The News from Four Quarters

NewsLogo Building, planting and planning. Sharing ceremony and good, home raised food.
Oddities in the weather and how the orchard did.
Observations on the Global Crisis.
Earth Spirit and Earth Living.
These are all parts of the News from Four Quarters. Enjoy.

February 5, 2026

The 2026 Wheel of the Year is Coming!
By Kurt Griffith

We have sent the 2026 Wheel of the Year off to press. ane we expect to have then in are twitchy hands any day now! Through the efforts of our team, despite historic Weather events, this may be the earliest we have sent the Wheel to our Printers. The Wheel of the Year is produced by the Member Volunteers and The Community of Service of Four Quarters, and is distributed free of charge as a service to our Members, guests and the greater community. This is our twenty-seventh printing of The Wheel of the Year and our twenty-second year of color covers.

We would be pleased to place you on our mailing list for your own yearly copy of the 2026 Wheel of the Year Calendar. The best way to get your own Free copy mailed to you at no charge is to VISIT THE WEB PAGE and get us your info.

Get our 72 page Desk Calendar filled with eco/green articles and significant calendrical information for the Earth Spiritual Community, along with our event listings. The center section opens to a monthly day planner and desk calendar, quite handy. We are printing and and plan to distribute over 14,000 free copies, and consider it to be an important part of our public service supporting Earth Based Spirituality and Sustainable Lifeways. We expect to be mailing the new edition of the Wheel of the Year Calendar in mid-February. Get us your address and we will mail you the 2026 Wheel of the Year, absolutely FREE!

GET THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR

February 4, 2026

2026 Calendar-at-a-Glance is now Available!
By Kurt Griffith

In advance of our annual Wheel of the Year, The 2026 Clanendar At A Glance is now available! Members, friends, guests and interested parties can download a printable PDF of the year's schedule here. We have just about all of our events listed, our regular Spiritual Events, Moon Services, Hosted Festivals, and Church Events through the end of the year. So start marking your calendars, putting in for those vacation days, and saving up that lunch money to get on the Land!

We’ve also gotten the 2026 Wheel of the Year out the door!
It's that time of year again, we've been working feverishly going into the winter holidays with final layout, editing, and pre-press to turn around the 2025 Wheel of the Year, and gotten our annual calendar out to our press! Preparing for the coming season, we’ve been updating the Web Site Event Pages, preparing the Member's Muse, and digging onto planning the 2026 season. We have exciting NEW EVENTS this year, along with our traditional classics that we’re looking forward to bring to you.

Do you want your own copy of the the 2026 Wheel of the Year sent to you, absolutely FREE? Visit our Publications Page You can also opt-in to our mailing list so you can stay up to date with our news and announcements, and we never, ever sell or share our Mail list.

Download the 2026 Calendar at a Glance.

Augusts 21, 2025

Stones Rising 2025 Community Altar!
By pamela alexander

With Stones Rising less than a week away, excitement is building here at Four Quarters as we prepare to raise another Stone in the North Copse!

Last-minute details for ceremony are being finalized, as are all the plans for moving and raising the Stone. No matter how many times we have done this, we still get all twitterpated in the last days before the event starts.

That’s our part.

Here’s YOUR part! As we celebrate our theme this year, “A Place For All Paths,” we plan to create a Community Altar which will honor all the Faith Traditions that are represented at Stones Rising. And you are invited to bring a small object to place on that altar to represent your path, your unique journey to Stones Rising.

Here are our basic guidelines:

-We would like all the items to remain on the altar from Friday until after the Consecration ceremony on Sunday evening, if possible.
-Items should be weatherproof, if possible, or you need to be responsible for moving the item to a dry location in the event of rain.
-Items should be durable, in case of any accidents.
-The item should be something you are okay with being photographed or touched.
-Items should not be too large, so there is room for everyone.

But, other than that, please feel free to bring something to represent your Path! Stones Rising is about interweaving our stories, and this altar should tell an interesting tale!

Stones Rising Thirty-One: A Place For All Paths
August 27th-September 1st
Rising Day: August 31st-Free For All.
Four Quarters InterFaith
Artemas PA 17211

Resgister for Stones Rising Here!

October 23, 2025

Samhain – The Weather!
By pamela alexander

Samhain at Four Quarters is just under 2 weeks away, and we are eagerly looking at the extended weather forecasts, even though experience has told us time and time again, that this is WAAAAYYYY too early to know anything about the weather! (If you’ve never been to Four Quarters, it is helpful to know that, due to the nature of the landscape here in the Allegheny Plateau, we exist in a sort of “micro-climate” which makes predicting the weather…challenging.)

But having no real information to go on isn’t going to stop me from writing a post about the weather at Samhain today!

January 23, 2025

2025 Schedule-at-a-Glance is now Available!
By Kurt Griffith

In advance of our annual Wheel of the Year, The 2025 Schedule At A Glance is now available! Members, friends, guests and interested parties can download a printable PDF of the year's schedule here. We have just about all of our events listed, our regular Spiritual Events, Moon Services, Hosted Festivals, and Church Events through the end of the year. So start marking your calendars, putting in for those vacation days, and saving up that lunch money to get on the Land!

We’ve also gotten the 2025 Wheel of the Year out the door!
It's that time of year again, we've been working feverishly going into the winter holidays with final layout, editing, and pre-press to turn around the 2025 Wheel of the Year, and gotten our annual calendar out to our press! Preparing for the coming season, we’ve been updating the Web Site Event Pages, preparing the Member's Muse, and digging onto planning the 2025 season. We have exciting NEW EVENTS this year, along with our traditional classics that we’re looking forward to bring to you.

Do you want your own copy of the the 2025 Wheel of the Year sent to you, absolutely FREE? Visit our Publications Page You can also opt-in to our mailing list so you can stay up to date with our news and announcements, and we never, ever sell or share our Mail list.

Download the 2025 Calendar at a Glance.

September 30, 2025

Shapeshifters’ Ball at Samhain 2025!
By pamela alexander

This is a Very. Special. Announcement. from Four Quarters Samhain!!!

Presenting:
The Shapeshifters’ Ball!!!

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A Masquerade and Costume Ball beneath the Full Moon in the Stone Circle. The stage is set, the music is on, the lights are shining, all we need are the Stars of the Show…YOU!

January 20, 2025

Santos in The Snow

~pam (Eguin Colarde) alexander

The Moon Service Altar dressed to honor the Orisha Obatala.

Four Quarters first Moon Service for 2005 kicked off this past weekend with a surprisingly large number of folks braving the cold and snow to attend. When we sat down for the Misa on Friday evening, I was astonished to count sixteen of us gathered to sing and pray together for our Beloved Departed.

Four Quarters was already fairly white with snow on Friday during the day, but, as we slept, another two inches of beautiful white snow fell, blanketing the Land in silence and rare and strange beauty. And all that white seemed appropriate as we launched the Moon Service weekend which was themed “Santeria Show and Tell.” (Everybody knows how much the Santos LOVE white!)

We began the day’s activities with an “Elements of Ritual” class dedicated to Ellegua, his place at the crossroads, and his role as the keeper of liminal spaces. That was shortly followed by a fine Church Supper featuring a menu of Cuban dishes, many of them particular favorites of Ellegua, the Orisha we would be honoring that night.

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