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2014 Neo-Pagan Holidays & Holidays of the Old Religions of Europe (Greek, Roman, Slavic, Celtic, Anglo-Teutonic & Norse)
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<p>* 12/25 to 1/5: Yule--Old Anglo-Teutonic festival honoring God Freyr, Goddess Freyja, and God Balder.</p>
<p>* 12/31 eve to 1/1 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Hekate, who guides all through transitions and crisis. <span class="tail">[Poseideon last day]</span></p>
<p>* 1/1 (6:14 a.m. EST): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 1/1: World Peace Day--Day to meditate for peace throughout the world. <span class="tail">[Universal Hour of Peace: 7:00-8:00 a.m. EST.]</span></p>
<p>* 1/1 eve to 1/2 eve: Gamelion…</p>
<p>* 12/25 to 1/5: Yule--Old Anglo-Teutonic festival honoring God Freyr, Goddess Freyja, and God Balder.</p>
<p>* 12/31 eve to 1/1 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Hekate, who guides all through transitions and crisis. <span class="tail">[Poseideon last day]</span></p>
<p>* 1/1 (6:14 a.m. EST): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 1/1: World Peace Day--Day to meditate for peace throughout the world. <span class="tail">[Universal Hour of Peace: 7:00-8:00 a.m. EST.]</span></p>
<p>* 1/1 eve to 1/2 eve: Gamelion Noumenia--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Gamelion 1]</span></p>
<p>* 1/1 to 1/31: January dedicated to Old Roman God-Goddess Janus-Jana, who knows both past and future.</p>
<p>* 1/3 eve to 1/4 eve: Feast of the Charites--Day to honor the Old Greek Goddesses of beneficence. <span class="tail">[Gamelion 3]</span></p>
<p>* 1/4: Day ethnic discrimination was outlawed world-wide (1969); day to mourn all manifestations of racism. <span class="tail">[Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: signed/adopted 3/7/1966; entered into force 1/4/1969.]</span> <span class="tail">[<a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cerd.htm">Text of Convention</a>] [The <a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/">Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination</a> (CERD) monitors implementation of the Convention. For more information, see <a href="http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/race/">Human Rights Watch website</a>.] [Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (<a href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/">Text of Declaration</a>) and Article 2 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (<a href="http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cpr.html">Text of Covenant</a>) also prohibit discrimination on account of race.] [The U.N. has designated 3/21 to 3/27 <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/racialdiscriminationday/week.shtml">Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 1/4 eve to 1/5 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Aphrodite--Day to honor peace and compassion. <span class="tail">[Gamelion 4]</span></p>
<p>* 1/5 eve: Feast of Old Roman Goddess Befana, the old woman who flies on a broom, bringing gifts to all good children. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 1/12: Day genocide was outlawed world-wide (1951); day to mourn all victims of genocide. <span class="tail">[Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: signed/adopted 12/9/1948; entered into force 1/12/1951.]</span> <span class="tail">[<a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/genocide.htm">Text of Convention</a>] [For more information, see <a href="http://www.preventgenocide.org">Prevent Genocide International website</a>.] [All should condemn all past genocides and, to prevent future genocides, should demand an end to persecution on account of any nationality, ethnicity, "race" or religion.]</span></p>
<p>* 1/13 to 1/25 (Icelandic 1/24; Old Icelandic 1/10): Old Norse Mid-Winter Feast--Offerings were made to the Deities (particularly Jord, Thor, and Freyr) for growth of crops. Toasts of mead and ale were made in honor of the Deities. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Mid-Winter Blot, Midvetr, Midvetrarblot, Jordblot, Thorrablot, Freyrblot]</span></p>
<p>* 1/15 (11:52 p.m. EST): Full Moon (Black/Death-Crone Moon). <span class="tail">[a/k/a Capricorn Full Moon]</span></p>
<p>* 1/19: World Religions Day--Day to contemplate all religions as different paths to the one universal Deity of many names and aspects.</p>
<p>* 1/24 to 2/1: Sementivae--Old Roman festival of sowing, honoring Earth Goddess Terra (Greek Gaia), Grain Goddess Ceres (Greek Demeter), and Seed Goddess Proserpina (Greek Persephone). <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 1/29 eve to 2/1 eve: Old European Lunar New Year--Celebration of the Triple Goddess (Goddess of the Moon and the Seasons) being transformed from the Crone into the Virgin; celebrated with ritual bathing of divine images.</p>
<p>* 1/30 (4:39 p.m. EST): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 1/31 eve to 2/1 eve: Anthesterion Noumenia--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Anthesterion 1]</span></p>
<p>* 1/31 eve to 2/2 eve: Imbolc/St. Brigid's Day--Old Celtic/Irish feast of Goddess Brigid; merged with the Christian feast of St. Brigid. Fires were lit to welcome Her as She traveled about blessing fields, animals, and people.</p>
<p>* 1/31 eve to 2/3 eve: Mid-Winter/Groundhog's Day/Candlemas--Festival marking the transformation from death to life - the beginning of the agricultural year, awakening of hibernating animals, and return of migrating birds and fish. Observed with a candlelight procession to bless fields and seeds, recognition of newborns, and contemplation of life. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Old European cross-quarter day, Neo-Pagan cross-quarter day, Wiccan cross-quarter day, Mid-Winter Sabbat]</span></p>
<p>* 2/1 to 2/14: Old Greek festival of God Dionysos, in which vines were pruned and sprinkled with wine, accompanied by ritual singing and dancing. <span class="tail">[Originated in ancient Thrace; still celebrated in Bulgaria.]</span> <span class="tail">[a/k/a Trifon Zarezan, Viticulturists' Day]</span> <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 2/1 to 2/28: February dedicated to Old Roman God-Goddess Februus-Februa - purifier and protector of the home. Homes were cleaned and blessed, offerings of reparation were given, and peace was made.</p>
<p>* 2/1 to 2/28: Ethnic Equality Month--Time to honor all peoples and their positive traditions; time to meditate on the equality of all peoples, on the respect due to them, and on God-Goddess manifesting as African, Asian, Oceanic, Middle Eastern, European, Hispanic, and Native American. <span class="tail">[Expands idea of African-American History Month a/k/a Black History Month.]</span></p>
<p>* 2/2: Death day of Marija Gimbutas (1994), archeologist who studied Old European Goddess- God spirituality. <span class="tail">[Birthday 1/23/1921]</span></p>
<p>* 2/3 eve to 2/4 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Eros--Day to honor love and passion. <span class="tail">[Anthesterion 4]</span></p>
<p>* 2/5 to 2/6: Feast of Old Romano-Egyptian Goddess Isis, the Healer--recalls Set (God of Challenges and Chaos) poisoning child God Horus, and Isis intervening, defeating Set, and healing Horus. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 2/5 eve to 2/6 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Artemis (Roman Diana/Slavic Diwitsa) - as creatrix, midwife of birthing creatures, protector of the young, and punisher of child abusers. <span class="tail">[Anthesterion 6]</span></p>
<p>* 2/10 eve to 2/13 eve: Anthesteria--Old Greek festival honoring Dionysos as Plouton, God of the Dead, and welcoming the visiting dead from Elysium. The new wine was presented to Dionysos, and libations were made. <span class="tail">[Anthesterion 11-13]</span></p>
<p>* 2/13 to 2/15: Lupercalia/St. Valentine's Day--Old Roman festival of God-Goddess Faunus- Fauna; merged with the Christian feast of St. Valentine - celebrating love of all kinds.</p>
<p>* 2/14 (6:53 p.m. EST): Full Moon (Cold/Seed Moon). <span class="tail">[a/k/a Aquarius Full Moon]</span></p>
<p>* 2/19 eve to 2/26 eve: Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries--Old Greek festival celebrating the marriage of Goddess Kore and God Dionysos, following their return from Elysium. Devotees dedicated themselves to service of Goddess and God after being purified by water and fire. Dionysos was identified with Plouton at Eleusis. While Demeter believed Her daughter to have been abducted and raped by Dionysos-Plouton, from the perspective of Kore-Persephone and Dionysos-Plouton, it was an elopement. <span class="tail">[Anthesterion 20-26]</span></p>
<p>* 2/22: Caristia--Old Roman festival for renewing family ties and patching up quarrels. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 2/28: Old Slavic Velja Noc/Great Night/New Year's Eve--Spirits of the dead visit their living relatives, overseen by Veles, Lord of the Dead. People wearing animal masks and wool cloaks wandered through the villages representing the dead, and a grain effigy of the Morana of the old year was burned. Morana and Jarilo are born of Solntse (Goddess of the Sun) and Perun (God of the Sky). Veles steals Jarilo and raises him in Virey, realm of the dead. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Wielkanoc]</span></p>
<p>* 3/1 (3:00 a.m. EST): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 3/1: Day the production and use of landmines was outlawed world-wide (1999); day to mourn their victims. <span class="tail">[Convention on Landmines a/k/a Mine Ban Treaty] [<a href="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/0/e32aba4fd82027edc125641f002d20f6?OpenDocument">Text of Convention</a>] [The U.S. has not ratified the protocol.] [Landmines maim and kill civilians, including children. Those that survive endure a lifetime of hardship.] [All should renounce the production and use of landmines, and should demand removal and destruction of all existing landmines.] [For more information, see <a href="http://www.icbl.org">International Campaign to Ban Landmines (I.C.B.L.) website</a>; <a href="http://www.the-monitor.org/index.php/LM/The-Issues/FAQs">Landmine Monitor website</a>.] [The U.N. has designated 4/4 <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/mineawarenessday/">International Day for Mine Awareness</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 3/1 eve to 3/2 eve: Elaphebolion Noumenia--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Elaphebolion 1]</span></p>
<p>* 3/1 to 3/31: Gender Equality Month--Time to honor both genders; time to meditate on the equality of women and men, on the respect due to both women and men, and on Goddess-God manifesting as woman and man. <span class="tail">[Expands idea of Women's History Month.]</span></p>
<p>* 3/3 eve to 3/4 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Athena - as protector and defender. <span class="tail">[Elaphebolion 3]</span></p>
<p>* 3/4 eve to 3/5 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Hermes--Day to honor the divine feminine and divine masculine in harmony. <span class="tail">[Elaphebolion 4]</span></p>
<p>* 3/5: Navigium Isidis--Old Romano-Egyptian festival honoring Goddess Isis as Lady of the Moon and Ruler of the Sea; celebrated with the launching of a boat of offerings. Also celebrated with a procession to the sea and a procession of ships. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 3/6 eve to 3/7 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Artemis (Roman Diana/Slavic Diwitsa) - as protector of wild animals, vegetation, and places. <span class="tail">[Elaphebolion 6]</span></p>
<p>* 3/8: International Women's Day--Day to mourn victims of gender-based oppression and misogyny (past and present), make peace, and celebrate women's empowerment. <span class="tail">[See <a href="http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womday97.htm">U.N. website on International Women's Day</a>; <a href="http://www.isis.aust.com/iwd/stevens/">A history of International Women's Day</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 3/8 eve to 3/9 eve: Asklepieia--Old Greek festival honoring Asklepios, God of healing, and Hygieia, Goddess of health. <span class="tail">[Elaphebolion 8]</span></p>
<p>* 3/9 eve to 3/14 eve: City Dionysia--Old Greek festival honoring God Dionysos as patron of drama, poetry, music, and inspiration. Actors performed sacred drama, poets recited hymns, musicians played instruments, singers sang songs, and dancers danced. <span class="tail">[Elaphebolion 9-13]</span></p>
<p>* 3/15 to 3/21: Old Anglo-Teutonic festival of Goddess Ostara, celebrating the annual rebirth. Her Hare gave gifts of eggs - signifying rebirth.</p>
<p>* 3/16 (1:09 p.m. EDT): Full Moon (Leaf/Seedling Moon). <span class="tail">[a/k/a Pisces Full Moon]</span></p>
<p>* 3/17: St. Patrick's Day--Old European festival marking rebirth of Viridios/the Green Man/Green George (God as deciduous vegetation); merged with the Christian feast of St. Patrick.</p>
<p>* 3/19 to 3/23: Quinquatrus of Minerva--Old Roman festival of Goddess Minerva (Greek Athena) - as font of artistic inspiration. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 3/20 (12:57 p.m. EDT): Spring Equinox--Marks the beginning of Spring and point of equal daylight and darkness; celebrates first, annual, and perpetual Creation with egg hunts and exchanges. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Old European turning-of-the-season day, Neo-Pagan turning-of-the-season day, Wiccan turning-of-the-season day, Spring Sabbat]</span></p>
<p>* 3/20: Old Slavic Jare--God Jarilo/Lado returns from Virey (the realm of the dead across the sea), to reunite with Goddess Morana/Lada. Their love and happiness bring the world light, warmth, and fertility. Celebrated with a youth on a horse leading a procession of boys and girls carrying boughs of greens and flowers to bless each house in the village. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Jurjevo]</span></p>
<p>* 3/21: World Forest Day--Day to celebrate the complex living community of trees, plants, birds, and mammals that live in forests world-wide; day to give thanks for forests for cleaning the air of pollution. <span class="tail">[Forest once covered 50% of the world. Today, forest covers only 30% of the world. Since 1600, 90% of the original forests that once covered the lower 48 states of the U.S. has been cleared away. Most deforestation of North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia occurred before 2000 and has stabilized. Deforestation continues to accelerate in South America and Africa. The rate of world deforestation averaged 5.2 million hectares per year between 2000 and 2010.] [For information about conservation of forests, see <a href="http://www.americanforests.org/">American Forests website</a>; <a href="http://forests.org/">Forests.org website</a>; <a href="http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/forest/">International Union for Conservation of Nature (I.U.C.N.) website</a>; <a href="http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/globalmarkets/forests/index.html">World Wildlife Fund (W.W.F.) website</a>; <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests">Greenpeace website</a>. See also <a href="http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-3annex3.htm">Statement of Principles for the Sustainable Management of Forests</a>; <a href="http://www.iisd.org/pdf/wcfsdsummary.pdf">Our Forests, Our Future: Summary Report of the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development</a>.] [All should demand an end to deforestation, and should demand universal observance of sustainable management practices of the world's forests.] [a/k/a World Forestry Day]</span></p>
<p>* 3/26: Birthday of Joseph Campbell (1904), who found Deity within all religions and myths. <span class="tail">[Death day 10/31/1987]</span></p>
<p>* 3/26: Day production and use of biological weapons was outlawed world-wide (1975); day to mourn their victims. <span class="tail">[Biological Weapons Convention] [<a href="http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/treaties/bwc1.html">Text of Convention</a>] [20 countries are believed to have current or past biological weapons programs.]</span> <span class="tail">[All should renounce the production, acquisition, and use of biological weapons, and should demand destruction of all existing weapons.] [For more information, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare">Wikipedia article on Biological Warfare</a>. See also <a href="http://www.un.org/disarmament/HomePage/Issues/">U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs (U.N.O.D.A.) website</a>; <a href="http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/bio/index.html">Federation of American Scientists (F.A.S.) Biological and Chemical Weapons Main Page</a>.]</span> </p>
<p>* 3/28: Death day of Scott Cunningham (1993), who taught a reverent, ethical, egalitarian, and ecological form of Wicca. Wiccans create sacred space by calling on the powers of the four directions, invoke the Lord and Lady in their various guises, and raise power (through drumming, dance, and chant) to realize a positive purpose. <span class="tail">[Birthday 6/27/1956]</span></p>
<p>* 3/30 (2:45 p.m. EDT): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 3/30 eve to 3/31 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Hekate, who guides all through transitions and crisis. <span class="tail">[Elaphebolion last day]</span></p>
