Keepers of the Holly Chalice Book Study for 2016: “Spiral Dance” by Starhawk
2016-02-20 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | MD
Please join us to read and discuss Starhawk’s “The Spiral Dance”. Starhawk is one of the grandmothers of the Craft as we know it today, and we’ve come a long way since she first wrote this book. Read the chapters beforehand, and we will discuss what we’ve read. For those with later editions, we will add in the anniversary edition notes as available. It’s a wonderful example of a living document, and the changes that one goes through on the Walk.
► Saturday, February 20th, 2:00 – 4:00PM – Chapter 1 “Witchcraft as Goddess Religion” & Chapter 2 “The World View of Witchcraft”
Sunday, March 6th, 2:00 – 4:00PM – Chapter 3 “The Coven’ & Chapter 4 “Creating Sacred Space”
Sunday, April 10th, 2:00 – 4:00PM– Chapter 5 “The Goddess” & Chapter 6 “The God”
Sunday, June 26th, 1:00 – 3:00PM – Chapter 7 “Magical Symbols” & Chapter 8 “Energy: The Cone of Power”
Saturday, August 27th, 2:00 – 4:00PM – Chapter 9 “Trance” & Chapter 10 “Initiation”
Sunday, September 11th, 2:00 – 4:00PM – Chapter 11 “Moon Rituals” & Chapter 12 “The Wheel of the Year”
Saturday, October 8th, 12:00 – 2:00PM – Chapter 13 “Creating Religion: Toward the Future”
We will post a reminder for each meeting event a week in advance.
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CANCELED: Castle of Arianrhod Ritual with Michael Smith
2016-01-23 18:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Faerewood, MD 543 and Creswell Rd., Bel Air, MD, 21015, United States
PLEASE NOTE: This event is CANCELED due to the forecast by the National Weather Service of blizzard conditions and considerable accumulation on Friday 1-22-16. The roads leading to Faerewood will likely be impassable on Saturday.
Walk the cold outer path to Caer Arianrhod, the Silver Wheel of Time, home of the mighty Goddess Arianrhod. She Who is owned by Herself alone has secrets to share and stories to tell. At the Full Wolf moon, we welcome the Silver Moon Energy, and journey to Castle Arianrhod behind the North Star. Experience the energy of one of the most well-known Moon Goddesses.
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Dark Moon Open Ritual
2016-01-09 18:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Faerewood, MD 543 and Creswell Rd., Bel Air, MD, 21015, United States
We begin our year’s journey through the phases of of the Moon with a Dark/New Moon ritual, accompanied by a discussion of the nature of our work with the Moon as Wiccans and magick workers. This will be the first of seven open rituals, culminating in a Dark Moon ritual at Samhain, and we will be providing guided meditations (written and audio recordings) and blog posts for Full and Dark Moons in between the opens.
This ritual will mark the end of the Long Nights Moon—the Full Moon of mid-Winter—and the beginning of the Wolf Moon, which will we will greet with another ritual on the 23rd of the month. We are emerging from the darkest time into the growing light, making this a particularly good time to nurture your Inner Light for the coming year.
Details: 4th Quarter in Capricorn; New Moon at 8:31PM EST. Gather at 6:30PM
Ritual robes are welcome, though not required. Please bring a dish to share for the pot luck following the ritual.
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Open Yule Ritual
2015-12-12 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Faerewood, MD 543 and Creswell Rd., Bel Air, MD, 21015, United States
Join us to celebrate the Returning Sun! Since the Final Harvest, the days have been growing shorter and the nights longer, but on Yule—the Solstice—the tide turns and the season of the Waxing Light begins. It is a time of joy and promise, and one that opens us to the brightening of our inner light along with that of the outer world. We come together as a community to reaffirm our connection and support for each other.
Ritual robes are welcome if you have them. There will be potluck feasting following the ritual—bring a dish you’d like to share.
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Open Samhain Ritual
2015-11-07 17:00 - 20:00 UTC | Faerewood, MD 543 and Creswell Rd., Bel Air, MD, 21015, United States
At this time, when the veils between the worlds are thin and shifting, we look into the deep beyond, to those who have gone before us into the Summerland. Join us in the haunted forest as we open the gates to rejoin with our ancestors for the evening, and look into our futures
Ritual robes are welcome if you have them. Potluck feasting after.
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Energy Management with Michael Smith
2015-10-11 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | Faerewood, MD 543 and Creswell Rd., Bel Air, MD, 21015, United States
As a magick worker, healer, or ritualist, it is as important to maintain your energetic well-being as it is your physical health. This one-day intensive will provide you with the tools you need to manage your personal resources for energetic work, and equip you to better handle emergency situations.
All proceeds from this class will be contributed to the New Alexandrian Library. Please pay by check or cash on the day of the event.
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Michael G. Smith has been practicing Wicca, Magick, and various esoteric disciplines since 1989. He has been active in the pagan community since 1993 when he became a member of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel (ASW). He is an Elder of the ASW and and formally served as High Priest of Coven of the Rowan Star, a coven in that Tradition. Michael has taught, poured sweat lodges, and performed rituals at a variety of events, including Between The Worlds, Sacred Space, Free Spirit Gathering, Etheracon, MPA Beltaine, and numerous ASW, coven, and personal events. Read more…

