Drawing Down the Moon (100 page)

Publications:
The Mystics Wheel of the Year Calendar

Groups: Chesapeake Pagan Community, Foxwood Temple of the Old Religion, Military Pagan Network

Festivals: Chesapeake Pagan Summer Gathering

 

Publications:
The Lunar Calandar

Groups: Cultural Survival, EarthSpirit, Temple of Nine Wells

Festivals: A Feast of Lights, Lunasdal, Rites of Spring, Twilight Covening, WomenCircles

 

Publications:
The Fifth Estate, Northwood Journal

Groups: Caer na Donia y Llew, The Federation of Circles and Solitaries, Hearth & Grove Fellowship, Kalamazoo Pagan Community Brunch, Magical Education Council, New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn, The Pagan Roundtable, White Mare Sanctuary

Festivals: Call of the Crow, ConVocation, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Paganstock

 

Groups: Circle of the Phoenix Spiritual Community, The Earth House Project, Minnesota Heathens, The Reformed Druids of North America, Wiccan Church of Minnesota

 

Groups: Camp Sister Spirit Folk School

 

Groups: Diana's Grove, Ozark Avalon

Festivals: Harvest Gathering, Heartland Pagan Festival

 

Groups: Neokoroi (The Temple Keepers)

 

Groups: The Temple of Goddess Spirituality Dedicated to Sekhmet

 

Groups: Covenant of Rhiannon, Free Spirit Alliance, Proteus Coven

Festivals: Free Spirit Gathering, Mid-Atlantic Pagan Alliance's Annual Beltane.

 

Groups: Ardantane, Feraferia, Our Lady of the Woods

Festivals: Magickal Mountain Mabon

 

Publications:
Always in Season, Enchante, White Crane Journal

Groups: Branching, Maetreum of Cybele, Mama Donna's Tea Garden & Healing Haven, Minoan Sisterhood, New Moon New York, Polyhymnia Coven

Festivals: Sirius Rising, The Starwood Festival

 

Publications:
Communities Magazine

Groups: Appalachian Pagan Alliance, Coven Oldenwilde, Eldhrimnir Kindred

 

Publications:
The Oak Leaf, Odin LIVES!
(radio show)

Groups: Association for Consciousness Exploration, The Chameleon Club, The Church of Spiral Oak, Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, Earth Spirituality and Education Center, The Green Faerie Grove, Hof Guild Kindred, Pagan Community Council of Ohio, Three Roads Community, Wisteria

Festivals: Between the Worlds Men's Gathering, Elysium Gathering, Greening, Pagan Spirit Gathering, Shadowmas, Summerset, Winterfire, The WinterStar Symposium

 

Groups: Deep Root Community Lending Library, Pagan Sanctum Recovery, Sekhet Bast Ra, OTO

 

Publications:
Spirited Woman, WomenSpirit

Groups: Aerious, Ancient Order of Druids in America, The Grandmother Council, Living Earth Circle, The Order of the Sacred Oaks & The Sacred Oak Grove, SisterSpirit, Women in Conscious Creative Action

Festivals: Earth and Sky Summer Creation Festival, Festival of Lights, Pagan Faire

 

Groups: Delaware Valley Pagan Network, Four Quarters

Festivals: The Mid-Atlantic Men's Gathering (Spring and Fall)

 

Groups: Blood Eagle Kindred, Gaia's Hearth, The Magaian Way, New England Covens of Traditionalist Witches, Society of the Evening Star

Festivals: Valhallapalooza

 

Publications:
RFD Magazine

Groups: Summerland Grove, Inc.

