This is one of our favorite times of the year when the pagan community displays its finest, and the weather usually cooperates. Midsummer marks the first harvest of the summertime and the Solstice … the Summer Solstice to be exact.
Our Facebook friends have delivered a wealth of summer festivities and festivals for you to attend. Here’s a listing of all of them and their Facebook links for more information.
Summer Solstice Drum Circle ~ Midsummers' Night
Come celebrate the longest day of the year! Get in touch with the changing of the seasons, honor the Invisible World of the Faeries, acknowledge your achievements and revel in sharing light and warmth with others of like mind.
This is a time of fertility, joy, magic and love. Come drum with us to send that energy into the world. Hosted and led by Laurie Johnson, High Priestess of Grove of Earth Rising coven in Los Angeles, CA.
Night's fee is $20.
Please bring a drum and a pillow or mat for floor seating.
Limit 25 attendees, so please RSVP to secure your seating!
Date: Monday, June 21, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: C.H.I. Center
Street: 8885 Venice Blvd., Suite 205
City/Town: West Los Angeles, CA
RSVPs to Laurie Johnson, lauriecjohnson@yahoo.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132081390152087
Summer Solstice/Full Moon Drumming Circle Celebration
June 26th from 2pm – 4pm
Peaceful Paths, 7 High Street, Butler, NJ
Love Donation $11
Come transform yourself in the brilliant Light of the Sun at his peak, the soft Light of the Full Moon Mother, and full lunar eclipse energy! With the Light of the Divine Masculine coupled with the Light of the Divine Feminine, we will come face to face with our own shadows and illuminate our inner darkness to reveal a brighter Light within.
The Earth and Cosmic energies of this auspicious day are divinely aligned to help us all evolve into the omnipotent, luminous beings we are. Come participate in sacred circle with community and friends as we witness each other’s transformation!
We will also send Love and Light to the Earth and Her Waters as to help transform the pollutants She is trying to purge.
Please RSVP to Peaceful Paths at dove@peacefulpaths.com or 973-283-9444.
Please bring: drums, rattles, notebook and pen, scarf or eye covering, a pillow/blanket to lie on, any additional sacred items you feel called, and your Divine self!
Date: Saturday, June 26, 2010
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Peaceful Paths, 7 High Street, Butler, NJ
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129853997036855
9 Houses of Gaia - Northwest Fall Equinox Festival
Start Time: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 4:00pm
End Time: Monday, September 6, 2010 at 12:00pm
Location: Phylomath WA
Please see link for info folkz http://www.ninehouses.org/5152.html
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121128547929431
Litha/Summer Solstice
The Glen is located 8 kms north of the Falls on the Niagara Parkway, Niagara Falls, Canada, across from the Whirlpool Golf Course and south of the Lewiston-Queenston bridge.
We will be having a blessing followed by snacks and Pagan music and drumming down the sun!
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: The Niagara Glen and Whirlpool (New York?)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128526493843664
Summer Solstice Festival 2010
Practical Magicka’s Summer Solstice Festival
Come and celebrate the season with..
** Readings: Tarot, Coffee Grounds and other forms!!!
** Reiki Healing & Chakra Balancing with Music!!!
** Meet the teachers at Practical Magicka!!!
** Mini Presentations & a Movie night!!!
** Pagan Art and Music!!!
** Meet and Greet with other local Pagans!!!
** Bar-B-Q lunch (both meat and Vegetarian entries)!!!
** Shop for your magickal needs!!!
** Plenty of FREE parking in the back!!!!
Festival: 11am- 4pm
Movie Night: 5pm-7pm
Phone: (562) 925- 8500
Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010
Time: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Practical Magicka
Street: 9741 Flower Street
City/Town: Bellflower, CA 90706
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133448726665133
The Midsummer Magick Faerie Festival: "Down The Crooked Fairy Lane"
"I must follow in their train
Down the crooked fairy lane..."
