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- Magical Weekend at Tircoch: The Physicians of Myddfai, Thu 4-Sun 7 Sep, Tircoch, Gŵyr, De Cymru / Gower, South Wales
- Mercian Gathering, Fri 5-Sun 7 Sep, Near Nuneaton, Warks
- The Colours of Chaos, Sat 6 Sep, London
- Ritual and Magical Candle-Making: A Hands-On Training Day, Sun 7 Sep, London
- The Third Eye, The Fantastic World of Lobsang Rampa: Eastern Mysticism in the West, Tue 9 Sep, London
- ‘Innovation and Tradition: Robert Graves in the Twentieth Century’, Tue 9-Sat 13 Sep, St John's College, Oxford
- Gerald Gardner before the Witches: Gardnerian Wicca - History and Biography, Wed 10 Sep, London
- The Druid Order (A.D.U.B.), Thu 11 Sep, London
- Some Secret Place: Pagan Ritual Evening, Fri 12 Sep, London
- Out of the Ordinary Festival, Fri 12-Sun 14 Sep, Sussex Downs
- Ritual of Protection, Mon 15 Sep, Hill of Tara, Ireland
- Climate Change Debate, Thu 18 Sep, Oxford
- Book Launch Party - Coniunctio: Orryelle Defenestrate Bascule's Graphic Grimoire, Fri 19 Sep, London
- Thirteen Moons Women’s Festival, Fri 19-Sun 21 Sep, Dartmoor
- Lake of Memories Pilgrimage, Fri 19-Sun 21 Sep, Ynys Môn, Gogledd Cymru / Anglesey, North Wales (Note change of date from 26-28)
- Tuatha De Bridget Autumn Equinox Festival, Sun 21 Sep, Glasgow, Scotland
- Anderida Gorsedd – Autumn Equinox Ritual, Sun 21 Sep, Long Man of Wilmington, Sussex
- Caer Bann Autumn Equinox Rite, Sun 21 Sep, Woodhouse Eaves, Leics
- The Gorsedd of Bards of Caer Abiri, Sun 21 Sep, Avebury, Wiltshire
- PeaceOneDay 2008, Sun 21 Sep, Whole World
- Day-long Intensive Workings with Orryelle Defenestrate Bascule: Tarot for Conjuration -and- Web Mandalas, Sun 21 Sep, London
- Alban Elfed Gathering, Sun 21 Sep, Kingley Vale, West Sussex
- Equinox Managed Open Access, Mon 22 Sep, Stonehenge, Wiltshire
- Lost Island Retreat, Mon 22-Sun 28 Sep, Iona, Scotland
- The Esoteric Grail: Early 20th Century Britain, Tue 23 Sep, London
- The Emerald Tablet Introduced, Wed 24 Sep, London
- The Druid Order (A.D.U.B.), Thu 25 Sep, London
- Drawing Inspiration from Trees with Glennie Kindred, Sat 27-Sun 28 Sep, Petersfield, Hampshire
- Dark Goddess Workshop: Innana and Descent to the Underworld, Sat 27-Sun 28 Sep, London
Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 September 2008
MAGICAL WEEKEND AT TIRCOCH: The Physicians of Myddfai
Tircoch, Gower, South Wales/Gŵyr, De Cymru
Now it its 8th year, Ana Adnan and Professor Ronald Hutton present a programme of workshops which explore our magical relationship with the natural world and mythological realms. Together, they weave ritual, storytelling, drama, music, history, landscape and myth into a powerful adventure of friendship, laughter and transformational magic.
The Physicians of Myddfai: Investigate one of the most famous of all Welsh legends in the landscape where it was set - the fairy doctors of Myddfai and the story of the Lady of the Lake who gave them their powers.
Contact details for all above - Tel Nina on 01275 542705 or ninahare [at] yahoo [dot] com( email).
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Friday 5 to Sunday 7 September 2008
MERCIAN GATHERING
Near Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Three Day Pagan Camp - 4th year!!
Wicker man, archery, flaming labyrinth, rituals, free healing tent, café, showers and hot tub.
Speakers include Philip Carr-Gomm, Anna Franklin, Tallyessin, Terry Mace, Bob Trubshaw, Anne Harris, Paul Mason, Martin Evans, Mick Summer, John Crow, Kim Huggins, Graham Joyce, Angela Paine, Jayne Milner [Apothecary], Karen Cater, Troll.
Workshops include- weaving, kid’s workshops, peace making circles, 'Reclaiming the Masculine', Cabala, Qi Gong, Stav, wand making, rebirthing, shamanism, runes, garland making, belly dancing, morris dancing, animal powers, Sacred Alchemy and the Doors of Plant Perception, book binding, Celtic herbs, I Ching, Yoga, meditation, crystal healing, reiki, chanting, regression, ogham, wildlife sanctuary.
