Posted in Pagan, Vending, tagged annual pagan pride day, magic, paganism, salt lake city on August 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Hi Everyone,
As SLPPD nears us, its time to get the word out that UUPS will be tabling with their sister group Utah State University Pagan Alliance. Please come check us out and enjoy the company of the other local pagan college students. Look for our banner. We will be tabling the whole day, so stop by and say hello, and get a brochure or two!
BB
Daniel C.
Posted in esbat, Pagan, Ritual, wicca, tagged lunar phases, magic, moon, ritual, wicca on August 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Hi everyone,
Its getting near that time again. This months instructional full moon ritual is going to take place at 1:00 am at the north entrance of Liberty Park in Salt Lake City. Please bring any items you need cleansed or charged! See you all there!
August also brings us one of the 8 Sabbats in the Wiccan tradition, Lughnasadh. We’ll be heading out to Tooele Canyon on Saturday, August 21, 2010 to see our very own secretary Laurence Miles Guide us in a shamanic rite. We’re meeting at 1:00 pm at the Home Depo in Tooele. See you all there!
BB
Daniel C
Posted in Pagan, Sabbat, wicca, tagged canyon, fire, lughnasadh, magic, rain, ritual, shamanism, UUPS, wind on August 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Out in Tooele Canyon, a small group of UUPS members gathered On August 1, 2010, to release pent up energies, dead goals, angers and other frustrations in a simple shamanic ritual led by our very own Laurence Miles.
Lughnasadh, one of the 8 holidays in several of the Pagan traditions and the first harvest fall holiday, was celebrated in the Shamanic path. A simple rite, A fire was lit, frustrations written on paper, a grounding moment, and then the paper was thrown in to be released to the four elements, deity and the universe. This mild sunny day allowed us to snack on the chicken, vegetables and fruit until about ten minutes after the ritual was completed, gale force winds came barreling down the canyon, accompanied shortly after by rain. We all understood this to mean that our energy had been released and was being taken up by higher causes!! Over all, everyone left feeling accomplished, more relaxed and spiritually deeper
Posted in druidry, Pagan, wicca, tagged beltane, Beltane 2010, canyons, celebration, circle, community, druidry, feast, fire, Green Canyon Logan UT, logan, magic, marriage, USUPA, UT, utah, Utah State University Pagan Alliance, UUPS, wicca on May 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »
We love traveling, especially when its to Logan to see our Pagan brothers and sisters at Utah State University. The Pagan Alliance at USU is a bright and active group we call our sister group. UUPS has been building inter-group mingling with USUPA since April 2010. UUPS drove up, after getting lost, on Saturday, May 1, 2010 to Logan UT. Most of UUPS members found the location in Logan Canyon and were able to attend a wonderful Celtic Reconstruction Wedding festival put on by USUPA’s own president Kassie Cressall. A large circle of stones, a beautiful altar, music, singing, fires and more were all on the agenda this day. After wards was a lovely feast and a large May Day Pole! All of us were able to dance around the poll honoring the God and Goddess on their day of union.
Posted in Pagan, wicca, tagged Alban Eiler, easter, eggs, full moon, magic, ostara, ritual, spring, UUPS, wicca on April 15, 2010| 1 Comment »
Well This is was our first official activity. Kassie Cressall from Logan even joined us, bringing the whiskey! She is in the process of starting a pagan student group at Utah State University in Logan and is getting some tips on how to do things. With 7 people joining us today, we are off to good numbers after getting started only 6 months ago! We went over to the Secretaries house on Saturday, April 1, 2010 for a beautiful Ostara ritual led by Daniel Cureton giving honor to the Goddess Ostara herself for whose day it was! We divined our future with boiled Easter eggs, had a wonderful chicken salad and cake and topped it off with throwing wild flowers on the barren parts of the land!
Afterward was a full moon ritual. Everyone who came brought an item to be cleansed and recharged. Everyone left feeling recharged and renewed after pulling down the energy of the Full moon.
We hope to have many more such activities so everyone can get to see what pagans do!
See you all then
Daniel C
Posted in Other, Pagan, tagged thinking on February 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Since we were founded so close the the new year, we took a little break
But we are back! The semester is rolling and we have time to think again.
So a few ideas have been passed around and what seems best is to start with is the next upcoming holiday Ostara. It will be led by Daniel Cureton in the Wiccan Tradition.. Further details coming!! Look on the event page to see when its happening
BB
Daniel
Posted in Pagan, University, tagged new group on November 4, 2009| Leave a Comment »
We are a new group at the University of Utah! We just finished the paperwork on October 3 2009 and are trying to get funding from ASUU. Planning is in the works. We hope to be a student group that encourages inclusive practice of all pagan paths. But who knows how it will turn out! We’ll let you know in the next few months what is happening.
Stay tuned!
Daniel
Salt Lake Pagan Society 