About us
We are a tradition of Witchcraft based in the DC/NOVA/MD area. We put on public rituals for many of the sabbats as well as a number of classes on various Wiccan and Witchcraft-related topics. We are also a Wiccan tradition that people can participate in casually, or through the deeper path of initiation. All respectful individuals are welcome!
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Upcoming events
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Firefly House Dialogue on Fate
·OnlineOnlineJoin the Firefly House in our monthly dialogue series. This time we're going to talk about fate. Whether you think you're doomed to fail or it's all a part of (a) god's plan, it's likely that within Paganism, even within the House, many of us have different points of view around whether or not we're fated to encounter some or all of our life events.
Anyone is welcome to join, even if you've not Pagan, even if you've never heard of the Firefly House before. We'll start fairly promptly around 7:05pm Eastern time, but you can probably still join until about 7:10 or so. To begin, we'll do introductions and ground rules. Once we've got all of that out of the way, our dialogue will last until 8:30pm, but if we're having a great conversation and would like to continue, we may go a little late, but not by much.
For now, if you're free and interested, RSVP to save the date. When you do, you'll be asked to enter your email. Dash will use that to send out some jump start questions the morning of the dialogue. You can use them to get your thinking caps on, or ignore them if you prefer to be surprised as to the direction of our conversation.
Our dialogues are in a format that our host, Dash, learned from participating in and training from The Church Lab, a non-profit organization that innovates for the sake of nurturing hope, joy, faith, and peace while considering the future of faith practice, both within institutions and without them, in the 21st century. If you'd like to know more about TCL, Dash is very happy to share. (Full disclosure, they're the chairperson of the TCL board, so they're definitely biased 😆)
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Image by Tyli Jura; found on Pixabay.
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The Firefly House seeks to provide a friendly, safe environment in which all participants can engage in productive dialogue, sharing, and learning with each other in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We are committed to providing a harassment-free environment for all, regardless of gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body type, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the host.
6 attendees
May 2026 Rite of Her Sacred Fires
·OnlineOnlineSince 2010, during the full moon in May, the Covenant of Hekate — "an international community of devotees who honor the Goddess Hekate, in all her many forms, by all her many faces and guises" — performs the Rite of Her Sacred Fires. All over the world, in around 30 languages, the Rite will be performed, and we'll be joining them. This year is the first time that there's two full moons in May, and an online poll determined that we'd all do this on the second one.
The English language version is the one that we'll use, and you can familiarize yourself with it here.
It's short, taking only a few minutes. We'll gather at 8:15pm and get started around 8:20 as the sun sets.
This rite is designed to be performed solo, but Dash will explain prior to getting started how you can contribute, too, in your space and place as we share this time together.
No experience with Hekate is necessary, simply a reverence for her history and her meaningful impact on the world of modern witchcraft and witchcraft-inflected Pagan traditions.
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The Firefly House seeks to provide a friendly, safe environment in which all participants can engage in spiritually productive activities, dialogue, sharing, and learning with each other in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We are committed to providing a harassment-free environment for all, regardless of gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body type, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), diet, or technology choices. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the host.
15 attendees
Firefly Foundations Class: The Elements
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St NW, Washington, DC, USIt's June, and we have one class left in the Firefly Foundations class series meant to provide students the opportunity to learn about the House and about our way of being Pagan. If you've been with us from the beginning, well done!
For the seventh and final class of the series, we'll be talking about the elements. We've mentioned them a few other times, especially when talking about quarter calls and during our class on magic, but this time we're going to dive into them with a bit more detail and discus a bit about the history of how the classical Greek elements ended up in our strange mashup of British folkways and ceremonial magic.
When you RSVP for this class, you'll be asked to provide an email address. We'll send you a link to the class video at that address as soon as possible after we receive it. We keep won't share your email with anyone ever. Watch the video before the class date and time, and come to class with any questions you might have. During the class session, we'll be going over anything from the video you wanted to review, anything from the class series as a whole that you might want to go over again, and we'll do a bit of a show-and-tell about the various tools and toys that you might see crop up from time to time during House events, especially since so many of them are connected to the elements in some way or another.
If you're comfortable with it, join us at the MLK Memorial Library. The exact room is TBD, but we'll update it once the room is reserved. Masks will be welcomed, but not provided, for in-person attendees. We will also have the necessary technology to allow folks to join in online via Google Meet if you prefer to attend remotely. Video conferencing information will be sent out the morning of the event. If you're connecting that way, please give us a few minutes past 3:30pm to get the stream online.
This class is a part of our foundations class series, which is only required if you wish to join the Firefly House as an initiate. If that does not interest you, then feel free to skip classes that you find less important for your journey. If you want to keep your options open with respect to initiation but cannot attend this session at the listed date and time, please contact the event host prior to the session. Keep in mind, you can only miss two of seven sessions in this way. Time spent with initiates of the House and your fellow classmates is an important part of knowing if you want to initiate. If you don't initiate, regardless of the reason, you're still welcome to all of the public events we organize.
If you would like to, feel free to join our Discord to chat with others in the Firefly House between sessions. This is also a great place to ask for help if you've lost a link to a video, for example.
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The Firefly House seeks to provide a friendly, safe environment in which all participants can engage in productive dialogue, sharing, and learning with each other in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We are committed to providing a harassment-free environment for all, regardless of gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body type, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the host.
3 attendees
June 2026 New Moon Esbat
·OnlineOnlineThe Firefly House invites you to join us for a (roughly) one hour New Moon esbat on Tuesday, June 16, at 8:00pm.
Our esbats move in patterns of three: two that focus on journey work, a form of guided meditation that includes open-ended questions so that each of us experiences something a little different and uniquely special. The third esbat in the pattern will be more experimental where we come up with something else to do that evening. It could be a bit of magic, maybe a prayer workshop, or even an open mic poetry reading! You never know what it could be! (Until we tell you.)
Because June does not contain a solstice or equinox, this will be one of our more experimental or playful events. We'll send our information about what we'll be doing about 24 hours before the event.
Regardless, whether you're in the Washington DC area or you'll be joining us from far, far away, we hope to see you on there!
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***The Firefly House seeks to provide a friendly, safe environment in which all participants can engage in productive dialogue, sharing, and learning with each other in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We are committed to providing a harassment-free environment for all, regardless of gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body type, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the host.
3 attendees
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