Eventbrite - Tenders of the Earth Temple, ASW presents Open Yule Celebration - Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 349 E Vernon Rd, Philadelphia, PA. Find event and ticket information.
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SO MANY BEAUTIFUL BEINGS! I smile every time I see these faces. Ivo Dominguez, Jr & Herne’s Hollow Folks at the Alombrados OTO in New Orleans.[/caption]
There are some really great folks out there. Not just some, a LOT. Really. If your main exposure to “community” in terms of Witchcraft/Paganism is only through the Internet, you’re probably going to have less than an optimistic view of what it’s like in physical space. I don’t like to say “in real life” because the Internet can be amazing for fostering relationships. But there’s a disconnect that happens when people forget they’re still communicating with other human beings on the other side of their screens, which leads to some rather crappy behavior. And while the online world is an equalizer in some ways, it’s also very easy to form echo-chambers and provide amplified platforms for personalities – for better or worse.
From this moment on, when someone in North America asks me for a book on Traditional Witchcraft, I will be recommending Besom, Stang & Sword from Christopher Orapello and Tara-Love Maguire. Why? Because this book takes what I feel is the most essential truth of any real Witchcraft and places it front and center: Witchcraft is Local.
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We gather at Liberty Lands around 4:00 and step off somewhere around 4:15 -- the parade is 5-6 blocks and doesn"t take long, so don"t be late! Bonfire, snacks, and admiration of costumes follow on our return to the park. Come in costume or borrow a mask or noisemaker from our share box. This is a family-friendly event.[/caption]
Source: 2018 Parade of Spirits
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Source: 2018 Parade of Spirits
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Samhain is the time for mourning. Here are some prayers to help you mourn the deaths of some of the more difficult categories of ancestors, as well as a guide to building your own prayer for the heroic dead.
Just as the decks we use are diverse, so are the ways in which we look at the cards. Examine the cards and ways to interpret them, be it through color, symbolism or sheer instinct. Learn the differences between the major and minor arcana as well as how to interpret simple tarot spreads. Please bring a tarot deck to class (preferably Coleman/Waite a.k.a Rider-Waite) or a deck that you have been using for a while. Fee: $49.00 Hours: 8.00 MALT Office, 6601 Greene St. Located at the corner of Greene & Hortter Streets. Please enter through the Hortter Street door. SEPTA bus route H stops one block away at Lincoln Drive at Greene Street and Lincoln Drive at Hortter Street. Chestnut Hill West rail station at Upsal is also about one block away.
Please join Grail of the Birch Moon and Tenders of the Earth Temple for an Open Samhain ritual.
In this rite, we ask the Great Ones to help us rid ourselves of any unnecessary baggage we carry around so that we step more lightly into the coming turns of the Great Wheel and, thus, more freely accomplish that which we set out to do.
Please bring a snack to share for post-ritual fellowship. Ritual wear encouraged but not required. This is a free event.Parking behind the building in unreserved spots only. Entrance at the back of the building & up the steps. Please use this Facebook event for all RSVP’s.
If you RSVP’d and find that your plans have changed, please update the event so we can plan accordingly for those who will be joining us.
The New Aradia A Witch"s Handbook to Magical Resistance edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff 106 pages / September 2018 / 9781947544161 The New Aradia is a handbook is designed to serve as a collection of ideas to teach, share, inspire, empower, protect, and guide. Within its pages are sigils, spells, recipes, essays, invocations, rituals, and more, all gathered from experienced magical practitioners. At your fingertips is an arsenal of tools to aid you on your path.
With contributions by: Aidan Wachter, Amanda Bell, Annalun, Annwyn Avalon, Aradia the Rose, H. Byron Ballard, Casandra Johns, Christopher Penczak, Deborah Castellano, Devin Hunter, Gwendolyn Reece, Irina Xara, Irisanya Moon, Ivo Dominguez Jr., Jay Logan, Jenn Zahrt, Kelden, Laura Tempest Zakroff, Lisa Bland, Lyssa Heartsong, Mat Auryn, Misha Magdalene, Patti Wigington, Phoenix LeFae, Raye Schwarz, Stephen Pocock & Storm Faerywolf.
With every purchase of this book direct from the publisher, $1 will go to the Southern Poverty Law Center and $1 to Emily"s List.*
Just as the decks we use are diverse, so are the ways in which we look at the cards. Examine the cards and ways to interpret them, be it through color, symbolism or sheer instinct. Learn the differences between the major and minor arcana as well as how to interpret simple tarot spreads. Please bring a tarot deck to class (preferably Coleman/Waite a.k.a Rider-Waite) or a deck that you have been using for a while. Fee: $49.00 Hours: 8.00 MALT Office, 6601 Greene St. Located at the corner of Greene & Hortter Streets. Please enter through the Hortter Street door. SEPTA bus route H stops one block away at Lincoln Drive at Greene Street and Lincoln Drive at Hortter Street. Chestnut Hill West rail station at Upsal is also about one block away.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki has been a light and an inspiration to thousands of students of the Western Mysteries, Qabala, and the Craft. She served as the Director of Studies of the Servants of the Light from 1976 to 2018 . She has given her life to the work, and had thought that her life was in order for retirement.
