Paganistan Weekly; June 25-July 1

Summer is now officially here, and already it seems like the summer is flying by. Many wonderful events that are quickly coming up.

July 1-6; Faerie Spirit Gathering: http://www.kawashaway.org/

July 5;  Wendy Rule & Kari Tauring concert:  http://shop.eyeofhorus.biz/Wendy-Rule-Kari-Tauring-Concert-p/233007.htm

July 5-8; Convergence: http://www.convergence-con.org/

July 12-15; Sacred Fire Circle In Paradise: http://sacredfirecircle.hawkdancing.com/

July 14-22; Summerland Spirit Festival: http://www.summerlandfest.com/

August 3-5; Diversicon: http://www.diversicon.org/

August 6-12; Sacred Harvest Festival: http://harmonytribe.org/

August 18- September 30; Minnesota Renaissance Festival: http://www.renaissancefest.com/MRF/

August 23 – September 3; Minnesota State Fair: http://www.mnstatefair.org/

September 8; Twin Cities Pagan Pride: http://tcpaganpride.org/paganpride/

The much sought after Tempest will be presenting a Movement in Ritual Workshop at the Eye of Horus June 26; http://shop.eyeofhorus.biz/Ritual-Movement-Tempest-p/cls-tmpst.htm July 3 at the Eye of Horus there will be a Ritual Music Meditation Workshop with Wendy Rule; http://shop.eyeofhorus.biz/Ritual-Music-Meditation-Workshop-p/cls-wrmed.htm

Sorry about the lack of a Paganistan Weekly last week. The Yahoo calendar was down for 12 days, and that supplies the source material for this newsletter. It was a major inconvenience, but in the more than a decade that I’ve been using Yahoo groups, that was the first real inconvenience. I don’t know of anywhere else in the cloud with that good a track record. Even with the calendar down, somehow announcements of events continued to be posted, so people on the group continued to be aware of the wonderful events taking place in Paganistan. If you want to stay in the loop, you can join at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TwinCitiesPagans/

Paganistan Weekly; June 11-17

This week we have two local festivals on the calendar:
Northern Folk Gathering: June 14-17; http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179255092128922
Earth House Midsummer Gather: June 17-24; http://www.earthhousemn.org/

Camp Fire is this week at Harmony Park, June 15-18. Check it out at http://www.campfireretreat.com/

Tony Burroughs Law of Agreement book tour will be in St. Paul on June 13 at the Como Lake Bed and Breakfast to talk about his latest book, and to host an Intenders Circle. http://www.highestlighthouse.com/events/minneapolisMN.html

The Sharon Knight concert at the Eye of Horus is almost here: June 22; http://shop.eyeofhorus.biz/Sharon-Knight-Winter-Live-at-Eye-of-Horus-p/tix20120622.htm

The Yahoo group calendar is down right now, so there’s no list of events this week. Hopefully it will be up soon at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TwinCitiesPagans/cal

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Paganistan Weekly; June 4-10

The Walker Community United Methodist Church burned down. This was a gathering place for many progressive groups, and its loss is mourned by many in our community. You can read more about it at https://pncminnesota.com/2012/05/30/walker-church-a-community-commons/

Transit of Venus is Tuesday. This wont happen again in your lifetime. There will be a gathering in Powderhorn Park at 6:30 to note this significant event.
Transit Begins at 5:04 pm
Ingress Interior Contact 5:22pm
Transit Center 8:27pm
Sunset at 8:57pm (viewing ends for us)
Egress Interior Contact 11:32pm
Transit ends: 11:50pm

The Eye of the Boar coven will be featuring a singing bowl workshop this Saturday at their monthly free healing Circle. Stop by the Eye of Horus Saturday between 7pm & 9pm to experience these good vibrations.
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Paganistan Weekly; May 28-June 3

Memorial Day there will be a special ceremony to honor Pagan soldiers at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis. To help find the servises, you can find maps to the grave sites: Jason Schumann (Section T, Site 3677) http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGLMap?ID=7696304 and Daniel Ernest Schrankler (Section MemD Site 123)
http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGLMap?ID=7687133 . Learn more at https://pncminnesota.com/2012/05/27/memorial-day-event-honors-pagan-veterans/

The ancestor shrine and library which had been hosted at the Sacred Paths Center have now been moved to Keys of Paradise. You can read about it at https://pncminnesota.com/2012/05/23/spc-ancestor-shrine-and-library-find-new-home/

Many of us are very excited about the June 5th Transit of Venus across the sun. It is very rare and will not happen again in our lifetimes. There will be a gathering 6:30pm at Powderhorn Park.

The Eye of Horus is sponsoring two upcoming concerts. Sharon Knight June 22 at The Eye of Horus http://shop.eyeofhorus.biz/Sharon-Knight-Winter-Live-at-Eye-of-Horus-p/tix20120622.htm. Wendy Rule July 5 at Patrick’s Cabaret with special guest Kari Tauring http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/242893. Wendy Rule will also be teaching a workshop at the Eye of Horus July 3 http://shop.eyeofhorus.biz/Ritual-Music-Meditation-Workshop-p/cls-wrmed.htm

The Eye of Horus will also be celebrating International Fairy Day, June 24, with a tea from 5-7pm, and special prizes for people who join the festivities in appropriate costume.

This Friday is the one day per year when people can actually go up Witch’s Hat Tower.
Annually on the first Friday evening after Memorial Day Weekend, is the only day of the year that the Tower Observation deck is open to the public.
http://www.pperr.org/events/icecream-social.html

Tony Burroughs Law of Agreement book tour will be in St. Paul on June 13 at the Como Lake Bed and Breakfast to talk about his latest book, and to host an Intenders Circle. http://www.highestlighthouse.com/events/minneapolisMN.html

There will be another showing of the The Naked I: Wide Open, filled humorous, honest and true stories by transgender/gender non-conforming individuals and allies, exploring gender identity far beyond the land of “male” and “female”. There will be four performances: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday – June 13-16 at 730pm at Intermedia Arts. Reserve tickets at http://tctwentypercent.org/season.html

Camp Fire is coming, June 15-18 at Harmony Park. Check it out at http://www.campfireretreat.com/

These newsletters aren’t very long, but they sure are full of information.

Paganistan Weekly; May 21-27

The Sacred Paths Center needs help closing up. If you are in the area Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, please stop by and assist.

The Sacred Paths Center needs help moving the library and ancestor shrine to Keys of Paradise. You can call 612-293-5397 for more information and to volunteer. The really great news here is that Keys of Paradise has agreed to host the library and ancestor shrine!

In the course of just one month, with the closing of the Sacred Paths Center and Shadow Lights Minnesota, we are going from having 5 local metaphysical shops to having 3 metaphysical shops. This emphasizes the importance of supporting your local metaphysical shops.

Magus Books & Herbs
1309 1/2 4th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
http://www.magusbooks.com/

Eye of Horus
3012 Lyndale Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN 55408
http://www.eyeofhorus.biz/
http://eyeofhorusbooks.com/

Keys of Paradise LLC
713 Minnehaha Ave E, Suite 111, Saint Paul, MN, 55106
http://www.keysofparadise.com/