through the use of the medium's voice. \
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Crystals are materials which have their molecules arranged in a specific, highly ordered internal pattern. This pattern is reflected in the crystal's external structure which typically has symmetrical planar surfaces. Many common substances, from salt to sugar, from diamonds to quartz form crystals. Crystals possess healing energy. \
Meditating is a process of blanking out the mind and releasing oneself from conscious thinking. This is often aided by repetitive chanting of a mantra, or focusing on an object.
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Divination The use of various techniques to foretell the future, including I Ching, Pendulum movements, Runes, Scrying, Tarot Cards. \
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Astrology The belief that the orientation of the planets at the time of one's birth, and the location of that birth predicts the individual's future and personality. Holistic Health This is a collection of healing techniques which have diverged from the traditional medical model. It attempts to cure disorders in mind, body and spirit and to promote wholeness and balance in the individual. Examples are acupuncture, crystal healing, homeopathy, iridology, massage, various meditation methods, polarity therapy, psychic healing, therapeutic touch, reflexology, etc. \
With Love & Light Always,
NEVAR {Justin} - Katy - Cynthia - Joe - Victoria - Will - Megan - Luxa - Elio
Upcoming events (4)
See all- SUBLIME ELMS COUNCIL MEETINGCircle of Sublime Elms, Orlando, FL
MEETING FOR SUBLIME ELMS COUNCIL MEMBERS ONLY!!!
Saturday, JUNE 21st 4PM to 6PM
Go over upcoming 2025 rituals, classes, code of conduct, workshops, possible alliance with an Online setup and Committee Member roles/ Committee Assistants, Volunteers using their abilities and gifts to offer Sublime Elms a variety of subjects for classes in the future, Fundraising, NEEDED items for Raffles and Memberships growth.
We are open to any suggestions or comments from all members! We want your thoughts and ideas as to what would make us all better. Most importantly, we want Elms to volunteer! So, if you aren't among the ones on this RSVP list..... please send an email to: justdtnorl@gmail.com with Subject: {Council Meeting Advice} for us to discuss at this meeting, volunteering OR just leave a comment.
The Sublime Elms is dedicated to serving the needs of all pagan paths here in Central Florida. We embrace diversity in the Circle, knowing that experiencing a variety of rituals and classes is a wonderful way to grow closer and stronger. With this in mind, we can continue the process of setting up classes and outings safely throughout 2025.
RAFFLE DONATIONS
Circle of the Sublime Elm is looking for donations of Pagan and Witchcraft items and crafts for our fundraising raffles for future Sabbat rituals. If you have things you'd like to donate please bring them. Thank you!
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BLESSED LITHA / SUMMER SOLSTICE 2024
Saturday, June 21st - Gathering at 6 - Ritual at 6:30 pm - By: Cynthia
There's never a fee to attend a Ritual!
We are doing a 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Theme, and would like some, if not all of you who attend to choose a character or a faerie to dress up as, if you can. This will be so fun!!!!
HISTORY OF LITHA/MIDSUMMER
Also known as Summer Solstice, Litha, Alban Hefin, Sun Blessing, Gathering Day, Feill-Sheathain, Whit Sunday, Whitsuntide, Vestalia, Thing-tide, St. John's DayLitha is usually celebrated on June 21st, but varies somewhat from the 20th to the 23rd, dependent upon the Earth's rotation around the Sun. According to the old folklore calendar, Summer begins on Beltane (May 1st) and ends on Lughnassadh (August 1st), with the Summer Solstice midway between the two, marking MID-Summer. This makes more logical sense than suggesting that Summer begins on the day when the Sun's power begins to wane and the days grow shorter. The most common other names for this holiday are the Summer Solstice or Midsummer, and it celebrates the arrival of Summer, when the hours of daylight are longest. The Sun is now at the highest point before beginning its slide into darkness.
Humanity has been celebrating Litha and the triumph of light since ancient times. On the Wheel of the Year Litha lies directly across from Yule, the shortest day of the calendar year, that cold and dark winter turning when days begin to lengthen and humanity looks wistfully toward warmth, sunlight and growing things. Although Litha and Yule are low holidays or lesser sabats in the ancient parlance, they are celebrated with more revel and merriment than any other day on the wheel except perhaps Samhain. The joyous rituals of Litha celebrate the verdant Earth in high summer, abundance, fertility, and all the riches of Nature in full bloom. This is a madcap time of strong magic and empowerment, traditionally the time for handfasting or weddings and for communication with the spirits of Nature. At Litha, the veils between the worlds are thin; the portals between "the fields we know" and the worlds beyond stand open. This is an excellent time for rites of divination.