Entertainment includes Ash and Ian, Endless-Knot, Damh the Bard, Gary Brienholt, Tallyessin, Waywyrd, Morris Dancers, Vikings
Adults £38, children 6-16 £14, under 6s free.
All profits go to charity- the organisers don’t make a penny!
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Saturday 6 September 2008
THE COLOURS OF CHAOS
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (nearest tube: Holborn)
A day of seminars featuring cutting-edge thinking from pioneers in the field of magickal practice, followed by an evening of rituals demonstrating Chaos Magick in action.
- Duncan Barford, White Hair and Brown Pants: When Magic Turns Paranormal
- Alan Chapman, Magic with a K: How to Spell Correctly
- Mary Hoptroff, Codes to the Power of Heart
- The Kite, The Colours of Wealth Magic
- Dave Lee, YourSelves: The Grimoire of Selfhood, part 2
- Susan Leybourne, Sex, Magick, and Getting What You Want
- Peter Mastin, Life Sculpting
- Soror Res, The Noosphere, the Biosphere and the Chaosphere: When Worlds Collide
- Julian Vayne, Two Worlds and In-Between: the Changing Concepts & Use of Space in Modern Magick
- Plus Special Guests…
Day session 1100 - 1800
Evening session 1900 - 2200
Tickets £23 daytime, £10 evening, £30 day + eve
info [at] coloursofchaos [dot] net( Enquiries)
Online ticket sales (subject to booking fee)
Direct ticket link
Tickets by phone (subject to booking fee) 020 7267 6148
Snail-mail tickets available - just send a cheque in favour of P. Mastin to BM8482, London WC1N 3XX, UK
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Sunday 7 September 2008
RITUAL AND MAGICAL CANDLE-MAKING: A Hands-On Training Day
Treadwell's Bookshop, 34 Tavistock St., Covent Garden WC2E 7PB
Nathalie Beveridge of 'Little Owl'
11am - 6pm. £45.
This full day focuses on the art of making candles by hand, and is taught by Nathalie Beveridge of Little Owl Company, specialist candle-makers for ritualists and magicians. It is an opportunity to learn the techniques from an experienced maker, in order to obtain especially good results in both techniques of candle-making: dipping and moulding. A practitioner herself, Nathalie will also lead a discussion on how to use them in magical workings and in ritual. Each participant will make and take home two types, and will have the knowledge to make candles at home with basic equipment. This day is ideal for practitioners who want to be able to make personal candles for their own practice, be it ceremonial magic, hedge witchcraft or shamanistic working.
BOOKING: Please book in advance via info [at] treadwells-london [dot] com( email) or Tel. +44 (0)20 7240 8906 or via Skype at treadwells-london. Map on our website.
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Tuesday 9 September 2008
THE THIRD EYE, THE FANTASTIC WORLD OF LOBSANG RAMPA: Eastern Mysticism in the West
Treadwell's Bookshop, 34 Tavistock St., Covent Garden WC2E 7PB
Phil Hine
7.15 for 7.30 start. £5.
1956 saw the publication of "The Third Eye: An Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama" by one T.Lobsang Rampa to widespread critical acclaim. It quickly achieved best-seller status, but two years later, it's author was 'exposed' as a fraud – an Englishman who had never left the UK. Despite the expose, however, T.Lobsang Rampa went on to write twenty three other books, and has the distinction of being the most widely-read twentieth-century author on Tibetan mysticism.
In this lecture, Phil Hine examines the affair of the so-called “Bogus Lama”. From the initial reception of The Third Eye to the scholarly response and detective story which led to the exposure of Lobsang Rampa in the media. He will discuss Rampa’s relationship to the imagining of Tibet as a mystical Shangri-La and his influence of modern occulture in general. He will also look at key features of Lobsang Rampa’s teachings and his unique approach to the presentation of occult knowledge.
If you’re one of the estimated 15 million people who’ve read one of Lobsang Rampa’s books, or have an interest in the representation of Tibet in modern occultism, then this talk is for you.
Tonight's speaker, Phil Hine, is a magician with a strong interest in examining occultism as a cultural formation and in looking at its relationship with other discursive constructions. He is the author of three books on magical practice: Prime Chaos, Condensed Chaos and The Pseudonomicon. Whilst his most well-known works are on chaos magic, his research over the past few years has concentrated on the reception and reformulations of South Asian philosophies in the West, from Tantra to Theosophy. He is a popular and thought-provoking speaker, and the discussions following his talks are always engaging and challenging.
BOOKING: Please book in advance via info [at] treadwells-london [dot] com( email) or Tel. +44 (0)20 7240 8906 or via Skype at treadwells-london. Map on our website.
