Shenandoah Valley Church of the Wild

07/27/2026

Here's your invitation to join with others for a contemplative time listening to myth and story, your own heart, each other, and the animate aliveness of the natural world. Opening, listening, sharing. This Saturday in Bridgewater.

Please join us to honor Lúnasa, the Gaelic holy day of threshing, harvesting, remembering

07/12/2026

I've recently started publishing my writing on Substack named the Threshold. To name this time we are in feels important. We are standing at a civilizational and planetary threshold unlike any our species can remember. What does this have to do with Wild Church? It's not a coincidence that the Wild Church movement has been growing over these last number of years as old institutions, dogma, and entrenched worldviews of separation are fragmenting. An ecological spirituality and consciousness is necessary to navigate this threshold into a new way of being human on this beautiful planet. To listen to the earth in all of her wisdom; to see the sacred in every human, creature, tree, waterway, element.

This piece is the second in a series focused on how the human brain, consciousness, and experience has shifted over a long arc of time related to how we access the voice of the divine. How we connect with Source intelligence. How the voice of the feminine, including the earth, has been suppressed. And why this time we are moving into requires not just the emergence of the feminine as a principle, but a synthesis of all parts of who we are. Including the sacred within. Welcome to the Oracle series. Please read and share. Your feedback is important to me.
https://open.substack.com/pub/valerielunaserrels/p/part-1-skein-2-the-oracle-migrates?r=6q13h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

06/18/2026

For Solstice, we gather in a wounded place to bear witness, offer grief and joy, offer blessings and creativity. Join us on the banks of a local creek in need of renewal and purification from contaminants and pollution. We will offer our presence, ritual, blessings, poetry. Register here to receive the details.

This solstice, the point of longest light of the year, occurs on the same day as the Global Earth Exchange.

04/18/2026

Join us on May 2nd for Beltane, the Gaelic festival that honors this time in-between spring equinox and summer solstice. We will listen to the sermon of wildflower, creek, birds and the greening. What is blossoming and greening within you in a time of endings and the chaos of a world in crisis? Yah, it's all connected...

You're invited to join other humans and more-than-humans to celebrate the festival of flowering.

03/20/2026

Amid the chaos... Spring Equinox Blessings! "This day brings light and dark into perfect balance. Not as an abstraction, but as a felt truth in the soil, in the song of the birds, in the particular quality of this morning's light. The Celtic wheel names this threshold Alban Eiler, the Light of the Earth, a moment when the green world does not ask permission to return. It simply returns." Read more on our website.

This day brings light and dark into perfect balance. Not as an abstraction, but as a felt truth in the soil, in the song of the birds, in the particular quality of this morning's light. The Celtic wheel names this threshold Alban Eiler, the Light of the Earth, a moment when the green world does not....

03/06/2026

In this time in-between things, the dark and the light, chaos and new order, join us to connect with the earth's wisdom and your own.

We gather in this threshold time, in-between the dark and light in equal measure.

02/14/2026

Is your heart yearning for a new world based on the values of interconnection, care, compassion and inclusion? You're invited to attend a different kind of Wild Church experience. Part of remembering and living into our deep interconnection with an animate earth, is also remembering the greater body of the cosmos that holds our planet and everything in it.

I've spent time over the past few years learning the ancient art of archetypal astrology (which could take a lifetime to fully understand) and apply this wisdom that streams between the stars & planets, the earth, humanity and our own personal lives. I see this as part of ecospirituality rooted in both the earth, as people of the earth, and in the heavens, as people of the stars. Our DNA contains particles of stardust and humus. Spirit and matter.

If you're curious about the relationship between the planetary movements in the sky and life here on earth, join me in exploring how this unfolds in historical events, including in the here and now, and in your unique lived experience.

There will be a rare exact conjunction of Saturn and Neptune in 0 point Aries on February 20-21. We will gather around this event and what this opens up as potential in human history in birthing the new world our hearts most long for.

Read more about it on our website and RSVP to receive the Zoom link. And save the date for our in-person Equinox celebration on March 15th!

Join me for an online "pop-up Wild Church" rooted in the earth's interconnection with the cosmos.

01/22/2026

I so seldom post here so am not sure the algorithms will pick this up! But for locals, here’s an invitation to join us on February 1st for the Celtic fire festival of Imbolc. These gatherings aren’t just fluffy spiritual practice, they are offered in service to the future world we want to exist in. A world rooted in reciprocity, love and the reality of our interconnection. The world that is emerging through all of us in relationship with the living earth.

Imbolc, St Brigid's Day, invites us to contemplate and embody the divine feminine within ourselves and in the earth and her creatures.

10/31/2025

Join us if you are anywhere near Rockingham County for Samhain, the Celtic new year and entry into this threshold season between fall and winter. Action and stillness. What has been and what is yet emerging. If interested, you’ll need to register for the location info. All are welcome!

A gathering to be present to this time of the year as the light fades and holy dark invites us in to re-member and honor our ancestors and lineages.