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June Full Moon Ritual

Posted in Pagan, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »

With the coming of each month, brings the coming of a new moon cycle. This past month brought an extra powerful full moon. It wasn’t just any moon, but a full moon doubled with a lunar eclipse! Lots of magic was worked this night. Cleansing, prosperity and other spells were done as the universe was in a place to grant powerful blessings. Even a few spiritual awakenings happened on this eve.  Till the next month, the next full moon. See you all then under Luna’s hand of grace and delight!

 

BB

Daniel

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June 2011 Full Moon Ritual

Posted in esbat, moons, Pagan, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »

With the coming of each month, brings the coming of a new moon cycle. This past month brought an extra powerful full moon. It wasn’t just any moon, but a full moon doubled with a lunar eclipse! Lots of magic was worked this night on June 15, 2011. Cleansing, prosperity and other spells were done as the universe was in a place to grant powerful blessings. Even a few spiritual awakenings happened on this eve. Till the next month, the next full moon. See you all then under Luna’s hand of grace and delight!

Full Moon Ritual, altar, June 15, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT

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Midsummer Festival… A Holly for All

Posted in Pagan, Ritual, Sabbat, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »

 

Holly and Oak Kings… a fight to the death.. almost. UUPS celebrated the two great Kings of the Year. The Oak King and the Holly King. This Midsummer festival brought us the esteemed opportunity to reenact the great battle of the two kings, the battle that twice a year ensures one will rule while the other sits at the altar of life.  This time, the Holly King was again crowned ruler for the coming winter months. UUPS sang, danced, beat drums and rang bells in honor of the Holly King. A midsummer fire allowed all present to burn away a bad habit, problem, situation or other form of negative energy in their lives.  Many felt uplifted, inspired and joyful. All present had the opportunity to travel down a garden path in a guided meditation to meet and speak with the Holy Holly King himself. The final union of the Holy Holly King and Queen brought a close to the ceremony and the opening of the Midsummer feast. Mainly a garden dinner, full of salads, cabbage, mushroom, pasta and noodles, the occasional yard bird was seen wandering around before quickly vanishing into the carnivorous traps of Holly King himself.  Blessed Be all! Until we merry meet again!

 

 

 

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Utah Pride Festival 2011 Vending

Posted in LGBT, Pagan, Vending, tagged , , , , , , , on June 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Well with everything settled down again, it’s time for reports! We had a successful venture at the LGBTQ Pride Festival a few weekends ago  Saturday and Sunday, June 4-5, 2011. Many folks stopped by our table and signed up for the newsletter and updates. A few people paid dues and became members, took information and all together enjoyed our presence. All of the newsletters we took (About 50) we’re gone on Saturday. A few folks even felt generous enough to put a few dollars in our donations can. All in all, it was a success! So now it’s back to the old routine of full moons and holidays, but not to worry, many events and activities are coming up this summer!

 

BB

Daniel C

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Utah LGBT Pride Festival 2011 April Love (r) tabling for U of U Pagan Society, Saturday, June 4, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT

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Utah LGBT Pride Festival 2011 L to R-Sharon Pellum, Daniel Cureton, April Love, Callista Dreamwalker, Aryssa Pellum, Sunday June 5, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT

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Utah LGBT Pride Festival 2011 Kai Martinez (l) and Daniel Cureton, Saturday, June 4, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT

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Utah LGBTQ Pride Festival 2011, Daniel Cureton after interfaith march, Saturday, June 4, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT

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Utah LGBT Pride Festival 2011 Pride Parade on 200 s facing 400 e stop light, l to r Aryssa Pellum, Callista Dreamalker, Sharon Pellum Sunday, June 5, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT

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Utah LGBT Pride Festival 2011 Pride Parade Gene Banner (l) and Daniel Cureton, June 4, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT

 

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Marching in Utah Pride Festival 2011 Parade

Posted in LGBT, Pagan, tagged , , , , , , on May 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »

This year has showered man opportunities among us in the LGBTQ community. As a member of the Utah Pride Interfaith Coalition, we are allowed to march in the Sunday morning parade! Come dressed in robes, hats and staffs and be ready to carry our banner.

Time: Line up at 8:30 am

Date: Sunday, June 5, 2011

Location: 300 E 400 S

We need people who can march to come and hold the banner, three people would be nice!

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Utah Pride Interfaith Coalition Interfaith Serivce

Posted in diversity, Interfaith, LGBT, Other, Pagan, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Hi everyone

We have the esteemed opportunity to be participants in the 2011 interfaith service.  We will be ringing bells and invoking the gods of clarity and peace to help everyone. Here are the details

Time: 2-3pm

Date: Saturday, June 4, 2011

Location: First Methodist Church, 203 E 200 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84111

After the service, we will all march to the festival with our banners behind a league of bag pipers! We hope you can all join us for this unique and privelaged experience!

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May 2011 Full Moon Ritual

Posted in esbat, magic, moons, Pagan, wicca, witchcraft, tagged , , , on May 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

A few select members of the Pagan Society meet under the beautiful gaze and light of the full moon to give honor and grace to the Moon Goddess on May 17, 2011 at 8pm.

