12-Day Tour with Stays in Athens, Nauplion, Olympia, and Delphi
Our tour is currently full, but you are most welcome to join the waitlist (with no commitment necessary). To join, please email jason@jasonholley.net — how the waitlist works: if a spot opens up, we send a note to all on the list with registration opportunity. (It’s impractical for us to go down the list one-by-one in order of interest expressed.). First to reply receives the spot.
September 4-16, 2024 | Detailed Itinerary
I am delighted to announce that I will be leading a pilgrimage to sacred sites of the Olympians in Greece this summer. Our tour will begin in Athens with the conjunction of the crescent Moon and Venus in Libra at sunset our first evening, and conclude as we return under the conjunction of Mercury and Vesta — known to the Greeks as Hermes and Hestia.
My friend and colleague Gray Crawford will also be joining us for this trip. Under the tutelage and guidance of Hermes of the road and Hestia of the hearth, each day we will make visits to sacred sites including Delphi, Epidavros, Eleusis, and the Parthenon, as well as wilder sites such as the Foloi Forest where the centaurs were said to live and the Ladonas River where Demeter pacified her grief and rage over the abduction of Persephone. Our detailed itinerary is provided below.
We will stay three nights at each of the four major cities, and make short day journeys to 1-2 sites each day — some small and some very large. Each morning under the 12th house Sun, we will gather for dream and reflection time to connect more personally with the figures and places we are meeting. And of course along the way Gray and I will be sharing the stories of the gods and goddesses and ways of connecting with them at the sites.
Places — land, temples, rivers, mountains — carry memory, and the stories of the ancients are woven into the lands we will visit. Having been to Greece many times over the years, it has proven personally pivotal to me to visit these places where the gods of astrological pantheon were born, lived, petitioned, and worshiped. Pilgrimage is a deep attending to the mythic in oneself and our shared world, a way to weave and unweave the stories in ourselves with each step we take together.
September 4-16, 2024 Detailed Itinerary
Early-Bird Reservation Before March 15: $5995 | After March 15: $6495
(Initial Registration $895; Subsequent Payments of $2550 Due April 20 and June 20)
Reservation includes shared (with one person) accommodation in 4-star hotels (3-star in Delphi), all transport from the commencement to the conclusion of the tour, two dinners and two picnic lunches, all seminar and group meetings, guides, admittance fees, and taxes; all financial info on the last page of the Detailed Itinerary
Single Supplement (for a Private Room): $795 Due with April 20 payment
For questions or to join the waitlist, email jason@jasonholley.net
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