<p>* 3/31 eve to 4/1 eve: Mounikhion Noumenia--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Mounikhion 1]</span></p>
<p>* 4/1: Veneralia--Old Roman festival celebrating Venus (Goddess of Peace) vanquishing Mars (God of War) with love. She nurtures peace, friendship, and love; and punishes war-mongers, hate-mongers, and false friends and lovers. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 4/2 eve to 4/3 eve: Feast of the Charites--Day to honor the Old Greek Goddesses of beneficence. <span class="tail">[Mounikhion 3]</span></p>
<p>* 4/3 eve to 4/4 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Aphrodite--Day to honor peace and compassion. <span class="tail">[Mounikhion 4]</span></p>
<p>* 4/5 eve to 4/6 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Artemis (Roman Diana/Slavic Diwitsa), who represents the feminine in Nature and protects women throughout their lives. Women recognized the transitions in their lives and honored female fertility. <span class="tail">[Mounikhion 6]</span></p>
<p>* 4/7: World Health Day--Day to pray for healing of all those chronically and seriously ill; day to advocate for adequate health care for all. <span class="tail">[Day the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) was founded in 1948.] [For information on World Health Day, see <a href="http://www.who.int/world-health-day/en/">World Health Organization website</a>.] [For information on the World Health Organization, see <a href="http://www.who.int/en/">World Health Organization website</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 4/7 eve to 4/8 eve: Feast of God Poseidon, Goddess Amphritrite, and all Old Greek Gods and Goddesses of the seas. <span class="tail">[Mounikhion 8]</span></p>
<p>* 4/14 to 4/25 (Icelandic 4/24, Old Icelandic 4/10): Old Norse Summer Days Feast--Offerings were made to the Deities (particularly Odin, Thor, and Freyr) for success, peace, and plenty. Toasts of mead and ale were made in honor of the Deities. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Summer's Day, Sumardag, Sommerdag, Summer Blot, Sumarblot, Sigrblot, Odinblot, Freyjablot, Thorrablot, Sifblot, Freyrblot]</span></p>
<p>* 4/15 (3:42 a.m. EDT): Full Moon (White/Virgin Moon). <span class="tail">[a/k/a Aries Full Moon]</span></p>
<p>* 4/15 eve to 4/16 eve: Mounikhia--Festival of Old Greek Goddess Artemis (Roman Diana/Slavic Diwitsa), honoring Her as the Moon. <span class="tail">[Mounikhion 16]</span></p>
<p>* 4/22: Earth Day--Day to honor the Earth and to meditate on Deity manifesting as Mother Earth. <span class="tail">[For information about Earth Day activities, see <a href="http://www.earthday.net/">Earthday Network website</a>; <a href="http://earthday.envirolink.org/">Envirolink website</a>; <a href="http://www.epa.gov/earthday/">U.S. E.P.A. website for Earth Day</a>.] [a/k/a International Earth Day, National Earth Day]</span></p>
<p>* 4/22: Day the world's nations guaranteed asylum to those persecuted in their homelands on account of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group (1954). <span class="tail">[Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees: signed 7/28/1951; entered into force 4/22/1954.] [<a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/o_c_ref.htm">Text of Convention</a>] [For more information, see <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (U.N.H.C.R.) website</a>; <a href="http://www.hrw.org/topic/refugees">Human Rights Watch website</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 4/28 eve to 5/3 eve: Floralia--Old Roman festival devoted to Flora, Goddess of Flowers. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 4/29 (2:14 a.m. EDT): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 4/29: Day production and use of chemical weapons was outlawed world-wide (1997); day to mourn their victims. <span class="tail">[Chemical Weapons Convention] [<a href="http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/treaties/cwctext.html">Text of Convention</a>] [26 countries are believed to have current or past chemical weapons programs.] [All should renounce the production, acquisition, and use of chemical weapons, and should demand destruction of all existing weapons.] [For more information, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_warfare">Wikipedia article on Chemical Warfare</a>. See also <a href="http://www.un.org/disarmament/HomePage/Issues/">U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs (U.N.O.D.A.) website</a>; <a href="http://www.opcw.org">Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (O.P.C.W.) webpage</a>; <a href="http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/bio/index.html">Federation of American Scientists (F.A.S.) Biological and Chemical Weapons Main Page</a>.] [a/k/a Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare] [See <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/chemwarfareday/">U.N. website on Chemical Warfare Victims Remembrance Day</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 4/29 eve to 4/30 eve: Thargelion Noumenia--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Thargelion 1]</span></p>
<p>* 4/30 eve to 5/2 eve: Beltaine--Old Celtic/Welsh feast of Blodeuwedd (Goddess of Flowers) and Llew (the Oak King - God of the waxing Sun).</p>
<p>* 4/30 eve to 5/5 eve: Mid-Spring/May Day/Walpurgis--Celebrates sacred love and the flowering vegetation by gathering flowers and dancing around a Maypole. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Old European cross-quarter day, Neo-Pagan cross-quarter day, Wiccan cross-quarter day, Mid-Spring Sabbat]</span></p>
<p>* 5/1: National Day of Prayer--Day to pray for freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and separation of religion and government throughout the world. <span class="tail">[Freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and separation of religion and government is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. For text and information on the First Amendment, see <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/first_amendment.html">Cornell University's Legal Information Institute website</a>. For domestic organizations that advocate for freedom of religion, see <a href="http://www.au.org/site/PageServer">Americans United for Separation of Church and State website</a>; <a href="http://www.aclu.org/ReligiousLiberty/ReligiousLibertyMain.cfm">American Civil Liberty Union website</a>. For information on religious freedom in countries around the world, see <a href="http://www.state.gov/g/drl/irf/">U.S. State Department's International Religious Freedom Report</a>; <a href="http://www.oslocoalition.org/">Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief website</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 5/1 to 5/31: May originally dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Maia; later dedicated to Christian Lady Mary - Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.</p>
<p>* 5/2 eve to 5/3 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Eros--Day to honor love and passion. <span class="tail">[Thargelion 4]</span></p>
<p>* 5/4 eve to 5/6 eve: Thargelia--Festival honoring Old Greek Goddess Artemis and God Apollo in which the community was purified. <span class="tail">[See <a href="http://www.wheeloftheyear.com/reference/GreekEthics.htm">Greek Ethics</a> inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.] [Thargelion 6-7]</span> </p>
<p>* 5/9: Day the world's nations committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which are causing climate change (1992); day to mourn the failure to reduce these emissions. <span class="tail">[Due to these emissions, the planet has already started to experience the impacts of climate change: increased extremes of summer dryness (heat waves, droughts, and wildfires) and winter wetness (flooding); an increase in extreme weather (hurricanes and tornados); an increase of sea level (loss of coastline and loss of fresh water); a decrease in glaciers and polar ice caps; an increase in volcanic eruptions and earthquakes; loss of human habitat; loss of food availability (increase in food costs); and loss of plant and animal species (on land, in the oceans, and on the ice caps).] [Framework Convention on Climate Change: adopted 5/9/1992; signed 6/4/1992; entered into force 3/21/1994.] [<a href="http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf">Text of Convention</a>] [The Kyoto Protocol, which includes mandatory reduction goals, was adopted by 180 nations 12/11/1997, signed 3/16/1998, and entered into force 2/16/2005.] [<a href="http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html">Text of Protocol</a>] [The U.S. has refused to ratify the Protocol. Total U.S. emissions have increased by 11% from 1990 to 2010. They have been increasing at an annual average rate of .5%. The U.S. is the biggest polluter on the planet. 25% of the planet's carbon dioxide emissions is emitted by the U.S.] [For more information, see <a href="http://unfccc.int/2860.php">U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change website</a>; <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change website</a>; <a href="http://www.ciel.org/Climate_Change/index.html">Center for International Environmental Law website</a>; <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change">Greenpeace website</a>; <a href="http://earthjustice.org/our_work/climate_and_energy">EarthJustice website</a>; <a href="http://epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usinventoryreport.html">U.S. E.P.A. website on U.S. emissions 1990-2010</a>; <a href="http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/aiacc/">Columbia University website on Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change in Multiple Regions and Sectors</a>. See also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol">Wikipedia article on the Kyoto Protocol</a>.] [All should demand universal observance of practices that effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions.]</span></p>
<p>* 5/14 (3:16 p.m. EDT): Full Moon (Flower/Corn-Planting Moon). <span class="tail">[a/k/a Taurus Full Moon]</span></p>
<p>* 5/18: Feast of Old Greek God Pan, who represents the masculine in Nature and protects men throughout their lives. Men recognized the transitions in their lives and honored male fertility. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 5/19: Old Celtic/Irish feast in which sacred healing wells and springs were adorned with flowers in honor of Goddess Brigid, daughter of Mother Goddess Danu and Father God Dagda. The Celts also threw offerings into the wells and springs.</p>
<p>* 5/22: Biological Diversity Day--Day to recognize that the survival of humanity is dependent on the survival of the many diverse species on the Earth: The extinction of other species will bring about our own extinction. <span class="tail">[There has been a 40% loss of species between 1970 and 2000 due to habitat destruction, over-harvesting, and pollution. Our unsustainable consumption exceeds the biological capacity of the Earth by about 20%.] [See <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/biodiversityday/">U.N. website on International Day for Biological Diversity</a>.] [And see the Convention on Biological Diversity: signed 6/5/1992; entered into force 12/29/1993.] [<a href="http://www.cbd.int/convention/text/">Text of Convention</a>] [And see the <a href="http://www.cbd.int/">Convention on Biological Diversity website</a>.] [The Convention on Biological Diversity was contracted to ensure conservation of biodiversity, sustainable use of biodiversity, and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the use of genetic resources.] [For more information, see <a href="http://www.ciel.org/Bio/index.html">Center for International Environmental Law website</a>.] [All should demand universal observance of practices that effectively preserve all species of life, and should demand an end to habitat destruction, over-harvesting, and pollution of all kinds.] [a/k/a International Day for Biological Diversity, World Biological Diversity Day, Biodiversity Day]</span> </p>
<p>* 5/28 (2:40 p.m. EDT): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 5/28 eve: Old European feast of the Triple Goddess (Goddess of the Moon and the Seasons), marking the transformation of the Virgin into the Mother.</p>
<p>* 5/29 eve to 5/30 eve: Skirophorion Noumenia--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Skirophorion 1]</span></p>
<p>* 5/31 eve to 6/1 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Athena - as protector and defender. <span class="tail">[Skirophorion 3]</span></p>
<p>* 6/1 eve to 6/2 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Hermes--Day to honor the divine feminine and divine masculine in harmony. <span class="tail">[Skirophorion 4]</span></p>
<p>* 6/1 to 6/30: June dedicated to Old Roman Goddess Juno - partner of Jove (God of Happiness), protector of marriage and family, and punisher of abusive and adulterous spouses.</p>
<p>* 6/7 to 6/15: Vestalia--Old Roman festival honoring Goddess Vesta (Greek Hestia). Women made food offerings at the sacred hearths of home and temple. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 6/8: World Oceans Day--Day to recognize the world's dependence on the oceans for food and medicine; day to advocate for the sustainable management of all ocean resources and for an end to the pollution of the oceans with toxins and trash. <span class="tail">[See <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/oceansday/">U.N. website on World Oceans Day</a>.] [For information on ocean pollution and fisheries conservation, see <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/oceans/">Greenpeace website</a>; <a href="http://earthjustice.org/oceans">EarthJustice website</a>; <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/oceans/default.asp">Natural Resources Defense Counsel (N.R.D.C.) website</a>.] [Fish stocks have collapsed in almost one-third of all ocean fisheries. The rate of decline is accelerating and total loss of fisheries could occur by mid-century. Fishery decline is caused by overfishing the stock, the loss of marine biodiversity associated with the stock, pollution, and climate change. Establishing core protected areas for each surviving stock and preventing the stock from being fished above the maximum sustainable yield are crucial for its survival.] [For information about the collapse of fishery stocks, see <a href="http://www.unep.org/pdf/InDeadWater_LR.pdf">U.N. Environment Programme report "In Dead Water"</a>; <a href="http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba581/">National Center for Policy Analysis article</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing">Wikipedia article on Overfishing</a>.] [All should demand an end to pollution of the oceans, and should demand universal observance of sustainable management practices of ocean fisheries.]</span></p>
<p>* 6/13 (12:11 a.m. EDT): Full Moon (Rose/Berry Moon). <span class="tail">[a/k/a Gemini Full Moon]</span></p>
<p>* 6/17: Day to celebrate Starhawk's work in reclaiming the Goddess and raising Goddess-consciousness. She teaches an eco-egalitarian form of Wicca. Wiccans advocate for environmental protection and gender equality out of reverence for Goddess, who controls, and is manifested in, Nature. <span class="tail">[The Wiccan rede is: Do what you will, but harm none.]</span></p>
<p>* 6/21 (6:51 a.m. EDT): Summer Solstice--Marks the beginning of Summer and the longest day and shortest night of the year; celebration of the light with dancing around a bonfire. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Old European turning-of-the-season day, Neo-Pagan turning-of-the-season day, Wiccan turning-of-the-season day, Summer Sabbat]</span></p>
<p>* 6/21: Old Slavic Kupala--Goddess Morana/Lada and God Jarilo/Lado marry, bringing peace and ensuring a good harvest. Celebrated with ritual bathing, feasting, dancing around bonfires, and coupling. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Noc Kupaly, Sobotka]</span></p>
<p>* 6/26: Day torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment were outlawed world-wide (1987); day to mourn their continued existence. <span class="tail">[Torture is an illegal, immoral, and ineffective means of interrogation and punishment. All officials have a legal duty and moral obligation to refuse an order to commit torture and to prevent it from occurring. Anyone who attempts, conspires, or commits torture is legally culpable. All acts of torture should be investigated, prosecuted, and punished. Neither war nor civil strife nor emergency justifies torture.] [Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: adopted 12/10/1984; signed 2/4/1985; entered into force 6/26/1987.] [<a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cat.htm">Text of Convention</a>] [The <a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/index.htm">Committee Against Torture</a> monitors implementation of the Convention. For more information, see <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx">U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights website</a>; <a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/category/topic/torture">Human Rights Watch website</a>.] [Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (<a href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/">Text of Declaration</a>) and Article 7 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (<a href="http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cpr.html">Text of Covenant</a>) also guarantee freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.] [See <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/torturevictimsday/">U.N. website on Torture Victims' Day</a>.] [All should condemn torture, and should demand an end to the use of torture - of anyone for any purpose.] [a/k/a International Day in Support of Victims of Torture]</span></p>