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Tuesday 9 to Saturday 13 September 2008
‘INNOVATION AND TRADITION: Robert Graves in the Twentieth Century’
St John’s College, Oxford
Ninth International Robert Graves Conference organised by the Robert Graves Society
with the St John’s College Robert Graves Trust.
Robert Graves’s true place in twentieth century literature and thought is increasingly seen as much more central than the relatively marginal status given to him in standard critical accounts. This conference aims to re-situate Graves in his era by examining the defining characteristics of his poetry, his influence on other poets and writers, and the relation of his work to crucial issues in the twentieth century. In so doing, it will interrogate the orthodox polarities implied by such terms as ‘innovative’, ‘traditional’, ‘avant-garde’, ‘conservative’, etc.
The Ninth International Conference will also mark an important event in Robert Graves studies – the arrival at St John’s College of a substantial archive from Graves’s home in Mallorca. Among the manuscripts and books in the bequest are a considerable body of late unpublished poems; the core of Graves’s library, including annotated copies of his own works; and over 10,000 letters, which testify to the extraordinary range of intellectual and artistic contacts that Graves maintained throughout his long and prolific writing life.
St John’s College, Oxford, was founded in 1555, and accommodation for delegates will be available within the college, or in hotels nearby. Robert Graves studied at St John’s and lived close to Oxford at Boar’s Hill and Islip from 1920, following his First World War service with the Royal Welch Fusiliers, until January 1926, when he left for Egypt with his wife Nancy Nicholson, their four children and the American poet Laura Riding.
Speakers and readers at the conference will include Hugh Haughton, John Kelly, Michael Longley, Bernard O'Donoghue, Peter McDonald, Michael Schmidt, Fran Brearton, William Graves.
The conference is open to all. It will be of interest to academics, teachers, research students, and anyone else who is interested in the life and writings of Robert Graves and his circle. The series of Robert Graves conferences have built up a reputation for their scholarly excellence and their friendly dialogue among participants from a wide variety of backgrounds, both lay and academic, and the Graves family itself.
To register for the conference please contact: The Robert Graves Society, 50 Ham Green, Pill, Bristol, BS20 0HB, UK. Enquiries about the conference should be sent to the same address, tel: ++44 (0)1275 376 916, or pjvilla [at] aol [dot] com( e-mail).
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Wednesday 10 September 2008
GERALD GARDNER BEFORE THE WITCHES: Gardnerian Wicca - History and Biography
Treadwell's Bookshop, 34 Tavistock St., Covent Garden WC2E 7PB
Philip Heselton
7.15 for 7.30 pm start. £5.
What did Gerald Gardner's life involve before his days in witchcraft? Tonight biographer Philip Heselton explores the man's earlier life. Gardner left England at 16 for South Asia and did not return to live here until his 50s. The fact that his adult life was spent not in England but in Asia made his fundamental outlook more cross-cultural: his time in Borneo, Malay and West Africa and New Orleans made him perceive similarities between non-Western tribal religions and an imagined European pagan witchraft cult. This talk puts the wider, non-white world into modern Wicca. We also encounter Gardner's freemasonry, mystical Goddess experience, and his extraordinary childhood travelling the world under the tutelage of his disciplinarian Irish nanny.
Philip Heselton, independent historian and doctoral researcher, is working on the comprehensive biography of the man and his milieu. He is coming down to Treadwell’s from the North of England to share his most recent (still unpublished) findings. His previous publications include Wiccan Roots: Gerald Gardner and the Modern Witchcraft Revival (Capall Bann, 2000) and Gerald Gardner and the Cauldron of Inspiration: An Investigation into the Sources of Gardnerian Witchcraft (Capall Bann, 2003).
BOOKING: Please book in advance via info [at] treadwells-london [dot] com( email) or Tel. +44 (0)20 7240 8906 or via Skype at treadwells-london. Map on our website.
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Thursday 11 September 2008
THE DRUID ORDER (A.D.U.B.)
Treadwell's Bookshop, 34 Tavistock St., Covent Garden WC2E 7PB
7.15 for 7.30pm start. £5.
The Druid Order is well known for their public ceremonies, most notably the Midsummer rites at Stonehenge, performed in distinctive long white robes. Throughout the year, they hold public meetings for those who wish to learn more about them. There is a talk by the chief druid or a senior member, then a meditation and a discussion with tea and biscuits. Questions ring the Order on 020 8659 4879. There is no advance booking for these, just turn up on the night. All are welcome.
Map on our website.
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Friday 12 September 2008
SOME SECRET PLACE: Pagan Ritual Evening
Treadwell's Bookshop, 34 Tavistock St., Covent Garden WC2E 7PB
Peter James and Friends
7.15 for 7.30 start. £5.