She is 90 now and is in the middle of a painful divorce. She needs her freedom from her hopefully soon to be ex-husband, but every visit to the lawyer costs her as much as a month"s pension. He is trying to leave her without anything. She is on the Channel Island of Jersey where everything is expensive, especially the lawyers.
Please help us raise money to cover her legal fees. The quality of her life and her years ahead are at risk.
Please join Grail of the Birch Moon and Tenders of the Earth Temple for an Open Samhain ritual.
In this rite, we ask the Great Ones to help us rid ourselves of any unnecessary baggage we carry around so that we step more lightly into the coming turns of the Great Wheel and, thus, more freely accomplish that which we set out to do.
Please bring a snack to share for post-ritual fellowship. Ritual wear encouraged but not required. This is a free event.Parking behind the building in unreserved spots only. Entrance at the back of the building & up the steps. Please use this Facebook event for all RSVP’s.
If you RSVP’d and find that your plans have changed, please update the event so we can plan accordingly for those who will be joining us.
Please join us at Cheyney University for a fun evening with views of this and other realms through the eyes of artist Helena Domenic. Refreshments will be served!
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If this is the very first book of Astrology you pick up, you can consider yourself lucky indeed. Seriously, if you"ve been avoiding Astrology the same way you avoided calculus (like the plague) this may be the book for you!
This meeting is open to vendors, volunteers, the public, and the Board of Directors to discuss the layout of the event and the timing of workshops, performances, etc., since it got moved to Park B.
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Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling by Charles Godfrey Leland [New Alexandrian Library].[/caption]
Thanks to two Pagan-centric institutions — the New Alexandrian Library, located near Georgetown, Del., and the Adocentyn Research Library, a similar enterprise located in San Francisco’s East Bay — Pagans and the general public alike now have access to thousands of Pagan, metaphysical, and esoteric books and periodicals, including rare and out-of-print works. Both libraries continue to accept donations of Pagan and Pagan-related books.
IVO DOMINGUEZ JR Ivo is probably the hardest working Pagan teacher I know. He goes to more festivals and does more workshops than practically anybody. He’s everywhere, and for good reason, he’s a a great teacher and an even better person. And there’s also that New Alexandrian Library project he’s a major part of. Ivo is amazing.
One marvelous benefit of initiatory challenge is the expanded self-trust that results from working hard to do something well and succeeding.
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H. Byron Ballard, BA, MFA, is a western NC native, teacher, folklorist and writer. She has served as a featured speaker and teacher at Sacred Space Conference, Summerland Spirit Festival, Pagan Spirit Gathering, Southeast Wise Women’s Herbal Conference, Glastonbury Goddess Conference, Heartland, Sirius Rising, Starwood, Scottish Pagan Federation Conference and other gatherings. She is senior priestess and co-founder of Mother Grove Goddess Temple in Asheville, NC.[/caption]
We are thrilled and honored to have Byron Ballard as our Keynote Speaker for Philadelphia Pagan Pride 2018! H. Byron Ballard, BA, MF...
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A song for our times by Gwendolyn Reece.Lyrics
Battle Hymn of the Resistance
When we rise up and claim our power
The Good, it cannot fall.
We take up the shield of service
To defend the rights of all.
[Chorus]
We hear the call of duty.
We heed the Spirit’s Light.
We stand firm in compassion,
And work to set things right.
We defend the Constitution,
Rule of Law across the land.
When blind Justice, She is threatened
We will not let it stand.
[Chorus]
We hear the call of duty.
We heed the Spirit’s Light.
We stand firm in compassion,
And work to set things right.
We tend the Hearth of Kindness,
Soul of Democracy.
Welcome tired, poor, huddled masses
Yearning to breathe free.
[Chorus]
We hear the call of duty.
We heed the Spirit’s Light.
We stand firm in compassion,
And work to set things right.
Our Healer’s Cup we offer
To all souls who have need.
We work to heal our nation
Of hatred and of greed.
[Chorus]
We hear the call of duty.
We heed the Spirit’s Light.
We stand firm in compassion,
And work to set things right.
Our visionary garden blooms
With dreams we bring to birth,
Of what society can be
If we dare to love the Earth.
[Chorus]
We hear the call of duty.
We heed the Spirit’s Light.
We stand firm in compassion,
And work to set things right.
So rise up and claim your power
Together we will grow.
See America as we should be
And we will make it so.
[Chorus]
We hear the call of duty.
We heed the Spirit’s Light.
We stand firm in compassion,and will make things right.
By Gwendolyn Reece ©
In the light of the Full Moon, I look to my defenses. These are strange times. I have so many questions. this is a time of waiting for clarity. Or perhaps this is a time to keep my own counsel before taking action. May the gods be watching.
