PantheaCon and Divine Exhaustion

There are those opportunities in life that are too valuable to miss where food, sleep and self care are swept aside by profound conversation, engaging in service, building meaningful relationships and basking in community; Pantheacon is such an experience. From the moment of arrival it is obvious this is a Pagan gathering of a different sort. Here there is every manifestation of Pagan community one could wish for. Practitioners of so many paths that an old fashioned roll-a-dex would be necessary to keep track of them all.

Emerging from the room each morning on little sleep, in search of coffee, turned into a rollercoaster ride of Divine inspiration. Not once was the search for coffee not interrupted with a conversation that was so meaningful that time and space did not fold together into a sacred container that held the entire day. Lost in this multiplicity of insightful experience the individual self becomes but a vibrating thread in a community tapestry of immense diversity.

Forever changed by this manifestation of what our community can be, exhausted by unconscious effort to experience more than is humanly possible, I am unable to even sort through and identify the specifics of what has made this impression on me. It is as if great waves of trust, love, insight and joyful exuberance have battered my very essence.

This weekend I had the honor of witnessing community as the Goddess intended it. The experience was an emotional and spiritual marathon, exhausting yet incredibly meaningful. Spent, with heavy eyes, I send my gratitude to all who made this experience possible for me.