10 Nov 2008 8 Comments
Got a question?
We have answers….
If I am going to put this in my blog, I guess I need to provide some explanation for the many who will have no idea what I’m talking about.
Way back in 1990, I started working with the survivors of the first rune class to recover the oracular practice of the Viking period, known as spae or oracular seidh. I worked out a ritual based on elements from the Eddas, the account of such a ritual in the Saga of Eric the Red, and the journeys to Hel described in Saxo and elsewhere.
A year later, we tried it out at Ancient Ways, and we’ve been presenting this as a service to our larger pagan community ever since. We work every year at Pantheacon and four times a year we have smaller gatherings at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists hall, on the corner of Cedar & Bonita in North Berkeley (on Cedar between Shattuck and MLK). This is near the Downtown Berkeley BART station, and the 7, 9, and 18 local AC Transit lines.
As in ancient times, people ask questions about relationships, livelihood and decisions, as well as ancestors or the gods.
Tomorrow evening, Tuesday, Nov. 11th at 7:30 p.m., we’ll be there. If you are in range, or know someone who would be interested, encourage them to come.
You can find out more at our seidh-related website, seidh.org.
- Diana
Nov 11, 2008 @ 05:09:50
Regretably, I’ll be in LA. Big surprize there, I know.
But if you see Freya, tell Her I said thank you.
Nov 11, 2008 @ 05:12:35
OK, we will.
, over our shoulder, says, “She says, ‘You’re welcome. Now go feed some cats.’”
- Diana (and Lorrie)
Nov 11, 2008 @ 05:17:57
I’ll see what I can do. Not likely- I’m pretty allergic to them, but I can always contribute food to those who do have them…
Nov 11, 2008 @ 07:00:06
I was planning to come, a first time participant, but I have a work meeting I can’t get out of. Next time, hopefully.
Nov 11, 2008 @ 11:39:12
Alas, my E count isn’t high enough to get there from cross country… yet.
Feb 03, 2009 @ 03:07:48
I am hoping to archive a text copy of the 2007 Pagan Religious Rights Ritual…
Dear Ms. Paxson,
I am writing to you in the interest of either publishing a fully attributed/copyright noticed copy of your ritual for the 2007 Pagan Religious Rights Ritual. I am trying to build my blog into a resource for the Pagan movement. One aspect of that is my Pagan Community Building page, where I would like to archive a copy of the ritual you wrote for that event.
Alternately, do you have an online copy archived somewhere that I can link to? Sadly, the Pagan Religious Rights page hasn’t kept an archive copy online.
I am interested in this because one of the ideas/discussions I am trying to encourage in the Pagan community is Pagan community observations and rituals for Civic holidays, and the PRR-Ritual seems like a fantastic example of one way of observing U.S. independence day.
Feel free to check out my blog…
http://chrysalis1witchesjourney.wordpress.com/
and let me know if you are interested in this idea.
Thank you very much for your time,
Geoffrey Stewart / Pax
pyrobear.geoffrey@gmail.com
“Witchery = witch*er*y/ n. 1 witchcraft. 2. power exercised by beauty or eloquence or the like. ~Oxford American Dictionary of Current English New American Edition (2000)”
Apr 27, 2009 @ 00:03:40
Avalon Series
I would like to read the Avalon Series in historical chronological order but am not sure which book I should start with. I have all of the books in the series except The Fall of Atlantis. I’ve already read The Mists of Avalon and The Forrest House and loved them both and want to keep reading the series. Please help.
Apr 28, 2009 @ 04:53:44
Re: Avalon Series
You’re in luck! If you will go to http://www.avalonbooks.net, you will find a section called Books that includes a chronology. If you can get a copy of THE FALL OF ATLANTIS, read that first, then, ANCESTORS OF AVALON. The next book, chronologically, will be out in December (SWORD OF AVALON, set around
1200 BC).
Enjoy!
Diana