 

Publications:
The Accord

Groups: Council of the Magickal Arts, Holy Spring Heathen Fellowship, The Sacred Well Congregation, Widsith

Festivals: CMA Festival (Beltaine and Samhain)

 

Groups: Cherry Hill Seminary, Church of the Sacred Earth

 

Publications:
If . . . Journal

Groups: PagaNet, Inc., The Spiral Grove

 

Publications:
The Beltane Papers, The Hermit's Lantern, Panegyria, The Unicorn

Groups: Aquarian Tabernacle Church, Our Lady of the Earth and Sky, The Rowan Tree Church, Women of Wisdom Foundation

Festivals: Hekatee's Sickle Festival, Spring Mysteries Festival

 

Publications:
Survival

Groups: Church and School of Wicca

Festivals: Mountain Mayfest

 

Publications:
Circle Guide to Pagan Groups, Circle Magazine

Groups: The Black Earth Institute, Circle, Circle Cemetery, The Earth Conclave, Elf Queen's Daughters, Lady Liberty League, Officers of Avalon, Pagan Academic Network, The Re-formed Congregation of the Goddess-International, Temple of Diana, Warrior Circle, Women's Thealogical Institute

Festivals: Daughters of Diana Gathering, A Gathering of Priestesses and Goddess Women, Hallows Gathering, MidSummer Gather Festival

Publications:
Pagan Times

Groups: Alexandrian Wicca Incorporated, Australian Pagan Information Center, Ordrine Scatere Stellae—Order of the Well of Stars, Pagan Alliance

Festivals: Mt. Franklin Annual Pagan Gathering

 

Groups: Congregationalist Wiccan Association of British Columbia, The Coven of the Wylde Rose, The Covenant of Gaia Wiccan Church of Alberta, Dievturība, Hecate-Legba Coven, The Pagan Federation/Fédération Païenne Canada, The Toronto Pagan Pub Moot, Wiccan Church of Canada

Festivals: Gaia Gathering—Canadian National Pagan Conference, Wic-Can Fest, Gathering for Life on Earth, Kaleidoscope Gathering, Pan Fest, Spirits of the Earth Festival

 

Groups: 9 Mayans

 

Groups: Fellowship of Isis, The Pagan Federation (Scotland and Ireland)

 

Groups: Sacre Radici

 

Groups: Witchcraft Education Network

 

Publications:
Wiccan Rede

Groups: Feraferia, The Pagan Federation International, Silver Circle

 

Groups: Circle of the African Moon, The Grove, The House of Ouroborus, The Pagan Federation of South Africa, South African Pagan Rights Alliance

 

Groups: Court of Earth Coven, Court of Joy Coven

 

Publications:
The Cauldron, Goddess Alive!, Meyn Mamvro, Pagan Dawn, The Pomegranate, Quest, Touchwood

Groups: Albion Conclave, The Council of British Druid Orders, The Druid Network, Loyal Arthurian Warband, The Order of Bards Ovates & Druids, The Pagan Federation, The Pagan Federation (Scotland and Ireland)

 

Publications:
Cup of Wonder, MatriFocus Cross-Quarterly, Waxing & Waning, WiccanPagan Times, The Witches' Almanac, The Witches Voice, Inc.

Groups: Ancient Riders, Earth Religions Assistance List, Ecclesia Antinoi, Grok Fellowship, The Henge of Keltria, Minoan Tradition, Missionary Order of the Celtic Cross, Order of the WhiteOak, Ouroborous Isis Gnosis, Pagan Alliance of Nurses, The Pagan Pride Project, Pagan Unity Campaign, Radical Faeries, Thiasos Lusios, Two-Spirit Peoples, Witch Grass Coven, World Pagan Network

Festivals: MerryMeet (rotates between different parts of the country)

1
Craft/Pagan publications (either currently being published or appearing within the last thirty-five years) include:
The Crystal Well, The Waxing Moon, Nemeton, Green Egg, Korythalia, The New Broom, The Hidden Path, Medicine Wheel, Earth Religion News, The Witches Broomstick, Wica Newsletter, The Witches' Trine, Star-Child, Insight, Quest, Revival, The Wiccan, Florida Aquarian, Northwind News, The Black Lite, Survival, Iris, Julian Review, The Harp, Witchcraft Digest, Psychic Eye, Seax Wica Voys, Word to the Wise, Gnostica, The Enchanted Cauldron, Khepera, Esbat, Moon Rise, Wicca Times, Georgian Newsletter, Runestone, Women's Coven Newsletter, Druid Chronicler, Castle Rising, Caveat Emptor, Pagan Renaissance, The Coming Age, The Cauldron, The Covenstead, The Unicorn Speaks, The Summoner, The Sword of Dyrnwyn, Old Gods and New Devils, The Heathen, Raven Banner, Shrew, The Pagan Way.

