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What's that annoying saying? Something about life being what happens while you're making other plans?
2012
May 4-13: Effigy, Monroe, CT. Workshops on automatic writing and astral projection. Possibly workshops in Salem, MA, and Cornwall, NY.
Jun 15-17: Michigan Pagan Festival, Detroit, Wayne County Fairgrounds
Aug 3-16: London, UK, and surrounding area
Sep: Mountain Mabon Mysteries, near Stannardsville, VA
Oct 27: New York Witch Festival, Smithtown, NY (see BonnieNewYorkWitchFestival.com for details)
2013
Oct: Forest Moon Harvest Festival, Port Arena, WA, near Seattle
Oct: Last Saturday, New York Witch Festival, Smithtown, NY.
2014:
May: First Saturday, Long Island Beltaine in the Park, Wantagh Park, Wantagh NY.
Edain with author, medium, and Alexandrian high priest, Jimahl DiFiosa at the 2010 New York Witch Festival. I just adore this guy! And I just love his husband musician and host of the WitchTalk podcast, Karagan. In fact, there's a photo of Karagan and I enjoying a great reunion hug further down on this page. When you meet a couple with such fantastic spiritual energy, it's hard to keep your hands off, but we Pagans are known for being physically affectionate with our co-religionists. It seems to come naturally as part of our learning curve.
Published in 2007 by Adams Media, The Healing Power of Faery is the basis for the Faery Shamanism workshops. Copies will be available at the stores, or can be ordered direct from Adams Media. It presumes know prior knowledge of the world of nature spirits or faery shamanism, and I hope will make the give and take between our world and the world of the fey easier to access for all of us.
Also available, A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk available, still in print after 8 years, with more than 100,000 copies sold!
Left to Right: Annie, Edain, Rhonda
I've been struggling with a past-life experience I have trouble accepting simply because it connects me to someone reasonably high profile. I've always called these past-life "memories" The Joan of Arc or The Napoleon Syndrome. I know such "memories" can also come from hero worship. Ben Muratet, a psychic medium and new Pagan from the Tulsa area, worked with me on sorting out my doubts. He blew me away with his accuracy. I have one more person to finish consulting before I'm ready to add my name to the list of people brave enough to come forward with past-life memories that can be verified, but the fact that these sessions with Ben occurred on August 13-14 is just one more confirmation. LOL! And here I've always counseled regression subjects to trust their feelings and see where they lead. Now I'm the one who struggles. I admit, it's not so easy when the issue is yourself.
Also, Ben told me my clairaudience was waning not only because of medications I will be taking a vacation from as we move into the dark time of our Pagan year, but because new talents and skills are ready to emerge.
I'll say it again.... When we walk this path we must never forget we are all always the student and the teacher. I'm looking forward to these new challenges, and I'm sure I'll screw them up a few times before I "get it."
Edain with musician/singer and host of WitchTalk on BlogTalk Radio, Karagan, at the 2008 New York Witch Festival _______________________________________________________________________
With Friends at World of Wisdom, August 10, 2006
From left to right: Morganna, myself, and fellow authors Christopher Penczak and Rhiannon Skye, after a terrific workshop on Shamanic Witchcraft given by Christopher at World of Wisdom, Indianapolis' best known metaphysical bookstore and resource center, August 2006.
If Rhiannon looks a bit tired, it's only because a "little thing" like her handfasting was less than 48 hours away!
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Michigan Pagan Festival's Debut, May 2010
With organizer Diane Lonsway, and friend David Norris and Morganna FeyRaven, trying to relax over coffee before the debut of the Michigan Pagan Festival. The debut event was complicated by an unseasonal cold snap that drove the festival indoors, but everyone made the best of the situation and had a good time.
Diane has been the official photographer and webmistress for the Florida Pagan Gathering for many years. Attendance was excellent for a new festival, and no one would have suspected it was the first Diane ever organized. We're looking forward to watching MPF grow in the years to come.
