The Bird Song of the Starry River: Stories from Stardust

Medicine of the Starry Heavens's Stories from Stardust presents...

The Bird Song of the Starry River

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In honor of our winged friends migrating their way south for the winter we will gather under the vault-of-the-heavens for stories and poetics that take flight & cross borders. We will pay homage to the starry birds of the autumn sky, those sojourners who bless the Milky Way and carry our pilgrim souls on the great ancestral Star River. These are some of the oldest myths that contain our mutual life and common humanity, weaving through time and landscape, the way birdsong weaves through the human psyche. There be secrets and deep-time whispers in this part of the sky. Notes that carry up-close names & murmurs of the Gods & Goddesses. Come explore the Milky Way and the brightest stars of autumn.

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What is Stories from Stardust?

A one of a kind story-telling, stargazing deep-dive that braids together myth, cosmology & poetics with intellectual history, cultural remembering, practical astronomy & heart-centered teachings. These events are a form of ritual attunement that weave together imagination, landscape, cross-cultural star-lore, wonder, ancient perceptions & an alchemical courting of the night sky. I tell stories the way our ancestors did: under the night sky, around a fire, along shorelines, communing with the treasure trove of constellational images and folklore that is our starry heavens. Doing it this way is an inheritance that reaches deep into an embodied culture of belonging and plucks the long-forgotten heartstrings of the human psyche.

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Date: Saturday, October 11th

Time: Doors 6:30pm, Story 7pm

Where: 65 Sanford Way, Barnardsville - The Sundial at The High Meadow

~or~ the Pavilion at Wild Abundance (if rainy)

*important parking info below, carpooling encouraged*

(will also be livestreamed on Zoom - info below)

Suggested donation: $12-36, no one turned away for lack of funds

You can Venmo @MedicineOfTheStarryHeavens, book a ticket here, or bring cash the night of the event.

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Bring warm clothes, cushions, blankets, chairs, whatever you need to be comfy and open to the medicine of the starry heavens...

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Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89601889705

Meeting ID: 896 0188 9705

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***Parking Instructions***

You can park at Wild Abundance (WA) for this event. 65 Sanford Way, Weaverville, NC. Once on Sanford Way follow the signs to WA. There is a steep gravel road to the left across from a green box truck at the beginning of WA. There is a traffic cone because the road is not to be driven up. You can park below. To get to the High Meadow, walk up the steep gravel path across from the box truck. To get to the Pavilion at Wild Abundance, do not walk up the steep gravel path, but walk straight down the road past the box truck and the big pavilion is on the right. Please do not park in anyone's driveway! Thanks.

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Frank Salzano is an astrologer, cultural astronomer & storyteller that focuses on old-world astrology, cross-cultural star myths, and celestial folklore.

Learn more at www.medicineofthestarryheavens.com

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