DJEDI VILLAGE
Welcome friends and family to the mountain, to Arcoora Arts and Ecology Training Ground.
These events are for all who feel called to connect with this land, this work and this tribe. We regularly take breaks from running programs and hosting events through the year so we can create space for our community to connect with each other and nurture this special place so that it continues to blossom in beauty, as a place for tribe to come and learn, heal and belong.
Djedi’s have become synonymous with Arcoora as we endeavour to care for this place in the right way. Djedi’s create a culture of service, respect and care. You don’t have to have perviously participated in a Djedi Training or Djedi Village to join us for this event. Our doors are open to anyone who is curious to learn more about the Arcoora project. It is also a window for tribe to touch home base. If you have been meaning to come and visit but have not quite made it here yet, this is the perfect opportunity. This is a family friendly gathering. You can come for a day, a night, a weekend or the full length of the event.
What will happen during Djedi Village?
Many epic communally prepared meals
Group morning practice of yoga and meditation
Gentle or strenuous garden play, as you like it
Ecosystem restoration projects
Construction and maintenance projects
Sharing workshops, songs, stories, crafts
Dance celebration on the Saturday night
Camp fires & Yarns
Movie nights
Pizza nights
What to bring?
Gardening gear and tools
Yoga mat
Wet weather gear
Swimmers & towel
Torch
Snacks
Folding chair, blanket, cushion for outdoor seating
Closed in shoes (for building projects, gardening & bushwalks)
Slip on shoes such as crocs or gumboots (no shoes inside please, except clean soled shoes in the kitchen)
Dancing shoes (for dancing 😉)
If you can, please bring your own bedding (sheets, doona, pillow, blanket and towel). We can make up some shortfall if needed.
What is the contribution?
$30/day, kids are free. Includes communally prepared vegetarian and vegan meals. There is limited dorm room accomodation for those that register early, and plenty of room for camping!
(As with all Arcoora programs we don’t want funds to be a limiting factor that prevents participation - please get in touch if things are tight and we’ll see if we can arrange something)
Other Details
Arrivals: People can arrive early anytime after 4pm Sunday 16th. Arcoora is nestled within a community, free range kids and wildlife are our top priority. Please drive within our speed limit of 25km/hr. Additionally our driveway is 4WD only. We will ferry anyone in 2WD vehicles up the hill. Please read the directions we send you carefully.
Pets: Please leave your pooches at home, we cannot accommodate dogs or pets here as we are a wildlife sanctuary.
Drugs and Alcohol: On a day to day basis we create a space that is drug and alcohol free. Please smoke away from the communal areas and dispose of your butts mindfully.
Registration: Registration is essential to help us organise arrivals, accomodation and meals. We will send you arrival instructions after we receive your registration.
Who were/are the Djedi?
The Raising of the Djed took place in ancient Egypt at the Winter Solstice, at transitional times such as the death of a monarch or the end of rule and the beginning of another. The most important time for the raising of the Djed and the revealing of secrets and mysteries was at the end and beginning of historical eras – as is written on the texts of Edfu Temple in Egypt. This is the time when it is most important for mankind to raise the Djed inside us, individually, once again.
The initiates of this mystery were known as the Djedi, the ‘stable ones’, ‘pillars of the world’ - wisdom keepers of one mind and one spirit who, as initiates of the Osirian mysteries, comprised the living, terrestrial body of the archetypal, celestial Osiris. They served the planet and the plan at the end of the world age and guarded and transmitted the secret teachings. Thus, in this time of world change, it is time for the Djed to be raised in all of us again.
Contemporary Djedi are self-selecting re-generators of cosmos. They are those who, regardless of race or creed, are awakening to mission in service to the planet and the epochal imperatives of stability, continuity and regeneration. The Djedi sense, and know, Osiris’s arising as their own. As Osiris awakens from the sleep of the aeon, the Djedi also “rise to the occasion,” moving into resonant relationship as the re-constellated members of the collective Osiris. Therefore, as the mighty bones creak and the ancient One stirs, let the Djedi return. This is the historical moment of our awakening and our call.
Associations and projects are emerging across the world to raise awareness and take action on one issue or another. Throughout planet Earth human beings are actively engaged in Raising the Djed without associating it with the ancient Egyptian practice.
The Djedi are champions of the downtrodden, the underdog, the deprived and most of all champions of women and the Divine Feminine imprisoned in women throughout the world. The Djedi are those raising awareness, raising consciousness, stirring the rest of us to stand up for what is right and good in the world, to stand against oppression and tyranny – they are raising the Djed.
“S-aha Djed!”