An Inspiring Quote, for both Heroic Actions, and to Explain Haunted Battlefields
--so badly to discredit those of us who see, hear, and feel ancestors and spirits around us whether we can "document" the event or not? Scientific "evidence" is great, but it can also be discredited with many of the same arguments given to us. Power of suggestion, fakery, mental projection, random radio waves, the mind playing tricks on our eyes, etc. As with traditional and modern medicine, the old ways and the new work best in tandem.
I have my requisite recorders and meters, but I like to keep in mind the words Victorian author Charles Dickens wrote for the ghost of Jacob Marley to ask the living Ebenezer Scrooge: "Why do you doubt the evidence of your own senses?"
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“In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear, but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come
to this deathless field to ponder and dream; And lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls."
From the dedication of the Monument to the 20th Maine, October 3, 1889, Gettysburg, PA
Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Did You Know There Is a Salem in Indiana?
SALEM?
High Priestess, friend, and writer of Deaf Pagan Crossroads, Ocean, stumbled onto this little town in southern Indiana when we met for a Pagan girls' weekend. It even has eight standing stones right in town!!! They were obviously placed there on purpose, and must have required some heavy equipment for lifting. The sit between a pretty little trailer park with huge sycamore trees, and State Highway 60. We couldn't resist exploring them. There was no spectacular energy coming from them, but each evoked an image we, as Pagans, found instantly recognizable. Amazing what could be (almost) in your own backyard.
I will be posting photos of the stones and more to my Facebook Page (found under email PiscesMoonMedia@yahoo.com) when I return from my summer 2011 speaking commitments. I hope to meet many of you there.
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Cover for The Witch's Moon combines bright new gold with the original 1997 motif.
-If You Want to Be a Witch-
An overview of common tenets, beliefs, and practices common to modern Paganism. Though our paths differ in many ways, there are lots of core concepts to embrace. This workshop addresses blending paths including ChristoPaganism, Jewitchery, and the PanAmerican Craft.
-Houseblessing and Warding, Intermediate Level-
As a group we will share and practice protecting and warding ourselves, our loved ones, businesses, and homes from invaders elemental, accidental, and intentional.
-Warding and Shielding, Advanced Level-
This workshop starts with basic psychic self-defense, but as more and more Pagans now feel free--thanks to TV--to allow our paranormal interests to be known, extra shielding (causing no blockage of your psychic senses) is a must. You don't want anything following you home... and it happens to the most skilled among us.
-Ask a Witch!-
This open discussion forum is intended for presentation in places where not all the attendees are or want to be Witches, such as paranormal conferences and sites. This gives those of us who are Pagan--and hopefully representing many paths--to let interested parties know who we are, what we do, and why we chose this spiritual path. With luck, we'll find audience members who represent broad spectrum of world religions and we can really communicate! This is an event I do not like to charge for unless the place hosting absolutely must charge an overhead fee to cover the use of space.
-Celebrating the Moon-
In preparation for my second edition of "Magick and Rituals of the Moon," I'm seeking feedback through workshops with hands on experience in lunar celebration and magick. This topic is literally limitless and ranges from 101-701 work, all to be shared, dissected, and reshaped into the best working blueprints we can create in 90 minutes. Pagan resourcefulness never ceases to amaze!
-Pagan Leadership Intensive-
Totally interactive, this exercise always takes off in unexpected directions, and no two workshops are anything like like the others It celebrates our diversity, helps us to work out differences, and keeps our spiritual connections intact even when we choose to worship separately. This workshop paces the burden of carrying the workshop on the participants with me mediating. So far, no fights to break up... but close.
-Mysteries of the Faerie Star and the Faery World-
I have one for beginners and another for those more advanced. It's hands-on and is a great spiritual tool.
-Faery Shamanism-
For the more advanced faery practitioner. Decide to make the choice to dedicate yourself to this work or not. Part 1 is discussion and questions, Part 2 is the ritual.
-Dance Crafting-
We all now dance raises positive energies... why else do we stay awake all night losing time and consciousness to the rhythm of the drums As a Pro-Am dancer, I use Dance Craft in many areas of Craft practice, often when no words are needed. Magical DanceCraft is culled from a life of ballroom, tango, Irish step dance, and other folk dancing. Dancers in the audience are encouraged to share in the teaching experience. The origins of many modern dances are not just cultural, but spiritual. Creating silent rituals, or at least nonverbal ones, is our goal.
