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1.: HOC Drumming around the Fire, Oct. 9, Old Bridge NJ From: Cher Chirichello

2.: Knowing Your Sacred Self/Pagan Fundamentalism on Voices of the Sacre From: karentate108

3.: Monday's Correspondence...Oct 4 From: Cher Chirichello

4.: Goddess of The Day - Hybla Saint Francis Day (Italy) From: Cher Chirichello

5a.: Apuleius, The Golden Ass From: Cher Chirichello

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1.: HOC Drumming around the Fire, Oct. 9, Old Bridge NJ

Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411

Sun Oct 3, 2010 6:39 pm (PDT)

HOC Drumming around the Fire, Oct. 9, Old Bridge NJ

Time Saturday, October 9 · 7:30pm - 11:30pm

Location
Gaia's Garden Grove
144 E. Greystone Road zip 08857
Old Bridge, NJ

Created By Hands of Change

Join us for the last outdoors HOC Drum Circle of the year. We meet at a
wonderful, private place in the woods, where late night drumming won't bother
anybody, but within 30 minutes drive of New Brunswick.

Bring your drums, percussion, voices, and other instruments (especially flutes &
digeridoos) to help shape the magical sound.

Bring munchies and/or beverages to share.

Bring a flashlight!

$5 donation per person for firewood & torches, etc.
More info will be announced soon...

______________________

Cher
New_Jersey_Pagans...Come in and Chat with us!

Main Yahoo Group NJP: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/New_Jersey_Pagans/
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2.: Knowing Your Sacred Self/Pagan Fundamentalism on Voices of the Sacre

Posted by: "karentate108" karentate108@ca.rr.com specialjourn

Sun Oct 3, 2010 8:01 pm (PDT)

/*This week on Voices of the Sacred Feminine....*/

Joyce Chapman, the inspiration and life coach who inspired me to submit
my Oprah Audition
<http://www.blogtalkradio.com/voicesofthesacredfeminine#> tape returns
to the show. Joyce is a dreamer, coach, teacher, speaker and author of
*Live Your Dream: Discover & Achieve Your Life Purpose*. We'll continue
our discussion on "how to" do this and compare it to doing ritual and
employing sacred intention in this show about *The Magic of Knowing your
Sacred Self: Keep a Journal!*

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HOUR...

Liona Rowan will discuss *Pagan Fundamentalism*: Are women inherently
better than men? Are men the cause of all evil and women innocent? Are
women complicit and what about women looking at their shadow selves? Are
men only their shadow? Are lesbians better feminists than heterosexual
or bi-women? Are daughters worth the effort of teaching methods to fight
patriarchy while sons are a lost cause because they grow up to be men?
Are there the "right " kinds of Pagans, Witches, Goddess worshipers and
the wrong kind? Why can't more women support women?

To tune in LIVE at 6PM PST, or anytime afterwards at your convenience
form the archives:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/VoicesoftheSacredFeminine

Thank you for your continued listener loyalty and feedback. Your
comments and contributions are important, so keep them coming. To call
in and speak to either guest, please call 718-766-4662.

May the Great She Embrace You in Her Golden Wings,

Karen Tate
www.karentate.com

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3.: Monday's Correspondence...Oct 4

Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411

Sun Oct 3, 2010 8:52 pm (PDT)

Monday's Correspondence...Oct 4

Today's Influences: Agriculture, Domestic, Long Life, Medicine, Travels,
Visions, Theft

Today's Goddesses: Luna, Selene, Diana, Re, Gaelach, Ida, Artemis [Whom The
Greeks Associated With Bast], The Witches, Yem...aya, Erzulie, Bast

Incense: Myrtle

Aromas: White Poppy, White Rose, Wallflower

Color of The Day: Silver, Grey, White

Candle: White

Color: Silver, white, light blue

Planet: Moon

Metal: Silver

Deities: Thoth, Selene

Gemstones: Pearl, opal, moonstone

Herbs & Plants: Wintergreen and other mints, catnip, comfrey, sage,
chamomile

Associations: Childbearing and family life, purity and virginity, healing,
wisdom, intuition

Use for magic involving the subconscious, healing, emotions, love,
spirituality, healing wounds, children, small animals, women's mysteries, the
female side of men, mothers, sisters, female partners, wives, instincts

What's Happening Today:

Fast of Ceres -This Roman holiday was propitatory, begun in 191 BCE after a
series of disasters. Originally held every four years, by the reign of Augustus
it was celebrated annually. Besides fasting, celebrants wore garlands in the
Greek f...ashion. This holiday has certain similarities to the Greek holiday of
Thesmophoria which also honored the grain goddess.