These are monthly beginner's pagan ritual evenings, perfect for those starting out on the pagan path, or as solitary witches. Some Secret Place is made up of some talk, some small group discussion on devotion, ceremony, spirituality, and relationship with deity. Most of all, though, it is experiential. It's about doing and feeling rather than theorising. We hope that people who come along will deepen their personal relationship with the pagan gods. This is for people who have done some reading on witchcraft, Wicca and/or paganism, and who are familiar with at least its general theological tenets. We assume you are pagan and want to practice it, but we don't presume you are experienced.
Group size is small - maximum 17 people . The organisers want this to be a gentle, intimate and thoughtful experience. You can come once, come regularly, or come intermittently - whatever suits you best.
BOOKING: Please book in advance via info [at] treadwells-london [dot] com( email) or Tel. +44 (0)20 7240 8906 or via Skype at treadwells-london. Map on our website.
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Friday 12 to Sunday 14 September 2008
OUT OF THE ORDINARY FESTIVAL
In the fields and woodland of the Sussex Downs, in the vale of the Long Man of Wilmington
The fascinating and magical Out Of the Ordinary Festival will be happening this year over the Autumn Equinox Full Moon.
After the massive success of last year’s Out Of the Ordinary Festival, we would like to encourage you to learn about this event. As we feel that you would be most interested in attending and being part of the creation of the new Stone Circle that we are building, which is dedicated to Peace.
OOTO is the place to explore and share knowledge about Earth Mysteries, Ancient ways, Folklore and Magic and we have a fantastic line up of esteemed speakers and workshop providers programmed for each day of our three day gathering.
OOTO is set in the fields and woodland of the Sussex Downs, in the vale of the Long Man of Wilmington
You are invited to Be Part of History as we energise the Peace circle with the rays of Full Moon.
OOTO is a family and community event.
OOTO is powered by Sun, wind, people, vegetable oil and love.
OOTO has a zero waste policy, Please take home all of your waste.
OOTO is a flagship for sustainable living promoting local green and ethical businesses.
OOTO has FREE inspirational talks and workshops.
OOTO has Live and acoustic bands, DJ's & local performers with a Radio Reverb Stage.
Campaigns & Films, Drama, poetry, music, song and dance.
Ethical market, Local foods, Wines and ales.
Circus skills, fire dancing & drumming workshops.
Enchanted woods, Quiet camping Healing and well being.
Learn how to forage for food, discover the meaning of crop circles and stone circles and explore the mysteries of our ancient landscape and the heavens above.
Please bring your magic stones, big or small to leave at the sacred Peace circle to help with the building process.
You can view the festival website by clicking here.
And you can find out more about the Stone Circle Project by clicking here.
Finally this link will lead you to some video footage of the speakers and peace circle from last year’s event.
FFI claire [at] outoftheordinaryfestival [dot] com( email Claire).
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Monday 15 September 2008
RITUAL OF PROTECTION
Hill of Tara, Ireland
The next “Ritual of Protection” for and on Tara will be on the Full Moon, Moonday, 15th of September, seven days before the Sun enters Libra. We will start our ceremony by 8ish and finish by ten. Meet on the gravel patch beside the Rath of the Synods at 8pm. We will use our native Celtic Irish language during this ceremony with explanations in English. All are welcome to attend this free and open ritual ceremony on Tara.
Website
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Thursday 18 September 2008
CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Blackwell Bookshop in association with Zed Books presents a Climate Change Debate.
This very exciting event sees five environmentalists coming together for a panel discussion about Climate Change: 'How Should the Planet Deal with Climate Change post-2012? Why the World's Current Plans Aren't Good Enough'. Oliver Tickell, Mark Lynas, Chris Goodall, Mark Maslin and Colin Tudge will be taking part in this debate at the Holywell Music Room.
Tickets cost £6 (concessions £5) and are available from the Customer Service Department, Second Floor, Blackwell bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street. Please telephone 01865 333623 for further details.
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Friday 19 September 2008
BOOK LAUNCH PARTY - CONIUNCTIO: Orryelle Defenestrate Bascule's Graphic Grimoire
Treadwell's Bookshop, 34 Tavistock St., Covent Garden WC2E 7PB
Fulgur Ltd
from 7pm. Free.
Fulgur and Treadwell's cordially invite you to the launch of Fulgur's first book with author Orryelle Defenstrate Bascule. Globe-travelling Orryelle is known to many through his numerous international ritual-performances, his writing and his art; he can best be described as working in the Chaos/post-chaos current. Director of Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Co., his ritual-performance workings have been documented in contemporary journals. An artist, he is the creator of The Book of Kaos Tarot Deck. Following his exhibition last year at the Horse Hospital Gallery in London, he has been signed by the prestigious occult art publisher Fulgur, Ltd, who have a biographical piece on him written specially be Nema :here.
