Posted in Other, tagged blog, yearly report on December 31, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,700 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.
Posted in magic, wicca, witchcraft, tagged banishing, cleansing, new moon December 2013, new moon magic on December 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The members of SLPS had a deeply spiritual time on Saturday, December 28, 2013. AT 8pm the members gathered for the last ritual of the year, the new moon. How auspicious that another new moon phase fell before the onset of 2014, allowing for preparations and goals to be made, habits to be banished to kick start the new year. Ritual cleansing, Singing and chanting, praising of the goddess, and spell work all lead to an intimate and moving circle around the altar of the goddess. Cookies and wine were offered and blessings received from the dark moon goddess.
Afterwards, members playing poker using beans and pennies into the early hours of the weekend. SLPS members look forward to 2014 with hope and strength.
New Moon Ritual, altar, Saturday, December 28, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT
New Moon Ritual, Lunar Oak Spirit and Woman Between the Wolves (r), Saturday, December 28, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT
New Moon Ritual, Muad’Dib, Saturday, December 28, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT
New Moon Ritual, working the magic, Saturday, December 28, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT
Posted in Other, tagged Witches' Tea on December 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »
No Witches’ Tea today for Sunday, December 29, 2013, see you all in 2014. Have a Happy New Year!
Posted in druidry, magic, Pagan, wicca, witchcraft, tagged birth, Cernunnos, Oak and Holly Kings, Yule 2013, Yule King on December 22, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Thanks to all who came and made the Yule Ritual and Feast a brilliant success. On Saturday, December 21, 2013, a few members and guests of SLPS gathered and welcomed back the Yule King from the world of the ancestors. Piggy, playing the Goddess, gave birth to Lunar Oak Spirit as Cernunnos. All knelt and honored the returned Lord. This time of year is when the sun begins his ascent and starts to increase in light, and when the Oak King reigns again till Midsummer. President Muad’Dib performed a druid rite for Yule and after a beautiful poetry reading, gave the cakes and wine offerings to the Oak King and Goddess and asked blessing for the new year as the light returns.
The feasting included rotisserie chicken, green beans and quinoa, potato salad and fruitcake. Check out the photos below!
Yule 2013, altar, Saturday, December 21, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT
Yule 2013, altar center with Yule King plaque by Kurt Shoopman,,Saturday, December 21, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT
Yule 2013, Carlos Martinez (l) and Woman Between the Wolves, Saturday, December 21, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT
Yule 2013, l to r- Lunar Oak Spirit, Shy Fox, Steven Wellington, and Piggy, Saturday, December 21, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT
Yule 2013, Carlos Martinez (l) and Owen Staples, Saturday, December 21, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT
Yule 2013, Shy Fox cooking for Yule feast, Saturday, December 21, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT
Yule 2013, Woman Between the Wolves (l) and Lunar Oak Spirit, Saturday, December 21, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT
Posted in Other, tagged movie night, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug on December 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »
SLPS had a great time viewing The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug on Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 10pm at the Century 16 Union Heights theater in Sandy, UT. Instead of calling down the moon and working spells, the members headed over to the theater and had a good old magical time with the dragons and dwarves.
Posted in Other, Pagan, tagged A look at Paganism, exhibition, J. Willard Marriott Library on December 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Don’t miss out on the upcoming exhibition by the Salt Lake Pagan Society at the J. Willard Marriott Library, at the University of Utah titled “A Look at Paganism: Beliefs and Cultures of the Neopagan Community” Jan 17-March 16 2014 which will feature different cultural and spiritual items from the Neopagan community. Artwork provided by Lunar Oak Spirit.
Posted in Other, Ritual, tagged Hanukkah, Jewish, ritual, Salt Lake Pagan Society on December 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »
SLPS had a great celebration of Hanukkah for the second year in a row this past Saturday, December 7, 2013. We lit each candle on the hanukiah each night and said the sacred prayers in Hebrew. This celebration has become a tradition after the success Hanukkah of 2012. We look forward to next year, 2014’s Hanukkah!
Hanukkah 2013, Hanukkiah on mantle, December 7, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT