About
Cascadia Mystery School is a Pacific Northwest community devoted to seasonal celebration, ritual, and connection. Each year, we host 20 gatherings that invite you to slow down, mark the turning of the seasons, and reconnect with the rhythms of the earth.
Eight gatherings honor the traditional Wheel of the Year high holidays. Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Litha, Lughnasadh, and Mabon.
offering space for ceremony, community, and seasonal reflection
Twelve seasonal workshops round out the year with hands-on learning and shared experience, from fall vegetable fermentation classes to endarkment ceremonies to storytelling gatherings around the fire. Whatever the season calls for, there's a place for you at the table.
Cascadia Mystery School is envisioning a world where people are empowered and connected through myth, food and the natural rhythm of the land.
Based in Portland, Oregon, traditional homelands of the Multnomah, Clackamas, and Watlala bands of the Chinook, as well as the Tualatin Kalapuya. Portland was founded at the confluence of the Wa'lúmt (Willamette) and Wimahl (Columbia) Rivers, where generations of Chinookan tribes made their home for thousands of years. In the mid 19th century, these tribes and many others in southern Oregon, were forcibly removed to underutilized, militarized reservations in central Oregon.
As many look back to claim their indigenous European ancestral traditions, we must look, with eyes wide open, at the horrors committed towards the original stewards of these lands. We cannot change the past, but we can build a future where the original land keepers are acknowledged, valued and cared for.
Cascadia Mystery School aims to be a trellis to support the growth of a new culture, where we use the old ways in a new way and reacquaint ourselves with old traditions while making them something inviting and approachable for the twenty first century.
We are on a journey of discovery in an age where everything seems to be coming apart and together at the same time. Many of us are being called to grow new systems out of the old, extractive crumbling ones. Regenerative, place-based culture is asking to be woven and Cascadia Mystery School is the loom. We are seeking co-conspirators, wisdom keepers, seekers, dreamers, exiles and people filled with wonder.
