Category: Happenings

Paganistan Weekly; September 20-26

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TC Pagan pride is next weekend!

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** EVENTS THIS WEEK **

MONDAY; September 20

6pm weekly Community Potluck at the Sacred Paths Center followed at 7pm by Shamanic Journey Practice for those who know how to journey and want a safe place to practice.

6pm Minnesota Metaphysical Book Club at Java J’s Coffee Shop

7pm Mindful Mondays (meditation) mvanavery@yahoo. com for details

TUESDAY; September 21:

United Nations’ International Day of Peace

Pre-Registration Deadline for WiCoM First Degree Series; Contact TeachersRep@wiccanchurchmn.org

7pm Old Craft Discussion Group at the Eye of Horus

7pm Druid Grove Gather at Merlins Rest Pub

7pm Sacred Sexuality at BLISS One Consciousness Temple
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Mendota Dakota Pow Wow–Good for the Soul

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Photos and Story by Susu Jeffrey

Mendota Dakota Pow Wow

Traditional dancer with fan and shawl

The Mendota Dakota Community celebrated their 11th Annual Welcome Home Traditional Pow Wow over the September 10th weekend in the field of St. Peter’s Church on the Mississippi bluff. The sound was the throbbing heartbeat drum with generators in the background, the ambiance—regalia and fry bread (1st batch ran out before 3:30 Saturday). The weather was perfect. These are 21st century Indian people; they know how to read treaties.

Pow Wows are joyous extended-family, cultural
gatherings with a lot of work and a lot of sitting

Mendota Dakota Pow Wow Eagle

To dance is to pray, to pray is to heal, to heal is to give, to give is to live, to live is to dance. "Why We Dance" by MariJo Moore

around visiting. Once a year-after-year you get to see the kids grow up, see the new babies and absorb hours outdoors with hundreds of dancing spirits.

Mendota Dakota Pow Wow

Fancy shawl, traditional dancers and a little girl in her jingle dress

(Please note: the photographs were taken with respectful permission only during the Saturday 1 PM, Grand Entry.)

Lady Liberty League Celebrates 25 Years Tonight!

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LADY LIBERTY LEAGUE CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF PAGAN RIGHTS ENDEAVORS

Pagan Liberty ImageOn Wednesday, September 15, 2010, Lady Liberty League will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a reception in Washington, DC. The reception is free and open to the public.

It will be held from 7-9 pm at the Universalist National Memorial Church, 1810 16th Street Northwest, Washington, DC

National and regional Pagan Rights activists, spiritual leaders, and practitioners of many traditions will be taking part in this interfaith celebration. Participants include those from Washington, DC, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Wisconsin, US Virgin Islands, and elsewhere.

Founded in 1985, Lady Liberty League (LLL) is a national and global Pagan civil rights and religious freedom organization. LLL is coordinated by Circle Sanctuary, an Ecospirituality center and Shamanic Wiccan church that has been serving Pagans worldwide since 1974.

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Sacred Fire Circle – Icing on your Spiritual Cake

I attended the Sacred Fire Circle [SFC] this past Labor day weekend sponsored by Circle Sanctuary. This event takes place near Mount Horeb, just outside of Madison, Wi.  Sacred Fire Circles have developed as individual events, each with it’s own character over the past fifteen years. Mainly building on the creative impulse and vision of Jeff Magnus McBride and Abigail Spinner McBride, these events are emerging all over the country and world. While total participation is relatively small [this event had nearly 60 attend], the impact on those involved is large. Many of your favorite songs and chants likely come from Abby Spinner and were written for use in Sacred Fire Circles. Below are interviews from eight participants.

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Best Selling Author S.M. Stirling Comes to Minneapolis

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Author SM Stirling

S.M. Stirling, author of the best selling Dies the Fire and Sunrise Lands series, swings through Minneapolis to promote a new novel.  He will be at Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore today (September 7th) at 5 pm-6pm.

Both series are increasingly popular with Pagans as many of the main characters are Wiccans and Heathens.  The books allow us to see a reality in which our religions are dominate religions once again.  These circumstances are brought into play after an event called “The Change”:

“the Change,” that renders electronics and explosives (including firearms) inoperative. As American society disintegrates, without either a government able to maintain order or an economy capable of sustaining a large population, most of the world dies off from a combination of famine, plague, brigandage and just plain bad luck. The survivors are those who adapt most quickly, either by making it to the country and growing their own crops—or by taking those crops from others by force.  […] Ultimately, Stirling shows that while our technology influences the means by which we live, it is the myths we believe in that determine how we live. The novel’s dual themes—myth and technology—should appeal to both fantasy and hard SF readers as well as to techno-thriller fans.  – Publishers Weekly

The author has gone to great pains to research Paganism and his books are described as one of the truest depictions of Paganism in modern literature.  Chas Clifton, best known for his book Her Hidden Children:  The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in the America, had this to say about the series:

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