Paganistan Weekly; Nov 29- Dec 5

Only 23 more days till Yule!

Next Sunday there a couple of very interesting hands-on activities to choose from. There is crafting at Clue Manor, which will include making a very special incense which was sampled at an event last week and was exquisite (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106543372747216). There’s also a release party for Anne Marie Forrester’s new coloring book at the Eye of Horus, which should be colorful and fun.

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** EVENTS THIS WEEK **

MONDAY; November 29

  • 6pm weekly Community Potluck at the Sacred Paths
  • 7pm Mindful Mondays (meditation) mvanavery@yahoo. com for details
  • TUESDAY; November 30
  • 7pm Sacred Sexuality at BLISS One Consciousness Temple; http://www.meetup.com/BLISSOne/

 

WEDNESDAY; December 1

  • 6:30pm Coffee Cauldron at the Edge Coffeehouse and around the corner from the Sacred Paths Center (people tend to meander between the two)
  • 6:30pm Minnesota Heathens Moot at 42 Avenue Station
  • 7:30pm Twin Cities Witches Meetup at ommon Roots Café; http://witches.meetup.com/1387/

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De-Stress After Black Friday Shopping at the Eye

Although none of the metaphysical shops in the Twin Cities we contacted are having Black Friday sales, Eye of Horus is doing something special tonight to help shoppers de-stress from the battle for bargains.

Author Gede Parma

Author Gede Parma is at the Eye of Horus to discuss and sign his book, BY LAND, SKY AND SEA: THREE REALMS OF SHAMANIC WITCHCRAFT , tonight starting at7:30pm.

The book introduces the ancient Celtic trinity of land, sky, and sea, while exploring its associated Greek, Hawaiian, Hindu, Stregheria, and Wiccan customs.   Parma helps you develop basic magick skills in breath work, grounding and centering, omen walks, and celebrating the body through dance.  The book lays out methods for expanding consciousness and working with energy, including astral projection, clairvoyance, and aura balancing, and ultimately enact shamanistic practices of trance, vision journeying, channeling, and oracle reading.

In addition to the book signing and discussion, Parma is teaching a workshop on Trance & Pagan Gnosis on Saturday afternoon for $35, and will be available for readings Saturday evening.

Pass the Turkey or Just Pass?

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With Thanksgiving Day just a few days away we wanted to know how our local Pagan community feels about the holiday. The best gauge of how a group feels is to see what they do. Are you spending the day stuffing yourself and focusing on all that you have to be grateful for? Do you not celebrate due to what happened to the native Tribes in the years after the famed first Thanksgiving day? The poll questions below are in random order, please choose the one that best describes what your plans are for Thursday.

Feel free to comment on what this holiday means to you and why you celebrate it, observe something different, or do nothing.

Paganistan Weekly; November 22-28

Hopefully you enjoyed a blessed full moon. The next full moon will also be Yule, so that should be a very interesting evening. People are already scheduling events, and making plans.

Geek Partnership has a community center. It’s been open for a while, but it’s been difficult getting information about it because the people in charge of it are kind of geeky. But it’s there! 1121 Jackson St NE, Suite 106, Minneapolis, MN 55413 http://www.geekpartnership.org/ Let’s face it, a whole lot of people reading this are geeky so a geek community center is very relevant.

About once a month, a recipient of the Paganistan newsletter accuses the newsletter of spamming them. The newsletter goes out to about 3000 people, so it’s a fairly low percentage, however it’s still good to clear this up. Most of the complaints come from Facebook where this newsletter is sent out to the members of the Twin Cities Pagans group. The description of the group says, “This group is the primary distribution point for Paganistan Weekly, the local newsletter for the Twin Cities Pagan community. Every week the members of this group are kept in the loop about local Pagan events and news.” This is not unsolicited spam. This is a service.

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** EVENTS THIS WEEK **

MONDAY; November 22

  • 6pm weekly Community Potluck at the Sacred Paths
  • 7pm Mindful Mondays (meditation) mvanavery@yahoo. com for details

 

TUESDAY; November 23

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Pagans Hunting, A Sacred Way – Editorial

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This is the season filled with special holidays for Pagans. Besides Sabbats, special Moon celebrations and feast days, this Saturday some will be experiencing what has become a most sacred day… dawn on the opening of deer season in Wisconsin. For Pagan hunters, this is both a time of excitement and a spiritual marking of the wheel of the year. It is a time of purification and blessing, prayer and thanks giving.

I interviewed three Pagan hunters, and also share my own experience as a hunter. On the surface the main stream culture of the hunt is a merchandising boom catering to ego based dreams of prowess fulfilled, and a wall trophy to prove it. For Pagans, it is a special time of connection to one’s self, family, nature and its cycles.

For 2 million years we were hunters; for 10,000 years we were farmers; for the last 100 years we have been trying to deny it all.” Stephen Budiansky, The Covenant of the Wild

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