<p>* 6/26 eve to 6/27 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Hekate, who guides all through transitions and crisis. <span class="tail">[Skirophorion last day]</span></p>
<p>* 6/27 (4:09 a.m. EDT): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 6/27 eve to 6/28 eve: Hekatombaion Noumenia/Old Athenian New Year--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Hekatombaion 1]</span></p>
<p>* 6/29 eve to 6/30 eve: Feast of the Charites--Day to honor the Old Greek Goddesses of beneficence. <span class="tail">[Hekatombaion 3]</span></p>
<p>* 6/30 eve to 7/1 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Aphrodite--Day to honor peace and compassion. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Aphrodesia]</span> <span class="tail">[Hekatombaion 4]</span></p>
<p>* 7/1: Day the world's nations committed to stop proliferation of nuclear weapons (1968); vigil to protest the production and use of all nuclear weapons world-wide. <span class="tail">[Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons] [<a href="http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/treaties/npt1.html">Text of Convention</a>] [The U.S. used 2 atomic bombs on Japan in 8/1945: over 270,000 civilians died from the bombs and radiation. The original nuclear powers (including the U.S.) have failed to destroy their nuclear weapons in spite of the Treaty's requirement that they work towards disarmament. 9 countries are known to currently possess nuclear weapons, and other countries are attempting to develop or acquire them, in spite of the Treaty's prohibition.] [All should renounce the production, acquisition, and use of nuclear weapons, and should demand destruction of all existing weapons.] [For more information, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_warfare">Wikipedia article on Nuclear Warfare</a>. See also <a href="http://www.un.org/disarmament/HomePage/Issues/">U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs (U.N.O.D.A.) website</a>; <a href="http://www.iaea.org/">International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.) website</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 7/1: Day endangered species became internationally protected (1975); day to celebrate all the world's creatures. <span class="tail">[Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora a/k/a C.I.T.E.S.: signed/adopted 3/3/1973; entered into force 7/1/1975.] [<a href="http://www.cites.org/eng/disc/text.php">Text of Convention</a>] [For more information, see <a href="http://www.cites.org">U.N. Environment Programme C.I.T.E.S. website</a>; <a href="http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/index.html">World Wildlife Fund (W.W.F.) website</a>; <a href="http://www.stopextinction.org/">Endangered Species Coalition website</a>; <a href="http://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/What-We-Do/Endangered-Species.aspx">National Wildlife Federation website</a>; <a href="http://www.defenders.org/international-conservation/importance-cites">Defenders of Wildlife website</a>; <a href="http://earthjustice.org/our_work/wildlife_and_places">EarthJustice website</a>; <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/default.asp">Natural Resources Defense Counsel (N.R.D.C.) website</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 7/2: Day discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, gender, and religion was prohibited in public accommodations, employment, and education (1964). <span class="tail">[The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.] [Pub. L. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241, 42 U.S.C. 2000a et seq.] [<a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/2000a.html">Text of statute</a>] [Title II prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, Title III and Title VI prohibit discrimination by local governments, Title IV and Title IX prohibit discrimination in education, and Title VII prohibits discrimination in employment.] [For information on fighting discrimination based on "race" and "color", see <a href="http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/race_color.cfm">U.S. E.E.O.C. website</a>, and for information on fighting discrimination based on national origin, see <a href="http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/nationalorigin.cfm">U.S. E.E.O.C. website</a>. For information on fighting discrimination based on gender (including sexual harassment), see <a href="http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sex.cfm">U.S. E.E.O.C. website</a>. For information on fighting discrimination based on religion, see <a href="http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/religion.cfm">U.S. E.E.O.C. website</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 7/12 (7:25 a.m. EDT): Full Moon (Red/Mother Moon). <span class="tail">[a/k/a Cancer Full Moon]</span></p>
<p>* 7/12 eve to 7/13 eve: Synoikia--Old Greek festival celebrating the peaceful cooperation of states. Offerings were made to Aphrodite and Eirene, Goddesses of friendship and peace. <span class="tail">[Hekatombaion 16]</span></p>
<p>* 7/14 to 7/25 (Icelandic 7/24, Old Icelandic 7/10): Old Norse/Icelandic Mid-Summer Althingi-- Community gathering for democratic decision making. Forseti and Tyr, Gods of Justice and Self- Sacrifice, were honored. Toasts of mead and ale were made in honor of the Deities. <span class="tail">[See <a href="http://www.wheeloftheyear.com/reference/NobleVirtues.htm">Norse Nine Noble Virtues</a>] [a/k/a Mid-Summer Blot, Midsumar, Midsumardag, Midsommerdag, Forsetiblot, Tyrblot, Almannathing, Althing]</span></p>
<p>* 7/19 eve to 7/25 eve: Panathenaea--Old Greek festival of Goddess Athena - as daughter of Wisdom (Goddess Metis) and font of reason. <span class="tail">[Hekatombaion 23-28]</span></p>
<p>* 7/20: Old Slavic festival of God Perun (the Thunderer). He fought God Veles (the Dragon) over the affections of Goddess Solntse (the Sun), by throwing lightning bolts from the top of the World Tree.</p>
<p>* 7/26 (6:42 p.m. EDT): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 7/26: Birthday of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung (1875), founder of archetypal psychology, which explores universal concepts of Deity and their relation to the individual psyche. <span class="tail">[Death day 6/6/1961]</span></p>
<p>* 7/27 eve to 7/28 eve: Metageitnion Noumenia--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Metageitnion 1]</span></p>
<p>* 7/30 eve to 7/31 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Eros--Day to honor love and passion. <span class="tail">[Metageitnion 4]</span></p>
<p>* 7/31 eve to 8/2 eve: Lughnasadh--Old Celtic/Irish Feast of Goddess Tailtiu and God Lugh (Deities of Sustenance and Light). The Celts would throw seven sacred woods into a fire in honor of the Gods and Goddesses.</p>
<p>* 7/31 eve to 8/7 eve: Mid-Summer/First Harvest/Lammas--Festival of thanksgiving for the first of the grain harvest; celebrated by offering the first fruits of the grain harvest and prayers for sustenance for all. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Old European cross-quarter day, Neo-Pagan cross-quarter day, Wiccan cross-quarter day, Mid-Summer Sabbat]</span></p>
<p>* 8/1: Day the production and use of cluster munitions was outlawed world-wide (2010); day to mourn their victims. <span class="tail">[The Convention on Cluster Munitions a/k/a C.C.M.: Treaty adopted 5/30/2008, signed 12/3/2008; entered into force 8/1/2010.] [<a href="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/INTRO/620?OpenDocument">Text of Convention</a>] [See <a href="http://www.clusterconvention.org/">Convention on Cluster Munitions website</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions">Wikipedia article on Convention on Cluster Munitions</a>.] [See also U.N. Charter Article 26, which gives the U.N. Security Council authority to regulate armaments.] [<a href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter5.shtml">Text of U.N. Charter, chapter V, article 26</a>] [The treaty was opposed by countries that produce or stockpile significant quantities of cluster munitions, including the U.S. For more information, see <a href="http://www.stopclustermunitions.org/">Cluster Munition Coalition (C.M.C.) website</a>; <a href="http://www.the-monitor.org/index.php/LM/The-Issues/FAQs">Cluster Munition Monitor website</a>.] [Cluster bombs disperse smaller bomblets over a wide area. They are inherently inaccurate, making civilian casualties more likely. Unexploded cluster bombs remain a life-threatening hazard for civilians long after conflict ends.] [See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_munition">Wikipedia article on Cluster Munitions</a>.] [All should renounce the production and use of cluster munitions, and should demand removal and destruction of all existing cluster munitions.]</span></p>
<p>* 8/1 eve to 8/2 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Artemis (Roman Diana/Slavic Diwitsa) - as defender of rights and liberties, and punisher of rapists and oppressors. <span class="tail">[Metageitnion 6]</span></p>
<p>* 8/7: Gaia Consciousness Day--Day to meditate on Mother Earth as a living planet. <span class="tail">[Anniversary of the first photograph of Earth from Space taken on 8/7/1959.] [For views of Earth from space, see <a href="http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-earthmoon.html">the NSSDC Photo Gallery</a>; <a href="http://www.solarviews.com/eng/earth.htm">Solar Views website</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 8/7 eve to 8/8 eve: Old Greek festival honoring Athena Polias and Zeus Polios as protectors of city and state. <span class="tail">[Metageitnion 12]</span></p>
<p>* 8/10 (2:09 p.m. EDT): Full Moon (Grain-Harvest/Thunder Moon). <span class="tail">[a/k/a Leo Full Moon]</span></p>
<p>* 8/19: Vinalia--Old Roman festival of thanksgiving for the first of the grape harvest; celebrated by offering the first fruits of the grape harvest and prayers for sustenance for all. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 8/23: Feast of the Furies--honoring Nemesis and the Erinyes, Old Greek Goddesses who punish murderers, abusers, and exploiters of others. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 8/25 (10:13 a.m. EDT): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 8/25: Old Roman festival of Goddess Ops, Lady of the Cornucopia, Bounty of the Harvest, and Sustainer of Life. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 8/26 eve to 8/27 eve: Boedromion Noumenia--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Boedromion 1]</span></p>
<p>* 8/28: Opening of the Second World Parliament of Religions (1993), attended by members of all the world's religions. A Global Ethic was adopted that condemns hatred, aggression, oppression, and environmental abuses committed in the name of religion. <span class="tail">[</span><a href="http://www.parliamentofreligions.org/_includes/FCKcontent/File/TowardsAGlobalEthic.pdf">Text of Global Ethic</a><span class="tail">] [See also <a href="http://www.parliamentofreligions.org/">website for the Parliament of the World's Religions</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 8/28 eve to 8/29 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Athena - as protector and defender. <span class="tail">[Boedromion 3]</span></p>
<p>* 8/29 eve to 8/30 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Hermes--Day to honor the divine feminine and divine masculine in harmony. <span class="tail">[Boedromion 4]</span></p>
<p>* 8/30 eve to 8/31 eve: Genesia--Old Greek festival in which offerings were made for the dead. <span class="tail">[Boedromion 5]</span></p>
<p>* 8/31 eve to 9/1 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Artemis (Roman Diana/Slavic Diwitsa) - as the huntress, destroyer of life. <span class="tail">[Boedromion 6]</span></p>
<p>* 9/3: Day gender discrimination was outlawed world-wide (1981); day to mourn all manifestations of sexism. <span class="tail">[Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: adopted by U.N. General Assembly 12/18/1979; signed 3/1/1980; entered into force 9/3/1981.]</span> <span class="tail">[<a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cedaw.htm">Text of Convention</a>] [The <a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/index.htm">Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women</a> (CEDAW) monitors implementation of the Convention. For more information, see <a href="http://www.unwomen.org/">U.N. Women: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women</a> website; <a href="http://www.feminist.org/Global/">Feminist Majority Foundation website</a>; <a href="http://www.hrw.org/topic/womens-rights">Human Rights Watch website</a>.] [Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (<a href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/">Text of Declaration</a>) and Article 2 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (<a href="http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cpr.html">Text of Covenant</a>) also prohibit discrimination on account of gender.]</span></p>
<p>* 9/6 eve to 9/7 eve: Demokratia--Old Greek festival celebrating democracy, constitutional government, and justice under law. Zeus Agoraios, Athena Agoraias, and Themis were honored. <span class="tail">[Boedromion 12]</span></p>
<p>* 9/7 eve to 9/16 eve: Greater Eleusinian Mysteries--Old Greek festival recalling Goddess Demeter's search for Her missing daughter Kore. Devotees fasted, ritually bathed in the sea, processed by torch-light to the temple, made ritual offerings, and danced. They honored Demeter (as Mother Nature), Goddess Kore (as the harvested grain), and God Dionysos (as the harvested grape) for bringing life, death, and rebirth. <span class="tail">[Boedromion 13-21]</span></p>
<p>* 9/8 (9:38 p.m. EDT): Full Moon (Harvest Moon). <span class="tail">[a/k/a Virgo Full Moon]</span></p>
<p>* 9/15: International Day of Democracy--Day to celebrate democratic systems of government throughout the world, bound by rule of law, principles of human rights, and civilian control. Day to affirm democracy's compatibility with all peoples, all cultures, and all religions. <span class="tail">[In a democracy, both military and police are subject to rule of law and subordinate to civilian government. The military exists to protect the lawful civilian government and civilians; the police exists to enforce the law and protect people from criminals.] [See <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/democracyday/index.shtml">U.N. website on International Day of Democracy</a>.] [a/k/a Democracy Day]</span></p>
<p>* 9/21: International Day of Peace--Day to demonstrate for peace with justice throughout the world. <span class="tail">[Peace can be realized where there is recognition of sovereignty/autonomy, compliance with just law, respectful behavior, responsible sharing of resources, cooperation to attain common goals, and reasonable compromise to enable all to meet lawful goals.] [See <a href="http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/">International Day of Peace website</a>; <a href="http://www.unmeditation.org/peaceVigil.cfm">International Day of Peace Vigil website</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 9/21 eve to 9/22 eve: Old Greek festival honoring Gaia and the Nymphs (the male and female Spirits of Nature). <span class="tail">[Boedromion 27]</span></p>
<p>* 9/22 (10:29 p.m. EDT): Autumn Equinox--Marks the beginning of Autumn and point of equal daylight and darkness; celebrates the bounty of Mother Earth with feasting and aiding those in need. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Old European turning-of-the-season day, Neo-Pagan turning-of-the-season day, Wiccan turning-of-the-season day, Autumn Sabbat]</span></p>
<p>* 9/22: Old Slavic Dozhinki--At the end of the grain harvest, God Jarilo/Lado betrays Goddess Morana/Lada, and he returns to the realm of the dead. Morana's anger and sadness causes the world to become dark, cold, and dead. As a God manifested in the grain, Jarilo's "death" is recognized with the last of the harvest. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Dozynki]</span></p>
<p>* 9/23 eve to 9/24 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Hekate, who guides all through transitions and crisis. <span class="tail">[Boedromion last day]</span></p>
<p>* 9/24 (2:14 a.m. EDT): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 9/24 eve: Old European feast of the Triple Goddess (Goddess of the Moon and the Seasons), marking the transformation of the Mother into the Crone.</p>
<p>* 9/24 eve to 9/25 eve: Pyanepsion Noumenia--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Pyanepsion 1]</span></p>
<p>* 9/26 eve to 9/27 eve: Feast of the Charites--Day to honor the Old Greek Goddesses of beneficence. <span class="tail">[Pyanepsion 3]</span></p>
<p>* 9/27 eve to 9/28 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Aphrodite--Day to honor peace and compassion. <span class="tail">[Pyanepsion 4]</span></p>
<p>* 9/29 eve to 9/30 eve: Proerosia--Old Greek festival in which fruits of all the harvest were offered to Goddess Demeter. <span class="tail">[Pyanepsion 6]</span></p>
