The Firefly House: Washington DC Witchcraft

Firefly House Ostara 2026 Celebration

Sat, Mar 21 · 12:00 PM EDT

Lake Accotink Park, 7500 Lake Accotink Park Rd, Springfield, VA, US

Save the date: the Firefly House invites you to join us in-person for our celebration of Ostara the afternoon of March 21st at Lake Accotink Park in Springfield, VA. This is one of our few metro inaccessible locations, so if you need a ride, check out our carpool sheet.

Here's a rough schedule for the day:
* 12:00PM - Begin to gather at the park and setup the seed swap.
* 12:30PM - Spring Awakening Walk - enjoy a walk around Lake Accotink park to witness and revel in the burgeoning season.
* 1:45PM - Ritual preparations
* 2:00PM - Ritual begins
* 2:40PM (ish) - Potluck begins

So, if you don't want to worry about the Spring Awakening Walk, you don't have to arrive at noon. Those involved with the ritual should arrive around 1:15PM if at all possible.

With respect to that feast, we'd love it if you bring a dish to share! Let us know what you're bringing here.

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Image by HeungSoon from Pixabay.

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The Firefly House seeks to provide a friendly, safe environment in which all participants can engage in productive dialogue, sharing, and learning with each other in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We are committed to providing a harassment-free environment for all, regardless of gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body type, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the host.

Firefly Foundations Class: History of Wicca and the House

Sat, Mar 28 · 3:30 PM EDT

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St NW, Washington, DC, US

It's almost spring! That means, it's time for the Firefly House's annual Foundations class series. These classes are meant to provide students the opportunity to learn about the House and about our way of being Pagan.

For the second class of our seven-class series, we'll cover the vast array of folks whose philosophical or theological work leads to the House. Because Wicca is a formative part of our House's foundations, that means we'll be going over some of the usual suspects with respect to Wiccan history.

When you RSVP for this class, you'll be asked to provide an email address. We'll send you a link to the class video at that address as soon as possible after we receive it. We keep won't share your email with anyone ever. Watch the video before the class date and time, and come to class with any questions you might have. During the class session, we'll be going over anything from the video you wanted to review, and then for the remainder of the time, we'll be discussing a few folks who have had an influence on the house that we don't discuss in the video as an example of cultural appropriation. If there's time, we'll also go over a soul alignment ritual that comes to the house from those very individuals.

If you're comfortable with it, join us at the MLK Memorial Library in the Room 401-D to join the conversation in-person. Masks will be welcomed, but not provided, for in-person attendees. We will also have the necessary technology to allow folks to join in online via Google Meet if you prefer to attend remotely. Video conferencing information will be sent out the morning of the event. If you're connecting that way, please give us a few minutes past 3:30pm to get the stream online.

This class is a part of our foundations class series, which is only required if you wish to join the Firefly House as an initiate. If that does not interest you, then feel free to skip classes that you find less important for your journey. If you want to keep your options open with respect to initiation but cannot attend this session at the listed date and time, please contact the event host prior to the session. Keep in mind, you can only miss two of seven sessions in this way. Time spent with initiates of the House and your fellow classmates is an important part of knowing if you want to initiate. If you don't initiate, regardless of the reason, you're still welcome to all of the public events we organize.

If you would like to, feel free to join our Discord to chat with others in the Firefly House between sessions. This is also a great place to ask for help if you've lost a link to a video, for example.

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The Firefly House seeks to provide a friendly, safe environment in which all participants can engage in productive dialogue, sharing, and learning with each other in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We are committed to providing a harassment-free environment for all, regardless of gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body type, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the host.

May 2026 Rite of Her Sacred Fires

Sun, May 31 · 8:15 PM EDT

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Since 2010, during the full moon in May, the Covenant of Hekate — "an international community of devotees who honor the Goddess Hekate, in all her many forms, by all her many faces and guises" — performs the Rite of Her Sacred Fires. All over the world, in around 30 languages, the Rite will be performed, and we'll be joining them. This year is the first time that there's two full moons in May, and an online poll determined that we'd all do this on the second one.

The English language version is the one that we'll use, and you can familiarize yourself with it here.

It's short, taking only a few minutes. We'll gather at 8:15pm and get started around 8:20 as the sun sets.

This rite is designed to be performed solo, but Dash will explain prior to getting started how you can contribute, too, in your space and place as we share this time together.

No experience with Hekate is necessary, simply a reverence for her history and her meaningful impact on the world of modern witchcraft and witchcraft-inflected Pagan traditions.

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The Firefly House seeks to provide a friendly, safe environment in which all participants can engage in spiritually productive activities, dialogue, sharing, and learning with each other in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We are committed to providing a harassment-free environment for all, regardless of gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body type, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), diet, or technology choices. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the host.