We love being around our people. As a magician, astrologer, or esotericist of any kind, those people may be far flung, and meetings can be few and far between.
Something crazy happens when you put us in a room together.
The energy is electric, we get to nerd out about what makes us glow, and an emergent property arises, greater than the sum of its parts. North Star emerged with the question: “what if this but outside”
North star is a living person who is taking shape. We’re summoning a pre-existing entity as well as building something. This duality is at the heart of this year. Substance, and Structure.
We’re creating a space to encourage both people who are new to ritual and spirituality to feel empowered and guided towards being able to start that practice, as well as people who are experienced in their field to be able to have conversations across disciplines, exchange techniques, and to make relationships with each other.
This is scrappy. It's camping. You may have a life-changing spiritual experience.
Last year, North Star helped people connect to the person they actually want to be. We had a fire every night. We woke up at 3am to make Jupiter in Cancer petitions and talismans. People practiced archery. We held a Dionysian fest, with lamb and brisket, from the farm whether the event is hosted. We experienced a Sphere & Sundry bar at the foot of an ancient maple.
Some folks came to north star having no magical practice at all. They felt super inspired after the event. Some of those people now have magical practices. Where they felt intimidated, they got to experience in person down to earth magical stuff that actually gave them the door in. This is what it is about!
Located in Skamokawa, Washington. Beautiful Elkenmist, a private campground/community in the pacific northwest, with its back to swaths of national forest, at the mouth of the Columbia. Outdoor kitchen, a sauna, a moss covered mother maple, a yurt. Communal meals. Campground is a shaded pine grove.
No cell reception. Throw your phone in a lake, metaphorically speaking, at North Star.
Dira is a practicing Hellenistic astrologer and student Jyotishi in the lineage of Shri Achyutānanda Das devoted to using astrology to empower people to remember their unique roles in the grand ecosystem of the cosmos. She also really likes to climb around in tops of old growth trees.
Her dream for North Star is to create a space where people from as many different disciplines as possible can come together to share ideas under actual starlight.
Hawk Grubb is a diarist, omen seer, astrologer & magical mentor living in the Pacific Northwest.
Their magical interests include the holy guardian angel & abramelin operation, wresting ceremonial magic from the hands of stodgy misogynists, the four elements, and natural omen seeing as a foundational spiritual practice/ lifelong navigation tool.
They’re focused on placemaking, firetending, and third housing with their friends, neighbors and spirits.
Josh Proto is an astrologer, astrological magician, and ordained Lama in the Rimé tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Since 2019, he has trained and performed as a Charya singer and dancer within the Newar Vajrayāna tradition and has crafted more than 500 Picatrix-style astrological talismans for clients and practitioners worldwide.
His studies include Medieval and Renaissance astrological magic, Tibetan astrology, and Jyotiṣa, including initiation into the lineage of Achyutānanda Dāsa. Joshua is especially interested in demonstrating how astrology and astrological magic can produce tangible results in the real world, from spiritual development to business, career, and life outcomes.