Those who celebrated Litha did so wearing garlands or crowns of flowers, and of course, their millinery always included the yellow blossoms of St. John's Wort. The Litha rites of the ancients were boisterous communal festivities with morris dancing, singing, storytelling, pageantry and feasting taking place by the village bonfire and torch lit processions through the villages after dark. People believed that the Litha fires possessed great power, and that prosperity and protection for oneself and one's clan could be earned merely by jumping over the Litha bonfire. It was also common for courting couples joined hands and jump over the embers of the Litha fire three times to ensure a long and happy marriage, financial prosperity and many children. Even the charred embers from the Litha bonfire possessed protective powers - they were charms against injury and bad wwweather in harvest time, and embers were commonly placed around fields of grain and orchards to protect the crops and ensure an abundant reaping. Other Litha customs included carrying an ember of the Litha fire home and placing it on one's hearth and decking one's home with birch, fennel, St. John's Wort, orpin, and white lilies for blessing and protection.
The Litha Sabbat is a time to celebrate both work and leisure, it is a time for children and childlike play. It is a time to celebrate the ending of the waxing year and the beginning of the waning year, in preparation for the harvest to come. Midsummer is a time to absorb the Sun's warming rays and it is another fertility Sabbat, not only for humans, but also for crops and animals. Wiccans consider the Goddess to be heavy with pregnancy from the mating at Beltane - honor is given to Her. The Sun God is celebrated as the Sun is at its peak in the sky and we celebrate His approaching fatherhood - honor is also given to Him. The faeries abound at this time and it is customary to leave offerings - such as food or herbs - for them in the evening.
CORRESPONDENCES:
PURPOSE: Re-dedication to the Lord and Lady, beginning of the harvest, honoring the Sun God, honoring the pregnant Goddess
MEANING: Crowning of the Sun God, death of the Oak King, assumption of the Holly King, end the ordeal of the Green Man
TOOLS, SYMBOLS, & DECORATIONS: The sun, oak, birch & fir branches, sun flowers, lilies, red/maize/yellow or gold flower, love amulets, seashells, summer fruits & flowers, feather/flower door wreath, sun wheel, fire, circles of stone, sun dials and swords/blades, bird feathers, Witches' ladder.
COLORS: Blue, green, gold, yellow and red.
CUSTOMS: Bonfires, processions, all night vigil, singing, feasting, celebrating with others, cutting divining rods, dowsing rods & wands, herb gathering, handfastings, weddings, Druidic gathering of mistletoe in oak groves, need fires, leaping between two fires, mistletoe
(without berries, use as a protection amulet), women walking naked through gardens to ensure continued fertility, enjoying the seasonal fruits & vegetables, honor the Mother's fullness, richness and abundance, put garlands of St. John’s Wort placed over doors/ windows & a sprig in the car for protection.
GODDESSES: Mother Earth, Mother Nature, Venus, Aphrodite, Yemaya, Astarte, Freya, Hathor, Ishtar, all Goddesses of love, passion, beauty and the Sea, and Pregnant, lusty Goddesses, Green Forest Mother; Great One of the Stars, Goddess of the Wells
GODS: Father Sun/Sky, Oak King, Holly King, Arthur, Gods at peak power and strength.
ANIMALS/MYTHICAL BEINGS: Wren, robin, horses, cattle, satyrs, faeries, firebird, dragon, thunderbird
GEMSTONES: Lapis lazuli, diamond, tiger’s eye, all green gemstones, especially emerald and jade
HERBS: Anise, mugwort, chamomile, rose, wild rose, oak blossoms, lily, cinquefoil, lavender, fennel, elder, mistletoe, hemp, thyme, larkspur, nettle, wisteria, vervain ( verbena), St. John’s wort, heartsease, rue, fern, wormwood, pine,heather, yarrow, oak & holly trees
INCENSE/OILS: Heliotrope, saffron, orange, frankincense & myrrh, wisteria, cinnamon, mint, rose, lemon, lavender, sandalwood, pine
RITUALS/MAGICKS: Nature spirit/fey communion, planet healing, divination, love & protection magicks. The battle between Oak King, God of the waxing year & Holly King, God of the waning year (can be a ritual play), or act out scenes from the Bard’s (an incarnation of Merlin) "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", re-dedication of faith, rites of inspiration.
FOODS: Honey, fresh vegetables, lemons, oranges, summer fruits, summer squash, pumpernickel bread, ale, carrot drinks, mead.
OUR FEAST IS POTLUCK!!!
So, if you partake in the feast….. Please bring something to share or a $$$ donation. Your food item should be able to feed at least (8) eight people.
Bring Hand instruments, drums, flutes, tambourines, maracas, guitars, etc.
Please remember to always enter 'Our' Circle with perfect love and an open heart.
PARKING is directly across the street is a small u shaped street [Fern Circle}, with parking on one side the street, Davis St, or Hampton between Robinson and Livingston on the west side. Please be conscious that others will need to use the street as well, and park accordingly! Also, be aware that there needs to be room left for emergency vehicles to pass through.
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