October 2025 is a Hunter’s Moon- and a supermoon!

This year, the Harvest Moon is expected to occur around October 6th based on current astronomical calculations, instead of the Hunter Moon. The Hunter Moon reflects a time when communities would prepare for the cold season ahead by hunting animals to eat during the winter as they said goodbye to the warm and sunny months and hello to the chilly and dreary ones to come.

All genders are welcome to this drumming circle and ritual. Bring your own drum/instruments BUT some drums are available. In person in the herchurch sanctuary.

Drum pictured is a djembe. This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. In western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family. They are called membranophones because sound is created by vibration of membrane stretched tight.