Open Mabon Ritual
2015-09-20 14:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Faerewood, MD 543 and Creswell Rd., Bel Air, MD, 21015, United States
Come celebrate the autumnal equinox – known as Mabon – with Keepers of the Holly Chalice. At this season of the year, we balance our parts of Self to walk more easily into the darkness at Samhain, and celebrate the harvest of this year’s intentions and plans. Bring a robe to wear if you have one, and a healthy snack to share.
Please RSVP to mark@pemburn.com. We look forward to seeing you.

Open Dark Moon Ritual
2015-09-12 | Faerewood, MD 543 and Creswell Rd., Bel Air, MD, 21015, United States
This event has been cancelled due to a scheduling conflict.

DelMarVa Pagan Festival
2015-08-30 09:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Dover Legislative Mall, Legislative Ave, Dover, DE, 19901, United States
Delmarva Pagan Pride Festival is an event to honor our beliefs and to share them with one another. Join us and enjoy guest speakers, book signings, drumming circles, pagan arts and crafts, workshops, tarot readings, great food, fine music and just plain old ways fun.

The Elements: Air and Fire
2015-07-18 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Faerewood, MD 543 and Creswell Rd., Bel Air, MD, 21015, United States
The classical Elements as you have never imagined they could be! A workshop for all levels of practitioners, Ivo Dominguez Jr teaches the Element of Fire, and the Element of Air. $45, limit of 25 people. Benefits The New Alexandrian Library.
Ivo Dominguez, Jr. is a visionary and a practitioner of a variety of esoteric disciplines. He has been active in Wicca and the Pagan community since 1978 and has been teaching since 1982. Ivo was a founding member of the first coven of The Assembly of the Sacred Wheel, a Wiccan Tradition where he currently serves as one of its Elders.
Ivo is the author of “Casting Sacred Space: The Core Of All Magickal Work”, “Spirit Speak: Knowing and Understanding Spirit Guides, Ancestors, Ghosts, Angels, and the Divine”, “Beneath the Skins”, with more books coming in the future. He is a professional astrologer who has studied the subject since 1980, and has been offering consultations and readings since 1988. Ivo lives in Delaware, where he the co-owner of the metaphysical shop, Bell, Book, & Candle.
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Herbs for Magick with Tintalle Foxwood
2015-07-11 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Faerewood, MD 543 and Creswell Rd., Bel Air, MD, 21015, United States
Please join us for an afternoon of magical herbalism. This workshop is an experiential opportunity to delve into the broad subject of magical herbalism for people who are interested in plant magic and is designed to empower and ignite those seeking a deeper connection with the green ones. This course is a combination of lecture with hands on experiential modalities. Participants will receive handouts and recipes as well learn how to create at least three herbal preparations to take home. Topics include:

Making a flower essence
Creating a plant infused oil
Creating a healing and magical salve
An herb walk of the land
Connecting with the genii loci
Preparing magical herbal infusions for internal and external use
The role of the homunclulus in magical practice
Some materia medica
Wildcafting tips
Sustainability concerns

Cost of the course is a suggested donation of $35-50 sliding scale and includes a $5.00 donation to cover supplies. We have a practical space limit of 25 people.Tintalle Foxwood is a Clinical Herbalist, artist, traditional Celtic Witch of the Foxwood Temple of the Old Religion, and a long time apprentice and practioner of Faery Seership. One of Tintalle’ s first jobs after leaving the United States Army did not offer health insurance- igniting her journey into herbal medicine. Since then she abandoned her pursuit of becoming a psychologist and planted seeds to become an herbalist. She holds a Master’s of Science in Therapeutic Herbalism from the Maryland University of Integrative Health (formerly known as Tai Sophia) as well as a Post Master’s Certificate in Clinical Herbalism. A permaculturalist, Tintalle is committed to using and working with locally grown, ethically harvested herbs wherever possible. She is a firm believer in herbal medicine as the people’s medicine, honoring the inherent wisdom of herbs in supporting the body and our ancestral connections to earth based healing. Tintalle integrates her practice with her connections to the natural world.
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