<p>* 10/4 eve to 10/7 eve: Thesmophoria--Old Greek festival commemorating the transformation of Goddess Kore (Queen of the Living) into Persephone (Queen of the Dead), when She eloped to Elysium with Her partner, God Dionysos/Plouton, accompanied by Goddess Hekate and spirits of the dead. At Eleusis, Dionysos was considered the life aspect and Plouton the death aspect of the same Deity, just as Kore was considered the life aspect and Persephone the death aspect of the same Deity. Dionysos was wild, and subject to excess drinking, dancing, and sex. While Kore, Gaia, Zeus, and Helios considered Him to be a marital prize, Demeter thought otherwise. Consequently, She mourned their union by striking the Earth with famine. <span class="tail">[Pyanepsion 11-13]</span></p>
<p>* 10/8 (6:51 a.m. EDT): Full Moon (Indigo/Wise-Crone Moon). <span class="tail">[a/k/a Libra Full Moon]</span></p>
<p>* 10/12 eve to 10/15 eve: Apaturia--Old Greek festival in which newcomers and children were welcomed into the community. <span class="tail">[Pyanepsion 19-21]</span></p>
<p>* 10/14 to 10/28 (Icelandic 10/25, Old Icelandic 10/11): Old Norse Winter Nights Feast--The ancestors were remembered and offerings were made to the Deities (particularly the Norns, Freyja, and the Disir) to survive the season. Toasts of mead, ale, and cider were made in honor of the Deities. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Veturnaetur, Winter's Day, Winter Blot, Vetrarblot, Vinternalsblot, Freyjablot, Nornorblot, Disirblot, Disablot]</span></p>
<p>* 10/18: Day the Clean Water Act was enacted (1972); day to give thanks for the water we drink. <span class="tail">[Pub. L. 92-500, 86 Stat. 896, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.] [<a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/33/1251.html">Text of statute</a>] [For information on water pollution, see <a href="http://water.epa.gov/">U.S. E.P.A. website</a>; <a href="http://www.cleanwateramericaalliance.org/">Clean Water America Alliance website</a>; <a href="http://www.cleanwateraction.org/">Clean Water Action website</a>; <a href="http://earthjustice.org/our_work/health_and_toxics">EarthJustice website</a> ; <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/water/default.asp">Natural Resources Defense Counsel (N.R.D.C.) website</a>; <a href="http://www.americanrivers.org/our-work/clean-water/">American Rivers website</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 10/21: Day military attacks on civilians were outlawed world-wide (1950); day to mourn all civilian victims of war. <span class="tail">[All soldiers have a legal duty and a moral obligation to refuse an order to attack a noncombatant. Anyone who plans, orders, or carries out such an act is legally culpable. All attacks on noncombatants should be investigated, prosecuted, and punished.] [Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War a/k/a Fourth Geneva Convention: signed 8/12/1949; entered into force 10/21/1950.]</span> <span class="tail">[<a href="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/full/380">Text of Convention</a>] [See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention">Wikipedia article on Fourth Geneva Convention</a>.] [All should condemn all attacks on noncombatants, and should demand an end to them.]</span></p>
<p>* 10/21 eve to 10/22 eve: Khalkeia--Old Greek festival honoring Goddess Athena and God Hephaistos for their gifts of crafts and technology. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Hephaistia]</span> <span class="tail">[Pyanepsion 28]</span></p>
<p>* 10/23 (5:57 p.m. EDT): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 10/24 eve to 10/25 eve: Maimakterion Noumenia--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Maimakterion 1]</span></p>
<p>* 10/27 eve to 10/28 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Eros--Day to honor love and passion. <span class="tail">[Maimakterion 4]</span></p>
<p>* 10/28 to 11/3: Isia--Old Romano-Egyptian festival recalling Set (God of Destruction) killing God Osiris; Goddess Isis mourning Him, resurrecting Him, and conceiving God Horus with Him; and Osiris becoming Lord of Amenta, realm of the dead. He weighs souls against the Feather of Truth on Goddess Maat's Scale of Justice, but defers to Isis for those who fail the test. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 10/31: Day to mourn the women tortured and killed as "witches" because of their independence, wealth, wisdom, or religion.</p>
<p>* 10/31 eve to 11/2 eve: Samhain--Old Celtic/Welsh New Year and feast of Cerridwen (Goddess of Death) and Beli (the Holly King - God of the Waning Sun).</p>
<p>* 10/31 eve to 11/7 eve: Mid-Autumn/Day of the Dead/Hallowmas--Festival marking the transformation of life to death - the end of the agricultural year, departure of migrating and hibernating animals, and decay and death of vegetal and animal life. Observed by remembering departed ancestors and contemplating one's own mortality. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Old European cross-quarter day, Neo-Pagan cross-quarter day, Wiccan cross-quarter day, Mid-Autumn Sabbat]</span></p>
<p>* 11/6 (5:23 p.m. EST): Full Moon (Wolf/Hunting Moon). <span class="tail">[a/k/a Scorpio Full Moon]</span></p>
<p>* 11/7: World Community Day--Day for celebrating the unity behind diversity and remembering we are all one people - all children of the one universal Deity of many names and aspects.</p>
<p>* 11/11 to 11/17: Old Anglo-Teutonic fast marking Hod (God of Darkness) unintentionally killing Balder (God of Light), and his true love Nanna (Goddess of Flowers) dying of a broken heart. The dead were honored.</p>
<p>* 11/16: Tolerance Day--Day to promote harmony in diversity through mutual respect and understanding of all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, culture, language, nationality, or economic status. <span class="tail">[Despite international and domestic laws providing for equal rights, freedoms, and protections, members of minority groups are still harassed and discriminated against because of societal intolerance arising from fear and ignorance.] [Intolerance often results from projection of "collective guilt": it is immoral to blame an entire group for the acts of a member unless the entire group empowered the member who acted or endorsed the acts.] [See <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/toleranceday/">U.N. website on International Day for Tolerance</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_for_Tolerance">Wikipedia article on Declaration of Principles on Tolerance</a>.] [a/k/a International Day for Tolerance]</span></p>
<p>* 11/20: Fast for an Abundant World Harvest--Day to fast and commit to action to help prevent deaths from malnourishment world-wide. <span class="tail">[For more information, see <a href="http://actfast.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/about/history">Oxfam America website</a>.] [a/k/a Fast for a World Harvest]</span> </p>
<p>* 11/22 (7:32 a.m. EST): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 11/22 eve to 11/23 eve: Poseideon Noumenia--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Poseideon 1]</span></p>
<p>* 11/27: Thanksgiving Day--Day to give thanks for the abundance of our land and for our food, clothes, shelter, and health.</p>
<p>* 12/1: World AIDS Day--Day to pray for healing of all those suffering with AIDS and HIV. <span class="tail">[For information on World AIDS Day, see <a href="http://www.worldaidsday.org/">World AIDS Day website</a>. For information about the global fight against AIDS, see <a href="http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp">UNAIDS website</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 12/6 (7:27 a.m. EST): Full Moon (Snow/Fire Moon). <span class="tail">[a/k/a Sagittarius Full Moon]</span></p>
<p>* 12/10: Day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, and fundamental rights were recognized world-wide (1948). <span class="tail">[The U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (U.D.H.R.) in Resolution 217 A(III).] [<a href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/">Text of Declaration</a>] [For information on the history of the U.D.H.R., see <a href="http://www.udhr.org/index.htm">Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute website</a>. The U.D.H.R. is generally recognized as binding customary international law: all countries are required to respect the rights within it. In 1966, the concepts of the U.D.H.R. were expanded and drafted into two binding international treaties with enforcement mechanisms. The Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (<a href="http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cpr.html">Text of Covenant</a>) is enforced by the <a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/index.htm">Human Rights Committee</a>. The Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (<a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cescr.htm">Text of Covenant</a>) is enforced by the <a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cescr/">Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights</a>. For more information, see <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx">U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights website</a>; <a href="http://www.hrw.org/topic/united-nations">Human Rights Watch website</a>; <a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/human-rights-basics">Amnesty International website</a>.] [All should demand universal observance of all rights enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - for all people.] [a/k/a International Human Rights Day]</span></p>
<p>* 12/13: Feast of the Light-bringer--honoring Goddess as Juno Lucina (Old Roman) & Lucia (Old Swedish); merged with the Christian feast of St. Lucia.</p>
<p>* 12/15: Day the Bill of Rights became part of the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing fundamental rights to all (1791). <span class="tail">[<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html">Text of Bill of Rights</a>] [For more information about the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution, see <a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/">U.S. National Archives & Records Administration website</a> and the <a href="http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org">Bill of Rights Institute website</a>. For information on organizations that advocate for enforcement of rights and liberties in the Bill of Rights, see <a href="http://ccrjustice.org/">Center for Constitutional Rights website</a>; <a href="http://www.aclu.org/">American Civil Liberties Union website</a>.] [a/k/a Bill of Rights Day]</span></p>
<p>* 12/17: Day the Clean Air Act was enacted (1963); day to give thanks for the air we breathe. <span class="tail">[Pub. L. 88-206, 77 Stat. 392, 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.]</span> <span class="tail">[<a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/7401.html">Text of statute</a>] [For information on air pollution, see <a href="http://www.epa.gov/air/urbanair/">U.S. E.P.A. website</a>; <a href="http://www.lung.org/healthy-air/">American Lung Association website</a>; <a href="http://earthjustice.org/our_work/health_and_toxics">EarthJustice website</a>; <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/air/default.asp">Natural Resources Defense Counsel (N.R.D.C.) website</a>.]</span></p>
<p>* 12/17 to 12/23: Saturnalia/Opalia--Old Roman festival honoring God Saturn (the weak Sun) & Goddess Ops (the fallow Earth); celebrated with gift-giving, revelry, and abolishment of all class distinctions. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 12/21 (6:03 p.m. EST): Winter Solstice/Solar New Year--Marks the beginning of Winter and the shortest day and longest night of the year; celebration of the darkness with dancing near the hearth fire. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Old European turning-of-the-season day, Neo-Pagan turning-of-the-season day, Wiccan turning-of-the-season day, Winter Sabbat]</span></p>
<p>* 12/21 (8:36 p.m. EST): New Moon.</p>
<p>* 12/21 to 12/22: Old European Festival of Evergreen Trees; merged into International Arbor Day. Celebrated by planting trees and hanging wreaths (symbols of eternal life).</p>
<p>* 12/21 to 12/25: Old Romano-Egyptian festival of Goddess Isis giving birth to God Horus. <span class="tail">[Roman calendar]</span></p>
<p>* 12/22 eve to 12/23 eve: Poseideon II Noumenia--Old Greek festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses. Flutes were played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, and food were burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. <span class="tail">[Poseideon II 1]</span></p>
<p>* 12/24 eve to 12/25 eve: Feast of Old Greek Goddess Athena - as protector and defender. <span class="tail">[Poseideon II 3]</span></p>
<p>* 12/25 eve to 12/26 eve: Feast of Old Greek Deities Aphrodite and Hermes--Day to honor the divine feminine and divine masculine in harmony. <span class="tail">[Poseideon II 4]</span></p>
<p>* 12/25 to 1/5: Yule--Old Anglo-Teutonic festival honoring Freyr and Freyja (Deities of Fertility) and the newborn Balder (God of Light), son of Frigga and Odin. Celebrated with evergreens, fires, and feasting.</p>
<p>* 12/28: Day the Endangered Species Act was enacted (1973); day to mourn those creatures already extinct. <span class="tail">[Pub. L. 93-205, 87 Stat. 884, 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.] [<a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/16/1531.html">Text of statute</a>] [For information on endangered species preservation, see <a href="http://www.fws.gov/endangered/">U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service website</a>; <a href="http://www.stopextinction.org/">Endangered Species Coalition website</a>; <a href="http://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/Wildlife-Conservation/Understanding-Wildlife-Conservation/Endangered-Species-Act.aspx">National Wildlife Federation website</a>; <a href="http://www.defenders.org/legislation/endangered-species-act">Defenders of Wildlife website</a>; <a href="http://earthjustice.org/our_work/wildlife_and_places">EarthJustice website</a>; <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/default.asp">Natural Resources Defense Counsel (N.R.D.C.) website</a>.]</span> </p>
<p>* 12/29 eve to 12/30 eve: Feast of God Poseidon, Goddess Amphritrite, and all Old Greek Gods and Goddesses of the seas. <span class="tail">[a/k/a Poseidea]</span> <span class="tail">[Poseideon II 8]</span></p>
<p>* 12/31: Feast of Father Time (Old Roman Saturn), who ultimately overcomes us all.</p>
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<p><span class="tail">[Many religions were practiced in Europe prior to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All were grounded in Nature and its rhythms, and all espoused ethical conduct. The holidays of these religions are generically referred to as Pagan holidays, Old European holidays, and Old Religion holidays.]</span></p>
<p><span class="tail">[Most Old Greek holidays (ancient Greek holidays or Hellenic holidays) in this calendar are based on the ancient Macedonian Greek calendar, a lunar calendar (also referred to as the ancient Greek calendar or Hellenic calendar). The Old Greek months began at the first visibility of the New Moon. (This calendar uses U.S. Eastern Time as the point of reference for the lunar Greek dates in this calendar.) A few Old Greek holidays are based on the fixed ancient Roman calendar.]</span></p>
<p><span class="tail">[All Old Roman holidays (ancient Roman holidays) and Romano-Egyptian holidays in this calendar are based on the ancient Roman calendar. Roman calendar dates do not change.]</span></p>
<p><span class="tail">[The Old Celtic holidays (Druid holidays or Wiccan holidays) and Old Slavic holidays (ancient Slavic holidays, Old Russian holidays, or Old Polish holidays) are based on the traditional 8-part solar year. (This is also referred to as the Celtic calendar or Wiccan calendar.) Holidays were celebrated at the Winter Solstice, Summer Solstice, Spring Equinox, Fall Equinox, and the 4 cross-quarter days that fell at the midpoint between them.]</span></p>
<p><span class="tail">[The Old Norse holidays (Asatru holidays or Heathen holidays) are based on the 2-part Norse/Icelandic year. (This is referred to as the Norse calendar or Heathen calendar.) The onset of the Norse Summer and Winter were celebrated as well as Mid-Summer and Mid-Winter. See Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga Saga (chapter 8), Prose Edda (chapter 59), Saga of Olaf the Holy (chapter 77), Saga of Olaf Tryggvason (chapter 74), Gisli Sursson's Saga (chapter 15), Egils Saga & Viga-Glums Saga. (The Norse dates are fixed dates based on the Primstav--the Norse stick calendar/clog almanac. The Icelandic dates are shifting dates based on Icelandic law, and have been adjusted for the Gregorian calendar. The Old Icelandic dates reflect the Julian calendar.) The Old Anglo-Teutonic holidays (Anglo-Saxon holidays) are the primary feasts in the 6-part German year. (Each part is a 60-day tide.)]</span></p>
<p><span class="tail">[The Old European holidays of the Triple Goddess are based on the traditional 3-season lunisolar year. And the Old European holidays of the Vegetation God are based on the traditional 4-part solar year (divided at the solstices and equinoxes).]</span></p>