His own website says a bit about his work.
This launch party is free, but is strictly limited to the guest list. Please simply write to Treadwell's via email, and we will gladly include you on the list of attendees. This launch party will be followed, on Sunday, by a day-long intensive workshop by Orryelle. Full details on Treadwell's 'courses & workshops' page.
BOOKING: Please book in advance via info [at] treadwells-london [dot] com( email) or Tel. +44 (0)20 7240 8906 or via Skype at treadwells-london. Map on our website.
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Friday 19 to Sunday 21 September 2008
THIRTEEN MOONS Autumn Festival for Women
Lower Merripit Farm, Dartmoor
Hosted by Carolyn Hillyer.
Celebrating bright edges, deep shadows, ancient sisterhood & wild hills with workshops, talks, seminars & concerts, song circles, drum house & shared rituals.
Featuring Talks & presentations
The festival is shaped as a journey around thirteen moons, an ancient pilgrimage of sisters sharing wisdom, wonder, music, old magic, inspiration, spirit, food and fun. Talks, presentations and simple earthy rituals for Copper Moon, Fallen Crow Moon, Salmon Moon, Warriors’ Moon, Healers’ Moon & Nameless Moon; wild celebration & dancing with Leaping Hare Moon & Drummers’ Moon; using our hands to bind and create with Weavers’ Moon; walking the land and remembering the mother lines with Granite Moon & Bone Moon; being nourished with Honey Moon; honouring our sacred journey with Many Sisters Moon.
Evening music concerts
Carolyn Hillyer (songs & chants), Seize the Day (women from campaigning folk band), Wild Women Band (powerful jazz, R‘n’B & reggae), Sudanza Doris (energetic African drumming), Daughters of Elvin (exquisite medieval music & stories) plus traditional Balkan & Gypsy Dances.
Moon craft workshops
A choice of thirteen different groups including copper or wicker bowls; clay moon women; silver or bone amulets; woven dance girdles; felted or reindeer leather pouches; deer skin drum shields; deer toe rattles and forest wands.
Plus Unveiling of the new installation ASHES AND EARTH by Carolyn Hillyer.
Walks on the open moor guided by Dartmoor women.
Stalls and exhibitions by artists & craftswomen.
Moon clans in which we share & prepare for our final celebration on Sunday night.
Hidden shrines and magical gardens including drum house, retreat nest & ceremonial roundhouse.
Official opening of newly-discovered underground cave shrine.
Contributions also by
Ana Morgan, Azul Thome, Carine Verveld, Clare Tinnyunt, Clio Wondrausch, Dorrie Joy,
Fiona Parr, Glennie Kindred (on 13 native trees, their subtle energies, tree meditations,
tree lore, and their healing properties), Gulli Hughes, Hannah Willow, Helen de Castres, Jan Merry, Jana Runnalls, Janet Jenkins, Jilly Dowse, Jill Smith, Johanna Sabine Klapper, Karen Mander, Katy Marchant, Kristina Hoijer, Mez Lucerne Lambourne, Naomi Ocean, Nicola Mitchell, Nicky Deane Simmons, Penny Cuthbert, Petra Tilly, Sarah Pank, Shannon Smy, Suzi Goose, Tati Dennehy, Tegwin Hyndman & many other wonderful women…
Some practical information
Free camping at Lower Merripit Farm, a beautiful ancient farmstead at the centre of the high moors. Local forest lodge & granary barn accommodation (50 beds available) as optional extra.
Vegetarian & organic food, from breakfast through to dinner, provided by the fantastic Food Groove Café.
The festival is supplied by our own spring-fed well water and served by comfortable Thunderbox eco-friendly composting loos plus ‘Dartmoor Zing’ women-powered showers!
Registration from 9am Friday with the programme running from Friday noon to Sunday midnight.
Tickets
Each ticket includes three evening dinners and all craft workshop materials.
A donation from every ticket is given to Amnesty International’s campaign work against
violence towards women in war zones & the sex trafficking industry.
£155 ~ with camping (4 nights: Thurs to Sun)
£185 ~ with inside accommodation (3 nights: Fri to Sun)
Daughters (11-17) ~ half price please call for prices.
Disabled access within the expected limitations of bumpy fields & woodland.
Some bursary tickets at a reduced price are available to enable women on low income to attend ~ please ask.
For tickets call (+44) 01822 880301 or email info [at] seventhwavemusic [dot] co [dot] uk( Seventh Wave Music) or see website.