Blackburn, Bonnie & Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Oxford Companion to the Year,
Oxford University Press 1999

London: CARRYING IN THE PUDDING, a ceremony dating to 1775, opens pudding
season with an 80-pound meat pie, & songs such as â€œYe Pancakes & Toasted
Cheese.â€

ST. FRANCIS DAY/Blessing of the Animals-Once saved from a plague of mice by a
cat which sprang miraculously from his sleeve. He was also a friend to animals
and known for respecting the life force in everything, referring to "Brother
Sun" and "Sister Moon." In many places around the world, animals are brought to
church on this day to be blessed.

SWALLOWS depart for warmer climes

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4.: Goddess of The Day - Hybla Saint Francis Day (Italy)

Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411

Sun Oct 3, 2010 8:52 pm (PDT)

Goddess of The Day - Hybla
Saint Francis Day (Italy)

Themes: Earth; Ecology; Nature; Animals
Symbols: All Natural Objects

About Hybla: This Sicilian Goddess presides over earth and nature, tending to
all its needs. She also gave birth to humanity and inspires greater earth
awareness within us.

To Do Today: Saint Francis of Assisi's life is celebrated today because of his
gentle relationship with nature, which he considered a family member (often
calling animals "brothers and sisters"). This is why he became the patron of
many environmentalists. To remember him and honor Hybla's spirit, which he so
powerfully displayed, say a prayer for the earth today. Invoke Hybla's
nurturing energy with words like these:

"Earth Mother, look upon your child. Look upon the plants--restore the earth's
greenery.

Look uponthe animals and protect them from more harm.
Look upon the waters and purify each drop.
Look upon the winds, and cleanse the air.
Take the world gently in your caring arms, and love it back
into wholeness once more.
Amen."

Tuck a flower petal or leaf in your pocket or shoe today to keep Hybla's earth
awareness close by. And, if you have pets, today is the perfect time to bless
them. Give them special foods, find nonchemical pest repellents, and pamper
them with extra love. Remember life is a network: showing kindness to one
strand extends the energy outward to the web.
By Patricia Telesco ~ From "365 Goddess"

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5a.: Apuleius, The Golden Ass

Posted by: "Cher Chirichello" CHIC0411@YAHOO.COM chic0411

Sun Oct 3, 2010 8:56 pm (PDT)

Holy Goddess, comforter, your abundant grace
feeds the world, your abundant heart consoles us
all when we suffer. You do not rest, night or day;
you are everywhere, on land and on sea, aiding us.
My tongue is not equal to your praise,
nor my voice to your beauty, nor my wealth
to the sacrifices I owe you. A thousand tongues
in a thousand mouths would not be enough.
So I can only lock away your image in my heart
and make every action a prayer of thanks to you.
~Apuleius, The Golden Ass

Today marks the ancient Egyptian Feast of Lamentations, one of those festivals
that unfolded the story of the Goddess' loss of her brother-lover, and of his
resurrection at her hands. Such death-and-rebirth stories tell, in human terms,
the story of the year's cycle. Now, as we look about and see the falling
leaves, the darkening skies, we feel the same mournfulness Isis felt when she
looked upon the dismembered body of her beloved Osiris.

How can we learn to embrace all of life? It is easy to love the times of peace
and plenty, times when love is new and the living is easy. But our lives are as
cyclical as our planet's years. Times of pain alternate with times of joy;
times of loss with times of comfort; times of growth with times of stagnation.
There is no greater spiritual challenge than learning to accept all as part of
life, as part of the Goddess.

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by Patricia Monaghan - From "The Goddess Companion"

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