After a few magical workings, personal offerings were given and treats shared among the members. Till next we meet!

Full Moon Ritual Sharon (l) and Aryssa Pellum May 17, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT Full Moon Ritual Fire Wizard May 17, 2011 Salt Lake City, UT

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May Brings a Relief From Busy Times

Posted in Pagan, tagged , , , , , , , on May 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Wow, time to take a breath.  April was super busy!! Here are a few of the things we accomplished in April 2011:

Deciding to go nonprofit

Joining the Terracycle Program

Being sponsored by the local pagan store Kindred Paths

Joining the Utah Pride Interfaith Coalition

Here are some of the stories:

UUPS Joins Utah Pride Interfaith Coalition

One thing UUPS is good at is community outreach.  Here again is another: including LGBTQ persons in their activities and rituals.

This past April, UUPS became a member of the Utah Pride Interfaith Coalition. “We want to include everyone! There are a lot of pagans who are LGBTQ and lot of LGBTQ who practice a pagan faith, it was only natural and a matter of time before we united forces, like some of the other pagan groups in Salt Lake City, and really showed our support of the LGBTQ community. We especially want them to know that you don’t have to be straight to practice your religion or faith and to be spiritual.” said President Cureton. He goes on to mention “I know people who are straight pagans worshiping and honoring gay gods and goddess and LGBTQ people worshiping and honoring straight gods and goddess!.”

UUPS is excited to participate in their first interfaith service at this years LGBTQ PRIDE festival in Salt Lake City.  The interfaith service is being held at the old Methodist Church of Salt Lake located at 203 e 200 s on Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 2:00 pm.  After the service everyone will be able to march behind bag pipers with their groups and banners to the pride festival.

Terracycling

Recycling! Recycling! Or rather… terracycling? What is terracycling?

Terracycling is an organization that came into being in 2001 to collect all those hard to recycle products such as candy wrappers, chip bags, cookie bags, cell phone, cell phones, Neosporin tubes, those red plastic party cups and so on. President Daniel Cureton commented “I thought it was a good idea and everyone agreed that its great way to join the global community in not just recycling, but taking it a step further with really trying to make sure everything gets reused.”

Terracycle will give $.02 for each wrapper and bag that is shipped back to their processing center. These items are then processed into usable products such as bags, totes, bottle and more.  Terracycle send out pre-paid boxes and labels each time a full box is sent in, so there is minimal cost involved with shipping.

Collection dates for UUPS: Please bring your candy wrappers, cookie wrappers (like Oreo and Keebler) and their trays to the last weekly meeting of each month.

We hope to keep moving forward with outreaching our arm to help, involve and support the community and students.  We hope May brings us many more opportunities !

BB

Daniel C

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Earth/Arbor Day Ritual and Gratitude Rite

Posted in druidry, magic, occult, Pagan on April 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Thanks to everyone to attended this year’s Earth and Arbor Day ritual and gratitude ceremony.  This past Friday, April 29, 2011 at 4pm, members of UUPS met at President Daniel Cureton’s House to perform a gratitude ceremony and druid tree blessings as part of honoring Gaia and giving thanks for all they have received. Member Sarh Cochran even brought along her Bast Goddess Statue to give praise to the Egypt Queen and lover of Cats! All deities were welcome. After the ceremony, the members walked outside to bless a newly planted apple tree. President Cureton performed the tree blessing from the Ancient Order of Druids in America tree blessing rite. This invoke Nwyfre, the fire of life to come and attend that place where the tree is, give it strength health and life, and drawing the invoking and evoking rays of light from Awen to merge at the center where the new tree was planted. Blessed Holy Water sealed the blessing and the members went back inside for refreshments.

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Earth & Arbor Day Ritual and Gratitude Rite 2011

Posted in druidry, magic, occult, Pagan, tagged , , , on April 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Thanks to everyone to attended this year’s Earth and Arbor Day ritual and gratitude ceremony.  This past Friday, April 29, 2011 at 4pm, members of UUPS met at President Muad’Dib’s House to perform a gratitude ceremony and druid tree blessings as part of honoring Gaia and giving thanks for all they have received. Member Sarah Cochran even brought along her Bast Goddess Statue to give praise to the Egypt Queen and lover of Cats! All deities were welcome. After the ceremony, the members walked outside to bless a newly planted apple tree. President Muad’Dib performed the tree blessing from the Ancient Order of Druids in America tree blessing rite. This invoke Nwyfre, the fire of life to come and attend that place where the tree is, give it strength health and life, and drawing the invoking and evoking rays of light from Awen to merge at the center where the new tree was planted. Blessed Holy Water sealed the blessing and the members went back inside for refreshments.

Earth Day Ceremony,  Gratitude altar to Gaia, Muad’Dib, April 29, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT

Earth Day Ceremony, Gratitude altar to Gaia, Sarah Cochran, April 29, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT

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