Sunday 16 August 2009

This week's pagan events and days out

It's summer, the sun is out (at least some of the time) and few people want to be cooped up in stuffy rooms listening to lectures, so there aren't many pagan talks taking place this week. However, here are a few lovely things to do:

An art exhibition called The Truth About Faeries: From Midsummers Night's Dream to Lord of the Rings is still on until 13 September at Southampton City Art Gallery Civic Centre, Commercial Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 7LP. Tel: 023 8083 4563. Email: art.gallery@southampton.gov.uk Website: http://www.southampton.gov.uk/leisure/arts/sotonartgallery/exhibitions.asp

Today, Sunday 16 August, The Goddess Festival and Parade takes place in Canterbury. This is a festival with music, workshops and stalls at Westgate Hall, Canterbury, Kent. Special guests are Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone. The first activities are at 11am. Tickets adults £5, children £2.50, OAPs £2. For more details and to book tickets visit http://www.goddessfestivals.co.uk/#

Also today, Sunday 16 August, The Pendle Witches Tour takes place in Lancaster. In 1612, the second largest execution for witchcraft in England took place at Lancaster. Find out how those accused of witchcraft came to meet their terrible fate 400 years ago on this tour through the atmospheric streets of Lancaster. The event is organised by Catwalks. The walk is up to 90 minutes and starts at 7.30pm, from Lancaster Castle’s John O’ Gaunt Gateway. The cost is £4 adults and £1 children – pay at the start of the walk. For further information, call 01524 792089 or visit visit http://www.lancaster.gov.uk/what-s-on/guided-walks-tours/

An indoor ritual is taking place in London at Treadwells on Thursday 20 August. Some Secret Place, a pagan ceromony evening aimed at beginners or solitary witches is taking place in the bookshop's meeting room at 34 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7PB. 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Entry £5, booking necessary. Tel: 020 7240 8906 or email: info@treadwells-london.com. www.treadwells-london.com/lectures.asp

From 20-23 August, Sunrise WitchCamp: The Dragon's Egg takes place at Coed Hills Rural Artspace, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Camping event. Cost: £200-£275 per adult. For more details and to book for the event, visit the website http://www.freewebs.com/sunrisecamp/

However, if you are in London or south east England, why not get outside and enjoy an open space such as Greenwich Park, Hilly Fields Stone Circle, Coldrum Long Barrow, Hampstead Heath or just your local park?

For details of future events visit my events page at http://paganevents.blogspot.com/. If you know of any pagan events and want them listed on A Bad Witch's Blog, email me at badwitch1234@gmail.com or leave a comment below.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ours is an envionment where evil is perceived to be rewarded while good is punished. As with everything the Gods have a reason for creating this perception::::
People who fall on the good side of the good/evil scale have more favor, and when they do something wrong the Gods punish them BECAUSE THEY WANT THEM TO LEARN. The Gods want them to receive this feedback in hope they make corrections and begin to behave appropriately. The Gods DON'T like evil and refuse to grant this feedback.
EVERYBODY pays for what they do wrong, only evil people must wait until their next life before they will experience the wrath of the Gods, manifested in their reincarnation as a lower form of life into environments with increased/enhanced temptations.
Sadly, this allows the Gods to position this perception of evil rewarded as temptation, one which they use as an EXTREMELY effective corruptor.

Both Africa and the Medittereanean are regions which have sexual issues. This is a sign of morbid disfavor once you understand that females are the God's favored gender. Muhammad's (Mohammed's) polygamy halfway through his life as a prophet was preditory. Now a huge percentage of Muslims believes in male superiority and that the abuse of women is God's will. Female genital mutilation is still practiced in Africa. Black misogyny is the most eggregious example in the recent past.
Black member size is temptation to a predisposed population.
The patriarchal cancer spread throughout Europe because of Christianity, of which the majority of policy makers were Italian men.

Militancy in Africa is consistant with the Iraqi example, as was slavery and the KKK here in America:::Fear enforces proper behavior. Without it we see what happens as a result of gross/morbid disfavor:::::AIDS, crack babies, dead young men in gangland retaliation killings. This is the purpose behind many black's historical tendancy towards resistance.
The same principle was true in Europe and throughout the world for centuries:::People whom lived under iron fists were conditioned to think the right way. As a result they experienced higher numbers of children accend into heaven because they were taught to think and behave appropriately. Our preditory envionment of "freedom" was the primary purpose the Gods had when implimenting this strategy that is the United States, one which they used to spred the cancer of democracy and westernization throughout the world. And the Gods use this tool that is America to prey on the disfavored both at home and abroad.

Even the Old Testiment is not to be taken literally, but the Gods do offer clues throughout to help the disfavored:::The apple is a tool of temptation used to corrupt Adam and Eve and cast them out of the Garden of Eden.
There is another lesson to be learned from this passage, and it is quite similar to the vailing issue and the discourse over women's attire which ultimately died in the 70s:::Women are responsible for and control the fate of mankind.

Think about what I say. Consider what I teach. Society is going to become disturbingly ugly as we approach the Apocalypse due to spiralling, runaway disfavor.
I do not know when this will occurr, but it is the God's way to grant some time before they end on Planet Earth.
Make the decision to always be good and never look back. Until you do this technology will employ tactics to test your resolve:::Ridicule, beligerance, doubt and refusal to abandon what people perceive to be their "investment".
Pray daily. Think appropriately. Too many are confident, unaware of the God's awesome powers or their status as antients. Others may fall prey to their positioning.
Be humbled, God-fearing and beware of the God's temptations, for everyone is tested to evaluate their worthiness.

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