-The Brain Game: The Pros and Cons of Normalcy-
An open guided discussion about what we are capable of doing when our brain waves register away from the "norm." This includes, depression, bipolarism, insomnia, narcolepsy, Alzheimer's, autism, Parkinsonism, paranoia, uncontrolled empathy, dyslexia, and any other brain chemistry based problem participants wish to discuss. We will also debate what we should and should not do to meditate these issues.
-Empath Recognition and Support-
Though my wonderful agent could not convince anyone that this was a problem that needed a book to address it, I am continuing the workshops--conversational style--because they seem to help. If time permits we--as a community--will brainstorm ideas to make our events more accessible to the Deaf, the Blind, those with mobility issues, and anything else that might leave part of our "family" from fully participating in Pagan events.
-Advanced Witchcraft and Magick-
Is there such as animal and, if so, how do we define it And what makes it important for our larger community?
-Automatic Writing: Divination & Self-Exploration-
A great divination device most can learn pretty quickly. Please bring plenty of paper and a smooth pen, preferably felt-tipped.
-Celtic Woman's Spirituality - The Warrior Queen-
Creating the warrior woman in us all... men too! Interactive and physical workshop. This workshop can be modified for mixed gender events.
It's OK, We've All Done It!
Usually presented with my sister. This focuses on the misfires and disasters that happen even to long time Pagans when performing magick and ritual. Hey, laughter is a powerful tool.
-Creating Astral Guardians-
Controversial, but works for me and for others in tune with the astral realms and the fey.
-Astral Projection-
A basic course in getting out there and exploring another part of our reality.
-PanAmerican Paganism-
An in depth look--and some practice--at the things that make the Americas and our spiritual and magickal practice different from those of our ancestors (and current practitioners) in Europe and Asia. This workshop contains the material presented formerly in Candomblé and Macumba 101, two of the least understood syncretic faiths in the Americas.
-Energy Work in Group Settings, Beginning Level-
This is a basic course for those beginning in the Craft and still confused about feeling the energy in a circle.
-Faerie Star Divination-
This is a new workshop, and it may not be ready for 2011, but I'm bringing the prototype to my 2011 appearances and we'll see together how well it works in a group setting. Bring pen, paper, and be ready to take notes.
-Mirror Magick-
Techniques of making magickal mirrors and using them. This works best if everyone is able to bring materials to make a mirror, otherwise, a small mirror from the drugstore works just as well.
-Croning and Saging, 101-501-
Those of us who began in American Paganism during the counterculture years are now galloping headlong into senior citizenship. This is to be celebrated, not hidden in shame. This workshop is at least half open forum for sharing the tough times and the laughs of being true Pagan Elders.
-Techniques of Pagan Occultism-
This workshop is a prelude to a book on semi-advanced occult practices. Not all have Pagan origins, but can be appreciated by Pagans, and open new pathways of learning for us. Open-mindedness and the willingness to question everything is prerequisite. If the atmosphere is right, we will get hands-on with many of these arts.
-Special: The Ghost Hunters' Tango Multimedia Show & Haunted Overnight-
A multimedia show using tango as a metaphor for exploring the paranormal secrets of Buenos Aires. Presented with my partners who live in Argentina, this event requires booking a year in advance.
Edain was the consultant on DK Publishing's new children's "Pedia" book, Fairypedia.
THE THREEFOLD LAW
Abide the law of three
you must,
In perfect love and
perfect trust;
Mind all you say, or
feel, or do,
For all your works
come back to you.
The horrors of America's Civil War started 150 years ago. So many long-burning issues had to be settled, and we didn't seem to be able to do it without guns as many other countries had. My collateral relatives fought on both sides. This is the grave of my direct line, great-great-granfather, Lafe Worrell, of the 27th Virginia Cavalry. Is this where my love for horses comes? I'm not unconvinced of the role of genetic memory in our present lives or in our past-life memories.e some impact on past-life memories. I do cherish the stories I was told me by my beloved grandfather about the war his beloved grandfather experienced as a teenager.
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