2
“Neo-sacral” was used, for example, by Andrew M. Greeley in “Implications for the Sociology of Religion of Occult Behavior in the Youth Culture,” in
On the Margin of the Visible: Sociology, the Esoteric and the Occult,
ed. Edward A. Tiryakian (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974), p. 295. First presented as a paper at the 1970 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association; “Neo-transcendentalist” was used, for example, by psychiatrist Raymond Prince in “Cocoon Work: An Interpretation of the Concern of Contemporary Youth with the Mystical,” in
Religious Movements in Contemporary America,
ed. Irving Zaretsky and Mark Leone (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), p. 263.

3
Most Neo-Pagan groups meet in
groves, circles,
or
covens.
The word
nests
is used to describe groups within the Church of All Worlds. The word
vortices
has been used by the Elf Queen's Daughters.

4
Originally called Craftcast Farm, it became The Holy Order of St. Brigit in 1977.

5
Aleister Crowley,
Magick in Theory and Practice,
privately published in Paris in 1929. Recently published in
Magick,
ed. John Symonds and Kenneth Grant (London: Routledge Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1973), p. 131. Crowley spells magic with a
k
to distinguish it from stage magic. Many magical practitioners do likewise. I do not.

6
Bonewits's definition of magic is not simply “folk parapsychology,” a phrase he has used effectively in TV interviews, etc. Bonewits considers magic “an art as well as a science that has to do with the methods people have developed over the centuries for getting their psychic talents to do what they want them to do” (taped letter, winter 1978). My own tendency is to smudge the line between the psychological and the psychic. Bonewits disagrees: “It's true that it is often hard to make a fine line between where the psychic starts and the psychological ends, but it is a distinction that still has to be made from time to time. Most people who have a sloppy definition of magic (or a definition that makes it impossible to distinguish it from art or psychology) are usually not very good occultists who don't have much in the way of psychic talent.”

7
Edward Gibbon,
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(New York: Modern Library, 1932), I, 725–26. In a footnote (Chapter XXI, note 174), Gibbon writes that
pagan
derives from the Greek παγή, signifying fountain and the rural neighborhood surrounding it. It became synonymous with “rural” in Rome and came to mean
rustic
or
peasant.
With the rise of the Roman military,
pagan
became a contemptuous epithet meaning
nonsoldier.
The Christians considered themselves soldiers of Christ and those who refused the sacrament of baptism were reproached with the term
pagan
as early as the reign of Emperor Valentinian (365 C.E.) and the word was introduced into Imperial law in the Theodosian Code. After Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, the ancient religion lived on in obscure places and, writes Gibbon, “the word pagans, with its new signification, reverted to its primitive origin.” It was then applied to all polytheists in the old and new world. It was used by Christians against the Mohammedans, the Unitarians, etc.

8
Gore Vidal,
Julian
(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964), p. 497.

9
The Julian Review
was published by the Delphic Fellowship, a Neo-Pagan group, now defunct.
The Julian Review
was founded in 1967 by Don Harrison. Shortly thereafter, Harrison met Michael Kinghorn and together they founded the Delphic Fellowship, which considered itself to be the voice of resurgent Greek Paganism. Today, Harrison is a priest in the Church of the Eternal Source (see Chapter 9).

10
“The First Epistle of Isaac,”
The Druid Chronicles (evolved)
(Berkeley: Berkeley Drunemeton Press, 1976), 2:4.

11
The first quote is from an undated Church of All Worlds tract, “An Old Religion for a New Age: Neo-Paganism.” The second quote appears in Bonewits's “The First Epistle of Isaac,” 2:2.

12
The
Oxford English Dictionary
observes that the etymology of
religion
is doubtful but that one view connects it with
religáre
—to bind. The
American Heritage Dictionary
observes that
religion,
from the Latin
religió,
is “perhaps from religáre, to bind back: re-, back and ligáre, to bind, fasten.”