<p><span class="tail">[The Old Religions of Europe are currently being practiced as: Old European religion, Old European Spirituality, Paganism, Pagan religion, Pagan Spirituality, Gaia religion, Pantheism, Panentheism, Nature Spirituality, Nature-based Spirituality, Earth-Centered Spirituality, Goddess religion, Goddess Spirituality, Women's Spirituality, Feminist Spirituality, Eco-Feminist Spirituality, Wicca, Wiccan religion, Wiccan Spirituality, Celtic religion, Celtic Spirituality, Celtic Paganism, Fairy faith, Druidism, Druid religion, Norse religion, Norse Spirituality, Norse Paganism, Anglo-Saxon religion, Anglo-Saxon Spirituality, Anglo-Saxon Paganism, Anglo-Teutonic religion, Anglo-Teutonic Spirituality, Anglo-Teutonic Paganism, Asatru, Norse Heathenism, Heathen religion, ancient Greek religion, Old Greek religion, Greek Spirituality, Greek Paganism, Hellenic religion, Hellenic Spirituality, Hellenic Paganism, Hellenic faith, Hellenism, Hellenismos, ancient Roman religion, Old Roman religion, Religio Romana, Roma Nova, Roman Spirituality, Roman Paganism, Old Slavic religion, Slavic Spirituality, Slavic Paganism, Old Russian religion, Russian Paganism, Old Polish religion, and Polish Paganism.]</span></p>
<p><span class="tail">[The Pagan calendar is also called the Nature Spirituality calendar, the Nature-based Spirituality calendar, the Earth-centered Spirituality calendar, and the Women's Spirituality calendar.]</span></p>
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<p>Excerpted from<br/> THE MYSTIC'S WHEEL OF THE YEAR 2014<br/> A Multifaith Calendar Reflecting Eco-Egalitarian Spirituality<br/> © 2013 Marija Miovski<br/> <a href="http://www.WheeloftheYear.com">www.WheeloftheYear.com</a></p>
The First Jubilee By Medievalists.net – January 1, 2014
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<p><br></br> <br></br> <a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/01/the-first-jubilee/bonifaceviiijubile/" rel="attachment wp-att-46227"><img alt="BonifaceVIII and the First Jubilee" class="alignright size-large wp-image-46227" height="500" src="http://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/BonifaceVIIIjubile-374x500.jpg" width="374"></img></a> The Jubilee is a yearlong celebration of Roman Catholics, in which they can get a full remission of their sins. It happens about once a generation – the last was held in the year 2000, and drew millions of people to Rome and other events around the world. How did this tradition start in the Middle Ages?</p>
<p>As the year 1300 was about to begin,…</p>
<p><br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/01/the-first-jubilee/bonifaceviiijubile/" rel="attachment wp-att-46227"><img class="alignright size-large wp-image-46227" alt="BonifaceVIII and the First Jubilee" src="http://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/BonifaceVIIIjubile-374x500.jpg" height="500" width="374"/></a>The Jubilee is a yearlong celebration of Roman Catholics, in which they can get a full remission of their sins. It happens about once a generation – the last was held in the year 2000, and drew millions of people to Rome and other events around the world. How did this tradition start in the Middle Ages?</p>
<p>As the year 1300 was about to begin, the residents of Rome began to see more than the usual number pilgrims streaming into the city. They were coming from all corners of Europe with big expectations – the change from the year 1299 to 1300 was seen as a monumental event and it seemed that everyone wanted to be at the centre of Christendom when it happened. However, not everyone was impressed by the thousands of faithful that were coming to the Eternal City – one Cardinal even asked, “Why are these fools expecting the end of the world?”</p>
<p>However, as Gary Dickson writes in his article, ‘The crowd at the feet of Pope Boniface VIII: pilgrimage, crusade and the first Roman Jubilee (1300)”:</p>
<p><em>in so far as we can gauge the popular mood from the chroniclers and from the papal sources, which admittedly were disinclined towards apocalypticism, the year 1300 was awaited in Rome not so much with nervous apprehension, as with optimistic anticipation. It was this widespread expectation of transformation which culminated in what was apparently the first centennial collective rite-de-passage to be celebrated in European history.</em></p>
<p>In medieval Rome Christmas Day also marked the start of the new year, and on Christmas Eve, 1299, crowds of pilgrims flocked to St.Peter’s where rumours spread quickly that pardons would be granted for all sins. These stories soon reached the ears of Pope Boniface VIII, who ordered an investigation into what was happening. No records existed that the beginning of the century meant that there was going to be some kind of indulgence handed out, like those given to crusaders.</p>
<p>The Pope then spoke with a man who said he was 107 years old. He told Boniface that his father had come to Rome in the year 1200, and had gained an indulgence, and that this was a tradition that had gone back many centuries before.</p>
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<p>Turning to the the Bible, the Pope also found something similar had happened in the ancient past. The Old Testament <em>Book of Leviticus</em> explained that the “fiftieth year is sacred—it is a time of freedom and of celebration when everyone will receive back their original property, and slaves will return home to their families.”</p>
<p>Boniface VIII has not gone down in history as the most religious of popes – he was more of a lawyer who spent his seven-year reign in conflict with other rulers in Italy and around Europe. However, he was astute enough to see an opportunity when it came walking to his door. On February 22, 1300, Boniface published the Papal Bull “Antiquorum fida relatio”, which said that this would be a Jubilee Year, and that any Christian could get remission from all sins if they made their confession and went on a pilgrimage to Rome before the end of the year. Once they arrived in Rome, the pilgrims were required to visit the basilicas of St Peter and St Paul daily for fifteen days. Roman residents could also do this, but had to visit the basilicas for thirty days.</p>
<p>As news of the Papal Bull travelled outside of Rome, even more pilgrims would arrive. The Italian chronicler Giovanni Villani describes the scene: “the most marvellous thing that was ever seen, for throughout the year, without a break, there were in Rome, besides the inhabitants of the city, 200,000 pilgrims…and all was well ordered, and without tumult…”</p>
<p>It was an exaggeration to say that it was well-ordered – there were also reports of pilgrims being trampled or crushed to death in the huge crowds – but the year was generally peaceful and considered a success. Moreover, the Jubilee also brought much needed money to the Papal treasury. However, not everyone was welcome – on the same day Boniface issued his Papal Bull he issued another order stating the indulgence would not apply to his political enemies, including Frederick III of Sicily.</p>
<p>Boniface VIII intended the Jubilee to be a once-in-a-century event, but by 1350 one of his successors was persuaded to repeat it. The Jubilee Year was held again in 1387, 1400, 1423, 1450 and 1475 – after which it mostly continued its practice of being held every 25 years. The next Jubilee is scheduled to take place in 2025.</p>
Giant Drum Circle Just Part of Upcoming Folk Festival
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<p>A big drum circle under the blue skies and lush greenery of the Battelle Darby Metro Park will be just one of the highlights of the 17thth annual Central Ohio Folk Festival, May 3, 4, and 5.</p>
<p><br></br>The drum circle will be led by Michael Hough and David Tamulevich of the folk duo Mustard’s Retreat on Saturday May 4 from 5 to 6:30 p.m.</p>
<p><br></br>We’ll be pounding on drums, sticks, tree stumps, and anything else that can to the steady mesmerizing beat. Young and old are invited to join…</p>
<p>A big drum circle under the blue skies and lush greenery of the Battelle Darby Metro Park will be just one of the highlights of the 17thth annual Central Ohio Folk Festival, May 3, 4, and 5.</p>
<p><br/>The drum circle will be led by Michael Hough and David Tamulevich of the folk duo Mustard’s Retreat on Saturday May 4 from 5 to 6:30 p.m.</p>
<p><br/>We’ll be pounding on drums, sticks, tree stumps, and anything else that can to the steady mesmerizing beat. Young and old are invited to join in.</p>
<p><br/>But there are many other FREE aspects of the festival: <br/>• a humongous pot-luck supper Friday night, followed by the “worst song in the world” contest. <br/>• hourly spotlight concerts Saturday and Sunday by soloists, duos, and groups, singing and playing guitar, mandolin, banjo, dulcimer, harp, and other instruments. You’ll hear a wide range of folk music – work songs, slave songs, Celtic tunes, love songs, sea shanties, 1960’s protest, old English ballads, lullabies, and more. <br/>• a special children’s area Saturday and Sunday with performers leading kids’ song and telling tall tales. Plus an “instrument petting zoo” to let children handle folk instruments. <br/>• informal spontaneous jamming by anyone with an instrument or voice</p>
<p><br/>For die-hard folkies, dozens of hour-long workshops will also be held. The topics range from unusual guitar tunings, song-writing, and nursery rhymes on dulcimer to how to play the pennywhistle and how to yodel.</p>
<p>Registration for the workshops will cost $35, but registrants will receive a bonus --- free admission to a special Saturday night concert. It will feature Cathy Barton, Dave Para, and Ed Trickett – 3 multi-talented musicians who sing and play a wide variety of instruments.</p>
<p><br/>For more info, search the web for “Central Ohio Folk Festival.” Or contact Art or Sharon Mittenbergs at rbaron49@aol.com.</p>
Earth’s Web 2013 Beltane Gathering
tag:travelingwithintheworld.ning.com,2013-04-10:2185477:Topic:189153
2013-04-10T13:41:13.472Z
Dept of PMM Artists & things
https://travelingwithintheworld.ning.com/profile/Artistsandthings
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Mystic Glen invites you to come join us for Beltane. This is the 1<sup>st</sup> gathering sponsored by Earth’s Web at Walking Fern Farm. May 3-5 the gates open at 12 Noon on Friday for the general public. Vendors and coordinators <b>ONLY</b> may arrive on Thursday at 12 Noon. There will be a Maypole, a Wicker man, vendors, and lots of workshops to choose from and a bardic circle Friday evening. Spring is finally here, help us celebrate; build a strong Spiritual and Magickal Community. Let us reconnect to Our Earth Mother and each other as the wheel turns and we experience the fertility and ripening all around us.</span></i></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 13pt;">In order to keep gathering costs down, there will be fund-raising events Friday & Saturday, A Kissing Booth open most of the weekend, An item and service auction, and a Breakfast for $3 Saturday Morning with all proceeds to go to Earth’s Web.</span></i></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Please bring those extra $ones$ for fun</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">All e-mails will be forwarded to the appropriate coordinator</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><br/></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Gathering Coordinator –</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><b>SilverRose & Crecia</b> at</span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;" lang="ES-MX" xml:lang="ES-MX"><a title="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" href="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Earths_Web@yahoo.com</span></a></span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><br/></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Registration Coordinator</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">– <b>Wind Dragon</b> at</span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;" lang="ES-MX" xml:lang="ES-MX"><a title="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" href="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Earths_Web@yahoo.com</span></a></span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/><b>Merchant Coordinator</b> – <b>SilverRose & Draven</b> at</span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;" lang="ES-MX" xml:lang="ES-MX"><a title="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" href="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Earths_Web@yahoo.com</span></a></span><i><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></u></i><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Workshop Coordinator</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">– <b>Crecia</b> at</span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;" lang="ES-MX" xml:lang="ES-MX"><a title="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" href="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Earths_Web@yahoo.com</span></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Kitchen Witch</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">– <b>Warder</b> at</span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;" lang="ES-MX" xml:lang="ES-MX"><a title="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" href="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Earths_Web@yahoo.com</span></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Children’s Activities – Angie & Angus</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">at </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;" lang="ES-MX" xml:lang="ES-MX"><a title="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" href="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Earths_Web@yahoo.com</span></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Fund Raising – Ivy</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">at</span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;" lang="ES-MX" xml:lang="ES-MX"><a title="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" href="mailto:Earths_Web@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Earths_Web@yahoo.com</span></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">or contact us at <b>Earth’s Web, 1657 E Stone Dr, Ste B140, Kingsport, TN 37660, Phone: <a class="telified" title="Use as phone number" style="color: #00001f; background-color: #ffffdf; -moz-border-radius: 3px; cursor: pointer;">(423) 335-6274</a></b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;"><font size="3">PLEASE BRING: tent, sleeping bags, blankets, <u>rain gear and clothing for both warm and cold weather</u>, flashlight, snack foods, ritual gear, drums, and other musical instruments. Pease plan for a wide temperature range, even at this time of the year. Remember your feast gear and eating utensils</font></span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><b><i><u>(Styrofoam and other feast gear will not be supplied!).</u></i></b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">This site is more primitive than the last so as of yet there are no shower facilities available, but there is a creak that you can bath in so please bring all environmentally friendly bio-degradable soaps and shampoos please.</span></u></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><font size="3"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">NOTE: OUR MEAL POLICY: We will provide a soup Friday night and only supper on Saturday. Any breakfast offerings (ready to serve only) contributed will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.</span></u></b> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">Please bring pot-luck offerings for the feasts. It need not be prepared unless it is baked. Items such as fresh fruits and veggies, cheese, sour cream, honey, breakfast meats, breads, desserts, and salad items are very much welcomed by our kitchen witch. Please drop these off at the kitchen as soon as possible after arriving, so our Kitchen Witch and helpers can begin working their magic! Having enough for everyone is dependent on everyone bringing something for the kitchen, so please help us have a bountiful feast!</span> </font></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">$10 per child* 12-16</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">(plus your feast contribution and 2 hours of volunteer service) if paid and postmarked <b>before April 26, 2013</b></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">$20 per person*</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">over 16 (plus your feast contribution and 2 hours of volunteer service) if paid and postmarked <b>before April 26, 2013</b></span> </font></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">$30 per person* after April 26, 2013 and at the door</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">(plus your feast contribution and</span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">2 hours of volunteer service).</span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">FAMILY RATE: (This includes up to 2 adults, and children under 18 living in the house) Prepaid registration before April 26, 2013 - $50 At the gate - $70</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">(plus your feast contribution and 2 hours of volunteer service).</span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;"><font size="3">*</font></span></b><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">Children under 12 are free. A legal guardian must accompany anyone under 18. If not a custodial parent, the guardian must be responsible for the minor, and have a written permission statement from the parent, which must be presented at registration immediately upon arrival. <br/><b>We are working to get the new web site (<a title="http://www.earthsweb.org/" href="http://www.earthsweb.