-J. R. R. Tolkien
Merry Meet! Mid-June update: We're working on a page for our Fey troupe - check back in a bit for a link. And meanwhile... thank you for checking out our young and growing Faerie fest! You've found us in the midst of a renovation--but please, come in, and look around, and if what we have to say is at all of interest, pray RSVP for our event, and we'll keep you informed as we add many more performers, shows, and excitements!
The Midsummer Magick Faire's final weekend looks to make gossamer the walls between the worlds, and open us to the realm of the Fae. Midsummer Magick, voted the #1 New Faire by the Annual Renaissance Faire Awards, invites you to a most beguiling final weekend.
We'll have our Faire, but not the same--ringed round with Faerie tricks and games, and when darkness falls, a grand Ball! We welcome Fey of all shapes and sorts, of every stripe and every court.
We've many performers, and in mid-June, we'll be putting up more information on the many actors and interactive players who'll help create our Faerie world. Our headliners include bard and illusionist Daniel Greenwolf (www.greenwolfmagic.com), nationally-known magician, fantastic showman, and that rarest of things: a man who looks good in green tights. We've also the enthralling Jenna Greene (www.greeneladymusic.com); visit her site to hear her spectacular voice and read the story behind her intriguing music. And we've secret surprises in store....but that's just the beginning!
You'll be entranced by the tale-telling of Lilith Lore, a splendid skald and spellbinding interpreter of traditional knowledge (www.LilithLore.com). There's the mischievous and charming Matt DeBlass, musician and harpmaker, singing Celtic and Fae myth and legend (www.MattDeBlass.com). There'll be appearances by The Shadow Queen, Titania, and Oberon; Granny Gruesome's Gleeful Tales; the mischief of the Honor Among Thieves sideshow (www.hatsideshow.com) - and many, many more.
Our daytime events are open to all; we advise that the nighttime activities are less child-friendly. Admission to the Faire itself is the same as on other weekends (fifteen dollars); this special event is our gift to you! The after-dark events will have a separate fee; ten dollars if you've bought a daytime Faire admission, twenty dollars without. We'll also have all-weekend passes available for forty dollars.
We're still growing, and thus we seek a few more performers, vendors, players, gamesters, and new friends. Come join us! Contact me directly if you'd like--the fastest way is to email jeffmach@WickedFaire.com.
"We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?"
-Christina Rosetti
Because we're grown from a larger event--the Faire--we don't seek to compete with any other Faerie events; if you're part of one, we'd like to invite you to come, be a part of this, and tell all our friends, our thousand attendees, about what you do. We admire you deeply; let us be of some humble assistance!
"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
-William Butler Yeats
You are most cordially invited to visit it now at www.CrookedFairyLaneFestival.com! And you might also enjoy our Faire's grand opening, two weekends before - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102479926468156&ref=ts.
Start Time: Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 11:00am
End Time: Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 7:00pm
Location: The Faire at Schreiber's Farm
Street: 648 Quaker Farms Road
City/Town: Oxford, CT
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102263899821130
In the meantime….
We are preparing for our own Goddess Festival 2010 (http://goddess-festival.com) in the majestic redwoods of the California Santa Cruz northern coastal mountains. This is a women-only event unlike any other, hosted by the Goddess woman and Queen of the witches herself, Z Budapest.
The Goddess women are Gathering again! Sept. 9-12, 2010
Grandmothers, Mothers, Daughters and Queens, the Goddess Festival 2010 is a fabulous event for you to share together! Every time mothers and daughters dance and sing under the stars and honor the Goddess in each other, we see the woman-bond strengthened and female relationships celebrated. Bring your daughter to Goddess Festival 2010! We've made it more affordable to bring your daughters!
About the Goddess Festival
On your sacred journey to the Goddess Festival, you’re struck by the beauty of the journey. The rolling hills dotted with oak trees gives way to majestic views of the California coastline as you pass over the northern part of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The air smells of the ocean’s sweet salty kiss, and you know you are getting closer.
It’s exciting to take this journey. Knowing that your sisters await your arrival and loving women’s embraces will soon enfold you.
The coastline beckons you to follow the curve of her body just so she can show off her foamy white waves as she crests the rocks that provide you safety from Yamaya’s reach. Perhaps you’d like to stop along the way to outstretch your arms and receive her ancient female energies.