As many tarot lovers have come to realize (or ignore, as the case may be), the notion that there is no perfect tarot deck is a tough reality to accept. It’s true and if you haven’t realized that yet, then I am truly sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The more time one spends working with the tarot, the more decks one acquires, collects, and lusts after. One’s individual taste for what they enjoy and what they don’t enjoy in a deck also has a hand in building the hoard, particularly as your style develops and evolves. Like any fascination or life-embedded hobby, the collecting of decks and the desire for perfection knows no bounds. It’s a vicious cycle and admittedly, I am a living victim of its madness.
Saturday, June 23 at 1 PM - 3 PM
Blue Bell Hill Park
842 W. Walnut Lane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19144
“The Earth is awash with fertility and fulfillment and this is a time of joy and celebration, of expansiveness and the celebration of achievements.”
— http://www.goddessandgreenman.co.uk/litha
Saturday, June 23 at 1 PM - 3 PM
Blue Bell Hill Park
842 W. Walnut Lane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19144
“The Earth is awash with fertility and fulfillment and this is a time of joy and celebration, of expansiveness and the celebration of achievements.”
— http://www.goddessandgreenman.co.uk/litha
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Denial is not a river in Egypt. Photo by author of a river in Guatamala[/caption]
Hospice Chaplain here, bringing my UU-Pagan perspective to the support of human beings approaching their own deaths, or the deaths of their beloveds, in the context of their belief systems and practices no matter what they are.
THE DESCENT OF PERSEPHONE
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will occur in the afternoon, before Wendy and Ivo"s Midsummer ritual and concert, and at the same location.
Join Visionary Songstress Wendy Rule as she explores the central themes of one of Western Cultures most important myths – the Ancient Greek story of the descent into the Underworld of the maiden goddess Persephone, and the subsequent grief of her mother Demeter, the goddess of the grain. Wendy will use songs from her current project ‘Persephone’ (new album to be released in October, 2018), as well as stories from her ongoing travels to the myth’s sacred sites in Greece to unveil some of the most vital aspects of this complex and transformative myth. Combining ritual, music, meditation, discussion and story, Wendy’s workshops are powerful and joyful experiences that deepen our understanding of Myth, Magic and The Goddess.
Once again Tenders of the Earth Temple. ASW will be tabling at Mt Airy Day ! Come out and say hello!! (http://www.mtairyday.org/
Vending submissions are now open. Current prices are good until June 15, 2018.
Speak mindfully, accurately, honestly, fairly... trust that the words you speak have power, and to nurture the habit of speaking into being all and only that which you truly choose to exist.
MARCH 30, 2018 BY MAGGIE BEAUMONT
My thoughts scatter like Autumn leaves, but new ones bud at once - just as if it was Spring in my thoughts, now, too....
Vickie was one of a kind and the best kind too. In her life she touched so many people in such positive ways. She would see something that needed to be done and quietly do it, no fanfare, no look at what I did, she just found joy in helping. She was inquisitive, loved books and learning, life was a great adventure for her and she embraced it all. Her life was a gift and blessing to all who knew her. Her death will be keenly felt by all those she touched. She is now a bright star in the heavens.
In lieu of flowers her family asks that donations be made to the New Alexandrian Library in Vickie’s name.
March 6, 2018
Discuss Hoodoo and classic folk remedies to cleanse the self or the home. Learn how to cleanse your house on both an energetic level as well as a mundane level using crystals, floor washes and other methods.
The use of casting as a means of establishing sacred space is a common practice in Wiccan and Neopagan traditions. In fact it is widely considered the most important step in spiritual and magickal work. And yet few really know how to do it or do it well.
In Casting Sacred Space, Neopagan practitioner Ivo Dominguez, Jr., offers a comprehensive introduction to the techniques and rituals of casting, including:How to become grounded and centered before one beginsThe proper timing for casting and ritual workHow to open up one’s psychic senses to work with subtle energiesHow to set the stage for magickal work both internally and externallyProtection, symbols, and meditations for maintaining sacred spaceThe Circle, the Quarters, and other modes of casting sacred spaceQuartering, energy work, and many cross-practice connections including Qabala and chakras.
This is a practical, accessible handbook for the beginner with cross appeal to seasoned practitioners of ritual magick.
Sun 25 Feb:
Triangle of Stillness
Sat 14 Apr:
Square of Abbeyence
Sat 12 May:
3 Pillars
Source: Book Study - Casting Sacred Space
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Discuss Hoodoo and classic folk remedies to cleanse the self or the home. Learn how to cleanse your house on both an energetic level as well as a mundane level using crystals, floor washes and other methods.
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Brigid’s Mantle (2018)[/caption]
This week my work has been with Brigid / Bridgid / Brigit / Bri’id / Breed or however you want to spell her Celtic name in our peculiar American English.
She is rather insistent that I still don’t pronounce it ‘right.’
She asks me to focus on the traditions of Brigid’s Mantle, long labeled ‘superstition’ by those who came later: the idea that draping a cloak or shawl over a bush near the barn on the eve of Imbolc is explicitly asking The Lady’s blessing on the impending births of lambs, kids, calves, and babies. And that, passing by your farm at midnight, She will pause to bless that mantle and all born beneath it, and to explicitly promise that all injured parts wrapped in it will heal well.