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.earthsweb.org</span></a>) up as soon as possible for easier and faster Registration, until then please send the registration form below to either, Earths_Web@yahoo.com and checks to Earth’s Webs address or the registration form and your checks to Earth’s Web, 1657 E Stone Dr, Ste B140, Kingsport, TN 37660. Thank You for your patients and help with this</b></span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Treat each other with respect, and respect all paths. Take care of those you come with, and respect the land, by leaving your campsite cleaner than you found it. Most of all, HAVE FUN!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">No illegal drugs, firearms, drunken behavior, bad attitudes, violence or other inappropriate behaviors will be condoned on the site. We DO enforce the no drugs rule, and the security team has active duty law enforcement officers serving among them, so don't bring them!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">No pets. Service dogs only will be permitted at the gathering site. All other pets will be refused at the gate, so please do not bring them.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Please bring: positive attitudes, appropriate gear, and food for the potluck contribution! Please note: We are working very hard to keep our prices low, despite rising costs for sites, food, and fuel. If you can add something, even a dollar or two, to your registration, it may help someone else be able to attend. Community service: Each participant needs to contribute two hours of community service during the gathering. It is basically just a little of the background work that lets a gathering happen, and may include helping out with registration, food preparation, heralding workshops or rituals, helping with the site, or cleanup. It's fun, and a great way to get to know folks better!</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 16.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 4.95pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Name: ____________________________________________________<br/><br/>Craft name (if any): __________________________ Birth date: ___________<br/><br/>Address: _________________________________________________<br/><br/>City: ___________________________ State: _______ Zip: ________<br/><br/>Email Address: _______________________________________________<br/></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 9pt;">(for confirmation email to be sent out about a week before the gathering)</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><br/>Telephone (_____) ___________________________________________<br/><br/># of Adults and Children over 12: _____ Vegetarian: ___ Omnivore: ____<br/><br/>Child under 18: ___ 12: ____Responsible Adult: _____________________<br/><br/>Onsite Contact (mundane name, please): ______________________________<br/><br/>Offsite Contact: ___________________________________________<br/><br/>Offsite Contact Phone: (_____) _____________________________<br/><br/>Are you on any regularly prescribed medications we should know about?</span> <font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black;">________________________________________________________________________</span></font></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Or do you have any medical condition we should know about?</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 16.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 4.95pt; background: white;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Do you have any special training or certification in healthcare or security? If yes, what type?</span></p>
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SerpentStone TN Samhain 2012 Gathering Flyer
tag:travelingwithintheworld.ning.com,2012-09-22:2185477:Topic:183207
2012-09-22T14:01:22.308Z
Dept of PMM Artists & things
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<p align="center" class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">SerpentStone Tennessee Samhain Gathering</span></p>
<p align="center" class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">October 26-28, 2012…</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">SerpentStone Tennessee Samhain Gathering</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">October 26-28, 2012</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">At YI Camp near Smyrna, TN</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Britannic Bold','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Memento Mori</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Britannic Bold','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The Middle Tennessee Pagan Community invites you all to come celebrate Samhain with us at the YI Campground. The SerpentStone family has been together for 20 years and many wonderful things have happened. However this season especially reminds us that all things under the Sun have their allotted time. Fields are cleared, a gathering of food and family, to make it together through the long dark of Winter. Things pass away to lie fallow for a while before new life arises from the old. All things end. All things pass away, however now is the time to come together, to celebrate the life we have, the friends we have lost along the way and remember that even though things may die the Great Cycle of Life goes on.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Britannic Bold','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">So please bring any stories you have, mementos you wish to share on the table of Remembrance, for we shall turn the Samhain wheel as SerpentStone one last time and remember. We shall raise a noise to the Lord and Lady and celebrate our time.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span> </span> SLEEPING ACCOMODATIONS</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">There is plenty of sleeping space in unheated cabins on site.<span> </span> There is also a heated Dormitory for extra cost.. If you NEED to sleep in a heated area for medical reasons, please indicate such on your pre-registration form. There is a $10 usage fee on sleeping in the heated dorm which MUST be prepaid in order to guarantee bed space. Those with medical needs get first priority.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">ARRIVAL TIME</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Registration will open at 12:00 pm Central Time, merchants may arrive as early as 9:00 am to set up. Merchants needing to arrive earlier must get prior approval from the gathering coordinator and the land caretakers. (contact</span> <u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">merchanting@serpentstone.org</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><br/>email the appropriate person at:<br/><b>Gathering Coordinator – Butterfly Awakening</b>at</span> <u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">gatheringcoordinator-tn@serpentstone.org</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span> </span> <br/><b>Registration Coordinator</b> – <b>Rhiannon</b> (offsite) or <b>Khepheret</b> (onsite) at</span> <u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">registration@serpentstone.org</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span> </span> <br/><b>Merchant Coordinator</b> – <b>Alex</b> at</span> <u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">merchanting-tn@serpentstone.org</span></u></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Workshop Coordinator</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">–<b>Lisa</b> at</span> <u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">workshops-tn@serpentstone.org</span></u></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Kitchen Witch</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">– <b>Bella Dragonfly</b> at</span> <u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">kitchenwitch-tn@serpentstone.org</span></u></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Children’s Activities</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">– <b>Shepard</b> at</span> <u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">childrensactivities-tn@serpentstone.org</span></u></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><br/>or contact us at <b>SerpentStone, PO Box 652, Candler, NC 28715.<span> </span> Phone (828)665-4049</b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">PRACTICAL MATTERS</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">PLEASE BRING: tent, sleeping bags, blankets, <u>rain gear and clothing for both warm and cool weather</u>, flashlight, snack foods, ritual gear, drums, and other musical instruments. Plan for a wide temperature range, even at this time of the year, but tend toward the warm side. Remember your feast gear and eating utensils <b><i><u>(Styrofoam and other feast gear is no longer supplied!).</u></i></b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">If you need to buy things, please stop at one of the larger stores, rather than the small local convenient stores. It keeps the small stores able to supply their regular customers, and keeps the rumors and security hassles down.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><img src="https://blu170.mail.live.com/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=7a584049-0461-11e2-b486-00215ad80204&attindex=1&cp=-1&attdepth=1&imgsrc=cid%3aX.MA2.1348282747%40aol.com&cid=609dd4fcb1ad37fa&shared=1&blob=MXxjbGlwX2ltYWdlMDAzLmdpZnxpbWFnZS9naWY_3d&hm__login=travelerinbdfsm&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.15.232.8&d=d4798&mf=0&hm__ts=Sat%2c%2022%20Sep%202012%2006%3a00%3a45%20GMT&st=travelerinbdfsm&hm__ha=01_86d198f80412ab7e464baf9154219a717068168b6b3ab8dc11153e48a05b3978&oneredir=1" id="ecxMA2.1348282747" height="66" width="130" name="ecxMA2.1348282747"/></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">FOOD</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">IMPORTANT: See changes noted on first page.<span> </span> Only Saturday night supper will be provided.<span> </span> Please bring potluck offering for the feast.<span> </span> Soup (from donations) will be available other times, and a donated items for a continental-style (no cooking) breakfast will be welcomed.</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Please bring pot-luck offerings for the feasts. It need not be prepared unless it is baked. Items such as fresh fruits and veggies, cheese, sour cream, honey, breakfast meats, breads, desserts, and salad items are very much welcomed by our kitchen witch. Please drop these off at the kitchen as soon as possible after arriving, so our Kitchen Witch and helpers can begin working their magic!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">COST</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">$10 per child* 12-16</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">(plus your feast contribution and 2 hours of volunteer service) <br/>if paid and postmarked <b>October 19, 2012</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">$20 per person*</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">over 16 (plus your feast contribution and 2 hours of volunteer service) <br/>if paid and postmarked <b>before October 19, 2012</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">$30 per person* after October 19, 2012 and at the door</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">(plus your feast contribution and 2 hours of volunteer service).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> DAY TRIP $15</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">If you need heated dorm space, there is an extra $10 fee on first-come, first serve and medical necessity basis.</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">*</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Children under 12 are free. A legal guardian must accompany anyone under 18. If not a custodial parent, the guardian must be responsible for the minor, and have a written permission statement from the parent, which must be presented at registration immediately upon arrival.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 16pt;">PRE-REGISTER AT</span></b> <b><u><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://www.serpentstone.org">www.serpentstone.org</a></span></u></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; color: black;">RULES TO LIVE BY</span></b></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Treat each other with respect, and respect all paths. Take care of those you come with, and respect the land, by leaving your campsite cleaner than you found it. Most of all, HAVE FUN!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">No illegal drugs, firearms, drunken behavior, bad attitudes, or violence or other inappropriate behaviors will be condoned on the site. We DO enforce the no drugs rule, and the security team has active duty law enforcement officers serving among them, so don't bring them!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">No pets. Service dogs only will be permitted at the gathering site. All other pets will be refused at the gate, so please do not bring them.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.5in;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Please bring</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">: positive attitudes, appropriate gear, and food for the potluck contribution! Please note: We are working very hard to keep our prices low, despite rising costs for sites, food, and fuel. If you can add something, even a dollar or two, to your registration, it may help someone else be able to attend. <b>Community service</b>: Each participant is asked to contribute two hours of community service during the gathering. It is basically just a little of the background work that lets a gathering happen, and may include helping out with registration, food preparation, heralding workshops or rituals, helping with the site, or cleanup. It's fun, and a great way to get to know folks better!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 16pt;">PRE-REGISTER AT</span></b> <b><u><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://www.serpentstone.org">www.serpentstone.org</a></span></u></b></p>
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GA SerpentStone Samhain 2012 Flyer
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2012-09-21T14:06:12.742Z
Dept of PMM Artists & things
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'AR BLANCA'; color: black; font-size: 18pt;">2012 Georgia Samhain Gathering</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'AR BERKLEY'; color: black; font-size: 16pt;">October 12-14, 2012</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'AR BERKLEY'; color: black; font-size: 16pt;">At Dragon Hills near Carrollton, GA</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">We are sorry but there are <b><u>NO</u></b> work studies available for GA Samhain</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Estrangelo Edessa'; color: black; font-size: 16pt;">Come and celebrate with us as Serpentstone for the final time in Georgia, a celebration of Samhain and of Family. We come together to remember the good times of the last 20 years. We come to look forward to the future. While Serpentstone draws to an end, the Dream continues to live strong within our hearts.</span></b></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span>µ</span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Wickedest Witch Contest – Celebrate the stereotype by dressing up as you ‘wickedest witch’ and compete for fun and a prize! Points granted for originality, creativity and scariest witch costume!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span>µ</span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Fundraiser – Have your future read by one of our volunteers for a donation to Serpent Stone! Choose from a real life reading or one for just fun!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span>µ</span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Raffle – Purchase tickets for great prizes!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><a name="_GoBack" target="_blank"></a><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Food donations should be can goods or fruits for the drum altar</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">All pre-registrations must be <u>paid</u> before the gathering to avoid a $30.00 at the gate charge, no exceptions!<span> </span> If you pre-register, but have not paid in advance, you will be charged</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">$30.00 at the gate.</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'AR BERKLEY'; font-size: 24pt;">Trancing With the Stars</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span> </span> The term <i>trance</i> is associated with hypnosis, meditation, magic, flow, prayer and altered states of consciousness.<span> </span> Please come to Samhain and share your favorite forms of trance.<span> </span> We will have classes on meditation, different types of divination and a fund raiser where you can volunteer to tell fortunes for 1 hour blocks of time.<span> </span> Don’t forget to bring your tarot decks, runes, tea leaves, or whatever your favorite method is!<span> </span> See <b>YOU</b> at Samhain!</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Return to the Hills!