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Friday 19 to Sunday 21 September 2008
LAKE OF MEMORIES PILGRIMAGE
Ynys Môn, Gogledd Cymru / Anglesey, North Wales
Please note change of date from 26-28.
Another opportunity to pilgrimage to the sacred Druid lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach on the Island of Anglesey. A weekend that celebrates todays tribes whilst connecting with; and honouring our ancestors.
Arrive anytime on Friday, bringing food to share on Friday evening. Questing and journeying to meet the ancestors late Friday night, followed by the making of appropriate tribal sacrifice on Saturday to be cast; with ritual into our own sacred lake at the Gorsedd Centre.
Late Saturday evening we will pilgrimage to Llyn Cerrig Bach. Please bring suitable, degradable offerings from your own tribe.
Numbers limited to 40.
Accommodation: Camping; plus extra spaces in roundhouses. Caravan available at extra cost. Tents available for hire.
Cost £65 per person to include, Saturday lunch and dinner, Sunday breakfast and soft drinks and beverages.
This particular weekend event fills up quickly, please book early to avoid missing a place.
For further details and to book your place contact angleseydruids [at] hotmail [dot] com( Kris).
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Sunday 21 September 2008
TUATHA DE BRIDGET AUTUMN EQUINOX FESTIVAL
Pollok Country Park, Glasgow, Scotland
Tuatha De Bridget is an Open Druidcraft Group in Glasgow.
We meet at 1pm in the Burrell Car Park and then walk through the woods to the Ancient Earthworks Site.
After our ceremony, we walk back to the Burrell and then have a warm drink, maybe something to eat in the café and some informal chat.
Contact: siusaidhc [at] gmail [dot] com( Siusaidh) for details.
Also see Group Website
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Sunday 21 September 2008
ANDERIDA GORSEDD – AUTUMN EQUINOX RITUAL
The Long Man of Wilmington, Sussex
The Anderida Gorsedd is a Druid group, facilitated by Damh the Bard and Cerri Lee, that has been holding regular open rituals at the Long Man of Wilmington since Spring Equinox 2000.
Anderida Gorsedd open Autumn Equinox ritual. Meet 1.30-2pm near the Long Man of Wilmington car park, for a walk up the hill at 2pm. Then after retire to the Giants Rest pub for a social drink.
FFI anderida [at] BardicArts [dot] com( Email)
Website
See also our Directory page.
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Sunday 21 September 2008
CAER BANN AUTUMN EQUINOX RITE
Beacon Hill, Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire
By Charnwood Grove of Druids.
Meet at Beacon Hill upper car park, 11.30 for 12 am. Bring a dish and share lunch in Woodhouse Eaves afterwards. Everyone welcome.
FFI: corn_mother [at] hotmail [dot] com( Email) for details.
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Sunday 21 September 2008
THE GORSEDD OF BARDS OF CAER ABIRI
Autumn Equinox Gathering
Avebury, Wiltshire
Deaf Access.
Muster at Noon beside the Café before making the God and Goddess walks to the Sun Circle.
This is an open Gorsedd that welcomes all who come with good intent whatever their personal path.
Do feel free to bring your songs and poetry, as well as contributions of bread and mead if you wish. But most of all bring your heart.
Please contact Morgan 01458 835518 if you have any queries.
For further details see our Caer Abiri page.
For information about accommodation around Avebury see our Accomodation page.
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Sunday 21 September 2008
PEACE ONE DAY 2008
All over the world
PeaceOneDay was started in 1999. Its aim is to create a genuine state of peace, for at least one day, with the knowledge that when we can do that, the experience seeps out of the boundaries of the day and begins to create a more lasting peace.
This year, on Sunday 21 September 2008, The Druid Network have committed to creating events all over the world.
For further information see our website and the PeaceOneDay website.
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Sunday 21 September 2008
DAY-LONG INTENSIVE WORKINGS WITH ORRYELLE DEFENESTRATE BASCULE: Tarot for Conjuration -and- Web Mandalas
Treadwell's Bookshop, 34 Tavistock St., Covent Garden WC2E 7PB
11 am - 6 pm. £70.
This is a full day intensive with one of the most up-and-coming free-thinking maverick magicians of the post-chaos period.
Orryelle will be taking the group into two areas of exploration: the Tarot for conjuration, and Web-mandalas.
Here's what he says about it: "From observation in the present, our future is not a set definitive, but an array of probabilities. A belief in destiny does not preclude Free Will and the ability to consciously Co-Create this Fate. What is the use of divinatory arts if they merely give us glimpses of where we are headed, yet we are powerless to then affect this? Even just by looking at the current pattern of our lives, we may effect where we are going –why not consciously craft our path? We will work on a number of practical techniques for Tarot ‘writing’ as well as reading, to alter the course of our destiny by changing ourselves and our lives in the present to effect future outcomes. Also, we will go into ritual creation and use of spiral web mandalas/veves to map time onto a spatial plane in your magick circle and navigate rays of potentiality thereon."
