by Mark B. 7/17/2011 This year’s Spring Mysteries Festival was my first SMF, and was as joyous, effortful, transforming, interesting, occasionally traumatic, and fun as I’d hoped. SMF is a large and complex festival, and as such requires each…
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116 Spiral Scouts Fundraiser
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For several years, SpiralScouts International had been searching for a signature fundraiser; something that was unique to us. Last spring, our fundraising chair, Jami Ortiz, discovered a gem of a company that would create candles just for us and…
116 Musings from the Mother Superior
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Recently I read an interesting statement. In an article about how we as Americans and Westerners obsess about the smallest imperfections in our faces and bodies, the author mentioned how we have learned to focus on bits as opposed…
116 Menhir News: Intuition
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Its something we talk a lot about, don’t really understand much, and don’t tend to trust a lot. Its those niggling little feelings that arise from somewhere behind our belt buckle, deep in our tummies, that try to influence…
Io Eleusis! Reflections from Spring Mysteries
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By Jamie Freeman This extended Easter weekend, instead of eating a ham dinner with my family, I spent my time at Ft. Flagler on the tip of the Washington peninsula near the San Juan Islands, where we re-enacted and re-interpreted…
Coming To the Seminary
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By Sarah Elisabeth Brenham Some people are brave enough to explore a path that goes against everything they were taught. I am one of those people. I was born and raised Roman Catholic; however, the secrecy of witchcraft was interwoven…
Ostara Musings from the Mother Superior
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Sometimes it gets overwhelming looking at our world and how we, as humans, have continually, constantly, and heedlessly systematically destroyed our environment. This attitude of the earth as ours to exploit, use, and abuse as we like has…