</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Dragon Hills is a beautiful site of rolling hills and nestled woods.<span> </span> There are hot showers, sheltered areas if it rains, a truly magickal Circle upon the top of the hill, and a kick-ass drum circle.<span> </span> Cabins are available at extra charge on a first-come, first-serve basis: please contact Dragon Hills directly at (770)258-0863 (or see</span> <a href="http://www.dragonhillsretreat.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><font color="#0000FF">http://www.dragonhillsretreat.com/</font></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><span> </span>Please bring your instruments, your joy, and your own personal magick.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Adults and children welcome!<span> </span> This is NOT a skyclad gathering.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Food for Saturday’s feast will be provided free of charge to participants, but other meals are available for sale.<span> </span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">email the appropriate person at:</span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><br/></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Gathering Coordinator –Rokkr</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">at <u><span style="color: #00007f;">gatheringcoordinator@serpentstone.org</span></u></span> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><br/></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Registration Coordinator</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">– <b>Rhiannon</b> (offsite) or at <u><span style="color: #00007f;">registration@serpentstone.org</span></u> <br/><b>Merchant Coordinator</b> –<b>Rainbow Dragon</b> at <u><span style="color: #00007f;">merchanting@serpentstone.org</span><i><br/></i></u><span> </span><b>Workshop Coordinator</b> – <span> </span><b>Lady Autumn</b> at <u><span style="color: #00007f;">workshops@serpentstone.org</span></u><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><br/>or contact us at <b>SerpentStone, PO Box 652, Candler, NC 28715 <span> </span>Phone: (828) 665-4049</b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">PLEASE BRING: tent, sleeping bags, blankets, <u>rain gear and clothing for both warm and cold weather</u>, flashlight, snack foods, ritual gear, drums, and other musical instruments. Plan for a wide temperature range, even at this time of the year. Remember your feast gear and eating utensils.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">If you need to buy things before or during the gathering, please stop at one of the larger stores in town, rather than the small local convenience stores. It keeps the small stores able to supply their regular customers, and keeps the rumors and security hassles down.</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">PLEASE NOTE NEW POLICY FOR DRAGON HILLS ONLY!!!</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Although the kitchen is no longer open for SerpentStone to use, the landowners will be providing supper for us on Saturday, included in gathering cost.<span> </span></span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Any other meals are on your own.<span> </span> Please bring your own drinks. The landowners will be selling food for other meals at reasonable prices if you wish.</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">ANY FOOD CONTRIBUTIONS SHOULD BE CANNED GOODS OR FOODS FOR DRUM ALTAR</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$20 per person*</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">over age 16 (plus 2 hours of volunteer service) <b><u>if paid and postmarked <span>before October 5, 2012</span></u></b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$10 per child* 12-16</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">if paid and postmarked <b>before Oct. 5, 2012</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$30 per person* after October 5, 2012 and at the door</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(plus 2 hours of volunteer service)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">NEW FAMILY RATE: (This includes up to 2 adults, and children under 18 living in the house)</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Prepaid registration before October 5, 2012 - $50.<span> </span> At the gate - $70<span> </span></span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(plus and 2 hours of volunteer service).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">*</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Children under 12 are free. A legal guardian must accompany anyone under 18. If not a custodial parent, the guardian must be responsible for the minor, and have a written permission statement from the parent, which must be presented at registration immediately upon arrival.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">We are sorry but there are no work studies available for GA Samhain.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">All pre-registrations must be <u>paid</u> before the gathering to avoid a $30.00 at the gate charge, no exceptions!<span> </span> If you pre-register, but have not paid in advance, you will be charged</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">$30.00 at the gate.</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">RULES TO LIVE BY</span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><span> </span> Treat each other with respect, and respect all paths. Take care of those you come with, and respect the land, by leaving your campsite cleaner than you found it. Most of all, HAVE FUN!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><span> </span> No illegal drugs, firearms, drunken behavior, bad attitudes, violence or other inappropriate behaviors will be condoned on the site. We DO enforce the no drugs rule, and the security team has active duty law enforcement officers serving among them, so don't bring them!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><span> </span> No pets. Service dogs only will be permitted at the gathering site. All other pets will be refused at the gate, so please do not bring them.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><span> </span> Please bring: positive attitudes, appropriate gear, and food for the potluck contribution! Please note: We are working very hard to keep our prices low, despite rising costs for sites, food, and fuel. If you can add something, even a dollar or two, to your registration, it may help someone else be able to attend. Community service: Each participant needs to contribute two hours of community service during the gathering. It is basically just a little of the background work that lets a gathering happen, and may include helping out with registration, heralding workshops or rituals, helping with the site, or cleanup. It's fun, and a great way to get to know folks better!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13pt;">an email confirming your registration and giving directions to the site <u>will be sent</u> <u>about a week</u> before the gathering if we have received your completed pre-registration form and your payment.</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><font size="3">For swifter check-in onsite, please register online at</font></span></b> <a href="http://www.serpentstone.org/prereg.php" target="_blank"><b><span><font color="#0000FF" face="Calibri" size="3">http://www.serpentstone.org/prereg.php</font></span></b></a></p>
MSF 18th Annual Harvest Pow Wow
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2012-09-08T15:15:23.558Z
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<p class="ltimage"><br></br> <a href="http://www.midwestsoarring.org/docs/HarvestPW2012-lr.pdf" target="_blank">Download Pow Wow Flyer</a></p>
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<h1>MSF 18th Annual Harvest Pow Wow<br></br> September 22 and 23, 2012</h1>
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<p><b>SATURDAY 11AM -10PM, SUNDAY 11AM - 5PM</b><br></br> Naper <a href="http://www.midwestsoarring.org/eventinfo.html#" id="_GPLITA_2" name="_GPLITA_2" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">Settlement</a>, 523 Webster Street,…</p>
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<p class="ltimage"><br/> <a href="http://www.midwestsoarring.org/docs/HarvestPW2012-lr.pdf" target="_blank">Download Pow Wow Flyer</a></p>
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<h1>MSF 18th Annual Harvest Pow Wow<br/> September 22 and 23, 2012</h1>
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<p><b>SATURDAY 11AM -10PM, SUNDAY 11AM - 5PM</b><br/> Naper <a href="http://www.midwestsoarring.org/eventinfo.html#" style="text-decoration: underline;" id="_GPLITA_2" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" name="_GPLITA_2">Settlement</a>, 523 Webster Street, Naperville, IL 60540</p>
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<li><b>POW WOW HIGHLIGHTS</b></li>
<li><b>Meet TWILIGHT Star “Werewolf Sam Uley” Chaske Spencer</b></li>
<li>S.O.A.R. Eagle and Bird of Prey Exhibit - 12 to 5pm</li>
<li>Hana Hou Hula Hawaiian Dancers – Sat. 5pm</li>
<li>Native American Dancing & Drumming</li>
<li>Exhibit by Wolf Mountain Santuary</li>
<li>Craft & Food Vendors</li>
<li>Cultural Demonstrations</li>
<li>Native Flute Players</li>
<li>Tipis Invited</li>
<li>Children’s Crafts – 11am to 5pm</li>
<li>Special Veteran Honoring – Sat. 1pm</li>
<li>Tour Naper Settlement – Until 4pm Daily</li>
<li>Grand Entry of Dancers – Sat. 1pm & 7pm, Sunday 1pm</li>
<li>Flintknapping (Arrowhead Making) – 11am to 5pm</li>
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<h2>POW WOW DETAILS</h2>
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<p><b>Meet TWILIGHT Star Chaske Spencer:</b> Sat. 1pm-4pm, 6pm-8pm, Sun. 1pm-4pm<br/> <b>Special Chaske Spencer VIP Session:</b> Noon on Sat. & Sun, $25 per person. To <a href="http://www.midwestsoarring.org/eventinfo.html#" style="text-decoration: underline;" id="_GPLITA_1" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" name="_GPLITA_1">register</a> in advance and reserve your spot call (773) 257-4300 or <a href="http://www.midwestsoarring.org/chaske.html">register and pay online.</a></p>
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<p><b>Pow Wow <a href="http://www.midwestsoarring.org/eventinfo.html#" style="text-decoration: underline;" id="_GPLITA_0" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" name="_GPLITA_0">Admission</a>:</b> Adults $8, Seniors 62+ $5, Children 5-12 $5. Group Rates and Weekend Passes available. Bring lawn chairs. Pow Wow takes place rain or shine. No alchohol or drugs allowed. Sorry, no pets. Your admission fee supports MSF and its programs. Event subject to change. For up to date info call MSF 773-585-1744. The Harvest Pow Wow is partially supported by a grant from the city of Naperville.</p>
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<p><b>Host Hotel:</b> Country Inn and Suites, Naperville, 630-505-3353<br/> (Discounted Pow Wow Rates are limited-BOOK EARLY!)</p>
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<p><b>Head Staff:</b> Emcee–Leonard Malatare, Arena Director–Mark LaRoque,Head Veteran– T.J. Grace, Head Male–Thorpe Sine, Head Lady– Nicole Sine, Host Drum–Milwaukee Bucks, Invited Drum–Little Thunder and Sawanohsaeh Singers.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.midwestsoarring.org/docs/HarvestPW2012-lr.pdf" target="_blank">Download Pow Wow Flyer</a></p>
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<p><b>PURCHASE ADVANCE POW WOW TICKETS</b></p>
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<p>Tickets can only be purchased in advance through September 16, 2012. All tickets purchased on the website will be available for pick up at the will call booth located at the entrance on Porter Ave. across from the settlement parking lot. <b>You must bring your PayPal receipt and photo ID to receive your tickets!</b></p>
<p><b>Adult $8 - Redeemable Sat. or Sun. September 22 - 23, 2012</b><br/>Sat. 11am - 10pm, Sun. 11sm -5pm </p>
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<p><a href="http://www.midwestsoarring.org/index.html"><img src="http://www.midwestsoarring.org/images/logo.jpg" alt="Midwest SOARRING Foundation (MSF) Logo"/></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.midwestsoarring.org/eventinfo.html">http://www.midwestsoarring.org/eventinfo.html</a></p>
2012 Serpentstone Harvest Gathering
tag:travelingwithintheworld.ning.com,2012-07-30:2185477:Topic:177659
2012-07-30T14:55:34.401Z
Dept of PMM Artists & things
https://travelingwithintheworld.ning.com/profile/Artistsandthings
<p>And the 20th Anniversary of SerpentStone Gatherings</p>
<p>September 7-9, 2012</p>
<p>At Splendor Hollow, Sevierville, TN</p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" id="ecxrole_document" size="2"><span style="font-family: 'AR BERKLEY'; font-size: 16pt;"><img alt="mamala-of-the-earth-goddess-of-fertility-dsc1432.jpg" height="411" id="ecxMA1.1343606685" name="ecxMA1.1343606685" src="https://blu137.mail.live.com/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=2e0de0bf-d9da-11e1-8a6e-00215ad9bd52&attindex=0&cp=-1&attdepth=0&imgsrc=cid%3aX.MA1.1343606685%40aol.com&cid=609dd4fcb1ad37fa&shared=1&blob=MHxjbGlwX2ltYWdlMDAyLmpwZ3xpbWFnZS9qcGVn&hm__login=travelerinbdfsm&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d3433&mf=0&hm__ts=Mon%2c%2030%20Jul%202012%2014%3a49%3a43%20GMT&st=travelerinbdfsm&hm__ha=01_7971e4d11887440b6fb1b5db23831d558cebbe3338e32358f9bc9db52b4b271a&oneredir=1" width="268"></img></span></font></p>
<p>The Harvest of the Dream.</p>
<p>Morristown Area Pagans, on behalf of the Serpent Stone family, invites you to join us for the celebration of a Harvest of 20 years worth of loving labor!</p>
<p>About 20 years…</p>
<p>And the 20th Anniversary of SerpentStone Gatherings</p>
<p>September 7-9, 2012</p>
<p>At Splendor Hollow, Sevierville, TN</p>
<p><font id="ecxrole_document" size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-family: 'AR BERKLEY'; font-size: 16pt;"><img src="https://blu137.mail.live.com/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=2e0de0bf-d9da-11e1-8a6e-00215ad9bd52&attindex=0&cp=-1&attdepth=0&imgsrc=cid%3aX.MA1.1343606685%40aol.com&cid=609dd4fcb1ad37fa&shared=1&blob=MHxjbGlwX2ltYWdlMDAyLmpwZ3xpbWFnZS9qcGVn&hm__login=travelerinbdfsm&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d3433&mf=0&hm__ts=Mon%2c%2030%20Jul%202012%2014%3a49%3a43%20GMT&st=travelerinbdfsm&hm__ha=01_7971e4d11887440b6fb1b5db23831d558cebbe3338e32358f9bc9db52b4b271a&oneredir=1" alt="mamala-of-the-earth-goddess-of-fertility-dsc1432.jpg" id="ecxMA1.1343606685" height="411" width="268" name="ecxMA1.1343606685"/></span></font></p>
<p>The Harvest of the Dream.</p>
<p>Morristown Area Pagans, on behalf of the Serpent Stone family, invites you to join us for the celebration of a Harvest of 20 years worth of loving labor!</p>
<p>About 20 years ago, Lord Serphant and Lady Rhiannon planted the seeds of SerpentStone. To grow, not a coven, but a family, belonging to the Lord and Lady.</p>
<p>And what diverse seeds were sown!</p>
<p>Some were seeds of encouragement, to help each other to strive for our highest ideas and our highest ethics.</p>
<p>Some were seeds of support, to walk together and work together to grow strong and true along our paths.</p>
<p>There were seeds of new groups, seeds of new gatherings, seeds of new friendships and seeds of new creative ideas!</p>
<p>Although we have come from all walks of life, with many different stories, many have come and found acceptance, love and family.</p>
<p>Now, after the years of labor, we have reached the final Harvest of Serpent Stone in its current form!</p>
<p>The fruit is ripening! The seeds are dispersing!</p>
<p>What a beautiful gift for the Lord and Lady!</p>
<p>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION</p>
<p>email the appropriate person at:</p>
<p>Gathering Coordinator –Rysa or Silver Rose at gatheringcoordinator@serpentstone.org<br/> Registration Coordinator –Rhiannon (off-site) or Magenta Moon (onsite) at registration@serpentstone.org<br/> Merchant Coordinator – Tiger at merchanting@serpentstone.org<br/>Workshop Coordinator – Kirsdarke at workshops@serpentstone.org</p>
<p>Kitchen Witch –Crecia at kitchenwitch@serpentstone.org</p>
<p>Children’s Activities –Angie and Angus at childrensactivities@serpentstone.org</p>
<p>or contact us at SerpentStone, PO Box 652, Candler, NC 28715 Phone: (828) 665-4049</p>
<p><font id="ecxrole_document" size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><img src="https://blu137.mail.live.com/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=2e0de0bf-d9da-11e1-8a6e-00215ad9bd52&attindex=1&cp=-1&attdepth=1&imgsrc=cid%3aX.MA2.1343606685%40aol.com&cid=609dd4fcb1ad37fa&shared=1&blob=MXxjbGlwX2ltYWdlMDAzLmpwZ3xpbWFnZS9qcGVn&hm__login=travelerinbdfsm&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d3433&mf=0&hm__ts=Mon%2c%2030%20Jul%202012%2014%3a49%3a43%20GMT&st=travelerinbdfsm&hm__ha=01_f7b29f5ea78c76174107070995d04011a1dbfd38ff7de7de58e8bca7f8f59c4d&oneredir=1" alt="gundestrupt.jpg" id="ecxMA2.1343606685" height="159" width="316" name="ecxMA2.1343606685"/></span></b></font></p>
<p>PRACTICAL MATTERS</p>
<p>PLEASE BRING: tent, sleeping bags, blankets, rain gear and clothing for both warm and cold weather, flashlight, snack foods, ritual gear, drums, and other musical instruments. Plan for a wide temperature range, even at this time of the year, but tending toward the warm side. Remember your feast gear and eating utensils (Styrofoam and other feast gear is no longer supplied!).</p>
