Our founder brought us together to revive the magic of the Pacific Circle Summer Solstice event. After the first year, we developed a mission statement that the committee felt great about! It was “Bringing the pagan community together, in nature, for an enlightening, spiritual, and educational camping experience enjoyed by pagans and their families at Summer Solstice.” We have been living that mission for eight years uninterrupted (yes we are counting the 2020 online event).
In 2021 we were forced to relocate the event due to national forest locations remaining closed. We lucked out by stumbling onto a JEWEL of a location in Down to Earth EcoShire. The location is amazing, the owners and staff are kindred spirits. It is ideal in all ways but one. At the summer solstice, it is unbearably hot. The committee was asked so many times by campers to keep the location and change the date. It was also the overwhelming sentiment on the survey.
Ok, but why the name change?
Changing a mission statement is easy. The committee agreed that this location was worth the change of focus. EchoShire is about renewing the land and this fits so well with our own values. Only one problem. Our namesake, Pacific Circle was a Summer Event. It was most often (from the stories we’ve been told) in Angeles Crest Forest. That location is special. It’s steeped in tradition and you can feel it on the site. We didn’t want to abscond with the name (even though most folks call us PCR) when such key details were changing. We hope another group will consider revisiting an event there when the site becomes available again. When they do, Pacific Circle will be available for them. We have changed our official name to Pagan Community Retreat but imagine we will continue to be known as PCR.
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