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is an artist, performance artist and magician and can best be described as working in the Chaos/post-chaos current. Director of Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Co., his ritual-performance workings have been documented in contemporary journals. An artist, he is the creator of The Book of Kaos Tarot Deck. Following his exhibition last year at the Horse Hospital Gallery in London, he has been signed by the prestigious occult art publisher Fulgur, Ltd. Biographical on Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule.
This workshop will follow the launch of his new Graphic Grimmoire 'Conjunctio' from Fulgur Limited.
BOOKING: Please book in advance via info [at] treadwells-london [dot] com( email) or Tel. +44 (0)20 7240 8906 or via Skype at treadwells-london. Map on our website.
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Sunday 21 September 2008
ALBAN ELFED GATHERING - The Autumn Equinox
West Stoke car park, Kingley Vale (Nr Chichester), West Sussex
07:00hrs
The Kingley Order of Druids have been set up to celebrate the turning wheel of the seasons, the cycles of the stars, moon and the sun. We hold open rites and all who walk the pagan pathway or new friends that we've not yet met are most welcome!!
All will have the opportunity to lay an offering in the centre of our circle, therefore please bring perishable goods only. You may also wish to bring something for the talking stick/Eisteddfod... be it poetry, song or anything that you wish to share with us (as long as it is relevant!) then please do so. After ritual there will also be a healing circle that will also be open to all.
For further details please contact:
theoakenstaff [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk( The Oaken Staff) or moonwatcher75 [at] hotmail [dot] com( Moon Watcher)
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Monday 22 September 2008
EQUINOX MANAGED OPEN ACCESS
Stonehenge, Wiltshire
Please see important notice about this event in Sacred Sites.
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Monday 22 to Sunday 28 September 2008
LOST ISLAND RETREAT
Iona, Scotland
Come to the Isle of Dreams for a week of relaxation, rejuvenation & inspiration. Be close to nature: enjoy stunning coastal scenery, sunsets and stars. Explore the sacred island of the Druids, Culdees and St Columba.
Each morning there will be an optional activity:
guided tour, workshops in creative writing, drama & storytelling.
Each afternoon will be yours to do with what you will:
wander, wonder, read, write, rest, etc.
Each evening there will be a communal meal followed by a talk, Bardic Ceilidh or free time.
Optional boat trip to Finghal’s Cave.
Accommodation in comfortable self-catering cottage.
Fee: £250,
includes travel from Oban and 6 nights self-catering accom.
Limited Places. To secure your place send a deposit by 1st August for £50 (refundable before 1st September only) payable to: ‘Kevan Manwaring’, c/o Kevan Manwaring, 7 Dunsford Place, Bath BA2 6HF
Led by Kevan Manwaring MA, storyteller and author of Lost Islands, The Bardic Handbook, The Long Woman and others.
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Svanur Gisli Thorkellson, Icelandic playwright, film-maker and director of Icepax Productions. He has extensive knowledge of running tour operations on Iceland.
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Tuesday 23 September 2008
THE ESOTERIC GRAIL: Early 20th Century Britain
Treadwell's Bookshop, 34 Tavistock St., Covent Garden WC2E 7PB
Dr Juliette Wood (University of Cardiff)
7.15 for 7.30 pm start. £5.
The early 20th century was a rich time for British occultism and secret societies. The Golden Dawn, the Rider-Waite Tarot, the novels of Charles Williams, the Christian hermeticism of AE Waite, Aleister Crowley's OTO; all were flourishing at this time. And over in Glastonbury, a chalice was discovered in a well; was it from the last supper? Visions suggested it was. Then Dion Fortune appeared there. Again and again the symbol of the holy grail appeared amongst these groups, in their ceremonies, their visions, their dreams, their art and their poetry. Juliette Wood, in her magisterial and lively style, show just how it did.
Tonight will be will be a panoply of chalices, cups and grails, accompanied by tales of art, novels, tarot cards, rituals and regalia. We promise that if you come along you will never look at a wineglass the same way again.
Juliette Wood is one of Britain's leading experts on myth and folklore. A Director of the Folklore Society, London, she is also an associate lecturer in the School of Welsh Cardiff University . A regular contributor to TV and radio, she is the author of several books on Celtic myth and legend, such as The Celts: Life, Myth and Legend (Duncan Baird 2003) and The Rose and the Thistle: Essays on the Culture of Late Medieval and Renaissance Scotland (Tuckwell Press). Her most recent book is Eternal Chalice: The Enduring Legend of the Holy Grail (IB Tauris, 2008)
BOOKING: Please book in advance via info [at] treadwells-london [dot] com( email) or Tel. +44 (0)20 7240 8906 or via Skype at treadwells-london. Map on our website.
