See… I have work to do.
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| My immediate back yard - prairie with apple trees - time to git ta mowin'. |
I hope I've done alright here on el bloggo, dear readers, in the first half of
the year. I’m not going anywhere (for too long at a time) and of course I’ll be
posting, but experience tells me I’ll be on the tractor more and at the
keyboard less for a few months. Not to mention the actual travel schedule.
Summer 2014 Teaching:
• Summer Solstice at Tredara – June 21 and 22 – this is our
local event, but I’ll be teaching a basic review of the Norse pantheon to
support the Norse solstice rite the following day. As always the event is open
to those local or crazy enough to attend. Expect a real teaching schedule at
Tredara next year.
• The Starwood Festival our 33rd annual. I’ll be teaching the Nineteen Working and working in the ADF
blessing rite, as well as running my ass off as an organizer. If you’ve never
been to a national-class festival, you should do, and there’s nothing better
than Starwood.
• SCG Lughnassadh Peace Fair – Tredara – 7/25 – 27. Another
local event, with our big-fun warrior games, this year with more lore and
method (as well as more axes and spears). Join us for the mystery of Lugh and
the Red Woman.
• Summerland Festival 8/14-17. There’s more than one fest with this
name now, but this one has been rockin’ since 1999 or so, and is one of the
best local/regional events around. I’ll be working a Purification ritual and
probably singing with L.
In the meantime I’ll be maintaining this (now double-sized)
place, with the help of our amazing friends. We have a new Nemeton to build,
and a variety of small improvements to do with our own hands, besides whatever
money is thrown at big projects (a limited supply, surely).
Shit that didn’t get done.
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| Things that did get done. Have a look here. |
It was a good winter for creativity and art/publishing projects, but not so
good for occult work. The Genius Locus work has not proceeded beyond the
outlining and poetry-writing, though I’m better prepared in my awareness of the
place to do it than I was a year ago. I continue to stare at the project of
reorganizing the Nine Moons teachings, though the book continues to sell a
little, and I know some folks are using the methods.
The novel is still a thing, but I got to about 30k words and had to sort-of start again. It remains a bucket-list item, so I’ll keep after it.
The novel is still a thing, but I got to about 30k words and had to sort-of start again. It remains a bucket-list item, so I’ll keep after it.
Shovel Work
This summer there will be a round of obligatory land-wight work as we install a new Nemeton. I’m off to build (or start) the patio for the fire-altar this very weekend, and we plan a Landwights offering for the Saturday of our Solstice weekend. L. and I will find time this summer to do the ritual work I’ve outlined.
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| The Nemeton Meadow, unmowed (or is it unmown...) |
Our goal for the season is to have the new space ready for worship and guests by Lughnassadh (and more by Equinox), though hospitality etc will remain at the Barn and old meadow. I plan a worship space for up to 100, with plenty of spill-room, and at least one paved floor with a temporary pavilion over it, and some more developed camping spaces.
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| Early agriculture beside the blooming trees. |
It may keep me away from writing for a bit…
1 comment:
I should mention that this is all supported by my heart kin, the eminent men and women... AJ Gooch, Mike Z, Steph G, my dilligent Liafal, and a lot of blessed volunteers.
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