<p>If you need to buy things before or during the gathering, please stop at one of the larger stores in town, rather than the small local convenience stores. It keeps the small stores able to supply their regular customers, and keeps the rumors and security hassles down.</p>
<p><font id="ecxrole_document" size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><img src="https://blu137.mail.live.com/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=2e0de0bf-d9da-11e1-8a6e-00215ad9bd52&attindex=2&cp=-1&attdepth=2&imgsrc=cid%3aX.MA3.1343606685%40aol.com&cid=609dd4fcb1ad37fa&shared=1&blob=MnxjbGlwX2ltYWdlMDA0LmpwZ3xpbWFnZS9qcGVn&hm__login=travelerinbdfsm&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d3433&mf=0&hm__ts=Mon%2c%2030%20Jul%202012%2014%3a49%3a43%20GMT&st=travelerinbdfsm&hm__ha=01_a5a62a07a3d3868c4609871436fbb6ff9c1da45e112fe27685b05dc1ade4188b&oneredir=1" alt="community harvest.jpg" id="ecxMA3.1343606685" height="145" width="346" name="ecxMA3.1343606685"/></span></font></p>
<p>FOOD</p>
<p>NOTE NEW MEAL POLICY: We will provide light fare on Friday night and only supper on Saturday. Any breakfast offerings (ready to serve only) contributed will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please bring pot-luck offerings for the feasts. It need not be prepared unless it is baked. Items such as fresh fruits and veggies, cheese, sour cream, honey, breakfast meats, breads, desserts, and salad items are very much welcomed by our kitchen witch. Please drop these off at the kitchen as soon as possible after arriving, so our Kitchen Witch and helpers can begin working their magic! Having enough for everyone is dependent on everyone bringing something for the kitchen, so please help us have a bountiful feast!</p>
<p>COST</p>
<p>$10 per child* 12-16 (plus your feast contribution and 2 hours of volunteer service) if paid and postmarked before September 1, 2012</p>
<p>$20 per person* over 16 (plus your feast contribution and 2 hours of volunteer service) if paid and postmarked before September 1, 2012</p>
<p>$30 per person* after September 1, 2012 and at the door (plus your feast contribution and</p>
<p>2 hours of volunteer service).</p>
<p>Daytrip rate $15 at the door.</p>
<p>NEW FAMILY RATE: (This includes up to 2 adults, and children under 18 living in the house)</p>
<p>Prepaid registration before September 1, 2012 - $50. At the gate - $70 (plus your feast contribution and 2 hours of volunteer service).</p>
<p>*Children under 12 are free. A legal guardian must accompany anyone under 18. If not a custodial parent, the guardian must be responsible for the minor, and have a written permission statement from the parent, which must be presented at registration immediately upon arrival.</p>
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<p>RULES TO LIVE BY</p>
<p>Treat each other with respect, and respect all paths. Take care of those you come with, and respect the land, by leaving your campsite cleaner than you found it. Most of all, HAVE FUN!</p>
<p>No illegal drugs, firearms, drunken behavior, bad attitudes, violence or other inappropriate behaviors will be condoned on the site. We DO enforce the no drugs rule, and the security team has active duty law enforcement officers serving among them, so don't bring them!</p>
<p>No pets. Service dogs only will be permitted at the gathering site. All other pets will be refused at the gate, so please do not bring them.</p>
<p>Please bring: positive attitudes, appropriate gear, and food for the potluck contribution! Please note: We are working very hard to keep our prices low, despite rising costs for sites, food, and fuel. If you can add something, even a dollar or two, to your registration, it may help someone else be able to attend. Community service: Each participant needs to contribute two hours of community service during the gathering. It is basically just a little of the background work that lets a gathering happen, and may include helping out with registration, food preparation, heralding workshops or rituals, helping with the site, or cleanup. It's fun, and a great way to get to know folks better!</p>
<p>An email confirming your registration and giving directions to the site will be sent about a week before the gathering if we have received your completed pre-registration form and your payment.</p>
<p>For swifter check-in onsite, please register online at <a href="http://www.serpentstone.org/prereg.php">http://www.serpentstone.org/prereg.php</a></p>
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SerpentStone Litha 2012 Gathering
tag:travelingwithintheworld.ning.com,2012-05-15:2185477:Topic:173198
2012-05-15T14:06:33.750Z
Dept of PMM Artists & things
https://travelingwithintheworld.ning.com/profile/Artistsandthings
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Litha 2012 Gathering</span></i></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri">June 22-246, 2012</font></span></i></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri">At Splendor Hollow</font></span></i></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri">(Sevierville, TN)</font></span></i></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Calibri"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><img src="https://blu137.mail.live.com/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=d2ec9a2a-9e30-11e1-9656-00237de4a7a4&attindex=0&cp=-1&attdepth=0&imgsrc=cid%3aX.MA1.1337046834%40aol.com&shared=1&blob=MHxjbGlwX2ltYWdlMDAyLmdpZnxpbWFnZS9naWY_3d&hm__login=travelerinbdfsm&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d3433&mf=0&hm__ts=Tue%2c%2015%20May%202012%2014%3a02%3a25%20GMT&st=travelerinbdfsm&hm__ha=01_0ebd5d52bc8e73ddf8da4a6d1aa7707c842d40d309fc5f87afdf330dc2b733ad&oneredir=1" alt="sungod.png" id="ecxMA1.1337046834" height="276" width="183" name="ecxMA1.1337046834"/></span></i></b></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Shine the Light</span></i></b></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">The Sun is at his Zenith, the Light is at its strongest. Let us bring forth our strengths, our Light, to join with the Gods and our Community. Come and share the Light within yourself, your love and enthusiasm, as we celebrate and send the gift of Love to the Gods!</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">email the appropriate person at:</span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><br/></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Gathering Coordinator –Rhiannon</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">at <u><span style="color: #00007f;">gatheringcoordinator@serpentstone.org</span></u></span> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><br/></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Registration Coordinator</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">– <b>Rhiannon</b> (off-site) or <b>Moss</b> (on-site) at <u><span style="color: #00007f;">registration@serpentstone.org</span></u> <br/><b>Merchant Coordinator</b> –at <u><span style="color: #00007f;">merchanting@serpentstone.org</span><i><br/></i></u><b>Workshop Coordinator</b> –<b>Kelshei</b> at <u><span style="color: #00007f;">workshops@serpentstone.org</span></u> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Kitchen Witch</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">– <b>Warder</b> at <u><span style="color: blue;">kitchenwitch@serpentstone.org</span></u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Children’s Activities – Elgin and Mike</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">at </span><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">childrensactivities@serpentstone.org</span></u></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><br/>or contact us at <b>SerpentStone, PO Box 652, Candler, NC 28715 Phone: (828) 665-4049</b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Castellar','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">SPECIAL EVENT</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Castellar','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">4 pm Saturday</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bauhaus 93'; font-size: 12pt;">“Come as your dream”</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Castellar','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Party and dance</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Dress as your favorite artist, singer, etc, or for your favorite hobby or activity, and join us for music, fun, and entertainment. Come and meet new friends and learn more about old ones!</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">PRACTICAL MATTERS</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">PLEASE BRING: tent, sleeping bags, blankets, <u>rain gear and clothing for both warm and cold weather</u>, flashlight, snack foods, ritual gear, drums, and other musical instruments. Plan for a wide temperature range, even at this time of the year, but tending toward the cold side. Remember your feast gear and eating utensils <b><i><u>(Styrofoam and other feast gear is no longer supplied!).</u></i></b> </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">If you need to buy things before or during the gathering, please stop at one of the larger stores in town, rather than the small local convenience stores. It keeps the small stores able to supply their regular customers, and keeps the rumors and security hassles down.</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">NOTE NEW MEAL POLICY: We will provide light fare on Friday night and only supper on Saturday. Any breakfast offerings (ready to serve only) contributed will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.</span></u></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Please bring pot-luck offerings for the feasts. It need not be prepared unless it is baked. Items such as fresh fruits and veggies, cheese, sour cream, honey, breakfast meats, breads, desserts, and salad items are very much welcomed by our kitchen witch. Please drop these off at the kitchen as soon as possible after arriving, so our Kitchen Witch and helpers can begin working their magic! Having enough for everyone is dependent on everyone bringing something for the kitchen, so please help us have a bountiful feast! </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">COST</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$10 per child* 12-16</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(plus your feast contribution and 2 hours of volunteer service) if paid and postmarked <b>before June 15, 2012</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$20 per person*</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">over 16 (plus your feast contribution and 2 hours of volunteer service) if paid and postmarked <b>before June 15, 2012</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">$30 per person* after June 15, 2012 and at the door</span></b> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(plus your feast contribution and</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Daytrip rate $15 at the door</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">NEW FAMILY RATE: (This includes up to 2 adults, and children under 18 living in the house)</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Prepaid registration before June 15, 2012 - $50. At the gate - $70 </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(plus your feast contribution and 2 hours of volunteer service).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">*</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Children under 12 are free. A legal guardian must accompany anyone under 18. If not a custodial parent, the guardian must be responsible for the minor, and have a written permission statement from the parent, which must be presented at registration immediately upon arrival. <br/><b><span><img src="https://blu137.mail.live.com/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=d2ec9a2a-9e30-11e1-9656-00237de4a7a4&attindex=3&cp=-1&attdepth=3&imgsrc=cid%3aX.MA4.1337046834%40aol.com&shared=1&hm__login=travelerinbdfsm&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d3433&mf=0&hm__ts=Tue%2c%2015%20May%202012%2014%3a02%3a25%20GMT&st=travelerinbdfsm&hm__ha=01_58adc22aed253fd1aecd7f01fc57b9183aa134712c5ba3e56aa16d6ddc21c9ad&oneredir=1" alt="midsummer sun.jpg" id="ecxMA4.1337046834" height="85" width="84" name="ecxMA4.1337046834"/></span></b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">RULES TO LIVE BY</span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Treat each other with respect, and respect all paths. Take care of those you come with, and respect the land, by leaving your campsite cleaner than you found it. Most of all, HAVE FUN!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">No illegal drugs, firearms, drunken behavior, bad attitudes, violence or other inappropriate behaviors will be condoned on the site. We DO enforce the no drugs rule, and the security team has active duty law enforcement officers serving among them, so don't bring them!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">No pets. Service dogs only will be permitted at the gathering site. All other pets will be refused at the gate, so please do not bring them.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Please bring: positive attitudes, appropriate gear, and food for the potluck contribution! Please note: We are working very hard to keep our prices low, despite rising costs for sites, food, and fuel. If you can add something, even a dollar or two, to your registration, it may help someone else be able to attend. Community service: Each participant needs to contribute two hours of community service during the gathering. It is basically just a little of the background work that lets a gathering happen, and may include helping out with registration, food preparation, heralding workshops or rituals, helping with the site, or cleanup. It's fun, and a great way to get to know folks better!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13pt;">An email confirming your registration and giving directions to the site <u>will be sent</u> <u>about a week</u> before the gathering if we have received your completed pre-registration form and your payment.</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><font size="3">For swifter check-in onsite, please register online at <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.serpentstone.org/prereg.php">http://www.serpentstone.org/prereg.php</a></span></u></font></span></b></p>
The 2012 May Moon Beltane Festival!
tag:travelingwithintheworld.ning.com,2012-04-21:2185477:Topic:171515
2012-04-21T14:52:02.677Z
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<p>The 2012 May Moon Beltane Festival!<br></br> Beginning Friday May 4th 2012<br></br> 3 days and 2 nights of camping and Beltane Festivities!<br></br> You MUST pre-reg to secure your campsite. Campsites are LIMITED and fill up fast!<br></br> When: May 4th - May 6th <br></br> Where: Williams Field, Mariner's Museum Park, Newport News, Virginia <br></br> ... Hosted/Sponsored By: Mystic Moon of Norfolk, Virginia<br></br> Come Celebrate The Rites of Spring With Your Tribe!<br></br> <br></br> Attendee Registration is NOW OPEN! …<br></br></p>
<p>The 2012 May Moon Beltane Festival!<br/> Beginning Friday May 4th 2012<br/> 3 days and 2 nights of camping and Beltane Festivities!<br/> You MUST pre-reg to secure your campsite. Campsites are LIMITED and fill up fast!<br/> When: May 4th - May 6th <br/> Where: Williams Field, Mariner's Museum Park, Newport News, Virginia <br/> ... Hosted/Sponsored By: Mystic Moon of Norfolk, Virginia<br/> Come Celebrate The Rites of Spring With Your Tribe!<br/> <br/> Attendee Registration is NOW OPEN! <br/> Admission Fee: 80.00 per adult<br/> March 16(No charge for children<br/> This is an awesome event you will not want to miss!<br/> <br/> Day Trip Fees are:<br/> Friday May 4th - 10am -midnight- 22.00<br/> Saturday May 5th - 9:00am - midnight - 30.00<br/> Sunday May 6th - 9:00am - 3:00pm - 15.00<br/> <br/> We will have music, entertainment, games for adults, merchants, food, healers, readers, games for adults, Maypole, May King and Queen election and coronation, music, sacred fire and drumming, silent auction, open mic. performances and much, much more!<br/> <br/> Music by D.J. Terrence Parker<br/> There will be an excellent food vendor on site!<br/> We will also have a limited supply of 2012 May Moon Beltane Tee Shirts for sale at the event.<br/> <br/> So.... come on out and support one of the few local pagan festivals around. We hope to see you there!<br/> This is a Beltane Festival, and it is adult themed so there is not much for the kids at this event. Your children ARE permitted and welcome to attend WITH YOU. We will post all the rest of the details as soon as we have them!<br/> <br/> Event Location: The Mariner's Museum Park, Williams Field in Newport News <br/> Event TIME Details: Festival Opens at 10:00 am Friday May 4, 2012<br/> <br/> Directions: Directions to The Mariner's Museum Park:<br/> Take I64 from the East or West.<br/> Exit off J. Clyde Morris Blvd. SOUTH.</p>
<p><br/> Take J. Clyde to Warwick Ave. TURN LEFT on Warwick. <br/> DO NOT go into THE MUSEUM PROPER!. <br/> We are EAST of Warwick Blvd at Williams Field. <br/> To Williams Field:<br/> Go 1/4 mile or so eastbound on Warwick, until you see Warwick High School. <br/> The entrance to turn in a DIRECTLY ACROSS from Warwick High School. This street is Copeland. <br/> Follow the little road to the left through the gate</p>
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<p>mysticmoonevents@yahoogroups.com</p>