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Wednesday 24 September 2008
THE EMERALD TABLET INTRODUCED: "As Above, So Below"
Treadwell's Bookshop, 34 Tavistock St., Covent Garden WC2E 7PB
An Illustrated Lecture by Paul Cowlan
7.15 for a 7.30 start. £5.
"As above, so below." This phrase expresses core concept in alchemy, in hermeticism and in magic. It is from a remarkable text called The Emerald Tablet, which dates from the first centuries AD, in Egypt. Supposedly written by Hermes Trismegistus himself, patron of spiritual transformative magic, it is full of mysterious references and allusions which point to the way the work of magic connects to the world and to the spirit. For a full text in contemporary translation, see Wikipedia, "Emerald Tablet."
The Emerald Tablet's principles were essential in modern magic: Golden Dawn, Crowley, Gardnerian Wicca, Alex Sanders, Dion Fortune - all these cite and base their magical principles on the doctrine 'as above, so below'. In this illustrated talk Paul Cowlan will outline the text's history and guide you through the Emerald Tablet itself.
Paul Cowlan has been studying and working non-operative alchemy for over 20 years. By profession he is musician, poet and songwriter. He lives in Germany and visits the UK once or twice a year, during which times he usually gives a sold-out lecture at Treadwell's. He returns this year for another popular talk date. Paul Cowlan's Website
BOOKING: Please book in advance via info [at] treadwells-london [dot] com( email) or Tel. +44 (0)20 7240 8906 or via Skype at treadwells-london. Map on our website.
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Thursday 25 September 2008
THE DRUID ORDER (A.D.U.B.)
Treadwell's Bookshop, 34 Tavistock St., Covent Garden WC2E 7PB
7.15 for 7.30pm start. £5.
The Druid Order is well known for their public ceremonies, most notably the Midsummer rites at Stonehenge, performed in distinctive long white robes. Throughout the year, they hold public meetings for those who wish to learn more about them. There is a talk by the chief druid or a senior member, then a meditation and a discussion with tea and biscuits. Questions ring the Order on 020 8659 4879. There is no advance booking for these, just turn up on the night. All are welcome.
Map on our website.
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Saturday 27 to Sunday 28 September 2008
DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM TREES with Glennie Kindred
Sustainability Centre, Petersfield, Hampshire
Developing our relationship with trees through observation, drawing and writing. Developing our intuition and being open to the energetic and healing qualities the different species bring. No drawing skills are needed but drawing skills will be taught, along with a variety of creative activities that unlock the pure enjoyment of creative expression and deepen our Love and knowledge of our native trees.
Please bring a sketch pad, coloured crayons and a penknife. All other materials are provided.
Info and Booking: The Sustainability Centre Tel: 01730 823 166 or info [at] earthworks-trust [dot] com( Email) or see Centre Website.
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Saturday 27 to Sunday 28 September 2008
DARK GODDESS WORKSHOP: Innana and Descent to the Underworld
Treadwell's Bookshop, 34 Tavistock St., Covent Garden WC2E 7PB
Jane Meredith
10am - 5 pm, both Saturday and Sunday. £110.
This is a two-day workshop for women which runs on Sturday 27th - Sunday 28th September, whose theme is centred round the Sumerian myth of the descent of Inanna to the Underworld.
Here is how the organiser describes the course: "The Dark Goddess is all the parts of women that have been shamed and denied and hidden. She is the mother of suffering, change and renewal and it is in her realm that the mysteries of healing and personal transformation are found. Her names are Kali, Morrigan, Lilith, Ereshkigal, Mary Magdalene, Sekhmet and many others. The Sumerian myth of the goddess Inanna’s descent into the Underworld to meet her sister, the Dark Goddess, provides a brilliant map, outlining the path step by step that can be taken to descend into the darkest places and emerge, reborn. This essential journey is always about transformation and integration.
This workshop incorporates working with the myth through ritual, meditation and personal process. The two days span a ritual enactment of the descent into the Underworld to meet, heal and integrate one's personal shadow, as well as to acknowledge and empower the long-repressed dark feminine in her own right, and learn some of the paths that lie within her realms."
Registration is now open and Treadwell's are accepting bookings. For more on the workshop's content and on Jane Meredith, the leader, see her website.
BOOKING: Please book in advance via info [at] treadwells-london [dot] com( email) or Tel. +44 (0)20 7240 8906 or via Skype at treadwells-london. Map on our website.
