Waimakariri Silver Tent

01/01/2026

What's on for 2026 - mark your calendars

24/12/2025

Seasons Greetings to you all. No matter what you are doing today, spending it with family, friends, alone or working i hope you find time to appreciate yourself and the magick you bring to this world. Thank you being part of mine.

16/12/2025

Last week i was approached by stuff about being a witch. The article will be out sometime over the summer.
Very positive

12/09/2025

Just 8 days to go before we come together to celebrate Ostara - Spring Equinnox

04/09/2025

09/08/2025

So the crosses have been bugging me...i just made 3 :-) and they worked ... doing a little dance :-)

03/08/2025

Being in a circle or community with other women who have open, generous hearts helps regulate the nervous system. Helps us settle into our bodies and feel safe to open up and be ourselves.
Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday afternoon.

20/06/2025

✨❄️ Today we celebrate Yule — the Winter Solstice ❄️✨
This is the longest night and the shortest day of the year — a time of deep magick, firelight, and quiet hope. For our ancestors, this moment meant that the sun’s long journey back to warmth and life had begun. The dark was turning. Light would return.

Across cultures and centuries, people have honoured this turning point with sacred fires, rituals, feasts, and gratitude for the sun’s rebirth.

Even now, winter can feel heavy — with its illnesses, cold nights, and grief for what we’ve lost. But like the Celts, we can choose to see the darkest night as a promise: spring will come. New life will return. We are traveling towards the light.

Tonight, light a candle, sit by the fire, or simply pause to welcome back the sun. May hope and warmth find you, wherever you are. 🌙🔥🌲✨

13/06/2025

Greetings Wonderful Women

I hope this post finds you enjoying the beautiful sunshine after a very gray week. A very wintery week, all I wanted to do was sit by the fire and curl up with a good book.

We are a week out from the Winter Solstice, I have a beautiful meditation that is coming together quite nicely, along with the gathering all the bits for a craft activity I am planning for the event.

I look forward to sharing the space with you next week.

To secure a spot please this link https://events.humanitix.com/waimakariri-silver-tent-winter-solstice-circle

Alternatively, if you are planning on coming and paying cash on the day can you please let me know so I have enough Wassail and craft supplies.

I am looking forward to seeing you all as we celebrate the shortest day and the longest night.

Now I off to officiate a wedding this afternoon

Warmest Blessings
Dawn Maley
Waimakariri Silver Tent - facilitator

Winter Solstice Women's Circle Honour the longest night - Calling back the Sun On the sacred night of the winter solstice, we gather together in circle

12/06/2025

Just over a week until Winter Solstice - are you joining us?

10/06/2025

What beautiful words for this time of the year.

As the Southern Hemisphere tilts away from our life-giving sun, we approach the sacred pause of Yule. A moment when darkness reaches its fullest expression and the promise of returning light whispers through the winter air.

In these shortest days, when morning light arrives late and twilight comes early, the Cherry Ballart is heavy with its crimson fruit, while the wise Warin retreats to her burrow, conserving energy for the season ahead. These natural rhythms call us to turn inward, to honour the fertile darkness that precedes all new growth.

Thanks Gaia Temple

Just 11 days before our Winter Solstice Silver Tent - there are still spaces available you are welcome to come and join us

Winter Solstice Women's Circle Honour the longest night - Calling back the Sun On the sacred night of the winter solstice, we gather together in circle

23/05/2025

Good morning wonderful women,
Here is a list of upcoming events for Silver Tent.
I hope you can join us
Dawn