Then you see the marker that starts you on your inward journey. You travel inland for a short distance. The thick oak trees soon give way to the more ancient old growth redwoods; the ancient ones who welcome you home to yourself.
The air changes again and this time it is the raw elemental of Earth that imbibes you. She’s all around you, enfolding you deeply into her mamma Gaia arms. She is the primal forest and the sacred land of the Susan B. Anthony Coven Number One’s covenstead. You’ve come home sister.
Upon arrival there is the playful chaos of activities, of women nesting for their weekend’s stay. The women are already socializing and greeting each other. There are an abundance of hugs and warm smiles. Friendships begin forming from the first “hellos.”
You have arrived at the Goddess Festival, into the loving care of Z Budapest who is the original producer of the modern day Goddess Festival. You have come back to your original roots of sisterhood, to your Amazon women.
And now that you stand firmly upon this sacred land, you are glad that you took my advice to “save the date” and make the journey because it’s unlike any other experience you will have in life.
On this sacred land there are women from all over the world. International flavors of ideas, concepts and woman space show themselves in sacred play and self-expression. The women wear a variety of cultural clothing. Some dress in t-shirts and jeans, while others put on elaborate dresses that speak of the Goddess within. All are welcomed. All are beautiful.
And the Festival begins!
Love and praises sing out to the Goddess. Z brings all the sisters together. She tells them about the rituals to come. She tells them their parts in the sacred circle. And the spirituality of women fills the air with voices talking and singing, sharing life experiences and spiritual ideas.
On this weekend, the women will come together in ritual several times. They will enjoy a variety of workshops and musical performances. They will share a communal dining hall enjoying excellent meals prepared by our cooks. And we will also feast on several outdoor barbeques in the warm days of California. We all find the time to play and socialize as maidens, mothers, queens and crones. Good times!
Goddess art and beautiful altars line our dining hall as the vendors proudly display their wares. And a silent auction takes place as a fundraiser for the Women’s Spirituality Forum who sponsors this event to ensure that more Goddess Festivals grace women’s lives on into the future. In fact, the whole Festival is a fundraiser to help the Women’s Spirituality Forum raise awareness for the Dianic tradition and women’s lives. Your Festival fees are tax deductible.
The rituals are powerful! Moving! Intoxicating!
We dance, we sing, we chant, we scream, we drum and we play. Mostly, we empower each other as women as we share the sacred rites of passage of the divine feminine.
And no other place can top the Gaia Bowl. This is the sunken earthen well in which hundreds of women can stand or sit comfortably. Created by the Coastal Native Americans, this is sacred space completely surrounded by towering redwoods. To step onto this land is to know the energies of deeply ancient magic.
Splashes of vibrant colors fill the eye as the maidens, mothers, queens and crones form a processional and descend into the sacred well. The fabric of the women’s ceremonial clothing tells its own spiritual tale as their gowns, robes, capes and various other clothing catch the ancestor’s breeze. In Gaia’s bowl you can dress colorfully and express your inner-goddess, or go skyclad in the spirit of the Amazons.
All acts of love and kindness are Her expression, and it is a weekend filled with the loving spirit of all that women are capable of. Join us this year! Don’t put it off. Sisters need to rejuvenate themselves and each other; it’s vital to our life-force. We need to fill our souls with the magic of ritual and renew our spirit through new friendships.
Mothers bring your daughters! There is no better way to strengthen your bond as women, as family, than to experience a women’s rite of passage together. It’s a divine moment you both will cherish forever.
The Goddess Festival is open to all women-born-women.
Let our women’s prayers be uttered in unison from the sweet melodic voices of hundreds of women. Let the Earth be healed. Let women be healed. Let us all know pure joy in celebrating all that is female.
Come sisters! Come to the Goddess Festival! Come experience women’s rituals with Z Budapest the founding mother of the Women’s spirituality Movement. There is no other High Priestess who can do what Z does in circle. She is magic! And so are you! Join us! http://goddess-festival.com
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