Shrine to Your Sacred Power
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Remembering You Are a Witch, A Ritual
Designed by Jessica Kallista
The Shoppes at Main Street
sponsored by R.O Dickson Trustee
10409 Main Street, Fairfax, VA
sponsored by R.O Dickson Trustee
10409 Main Street, Fairfax, VA
#SHRINES #FindYourShrine #ExploreDC
Table of Contents
I. About Shrine to Your Sacred Power
II. Site Report: The Shoppes at Main Street
III. Remembering You Are a Witch Ritual Instructions
IV. Make An Offering
V. Connect
VI. About The Designer, Jessica Kallista
II. Site Report: The Shoppes at Main Street
III. Remembering You Are a Witch Ritual Instructions
IV. Make An Offering
V. Connect
VI. About The Designer, Jessica Kallista
The Explorer's Code
Before visiting a Shrine we trust Explorers will keep to particular Cleansing Rituals, that we may keep all Explorers as safe as is possible from Those Pathogens Which Live In The Air. SHRINES is, at its core, about connecting safely with others in solitude. As such, there are tenets that must not be broken:
I. Your participation in SHRINES is your guarantee that you have read, understand, and will abide by these rules and recommendations for your safety and the safety of all Explorers.
II. If you are experiencing symptoms of sore throat, stuffy nose, cough, fever, upset stomach, diarrhea, or are easily winded; if you have travelled and not quarantined or if you have received a positive coronavirus test within fourteen days, or are awaiting a pending test, please do not undertake any journey to participate in SHRINES. Your abstaining from Exploration creates a path for others. Trust that this experience will return in the future.
III. The most essential equipment for visitation of any Shrine is a facemask. Please ensure yours fits securely around the mouth and nose, and that you do not touch or remove your mask at any point during Exploration. Please do not take part in SHRINES without one. Though you may never see them, trust your fellow Explorers will wear theirs to help protect you.
IV. If you do come across other Explorers upon your journey, please treat them with space and patience. While others are performing a ritual, please stay behind the Shrine’s Waypoint and at least 15 feet away at all times. Most rituals take less than 15 minutes. Please give other Explorers the benefit of silence and solitude.
V. All Explorers will begin their engagement with a Shrine by performing The Cleansing Ritual detailed on each Shrine page in the guidebook.
I. Your participation in SHRINES is your guarantee that you have read, understand, and will abide by these rules and recommendations for your safety and the safety of all Explorers.
II. If you are experiencing symptoms of sore throat, stuffy nose, cough, fever, upset stomach, diarrhea, or are easily winded; if you have travelled and not quarantined or if you have received a positive coronavirus test within fourteen days, or are awaiting a pending test, please do not undertake any journey to participate in SHRINES. Your abstaining from Exploration creates a path for others. Trust that this experience will return in the future.
III. The most essential equipment for visitation of any Shrine is a facemask. Please ensure yours fits securely around the mouth and nose, and that you do not touch or remove your mask at any point during Exploration. Please do not take part in SHRINES without one. Though you may never see them, trust your fellow Explorers will wear theirs to help protect you.
IV. If you do come across other Explorers upon your journey, please treat them with space and patience. While others are performing a ritual, please stay behind the Shrine’s Waypoint and at least 15 feet away at all times. Most rituals take less than 15 minutes. Please give other Explorers the benefit of silence and solitude.
V. All Explorers will begin their engagement with a Shrine by performing The Cleansing Ritual detailed on each Shrine page in the guidebook.
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Shrine To Your Sacred Power
Shrine to Your Sacred Power is dedicated to unlocking one’s personal, alchemical, infinite love. It takes the form of a guided, garden grove meditation ritual that asks for an offering, but always returns that which is given, in one fashion or another. It is for Explorers who seek self-acceptance, modern magic, and the taste of joy.
“Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless
underlining of my capacity for joy.” –Audre Lorde
“Prioritizing ourselves in love is a political strategy, is survival.” –Adrienne Maree Brown
“I didn’t decide to become a witch. I remembered I was one” –Lisa Lister
underlining of my capacity for joy.” –Audre Lorde
“Prioritizing ourselves in love is a political strategy, is survival.” –Adrienne Maree Brown
“I didn’t decide to become a witch. I remembered I was one” –Lisa Lister
Site Report: The Shoppes At Main Street
Sponsored by R.O Dickson Trustee
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Address: 10409 Main Street, Fairfax, VA
Public Transportation: Chain Bridge Rd & Main St (Green 1 & 2 Bus Line), via Vienna/Fairfax-GMU (Orange & Silver Lines) Hours of Availability: Any |
Outdoors/Indoors: Outdoors
Metro Access: No Parking: Yes, free lot and street parking Walkup Access: Direct access from parking lot Terrain: Asphalt Stairs: No |
Finding The Shrine
When you arrive at the address, head to the rear of the parking lot. The Shrine is located there, next to Mobius Records. |
The Shoppes at Main Street is located in the heart of Old Town Fairfax City, along Main Street between Chain Bridge Road and University Drive. It is near the Old Town Hall, Old Town Square, and the Fairfax Historic Courthouse. The Shoppes at Main Street are locally owned businesses, including Penny Pincher Coins, Mobius Records, The Standard Barbershop, and an alternative art gallery and art studio space called Olly Olly.
“Experimentation and exploration are at the core of every thriving arts community. We know that the artists we need in order to have a thriving arts community in Old Town Fairfax City are already here, but they are often hidden away in their own separate studios and homes. The truly exceptional, avant-garde, local and regional artists working in disciplines of painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, collage, appropriation art, performance art, installation art, conceptual art, street art, video art, and other bleeding edge media and practices need a dedicated home base that supports and challenges them to experiment and explore together.”
–The Olly Olly About Page
–The Olly Olly About Page
Remembering You Are A Witch, A Ritual
When visiting this Shrine, you are invited to perform a Ritual, entitled Remembering You Are A Witch. Tap or click below to read the Ritual Instructions. Please feel free peruse the instructions in advance, but know that there may be spoilers if you do.
Come Prepared
- Should Explorers wish, they may bring with them the petals of one rose and three sprigs of fresh rosemary. (Optional)
- Explorers may taste one tablespoon of honey in their own home before or after visiting this Shrine. (Optional)
- If you do not have these things or if you've already arrived at the Shrine without these objects, digital offerings of emoji representing these items (🍯🌹🌿) posted to whatever social media platform you wish are an apt substitute.
- Explorers will need to have a smartphone in order to play the Ritual's guided meditation. Explorers may also wish to have headphones, though they are not required.
SHRINES was produced by The Arcanists, Inc. We produce live, interactive, creative nonfiction performances in ongoing series to build recurring platforms that foster direct, long-term connection among artists and audiences.
If you enjoy SHRINES, and want to support more affordable, innovative art, please consider making a donation. Big or small, every contribution helps build a more connected world.
Share Your Journey
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About the Designer
Jessica Kallista (she/her) is a SHRINES designer and an artist working in collage, video, sound, and performance. She is also an educator, curator, and gallerist with an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University. At George Mason University, Jessica can be found teaching Aesthetics, curating and co-moderating the CVPA Arts in Context Kritikos Anti-Racist Reading Group, and serving on the Presidential Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Task Force Research Committee. In 2014 she founded Olly Olly, an alternative art space, in Fairfax, Virginia. Rooted in the belief that what we practice we become, Jessica’s installations and performances disrupt the passive nihilism intrinsic in many of our everyday lives by immersing audiences in the intentional, active, manifestation-oriented pursuit of revolutionary everyday love and bliss through meditation and play. She believes that often only the most minimal of interventions are required to allow us to engage with the gorgeous reality of our interconnectedness and our connectedness to our erotic selves. She invites audiences to revel with her in spell casting, consensual touch, books, sweetness, music, light, flowers, laughter, community, luxury, comfort, pleasure, eroticism, feeling, and sensuousness. Love and bliss are revolutionary acts. The current lockdown finds her increasingly obsessed with collaborating with trees in various projection mapping and augmented reality projects.
Ritual video and promotional stills for Shrine To Your Sacred Power were shot and edited by Jessica Kallista.