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Pagan Midsummer Camp London – June 2014

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Join us to mark the Sun at it’s height of Power!    We are organising a Pagan Midsummer Camp at the great venue – Epping Forest (Debden) Camp site. (it has fire fields, cafe, showers, washing facilities and more).

Pagan Midsummer Camp in London (June 2014) by Hern's Tribe & Pagan Frontiers of London
Pagan Midsummer Camp in London (June 2014) by Hern’s Tribe & Pagan Frontiers of London


Normal fee: £8 per person per night (tbc)
(we may ask for an additional donation to cover running costs)

Bring your own tents/ sleeping equipment and food – to cook on the communal fire.

There will be a small Midsummer woodland Ceremony* (Epping Forest is just a few yards behind the Campsite!)

All are welcome.. pagans, non-pagans, friends.. to participate in the Camp.. .

Remember to bring a bottle of wine, mead and some food to share at the Feast.

Date:
Main camp: Saturday 14th  – Sunday 15th June l 2014.
(you may join us a night early from Friday 13th June…and settle in ).


Event Page- facebook (Pagan Midsummer Camp 2014)

All enquiries via our Pagan Frontiers Contact Form.


Outdoor preparations:

Please see our website www.Hern-Tribe.org for guidelines on what to bring, how to be prepared for outdoor rituals in woodlands, and some health & safety instructions.

Cloths:
Please wear sensible outdoor cloths…waterproof is better..and good shoes to walk in slippery or muddy surface.

Smoke smell:
We will have a ritual fire…and if you stay near it…your cloths will smell of smoke. So don’t wear anything that’s going to be ruined by smoke..!!

-Mani Navasothy
(Founder of Hern’s Tribe  & Events Manager at Pagan Frontiers of London)

 

Links:

our website- Pagan Frontiers of London 

facebook page:  Pagan Frontiers of London

Pan chant for Beltane (with video)

Website- Hern’s Tribe (celebrating 10 years of outdoor seasonal gatherings in London woodands)

 

Other events in summer 2014 (London)

Pan’s Picnic   2014 – London 

Pagan Pride Parade London 2014 

 

 

animals, Eco-Magic, Ecology & Environment, London

Introducing- GAIA*GUARDIANS: Eco-Magicians & Earth Healers (new Meetup group)

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Gaia Guardians- New Meetup group at www.meetup.com/GaiaGuardians
Gaia Guardians- New Meetup group at http://www.meetup.com/GaiaGuardians

Gaia is the Earth Goddess. The woodlands and green spaces, rivers, streams and oceans, Forests & Caves are her temples. We meet in natural woods and parks in and around London – to enjoy these wonders with a light spiritual touch, to socialise with like-minded people, and to do eco-magical work – for the protection and well-being of Mother Earth.. and all living creatures.

If you enjoy or like to enjoy woodland walks & explorations, do a bit of meditative work, the stillness, take nature photos, create eco-art (using twigs, barks, fallen branches to create non-intrusive ground sculptures..as magical talismans!).. this is the place.

We have been organising nature-related events, eco-ceremonies and candle-lit walks under the `Gaian Times Magazine’ name in London for 3 years. But we are setting this activity-based social group now to reach out to more like-minded spiritual people in London..

We are not limited to just woodlands or parks. There is also the river Thames.. with all the Thames-paths.. other streams, water-sides..!

Parks on our list to explore & enjoy

  • Richmond Park (South-West London)
  • Greenwich Park (South-East London)
  • Oxleas Woods (East London)
  • Trent Park (North London)
  • Queen’s Woods & High Gate Woods (north london)
  • Epping Forest (North London)
  • Hyde Park (central London)
  • Wimbledon Common (south London)

Activities

  • Walking & exploring woodlands
  • Meditation
  • Nature-spirituality
  • Creating eco-art
  • Socialising & Picnics
  • Nature photography

Gaia-goddess
Come join us..and add your own suggestions and activities..

Bright Earthy Blessings & Warmest regards

-Mani Navasothy

Link

Gaia Guardians – New Meetup group for Eco Magicians & Earth Healers of London

NEWS, Paganism & Magic, Personal

`No Kidnap for ritual’ – Pagan article in Epping Forest Guardian paper 26July2012

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Here’s the scan of the page 5 of the local Epping Forest Guardian newspaper, where the article about local pagans capturing a local man to sacrifice at Lammas (which I personally addressed) came out.

You can see my blog & link to the original online version of this article in this link.

Following the online version, Mike Stygal, Vice President of The Pagan Federation (and District Manager of PF London) contacted the journalist Katie Bamber, and offered additional insights and info, which have now appeared on the printed version of the article as an `info box’ .  I also understand that the journalist is happy to maintain communications with us (Pagan Federation) on any future pagan related matters – which is a success in itself for us Pagans.

An appeal:

If anyone has a copy of the said anonymous `flyer’ that initially stated that pagans were going to sacrifice a man in Epping Forest, can you please send me a copy so that I can display that here too..  for completion sake!  Thanks.

-Mani Navasothy

here’s a link to the website of the Pagan Federation London (extensive info on many pagan open rituals, groups, moots, workshops in London)

Here is a link to the website of the Pagan Federation (currently about to undergo a major face-lift by the new IT/ webmaster of the PF)

Stop the Press!

The Journalist Katie was kind enough to provide PF London District Manager Mike with the flyer that had been anonymously circulated in the Epping Forest Area. Here is a scanned copy below.

Quite apart from the sheer lunacy of this claim, I can already (in the blink of an eye) see so many discrepancies in the claim made by the flyer’s contents. It rather looks like someone with half a knowledge looked up a whole load of disjointed pagan topics on wikipedia or something and created the flyer.   😛   I’ll address those points in another blog..  (Oh yeas, we pagans have a right to reply!)

Our sincere thanks to Katie for being so open-minded on this matter, and giving us sensible pagans an opportunity to respond.  Very well done Katie. Some of us are likely to nominate her for the special PF Journalist award (one that Boris Johnson was once awarded). More on that another time.

Meanwhile here’s the flyer.